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A delirious visual manifesto of 1980s pop culture, Jungle Fever captures the graphic imagination of Jean-Paul Goude, the French image-maker who reshaped fashion photography, advertising, and music imagery at the dawn of the MTV era. Part photography monograph, part sketchbook, and part cultural collage, the book gathers Goude's wildly inventive imagery, hyper-stylized bodies, surreal proportions, kinetic montage, and irreverent humor, alongside his most iconic collaboration with Grace Jones, whose sculptural presence became one of the defining visual symbols of the 1980s. Part photography monograph, part sketchbook, and part cultural collage, the book gathers Goude's wildly inventive imagery- hyper-stylized bodies, surreal proportions, kinetic montage, and irreverent humor- alongside his most iconic collaboration with Grace Jones, whose sculptural presence became one of the defining visual symbols of the 1980s. Moving between Paris fashion studios, New York nightlife, and the graphic excess of early global advertising culture, Jungle Fever embodies the moment when photography, illustration, music video, and club culture fused into a new visual language. Goude's exaggerated compositions simultaneously glamorous, absurd, and provocative, anticipated the remix aesthetics that dominate contemporary image culture. Published in 1982, the book captures the surreal visual language Goude created around Jones, graphic montage, impossible proportions, and theatrical staging that reshaped fashion photography. Their collaboration produced one of the most iconic album covers of the era, Living My Life (1982), where Goude transformed Jones into a futuristic, sculptural presence that defined the look of 1980s pop culture. For today's generation rediscovering the visual world of the 1980s-1990s pop underground, the book reads like a time capsule: part downtown New York, part fashion fantasy, and truly unforgettable. For collectors of fashion photography, music imagery, and the visual mythology of the 1980s, Jungle Fever remains one of the defining artifacts of the period.…
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- Title
- Jungle Fever First Edition
- Author
- Jean-Paul Goude
- Publisher
- Xavier Moreau
- Publication year
- 1982
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- As New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0937950017
- ISBN 13
- 9780937950012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Item weight
- 2.679 pounds
- Dimensions
- 30 centimeters width by 29 centimeters height by 0 centimeters depth
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NOISE MATTERs Books offers a curated selection of rare and collectible 19th & 20th Century Modern & Contemporary Arts & Culture books, journals, artists' books, ephemera and limited editions. Based in NYC, we bring over three decades of experience in the art world as a gallerist, art historian and art advisers with expertise in Art, Photography, Architecture & Design, Fashion, Cinema, Propaganda & Countercultural materials, Contemporary Arts ephemera, and Limited edition prints & posters.
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