PIERRE MOLINIER, LUI-MEME: ESSAY UBER DEN SURREALISTISCHEN HERMAPHRODITEN - Rare Pristine Copy of The Limited Edition: In Publisher's Original Glassine Jacket

Molinier, Pierre (Artist/Photographer) & Gorsen, Peter (Contributor)

ISBN 10: 3920802950 / ISBN 13: 9783920802954

Published by Munich, Germany: Rogner & Bernhard, 1972, 1972

About this Item

1st Printing. 90 pages. Published in 1972. Collection of auto-portraits, presented as an Artist Book. One of the greatest art photography books of the 20th century. Limited Edition of 2000 copies. Published as a hardcover original only. There is no ISBN. The Limited Edition is now rare. An austerely elegant production by Pierre Molinier and Rogner & Bernhard: Regular-sized volume format. Black cloth boards with black titles embossed on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Pierre Molinier. Essay by Peter Gorsen. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Munich, Germany to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. In publisher's original glassine DJ, as issued. Presents "Pierre Molinier, Lui-Meme". He as himself, as way ahead of his - and our - time. Some of the most haunting (and haunted) auto-erotic photographs ever made by an artist single-handedly pushing the boundaries of art to its farthest limits. The challenge Molinier poses is fundamental: Is he an artist or not? That is to say, his fetishism can be easily dismissed, and its transcendent beauty denied. His is the work of someone who was, on the outside, a conventionally handsome and refined French gentleman. His unsettling work, which he produced for his own private pleasure, belies this mask and rejects it. Because he also created remarkable etchings and paintings, Pierre Molinier did not think of himself as a photographer, but rather as an artist who finally realized his fetishistic vision through photography. He shot carefully staged photographic tableaux that utilized mannequins and other props. The latter reminds us of his obsession with sex as pure fantasy, as something which begins and ends as a fantasy that can never ever be achieved in reality. In the process, he created some of the most disturbingly beautiful photographs of the 20th century. Molinier shows that the erotic (as opposed to the pornographic) is about beauty (the beauty of fantasy), an aesthetic (rather than a sexual) experience. Gilles Berquet, Lucas Samaras, Helmut Newton, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Ellen Von Unwerth, among many others, would not be possible without Molinier's pioneering example. An absolute "must-have" title for Pierre Molinier collectors. This is a copy of the Limited Edition of 2000 copies. This title is a great art photography book. This is one of few copies of the Limited Edition still available online, is still in the publisher's original glassine DJ, and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. We have not seen a more beautiful copy of the book. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus.50 plates. Selected as one of the "Seminal Photography Books of the 20th Century" in the "Book of 101 Books". One of the greatest artist/photographers of the 20th century. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO HANS BELLMER AND GILLES BERQUET TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 3920802950.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: PIERRE MOLINIER, LUI-MEME: ESSAY UBER DEN SURREALISTISCHEN HERMAPHRODITEN - Rare Pristine Copy of The Limited Edition: In Publisher's Original Glassine Jacket
• Publisher: Munich, Germany: Rogner & Bernhard, 1972
• Publication Date: 1972
• Language: German
• ISBN 10: 3920802950
• ISBN 13: 9783920802954
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Signed: no