EVEN THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES SOMETIMES HAS GOT TO STAND NAKED - Rare Pristine Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/First Printing: Signed by Ari Marcopoulos - SIGNED ON THE TITLE PAGE

Marcopoulos, Ari (Photographer) & Heiss, Arianna (Contributor)

ISBN 10: 3905701359 / ISBN 13: 9783905701357

Published by Zurich, Switzerland: JRP/Ringier Publishers, 2005, 2006

About this Item

1st Printing. Signed. 160 pages. Published in 2005. Exhibition catalog presented as an Artist Book. One of the most beautiful art photography books of our time. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Ari Marcopoulos and Gavillet & Rust: Regular-sized volume format. Pictorial hard boards with titles on the spine, as issued. Photographs by Ari Marcopoulos. Afterword Essay by Arianna Heiss. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Zurich, Switzerland to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Published on the occasion of the retrospective exhibition of the same name held at the P. S.1/Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) Long Island from October 30, 2005 through January 23, 2006. Presents Ari Marcopoulos' "Even The President of The United States Sometimes Has Got To Stand Naked". Family album, photographs of himself, his wife, and his two sons, Cairo and Ethan, interspersed with dazzling landscape photographs taken in Japan, Europe, and the United States. The Marcopoulos family is typical and attractive. Like all families, the kids get into accidents, get sick, have nosebleeds, root canal, and scabs. Perhaps the best way to put Marcopoulos' achievement in perspective is to compare and contrast it with Nan Goldin's "The Ballad of Sexual Dependency". While the latter is about coupling and all the pain and passion that come with the territory, "Even The President of the United States Sometimes Has Got To Stand Naked" is about family life, its quotidian ups and downs. There are sexually explicit images of Marcopoulos and his wife making love, but it looks so normal and even funny compared to the anguish that is palpable on every page of Goldin's classic. As Arianna Heiss points out, Ari's family photos are about photography itself, as was once famously observed by one of its most astute critics: "Photographs are, by virtue of being photographs, touched by pathos. They express a feeling both sentimental and implicitly magical: They are attempts to contact or lay claim to another reality" (Susan Sontag). An absolute "must-have" title for Ari Marcopoulos collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in blue ink-pen on the title page by Ari Marcopoulos. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary art photography classic. This is one of very few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. A rare signed copy thus. 81 color plates. One of the most brilliant photographers of our time. A fine copy. ISBN 3905701359.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: EVEN THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES SOMETIMES HAS GOT TO STAND NAKED - Rare Pristine Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/First Printing: Signed by Ari Marcopoulos - SIGNED ON THE TITLE PAGE
• Publisher: Zurich, Switzerland: JRP/Ringier Publishers, 2005
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3905701359
• ISBN 13: 9783905701357
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: None, As Issued
• Signed: Signed by Author

About this title

Synopsis

Ari Marcopoulos is best known for documenting boyish subcultures from the inside out. His work on professional snowboarding appears in "Transitions and Exits" and his photos on hip-hop--five years of images of the Beastie Boys--in "Pass the Mic." Aaron Rose, who showed Marcopoulos at Alleged Gallery, has said of the artist's uncanny connection with one set of subjects, a crowd of New York skateboarders ten years his junior, "There was just something in his personality that said, 'Hey man, it's cool.'" It shows. Marcopoulos's self-taught snapshot style brings his subjects in close, and captures, without sentimentality or voyeurism, the intimate feeling of their daily life. Here he focuses on the subculture that is his own family. "Even the President of the United States Sometimes Has Got to Stand Naked" is a journal-like collection of images of the accidents and pleasures of "normal" life, full of the artist's loved ones, of landscapes and of American social reality.