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Author Marc Attali / Jacques Delfau
Pages 112
Signed No
Publisher Andre Balland
Publishing date 1968
Publishing place Paris
Language French
Edition first edition
Binding Hardcover without dustjacket (as issued)
Book condition Good
Condition description Cover has some edge wear, esp. on top edges of front cover and on the sides of spine.
Edges of pages slightly toned.
Dimensions (cm hxb) 35 x 27
Bibliographie : Roth: The Book of 101 Books Parr & Badger: The Photobook, vol I : 226 802 photobooks from the M. + M. Auer collection Bertolotti : 194 1968 - First edition / Black and white. Hard covers. Stitch bound. Text in French. Good condition. 14 x 10.75". 114 pages. "The problem would seem to lie in the fact that erotic photography is not required to venture beyond the trite and obvious. The subject matter is enough, so why do more? It is, of course, a tricky subject, but is nevertheless a potentially fascinating one. As well as revealing gender and social mores, it overlaps with important issues of life and death, yet most of the photographers who have attempted it have dealt with it only superficially. Furthermore, many of those who do try to take it seriously become so serious that they generally fail to maintain the lightness of touch and the sure-footed step necessary to carry it off.Les Erotiques du regard (The Erotics of the Gaze) by Marc Attali and Jacques Delfau largely succeeds in this delicate balancing act. It is a frank meditation on the male gaze, an essay in pictures and a kind of concrete poetry where the typography has equal status with the imagery. Unlike many of the so-called erotic books from the 1960s the 'Free Love' era Ð Les Erotiques manages to examine the phenomenon of the male gaze, whilst at the same time doing the classically male thing of gazing." Reference: 226 The Photobook. A History volume 1. Martin Parr and Gerry Badger. Phaidon Press, 2004.

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Les Erotiques du Regard

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A rare erotic artist's book at the end of the Sixties. The poems of Jacques Delfau designed in Dadaist typography. Illustrated original boards. Parr/Badger, vol I. page 226; Auer collection
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