![]() ![]() One of Saudek's earliest and most beautiful collections. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Printed on glossy stock paper in Prague, the Czech Republic to the highest standards. The book is an outstanding example of Czech publishing at its best. A brilliant production by Jan Saudek: Oversize-volume format. Published in a small and limited print run as a hardcover original only. ![]() Collection of photographs, presented as an Artist Book. As Saudek states, "I don't have the capacity to portray other people's lives. ![]() These 146 color photographs, featuring new and previously unpublished images with Saudek's commentaries, are as much about the artist as about the characters he creates. Using elaborate backdrops and magical costumes, Saudek is both voyeur and participant, photographer and model, shifting back and forth in a style that lends the term autoportraiture new meaning. ![]() From the publisher: "Drawing on classical paintings, historical portraiture, and 19th-century pornographic studio photographs, the erotic images of Jan Saudek reveal a world of fantasy where artistic play and expression are given free range. Unpaginated, with 131 four-color plates, and 24 additional four-color and black and white reference illustrations, beautifully printed on fine matteart paper by EBS, Verona, Italy. Essay ("Paradise and the Innocent Eye") by John Wood and James Crump. Fine light blue linen cloth, with title stamped in gilt on front cover and spine, with photographically illustrated dust jacket. ![]()
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