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New York Art Book Fair: BANG! Fumetti Italian Photo Stories 1970s
The use of captioned photographs in story telling was not a new concept in Europe in the 1970s. Nonetheless the Italians embraced the concept and applied it to sexy, mystery, "graphic" magazines in...
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New York Art Book Fair: Color Polaroids 1970s Parliament Publications...
Exceptional group of color Polaroid photographs from the archives of Parliament publications in Los Angeles, circa 1970s. Models appear to be amateur, "girl next door" types. These and other...
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New York Art Book Fair: B&W Polaroids 1970s Parliament Publications Audition...
A second group of Polaroid photographs (black & white) from the archives of Parliament publications in Los Angeles, circa 1970s. Models appear to be amateur, "girl (and boy) next door" types. These...
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Vasta Images/Books New York Art Book Fair Preview
In preparation for the art book fair in September (click for details) I will be posting a selection of material for sale at my booth: rare and out-of-print books, limited edition artist's books, film...
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New York Art Book Fair: Girlie Magazines Newsstand Classics late '50s & Early...
After the introduction of Playboy in 1953 American newsstands needed to make room for the copycat publications that followed. By the early 1960s there were titles from A to Z. A handful were actually...
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New York Art Book Fair: Adult Bookstore Magazines 1960s~1970s
East coast/west coast publication and consumption of "adult bookstore" magazines started in early '60s and by the end of the decade had exploded due to the efforts of Parliament, Selbee, Health...
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New York Art Book Fair: Tijuana Bibles The Fuller Brush Man 1930s
Tijuana bibles, 8-pagers (the French call them "dirtys") were mail order booklets, made in a small format perfect for inside-jacket-pocket. Usually depicting a movie star, world leader or gangster...
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Vasta Images/Books New York Art Book Fair: Preview
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New York Art Book Fair: Clandestine American explicit novels 1930s/'50s
Captain DuFour and the Madam by John Fuchem, printed for the French Modern Art Society, Paris, France 1933 epitomizes the underground, illegal, illustrated fiction that began to surface in the late...
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New York Art Book Fair: Frederick's of Hollywood Lingerie Catalogs 1960s
Frederick's of Hollywood born in the 1950's promoting capri pants and boudoir loungewear was, by the mid-1960s, the name synonymous with sexy lingerie, padded girdles, push-up bras and falsies. Here is...
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New York Art Book Fair: Euro Smut 1970s Magazines
The Germans and the Scandinavians were the most aggressive and least censored publishers of smut magazines in the 1970s. Accordingly, they pushed the limits of what was acceptable and explored areas...
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New York Art Book Fair: Transvestism Transsexuals Female Impersonators
Gender and lifestyle finally bursts onto the surface of American culture and society with the recognition of transsexuals and transgender man and women. Along the way there were the cross-dressing,...
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New York Art Book Fair: D.O.Caldwell, MD Sexuality Series 1940s
A selection of slim volumes written by D.O.Cauldwell, M.D., published by Haldeman-Julius (Gerard, Kansas), the late 1940s for their "little blue book series" on sex and sexuality. Cauldwell's ideas...
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New York Art Book Fair: Parliament Magazines Los Angeles 1960s
The major force in the world of men's magazines in Los Angeles came in the form of Parliament Publications. Starting in 1960/61, influenced by the independent photographer and publisher Elmer Batters,...
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Vasta Images/Books New York Art Book Fair: Preview
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New York Art Book Fair: Books Rare and Unusual Books Part Two
An unfortunate reality for much of the erotica created by artists is that it remains below the surface of what is exhibited outside of the art world. In that regard part of my mission and therefore...
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New York Art Book Fair: Erotic Alphabet Book France 1960s
Alphabet Integral. Photographs by D.Czap and P.Cornut. Studio Asa Editions, France, no date (late 1960s). "Erotic" alphabet assembled using male and female nudes + typographic juxtapositions of words...
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New York Art Book Fair: Jerry Rubin DO IT! 1970 Inscribed to Abbie Hoffman
A copy of the fairly common DO IT! (1970) by Jerry Rubin, in a torn dust jacket. What makes this an exceptional copy is the inscription to "Abbie (Hoffman) and and Anita (his wife)", signed "Jerry and...
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New York Art Book Fair: Pop-Up Erotica Artist's Books
Two pop-up, erotic books published 1996/97 by UG-CBO Editions: XXXRated and XXXRated 2. Both published in a limited edition of 100 copies and very early in the history of UG-CBO Editions which...
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New York Art Book Fair: Mirka Lugosi Artwork + Artist's Books
Mirka Lugosi, artist, videographer, muse and amazing creative being has worked closely for many years with her husband, the photographer Gilles Berquet as well collaborating on artist books with Marie...
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