Vasta stand @ LA Art Book Fair '16

It was a total love fest at last weekend's LA Art Book Fair with people jamming the Vasta stand each day. Sunday was very special as we celebrated Valentine's along with the launch of Autre magazine's LOVE issue featuring an interview of two of our favorite women: Audra Wist, the sex columnist for the magazine interviewing the exceptional model and muse, Tessa Kuragi. You may remember Tessa's seductive face and figure graced the cover of the artist's book, Hide & Seek, published by Vasta Editions in 2014. 

Thanks to all of you who made it to the fair and stopped by to say hi, take in the sexpapers exhibition and buy some books and magazines. Simon, Audra and I had a great weekend and we look forward to returning next year to do it again in LA!!

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sexpapers exhibition

Simon and Audra my amazing crew on opening night

Happy to see Rose again at the stand, showing off their glittering fingernails and below, Sophie Marie, a new friend, holding Beautes Teintees my book of hand-tinted French postcards, published in Paris by our mutual friend, Alexandre Dupouy @ Editions Astarte.

 Simon above in the mix sorting out the details.

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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 that of Vasta Images/Books, is to gather, preserve, promote and disperse as much of that contemporary material via private clients and the web. Here for the first time outside of antiquarian venues, we have the opportunity to present a wide range of those materials to a "live" audience of artists, designers, book publishers and those who appreciate them and what they create. 

Here is a selection of additional books that will be available for sale at the New York Art Book Fair. Scroll to the bottom of the page for links to additional listings and Book Fair details.

Above and below three pink(ish) books. Top: limited edition Irina Ionesco's Eloge de ma Fille Eva in clamshell box; above: For You XXX Stella. Wandering Around an Erotica Fair Photographs by Martijn van de Griendt and bottom: PORN? Fashion Photographers Explore Pornography. Vision On Publishing. 

The Enema as an Erotic Art. David Barton-Jay,1984. Also available issues of Nozzle Talk.

Les Machines Celibataires. Exhibition Catalog, 1975 

La Peau pour le Dire. Exhibition catalog. Didier Grandsart. 

Galerie Obsis Paris, 2006

Betty Dodson. Liberating Masturbation. A Meditation on Self Love 1974

Teenage Lust. Larry Clark. Second edition 1983

Phantom of Desire. Visions of Masochism. Essays and Text. Peter Weibel editor. Two volume exhibition catalog. Graz, Austria 2003

NB: preview contains materials reserved 

for purchase at the art book fair and are not available for prior sale

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Vasta Images/Books is an international dealer, based in New York City, specializing in the body, the nude and the erotic arts. Focus for the fair will be books, periodicals, photographs and ephemera, circa 1960s~2000s in our areas of specialty. Additionally featured will be material from the collection of the late John McWhinnie by arrangement with his estate.

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