Amateur SNAPSHOT Style Photos 1920s ~ 1950s

Poking around deep into the archives to create a file amateur, snapshot style nude and erotic photographs covering an approx. period of thirty years. Everything from upskirt views, sexually explicit hetero and lesbians couples, outdoor overexposure and much more. 

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Paris + the Champerret Paper Show

It was mid-February, time for Paris and the paper show at Champerret. What can I say it's always wonderful. Bought and sold some great material, ate and drank, talked and walked, criss crossing the city countless times in search of the marvelous, the elusive and previously unseen beauty. Music-track by sayCet for my week in Paris is here. Champerret + Paris photos...click on any image to enlarge.

French pin-up, glamour illustrator extraordinaire, Aslan, always well represented at the fair, passsed away February 11th at the age of 84.

Poster for the Folies Bergere by Brenot

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My trips to Paris are not complete until visiting Nicole Canet's galerie devoted to the nude and the body, Au Bonheur du Jour...

 

...and my dear friends Gilles Berquet and Mirka Lugosi

...showing me/posing with their latest work

Mutual friend, Poupee Mecanique of the band Human Toys, recently 

returned to Paris after a long sojourn in Los Angeles.

Recent drawing by Mirka. I will have an exciting announcement soon about a collaboration between Mirka, Gilles and Vasta Images.

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Everyone knows Paris is the city of light. It is also a city of typography and graphics. The Place de la Concorde metro station is a distinctive example with its décor created by artist Françoise Schein: she covered the entire vault of the 12 line station with tiles spelling out the Déclaration des Droits de l'Homme et du Citoyen of 1789.

Highly recommended exhibition at the Musee d'Art Decoratif of the typographer Philippe Apeloig there until the end of March.

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My next show is the two day New York City Photo Fair April 11 & 12th

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Gilles Berquet Books & Photographs

Gilles Berquet is a Parisian photographer who delves into the worlds of erotic beauty, domination and submission and the interaction between artist and model using the naked and exposed female body as his inspiration. He is an exceptional creative force, making photographs and publishing his work since the mid-1980s. More about Berquet here. 

Along with books and original photographs by Berquet I have issues of Maniac magazine published in Paris by Editions Astarte, designed and edited by Berquet.

Le Muscle de Sommeil. (top, above and below) United Dead Artists Paris, 2009

 Ame. Jean Pierre Faure Editeur Paris, 1995

 Sur Rendez-Vous. Jean Pierre Faure Editeur Paris, 2000

I am very pleased to be presenting a group of Berquet's latest work as he continues to explore the body and a variety of techniques to display the final digital images on photographic paper and photographic "cut" film. Original photographs are 5" x 7". 

Additional photographs to follow.

Maniac. Issues #2 ~ #9 (all published lacking issue #1). Designed and edited by Gilles Berquet. Editions Astarte Paris, 1994~1999. Contemporary erotic arts + a retrospective look at the work of Yva Richard, Pierre Molinier, John Willie and many other artists and photographers who inspired today's creative Maniacs.

Click artist's limited edition books

   Click for the Vasta Images/Books eBay store

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