LEGENDARY FIRST BOOK by Walter Peiffer from 1980 (!) - IN VERY FRESH CONDITION. IN THIS WONDERFUL FRESH CONDITION REALLY HARD TO FIND. GREAT PHOTOS, SENSATIONAL ATMOSPHERE AND WITH A CAUSE mentioned here: Martin Parr, Gerry Badger, The Photobook, volume 3, page 85 VERY SCARCE (not to mix with the much later second edition by JRP Ringer in 2004). ENJOY THE FIRST EROTIC PHOTOBOOK AUCTION by 5Uhr30.com (Ecki Heuser, Cologne, Germany). 5Uhr30.com guarantees detailed and accurate descriptions, 100% protection, 100% insurance and combined shipping worldwide. Elke Betzel, Frankfurt am Main. 1980. First edition, first printing. Paperback (wie erschienen). 224 x 318 mm. 96 pages. More than 80 black and white photos. Photos: Walter Peiffer. Text in English. Condition: Inside very fresh and flawless; clean with no marks and no foxing. Outside very fresh without the usual rubbing along the spine (very often the case) and without the usual creases (often the case); front a bit sunned at the edges (not dramatic). Overall very fine, much better and fresher than usual condition. Very early Walter Pfeiffer title in very fresh condition - SCARCE OPPORTUNITY. An underground classic for years, Walter Pfeiffer has developed a unique blend of eroticism and wit, classical serenity and ornamental playfulness, artifice and immediacy that has begun to garner major international attention in the past few years. Fotomuseum Winterthur and Steidl present an unprecedented chronological overview of Pfeiffer's photographic work, spanning four decades from his beginnings in the early 1970s to his most recent work. Some of the photographs have never been published or exhibited before; thus the book provides a new perspective on Pfeiffer's oeuvre. Initially a painter, draughtsman, and graphic designer, Walter Pfeiffer started to use photographs as aide-memoirs while working on large-scale photorealist pencil drawings in the early 1970s. But he soon developed a genuine passion for photography and its capacity to capture transient epiphanies of beauty. Inspired by a cast of handsome drifters and stylish women, he established his very own Warhol-inspired "Factory", and began to carve out his trademark style that testifies to both his desire for timeless beauty and his precise observation of the permutations of fashion and style. In 1981, Walter Peiffer published his book Walter Pfeiffer. Its cheeky eroticism and raw immediacy was in perfect tune with the Punk/The New Wave movement, while prefiguring the diary-like, ostentatiously unpretentious approach to photography that would become popular in the 1990s. For most of the 1980s, Pfeiffer embarked on a quest for male beauty that culminated in "Das Auge, die Gedanken, unentwegt wandernd", a 1986 series of b/w close-up portraits of young men, whose elegant reduction was the result of years of study and experimentation. Pfeiffer then dedicated himself to drawing for a number of years, only to return to photography in the late 1990s. In 2001, he published Welcome Aboard, an overview of recent and past photographs, which proved that he has remained as youthful and exuberant as ever. In recent years, he has ceaselessly refined his approach to photography and has worked for international magazines such as i-D, Achtung, Butt, the German edition of Vanity Fair, Officiel, Têtu, and Out Magazine.