Christopher Makos (David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Patti Smith, Man Ray, Alice Cooper, Iggy Pop) - Schicker Schund ('White Trash', VERY FRESH CONDITION) - 1978

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WONDERFUL COLLECTION OF CANDID PHOTOGRAPHS by Christopher Makos from Punk, New Wave and Underground America.

Showing:
David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Debbie Harry ('Blondie'), Iggy Pop, Patti Smith, Iggy Pop, Alice Cooper, Divine, Man Ray, Tennessee Williams, William S. Burroughs, Grace Jones, Marilyn Chambers and others.

PRAISED BY ANDY WARHOL who described Christopher Makos as 'the most modern photographer in America'.

TRUE FIRST GERMAN PRINTING (identical in layout, size and content with the first American).

VINTAGE BOOK FROM THE 70ties (not to mix with the modern/new version, which came out in America in 2014).

EXCELLENT, VERY FRESH CONDITION.

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Christopher Makos has a history of seeing trends, fashions and social movements long before most others. His book White Trash, published in 1977, attracted a lot of attention, and included mavens of contemporary culture along with pictures of the emerging punk rock music scene.
With 'White Trash', Christopher Makos burst on to the photography scene and made a name for himself as the first photographer to record the convergence of the 'uptown' and 'downtown' worlds, as Debbie Harry fondly remembers. This raw, beautiful volume chronicled the punk scene as it came of age on the street of New York. Interspersed in the mix are portraits of boldface names. Over the years, the book became a cult classic, selling for up to $500 on Amazon. A publication with 'weight' in the world of pop culture photography.

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Rogner & Bernhard, Munich. 1978. First German edition, first printing.
Originally published by Stonehill Publishing Company, New York, in 1977 with the title 'White Trash'.

Paperback with flaps. 230 x 305 mm. 128 pages (three fold-outs). 96 photos in black and white. Photos: Christopher Makos. Text in German.

Condition:
Inside and outside excellent, fresh and flawless; clean with no marks and with no foxing. Very light trace of use only; no remarkable flaw or defects. Overall very fine condition.

Cult photo publication by Christopher Makos - in wonderful fresh condition.

'Christopher Makos, born 1948, is an American photographer and visual artist. Makos is known for his photographs of queer icons and pop stars, and of the male body.
Makos learned from photographer Man Ray, and collaborated with pop artist Andy Warhol. His work has been in the permanent collections of more than 100 museums and major private collections, including those of Malcolm Forbes, Pedro Almodóvar, and Gianni Versace. His photographs of Warhol, Haring, Tennessee Williams, and others have been auctioned regularly. Makos lives in the West Village area of New York City.
Chris Makos was born in 1948 in Lowell, Massachusetts. After his mother and her husband divorced when he was thirteen, they moved to Southern California.
Makos dated actor Tony Perkins, who gave him a Nikon camera for his birthday. That was the start of his photography career. 'I took pictures and realized I could make money doing that,' he said.
His first solo exhibition 'Pictures From A Suitcase' was at the Foto Gallery in New York from December 1974 to January 1975. At the time, Makos' art dealer acted as both his and photographer Man Ray's representative. As a result, Makos spent a weekend in 1976 hanging out with Man Ray at his birthday celebration in Fregenae, Italy. Throughout that weekend, Makos picked up a lot of photographic tips from Man Ray, who advised him to 'obey your first impression.'
Later that year, he met pop artist Andy Warhol and soon became visible in his social circle. In 1977, Makos published his book White Trash. During that time Makos worked as a photo assistant for Warhol and was involved with the publication of the 1979 art photo book, Andy Warhol's Exposures. His book, Warhol: A Photographic Memoir (1989, New American Library), chronicled his friendship and extensive travels with Warhol in photos.
Since the early 1970s, Makos has worked at developing a style of boldly graphic photojournalism. His photographs have been the subject of numerous exhibitions both in galleries and museums throughout the United States, Europe and Japan and have appeared in countless magazines and newspapers worldwide. He has been a seminal figure in the contemporary art scene in New York. He is responsible for introducing the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring to Andy Warhol.
Makos' photographs have been published in Interview, Rolling Stone, House & Garden, Connoisseur, New York Magazine, Esquire, Genre and People, among others. His portrait of Warhol wrapped in a flag was featured on the front cover of the Spring 1990 issue of the Smithsonian Studies, the academic journal of the Smithsonian Institution. Makos' Icons portfolio is a collection of silkscreen portraits of Andy Warhol, Elizabeth Taylor, Salvador Dalí, John Lennon, and Mick Jagger.'
(Wikipedia)