Pamela Hanson - Girls - 2000

Pamela Hanson - Girls
Editions Assouline - 2000 - First edition
208 pages, color and black-and-white photos. Text in French.
Book in very good condition. The first and last pages are slightly pink due to the book cover (see photos).

Little Lolitas playing the femme fatales surrender themselves to sensuality for the moment of a snapshot. A troubling age between childhood and femininity... Alone, with friends or lovers, laughing, pensive or vulnerable, modest or coquettish, always sexy... all these "girls" have posed before the complicit lens of fashion photographer Pamela Hanson. They are known (Carla Bruni, Vanessa Paradis, Naomi Campbell...) or less well known (Lisa, Stella, Simone...). As you turn the pages you pause and swoon for a look, a pout, a gesture, a fragment of bare skin; it’s light and grave at the same time.
Sometimes, beside black-and-white images or those in acid colors, there are short texts, a few words about girls, written by women but also by men. Frédéric Beigbeder, for example: "The Girls are my suave nightmare. I love a torture named desire."

In this fluorescent pink album, a kind of large spiral-bound schoolgirl notebook, the girls will find themselves completely. The boys, on the other hand, will try, not without pleasure, to get a little closer to the mysterious and fascinating world of the "girls"... --Sylvie Lécallier