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EXCELLENT GERMAN EROTIC VINTAGE PHOTOBOOK from the 70ties.

GREAT PHOTOS by Ica Vilander (1921-2013) - 
widely unknown and highly underrated German photographer, well known also for "Vive le sex" (Alessandro Bertolotti, Book of Nudes, page 203).

THIRD BOOK BY THE ARTIST.

Ica Vilander, for example, portrayed Hildegard Knef. She also gained international attention with her nude photography. In 1969, the news magazine "Der Spiegel" described her as “Germany’s most famous nude photographer.” 
Original works by Ica Vilander are rare; much has been destroyed and can now only be seen as reproductions in magazines like "TWEN" or in her books "Akt apart" ("La femme vue par une femme" 1967), "Akt abstrakt" (1968), "Akt adonis" (1969), "Söhne der Sonne 2" (1969), and "Vive le sex" (1970).

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Heinz Peter, Gütersloh. 1969. First edition, first printing. 

Hardcover in half linen. 230 x 300 mm. 76 pages. 38 black and white photos. Photos: Ica Vilander. Text in German.

Condition: 
Book inside very fresh with no previous owner marks and with no foxing; first page cutted away. Book outside with very fresh covers and spine; lightly bumped at the bottom of the spine (also of the pages; not dramatic, difficult to see, but necessary to mention). Overall very good condition.

Wonderful nude photobook by Ica Vilander from 1969 (for more informations about the artist, please scroll down, see below).

"After completing an apprenticeship in photography, Ica Vilander lived in Berlin from 1944 onward. She began studying at the Berlin University of the Arts under Heinz Hajek-Halke, focusing on graphic design and experimental photography. From 1959 onwards, her first publications appeared, including journalistic, study-like pieces in the youth magazine TWEN—such as those about the cabaret artist Wolfgang Neuss (8/1962) and, about Vilander herself, the photo essay “My Grandma Photographs Nudes” (4/1967). The essay was inspired by her lifestyle, which came to represent the model of a life-loving and unconventional woman. At the time, she lived in close community with the hippie family of her son Helge. The gallerist Franz Dahlem was at times her assistant and lover.
Ica Vilander inspired Werner Klett to make the film The Eyes of Ica Vilander (1968) and was involved in the feature film Exercises with Performers (1968) by Werner Schroeter. Her photographic works also appear as inserts in Herbert Vesely’s film The Bread of Those Early Years (1962), based on the novel by Heinrich Böll. She designed book covers for the publishing houses Rowohlt and Heyne. From 1980 onward, she withdrew completely from public life.
Original works by her are rare; much has been destroyed and can now only be seen as reproductions in TWEN or in her books akt apart, La femme vue par une femme (1967), akt abstrakt (1968), akt adonis (1969), and vive le sex (1970).
Vilander photographed, among others, Hildegard Knef, Helene Weigel, Gregory Corso, Maurice Béjart, and Sidney Poitier. She also gained international attention with her nude photography. In 1969, the news magazine Der Spiegel described her as “Germany’s most famous nude photographer.”
(Wikipedia)

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