Bert Stern - Aventures (BIG MONOGRAPH, DJ, FRESH COPY) - 1997

After the big success of the first two auctions, 5Uhr30.com (Ecki Heuser, Cologne) now proudly presents the third and last edition for this year of “Masters of Erotic Photobooks".

Enjoy another very personal selection of books dedicated to eroticism in all its beautiful facets - drawn from my private library and from various acquisitions over the past years.

IMPRESSIVE RETROSPECTIVE BOOK by famous American photographer Bert Stern.

Including his very beautiful nude photos and of course also a part of the legendary series by the artist of Marilyn Monroe ("The Last Sitting").

WITH ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET.

VERY FRESH CONDITION.

"Bert Stern: Adventures" captures in a sweeping array of images the remarkable career of Bert Stern, one of the legendary figures in contemporary photography. Stern's meteoric rise in the 1950s advertising world is represented by such classic images as his vodka advertisement in which an Egyptian pyramid is seen inverted in a martini glass. His portraits of stars ranging from Elizabeth Taylor and Audrey Hepburn to Drew Barrymore, including the spellbinding 1962 "last sitting" photographs of Marilyn Monroe, form a gallery of the most beautiful women of our time. In the 1960s, he became the American prototype of the fashion photographer as media star, and his pictures of models from Twiggy to Iman have become icons to a new generation of photographers. In all Stern's work can be seen the remarkable graphic simplicity of his photographic art, as well as his extraordinary rapport with his subjects. Robert Sobieszek's text recounts the story of Stern's rise from a Brooklyn childhood to the pinnacle of success and glamour in Manhattan, and his spectacular fall from grace, while analyzing Stern's achievement and establishing its context in the recent history of commercial photography.
Driven by an obsession with beautiful women, Stern lived on the edge, and when his commercial empire crumbled in the 1970s, he dropped from sight. Since the early 1980s, he has reestablished his career, though at a less frenetic pace, while his earlier work has undergone the reevaluation that has led to this retrospective volume."
(from the publisher)

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Editions du collectionneur, Paris. 1997. First edition, first printing.
Originally published in the same year by Bulfinch Press, New York.

Hardcover with dustjacket. 290 x 300 mm. 210 pages. 71 photographs in color, 82 photographs in black and white. Photos: Bert Stern. Edited by Dorothée Walliser. Text: Robert A. Sobieszek. Translation: Marie-France Pavillet. Text in French.

Condition:
Book inside and outside fresh and flawless; clean with no marks and with no foxing. Dustjacket fresh and complete with no tears, with no taped tears and with no missing parts; light trace of use, no remarkable defects. Overall very fine condition.

Great retrospective book by famous American photographer Bert Stern with original dustjacket -
in very fresh condition.

Bertram "Bert" Stern (1929-2013) was an American commercial photographer. He was the son of Jewish immigrants and grew up in Brooklyn. His father worked as a children's portrait photographer. After dropping out of high school at the age of 16, he gained a job in the mail room at Look magazine. He became art director at Flair magazine, where Stern learned how to develop film and make contact sheets, and started taking his own pictures. In 1951, Stern was drafted into the United States Army, sent to Japan and assigned to the photographic department.
In the 1960s, his heavy use of amphetamines led to the end of his marriage to ballerina Allegra Kent. He was one of the last photographers to shoot Marilyn Monroe, in June and July 1962 for Vogue magazine. Monroe died in August 1962. These sessions became known as The Last Sitting. The 2571 photographs taken on these sessions were published after her death in The Complete Last Sitting in 1992. In the 1970s, Stern moved to Spain to recover from his drug addiction. By the late 1970s, Stern returned to the U.S. to photograph portraits and fashion. In 1979, he published "The Pill Book", along with journalist Lawrence Chilnick. This A to Z guide of the most prescribed drugs in the US, which sold 18 million copies, included color photographs of the pills by Stern."
(Wikipedia)