Wingate Paine - Spiegel der Venus - 1966

Author: Wingate Paine
Title: Spiegel der Venus
Publisher: Verlag C.J. Bucher, 1966
Hardback with illustrated dustjacket, 4to., 160 Pages nn, with 108 partly colored plates
Year: 1966
First German edition
Size: 31x24 cm
Language: German
Condition: Very good (see pictures for details)
Mentioned in Auer 451. The Open Book 224 f. (Both American original editions from the same year)

Paine's 1966 book of photographs, "Mirror of Venus," is a classic of soft-core erotica and a sexual-revolution period piece. More than seventy-five color and black-and-white prints from that book and its several follow-ups are gathered here for Paine's first solo exhibition, and they look charmingly innocent by today's standards. Working with a trio of regular models, the photographer was able to achieve a sense of sweet, playful intimacy and suggestive moments of sexual abandon. The work is self-consciously arty and not a little kitsch, but it never asks to be taken seriously, only enjoyed, and that's easy" (The New Yorker on an exhibition at the Chelsea Gallery, New York in January 2009).

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