Paolo Roversi - Nudi (MINT CONDITION, SHRINK-WRAPPED) - 1999

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 highly 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.

PAOLO ROVERSI'S EXTREM BEAUTIFUL, BRILLIANT PHOTOBOOK.
The FAVOURITE TITLE of the artist and of me, too - in BRANDNEW CONDITION.

Wonderfully printed and designed; published in Japanese binding.
Complete with the dustjacket and with the slipcase.

New, mint, unread, still originally shrink-wrapped in publisher's plastic foil.
COLLECTOR'S CONDITION.

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Steidl, Göttingen. 1999. First edition, first printing.

Hardback with jacket and with slipcase. 230 x 285 mm. 128 pages. 50 quatrotone photos. Photos: Paolo Roversi. Text in English.

Fantastic photobook by Paolo Roversi - in perfect and complete condition.
A real COLLECTOR'S ITEM.

Famous fashion photographer Paolo Roversi introduces the reader to his long awaited series of nudes. Whether famous or unknown, all models having posed for Paolo, have now turned into angels and figures of light; they are subtle and vulnerable mystical icons filled with erotic energy. The reader is faced with sensuous beauty, and the magic of the human body. This book is also a beautiful work of art thanks to the highest production values: Japanese binding, finest paper, high quality quatrotone printing all housed in a beautiful slipcase.

Paolo Roversi, born in Italy in 1947, currently lives in Paris. He has led numerous publicity campaigns, particularly for Christian Dior, Cerruti, Valentino, Yves Saint-Laurent, and Comme des Garçons.

'His professional career began in 1970 with photojournalism assignments for the Associated Press. Following an invitation to Paris from ELLE Magazine’s legendary art director Peter Knapp in 1973, however, Roversi’s focus soon shifted to fashion. After a nine-month period assisting British photographer Lawrence Sackmann, whom he credits as an influential teacher, Roversi started shooting independently with small commissions for ELLE and Depeche Mode, gaining wider recognition with a Dior beauty campaign in 1980, and ultimately forging his reputation as one of the industry's leading photographers by the mid-1980s.
Whether made with his trademark Deardorff 8 x 10 camera and Polaroid film or as carbon, chromogenic or pigment prints, Roversi's photographs eloquently bridge the spheres of commercial photography and fine art. Imbued with classical visual language and a pictorial sensibility, his images occupy an ethereal realm of diffused lighting and dreamlike shadow that is simultaneously timeless and of this moment.
Roversi has led advertising campaigns for Cerruti, Comme des Garçons, Christian Dior, Yves Saint-Laurent, and Valentino, among others, and his work has been published in an international array of print media such as Arena, Harper's Bazaar, I-D, Interview, Marie Claire, The New York Times Magazine, Italian and British Vogue, and W.'
(Pace Gallery)