Title: Dita (ID: 81705.02) A young Dita Von Teese, prior to becoming a world renowned burlesque fashion icon, posed nude and bound in rope for the cover of Midori's book, The Seductive Art of Japanese Bondage, in San Francisco, 2001. This photo is one frame of only 24 solo nudes of her (12 each in b&w and color) made that day. Photographed on Kodak PlusX film using a Hasselblad 500cm manual camera. The film grain and rope marks are quite visible in this image. (Book cover shown with listing is for reference only, and not included in this lot) This print was made by the photographer from the scanned original 120mm film negative, on heavy-weight Platine Rag fiber art paper. Signed in pencil and numbered with photographer's hand-written notes in archival ink on studio label, verso, with embossed artist's seal front bottom right corner. This is A/P #2 of a limited edition of 50 (+ 3 artist proofs). Includes signed COA. Mint condition, never sold, buyer is acquiring direct from the artist's archive. Shipped unframed in sturdy reinforced packaging with archival acetate cover, from California via USPS First Class insured. Morey is an award winning and widely published American photographer (b. 1952) known for his portraits and erotic studio nudes - a founding director of San Francisco Camerawork Gallery, a contract photographer for Penthouse International in the 80’s and 90’s, featured twice on Playboy TV, and author of 9 monographs of erotic and nude art photography.