HAIRY: PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROBERT GREENE

New York City, NY: PowerHouse Books, 2010. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. As New/No Dust Jacket, As Issued.. New York City, NY: PowerHouse Books, 2010. Hardcover. As New/None, As Issued. First Edition/First Printing. 96 pages. Landmark collection of male nudes. One of the most beautiful erotic art photography books of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now rare. An austerely elegant production by Robert Greene and Justin Cole: Oversize-volume format. Pristine-white pictorial hard boards with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Except for an epigram by Guillaume Apollinaire at the beginning and Credits at the end, there is no text. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name held at Robert Miller Gallery New York in 2010. Presents Robert Greene's "Hairy". His debut collection of photographs of dogs, nature, and men characterized by their extreme hirsute-ness. In our time, clean-shaven bodies might still reign. But being hairy will always represent, irresistibly, animal sex appeal, that is, authentic masculinity. Although he has been taking photographs all his adult life, Greene is a painter whose work is in the Permanent Collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. His publisher is right to describe the formal, perspectival - particularly his use of extreme, sometimes abstracted closeups - and sensual aspects of his photographic work as those of an accomplished painter: "Painterly rhythms seep their way into Robert Greene's world of photography. Greene's images were taken over many years, in many places, of many dogs, and many hairy men. An undercurrent of uber-masculinity and its sexiness is revealed yet not in the familiar form of muscular, hard-jawed, clean-cut models. Instead, Greene celebrates a more restrained and natural virility. There is a very intimate, personal feeling here; one not posed, but observed and captured. Greene shifts from long-range portraiture to close-up shots where specific textures, shapes, and tones become the subject of the image. This abstraction weaves a visual spell such that even those without a predilection for hirsute men will be enthralled. The photographs provide the space for longing, imagination, and adventure. An unusually quintessential book, portraying an incredibly focussed and fleshed-out vision of a very beautiful, hairy world where Man, Dog, and Nature swirl together" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for Robert Greene collectors. This title is a contemporary erotic art photography classic. This is one of very few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. It is the single most beautiful copy we have ever seen. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws yet some command many hundreds of dollars. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. 60 toned plates. One of the most brilliant American artist/photographers of our time. A fine copy. . ISBN 157687527X.