AS I SEE IT: THE ADVANCE SIGNED COPY

New York City, NY: PowerHouse Books, 2000. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/No Dust Jacket, As Issued.. New York City, NY: PowerHouse Books, 2000. Hardcover. Fine/None, As Issued. First Edition/First Printing. 288 pages. Landmark collection of male nudes. Now considered a contemporary erotic art photography classic. Advance Signed Copy of the First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with the regular trade edition and the Second Edition. Published in a tiny first print run as a hardcover original only. It was never revealed how many copies Greg Gorman signed in advance for the publisher as part of the latter's trade promotional campaign. It is clear nevertheless that very few ended up in private collectors' hands. The First Edition is now rare. An austerely elegant production by Greg Gorman and Daniel Power: Dark-brown ribbed cloth boards with titles embossed on the cover and spine, as issued. Rock musician Abdias Marin photographic reproduction pasted in front. Photographs and Introduction by Greg Gorman. Preface by Sir Elton John, the world's greatest private collector of erotic art photography. Afterword by John Hurt. Acknowledgments, Biography, and List of Exhibitions appended at the end. Printed on sepia-toned, thick coated stock paper to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is outstanding in every respect. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Greg Gorman's "As I See It". The photographer's "summing-up" collection on the male nude. Almost ALL of the portraits are full-frontal, and include such celebrities as Christopher Atkins, David Sojka, Nicholas Gonzalez, Josh Duhamel, Aaron Long, Tony Ward, Jack Welsh, and Jeff Clark, among many others. Also has the celebrated sequence featuring the seemingly shy but extremely well-endowed model, "Speedy". Greg Gorman has said that what he wanted to capture permanently ("freeze", as it were, as only photographs do) is the boy/man, not the muscular, overdeveloped gym-type nor the pubescent, scrawny kid, but someone in-between, with a lean, supple, and clean-shaven body, regardless of his chronological age. Many of the boy/men in this collection are in their late-teens or early twenties. But someone like Christopher Atkins was already in his forties yet still had the "Blue Lagoon" good looks and physique that catapulted him to global stardom. Because for Gorman, the boy/man is the epitome of everything that makes the male specimen irresistible. All in all, his best book. An absolute "must-have" title for Greg Gorman collectors. This Advance Signed Copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in black pen-marker on the half-title page by Greg Gorman. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page or bookplate. Gorman's signature fills up the page. This title is a great erotic art photography book. As far as we know, this is the only such Advance Signed Copy (of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing) available online and is in fine condition overall: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have very serious flaws or are the Second Edition. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. 212 sepia-toned plates. One of the most brilliant American photographers of our time. Some of the most beautiful and sexiest models and actors of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER GREG GORMAN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1576870863.