Pornografie

Klaus Staeck,Pornografie

Klaus Staeck
Pornografie

Photographs: Klaus Staeck

Publisher: Edition Kölling/Anabas Verlag

388 pages

Pictures: 286

Year: 1971

Comments: Hardcover. 250 x 200 mm. First edition, 1971. Black & white photographs. Minor wear and some peeling as usual. Copy in very good condition. Included in Martin Parr & Gerry Badger, The Photobook, vol.II, p.150-151. Scarce collectible copy. (more pictures on request)

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Here is a bewildering collection of curious of everyday violence: press photos of street fights, naked victims of war, and tortured prisoners follow staged body-art pictures and a wide array of objects colored by desire, power, exposure and surveillance. With a name that refers to x-rated images and the obscene, the works shown in Pornografie may be far from a voyeur's expectations. Indeed, it is filled with obscene photos, but as the philosopher Herbert Marcuse put it: "It's not the picture of a naked woman that's obscene but that of a general who shows off his medals earned in a war of aggression." The book is a complete work of art, offensive in every sense of the word, and as an artistic manifesto about violence in the twenty-first century, it couldn't be any more current, especially given movements like activist art.


Klaus Staeck,Pornografie

Klaus Staeck,Pornografie

Klaus Staeck,Pornografie

Klaus Staeck,Pornografie

Klaus Staeck,Pornografie

Klaus Staeck,Pornografie

Klaus Staeck,Pornografie

Klaus Staeck,Pornografie

Klaus Staeck,Pornografie

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