Les Erotiques du regard

Folio (345 x 265 mm), pp.[112]. 64 black-and-white photographs. Original black-and-white photo-illustrated paper-covered boards, tinted pink, text and spine printed in black; rubbing to tips, and to head and foot of spine, short closed tear to lower panel at foot of spine, horizontal crease towards foot of spine. Near-fine.

First edition. Les Erotiques du Regard ‘is a frank meditation on the male gaze, an essay in pictures and a kind of concrete poetry where the typography has equal status with the imagery. Unlike many of the so-called erotic books from the 1960s – the ‘Free Love’ era – Les Erotiques manages to examine the phenomenon of the male gaze, whilst at the same time doing the classically male thing of gazing’ (Parr).

Parr, M. and Badger, G., The Photobook: A History, Vol.I, p.226.