Walter Pfeiffer - In Love with Beauty - 2008

WONDERFUL BIG BOOK BY CULT PHOTOGRAPHER WALTER PEIFFER.

VERY FRESH CONDITION.

"An underground classic for years, Walter Pfeiffer has developed a unique blend of eroticism and wit, classical serenity and ornamental playfulness, artifice and immediacy that has begun to garner major international attention in the past few years. Fotomuseum Winterthur and Steidl present an unprecedented chronological overview of Pfeiffer's photographic work, spanning four decades from his beginnings in the early 1970s to his most recent work. Some of the photographs have never been published or exhibited before; thus the book provides a new perspective on Pfeiffer's oeuvre. Initially a painter, draughtsman, and graphic designer, Walter Pfeiffer started to use photographs as aide-memoirs while working on large-scale photorealist pencil drawings in the early 1970s. But he soon developed a genuine passion for photography and its capacity to capture transient epiphanies of beauty. Inspired by a cast of handsome drifters and stylish women, he established his very own Warhol-inspired "Factory", and began to carve out his trademark style that testifies to both his desire for timeless beauty and his precise observation of the permutations of fashion and style."
(from the publisher)

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Steidl, Göttingen. 2008. First edition, first printing.

Hardcover with dustjacket. 236 x 300 mm. 346 pages. Photos: Walter Peiffer. Text in German.

Condition:
Book inside and outside new, mint, unread. Dustjacket very fresh, complete with no tears, with no taped tears and with no missing parts; light trace of use, a bit creased at the top of the rear side, no other remarkable flaws and defects. Overall very fine condition.

Great photobook by cult photographer Walter Peiffer - in great condition.

"In 1981, Walter Peiffer published his book Walter Pfeiffer. Its cheeky eroticism and raw immediacy was in perfect tune with the Punk/The New Wave movement, while prefiguring the diary-like, ostentatiously unpretentious approach to photography that would become popular in the 1990s. For most of the 1980s, Pfeiffer embarked on a quest for male beauty that culminated in "Das Auge, die Gedanken, unentwegt wandernd", a 1986 series of b/w close-up portraits of young men, whose elegant reduction was the result of years of study and experimentation. Pfeiffer then dedicated himself to drawing for a number of years, only to return to photography in the late 1990s. In 2001, he published Welcome Aboard, an overview of recent and past photographs, which proved that he has remained as youthful and exuberant as ever. In recent years, he has ceaselessly refined his approach to photography and has worked for international magazines such as i-D, Achtung, Butt, the German edition of Vanity Fair, Officiel, Têtu, and Out Magazine."
(from the publisher)