New from high-profile fashion photographer Thierry Le Gou???s comes a lavish artist's book, Popular, an earthy, luring tome of the rarely shown Havana social scene. In Le Gou???s' provocative duotone and sensuous four-color photographs, we're seduced by a culture of great joy amongst great poverty: raucous, heat-soaked street parties; spirited sparring matches in crumbling gymnasiums; voluptuous nudes plying their wares in derelict mansions; wizened balladeers savoring impossibly large Cohibas... Le Gou???s' models are ...
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New from high-profile fashion photographer Thierry Le Gou???s comes a lavish artist's book, Popular, an earthy, luring tome of the rarely shown Havana social scene. In Le Gou???s' provocative duotone and sensuous four-color photographs, we're seduced by a culture of great joy amongst great poverty: raucous, heat-soaked street parties; spirited sparring matches in crumbling gymnasiums; voluptuous nudes plying their wares in derelict mansions; wizened balladeers savoring impossibly large Cohibas... Le Gou???s' models are drawn from the street: a mixture of Buena Vista Social Club stars and underground legends, the miscegenation of which, in Le Gou???s' expert fashion sense, serves to create a raw, sexy style-one of abandon out of necessity, out of a lust for life-a spirit Le Gou???s sees in Cuba as ubiquitous as the cigarettes from which the book draws its name.
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Good. Somewhat damaged. May have bumped corner, torn or missing dust cover, folded pages, light dust soil, remainder mark, price sticker, other damage, or be bent. 99% of orders arrive in 4-10 days.
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Fine in Fine jacket. First edition (so stated). 4to. Illustrated with over 100 color and b/w photographs. Dust jacket (unclipped). Fine, fresh. No signatures or bookplates.
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Fine/Fine w tiny edge chip. Massive collection of full-page and dbl-page street photos and nudes from Havana CUBA. Scenes of life, joy, poverty, sexuality. Lovely HB 1st copy. 9-1/2 x 12, unnumbered pp, glossy b/w & color photos, black endpapers.
