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Skrebneski, Victor : Skrebneski: The Photogalerie Hamburg Exhibition Catalog

Photogalerie The Compagnie, Hamburg, Germany, 1982

ISBN B003YVRWE4

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 77 pages. Exhibition Catalog. Retrospective collection of black-and-white photographs. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited one-time-only print run as a softcover original only. The Exhibition Catalog is now rare. An austerely elegant production by Skrebneski: Oversize-volume format. White softcovers with black titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Skrebneski. There is no text. Printed on glossy stock paper in Germany to the highest standards. The pages have not aged one bit after all these years. In two front covers: The first has a linen cloth spine, the second is an overlay. Without DJ, as issued. Published on the occasion of the photographer's landmark eponymous exhibition held from October through November 1982 in Hamburg, Germany. Presents "Skrebneski". The artist/photographer's work in reverse chronology, beginning with the most recent (1982) and ending with his early breakthrough collection (1967-1970). It is a carefully selected overview of Skrebneski's achievement, with emphasis on his dramatically lit male and female nudes and celebrity portraits. It also includes images that appear in book form for the very first time, notably a closeup photograph of the great artist Erte's hand and two male nudes. The exhibition is in four parts: a) the experimental series that preoccupied Skrebneski in the 1980's and became the core of "Black White & Color"; b) a sequence of nude photographs of an African-American model, which anticipated (by more than a decade) and influenced Robert Mapplethorpe's "Black Book"; c) a selection of full-frontal nude photographs of Joe Dallesandro, Dennis Wayne, Joe McDonald, Tony Stephano, and the model known as Akt; and finally, d) the celebrity portraits of Vanessa Redgrave, Bette Davis, Truman Capote, Orson Welles, Andy Warhol, Diana Ross, and Francois Truffaut, among others, which immediately established Skrebneski's reputation in the late-1960's and early 1970's. The late great fashion designer Hubert de Givenchy paid Skrebneski the ultimate tribute anyone could hope for when he called the latter "an artist, not just a photographer". While he is celebrated for his masterly use of light and shadow, his images, not just his nudes, are erotic, brimming with sensuality and vitality in a way that contemporary art photography consciously avoids (because it cannot be faked, you are either a sexual being or not) and is therefore its self-inflicted loss. "The art of Victor Skrebneski is sublime, provocative, and completely beautiful" (Hubert de Givenchy). An absolute "must-have" title for Skrebneski collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed, dated, and inscribed in black pen-marker by the artist/photographer: "For Marc, Skrebneski 20 X 93". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. The recipient is named. This title is now collectible. As far as we know, this is the only such signed, dated, and inscribed copy of the Exhibition Catalog available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. Please note: This Catalog has not faded or aged at all after almost forty years. A rare signed copy thus. 37 plates. One of the greatest artist/photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER SKREBNESKI TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN B003YVRWE4.

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