André Gelpke Sex Theater

Author: André Gelpke

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  • : $92.00 AUD
  • : 9783959050357
  • : Spector Books
  • : Spector Books
  • : June 2015
  • : 84.0
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  • : André Gelpke
  • : hardback
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Barcode 9783959050357
9783959050357

Description

Andre Gelpke's series Sex-Theater was produced in the 1970s and depicted performers from a number of different sex theatres in Hamburg’s St. Pauli district. “The fascination that captivated me as a photographer came from the personality of the individual, from the performer who was prepared to realize in public the secret sexual fantasies of an inhibited society, simply in exchange for a fee.”


Sex-Theater was first published as a book in 1981 and quickly sold out. The edition produced by Spector Books together with cpress represents a new “staging” of the series: it includes an expanded selection of images and new texts, and is presented in a form that offers this collection of photos a contemporary framing.  The era that is depicted here is over, and the decline of these clubs is documented in Sex-Theater.