Serge Jacques (Klotz Series) (English and German and French Edition)

About this book

It is part of Taschens policy to celebrate the infamous and the notorious -- rebel artists who have had to constantly struggle against the rigid morality of the censors and the law. French photographer Serges Jacques is a case in point. His groundbreaking nudes in the 50s were deemed obscene because he revealed his models pubic hair. He Faced countless arrests blacklists and regular raids on his studio and darkroom. Like other mavericks of the time he continued his mission in the Face of adversity and continued to photograph and publish the legendary French pin-up magazine ""Paris -- Hollywood"". For Jacques ""Hollywood"" was a state of mind an imaginary landscape of the erotic imagination where everybodys sexual preferences were given Free rein. Painstakingly Jacques recreated the details of these Fantasies within the privacy of his studio -- building papier-mache sets posing the girls on beds of pretend snow and dressing them up (and undressing them) in decorative lingerie. Kitsch amusing and still provocative this is an excellent compilation of Serges Jacques finest and under the circumstances bravest work.