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Saudec

The theater of sensual dreams: romance and fantasy in the portrait art of Jan Saudek

The Czech Republic has long been a land of mystery and magic, home to alchemists, artists, and
the original bohemians, all of them weavers of spells, creators of fantastic worlds of the
imagination. Internationally famous Czech photographer Jan Saudek is no exception, and equally as
uncompromising in pursuit of his own unique vision. For over four decades Saudek has created a
parallel photographic universe, a two-dimensional home full of longing, peopled with the most
extraordinary characters and colored by desire. The timeless strength of his hand-tinted
photographs lies in their poetic compositions and their forceful—at times ribald—pictorial
language, with its overtones of medieval genre pictures and Baroque mythology. Rejecting the
traditional beauty in his famous nude photographs, Saudek shows the distinctively different: old
women, fat women, children; real people in tableaux vivants that remind us of everything from
surreal early movies to fin-de-siecle carnival nights. They exist outside time, a uniquely colored and
almost mythical theater of dreams. Covering his debut in the 1950s through his lesser-known work
to recent images, this dazzling collection offers us the true "velvet revolution," fertile and unsettling
images from the dreams we might still have.

Butt Book
Putting the sex back into homosexuality: The best of BUTT magazine so far

Celebrating BUTT magazine’s fifth anniversary, this book is a selection of the most fantastic and
the most ridiculous
interviews and photos that have appeared in BUTT so far. This anthology also finally makes a lot
of material from the now rare, earlier issues of BUTT available again. For your (in)convenience,
the timeline in the book runs backwards, from the here and now all the way back to the summer of
2001, when the first issue of BUTT landed with a bang.

Like the magazine itself, this book offers an often amazingly realistic view on today’s homosexual
man, including conversations with Michael Stipe, Gus van Sant, Rufus Wainwright,Marc Jacobs,
as well as contributions from Wolfgang Tillmans, Terry Richardson, Hedi Slimane, Asianpunkboy,
and Helmut Lang, just to name a few. “BUTT has single-handedly pioneered the notion of a smart,
literate gay magazine yet also manages to be very dirty,” notes filmmaker Bruce LaBruce in his
foreword. “BUTT matters. BUTT fills a hole.”

With sexy pictures of, and candid interviews with: Asianpunkboy, Bruce Benderson, Peter Berlin,
AA Bronson, Christopher Ciccone, Martin Degville, Tommy Deluca, Ed Droste, Al Eingang,
Thomas Engel Hart, Marc Jacobs, Heinz Peter Knes, Marcelo Krasilcic, Bruce LaBruce, Inez van
Lamsweerde, Lutz, Ryan McGinley, Alasdair McLellan, Matmos, Walter Pfeiffer, Terry
Richardson, Paul Rutherford, Gus van Sant, Jeremy Scott, Jake Shears, Casey Spooner, Michael
Stipe, Jonsi Thor Birgisson, Wolfgang Tillmans, Viktor & Rolf, Dominic Vine, Matthias Vriens,
Rufus Wainwright, John Waters, Edmund White, Bernhard Willhelm, and Jonny Wooster.

The Wonderful World of Bill Ward
Eric Kroll on Bill Ward
“Ward’s women reek of glamour and glitz. The opera length gloves, the diamond earrings
that dangle to the shoulders, the stiletto heels, the tight satin dresses, the pronounced
cleavage... it's all there. It's the best eye candy money can buy.” —Eric Kroll

Bill Ward’s long, prolific pin-up career began during World War II when he created a curvy
distraction named Torchy for his fellow soldiers. His taste for impossibly buxom
blondes—teetering on stiletto heels, legs encased in black nylon, torsos packed into satin
gowns—precisely suited America’s collective postwar sex fantasy, and the late 50s men’s
magazine boom made him the most popular girlie artist in the country. Through the 1960s,
70s, 80s, and 90s, Ward broadened his range to embrace a variety of fetish subjects, but he
never varied from his template of the Ultimate Woman—except to make her breasts a little
bigger, her heels a little higher, or the satin and leather encasing her a little glossier.

The art of Bill Ward (1918-1998) has become so rare and collectible that photographer and
veteran TASCHEN editor Eric Kroll has had to trawl through archives across America to
assemble this broad selection of Ward’s very best work. Drawn from over 600 illustrations
and interviews with family, friends, employers, and even some of the women who inspired
him, this 344-page, meticulously researched book is the definitive tribute to the great Bill
Ward and the perfect companion piece, in size and scope, to TASCHEN’s The Art Of Eric
Stanton.