1184 - Photography

Photography Attali, Marc and Jacques Delfau Les érotiques du regard. With 64 photographic illustrations. Paris: André Balland, 1968. 112 unpaginated pages. S. Gr.-4°. Original cloth (scuffed and bumped, joints cracked). Cat. Bibliothèque de l'Institut pour la photographie. — Martin Parr, *The Photobook*, Vol. 1, 226. - A bold, electrifying artist’s book from Paris in 1968: *Les érotiques du regard* makes the gaze itself the subject—its seduction, its curiosity, and its inextricable ambivalence. Marc Attali’s 64 grainy black-and-white photographs combine with Jacques Delfau’s playful, provocative, Dadaist-style text collages to form a pulsating visual essay. Streets, cafés, and fleeting encounters become the stage for desire. Yet this book not only celebrates the erotic charge of everyday life; it also critically reflects on the male, voyeuristic gaze and reveals its tension. Image, word, and typography merge into an irresistibly dense document of Parisian counterculture—at once sensual, ironic, intellectual, and, to this day, astonishingly modern. Original illustrated cardboard (rubbed and bumped, joints starting to crack).—A bold, electrifying artist’s book from Paris in 1968: *Les érotiques du regard* makes the gaze itself the subject—its seduction, its curiosity, and its inextricable ambivalence. Marc Attali’s 64 grainy black-and-white photographs come together with Jacques Delfau’s playful, provocative, Dadaist-style text collages to form a pulsating visual essay. Streets, cafés, and fleeting encounters become the stage for desire. Yet this book not only celebrates the erotic charge of everyday life; it also critically reflects on the male, voyeuristic gaze and reveals its tension. Image, word, and typography merge into an irresistibly dense document of Parisian counterculture—at once sensual, ironic, intellectual, and, to this day, astonishingly modern. This lot is subject to standard taxation. A 24.95% buyer’s premium applies to the hammer price, and 7% (books, art) or 19% VAT (manuscripts, screen prints, offset prints, photographs) applies to the final invoice amount within the European Union. This work is subject to the standard margin scheme. A 24.95% buyer’s premium applies to the hammer price, and 7% (books and art) or 19% VAT (manuscripts, screen prints, offset prints, and photographs) applies to the final invoice amount within the European Union.