Fleurs De Peau / Skin Flowers Hardcover – 1999 by Levy, Gerard; Bramly, Serge
Fleurs De Peau / Skin Flowers Hardcover – 1999
Appraised & selling at USD$300.
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| Format | Hardback | ||||||||
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| Page Count | 103 pages | ||||||||
| Languages | English, French | ||||||||
| Original Title | Fleurs de Peau | ||||||||
| Notes | Hardback with dust jacket. Subtitle: The Photographic Work of a Dermatologist in Lyons in the Thirties |
About this Item: Kehayoff, Munich, 1999. Cartonnage avec jaquette illustrée en couleurs / paper covered boards in colour illustrated dustjacket, 26.5cm x 20.5cm, 103pp, 73 photos en couleurs / colour photos. Ouvrage: comme neuf; jaquette: excellent état. Un recueil de photos en couleurs prises au début des années trente à Lyon par un dermatologue anonyme (mais dont l’auto-portrait est reproduit dans l’ouvrage), qui utilisait l’Autochrome Lumière: légionnaires, anciens détenus, artistes, marins, tous tatoués, la plupart sur tout le corps; quelques photos de paysages et de patients atteints de maladies de peau complètent l’ouvrage. Les textes introductifs et les commentaires des photos sont publiés dans une traduction anglaise /
“In the practice of Dr. X, a dermatologist in Lyon in the early thirties, surface rugged men with bizarre life stories: foreign legionnaires, ex-convicts, artists and sailors. They are all tattooed all over their bodies. The doctor and amateur photographer, who likes to take photos of flowers and landscapes at weekends, was fascined by the skin illustrations he saw, not as clinical cases but as “secret” works of art. Their diversity, their expressivity and also their particularity ephemeral nature pushed him to set up a private “imaginary museum” of the skin” (Rear panel of dustjacket).
Featured here: https://magazine.sangbleu.com/2013/05/18/fleurs-de-peau-2/