Gatewood, Charles, et al. — Forbidden Photographs

Woodstock, New York, Sun in Scorpio / Flash Productions, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Nothing is true. Everything is permitted." SIGNED and numbered (#763 of 1,000) at title page. A joint publication; boy, is it a joint publication, with helmsmanship perhaps by one leader and promoter of the "Modern Primitive" movement, Charles Gatewood, but with textual contributions by him and photographs of Marco Vassie, Mimi Bee, Annie Sprinkle, Spider Webb, Helen Wheels and many others. Bound in a shiny black leatherette over boards, with gilt title to front cover. Black card-stock endpapers front and rear, unpaginated, but roughly 80 pp. Replete with black-and-white photographs of tattooing, sexual acts, blow-torches, needles inserted under fingernails, piercings, etc. The New York Times obituary for Charles Gatewood (1942-2016) lauds him as "a boundary-pushing photographer who mapped, provocatively and disturbingly, the subcultures of strippers, sex-club devotees, bikers, body piercers and fetishists." He published extensive collections of texts and photographs throughout his life and was the subject of the 2003 documentary "Forbidden Photographs: The Life and Work of Charles Gatewood." The text meanders with reminiscences of trips to and through Times Square, the Hellfire Club and various B.D.S.M. haunts.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . Signed by Author. . Near Fine