Monday, 16 April 2012

Raf Simons. The Fourth Sex.

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Simons, Raf; Bonami, Francesco. The Fourth Sex: Adolescent Extremes. Milan: Charta/Pitti, 2003. First Edition. 4to, 440pp. Numerous Colour and Black & White plates. More images available on request. Near Fine. Softcover.

Really great and hugely exhaustive tome on teenagers, or 'The Fourth Sex'. Superb Contributions from a huge number of guests (Dead or Alive) including Cocteau, Lynch, Nabokov, J.G. Ballard, David Bowie, Larry Clark, Rudi Gernreich, Bernhard Willhelm etc. Chocked with so many superb images collected by Simons and Bonami. Rather like a huge visual research project, and very Simons-y. Texts are also notably good.