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Laurent Benaim (English, French, German, Hardcover, Multilingual edition)
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Laurent Benaim (English, French, German, Hardcover, Multilingual edition)
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"I've always been fascinated by sex, the diversity of practices,
the will and perseverance of people to realize their fantasies,"
says Paris photographer Laurent Benaim. "These moments of pleasure
captivate me in all their forms: the beautiful, the ugly. I have no
criteria for aesthetic selection, only the expression of human
desire interests me." That said, Monsieur Benaim seldom photographs
simple desire or simple sex acts. His models, he insists, run the
show, bringing their uncommon interests to his studio; he acts only
as witness and documentarian, offering his creative encouragement
and nonjudgmental camera. He shoots only amateurs, people whose
lives range from button-down white collar to transient to circus
sideshow. They are young and old, straight, gay and transgender,
able bodied, ample bodied and oddly bodied. They have been coming
to Benaim's large commercial studio in the Parisian suburb of
Montreuil since 1999, first a trickle, then a flood, as word spread
that their quirks and obsessions would not just be embraced, but
transformed into art, through a painstaking 19th-century print
technique little used in the last 100 years. Benaim earned his
photographic degree in 1982. He set up shop as a conventional
photographer, but at heart was a pictorialist, always searching for
ways to defeat photographic realism. In 1991 he saw an antique
photo with just the look he sought, and through trial and much
error taught himself the gum dichromate process. It's tedious,
smelly, and probably poisonous, but Benaim has used it exclusively
since 1996, giving his startling sex photos the look of oversized
French postcards, printed, perhaps, in the damp cellar of a Belle
Epoque whorehouse. The technique softens the extremity of his
subject, leading to gallery shows in Paris, Berlin, Milan,
Luxembourg, Zurich and, fittingly, at the Kinsey Institute for
sexual research in Bloomington, Indiana. Laurent Benaim presents
300 of the photographer's 1,000+ images in what will be among
TASCHEN's most transgressive-and talked about-titles, with an
introduction by editor Dian Hanson.
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