And in 2017, models started to come forward with claims of sexual harassment and assault against the photographer. These days, Weber is still working as a photographer, documentary director, and is publishing books of his work. There is no escaping that this book (published, incidentally, in 1990 to benefit the AIDS Resource Center in New York) celebrates a vision at once romantic and fundamentally spiritual. Some patches of spotting to spine of book, with further light spotting to insides of jacket and long edges of pages due to previous storage. White Hot makes it clear that photographer Bruce Weber (and his book Bear Pond—more on that in a sec) was the brains and inspiration behind the marketing campaign.

Off-white cloth printed in white, with mint dustjacket protected in Mylar cover by the original retailer. In 2017 Weber was sued by former models over claims of sexual harassment during their shoots in the 90s. Dust jacket VG, rubbing to edges and corners, and rubbed at spine folds, mildy soiled and foxed with two small indentations on front cover, see photos.Fine cream cloth boards with white recessed titles in near fine dust jacket protected in mylar (small closed tear at lower edge). Just one month later, 15 current and former models came forward and accused Weber of sexual harassment, per The New York Times. They claimed “unnecessary nudity and coercive sexual behavior” had happened during professional shoots.

Unser Produktfoto entspricht dem hier angebotenen Artikel, dieser weist folgende Merkmale auf: Helle/saubere Seiten in fester Bindung. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. One year later, five male models sued Weber, saying he had sexually assaulted or exploited them, according to T he New York Times. It was already a relatively rare photography book and this recent publicity has increased both its selling cost and decreased its availability.During the film, former Abercrombie model Ryan Daharsh says that "it was very well known with Bruce that he liked young men. It had the added benefit of drawing attention to the AIDS crisis, as the book was published to benefit the AIDS Resource Center. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. And this book was originally made to benefit the AIDS Resource Center in NYC, so what's not to love?

In this volume, Bruce presents an arcadian vision of “broad serenity,” a singularly beautiful collection of male nudes and landscapes. The magic behind the success is their marketing and brand consistency, which started with their aesthetic in the 80s. Not only is it interesting, but it helps me to spot trends in the rare book world – for example, I saw two copies of the same title sold yesterday. A lifelong love of the written word brought her to Biblio and she happily spends her days talking about books and delving into the wide world of antiquarian books.This poem, in full, is the inscription to the book “Bear Pond” published in 1990 to accompany the exhibition at Robert Miller Gallery titled “Figure Studies. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.