Sannes, Sex a gogo - 1969 - POP-ART PHOTOGRAPHY OF THE NUDE EROTIC

Sannes, Sanne. Sex a gogo. Nur zum Vergnügen. Gestaltung: Walter Steevensz. Bonn, Verlag der europäischen Bücherei H. M. Hieronimi 1969. Quer-8°. [190] S. mit illustr. Doppeltitel, Abb. nach Fotografien u. Illustrationen. Illustr. OPbd.

Auer 493. Bertolotti 210. Gierstberg/Suermondt 55. Parr/Badger I, 227. Nicht bei Heiting, Dutch Photo Publications. – Erste deutsche Ausgabe. – „When ‚Sex a gogo‘ was published in 1969, Sanne Sannes had recently been killed in a car accident, at the age of 30. He had been responsible for a notable work in the Dutch ‚beelroman‘ (photonovel) tradition, ‚Oog om Oog‘ (Eye for Eye). ‚Sex a gogo‘ was a much more lighthearted, a Pop art sexual manual, complete with psychedelic collaging and cartoon speech balloons, much influenced by the many ‚underground‘ magazines that were such a feature of 1960s culture. The book’s montages were devised by its designer Walter Steevensz, who took over the project when Sannes died, and it it his vision as much as the photographer’s that is evidenced in this typically 1960s comedy of sexual mores. Yet however comical, ‚Sex a gogo‘ never allows us to forget about its erotic intentions“ (Parr/Badger). – „Sanne Sannes was a graphic artist and painter before he became a photographer. In 1964, five years he had dropped out as a student at the Minerva Academy in Groningen, he took part in a group exhibition in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, where he came into conflict with W. Kloet, the keeper of the photographic collection. The conflict is worth mentioning because it illustrates a change in artistic self-consciusness. Kloet had cropped Sanne’s prints slightly to make them fit into the exhibition that he had in mind: a magazine-like montage. This form was inspired by the exhibition ‚Family of Man‘, which had been presented in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam in 1956 and was still very common in the 1960s. The young photographer protested against the mutilation and won his case; the museum paid for new prints. Sannes’ short and successful career was terminated at the age of thirty by a car crash. … The emotional quality of his photographs was hightened by use of dynamic angles, lacking of focus, movement, printing-in and double printing. Sametimes he scratched the negatives or created special effects with drops of water“ (H. Visser, Dutch Eyes S. 488). – Folierung im Falz teils etwas gelöst, sehr gutes Exemplar.