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Walter Pfeiffer: 1970-1980 Paperback – March 15, 2005

by Walter Pfeiffer (Photographer)
3.5 3.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
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Full-bleed black and white images, a lack of captions, extreme body close-ups, boys and boys and more boys: these are the trademarks of Walter Pfeiffer's now out-of-print 1980 cult classic. As an autodidact, Pfeiffer started taking photographs without any technical ambition, but with the will to provide a new visual vocabulary for beauty, eroticism and freedom of life. The images depict the 1970-1980 Zurich scene: some feature Pfeiffer's friends hanging out in the studio, nearly all explore the sexuality of the everyday. Organized in stunning visual sequences, the book brought the public's attention to Pfeiffer's polaroids and established him as a sort of underground icon. This faithful reprint of the original visually demonstrates how the documented decade of Pfeiffer's work flirted with gay subculture, and later became a template for today's magazine imagery.
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  1. Print length
    96 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    JRP | Ringier
  4. Publication date
    March 15, 2005
  5. Dimensions
    8.64 x 0.36 x 12.3 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    2940271380
  7. ISBN-13
    978-2940271382
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ JRP | Ringier; First Edition (March 15, 2005)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 96 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 2940271380
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-2940271382
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.24 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.64 x 0.36 x 12.3 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.5 3.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

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David
1.0 out of 5 stars A terribly boring publication
Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2015
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A terribly boring publication, one that I "should be offered" a credit to my account for singeing my eyes by looking at the pages!
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Ian C. Nelson
2.0 out of 5 stars Reprint of a much sought book
Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2007
This is a softcover reprint of a book that created a big stir when it originally came out. You could call it a portrait of young men of "the Zurich scene of Pfeiffer's friends hanging out in the studio" with a definite leaning towards the erotic.
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artlivre
5.0 out of 5 stars Pfeiffer's "Alltag"
Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2005
JRP/Ringier is to be highly commended for re-introducing the criminally overlooked work of Swiss photographer Walter Pfeiffer to a new generation of ardent admirers. This second edition of the painfully out-of-print cult classic is a faithful reprinting of the 1980 Elke Betzel original: same size, same format, same sequencing of full-bleed black and white photographs, even the same untranslated afterword. (Only two pages -- in English -- by the editors have been added to provide viewers a brief overview of the purpose underlying their project.) It will no doubt disappear as quickly from bookshelves as its progenitor did a quarter century ago.
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tyler u
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in Canada on September 4, 2015
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so beautiful
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Tony
3.0 out of 5 stars Different cover
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 15, 2014
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The book had a different cover that the one featured !!!! I didn't like this.... the book inside was fine.
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