The latter refers to San Francisco, where Gorman did his only other public signing aside from LA. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed, dated (shortly after publication), and placed in black pen-marker on the half-title page by the photographer: 'Greg Gorman June SF'. An absolute 'must-have' title for Greg Gorman collectors. The 'just-between-us' intimacy between photographer and subject ends with the resulting photographs, and becomes intimacy with us, their voyeur-viewers. Here, he lets go, almost as if disavowing his Classically-inspired studio-work, and posits the apparently still-subversive notion that this one man's sole reason for being is sexual pleasure: Having the physical beauty and natural endowment for it, showing off uninhibitedly, and sharing the 'performative' experience with his viewers. The point is that Greg Gorman does not need to prove how well - how exquisitely and formally - he can photograph a male nude in a lavish studio production, as evidenced by his now-classic previous collections, notably 'As I See It' (2000). This is imagery that tests and breaches the fine line between erotic art photography and pornography - for it is a fine line indeed and despite what so-called artists say. Those who thought this was therefore a 'copycat' of Bruce Weber's 'Chop Suey Club' (also devoted to one model) know by now that the similarity abruptly ended there. Page after page after page of sexually explicit nude photographs devoted to one model/muse, Greg Knudson. Presents Greg Gorman's 'Just Between Us'. Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name held at Fahey/Klein Gallery Los Angeles from April 11 to May 18, 2002.

In pictorial DJ with gilt titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Printed on pristine-white, thick uncoated stock paper by EBS in Verona, Italy to the highest standards. Green cloth boards with gilt titles on spine and small photograph pasted on cover, as issued. A brilliant production by Greg Gorman and James Crump: Oversize-volume format.

Arena Editions' final title, many of the copies were not actually printed because the publisher was already in the process of being shuttered. The photographer's most ambitious and daring collection.

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