Bruce Weber

[Bruce Weber]

The second self-titled monograph on Bruce Weber. The book focuses on Weber's expert portrayal of the male body in it's many handsome and youthful guises - Sam Shepard, Robert Mitchum, Andy Minsker, Patrick Swayze, Little Richard, Chris Isaak, Chet Baker, boxers, nudes, athletes, etc. The photographs were all taken between 1983 and 1987, and include many shots from his celebrated Olympic athlete series. Anecdotes from Weber are interspersed within the plates.



Edited & Designed by John Cheim. Photographs by Bruce Weber. Alfred A. Knopf. New York 1988. First edition. Hardback, quarto; dark-green cloth-bound boards, illustrated dust jacket, plus additional glassine dust jacket with printed title. [c.250 pages]. 139 plates in b&w, some in colour. English. 315 x 250mm. 1.8kg. 9780394572468. Near fine, in near fine dust jacket; very slight shelf wear, browning to glassine jacket as usual, very small nick to glassine at base of spine; a copy in better condition than usual.