Carnet d’Adresses

By Arnaud Baumann, Le Dernier Terrain Vague (editor), Paris, 1983. First edition. Non-paginated (96 pages). 31.9 x 24.3 cm. Condition: Good (insolated back, tears on the back cover).

100€

In Carnet d’Adresses, Arnaud Baumann draws up a series of portraits, of personalities, totally naked. Beyond a certain voyeurism (and exhibitionism), Baumann’s black and white photographs and the scenarios are successful and give this book a truly artistic dimension. It is also the testimony of a time of great freedom on the edge of a somewhat darker period (marked in particular by AIDS). These are the 80s in France. Photographed there: Alain Pacadis, Antoine de Caunes, Cavanna, Reiser, Jean-François Bizot, Farid Chopel, Pierre Clementi, Olivia Clavel, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Siné, Willem…