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an open book with a black and white photo of a woman standing in front of a building
Jeschke Jádi Auctions Berlin

Estimate €300 - €450
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Photography Attali, Marc and Jacques Delfau Les érotiques du regard. With 64 photographic plates. Paris: André Balland, 1968. 112 unnumbered pp. Large 4° format. Hardback (slightly rubbed at the top). Cat. Bibliothèque de l’Institut pour la photographie. – Martin Parr, *The Photobook*, Vol. 1, p. 226. - A bold, electrifying artist’s book from Paris in 1968: *Les érotiques du regard* makes the gaze itself the subject – its seduction, its curiosity and its inescapable ambivalence. Marc Attali’s 64 grainy black-and-white photographs combine with Jacques Delfau’s playful, provocative, Dadaist-style text collages to form a pulsating visual essay. Streets, cafés and fleeting encounters become the stage for desire. Yet this book not only celebrates the erotic charge of everyday life; it also offers a critical reflection on the male, voyeuristic gaze and lays bare its tension. Image, word and typography merge to form an irresistibly dense document of Parisian counterculture – at once sensual, ironic, intellectual and, to this day, astonishingly modern. - A bold, electrifying artist’s book from Paris in 1968: *Les érotiques du regard* makes the gaze itself the subject – its seduction, its curiosity, and its inextricable ambivalence. Marc Attali’s 64 grainy black-and-white photographs are combined with Jacques Delfau’s playful, provocative, Dadaist-style text collages to form a pulsating visual essay. Streets, cafés and fleeting encounters become the stage for desire. Yet this book not only celebrates the erotic charge of everyday life, it also critically reflects on the male, voyeuristic gaze and reveals its tension. Image, word and typography merge into an irresistibly dense document of Parisian counterculture – at once sensual, ironic, intellectual and, to this day, astonishingly modern. – This lot is subject to standard tax. A 24.95% buyer’s premium is payable on the hammer price, and 7% (books, art) or 19% VAT (manuscripts, screen prints, offset prints, photographs) is payable on the final invoice amount within the European Union. This lot is subject to the standard tax regime. A 24.95% buyer’s premium applies to the hammer price, and 7% (books and art) or 19% VAT (manuscripts, screen prints, offset prints and photographs) applies to the final invoice amount within the European Union.
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About the sale Valuable books, prints, historical photographs
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Auction time 10/24/2026 at 10:00 AM
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