Taormina: Wilhelm Von Gloeden. 1986, First Edition
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Taormina: Wilhelm Von Gloeden, text by Roland Barthes.
First Limited edition of 5000. Most of photographs in this volume were previously unpublished
Twelvetrees Press, CA, 1986.
Oversized Hardcover. 14 x 11 x 1 inches (35 x 28 x 2 cm), pages with 86 sepia-toned plates.
Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden (1856 - 1931) was a German photographer who worked mainly in Italy and known for pastoral nude studies of Sicilians. Suffering from ill health in his early twenties, von Gloeden moved to Taormina, Sicily. He would travel throughout Italy, visiting his cousin Wilhelm von Pluscrow, a commercial photographer in Naples, who taught him photographic techniques. The onset of financial problems led to von Gloeden early photography, his selling postcards of the Sicily attractions and taking portraits of the locals.
The villagers attitude to von Gloeden open homosexuality was eased by his generosity and the royalities he paid his models.
After his death in 1931, the Italian authorities, considering his work as pornographic, destroyed an estimated 3000 glass negatives and prints. By 1940s, only a few hundred images survived.
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Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden (1856 - 1931) was a German photographer who worked mainly in Italy and known for pastoral nude studies of Sicilians. Suffering from ill health in his early twenties, von Gloeden moved to Taormina, Sicily. He would travel throughout Italy, visiting his cousin Wilhelm von Pluscrow, a commercial photographer in Naples, who taught him photographic techniques. The onset of financial problems led to von Gloeden early photography, his selling postcards of the Sicily attractions and taking portraits of the locals.
The villagers attitude to von Gloeden open homosexuality was eased by his generosity and the royalities he paid his models.
After his death in 1931, the Italian authorities, considering his work as pornographic, destroyed an estimated 3000 glass negatives and prints. By 1940s, only a few hundred images survived.
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