Strip-o-gram (sealed copy)

Sébastien Girard
Strip-o-gram (sealed copy)

Photographs: Sébastien Girard

Publisher: Self published

144 pages

Year: 2012

Price: 70 €

Comments: Softcover. Japanese binding, Obi as issued. 300 x 245 mm. First edition, 2012. A special edition of 250 sets containing two books : one regular edition and a second one bound in reverse to fully expose the text correspondence (the dust jacket has been fold in reverse also). Both books are signed and numbered. A yellow enveloppe containing a strip-tease sequence of 4 prints reproduced from the originals purchased on Ebay is included. Sealed copy.

In 2007 Sébastien Girard set up an automatic email alert on eBay for keywords related to photographs and strippers. Over a period of several years, he purchased pictures of strippers at work in homes and at parties, all of them taken by amateur photographers in attendance. The resulting images are an exuberant romp into hidden terrain, and they shine like objects uncovered in an archaeological dig.