Sexual Selection
- Berlin, Germany: Bongout & Natacha Merritt, 2012
Berlin, Germany: Bongout & Natacha Merritt, 2012. First Edition. Octavo. 22cm. Publisher's illustrated paper covered boards. 236pp. + [2]. Slight wear to the bottom front corner, a little rubbing and scuffing of the glossy boards; internally clean and fresh; a very good copy indeed.
A lavish and beautifully produced exploration of Merritt's photographic vision, in which autobiographical snippets of her own career as a photographer and model are interspersed with luxuriously technicolor closeup images of sex, spiders, and dissected flowers until the glossyness of latex, leather and arachnid eyes, and the lush fleshyness of orchids and genitals all flow together and become incidental images of different stopping points on the same research expedition.
A lavish and beautifully produced exploration of Merritt's photographic vision, in which autobiographical snippets of her own career as a photographer and model are interspersed with luxuriously technicolor closeup images of sex, spiders, and dissected flowers until the glossyness of latex, leather and arachnid eyes, and the lush fleshyness of orchids and genitals all flow together and become incidental images of different stopping points on the same research expedition.