Author: (Burroughs, William). Vollmer, Jurgen.
Title: Sex-Appeal. Photographed and Designed by Jurgen Vollmer.
Description: New York: Avant Associates, (1976). (1976). - Quarto, 11 inches high by 8-5/8 inches wide. Softcover, pictorial black & white wraps. The covers are rubbed and slightly creased. [94] unnumbered pages, illustrated with black & white photographs of men, mostly nudes, including several full-page. A few of the pages within this book are detached, but present. Very good.

First edition.

The introduction is by William Burroughs. "Male Sex appeal? What is sex and what is appeal? Wraiths drawing life from appeal. If they appeal to you they live in your eyes."

The son of an army officer who died in the Second World War, Jurgen Vollmer (born in 1939), met the Beatles in the early 1960's when he was attending Hamburg's Institute of Fashion. At that time, The Beatles who were performing in Germany, still included drummer Pete Best and bassist Stu Sutcliffe. Becoming one of the group's photographers in their leather-clad days, Vollmer's iconic photos so impressed John Lennon that he later used one of them as the cover for his 1975 album "Rock 'n' Roll". Vollmer also later worked as a Hollywood set photographer. Very good .

Keywords: PHOTOGRAPHY; MALE NUDES; WILLIAM BURROUGHS; LITERATURE; JURGEN VOLLMER; ILLUSTRATED; ILLUSTRATIONS; GAY STUDIES; TWENTIETH CENTURY; 20TH CENTURY; AVANTI ASSOCIATES; HOMOSEXUALITY; HOMOSEXUAL; EROTIC; EROTICA; INTRODUCTION.

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