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GUYETTE 1930s Photos Volume 1 Boots & Heels SHOES Legs ~ Vasta Editions 2020

$ 8.43

Availability: 100 in stock
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  • Subject: Guyette Photos shoes
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  • Photo Type: printed 'zine
  • Refund will be given as: Money Back
  • Date of Creation: 2020
  • All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
  • Color: Black & White
  • Item must be returned within: 30 Days

    Description

    GUYETTE Volume 1 Boots & Heels 1930s Photographs SHOES legs & Lingerie~ Vasta Editions 2020
    No Nudity
    !
    Please
    Do NOT
    pirate or repost my scans!
    Guyette copyright @ Vasta Editions, LLC New York City, 2020
    Back in Stock!!
    GUYETTE Volume 1 Boots And Heels
    , published by Vasta Editions in an edition of 100 copies; measures 5.5 x 8", 36 pages + covers, digitally printed. Book #004 in the Vasta Editions Eros Series.
    From the introduction:
    When the well educated libertine thinks about the history of clandestine, underground
    American photography, the work of John Willie comes
    to mind, or that of Irving Klaw and his digest-sized magazines,
    or Burmel’s Exotique. Left out of the conversation,
    Charles
    Guyette, whose work has fallen into obscurity. Very little is known
    about Guyette, other than he died at the age of 74 in 1976.
    He was active
    in New York City in the 1930s-’50s as a creator
    and supplier of custom-made theatrical accessories, burlesque
    costumes, corsets and g-strings. He was also the middleman for
    creators of custom-made footwear, a job for which the photos
    reproduced in this volume were created.
    While we know that Guyette was the distributor of these
    photographs, it’s unclear who created them in the first place.
    Was it Guyette himself? An employee? Perhaps a client from
    Germany or a collaborator? We may never know for certain. We
    do know that he ran ads in the 1930s-’40s for his creations in New
    York magazines like
    The Police Gazette,
    Harrison Publications,
    Whisper, Eyeful
    , and
    Beauty Parade
    . Ads for photographs have
    been found in the legendary English publication,
    London Life
    .
    This first collection of Guyette photographs is devoted to boots and unusual high heels. The photographs, not surprisingly, are focused on the footwear, not the faces of the models. All are reproduced from original photos in the Vasta Archives. Most of the images are faded or stained due to improper lab work at the time of development, likely because of improper rinsing and fixing of the prints. We’ve chosen to reproduce the photographs as they were originally discovered 25 years ago, including the edge trims, many of which are uneven or asymmetrical.
    Scans say it best!!
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