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Pierre Et Gilles: The Complete Works (Jumbo Ser.)
Pierre Et Gilles by N. Currie
Pierre Et Gilles by Dan Cameron, Lisa Phillips, Julian Honer
Femmes: Masterpieces of Erotic Photography by Michelle Olley
Love Lust Desire: Masterpieces of Erotic Photography for Couples
Male Nude Now by David Leddick

Unlike many contemporary artists whose work is based on theories of popular culture, Pierre et Gilles' artistic achievement is deliberately fused with popular culture in the present tense. Beginning with their early celebrity portraits of the late 1970s (Iggy Pop, Yves Saint-Laurent), Pierre et Gilles have created a visual world in which artifice and reality are inseparable. Employing props, make-up, costumes, and lighting that emphasize the staged quality of their photographic sets, Pierre et Gilles pursue an ideal beauty in their extravagant, hand-painted photographs that systematically demolishes any distinction between kitsch and expressions of the sublime. Both the artists and their subjects seem to insist on the complete believability of their allegorical characters, at the same time as they revel in the evidence that everything in their photographs is an illusion. [ read more ]