woensdag 6 februari 2013

Gibt es Sex nach dem Tode? Rosa von Praunheim Erik Kessels / Paul Kooiker Terribly awesome photo books

Praunheim, Rosa von:

Gibt es Sex nach dem Tode?

Prometh Verlag Köln, 1981.
ISBN 3922009301
Buch zu Praunheims Film "Todesfilm oder wie werde ich ein Blumentopf". Language: German.

... In Ihrem Bildband «Gibt es Sex nach dem Tode?» gehen Sie noch einen Schritt weiter. Da wird eine Art Jenseits entworfen, in dem die Verstorbenen sich ihre sexuellen Wünsche erfüllen dürfen. Man könnte meinen, die Sexualität sei für Sie zu einer Art Religion geworden.

PRAUNHEIM: Das wäre falsch, denn das Jenseits interessiert mich überhaupt nicht. Mich interessiert nur das Diesseits, und zwar bis zur letzten Sekunde. Was ich mit so Formulierungen, wie sie in dem Buch stehen, erreichen möchte, ist, dem Tod eine sinnliche Komponente zu geben, so daß man ihn erlebt wie einen Orgasmus, nicht als so was Vergeistigtes, sondern als genauso lebendig und kämpferisch wie einen Geschlechtsakt ...

Rosa von Praunheim (born 25 November 1942), is a German film director, author, painter and gay rights activistOpenly gay, he is one of the initiators of the gay rights movement in Germany.
A prolific director, he has made over fifty feature films. He began his career associated to the New German Cinema as a senior member of the Berlin school of underground filmmaking. He took the artistic female name Rosa Von Praunheim to remind people of the pink triangle that homosexuals had to wear in Nazi concentration camps. A pioneer of Queer Cinema, von Praunheim has been an activist in the gay rights movement. He was an early advocate of AIDS awareness and safer sex, but has been a controversial figure even within the gay community. His films center on gay related themes and strong female characters. His works are characterized by excess and employ a campy style. His films have featured such personalities as Jayne CountyVaginal DavisDivine, and Jeff Stryker.
Erik Kessels / Paul Kooiker, Terribly awesome photo books 30 x 37 cm 64 pages news paper print edition of 1000 ISBN 9789490800093 
For several years, Paul Kooiker and Erik Kessels have organized evenings for friends in which they share the strangest photo books in their collections. The books shown are rarely available in regular shops, but are picked up in thrift stores and from antiquaries. The group’s fascination for these pictorial non-fiction books comes from the need to find images that exist on the fringe of regular commercial photo books. It’s only in this area that it’s possible to find images with an uncontrived quality. What’s noticeable from these publications is that there’s a thin line between being terrible and being awesome. This constant tension makes the books interesting. It’s also worth noting that these tomes all fall within certain categories: the medical, instructional, scientific, sex, humour or propaganda. Paul Kooiker and Erik Kessels have made a selection of their finest books from within this questionable new genre.














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