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AN OBSCENE DIARY THE VISUAL WORLD OF SAM STEWARD
by Justin Spring
Edition limited to of 1,000 hardcover slipcased copies and 26
deluxe lettered copies. 8.5" x 11", 320pp. ISBN 978-0-615-38299-9.
$150.00
An Obscene Diary The Visual World of Sam Steward chronicles the extraordinary
visual works of this talented and largely unknown, writer, artist, photographer,
and sexual outlaw also known a tattoo artist Phil Sparrow and pornographer
Phil Andros. This special edition, limited to 1,000 copies presents a diverse
and powerful collection of drawings, paintings, sculptures, decorative objects,
illustrations and photographs that are remarkably varied in style, and often quite
contradictory in mood and tone. Bound in two volumes and slipcased, the
collection presents more than 700 images. This edition complements the
forthcoming Farrar, Straus and Giroux biography by Justin Spring, entitled Secret
Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and
Sexual Renegade and presents a wealth of previously unpublished material,
including a large quantity of highly erotic and sexually explicit polaroids taken by
Steward in the early 1950s.
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