Être Beau guide
The Être Beau guide is a collectible photography book selected by IMAGO DEI Gallery for readers and collectors interested in male photography, queer visual culture and twentieth-century visual publishing. This 1978 edition presents a period guide to male appearance and style that reflects changing ideas of grooming, fashion and masculine self-presentation in the late 1970s.
About this photography book
The Être Beau: Un guide pour les hommes art book offers a concentrated way to encounter the photographer’s visual language in its original printed context. Sequencing, scale and page design shape the reading experience, while the physical format preserves details that are often lost when individual photographs are viewed online. Therefore, the publication works both as a visual archive and as a carefully designed object.
Its subject belongs to a wider history of male representation in photography. The volume connects portraiture, fashion, performance and the study of the body. At the same time, it records how independent and specialist publishers created space for images that were frequently absent from mainstream art publishing.
Edition and condition
This copy is the 1978 edition. It measures 28 × 22 cm and is bound as a hardcover with dust jacket. Pre-owned book. Please review the product images for the cover and the copy’s visible details.
For collectors
The Être Beau: Un guide pour les hommes art book will appeal to collectors of photobooks, LGBTQ+ visual culture, male portraiture and artist monographs. In addition, its focused subject and period design make it a useful reference for research into photography, publishing and changing representations of masculinity.
Reference: B_164. Available through IMAGO DEI Gallery.
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