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Cologne: Walther König, 2007. Softcover. Octavo (21cm); photographic wrappers, as issued; [4],5-127,[1]pp; black-and-white photographic (halftone) illustrations. Text in German. As new, unopened copy
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Roswitha Hecke — PIGALLE (“Pigalle – My Street of the Transvestites”)
400,00 kr.
Hecke photographed sex workers in Pigalle in the 1970’s, here published for the first time, with text by Joachim Sartorius – a possible companion piece to Vännerna från Place Blanche (‘Les Amies de Place Blanche – ‘My Friends at Place Blanche’) by Christer Stromholm and of course Hecke’s own Pictures of Irene published 1978
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