Peter Basch 120 Film Transparency Vintage 1960s Nude Artist ' S Model
Item History & Price
ITEM: This is a 1960s vintage and original medium format 120 film transparency featuring an alluring nude pin-up portrait by Peter Basch. With beautiful lighting, a striking pose from model Simon McQueen, and mid-century drama and sex appeal, this is an exquisite example of Basch's female figure photography.
Measures approx. 2.25" square on Kodak safety film.
PLEASE NOTE: This auction is for the transparency only. There are no copyright or reproduction rights included in the... final sale. Additionally, the image shown has been color corrected to show the portrait as it was intended.
Guaranteed to be 100% vintage and original from Grapefruit Moon Gallery.
More about the photographer Peter Basch:
Peter Basch (1921-2004) was a German/American glamour photographer who over his career developed a style of deeply innovative artistic glamour, pin up, and erotic photography. The artist was born in Germany, the son of Austrian parents famous in the German film industry. His family moved to Los Angeles in the 1930s where worked as the assistant of Laszlo Willinger. In 1945 Basch moved to New York and built a successful career as a magazine photographer even as he kept a foot in the film industry working with directors from Elia Kazan to Jean Luc Goddard. He produced photographs of many celebrities, artists, performers, dancers, actors and glamour-girls in America and Europe. His work could be found everywhere from Life to Playboy and he was a mainstay in the figure and men's magazines and pin up calendars of the era. He photographed many of the most prominent stars of the 50s and 60s. The photographer was innovative in the moving Hollywood portraiture from the highly formal glamour views popular in the 1930s and 1940s to a more expressive style, in which stars such as Anita Ekberg, Sophia Loren, Brigitte Bardot, Jane Fonda, Grace Kelly, and Catherine Deneuve were photographed in a more natural and personal manner.
His work has been exhibited internationally, and a series of books were published showcasing his risqué, nude, erotic and figure photography. The most colorfully titled of these, and a phrase which perfectly sums up the artist's illustrious career is "Put A Girl In Your Pocket: The Artful Camera of Peter Basch."
Measures approx. 2.25" square on Kodak safety film.
PLEASE NOTE: This auction is for the transparency only. There are no copyright or reproduction rights included in the... final sale. Additionally, the image shown has been color corrected to show the portrait as it was intended.
Guaranteed to be 100% vintage and original from Grapefruit Moon Gallery.
More about the photographer Peter Basch:
Peter Basch (1921-2004) was a German/American glamour photographer who over his career developed a style of deeply innovative artistic glamour, pin up, and erotic photography. The artist was born in Germany, the son of Austrian parents famous in the German film industry. His family moved to Los Angeles in the 1930s where worked as the assistant of Laszlo Willinger. In 1945 Basch moved to New York and built a successful career as a magazine photographer even as he kept a foot in the film industry working with directors from Elia Kazan to Jean Luc Goddard. He produced photographs of many celebrities, artists, performers, dancers, actors and glamour-girls in America and Europe. His work could be found everywhere from Life to Playboy and he was a mainstay in the figure and men's magazines and pin up calendars of the era. He photographed many of the most prominent stars of the 50s and 60s. The photographer was innovative in the moving Hollywood portraiture from the highly formal glamour views popular in the 1930s and 1940s to a more expressive style, in which stars such as Anita Ekberg, Sophia Loren, Brigitte Bardot, Jane Fonda, Grace Kelly, and Catherine Deneuve were photographed in a more natural and personal manner.
His work has been exhibited internationally, and a series of books were published showcasing his risqué, nude, erotic and figure photography. The most colorfully titled of these, and a phrase which perfectly sums up the artist's illustrious career is "Put A Girl In Your Pocket: The Artful Camera of Peter Basch."
