The real deal: Set of 10 original photos, used to create his (in)famous 1988 book “The World. 254 E 2nd Street N.Y. City refers to the street where from 1983 to 1987 the notorious Culture Club “Area” was located. Keywords; Playboy, Culture Club Area, New York, Andy Warhol, Roy Liechtenstein, David Hockney, Keith Haring, black & white.
Titles (some mentioned on backside, others taken from the book):
1. Stephanie before having a few drinks
2. Me, trying to put the things together (portrait of Stephan Lupino made by M. Baum)
3. Pretty girls in a frame
4. Jimmy Lee, contemplating the "B 2"
5. Zoe Tamerlaine (Zoë Tamerlis Lund): actress, cult star of "MS. 45"
6. Jana T. a bit too comfortable
7. Julie Jewels at her best during our one-month engagement. She was absent.
8. Tired of dancing
9. Liza Mae
10. Ann Cummings: The Lady of the House
Creator:
Stephan Lupino (1952, Croatia)
Object:
Set of 10 original vintage photographs.
Country:
U.S.A.
Design period:
1983-1987
Production period:
1983-1987
Identifying marks:
One photo is signed on verso, others have G.P.A. München (publisher of The World) stamp and/or handwritten title on verso, others are blanco
Style:
Nude, lifestyle, youth
Condition:
In perfect condition.
Material:
Gelatin silver print on baryta photographic paper
Colour:
Black & White
Dimensions:
Image: W 24.0 x H 18.0 cm
Biography
Stephan Lupino (born Ivan Lepen) is a multi talented artist, but first a well respected and internationally renowned photographer. Besides that he has his own lingerie line and he designs furniture. Nowadays he lives in Croatia again, where he is working for Playboy and other magazines (fashion and nudes). His humanitarian photo projects includes a series of children with the syndrom of Down and of Sarajevo, the Bosnian city that suffered so much during the Balkan war.
Before returning to Croatia, Lupino pioneered in photography in New York. This early work is -in contrast with his modern photo’s- very unpolished. His 1988 book “The World. 254 E 2nd Street N.Y. City refers to the street where from 1983 to 1987 the notorious Culture Club “Area” was located. The club was a Sodom and Gomorra for artistic and progressive Americans, and was visited by people like Frank Zappa, Andy Warhol, Allan Kaprow, Claes Oldenburg, Steven Meisel, Zoë Lund, Malcolm McLaren, Matt Dillon, Roy Liechtenstein, David Hockney, Calvin Klein and Keith Haring. Art and sex went along, also in his improvised studio in the bathroom. Lupino’s work is collected by and shown in several musea, but still a kind of ‘trouvaille’ for investors and art lovers.
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