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"Jock Sturges: Notes" gives fans of his unforgettable images a glimpse behind the scenes of his working process, opening up his studio and notes to the viewer for the very first time. A selection of preparatory studies, shot as Polaroids, accompanies the finished works included here--offering visual testimony to the complex process and inspiration that underlies each of the gorgeous images his audience has come to love and admire.

Over the course of his career, Jock Sturges' long-term engagement with his subjects has been a cornerstone of his work. Misty Dawn, one of his primary and most popular muses, is one such subject; he has photographed her for 25 of her 28 years. Lithe, beautiful, classically proportioned, she is the personification of Sturges' philosophy of being at home in one's body. This volume follows her growth from a shy, tomboyish child to a gorgeous, confident young woman. Taken as a whole, this series of images presents a unique, fully realized portrait of a blossoming individual and explores a rare and beautiful relationship between photographer and subject. "Misty Dawn: Portrait of a Muse" presents iconic images as well as previously unpublished material, mined from Sturges' older contact sheets and newest work. Jock Sturges, born in New York in 1947, received a B.A. in perceptual psychology and photography from Marlboro College in Vermont in 1974 and an M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1985. He has exhibited internationally, and his photographs are in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. His previous Aperture books include "Notes, The Last Day of Summer" and "Radiant Identities."

Few directors of the 1930s and ‘40s were as distinctive and popular as Preston Sturges, whose whipsmart comedies have entertained audiences for decades. Beginning with a foreword by Peter Bogdanovich, this book offers a new critical appreciation of Sturges’ whole oeuvre, incorporating a detailed study of the last ten years of his life from new primary sources. Preston Sturges details the many unfinished projects of Sturges’ last decade, including films, plays, TV series and his autobiography. Drawing on diaries, sketchbooks, correspondence, unpublished screenplays and more, Nick Smedley and Tom Sturges present the writer-director’s final years in more detail than we’ve ever seen, showing a master still at work—even if very little of that work ultimately made it to the screen or stage.    

Many of these plates have appeared in Sturges' Last Days of Summer, 1991 and in Radiant Identities, 1994. The earlier books were printed in a very exacting Italian plant in great duotone. The current work, printed in Germany, manifests much less craft, but many more photos (159). These pictures must arouse the ire and stir the fascist impulses of the FBI: young women, full-front, no fig leaves as did Last Days.... We remember with glee the dressing down the court gave the FBI after their raid on Sturges' S.F. studio. Buy this book if only to condemn censorship. Includes a 12-page text insert. Distributed by Distributed Art Publishers. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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Hardcover. Linen cloth-covered boards with title stamped in black on spine, with photographically illustrated dust jacket. Photographs by Jock Sturges. Designed by Hans Werner Holzwarth, Berlin. 112 pp., with 79 duotone and 8 four-color plates finely printed in Germany by Steidl, Göttingen.

For Martin Scorsese, Preston Sturges was responsible for arguably the brightest comic cinema to come out of the studio system. Sturges' life was every bit as antic and unconventional as his movies: from growing up in Europe with a mother whose best friend was Isadora Duncan, to making his way among the beau monde of New York - and inventing kiss-proof lipstick along the way. This is also the story of Sturges' resistence to the Hollywood studio system that sought to pigeonhole his talent. Here was a man of creative genius and personal demons: a man of towering originality and individuality.

Pieced together by his wife from years of journal entries, this memoir of the legendary film writer and director reveals a man of intellect, humor, and talent

"Jock Sturges: Notes" gives fans of his unforgettable images a glimpse behind the scenes of his working process, opening up his studio and notes to the viewer for the very first time. A selection of preparatory studies, shot as Polaroids, accompanies the finished works included here--offering visual testimony to the complex process and inspiration that underlies each of the gorgeous images his audience has come to love and admire.

Preston Sturges' independence was at least partially responsible for his unique filmmaking style, marked by razor-sharp dialogue, wild plot turns and wondrously original supporting characters. Works such as The Power and the Glory, The Lady Eve and The Sin of Harold Diddlebock offer a distinctive and often satirical view of American life, deflating many of the ideals (honesty, justice, hard work, democracy, and others) that Americans feel a need to embrace. Each entry includes full filmographic data, a plot synopsis, and critical analysis of the movie.

This is the first comprehensive publication on American photographer Jock Sturges (b.1947) compiled by the artist himself. It is nothing less than an ode to beauty. For more than 20 years, he has been taking photographs of girls growing up, both in his native California and at a nudist resort on the Atlantic coast of France. Nudity in Sturges' work has never been a cheap or tawdry gimmick, rather it is shown as human being's natural state. His photographs are an expression of the trust he has established over the years with the girls and their families. Calmly and almost casually, Sturges observes the aging process of his models. His striking long-term studies chart barely perceptible changes in their appearance, the slow maturing of the female body. Sturges preserves transient states that will never return; graceful forms that time will eventually extinguish. A sweet melancholia pervades Sturges' images as he knows that beauty is not an everlasting state-but a brief moment in time whose essence we should cherish.

In Radiant Identities, photographer Jock Sturges explores issues of youth and the liberation of body and spirit. These unforgettable images are made from his own circle of acquaintances and family; the settings are their homes and stretches of naturist beaches in France and Northern California. In superb reproductions, Sturges evokes the classical spirit of Old Master paintings and late-nineteenth-century photographic tableaux, while probing concepts of emergent sexuality and psychological intimacy. Radiant Identities is the second volume in Sturges's ongoing work. Physically and psychically revealing, these deeply felt images are gloriously natural and wonderfully compelling. Elizabeth Beverly's introductory essay, drawn in part from conversations with Sturges's subjects, adds a new dimension to the photographs. These personal reflections shed light on the unique collaborative process by which Sturges's remarkable photographs are made. In the book's afterword, noted photography critic A.D. Coleman places Sturges in the context of current debates surrounding censorship in the arts, and discusses the themes of innocence and sexuality in the photographs.

Many of these plates have appeared in Sturges' Last Days of Summer, 1991 and in Radiant Identities, 1994. The earlier books were printed in a very exacting Italian plant in great duotone. The current work, printed in Germany, manifests much less craft, but many more photos (159). These pictures must arouse the ire and stir the fascist impulses of the FBI: young women, full-front, no fig leaves as did Last Days.... We remember with glee the dressing down the court gave the FBI after their raid on Sturges' S.F. studio. Buy this book if only to condemn censorship. Includes a 12-page text insert. Distributed by Distributed Art Publishers. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Rare copy of Evolution of Grace by Jock Sturges, 1st Printing , 1994 with Obi & jacket, few manipulated, very good conditions 26,5 x 29,7 cm , 92 pages Slights hairlines and scuffs on the jacket, few folded on the top edge of the jacket, Inside stayed excellent, few opened, a very small yellowed band barely visible on the perimeter ( all visible on the last photo)

Hardcover. Linen cloth-covered boards with title stamped in black on spine, with photographically illustrated dust jacket. Photographs by Jock Sturges. Designed by Hans Werner Holzwarth, Berlin. 112 pp., with 79 duotone and 8 four-color plates finely printed in Germany by Steidl, Göttingen.

Jock Sturges Twenty-Five Years: Published by Paul Cava Fine Art in 2004. This is the first publication that presents an overview of the photographer's classic images made between the years 1978-2003. What distinguishes this publication from other monographs by the photographer is the image selection, quality of printing and paper as well as the insightful and personal commentary by the photographer opposite each full page reproduction. Product description: 25 full page tritone reproductions Each reproduction facing enlightening commentary by the photographer, edited with preface by Paul Cava, 11 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches. Beautifully printed in tritone by Stinehour Press in a limited first edition of 3000 copies.

Preston Sturges' independence was at least partially responsible for his unique filmmaking style, marked by razor-sharp dialogue, wild plot turns and wondrously original supporting characters. Works such as The Power and the Glory, The Lady Eve and The Sin of Harold Diddlebock offer a distinctive and often satirical view of American life, deflating many of the ideals (honesty, justice, hard work, democracy, and others) that Americans feel a need to embrace. Each entry includes full filmographic data, a plot synopsis, and critical analysis of the movie.

Jock Sturges Twenty-Five Years: Published by Paul Cava Fine Art in 2004. This is the first publication that presents an overview of the photographer's classic images made between the years 1978-2003. What distinguishes this publication from other monographs by the photographer is the image selection, quality of printing and paper as well as the insightful and personal commentary by the photographer opposite each full page reproduction. Product description: 25 full page tritone reproductions Each reproduction facing enlightening commentary by the photographer, edited with preface by Paul Cava, 11 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches. Beautifully printed in tritone by Stinehour Press in a limited first edition of 3000 copies.