Scopophilia: The Love of Looking (1985)







New York City: Alfred Van der Marck Editions (Book, Anthology, 1st), 1985.
12.25" x 9.5" x 0.75", 128 pages, hardcover with dust jacket.

Anthology of writings about voyeurism/scopophilia, edited by Gerard Malanga with a Foreword by Robert Creeley. 

William S. Burroughs contributes "Voyeurism as Appropriation Aesthetics", pp. 16-19, with a reproduction of part of one of his collages.

Shoaf II.203.

Contents: 

  • Sigmund Freud: quote
  • Robert Creeley: "Seeing Things" (foreword)
  • Brassaï: "Henri Matisse at Work" (photograph)
  • John Baldessari: 
    • "Closing the Gap: The Photo as Voyeurism" (essay)
    • photographs
  • Peter Beard: 
    • "Some Thoughts While Sitting and Waiting in the Blind" (essay)
    • photographs
  • Marsha Burns:
    • artist statement
    • photograph
  • William S. Burroughs:
    • "Voyeurism as Appropriation Aesthetics" (essay)
    • collage (detail)
  • Walter Chappell:
    • "Some Notes on Nude Form" (statement)
    • photographs
  • Lynn Davis:
    • untitled essay
    • photographs
  • Mike Donnelly: 
    • "Media as Voyeurism" (essay)
    • photograph of Brooke Shields
  • Arthur Elgort:
    • "Models, Dancers, and Jody's Mother" (essay)
    • photographs
  • Elliott Erwitt:
    • untitled statement
    • photoseries
  • Charles Henri Ford:
    • "Narcissism as Voyeurism as Narcissism" (essay)
    • self-portrait
  • Peter Hujar:
    • untitled essay
    • photograph
  • George Krause:
    • untitled essay
    • photographs
  • Alen MacWeeney:
    • untitled essay
    • photograph
  • Gerard Malanga: 
    • "Sightings" (photoessays)
    • "Anatomy of the Gaze" (essay)
  • Jay Manis:
    • untitled essay
    • photographs
  • John McEwan: 
    • "I Like to Watch" (essay)
    • photograph
  • Mellon:
    • "I Can Undress a Man with My Eyes" (essay)
    • photocollage
  • Sheila Metzner:
    • untitled essay
    • photographs
  • Duane Michals:
    • untitled essay
    • photographs
  • Giani Penati:
    • "Voyeurism Is Something Quite Different" (essay)
    • photographs
  • Denis Piel:
    • statement
    • photographs
  • Dustin Pittman:
    • "Girl Watching" (essay)
    • photoseries
  • Larry Rivers:
    • "I'm Probably the Grand Voyeur of the Century" (essay)
    • photographs
  • Edward Ruscha: 
    • photoessays
  • Alajos Schuszler: 
    • "At Central Park Lake" (on Schuszler)
    • photographs
  • Kathleen Seltzer: 
    • "The Aftermath" (essay)
    • photograph
  • Jeanloup Sieff:
    • statement
    • photographs
  • Peter Simon:
    • untitled essay
    • photograph
  • Don Snyder:
    • "Voyeurism as Sublimation: 'Lurid Exotica'" (essay)
    • photograph
  • Andy Warhol and Gerard Malanga: interview
  • Brian Weil: 
    • "The Experience of Making Pictures Is Much More Important than the Print" (essay)
    • photographs
  • Francesca Woodman:
    • "Voyeurism Among Friends" (on Francesca Woodman
    • photograph

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