Michel Comte (Hardcover, Limited ed (500))

This very limited edition presents famed photographer Michel Comte's erotically charged images of Japanese geisha Aiko T., capturing her transformation from luminous serenity to possessed Dionysian abandon. Fully aware that Comte's photographs would eventually come to public view, her sexual act becomes a betrayal of Asian women as passive, obedient, and timid creatures who dare not exercise control over their sexuality and a symbolic protest against Japanese patriarchy. Through Comte's photographs, the guarded and vieled aura of the geisha is revealed and destroyed, consequently rupturing traditional boundaries and the geisha burden of all Japanese women. Printed on the finest Monadnock paper, bound in linen, and slipcased, this extraordinary 56 duotone sequence is strictly limited to 500 books, signed and numbered by Michel Comte.