Public exhibitions from Tuesday June 18th to Saturday June 22nd, from 2pm to 7pm at 5, passage Charles Dallery 75011 Paris
Public sale Sunday June 23 at 5pm
Expert for photography: Mr. David Guiraud dgphotographies@orange.fr 0615884897
Collection Pierre Borhan et à divers :
Pierre Borhan's "masculine" collection
Pierre Borhan's passion for photography began in the late 1970s. From
magazines, books, exhibitions, interviews with photographers and qualified
with photographers and qualified specialists. His first book, Voyons
Voir, was published by Créatis in 1980.
The masculine naturally became one of his favorite themes. It
into his research and iconographic choices when preparing certain
when he prepared certain exhibitions and books, such as Jan Saudek
(Paris Musées, 1987), Splendeurs et misères du corps (Benteli, 1988, Prix Nadar
1989), Raymond Voinquel: les acteurs du rêve (AFDPP, 1998), Toni Catany,
l'artiste en son paradis (Lunwerg, 2000), Les vérités du sexe (Marval, 2003),
Mario Testino: Sir (Taschen, 2015).
In this vein, he is the author of a landmark book: Hommes pour Hommes /
homoeroticism and male homosexuality in the history of photography
since 1840 (éditions des Deux Terres, 2007). The Vendome Press published
the American edition: Man to Man: A History of Gay Photography. Rizzoli
Italian edition: Uomini per Uomini. Jonathan Cape Ltd.
the English edition: Men for Men. Christian Brandstätter Verlag, the German-language
German-language edition. Since 2007, these editions (23,000 copies) have set the standard
for professionals and connoisseurs alike.
Purchased from galleries or directly from the photographers for whom he
for whom he wrote a text or made an emblematic selection of their creations, the prints
the prints offered in this sale are the "coups de coeur" that make up a collection
collection created through meetings and institutional missions. No matter
whether the models are sportsmen, models, teasing accomplices
friends: they offer themselves, thanks to the artists who have brought them to light
to everyone's imagination. Beauty, charm, sex appeal,
admiration, attraction, fantasy.
Among the "stars" of the sale are a number of outstanding Europeans
(Walter Pfeiffer, Jan Saudek, Paul Blanca) and Americans: David Vance, Tom Bianchi
Vance, Tom Bianchi, both authors of more than ten books; David Morgan
who found his happiness with Beach (2001) and aroused many desires; Jim
French, master of unbridled male fine art, from Man (1972) to Opus Deorum
(1992); Arthur Tress, whose retrospective was presented in California at the Getty
Center in 2023. They are joined by an Egyptian: Youssef Nabil, who is
represented by the Nathalie Obadia gallery in Paris, and whose reputation defies
borders.
Pierre Borhan confides: "My being is impregnated by the attraction (sensory, sexual,
emotional) of men. I've always felt that this attraction was indelible in me.
His collection bears witness to this.
