Michael A. Rosens Top 40 work, 1986-2017.
Collection Number: 7847
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Michael A. Rosens Top 40 work, 1986-2017.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
7847
Abstract:
When Rosen retired from his day job in April 2000, he selected ten images from each
of his four books to comprise "Michael Rosen's Top 40." In 2003, he completed three
sets of high quality 16x20 silver prints of these images. This is one set. The others
are with The Kinsey Institute and Gayle Rubin. Along with the prints, the collection
includes Rosen's description of each print and signed copies of books with his art.
Creator:
Rosen, Michael A.
Quanitities:
.6 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Photographer of erotic, sexual, and radical sexual subjects since 1977. The Seattle
Erotic Art Festival named Rosen a Master of Erotic Art in 2012, and the Society of
Janus inducted him into its Hall of Fame in 2014. Four books of his images have been
published: Sexual Magic: the S/M Photographs in 1986, Sexual Portraits: Photographs
of Radical Sexuality in 1990, Sexual Art: Photographs That Test the Limits in 1994,
and Lust & Romance: Rated X Fine Art Photographs in 1998. His images also appeared
in Femalia (1993, Down There Press), I Am My Lover (1997, Down There Press, second
edition), Vanilla Sex (2007), Slow Dance (2016), and Jump (2017).
When Rosen retired from his day job in April 2000, he selected ten images from each
of his four books to comprise "Michael Rosen's Top 40." In 2003, he completed three
sets of high quality 16x20 silver prints of these images. This is one set. The others
are with The Kinsey Institute and Gayle Rubin. Along with the prints, the collection
includes Rosen's description of each print and signed copies of books with his art.
Related material in: Joani Blank papers, #7827 and Honey Lee Cottrell papers, #7822.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Michael A. Rosen's Top 40 work, #7847. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections,
Cornell University Library.
Subjects:
Pornography.
Pornographic films.
Photography, Erotic.
Lesbians -- Pictorial works.
Erotica.
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