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Michael A. Rosens Top 40 work

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 7847

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

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.

Dates

  • 1986-2017.

Creator

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

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).

Extent

.6 cubic feet. (.6 cubic feet.)

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.

RELATED MATERIALS

Related material in: Joani Blank papers, #7827 and Honey Lee Cottrell papers, #7822.

General

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524rareref@cornell.eduhttp://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:
RMC Staff
Date completed:
January 2018
EAD encoding:
RMC Staff, January 2018
Date modified:
Marcie Farwell, May 2018
Status
Completed
Author
Compiled by RMC Staff
Date
January 2018
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

Contact:
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)