W.M. Hunt

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Jean Paul Goude’s book “Jungle Fever” is an anthem for the seventies.  The book has been out of print forever and it is treasure, a visionary’s trip through his personal “fever dream” including serving as the Galatea to his Pygmalion, Grace Jones, whom he literally created with a matte knife.  

He has been a conceptual artist in a commercial world, able to combine his imagination and talents to create photographs, parades, advertising campaigns museum installations and all.  

His “42snd St. (Sex Shop)”, 1978 explodes with life and sexual energy.  It distills a fantasy of New York.  It has an urgency Bob Fosse could only strive for.  Illuminated signs yield red light that bounces off of skin and pavement; the dancers hold impossible positions.  All the Time Square denizens are here: pimps and girls, and cops and johns, kids and panhandlers, all compressed into a starburst of life, an ecstatic celebration of nastiness. 

It is revealing that an artist working in the commercial sector seems to have held themself to a higher standard that the many fine artists working with themselves as their final editor.  One never has the sense the Goude has given less than a hundred and fifty percent in his work. 

©2021

These posts are from my new project “Great Photographs …or, at least, Some Really Good Ones”.  Photo, text, and some times, audio or video.

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