J’aime le Strip-Tease, Editions Rencontre, cover back and front

This book explores the different moral, historical, or even technical angles of the Strip-Tease. Frank Horvat’s camera observes the genre photographically. Horvat photographs movie posters in New York, shop windows. He photographs performances and captures moments backstage at the famous Paris Varieté shows such as the Folies-Bergère, the Crazy Horse or the Moulin-Rouge.

This is not only a photobook – the texts of Patrik Lindenmohr compliment Horvat’s photographs perfectly. The book also contains a conversation (an interview?) with Alain Bernadin founder of the Crazy Horse Varieté in Paris who committed suicide in 1994.

Strip-Tease is just one in the 13-volume series J’aime / Eintritt frei published by Editions Rencontre in Lausanne, and Editions Denoël in Paris, from 1962 to 1963.

Printed in wonderful deep gravure (like all the books in the  J’aime / Eintritt frei series).

Strip-Tease is Franks Horvat’s third book. He has lived and worked in Paris since 1955.

Published under the supervision of Jean-Pierre Moulin and Yvan Dalain

Text by Patrik Lindenmohr

Printed in Switzerland

Published by Editions Rencontre, Lausanne 1962

Hard cover (blue paper slip Légendes des photographies)

200 pages

20 x 13.5cm

J’aime le Strip-Tease, Editions Rencontre, front paper and blue paper slip Légendes des photographies

J’aime le Strip-Tease, Editions Rencontre

Frank Horvat, J’aime le Strip-Tease, Editions Denoël

Published under the supervision of Jean-Pierre Moulin and Yvan Dalain

Text by Patrik Lindenmohr

Printed in Switzerland

Published by Editions Denoël, Paris 1962

Hard cover (blue paper slip Légendes des photographies)

204 pages (including front and end papers)

20 x 13.5cm

Frank Horvat, J’aime le Strip-Tease, Editions Denoël, Paris, front paper and blue paper slip Légendes des photographies

Frank Horvat, Eintritt frei   Strip-Tease, 1962

Frank Horvat, Eintritt frei Strip-Tease, paper envelope, back and front

The German-language edition was packaged in plain brown paper. The book was protected by an obi-band, to prohibit minors.

Published under the supervision of Jean-Pierre Moulin and Yvan Dalain

Text by Patrik Lindenmohr

Translation by Mélanie Petitat-von Strachwitz

Printed in Switzerland

Published by Editions Rencontre, Lausanne 1963

Hard cover (blue paper slip Erläuterungen zu den Abbildungen)

200 pages

20 x 13.5cm

Frank Horvat, Eintritt frei Strip-Tease, cover with obi-band, back and front

Frank Horvat, Eintritt frei Strip-Tease, cover back and front

Frank Horvat, Eintritt frei Strip-Tease, front paper and blue paper slip Erläuterungen zu den Abbildungen