A Short visit to planet Earth (Signed)

Jean Pigozzi
A Short visit to planet Earth (Signed)

Photographs: Jean Pigozzi

Text: Ettore Sottsass

Publisher: Aperture

Year: 1991

Price: 150 €

Comments: Hardcover under dust jacket, 295 x 260 mm. First edition, 1991. Binding is fine if we except some wear on both tops of the spine. Dust jacket a little faded. Inside is very good. Copy signed and dated by Jean Pigozzi.

Jean Pigozzi has kept a visual diary of our times which is star-studded, witty, and a bit bizarre. He is the ultimate cognoscente - an international insider whose candid photographs of his famous and infamous friends (from Mick Jagger to Gianni Agnelli) make him a paparazzo in style only. His camera reveals but never betrays. Hid humor tweaks but never wounds.

The chapter headings of A Short Visit to Planet earth bear such provocative titles as "Cannes" (international film celebs, of course) ; "Auto-focus" (people caught in the act of catching people in the act) ; "JP & Co". (Pigozzi with pratically the entire global A list), and more, including his beloved dog snaps. Among the "best known" who appear are Mick Jagger, Angelica Huston, Charles Saatchi, Francesco Clemente, Princess Caroline de Monaco, Keith Richards, Andy Warhol, Clint Eastwood, Lauren Hutton,...

Ettore Sottsass