CORPS MEMORABLE by Paul ELUARD.

First edition. 12 black & white prints of naked female bodies photographed in the surf of the (Mediterranean) Sea. Text by Paul Eluard. Design of the front cover by Pablo Picasso. And a short introductory poem by Jean Cocteau. Photographs by Lucien Clergue (1957). “This book, with its distinctive cover by Picasso, was the first mainstream publication to show female pubic hair, allowable only because Clergue did not show the faces of his models, which gave rise to considerable controversy” (Badger).

Lit.: Bertolotti, Livres de nus, p. 147 & Parr/Badger, The Photobook: A History, vol. I, 192/193 pp.

• Paris, Pierre Seghers, 1957.
• Small 4to (270 x 130 mm.) [4] + 40 (+10 plates) + [4] pp. Stiff cardboard wrappers and an illustrated dust jacket.
• First edition.