"PIN-UP" par Hajime SORAYAMA. Edition Taschen, Cologne. 1985. Imprimé en Espagne. Petit in-4, couverture cartonnée blanche sous jaquette photo. Non paginé (80p). Texte de présentation sur la jaquette en anglais. 73 illustrations couleurs, pleine page pour la plupart dont 15 en double page, par Hajime Sorayama.

 

"Hajime Sorayama became an overnight star by illustrating in a very super-realistic way glamorous, metallic women in his previous work, "Sexy Robot." He said: "l feel embarrassed by this sudden inside story about me but in my studio, there is a whole bunch of beaver shots (hush!) which have not been inserted in this collection. One of them is a picture of a black cat yawning heavily in front of a girl shooting a beaver (hush!). Another shows a sexy blond chick making love (or f---ing as you more commonly know it). This type of illustration is piled ceiling-high in my studio. Moreover, on the ceiling there is an animal-print scanty Here, on the desk, is a pair of black see-through panties. Now you see how my studio has been heaped with items of sexual connotation. Neither I nor Buddha knows why my work has taken this direction. Nevertheless, it's clear that my disease is in full progress in its sexy way. By the way, one step out of my studio and I'm in my home! Generally speaking, my job and my home are one in the same. My d-d work? is supporting a set of dependents, my wife Itomi (net age 30), an eider daughter Ai (5) and our youngest one Nami (3) and a cat, Melon (3 months). Who can live a peaceful daily existence under these circumstances! The problem is Ai. I wonder if she knows the ways of the world or not. Kids her age are quite curious about 'four-letter' words. As her father and as head of the family, I'm at a lost as to how to handle this situation. I'm at my wits end. Oh God! Being swarmed over by her innocent looking friends and not knowing of Pa and Ma's troubles, here comes Ai to the studio. (A most disgusting place which my wife naturally wishes to isolate them from.) And these swarmers give off some tingling rays in half contempt against how I do my job and the highly tough-and-go pin ups before their eyes. Into the bargain, the password is 'dirty Old Ai's papa' has spread all over the neighborhood. Now all the housewives know about it. Every time I walk in the neighborhood, I can feel the cold stare of the housewives. I've become to feel ashamed nowadays. If this collection is published, a tingling, chilling phenomenon will open up to the world. The better it sells, the more it opens. But who knows ?????".

 

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