Waitress: A Book by Allen Jones with restaurants photographed by Tim Street-Porter. A pictorial essay following one waitress through many restaurants
Jones, Allen
London. Matthews Miller Dunbar. 1972
An excellent presentation copy of Waitress.
Published in three language editions, each of 125 copies, this copy is from the English edition, signed and numbered by the artist on the colophon; this copy signed by the photogrpher to the title: 'Tim Street-Porter / Long live Boulestin!' and with a dedication from the artist on the quotation leaf: 'For Beris from Allen Jones. 75.'
The restaurant Boulestin (from Tim Street-Porter's presentation) is depicted in the second plate of the book. An additional colour lithograph by Allen Jones, 'Menu', is also included bound in before the justification.
Allen Jones' Waitress features pictures of a model (his wife at the time) wearing a rubber suit with exposed buttocks posing as a waitress in various English eating establishments. The photographs of the waitress in the restaurants, ranging from Fortnum and Mason's Restaurant to the Wimpy Bar in Villiers Street, are each accompanied (save the last) by an additional image of the waitress in a variety of poses.
Published in three language editions, each of 125 copies, this copy is from the English edition, signed and numbered by the artist on the colophon; this copy signed by the photogrpher to the title: 'Tim Street-Porter / Long live Boulestin!' and with a dedication from the artist on the quotation leaf: 'For Beris from Allen Jones. 75.'
The restaurant Boulestin (from Tim Street-Porter's presentation) is depicted in the second plate of the book. An additional colour lithograph by Allen Jones, 'Menu', is also included bound in before the justification.
Allen Jones' Waitress features pictures of a model (his wife at the time) wearing a rubber suit with exposed buttocks posing as a waitress in various English eating establishments. The photographs of the waitress in the restaurants, ranging from Fortnum and Mason's Restaurant to the Wimpy Bar in Villiers Street, are each accompanied (save the last) by an additional image of the waitress in a variety of poses.
[58 unnumbered leaves]. Square 4to. (350 x 325 mm). Half title, title with copyright verso, leaf with quotation from Nietzsche and 25 monochrome photographs by Street-Porter and 25 tipped-in waitress photographs by John Suttcliffe in sepia on yellow paper, leaf with tipped-in original signed colour lithograph, leaf with original signed colour lithograph, leaf with justification and final leaf with list of restaurants. Original green morocco-backed marbled boards by Giovanni Codina, Milan, red morocco label to front board with title, banded spine in five compartments with red morocco label with gilt title, original slipcase.
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