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ZOOM Le Magazine de l'Image #16 (Paris: January/February, 1973).

Ed. Michel Caen. Large magazine format, perfect bound. 116pp. Illustrated throughout in colour and b/w. Texts in French. Cockette John Rothermel on front cover.

Contains a 26pp. photographic portfolio of Gilles Larrain's Kodachrome studio portraits of gay and trans personalities ("New York Unisex"), including several members of The Cockettes, probably taken during their visit to New York in November 1971. The photographs are accompanied by an interview with Larrain, whose book 'Idols', published later in 1973, included some of the images from this issue of Zoom alongside others documenting New York's downtown drag and cross-dressing scene.

Also: "The Concerned Photographers" (18pp.) - Bruce Davidson, Ernst Haas, Hiroshi Hamaya, Don McCullin, Gordon Parks, Marc Riboud, William Eugene Smith, and Roman Vishniac, with text by Cornell Capa; Sam Haskins (12pp.); Ryszard Horowitz; an interview with independent filmmaker José Benazeraf; actor and underground filmmaker, Werner Schroeter (3pp.); reviews; more.

Tiny nick at tail of spine, o/w a tight, Near Fine copy.

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