A message for you (2006)

Guy Bourdin: A Message for You, Steidl hardcover, third edition 2016 Bourdin's late-1970s peak, told through the memories of the model Nicolle Meyer, who appeared in more than 30 of his Charles Jourdan campaigns, with Polaroids, contact sheets, sketches and poems set beside the finished pictures. The 2016 third edition is a cloth-bound, 320-page hardcover in a dust jacket, about 9.6 by 11.8 inches, and it shows how his saturated, unsettling images were built rather than just presenting them. Flag this one before you fall for it: it is listed as out of print with no reprint planned, so you will be searching secondhand, where the two-volume 2006 first edition in a slipcase also turns up.