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(VISIONAIRE). Gan, Stephen, Editor. New York: Visionaire Publishing, 1999. First Edition 1/6000. 4to. Boards in Plastic Case. Fashion Quarterly. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Art Direction by Greg Foley. Published in an edition of six thousand copies, this is the twenty-eighth installment of everyone's favorite long-running luxe fashion quarterly, Visionaire. "It presents ''the greatest story ever told'' - retold in images by modern-day artists and photographers. The intent was to make an issue that was visually provocative but not blasphemous or gratuitously shocking. We worked closely with Dr. Royal Rhodes, professor of religion at Kenyon College, who helped us excerpt passages from the King James Bible. Mario Testino photographed Adam and Eve (dressed in Martine Sitbon and poised to prune with Hermes hedge clippers); Wolfgang Tillmans contributed the Crucifixion; Andreas Gursky's image of a rave became the Exodus; Mary Ellen Mark envisioned a modern day Mary and Joseph; and Steven Meisel imagined the Apocalypse in a series of eerily foreboding fashion images inspired by the painter Odd Nerdrum". Other contributors to this luxe, full-edge gilt issue include Frank Gehry with Todd Eberle, Gregory Crewdson, Christopher Bucklow, Jack Flanagan, Nan Goldin, Mats Gustavson, Sam Taylor-Wood, Andres Serrano, and many more. A most handsome individually numbered example with the Philippe Starck conceived white plastic case still sealed in the publisher's cardboard shipping carton. Though this has never been opened, all copies of "Visionaire No. 28: The Bible" show minor indentations to the textblock and scratches the gilt edges due to the case's (faulty) design, and we are sure this one is no different. 1-888645-10-5 Inventory Number: 021020