by Jon Lackman | 14 May 2009 | Books
In Art in America (which finally went online a couple months ago), Sarah Hromack reviews Manon — a Person:
Part photo essay, [it] presents a comprehensive survey of a career that began during the 1960′s in Zurich, where the Berne-born Rosmarie Küng (her given name) began a modeling stint that soon segued into experiments in fashion, photography, installation, and performance … While the modestly produced book lacks the sensual qualities one might expect given Manon’s own lavish tastes, 134 color plates more than compensate for its physical plainness. (So does Jean-Christophe Ammann’s entry, which consists largely of a long, erotic passage cribbed from a novel by Hansjörg Schertenleib, in which an anonymous submissive details his desires to the dominatrix hired to fulfill them.)
