Gentleman of Leisure: A Year in the Life of a Pimp
by Adelman, Bob (Photographer)
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1576873110
- ISBN 13
- 9781576873113
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About This Item
New York : PowerHouse Books, 2006. reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout. Every city-dweller has seen them, and ever city-dweller could list the telltale signs: the fur, the gold, the hats, the cars. They are the original macks, the original players. They are Big City pimps—the heroes of gangsta rap. Bob Adelman and Susan Hall dive headlong into their world in the classic investigative docudrama Gentleman of Leisure: A Year in the Life of a Pimp, an in-depth exploration of the underworld figures that populate our streets at night. The first book of its kind, Gentleman of Leisure, originally published in 1972 and now reproduced in a facsimile edition, is a collection of photographs and interviews dramatically documenting the private life of a pimp and his prostitutes. The people who appear in this book are not models: they are real people with real lives. Only their names have been changed to protect the guilty, their stories are real. Armed only with a camera and a tape recorder, Adelman and Hall entered the lives of the pimp Silky and his women. What they found flew in the face of prevailing prejudices: stripped of stereotype and myth, the pimps and whores that shared their tales were complex people embroiled in romantic dramas, with a code of behavior as intricate as the Mafia’s, and a defined sense of self. Record # 352467
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 352467
- Title
- Gentleman of Leisure: A Year in the Life of a Pimp
- Author
- Adelman, Bob (Photographer)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- reprint
- ISBN 10
- 1576873110
- ISBN 13
- 9781576873113
- Publisher
- PowerHouse Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2006
- Keywords
- Photography, Biography, , .
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- Photography;
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- Facsimile
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