RENE GROEBLI - DIE MUSCHEL and the boulevard hummed with

and the boulevard hummed with life during the evenings

a suburb of Los Angeles

This first edition is meticulously crafted

Polo Hofer

strictly limited hardcover edition of 300

RENE GROEBLI - DIE MUSCHEL and the boulevard hummed withMade between 1984 and 1986, the photographs in Hidden Places are risky if not challenging. The German title: Die Muschel in English The Shell is intentionally allegorical. The Latin word vagina used in medicine to describe a part of the female body sounds too scientific to embrace emotional or poetic involvement. Where language reaches its limits, images can be helpful. Some of the early photographs of vulvas in art were taken by women. This marked an