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Vanessa del Rio: Fifty Years of Slightly Slutty Behavior (Taschen Artists Edition) | 
 enlarge | Creator: Dian Hanson
Publisher: Taschen
Category: Book
List Price: $1,500.00
Buy New: $650.00
You Save: $850.00 (57%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 531097
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Har/DVD Lt
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 396
Shipping Weight (lbs): 14.4
Dimensions (in): 13.4 x 13.3 x 3.5
ISBN: 3822846511
Dewey Decimal Number: 778
EAN: 9783822846513
ASIN: 3822846511
Publication Date: November 18, 2007
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Product Description
Back in 1974, the sexual revolution was in full swing and the adult entertainment business was on the verge of becoming Big Business. Deep Throat had created America's first porn star in 1972, but by 1974 Linda Lovelace was already retired and the industry was seeking the next big thing. Vanessa del Rio should have been that thing, except in 1974 there were no ethnic sex stars. Undeterred, Vanessa took any role they?d give her, because, amazingly, she was there for the sex more than the money. Fans, awed by her ferocious onscreen sexuality, made her a top box office draw and America's first Latina star. Retired since 1986, Vanessa del Rio remains a sexual icon who cuts across all ethnic boundaries. What her fans don?t know is that her real life was, and is, as wild as anything she did on film. In this sumptuous over-sized volume, TASCHEN celebrates a remarkably candid, confident and exuberantly sexual woman. Presented through Vanessa's own archive, in her own words, is a life at once shocking, titillating, amusing, and inspiring. And because paper and ink can?t do justice to a personality this big, an original 140 minute DVD documentary is included. If you aren?t already convinced, this book will end all doubt that there could ever be another woman like Vanessa del Rio. Vanessa del Rio is limited to a total of 1,500 numbered copies, each signed by Vanessa ? 1,300 copies in the Collector's Edition ? 200 copies in the Art Edition, with a signed watercolor lithograph of Vanessa by acclaimed artist Robert Crumb * Bonus for one lucky reader: one of the 1,500 copies contains a Golden Ticket good for an all-expenses paid evening with Vanessa, to be documented by a world famous photographer!! *?She is a person I dreamed about having sex with. She should go in the hall of fame for best sex scenes in the '80s.?-Snoop Dogg
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 Porn legend gets art sendoff - thanks Taschen December 20, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have to admit, this book was unexpectedl; ESPECIALLY in this incredible, oversized and luxurious printing. That being said, if you release a photographic capsule on Vanessa Del Rio you have two choices:
1. delicately find the odd frame and 'portrait' that captures her essence but avoids the x rating
OR
2. embrace the x, show her in all porn's prurient truth.
Taschen, no shrinking violet of a publisher, chose the second path. THANK YOU. To see period porn in extra-large, art-glossy print, quickly surpasses fetishistic purvey. Rather than try to recapture the dirty underground experience that was 70's theatrical porn, Taschen wrapped Vanessa Del Rio in the highest of design and aesthetic book experience.
This is a glorious book in both content and creation, by a publisher that outrageously celebrates the porn experience rather than denigrates it.
 A lot of dough for the porno ho November 7, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a hardcore book full of Vanessa Del Rio.She's shown being rammed,crammed and stuffed in every possible position. The images are best for the one-handed viewer. The retail price is a colossal swindle. I got the book for 350 dollars. No person unless he just made friends with P.T. Barnum should pay that. Vanessa is phenomenal as the Latino lust goddess,and her story is worth a read,but that price is ridiculous.
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