Only a Frenchman could make clothed sex scenes arousing.
From writer and photographer Édouard Levé's 2002 photo series Pornographie.
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Levé published many books of photography and writing. He sent his publisher his last book, Suicide, a fiction about the suicide of a childhood friend, ten days before he took his own life at age 42.