World Food Books' programme is largely produced on Kulin Nation land. We acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation as the first and continuing custodians of this land, and pay respect to their Elders past, present, and emerging.
World Food Books is an arts and special interests bookshop in Naarm / Melbourne. Founded in 2010, World Food Books is devoted to the presentation of a rotating, hand-selection of international art, design, literary and counterculture publications with an emphasis on the anti-traditional, the experimental, the avant-garde, the heretic, the marginal.
Presenting new titles alongside rare and out-of-print books, catalogues and journals spanning the fields of modern and contemporary art, design, photography, illustration, film, literature, poetry, cultural theory, philosophy, sexuality, popular and underground culture in its many radical forms, World Food Books wishes to encourage adventurous, thoughtful and open-minded reading, looking, writing, and exchange of publishing and ideas, both current and historical.
As well as our bookshop, located in Melbourne's historical Nicholas Building, all of our inventory is available internationally via our online mail-order service.
World Food Books semi-regularly co-ordinates "Occasions", a programme of exhibits and events at the bookshop and in partnership with other hosts (such as museums and art galleries) that develop out of the activities, relationships and content of the bookshop itself.
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Interested in selling your old books, catalogues, journals, magazines, comics, fanzines, ephemera? We are always looking for interesting, unusual and out-of-print books to buy. We only buy books in our fields of interest and specialty, and that we feel we can resell.
We base these prices on desirability, market value, in-print prices, condition and our current stock levels. We offer cash, store credit, and can take stock on consignment. All
about 25% of the price we expect to get when we sell them, or 30% in store credit. We base these prices on desirability, market value, in-print prices, condition and our current stock levels.
Sell your books any day of the week. You can drop them off and return later. If you have a lot of books, we can visit your Sydney home.
We buy books that we feel we can resell. We offer about 25 % of the price we expect to get when we sell them, or 30% in store credit. We base these prices on desirability, market value, in-print prices, condition and our current stock levels.
Philadelphia Wireman
03 August - 01 September, 2018
World Food Books is proud to announce our next Occasion, the first presentation of sculptures by Philadelphia Wireman in Australia.
The Philadelphia Wireman sculptures were found abandoned in an alley off Philadelphia’s South Street on trash night in 1982. Their discovery in a rapidly-changing neighbourhood undergoing extensive renovation, compounded with the failure of all attempts to locate the artist, suggests that the works may have been discarded after the maker’s death. Dubbed the "Philadelphia Wireman" during the first exhibition of this work, in 1985, the maker’s name, age, ethnicity, and even gender remain uncertain. The entire collection totals approximately 1200 pieces, all intricately bound together with tightly-wound heavy-gauge wire (along with a few small, abstract marker drawings, reminiscent both of Mark Tobey and J.B. Murry). The dense construction of the work, despite a modest range of scale and materials, is singularly obsessive and disciplined in design: a wire armature or exoskeleton firmly binds a bricolage of found objects including plastic, glass, food packaging, umbrella parts, tape, rubber, batteries, pens, leather, reflectors, nuts and bolts, nails, foil, coins, toys, watches, eyeglasses, tools, and jewellery.
Heavy with associations—anthropomorphic, zoomorphic, and socio-cultural responses to wrapped detritus—the totemic sculptures by Philadelphia Wireman have been discussed in the context of work created to fulfil the shamanistic needs of alternative religions in American culture. Curators, collectors, and critics have variously compared certain pieces to sculpture from Classical antiquity, Native American medicine bundles, African-American memory jugs, and African fetish objects. Reflecting the artist’s prolific and incredibly focused scavenging impulse, and despite—or perhaps enhanced by—their anonymity, these enigmatic objects function as urban artefacts and arbiters of power, though their origin and purpose is unknown. Philadelphia Wireman, whatever their identity, possessed an astonishing ability to isolate and communicate the concepts of power and energy through the selection and transformation of ordinary materials. Over the course of the past two decades, this collection has come to be regarded as an important discovery in the field of self-taught art and vernacular art.
Presented in collaboration with Fleisher-Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, and Robert Heald, Wellington.
Susan Te Kahurangi King
02 February - 10 March, 2018
Susan Te Kahurangi King (24 February 1951 - ) has been a confident and prolific artist since she was a young child, drawing with readily available materials - pencils, ballpoint pens and felt-tip markers, on whatever paper is at hand. Between the ages of four and six Susan slowly ceased verbal communication. Her grandparents William and Myrtle Murphy had developed a special bond with Susan so they took on caring responsibilities for extended periods. Myrtle began informally archiving her work, carefully collecting and storing the drawings and compiling scrapbooks. No drawing was insignificant; every scrap of paper was kept. The King family are now the custodians of a vast collection containing over 7000 individual works, from tiny scraps of paper through to 5 meter long rolls.
The scrapbooks and diaries reveal Myrtle to be a woman of great patience and compassion, seeking to understand a child who was not always behaving as expected. She encouraged Susan to be observant, to explore her environment and absorb all the sights and sounds. Myrtle would show Susan’s drawings to friends and people in her community that she had dealings with, such as shopkeepers and postal workers, but this was not simply a case of a grandmother’s bias. She recognised that Susan had developed a sophisticated and unique visual language and sincerely believed that her art deserved serious attention.
This was an unorthodox attitude for the time. To provide some context, Jean Dubuffet coined the term Art Brut in 1945 to describe work created by self-taught artists – specifically residents of psychiatric institutions and those he considered to be visionaries or eccentrics. In 1972 Roger Cardinal extended this concept by adopting the term Outsider Art to describe work made by non-academically trained artists operating outside of mainstream art networks through choice or circumstance. Susan was born in Te Aroha, New Zealand in 1951, far from the artistic hubs of Paris and London that Dubuffet and Cardinal operated in. That Myrtle fêted Susan as a self-taught artist who deserved to be taken seriously shows how progressive her attitudes were.
Susan’s parents Doug and Dawn were also progressive. Over the years they had consulted numerous health practitioners about Susan’s condition, as the medical establishment could not provide an explanation as to why she had lapsed into silence. Dawn educated herself in the field of homeopathy and went on to treat all twelve of her children using these principles – basing prescriptions on her observations of their physical, mental and emotional state.
Doug was a linguist with an interest in philosophy who devoted what little spare time he had to studying Maori language and culture. To some extent their willingness to explore the fringes of the mainstream made them outsiders too but it was their commitment to living with integrity and their respect for individuality that ensured Susan’s creativity was always encouraged.
Even though Susan’s family supported her artistic pursuits, some staff in schools and hospitals saw it as an impediment to her assimilation into the community and discouraged it in a variety of ways. Her family was not always aware of this and therefore did not fully understand why Susan stopped drawing in the early 1990s. However, rather than dwell on the challenges that Susan faced in pursuit of her artistic practice, they prefer to highlight her achievements. In 2008 Susan began drawing again in earnest, after an almost 20 year interruption, and her work is now shown in galleries around the world.
Susan grew up without television and has been heavily influenced by the comics she read as a child. She is absolutely fearless in the appropriation of recognizable characters, such as Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse, in her work. She twists their limbs, contorts their faces, compresses them together, blends them into complex patterned backgrounds - always imbuing them with an incredible energy. Although Susan often used pop culture characters in her work they are not naive or childlike. These are drawings by a brilliant self-taught artist who has been creating exceptional work for decades without an audience in mind.
Mladen Stilinović
"Various Works 1986 - 1999"
02 February 16 - September 10, 2016
Various works 1986 - 1999, from two houses, from the collections of John Nixon, Sue Cramer, Kerrie Poliness, Peter Haffenden and Phoebe Haffenden.
Including: Geometry of Cakes (various shelves), 1993; Poor People’s Law (black and white plate), 1993; White Absence (glasses, ruler, set square, silver spoon, silver ladel with skin photograph and wooden cubes), 1990-1996; Exploitation of the Dead (grey and red star painting, wooden painting, black spoon with red table, red plate), 1984-1990; Money and Zeros (zero tie, paintings made for friends in Australia (Sue, John, Kerrie), numbers painting), 1991-1992; Words - Slogans (various t-shirts) - “they talk about the death of art...help! someone is trying to kill me”, “my sweet little lamb”, “work is a disease - Karl Marx”; Various artist books, catalogues, monographs, videos; Poster from exhibition Insulting Anarchy; "Circular" Croatian - Australian edition; Artist book by Vlado Martek (Dostoyevsky); more.
Thanks to Mladen Stilinović and Branka Stipančić.
Jonathan Walker
Always Will Need To Wear Winter Shirt Blue + Ochre Small Check Pattern
21 August - 21 September, 2015
Untitled
I am not a great reader of poetry but I always return to the work of Melbourne poet, Vincent Buckley (1925- 1988). Perhaps I find his most tantalising piece to be not a finished poem but a fragment left on a scrap of paper discovered on his desk after the poet’s death.
The poetry gathers like oil
In the word-core, and spreads
It has its music meet,
Its music is in movement.
This fragment is more the shell left behind from a volatile thought than a finished poem. I find the last two lines honest but awkward whereas the first two lines work like an arrow. Most likely he could not find a resolution so it was left. Still, in its present form, it remains an eloquent testimony to the ultimate failure of a medium to express mobile thought and sensation, in Buckley’s case, through verbal language. It’s an important matter because this is something all artists have to deal with regardless of the medium.
I have never written a poem, however, I am forever copying fragments from books on paper scraps in a vain effort to fix certain notions in my head. At first, they function as bookmarks that are sometimes returned to when I open the book. But before long, as they accumulate, they fall out littering the table interspersed with A4 photocopies, bills, books and medications.
To return to Buckley’s fragment, the first two lines very much evoke how I paint nowadays. As you age, detail diminishes and patches of light become more luminous and float. I feel the most honest way of dealing with this is by smearing the oil paint on the canvas with the fingers and working close-up, blind. Only if the patches coalesce into an approaching image can the work gain a life.
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Jonathan Walker was born in Melbourne, Australia and brought up on a dairy farm in Gippsland. In the 1970’s he studied painting at RMIT and won the Harold Wright Scholarship to the British Museum, London. During the 1980’s he exhibited at Pinacotheca Gallery, Richmond and had work shown at the NGV and Heidi City Art Gallery. Over the same period he designed the cover for the “Epigenesi” LP by Giancarlo Toniutti, Italy and conducted a mail exchange work with Achim Wollscheid, Germany. The work with artists through the post resulted in an article published in the bicentenary issue of Art and Australia 1988. He showed in artist run spaces such as WestSpace in the 90’s and 2000’s, and until 2012, taught painting at Victoria University, which is where we (Colleen Ahern and Lisa Radford) as organisers of the exhibition, among many others, had the privilege of being his student.
Walker’s knowledge was imparted to students through the careful selection of music, literature, and artists found in books that he himself had ordered for the library. Walker’s strategy was the generosity of sharing his vast knowledge with references specific to each student and their context.
Walker’s paintings share a similar focus and intimacy.
This exhibition presents a small selection of recent paintings alongside a publication that includes Walker’s writing. Observational and analytical, Walker’s work is a type of material notation — the time of day, colour and how it is blended, the both specific and fleeting location of a reflection on lino or the question of whether a chair leg should be included in a painting.
Please join us on Friday August 21 between 6-8pm to celebrate the opening of the exhibition.
Curated by Colleen Ahern and Lisa Radford.
B. Wurtz
Curated by Nic Tammens
March 26 - April 4, 2015
B.Wurtz works from a basement studio in his home on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
This local fact is attested to by the plastic shopping bags and newsprint circulars that appear in his work. As formal objects, they don’t make loud claims about their origins but nonetheless transmit street addresses and places of business from the bottom of this long thin island. Like plenty of artists, Wurtz is affected by what is local and what is consumed. His work is underpinned by this ethic. It often speaks from a neighborhood or reads like the contents of a hamper:
“BLACK PLUMS $1.29 lb.”
“Food Bazaar”
“USDA Whole Pork Shoulder Picnic 99c lb.”
“RITE AID Pharmacy, with us it’s personal.”
“H. Brickman & Sons.”
“Sweet Yams 59c lb."
Most of the work in this exhibition was made while the artist was in residence at Dieu Donne, a workshop dedicated to paper craft in Midtown. Here Wurtz fabricated assemblages with paper and objects that are relatively lightweight, with the intention that they would be easily transportable to Australia. This consideration isn’t absolute in Wurtz’s work, but was prescriptive for making the current exhibition light and cheap. Packed in two boxes, these works were sent from a USPS post office on the Lower East Side and delivered to North Melbourne by Australia Post.
Wurtz appears courtesy of Metro Pictures, New York.
Thanks to Rob Halverson, Joshua Petherick, Sari de Mallory, Matt Hinkley, Helen Johnson, Fayen d'Evie, Ask Kilmartin, Lisa Radon, Ellena Savage, Yale Union, and "Elizabeth".
John Nixon
"Archive"
December 15 - January 20, 2014
The presentation of John Nixon's archive offered a rare showcase of this extensive collection of the artist's own publications, catalogues, posters, ephemera, editions and more, from the mid 1980s onwards, alongside a selection of his artworks.
Organized by John Nixon, Joshua Petherick and Matt Hinkley.
"Habitat"
at Minerva, Sydney (organised by Joshua Petherick and Matt Hinkley)
November 15 - December 20, 2014
Lupo Borgonovo, Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley,
Lewis Fidock, HR Giger, Piero Gilardi, Veit Laurent Kurz,
Cinzia Ruggeri, Michael E. Smith, Lucie Stahl, Daniel Weil, Wols
Press Release:
“...It contained seven objects. The slender fluted bone, surely formed for flight, surely from the wing of some large bird. Three archaic circuitboards, faced with mazes of gold. A smooth white sphere of baked clay. An age-blackened fragment of lace. A fingerlength segment of what she assumed was bone from a human wrist, grayish white, inset smoothly with the silicon shaft of a small instrument that must once have ridden flush with the surface of the skin - but the thing’s face was seared and blackened.”
William Gibson, “Count Zero”, 1986
"Autumn Projects Archive"
Curated by Liza Vasiliou
March 6 - March 15, 2014
World Food Books, in conjunction with the Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival 2014, presented the Autumn Projects archive, consisting of a selection of early examples in Australian fashion with a particular interest in collecting designers and labels from the period beginning in the 1980’s, who significantly influenced the discourse of Australian Fashion.
Curated by Liza Vasiliou, the exhibition provided a unique opportunity to view pieces by designers Anthea Crawford, Barbara Vandenberg, Geoff Liddell and labels CR Australia, Covers, Jag along with early experimental collage pieces by Prue Acton and Sally Browne’s ‘Fragments’ collection, suspended throughout the functioning World Food Books shop in Melbourne.
H.B. Peace
presented by CENTRE FOR STYLE
November 14, 2013
"Hey Blinky, you say chic, I say same"
Anon 2013
H.B. Peace is a clothing collaboration between great friends Blake Barns and Hugh Egan Westland. Their pieces explore the divergences between 'character’ and ‘personality’ in garments....etc
Special Thanks to Joshua Petherick and Matt Hinkley of WFB and Gillian Mears
and a Very Special Thank you to Audrey Thomas Hayes for her shoe collaboration.
Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley
"Aesthetic Suicide"
May 10 - June 8, 2013
The first of our occasional exhibitions in the World Food Books office/shop space in Melbourne, "Aesthetic Suicide" presented a body of new and older works together by artists Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley, including videos, prints, a wall work, and publications.
During shop open hours videos played every hour, on the hour.
2011, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 512 pages, 15.2 x 22.9 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
University of Minnesota Press / Minnesota
$70.00 - Out of stock
Scarce first English hardcover edition of Discourse, Figure by Jean-Francois Lyotard, published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2011.
Jean-François Lyotard is recognized as one of the most significant French philosophers of the twentieth century. Although nearly all of his major writing has been translated into English, one important work has until now been unavailable. Discourse, Figure is Lyotard's thesis. Provoked in part by Lacan's influential seminars in Paris, Discourse, Figure distinguishes between the meaningfulness of linguistic signs and the meaningfulness of plastic arts such as painting and sculpture. Lyotard argues that because rational thought is discursive and works of art are inherently opaque signs, certain aspects of artistic meaning such as symbols and the pictorial richness of painting will always be beyond reason's grasp. A wide-ranging and highly unusual work, Discourse, Figure proceeds from an attentive consideration of the phenomenology of experience to an ambitious meditation on the psychoanalytic account of the subject of experience, structured by the confrontation between phenomenology and psychoanalysis as contending frames within which to think the materialism of consciousness. In addition to prefiguring many of Lyotard's later concerns, Discourse, Figure captures Lyotard's passionate engagement with topics beyond phenomenology and psychoanalysis to structuralism, semiotics, poetry, art, and the philosophy of language.
Very Good copy in Good dust jacket with some closed tears and creasing.
1986, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 620 pages, 24 x 17 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
The Hogarth Press / london
$70.00 - In stock -
Rare first hardcover English edition of Didier Anzieu's "Freud's Self-Analysis" published by The Hogarth Press, London, in 1986. Freud's Self-Analysis is an important, enormously detailed study of Freud's early life as mirrored in the dreams he chose to recount and analyze in The Interpretation of Dreams. Between 1895 and 1901, Freud discovered “psycho-analysis” through two approaches: the systematic interpretation of his own dreams; a passionate and intellectual correspondence with his friend W. Fliess. Having succeeded in dating most of Freud's dreams, Didier Anzieu reconstructs a diary of Freud's crossing of the unconscious which led to the elaboration of the first psychoanalytical notions: ternary structure of the psychic apparatus, homology of the nocturnal dream and of the neurotic symptom, importance of childhood sexual fantasies, Oedipus and castration complexes. The reader can thus follow the stages and modalities of a creative psychic process.
Translated from the French by Peter Graham; with a preface by M. Masud R. Khan.
Didier Anzieu (1923–1999) was a distinguished French psychoanalyst and theorist whose work brought the body back to the centre of psychoanalytic enquiry. He was the author of numerous books and articles, on areas ranging from Freud’s self-analysis, group psychology, and psychodrama to theories of creativity and thought; he also published short stories, literary criticism, a drama, a book of cartoons and a study of May 1968 written from the heart of Nanterre. His research was always conducted alongside his academic and clinical practice, both characterised by inclusivity, curiosity, a broad mind and a gentle manner.
Very Good copy in Good dust jacket.
1977, Japanese
Hardcover (w. hard slipcase and illustrated wrap), 100 pages, 25 x 27 cm
Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Kawade Shobo Shinsha / Tokyo
$400.00 - In stock -
Rare 1977 edition of acclaimed Japanese photographer Hajime Sawatari's cult photo book "Alice", first published in 1973. Sawatari began working as a freelancer in 1966, photographing for many leading fashion magazines in Japan. This, his most famous work, reprinted countless times, is Sawatari's psychedelic, photographic interpretations of Lewis Carroll's literary classic Alice in Wonderland. Here Sawatari brilliantly engages and re-creates the themes, forms and symbolisms within the original narrative, focusing on the inevitable loss of the childhood innocence of a young girl confronted by the realities of adulthood. Sawatari’s ‘Wonderland’ is a world where phenomenas of the real intertwine with the unconscious, exploring a world that confronts viewers with the surreal, bending the roles between child and adult. Outside of Jan Švankmajer, this is truly one of the strangest, touching, and most risqué interpretations of the well-known story. Sawatari's beautiful, atmospheric photographs (shot in England) are complimented by the design of Seiichi Horiuchi (1932-1987) and accompanying translations and poems by Shuzo Higuchi (1903-1979) and Shuntaro Tanikawa.
Hajime Sawatari is a celebrated fashion and advertising photographer. His photobooks are part of the important cultural renaissance that took place in Japan in the 1960s and '70s and saw the promotion of provocative, avant-garde book publishing.
Very Good copy with some light wear to covers, small chip to illustrated wrap corner, book preserved in box with only usual light tanning.
1978, Japanese
Softcover (w. obi-strip), 98 pages, 30 x 42 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
PARCO / Tokyo
$190.00 - Out of stock
First printing of the great "Harumi Gals" from 1978. Legendary over-sized, glossy, and long out-of-print airbrush artbook from the incredible Harumi Yamaguchi, published by PARCO in Tokyo.
Airbrush illustrator Harumi Yamaguchi was one of the world's leading commercial artbrush artists of the 1970's. Born in Matsue in the Shimane prefecture, Yamaguchi graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts with a degree in oil painting. After working for the publicity department of Seibu Department Stores, Yamaguchi begun her career as a freelance illustrator, participating in the advertising production for PARCO with its opening in 1969. Since 1972 Yamaguchi has depicted female figures using airbrush techniques, instantly establishing herself as an illustrator that symbolized her era.
The encounter between Yamaguchi and PARCO was an inevitable one. Tsuji Masuda whom served as the president of PARCO had established plans for creating a department store that functioned as a cultural facility, collectively combining platforms such as museums, theater, and publishing in addition to retail, and as a result had headhunted Yamaguchi for this endeavor. As could be seen in Masuda’s decision of appointing Eiko Ishioka for the art direction, Kazuko Koike as copywriter, and Harumi Yamaguchi for the illustration, PARCO had soon focused on ‘women’ as a major driving source behind Japanese society of 1970s and onward, further succeeding in diverting this power to the business sector. Yamaguchi’s female figures are far from notions of eroticism as portrayed allegedly through male eyes in the form of pin-ups. On the contrary, the women themselves appear to joyously celebrate their own sexuality and existence. Furthermore, the images of women partaking in boxing, baseball, and skateboarding which Yamaguchi had illustrated in the 70s, could be interpreted as an ironic gesture towards a male-dominant society at a time prior to the establishment of the Equal Employment Opportunity Act in 1985; an era when women were unable to equally advance into society.
In the catalog published in correspondence to “Women of the 70s PARCO Poster Exhibition 1969-1986” that took place at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography in 2001, Chizuko Ueno had critiqued Yamaguchi’s works stating, “while appearing to adhere to the scenario of male-tailored eroticism, Yamaguchi deconstructs male desire through her exaggerative depictions. As a consequence, the female body is idealized to a realm unreachable by male hands.” (‘The Idea of the Woman’)
Alberto Vargas, famous for his pin-ups for Esquire magazine and Playboy, is notably the international pioneer of airbrush illustrations. However, in the context of early ‘70s Japan there were no pre-eminent illustrators working with the airbrush medium with the exception Harumi Yamaguchi. It is certain that Yamaguchi’s achievements will continue to receive acclaim as an inaugural figure of super-real illustration that took Japan’s advertising industry of the 70s and 80s by storm.
Alongside her huge collection of women, Yamaguchi's great staged reference photographs are included, with photgraphy by Michiko Matsumoto and Hideki Hosoya and Graphic Design by the Tadanori Yokoo!
Good, tight copy with original obi-strip (not pictured), general wear and ageing/discolouring for over-sized book.
1973, English
Softcover, 235 pages, 28.5 x 21 cm
Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Dover / New York
$30.00 - Out of stock
1973 Dover edition of Walter L. Strauss' The Complete Engravings, Etchings and Drypoints of Albrecht Dürer, a classic collection on the artist and still in print to this day.
Albrecht Durer's 96 engravings, six etchings, and three dynamic drypoints are counted among his finest and best-known works. By the very nature of the medium, each fine line of an engraving is controlled by the artist and is dependent upon the pressure of the burin in his hand. In the engravings, Durer was therefore able to achieve an unprecedented intricacy of detail, subtlety of line, and three-dimensionality.All 105 of Durer's works in these three mediums are reproduced in this edition. Among them are his most famous works, ""Knight, Death and Devil,"" ""Melencolia I,"" and ""St. Jerome in His Study""; also portraits of his contemporaries, including Erasmus of Rotterdam and Frederick the Wise, popular and religious subjects sold by Durer's wife at fairs, ""Adam and Eve,"" the Engraved Passion (15 subjects), and ""The Virgin with the Dragonfly."" Many of these show him even more charming and subtle than do the comparative woodcuts. Reproductions of experimental impression offer the opportunity to study Durer's working method. Durer's subjects range from scenes of the New Testament and the life of the Saints to portrayals of peasant personalities and representations of portentous events, such as ""The Four Witches"" and ""Sol Justitae,"" done in 1499 in anticipation of the Final Judgment that was widely predicted for the end of the century. The engraving ""The Monstrous Sow of Landser,"" a pig born with one head, four ears, two bodies, eight feet, on six of which it stood, and with two tongues,"" similarly recorded in event that was regarded as an ill omen.In the present edition, by means of shooting in most instances directly to lithographic film from the finest impressions, the engravings, where possible, have been printed so that even under a magnifying glass Durer's exact lines can be seen. Likewise, except in a very few cases, the sizes have been kept exactly to the originals, complete with border-lines where indicated. Walter L. Strauss has prepared the commentary for this edition with references to major catalogs, a summary of the statements of earlier commentators, and background material on the engravings, on Durer, and on the subjects of the works. If you are interested in Durer, a copy of this edition of the engravings is a must.
Good copy, with wear and age to covers. Ex-libris (small previous owner's name) to top of first blank, some marking.
1975, English
Softcover, 350 pages, 19 x 12.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Phaidon / London
$35.00 - In stock -
1975 edition of Ernst H. Gombrich's Symbolic Images: Studies in the Art of the Renaissance. These studies on the interpretation of images focus on the greatest artists of the Renaissance - notably Sandro Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael and Michelangelo - and all reflect the author's concern with standards, values and problems of method. Illustrated with 170 images.
Sir Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich, OM, CBE (1909—2001) was an Austrian-born art historian who spent most of his working life in the United Kingdom. He is the author of many works of art criticism and art history.
Very Good copy.
2007, English
Softcover, 60 pages, 26 x 23 cm
Ed. of 3000,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Knoedler & Company / New York
$290.00 - In stock -
Now out of print, this wonderful monographic catalogue on Lee Bontecou was published a limited edition in 2007, focussing on a particular group of works from her incredible oeuvre. In her essay for this concise catalogue of Lee Bontecou's early transparent vacuum-formed fish and flora sculptures and associated works on paper, the esteemed curator and art historian Elisabeth Sussman writes, "From a standpoint 40 years later, as sculptors everywhere seek to marry form, expression, observation, social context and modern materials in single objects and in groups of objects, or installations; when making materials function in individual, idiosyncratic, expressive ways is a mark of distinction; Bontecou's fish and plants of the late 1960s and early 1970s now appear highly prophetic." Bontecou's early summers in Nova Scotia imbued her with a lifelong fascination with nature and the sea. After studying at the Art Students League in New York (1952-55) and spending a year in Rome on a Fulbright Fellowship (1956-57), Bontecou settled in New York's Lower East Side, and then Soho. In the late 1960s, however, she began to spend part of each year in the mountains of rural Pennsylvania, where she immersed herself in an evocative inner world of natural forms derived from fish and plants. Using a vacuum-forming machine invented by an artist friend, Bontecou created the haunting, lightweight translucent sculptures gathered here for the first time in one book.
Very Good copy of this now collectible volume.
1970, Japanese
Softcover (w. plastic dust jacket), 134 pages, 10.5 x 17.3 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha / Japan
$380.00 - Out of stock
First 1970 pocket-book edition of Japanese photographer Tetsuya Ichimura's mighty Salome (Physical Psycho-Image). This seminal cult photo book, also published in a deluxe limited box edition, presents Ichimura's incredible experimental, psychedelic erotic photography inspired by the famous novel "Salome" by Oscar Wilde. An incredible visual production with costumes by fashion designer Kansai Yamamoto and Nobuo Nakamura, accessories by James Kawada, and contributions by many other artists. Designed by Hisashi Terasaki of Popeye, Brutus, Heibon Punch and Made in USA Catalog, etc.! Published alongside Noriaki Kano's "Fuck" in the same new Holiday Graphics pocket series. Very scarce and highly recommended.
As a young adult Ichimura (b. 1930, Nagasaki) moved to Tokyo, where he studied for a year at Nihon University, took various jobs, and chanced to meet Shōtarō Akiyama, who aroused his interest in photography. Ichimura won a special award at the First International Subjectivism Photo Exhibition, held at Takashimaya in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, in 1956. He quickly moved to nude photography, and had his first solo exhibition, "Love & Lost", in Fuji Photo Salon in 1963. He excelled in the field of expressionistic nude photography, published seminal avant-garde photo books in Japan and participated in exhibitions overseas, including "New Japanese Photography" in New York (7 Works owned by MoMA) in 1974.
Very Good copy.
1985, Japanese / English
Softcover (w. obi-strip), 210 pages, 28.5 x 23 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Cultural Publishing / Japan
$160.00 - In stock -
First edition of this truly amazing, rare and unsung Japanese photo-book by Chikashi Tanaka, Japanese hair designer to the stars, published in one edition in 1985. A gorgeous 10 year collection of monochrome photos taken by Tanaka throughout the 1970s and early 1980s of celebrities who were active in the period. "Although photography is clearly stated as a side interest, the photos taken by Tanaka, who was always close to the glamorous as a hair designer, intimately captures the real faces of the stars, which cannot be taken by a professional cameraman." Beautifully and candidly capturing the cool atmosphere of the period and the stars that illuminated it, back-stage, at the hotel, in the nightclub, in between, Tanaka intimately documents friends, the stars of the Japanese (and American, and European) screen and stage, leading actresses, singers, fashion models, fashion designers, actors, and others, including Kaori Momoi, Karen Graham, Brooke Shields, Masako Natsume, Ayumi Ishida, Inès de La Fressange, Ken Takakura, Juliette Gréco, Helmut Berger, Kiwako Taichi, Catherine Deneuve, Akiko Wada, Jerry Hall, Mitsuhiro Matsuda, Moira Swan, Janice Dickinson, Seiko Matsuda, Princess Diana, Kimiko Kasai, Georges Moustaki, Mizue Takada, Hiromi Go, Ayako Wakao, Mikijirō Hira, Kaori Momoi, Yūsuke Suga, Hiromi Satō, Rumiko Koyanagi, Mao Daich, Mari Yoshimura, Keiko Matsuzaka, Jun Inoue, Beverly Johnson, Kimiko Ikegami, Nana Kinomi, Yoshiko Mita, and so many others. Really a beautiful collection to behold, with wonderful design and printing on warm, uncoated stock with a feel much like the early Comme des Garçons books.
Very Good copy with publisher's obi strip. Some light wear to covers and heavier wear, closed tears to uncommon obi.
1996, English
5 offset colour post card set, 15 x 10 cm ea
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by
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$120.00 - Out of stock
Very rare set of five postcards by French photographer Irina Ionesco, published in 1996.
Irina Ionesco (1935—2022) is a French photographer famous for her unique style of dramatically lit, baroque, erotic female portraits, influenced by the Decadent movement and the dream-like psycho-erotic imagery of Surrealism. At a young age she was sent to Romania where she was raised by her family who were circus performers. From the ages of 15 to 22 she performed as a contortionist. She traveled and painted for several years before discovering photography and gained wide attention when she exhibited her work at the Nikon Gallery in Paris in 1974, leading to her work being published in magazines, books, and exhibited at galleries across the globe. Working primarily as a fashion photographer, Ionesco stirred controversy with her nude portraits—much like Garry Gross would later cause with his sexualized photographs of a young Brooke Shields. Ionesco’s work often features women in elaborate dress, bejewelled, gloved, and in other finery, but also adorning themselves with symbolic pieces such as chokers and other fetishistic props, posing provocatively, partially disrobed as objects of sexual possession. Irina Ionesco is most famous for her photographs using her young daughter, Eva, as her model and muse, a decision that remains controversial to this day.
As New—Fine complete set.
1984, French / Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket + obi-strip), 122 pages, 29.7 x 23.3 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Shisakusha / Japan
$180.00 - Out of stock
First edition of the wonderful Féminités photobook by Japanese photographer Lyu Hanabusa, published in Japan in 1984.
This stunning book is a collection of portraits of Parisian women, taken between 1976-1983. Lyu Hanabusa spent a great deal of the 1970's working as a freelance photographer in Paris with his wife, essayist and French food culture researcher Mika Kominato. Attracted to the spiritual and professional independence of the women of 1970s Paris, Hanabusa paid homage with 200 portraits of artists, writers, politicians, actresses, editors, singers, designers, stylists, models, dancers, etc. Among those featured in this collection of 99 of those portraits are Agnès B., Sonia Rykiel, Simone de Beauvoir, Jeanne Moreau, Irina Ionesco, Agnès Varda, Juliet Berto, Reiko Kruk, Aurore Clément, Dominique Sanda, Anne Marie Beretta, Françoise Hardy, Arielle Dombasle, and many more. Includes biographies on Hanabusa and all photographed, along with texts by author Kōbō Abe and poet Shuntarō Tanikawa.
Beautiful copy in dust-jacket with obi-strip and inserted promotional leaflet. VG/VG.
1972, Japanese
Softcover, 254 pages, 21 x 14.8 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Taiyo books / Japan
$80.00 - Out of stock
March 1974 issue of SM KING, legendary Japanese SM magazine edited by Oniroku Dan (1931—2011), "the most celebrated writer of popular SM novels in Japan", published by Taiyo books between 1972—1974, with each issue featuring many colour and b/w photo features, illustrations, and fetish fiction. Regular contributors included actress Naomi Tani, Toshiyuki Suma, Norio Sugiura, Takashi Tsujimura, Yoji Muku, Gekko Hayashi (Gojin Ishihara), Tadao Chigusa and Juan Maeda. This issue featuring cover artwork by legendary erotic fantasy artist Ran Akiyoshi (1922–1982), plus the work of Gekko Hayashi (Gojin Ishihara), Tadao Chigusa, Takashi Ishii, Aya Nakagawa, Shoji Oki, Oniroku Dan, and many many more. One of the great few with cover art by legendary Japanese illustrator Shiro Tatsumi.
Good copy with light cover wear.
1979, Japanese
Softcover (staple-bound), 250 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Sun Publishing / Japan
$65.00 - Out of stock
SM Kitan March 1979 issue, featuring cover artwork by legendary erotic fantasy artist Ran Akiyoshi (1922–1982). This issue features the work of some of the best names in Japanese SM art, including Shoji Oki, Namio Harukawa, Yoko Ozuma, Yoji Muku, Gekko Hayashi (Gojin Ishihara), and Reiko Kita. A cult classic of vintage Japanese BDSM and Kinbaku (Japanese bondage), SM Kitan was the SM magazine published by the great Sun Publishing house, and was formerly known as S&M Abhunter (changing its name to SM Kitan from August 1975). Heavy with wonderful artwork galleries in colour and bw, glossy bondage photo-features, illustrated fetish fiction, manga, fold-outs, and much more. Ran Akiyoshi (1922–1982) illustrated many of the iconic covers, with regular contributors including Sotaro Aki, Tadao Chigusa, Namio Harukawa, Yoko Ozuma, Reiko Kita, Akiyoshi Akiyoshi, Hakuzan Shiraishi, Shoji Oki, Namio Harukawa, Akira Kasuga, and Gekko Hayashi (Gojin Ishihara).
Very Good copy. Light cover wear/age.
1972, English / German
Softcover, 32 pages, 22 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Goethe-Institute / Münich
$180.00 - Out of stock
Extremely rare, early publication on the work of director, actor, playwright and catalyst for the New German Cinema movement, Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945–1982), published in 1972 by Goethe-Institute, Münich. Illustrated throughout with chronology of his prolific work to date, with each feature including a full-page film image, full cast listing, production, camera and music credits, along with bi-lingual texts in German and English for each film, including Love Is Colder Than Death (1969), Katzelmacher (1969), Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (1970), The American Soldier (1970), The Niklashausen Journey (1970), Whity (1971), Beware of a Holy Whore (1971), The Merchant of Four Seasons (1972), and more, ending with his latest feature, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972). Ten years before his untimely death in 1982, this gorgeous publication celebrates and documents the early achievements of one of cinema's greatest directors.
""He is", said Henri Langlois, director of the Paris Cinematheque during an Hommage a Rainer Werner Fassbinder, "the beginning of German post-war cinema". Indeed, Fassbinder is one of the most talked about and honored — and productive — moviemakers in West Germany. Not only 12 features in three years, but also five plays, a number of drama-adaptations, radio-plays and an eight-part-family-serial for television have made the 27 year-old director a unique phenomenon in the German cultural scene." (Wolfgang Limmer, opening of the introduction)
"Fassbinder's unique position in Germany is first of all the result of his fearless breaking of crusted cultural traditions, but also the result of the strong impression his enormous productivity has made on Germany's cultural industrie. Quickly he was captioned "German Warhol", "Kid-Genius", "Wunderkind . He is certainly none of those. Goethe's remark would fit here better: "His genius is deligence."" (Wolfgang Limmer, closing of the introduction)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945–1982) was a West German filmmaker, actor, playwright and theatre director, who was a catalyst of the New German Cinema movement. Although Fassbinder's career lasted less than fifteen years, he was extremely productive. By the time of his death, Fassbinder had completed over forty films, two television series, three short films, four video productions, and twenty-four plays, often acting as well as directing. Fassbinder was also a composer, cameraman, and film editor. Fassbinder died on 10 June 1982 at the age of 37 from a lethal cocktail of cocaine and barbiturates.
Very Good copy, only light corner and spine wear.
2022, English
Softcover, 384 pages, 19.8 x 24.1 cm
Published by
Walker Art Centre / Minneapolis
$110.00 - Out of stock
Six decades of sculptural innovation from the Arte Povera pioneer and alchemist of the everyday captured in this stunning new volume.
Over the course of more than five decades, Jannis Kounellis developed a singular practice across painting, works on paper, sculpture, installation and hybrid works combining objects with live performance. Playing a central role in the Italian Arte Povera movement of the 1960s and early 1970s, Kounellis created wide-ranging and innovative works exploring theater, migration, history, politics and other themes, which continue to influence subsequent generations of artists.
Published by the Walker Art Center for the first US Kounellis survey in over 35 years, Jannis Kounellis in Six Acts offers the most comprehensive assessment of his career to date. The richly illustrated catalog, assembled with the full cooperation of the artist's estate and archive, presents a first-of-its-kind collection of visual materials and Kounellis' writings, including image-based exhibition and performance chronologies. The volume also features essays by Vincenzo de Bellis, Claire Gilman, Kit Hammonds and Ara H. Merjian.
Jannis Kounellis (1936-2017) was born in Piraeus, Greece. In 1956, he moved to Rome and by 1960 was an active member of the Arte Povera movement. In 1969 he created one of his best-known works: the installation of 12 live horses in the gallery L'Attico in Rome. Kounellis' first New York solo show was in 1972. Recent exhibitions have been held at the Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, Greece (2012) and the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany (2007), among others.
1972, Japanese
Softcover, 378 pages, 11 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Shimpei Book Publishing / Tokyo
$60.00 - Out of stock
SM Top 1972 December Edition, published by Shimpei Book Publishing. Cult classic of vintage Japanese BDSM and Kinbaku (Japanese bondage), each issue of SM Fan featured almost 400 pages of Japan's most depraved fetish fiction, littered with illustrations unseen elsewhere, including many historical pieces, plus full-colour glossy bondage photo-features, surreal erotic art and manga, fold-outs, reviews, letters, and much more. SM Top, alongside SM Select, SM King, SM Fan, SM Sniper, SM Fantasia, etc. were often the first place to showcase the artwork and photography by some of Japan's biggest names in the field of erotic art, including Namio Harukawa, Yoshifumi Hayashi, Toshio Saeki, and Ken Katayama, alongside the likes of masters such as Yoshitoshi Tsukioka.
Very Good copy.
1976, French / Japanese
Softcover, 40 pages (w. Japanese translation booklet insert), 34.5 x 29 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Façade / Paris
$350.00 - In stock -
Inaugural issue of the incredibly rare and iconic Façade, the French underground magazine published in Paris between 1976—1983. Founded in 1976 by Alain Benoist and Hervé Pinard, Façade was the french answer to Andy Warhol's Interview, heavily centered around Parisian club, fashion and art scene and published without any date or periodicity until 1983. Launched at an Issey Miyake show where models handed out the magazine from the catwalk, the cult magazine witness through its pages a long-lost, short-lived period in Paris featuring the so-called "jeunes gens modernes" of the 1970's, like punk icons Edwige Belmore and Alain Pacadis. With pop celebrity covers and vibrant fashion shoots styled by the likes of a young Pierre et Gilles (who met through working on this very magazine), features in collaboration with the likes of Serge Gainsbourg, and in each issue a unique "false" advertisement created by Karl Lagerfeld, it's no wonder Façade's reputation spread quickly to New York, Tokyo and beyond, making it one of the most desired magazines of the new wave. With texts in French, these rare issues come complete with the inserted Japanese translation booklets. Includes Divine and John Waters (interview), Kenzo (interview), Christian Boltanski (interview), Jean-Louis Bory, Popy Moreni, nude centrefold by Jacques Parnel … with contributions from Pierre Commoy, Dominique Gangloff, Tan Giudicelli, Annette Messager… A very rare first issue with cover shot and designed by Pierre Commoy (of Pierre et Gilles) featuring Eva Ionesco.
Very Good with light tanning. Beautiful copy.
1976, French / Japanese
Softcover, 40 pages (w. Japanese translation booklet insert), 34.5 x 29 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Façade / Paris
$160.00 - In stock -
Issue no. 2 of the incredibly rare and iconic Façade, the French underground magazine published in Paris between 1976—1983. Founded in 1976 by Alain Benoist and Hervé Pinard, Façade was the french answer to Andy Warhol's Interview, heavily centered around Parisian club, fashion and art scene and published without any date or periodicity until 1983. Launched at an Issey Miyake show where models handed out the magazine from the catwalk, the cult magazine witness through its pages a long-lost, short-lived period in Paris featuring the so-called "jeunes gens modernes" of the 1970's, like punk icons Edwige Belmore and Alain Pacadis. With pop celebrity covers and vibrant fashion shoots styled by the likes of a young Pierre et Gilles (who met through working on this very magazine), features in collaboration with the likes of Serge Gainsbourg, and in each issue a unique "false" advertisement created by Karl Lagerfeld, it's no wonder Façade's reputation spread quickly to New York, Tokyo and beyond, making it one of the most desired magazines of the new wave. With texts in French, these rare issues come complete with the inserted Japanese translation booklets. Includes features on New York City, Bodybuilding, an interview with Jean-Pierre Kalfon by Alain Pacadis, Elodie Lauten, and a long reprt of the Pigalle district of Paris, with collaborations from Pierre Commoy, Dominique Gangloff, Philippe Morillon, Thierry Ardisson, along with much more,
Good copy with some cover foxing and light wear.
1977, French / Japanese
Softcover, 40 pages (w. Japanese translation booklet insert), 34.5 x 29 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Façade / Paris
$220.00 - Out of stock
Issue no. 3 of the incredibly rare and iconic Façade, the French underground magazine published in Paris between 1976—1983. Founded in 1976 by Alain Benoist and Hervé Pinard, Façade was the french answer to Andy Warhol's Interview, heavily centered around Parisian club, fashion and art scene and published without any date or periodicity until 1983. Launched at an Issey Miyake show where models handed out the magazine from the catwalk, the cult magazine witness through its pages a long-lost, short-lived period in Paris featuring the so-called "jeunes gens modernes" of the 1970's, like punk icons Edwige Belmore and Alain Pacadis. With pop celebrity covers and vibrant fashion shoots styled by the likes of a young Pierre et Gilles (who met through working on this very magazine), features in collaboration with the likes of Serge Gainsbourg, and in each issue a unique "false" advertisement created by Karl Lagerfeld, it's no wonder Façade's reputation spread quickly to New York, Tokyo and beyond, making it one of the most desired magazines of the new wave. With texts in French, these rare issues come complete with the inserted Japanese translation booklets. Includes Eddie and the Hot Rods, Andy Warhol, Gilbert and George, the Inauguration of Beaubourg, Serge Gainsbourg, Alain Pacadis, Karl Lagerfeld… with collaborations from Pierre Commoy, Thierry Ardisson, Philippe Morillon, and much more.
Very Good copy, tanning. Beautifully preserved.
1978, French / Japanese
Softcover, 58 pages (w. Japanese translation booklet insert), 34.5 x 29 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Façade / Paris
$290.00 - In stock -
Issue no. 6 of the incredibly rare and iconic Façade, the French underground magazine published in Paris between 1976—1983. Founded in 1976 by Alain Benoist and Hervé Pinard, Façade was the french answer to Andy Warhol's Interview, heavily centered around Parisian club, fashion and art scene and published without any date or periodicity until 1983. Launched at an Issey Miyake show where models handed out the magazine from the catwalk, the cult magazine witness through its pages a long-lost, short-lived period in Paris featuring the so-called "jeunes gens modernes" of the 1970's, like punk icons Edwige Belmore and Alain Pacadis. With pop celebrity covers and vibrant fashion shoots styled by the likes of a young Pierre et Gilles (who met through working on this very magazine), features in collaboration with the likes of Serge Gainsbourg, and in each issue a unique "false" advertisement created by Karl Lagerfeld, it's no wonder Façade's reputation spread quickly to New York, Tokyo and beyond, making it one of the most desired magazines of the new wave. With texts in French, these rare issues come complete with the inserted Japanese translation booklets. Includes cover stars Salvador Dalí (front) and Eva Ionesco (back), with interviews and astrological charts for both, Amanda Lear, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, Giorgio Moroder, General Idea, Yves Adrien, Le Palace, Christo, Maud Molyneux, Anja Lopez, Suicide Fashion shot by Laurence Sackman (featuring Eva Ionesco, Sayoko Yamaguchi, and others), Nightclubbing, Malcolm McLaren… with collaborations from Pierre Commoy, Jean-Baptiste Mondino, Thierry Ardisson, Alain Pacadis, Maud Molyneux… and much more.
Very Good copy of one of the best issues! Beautifully preserved.
1978, French / Japanese
Softcover, 58 pages (w. Japanese translation booklet insert), 34.5 x 29 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Façade / Paris
$240.00 - In stock -
Issue no. 7 of the incredibly rare and iconic Façade, the French underground magazine published in Paris between 1976—1983. Founded in 1976 by Alain Benoist and Hervé Pinard, Façade was the french answer to Andy Warhol's Interview, heavily centered around Parisian club, fashion and art scene and published without any date or periodicity until 1983. Launched at an Issey Miyake show where models handed out the magazine from the catwalk, the cult magazine witness through its pages a long-lost, short-lived period in Paris featuring the so-called "jeunes gens modernes" of the 1970's, like punk icons Edwige Belmore and Alain Pacadis. With pop celebrity covers and vibrant fashion shoots styled by the likes of a young Pierre et Gilles (who met through working on this very magazine), features in collaboration with the likes of Serge Gainsbourg, and in each issue a unique "false" advertisement created by Karl Lagerfeld, it's no wonder Façade's reputation spread quickly to New York, Tokyo and beyond, making it one of the most desired magazines of the new wave. With texts in French, these rare issues come complete with the inserted Japanese translation booklets. Includes cover stars Jack Nicholson as 007 (front) and musician Djemila (back), with interviews and astrological charts for both, industrial designer Roger Tallon, Karl Lagerfeld, industrial designer Philippe Starck, publishing extraordinaire Daniel Filipacchi, Sonia Rykiel, Paco Rabanne, Thierry Mugler, a perverse fashion portfolio, Kenzo, Brion Gysin, Sid Vicious, Pierre et Gilles, Nightclubbing, Dining, Fashion, Music, tremendous ads and much more.
Very Good copy of one of the best issues! Beautifully preserved with only light marking/tan/age.
1980, French / Japanese
Softcover, 40 pages (w. Japanese translation booklet insert), 34.5 x 29 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Façade / Paris
$200.00 - In stock -
Issue no. 8 of the incredibly rare and iconic Façade, the French underground magazine published in Paris between 1976—1983. Founded in 1976 by Alain Benoist and Hervé Pinard, Façade was the french answer to Andy Warhol's Interview, heavily centered around Parisian club, fashion and art scene and published without any date or periodicity until 1983. Launched at an Issey Miyake show where models handed out the magazine from the catwalk, the cult magazine witness through its pages a long-lost, short-lived period in Paris featuring the so-called "jeunes gens modernes" of the 1970's, like punk icons Edwige Belmore and Alain Pacadis. With pop celebrity covers and vibrant fashion shoots styled by the likes of a young Pierre et Gilles (who met through working on this very magazine), features in collaboration with the likes of Serge Gainsbourg, and in each issue a unique "false" advertisement created by Karl Lagerfeld, it's no wonder Façade's reputation spread quickly to New York, Tokyo and beyond, making it one of the most desired magazines of the new wave. With texts in French, these rare issues come complete with the inserted Japanese translation booklets. Includes cover stars Sophia Loren (front) and Brian Ferry (back), with interviews and astrological charts for both, James White and The Blacks, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Kansai Yamamoto, Karl Lagerfeld, "Assistant Fashion" (shoots by the assistants of fashion fashion photographers), Helmut Newton, nightclubbing, dining, records, terrific ads, and much more...
Very Good with light foxing, wear the covers.
1980, French / Japanese
Softcover, 58 pages (w. Japanese translation booklet insert), 34.5 x 29 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Façade / Paris
$160.00 - In stock -
Issue no. 7 of the incredibly rare and iconic Façade, the French underground magazine published in Paris between 1976—1983. Founded in 1976 by Alain Benoist and Hervé Pinard, Façade was the french answer to Andy Warhol's Interview, heavily centered around Parisian club, fashion and art scene and published without any date or periodicity until 1983. Launched at an Issey Miyake show where models handed out the magazine from the catwalk, the cult magazine witness through its pages a long-lost, short-lived period in Paris featuring the so-called "jeunes gens modernes" of the 1970's, like punk icons Edwige Belmore and Alain Pacadis. With pop celebrity covers and vibrant fashion shoots styled by the likes of a young Pierre et Gilles (who met through working on this very magazine), features in collaboration with the likes of Serge Gainsbourg, and in each issue a unique "false" advertisement created by Karl Lagerfeld, it's no wonder Façade's reputation spread quickly to New York, Tokyo and beyond, making it one of the most desired magazines of the new wave. With texts in French, these rare issues come complete with the inserted Japanese translation booklets. Includes cover stars Catherine Deneuve (front) and James Brown (back), with interviews and astrological charts for both, Sports Fashion (featuring Françoise Hardy), Funky fashion, The Village People, Karl Lagerfeld, more James Brown, clubbing, dining, jet-setting, dance music and much more.
Very Good with some light wear/marks to covers, light tanning.
1981, French / Japanese
Softcover, 58 pages (w. Japanese translation booklet insert), 34.5 x 29 cm
1st US Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Façade / Paris
$160.00 - In stock -
Issue no. 10 of the incredibly rare and iconic Façade, the French underground magazine published in Paris between 1976—1983. Founded in 1976 by Alain Benoist and Hervé Pinard, Façade was the french answer to Andy Warhol's Interview, heavily centered around Parisian club, fashion and art scene and published without any date or periodicity until 1983. Launched at an Issey Miyake show where models handed out the magazine from the catwalk, the cult magazine witness through its pages a long-lost, short-lived period in Paris featuring the so-called "jeunes gens modernes" of the 1970's, like punk icons Edwige Belmore and Alain Pacadis. With pop celebrity covers and vibrant fashion shoots styled by the likes of a young Pierre et Gilles (who met through working on this very magazine), features in collaboration with the likes of Serge Gainsbourg, and in each issue a unique "false" advertisement created by Karl Lagerfeld, it's no wonder Façade's reputation spread quickly to New York, Tokyo and beyond, making it one of the most desired magazines of the new wave. With texts in French, these rare issues come complete with the inserted Japanese translation booklets. Includes Gina Lollobrigida interview and astrology, so too Jacno, Karl Lagerfeld, Howard Hughes, Sonia Rykiel, Defunkt (Mudd Club), Paul-Loup Sulitzer, Catherine Breillat, Djémila, dining, dancing, music, the scene… with collaborations from Dominique Gangloff, Dominique Lauga, Philippe Morillon, Serge Krüger, Jean-Edern Hallier, Alain Pacadis… and much more.
Very Good with light wear/marking to cover. Light tanning.