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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Please note: The bookshop is closed until February 1, 2024.
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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.
2003, English
Softcover, 418 pages, 27.5 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Purple Institute / Paris
$220.00 - Out of stock
A very rare copy of the inaugural issue of Purple Fashion, edited by Olivier Zahm, featuring Richard Prince, Bruce Benderson, Gary Indiana, Paolo Roversi, Olivier Mosset, Camille Vivier, Mark Borthwick, Pierre Bailly, Elein Fleiss, Viviane Sassen, Helmut Lang, Kerry Hallihan, Antek Walczak, Marcelo Krasilcic, Michael Lonsdale, Maison Martin Margiela, Katja Rahlwes, Niels Schumm, Dike Blair, Vava Ribeiro, Monte Hellman, Comme des Garçons, Slavoj Zizek, Balenciaga, Tony Alva, Marina Faust, Wolfgang Tillmans, Terry Richardson, Dominique Gonzales Foerster, Jeff Rian, Noritoshi Hirakawa, Anuschka Blommers, François Laruelle, Yan Céh, Issey Miyake, Rick Owens, Susan Eldridge, John Galliano, Ann Demeuelemeester, Vava Ribeiro, Serge Leblon, Hiromix, Cecile Bortoletti, Vanessa Bruno, Takashi Suzuki, Miltos Manetas, Pascale Gatzen, Stéphanie Moisdon, Junya Watanabe, Ferdinand Gouzon, and many more...
In 1992, Elein Fleiss and Olivier Zahm started the magazine Purple Prose as a reaction against the superficial glamour of the 1980s; much as a part of the global counterculture at the time, inspired by magazines like Interview, Ray Gun, Nova, and Helmut Newton's Illustrated, but with the aesthetics of what usually is referred to as anti-fashion. Based on their personal interests and views; Purple was, and in a sense still is, made much in the same spirit of the fanzine. Started "without any means, and without any experience, because we wanted to make a magazine that was radically different. We wanted to support the artists around us that no one else supported, much less talked about."—Olivier Zahm. The magazine became associated with the "realism" of the new fashion photography of the 1990s, with names like Juergen Teller, Terry Richardson, Wolfgang Tillmans, Mark Borthwick, Corinne Day, and Mario Sorrenti. Soon after the birth of Purple Prose, Zahm and Fleiss created spin-off publications such as les cahiers purple, Purple Sexe, Purple Fiction, and of course, Purple Fashion, in which Zahm aimed at fusing together his two worlds, fashion and art. Now one of the most iconic and influential fashion magazines in history.
Very Good copy.
2004, English
Softcover, 432 pages, 27.5 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Purple Institute / Paris
$200.00 - Out of stock
"ANIMALISTIC, ARROGANT, BLOODY, BIZARRE, CRUEL"
A very rare copy of the second issue of Purple Fashion, edited by Olivier Zahm, featuring Richard Prince, Mark Borthwick, Corinne Day, Juergen Teller, Imitation of Christ, Camille Vivier, Gus Van Sant, Anders Edström, Dominique Gonzales Foerster, Jeff Rian, Rita Ackermann, Heinz Peter Knes, Terry Richardson, Dike Blair, Elizabeth Peyton, Susan Cianciolo, Kim Gordon, Hermés, Giasco Bertoli, Junya Watanabe, Matthieu Orléan, Richard Kern, Maison Martin Margiela, Anuschka Blommers, François Laruelle, Niels Schumm, Comme des Garçons, Slavoj Zizek, Balenciaga, Maurizio Cattelan, Bless, Andrea Zittel, Gordon Matta-Clark, Thomas Hirschorn, Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle, Annette Aurell, Masafumi Sanai, Katja Rahlwes, Bettina Komenda, Mike Kelley, John Galliano, Kirsten Owen, Helmut Lang, Lutz, Issey Miyake, Rick Owens, Ann Demeuelemeester, Vava Ribeiro, Jean Leclercq, Maria Cornejo, Martine Sitbon, Cosmic Wonder, Justine Kurland, Wendy and Jim, John Armelder, Tim Griffin, Martynka Wawrzyniak, Ola Rindal, Yan Céh, David Armstrong, Fabien Baron, Lewis Baltz, Takashi Homma, Drew Jarett, Anne-Sofie Back, Marc Upson, Bettina Komenda, Alain Séchas, Gary Indiana, Justine Kurland, Christopher Wool, and many more... Art directed by Christophe Brunnquell.
In 1992, Elein Fleiss and Olivier Zahm started the magazine Purple Prose as a reaction against the superficial glamour of the 1980s; much as a part of the global counterculture at the time, inspired by magazines like Interview, Ray Gun, Nova, and Helmut Newton's Illustrated, but with the aesthetics of what usually is referred to as anti-fashion. Based on their personal interests and views; Purple was, and in a sense still is, made much in the same spirit of the fanzine. Started "without any means, and without any experience, because we wanted to make a magazine that was radically different. We wanted to support the artists around us that no one else supported, much less talked about."—Olivier Zahm. The magazine became associated with the "realism" of the new fashion photography of the 1990s, with names like Juergen Teller, Terry Richardson, Wolfgang Tillmans, Mark Borthwick, Corinne Day, and Mario Sorrenti. Soon after the birth of Purple Prose, Zahm and Fleiss created spin-off publications such as les cahiers purple, Purple Sexe, Purple Fiction, and of course, Purple Fashion, in which Zahm aimed at fusing together his two worlds, fashion and art. Now one of the most iconic and influential fashion magazines in history.
Very Good copy.
2023, English
Hardcover, 208 pages, 25.4 x 17.8 cm
Published by
DelMonico Books / US
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures / Los Angeles
$85.00 - Out of stock
French filmmaker Agnès Varda was a trailblazer who broke new artistic and cinematic ground for nearly seven decades. Although closely associated with the French New Wave, Varda established her groundbreaking visual style in her 1955 debut film La Pointe Courte, well before other milestone productions of the era. This title presents the first English-language visual showcase for Varda’s inspirations, art and personal life, incorporating original materials from her personal archive.Varda impacted cinema from her first feature film through her final works, with an expansive oeuvre that includes Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962), Vagabond (1985) and the Academy Award–nominated Faces Places (2017). The book covers Varda’s “three lives”—as photographer, filmmaker and visual artist—and features a previously unpublished interview Varda gave to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on the eve of receiving her Honorary Oscar in 2017. Essays by author Sasha Archibald and film critic Peter Debruge examine facets of Varda’s creative lives, and personal reflections by friends and colleagues illustrate what it was like to collaborate with and be inspired by Varda.
Agnès Varda (1928–2019) was a French filmmaker, photographer and visual artist, sometimes called the grandmother of the French New Wave. In 2018, her film with the French photographer and muralist known as JR, Faces Places, received an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature, and that same year she received an honorary Academy Award for lifetime achievement.
1961, French
Hardcover, 144 pages, 22.5 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Editions du Tempes / Paris
$200.00 - Out of stock
First edition of this wonderful, very scarce, delicate photobook by French film director Agnès Varda. Following Varda’s short documentary film ‘Du côté de la côte’ in 1958, this unique hardcover book comprises Varda's own photographs, film stills, texts (including quotes from Giradoux, Nietzsche, Dante, Zola, Colette, Apollinaire, and Flaubert) and found archival/historical material of the French Riviera (or Côte d'Azur) - the Mediterranean coast of southeastern France. This charming travelog photo album feels somewhat like a successor to her friend Chris Marker’s wonderful ‘Petite Planète’ series of travel guides from around the same time and perfectly reflects Varda's poignant social commentary and humour through documentary.
Very good copy of this beautiful book (light corner bumping, fragile cloth binding - most copies of this book have detached and lost pages, this copy is still intact but with some looseness and must be handled carefully).
Agnès Varda is a French film director, born in Belgium, who has spent most of her working life in France. Her films, photographs, and art exhibitions focus on documentary realism, feminist issues, and social commentary with a distinctive experimental style. Film historians have cited Varda's work as central to the development of the French New Wave film movement; her uses of location shooting and non-professional actors were unconventional in the context of 1950s French cinema.
1977, French
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 340 pages, 28.5 X 34 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Albin Michel / Paris
$200.00 - Out of stock
First edition of the one and only Fellini photo book.
Published in Paris in 1977, this beautifully produced, heavy 340-page hardcover volume visually captures the exquisite vision of Italian film director and screenwriter, Federico Fellini, through four hundred memorable photographic stills (colour and black and white) from his fifteen and a half films, including La Dolce Vita (1960), 8½ (1963), Juliet of the Spirits (1965), Fellini's Satyricon (1969), Amarcord (1973), Fellini's Casanova (1976), and many more. Every major Fellini film is documented in these pages of lush images, accompanied by full cast listings, production details, and summaries and forwards written by Georges Simenon.
A must for any Fellini fan.
2023, English
Hardcover, 160 pages, 22.9 x 14.6 cm
Published by
Art issues Press / Los Angeles
$58.00 - In stock -
"If this book of shocking intelligence and moral hope is read widely and above all well, word for word, it will help the world."—Peter Schjeldahl
An expanded edition of Hickey's controversial and exquisitely written apologia for beauty—championed by artists, reviled by art critics, and as powerful as ever 30 years on.
The 30th anniversary cloth edition brings back into print Dragon's four essays on beauty and commingles them with newly discovered essays by the MacArthur Foundation "genius." Art by Caravaggio, Bellini, Velázquez, Raphael, Warhol and Mapplethorpe is complemented by Hickey's tributes to Dolly Parton and Richard Pryor, outing of John Rechy's gay novel Numbers, essays on the art of writing and witty analysis of paintings by Ed Ruscha. An afterword by Hickey's friend and Dragon's editor queers the brash, heterosexual gambler as it situates the creation of Dragon squarely within the AIDS plague. At the time, the book made beauty visible under the looming presence of death and bodily decay. Today, Hickey's prescient diagnosis of the "therapeutic institution" resonates even louder and artists respond by harnessing beauty as a source of meaning and of joy.
Dave Hickey (1938-2021) was one of the preeminent arts and cultural writers of the turn of the 21st century. A MacArthur "Genius" Fellow known as the "beauty guy" in the popular press, Hickey opened A Clean, Well-Lighted Place gallery in Austin, Texas, in the 1960s, before becoming executive editor at Art in America magazine. In the 1970s, he was a songwriter in Nashville, Tennessee, where he coined and helped create the "Outlaw country" music movement. By the 1990s, Hickey had made a home in Las Vegas, from where he regularly traveled to speak with audiences worldwide.
2023, English
Softcover, 184 pages, 23 x 31 cm
Published by
Bill / Brussels
$92.00 - Out of stock
‘Bill’ is annual magazine of photographic stories without any accompanying text to prioritise visual reading without distraction. Designed, edited, and produced by designer Julie Peeters and associate editor Elena Narbutaite, this issue contains 184 offset printed pages on thirteen different paper stocks. Contributions for this issue include George Tourkovasilis, Cinzia Ruggeri through the lenses of Ilvio Gallo and Occhiomagico, SC103’s first runway, Inge Grognard, Adrianna Glaviano, the contact sheets of Santi Caleca, Rosalind Nashashibi, as well as magazine spreads from Anders Edström, Curtis Cuffie, and Hans Hollein.
1989, Japanese / English
Softcover, 72 pages, 31 x 29 cm
Signed by Sarah Moon,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
PPS Telecommunications Company / Tokyo
$180.00 - Out of stock
Gorgeous signed copy of this out-of-print over-sized Japanese Sarah Moon exhibition catalogue published in 1989 by Pacific Press Service, at the Photographic Society of Japan for an exhibition at Printemps Ginza in Tokyo and Daimaru Museum Umeda in Osaka. Profusely illustrated throughout with the French photographer's works for fashion, editorial and advertising, as well her personal collections, travel photography and studies, including her iconic work for Comme des Garçons, Cacharel, Vogue, Nova, Harper's Bazaar, Marie Claire, L'Oreal, Elle and more. Includes texts by Kazutaka Narahara, Shunji Ito and French photographer Frank Horvat. This scarce, collectible copy is signed by Sarah Moon herself on the lower title page in elegant marker script "Sarah Moon -".
Sarah Moon is a photographer born in 1941 in Vichy, France. Her Jewish family was forced to leave occupied France for England. As a teenager she studied drawing before working as a model in London and Paris (1960–1966) under the name Marielle Hadengue. She also became interested in photography, taking shots of her model colleagues. In 1970, she finally decided to spend all her time on photography rather than modelling, adopting Sarah Moon as her new name. In 1972, she shot the Pirelli calendar, the first woman to do so. After working for a long time with Cacharel, her reputation grew and she also received commissions from Chanel, Dior, Comme des Garçons and Vogue. In 1985, Moon moved into gallery and film work.
Good -VG copy with some general tanning to cover/edges and light general wear.
1979, Japanese
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 120 pages, 30 x 21.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Haga Bookstore / Japan
$100.00 - In stock -
First volume of The Best Nudes hardcover photo book series published between 1979—1982 by the mighty Haga bookstore in Tokyo. This fist volume lavishly reproduces the celebrated nude works of Hungarian photographer Andor György Ikafalvi-Dienes, known as André de Dienes (1913—1985), and innovative German—American glamour photographer Peter Basch (1921—2004).
Good copy with original publisher's printed acetate jacket. Wear and light chipping to jacket, shelf rubbing to book base.
1979, Japanese
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 120 pages, 30 x 21.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Haga Bookstore / Japan
$140.00 - Out of stock
Volume 3 (the most sought after) of The Best Nudes hardcover photo book series published between 1979—1982 by the mighty Haga bookstore in Tokyo. This third volume lavishly reproduces in b/w and colour the celebrated nude works of French photographer Irina Ionesco (1930—2022) and German photographer Karin Szekessy (b. 1938). Both important European female photographers became prominent in the 1970s for their evocative, surreal painterly nude portraiture of women (and dolls). A beautiful collection of ethereal fantasies imbued with Ionesco's gothic provocations and Szekessy's arresting experimentation.
Very Good copy lacking publisher's printed acetate jacket. Light wear to dust jacket.
1984, French
Softcover (french-folds), 84 pages, 30.5 x 23.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Pink Star Éditions / Paris
$400.00 - In stock -
Rare, first edition of the extraordinary "Exhibition in Paris" photo book, published in 1984 by Pink Star Éditions, Paris. One woman's nude exhibitionist walk, swim and motorcycle, train, bicycle, ferry and helicopter ride through Paris, enjoying the Cimetière du Père Lachaise, the Tour Eiffel, the Seine, and the attention of many passers-by, all candidly captured by Patrick Magaud. A wonderfully liberated and cheeky collection of nudist photography like no other, printed in lush saturated colours, alongside a small interview with Elle, the star of the book. A sight-seers delight and a photobook like no other. Now very collectible.
Very Good copy.
1978, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 60 pages, 23 x 29 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Sackett & Marshall / London
$160.00 - Out of stock
First hardcover edition of the one and only Yoga For Men from 1978, a book that really couldn't be from another year. John Champ, an advertising art director and Hatha Yoga practitioner, teamed up with yoga expert Pauline Donovan and photographer John Russell to re-invigorate the instructional yoga book. The result is a lively, handsomely designed, over-sized glossy nude/semi-nude photo book of female models executing basic yoga postures to "persuade more people to take up what is a rewarding way of life". A special book, and now very collectible!
Good copy w. Very Good dust jacket. Some light foxing/spotting to first and final pages and board bowing, otherwise a VG copy all-round.
1982, French
Hardcover (w. dustjacket), 25 x 33 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Love Me Tender / Paris
$280.00 - In stock -
The very sought after, first and only printing of Jean-Daniel Lorieux's "Coconuts", from 1982. Published in hardcover by Paris' Love Me Tender photography publishing house, "Coconuts", the first book of French photographer Jean-Daniel Lorieux, has certainly become one of their rarest, most prized editions. Working as a fashion photographer for Vogue, L'Officiel, Dior, Lanvin, Céline, Cardin, this strikingly designed, sun-kissed and airbrushed folio captures swimwear models and celebrities (including a young Brooke Shields, Debbie Dickinson, Kirsteen Price, Isabelle Adjani, Mireille Darc, Paulina Porizkova, Alexandra Stewart, Beverly Johnson, Glenn Ford, Marlène Jobert...) in saturated colours across sun-dreanched locations such as Monte Carlo, Mexico, Djerba, Tunis and Panama. Pure 1980s Summer fantasy, the way only Love Me Tender could capture so well in book form.
VG copy in Good dust jacket.
1981, English / French
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 160 pages, 33 x 27.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Love Me Tender / Paris
$280.00 - In stock -
First and only printing 1981 hardcover edition of the very sought after cult photo book "Seven In New York", published by Love Me Tender, Paris. This over-sized photographic volume illustrates the work of seven professional photographers, Sacha, Uli Rose, Denis Piel, Pierre Houles, Arthur Elgort, Alex Chatelain, and Patrick Demarchelier, who were transferred from Paris to New York to explore new horizons in fashion photography. Produced in collaboration with Kodak Pathé France, the results, which include shoots with models Gia Carangi and Patti Hansen, amongst others, coupled with Love Me Tender's bold 80s graphic design, encapsulate all that makes this period of fashion photography so fantastic. A very special book.
A very good copy in good dust jacket with foxing to reverse of jacket, block edges, and first and last book pages only. Otherwise VG throughout.
1997, English / Japanese
Hardcover, 100 pages, 21.5 x 30.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Rockin' On / Tokyo
Hysteric Glamour / Tokyo
$300.00 - Out of stock
First, only edition of Hélène, the hardcover photobook/catalogue published on the occasion of an exhibition curated by Purple magazine co-founder Elein Fleiss at Tokyo gallery THE Deep in 1997. Named after actress and nineties icon Hélène Fillières, this book is the most perfect published time-capsule of what was 90s anti-fashion Paris, and probably the most brilliant fashion photobook of the decade. Published in Japan by Hysteric Glamour and Rockin' On, Hélène is cover-to-cover full-bleed gloss pages of photography by Mark Borthwick, Anette Aurell, Camille Vivier, Christophe Brunnquell, Laetitia Benat, Ronald Stoops, and Anders Edstrom, among others. Only available in Japan when published, and now very rare and sought after. This copy complete with bound-in Hysteric Glamour sticker!
Though she began her career as a curator of art exhibitions, Elein Fleiss founded the seminal Purple Magazine with Olivier Zahm at the age of 24. Purple and Fleiss' other editing/curatorial activities were the primary vehicles for the aesthetics of what became referred to as 1990's anti-fashion. Purple – in its various incantations, Purple Prose, Purple Fashion, Purple Sexe, Purple Journal, etc. – has gone down in publishing history and changed the relationship between art, literature, architecture and fashion, resisting the obvious and the commercial.
Very Good copy with some shelf-scratches to bottom edge, general light wear, light foxing to endpapers.
2012, English
Softcover, 144 pages, 29.3 x 20.8 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by
Mousse / Milan
$180.00 - Out of stock
Out-of-print first edition of the first major book survey of American artist Leigh Ledare, edited by Elena Filipovic, with texts by Elena Filipovic and Nicolas Guagnini, and an interview with Leigh Ledare by David Joselit.
American artist Leigh Ledare uses photography, archival material and text to explore human agency, social relationships, taboos and the photographic, in equal turns. Formally trained in photography, this erstwhile assistant of Larry Clark has, in a relatively short time, developed a body of work that is coherent, complex, biting in its intelligence and decidedly provocative. Emphasizing the central role that others—mother, family members, ex-lover, collectors, anonymous patrons, etc.—play in his work, and the slippage of authorship and agency that he often deliberately gives them, the artist has entitled his first institutional solo exhibition organized by WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, and the catalogue that accompanies it: Leigh Ledare, et al. The richly illustrated full-colour publication, including two newly commissioned essays and an interview with the artist, features examples from nearly all his photographic series to date, as well as stills of video works, text-based pieces, and a number of newly produced pieces never shown before.
As New.
2015, English
Softcover, 264 pages, 16.5 x 23 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by
A.R.T. Press / New York
$140.00 - In stock -
Now out-of-print, the book Double Bind pivots around an extensive conversation between artist Leigh Ledare and art historian Rhea Anastas concerning Ledare’s project of the same name. As an installation, Double Bind puts in play a series of overlaying comparative structures: over one thousand photographs of the artist’s ex-wife (half taken by Ledare, the other half by her current husband, according to a script conceived by Ledare) and an ample collection of printed mass media. Through a critical and wide-ranging dialog, Ledare and Anastas probe the complexities of the viewing experience of the work and the consequences of its provocations. Ordered according to six sections, the conversation addresses key concepts and methodologies that structure the work: viewing, systemic conditions, enactment, installation and mass media, genealogy, and affect. Taken by Ledare exclusively for this book, installation views of the New York exhibition (Mitchell-Innes & Nash, 2014) foreground the subjective experience of the work and anchor the coauthors’ testing of models of aesthetic and social critique within an ethics of actually looking. The dialogue also appears with an introduction by Anastas, a preface by Ledare, and a chronology of Double Bind exhibitions and publications to date.
“Ledare’s Double Bind project examines social process of habitual enactment, such as what it means “to be a wife,” emotional and material terms of exchange, thresholds of public and private imagination, gender normativity and symbolic boundaries of relationships—all through the lens of a camera. Ledare suggests a kind of unraveling of these habituations and carries this logic over to his discussion of the work with Rhea Anastas. Here, Double Bind functions not simply as an object of analysis but instead as a rubric through which the two extend the work itself through a dialectic of articulation and dis-articulation. In line with the radical (and often suppressed) premises of conceptual art, here Ledare and Anastas challenge and override conventional distinctions between artwork, viewer, artist, critic and art historian. In this way this book serves as a vital part of Double Bind’s progressive unfolding.” – John Miller, artist and critic
As New—Near Fine.
1971, Dutch / English
Softcover (2 volumes), 232 pages + 96 pages, 29.7 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Sonsbeek / Arnhem
$180.00 - In stock -
Scarce Sonsbeek '71 complete 2 volume catalogue set, published in conjunction with exhibition held at Sonsbeek Park, Arnhem, June 19 - August 15, 1971. Sonsbeek Park had been the site of international sculpture exhibitions periodically from 1949. The concept of sonsbeek '71, which was described in the catalogue as an adventure and a dynamic manifestation, was both revolutionary and controversial. It made a radical departure from the usual format by expanding the conceptual and physical territory "beyond the boundaries" and commissioning site-specific works that appeared throughout all of Holland. Along with sculpture, installation, environmental works, and performances, the exhibition aimed to make visitors aware of the influence of (new) communication technologies, such as the telephone and the telex machine, on the perception of space, distance and time. An on-site film and audio studio produced new video works and an offset printing press where artists' plans could be printed was installed, with new artists' publications being sponsored by the exhibition (such as Ruscha's Dutch Details; the artist's book statement reproduced herein). This catalogue itself becomes a vital element of the conceptual activity, reproducing documentation of the works, statements, drawings, instructions, and many artist page-works created specifically for the publications. Edited by Geert van Beijeren and Coosje Kapteyn, with texts (in English and Dutch) by art historian Willem A. L. Beeren and others.
Participating artists include Vito Acconci, Bas Jan Ader, Carl Andre, Ben d`Armagnac, Richard Artschwager, Bruce Baillie, Douwe Jan Bakker, Joseph Beuys, Ronald Bladen, Boezem, Stanley Brouwn, Daniel Buren, Javacheff Christo, Tony Conrad, Hanne Darboven, Walter de Maria, Ad Dekkers, Jan Dibbets, Ger van Elk, Pieter Engels, Groep Enschede, E. R. G., Hans Eykelboom, Barry Flanagan, Hollis Frampton, Ernie Gehr, Dan Graham, Robert Grosvenor, Michael Heizer, Douglas Huebler, Ken Jacobs, joepat, Donald Judd, On Kawara, W. Knoebel, Hans Koetsier, Axel van der Kraan, Peter Kubelka, George Landlow, Standish Dyer Lawder, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Moving Mass, Yutaka Matsuzawa, Mario Merz, Moore, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Robert Nelson, Groep Noord-Brabant, Claes Oldenburg, Dennis Oppenheim, Nam June Paik, Panamarenko, Egbert Philips, Emilio Prini, Klaus Rinke, Peter Roehr, Ulrich Rückriem, Edward Ruscha, Fred Sandback, Jean-Michel Sanejouand, Wim T. Schippers, Richard Serra, Paul Sharits, Eric Siegel, Tony Smith, Robert Smithson, Kenneth Snelson, Michael Snow, Ellen Edinoff, Koert Stuyf, Shinkichi Tajiri, Sajiki and Yokoyama Tenjo, Carel Visser, Andre Volten, Hans de Vries, Lex Wechgelaar, Lawrence Weiner, Joyce Wieland.
Very Good copies each, with light wear/tanning/creasing, otherwise tight and well preserved.
1968, English
Softcover (stapled), 20 pages, 20.4 x 20.2 cm
Edition of 1000,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Seth Siegelaub / New York
$360.00 - In stock -
Very rare artist book by Douglas Huebler, published in 1968 by Seth Siegelaub, New York. This important historical catalog is the 1st for a show in which the catalog was the show itself.
First and only printing, in an edition of 1000 copies.
“The existence of each sculpture is documented by it’s documentation.
The documentation takes the form of photographs, maps, drawings and descriptive language.
The marker “material“ and the shape described by the location of the markers have no special significance, other than tot o demark the limits of the piece.
The permanence and destiny oft he markers have no special significance.
The duration pieces exist only in the documentation of the marker’s destiny within a selected period of time.
The proposed projects do not differ from the other pieces as idea, but do differ to he extent of their material substance." - from introduction by Douglas Huebler.
Very Good copy with light wear to covers, rubbing to bottom right corner.
1986, French
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 104 pages, 32.5 x 30.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Contrejour / Paris
$450.00 - In stock -
Rare first French edition of Jeanloup Sieff's 1986 classic photobook, Torses Nus, signed by the legendary French photographer that same year. Published by Contrejour, this beautiful over-sized hardcover edition was the first print of Torses Nus, an extraordinary series of nude portraits and Jeanloup Sieff at his finest. Torses Nus is a collection of 48 beautifully-toned black-and-white photographs, primarily featuring (as the title indicates) women (and a few men) show with nude torsos. These almost classical portrait images embrace the beauty of the human form while taking in the unique personality of each person. Sieff's models include Isabelle Huppert, Emmanuelle Sallet, Jane Birkin, Tierney Gearon, Isabelle Weingarten, Sylvie Guillem, Bess Stonehouse, Yasmine Haury, Florence Dauchez. Larrio Ekson, Charlotte Rampling, and many more. Each is accompanied by a short text with biographical information by Sieff. Includes an introduction by Sieff, with all texts in both French and English.
Jeanloup Sieff (1933 – 2000) was a French photographer. He was born in Paris to Polish parents. He was a photography student of Gertrude Fehr. After working for Elle magazine and the Magnum agency, he lived and worked in New York from 1961 to 1966. Once back in Paris, his work appeared frequently in Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, as well as, in many other publications. He worked mainly in black and white and in fashion. Many do not know that he was a master darkroom technician, who printed his own images. Sieff used different focal length lenses, but is known as the master of the 21.
This copy signed in pen to the title page by Jeanloup Sieff on "23.09.1986".
Good copy but with light foxing to dust jacket, endpapers and a few pages, heavy foxing to title page. Light wear to dj.
1990, French
Softcover, 60 pages, 29 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Les Editions Rares / Paris
$240.00 - Out of stock
The extremely rare "Il etait une fois..." ("Once upon a time...") photo book by French photographer Jacques Bourboulon, first published in 1990 by Les Editions Rares, Paris. A black and white collection of Bourboulon's photographs capturing the beauty of his young amateur models in nature. Largely photographed on Bourboulon's island home of Ibiza in the 1970s-80s, a refuge for hippies, artists and other free spirits from all over the world, his photographs are a testament to the freedom and experimentation of this time, and to the beauty, and natural simplicity of the island environment itself.
Jacques Bourboulon (born 8 December 1946) is a French photographer, specializing in nude photography. In 1967 he started as a fashion photographer, publishing in Vogue and working for the fashion designers Dior, Féraud, and Carven. In the mid-1970s he sought the freedom and innocence of a natural landscape and switched to nude photography, never again to work with professional models or studios. His most famed pictures portray girls and women on the Spanish island of Ibiza, where he lived from 1976-1986, playing on the juxtaposition of blue sky, white walls, and sun-tanned skin. Bourboulon's pictures were shot with a Pentax camera and focus on bright light and sharp contrasts. His images become iconic through the pages of PHOTO magazine, Club, High Society, and calendars for Pentax and BASF. Bourboulon's photography books sold over 400,000 copies.
Very Good copy.
1971, Japanese
Softcover (staple-bound), 160 pages, 21.5 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Lemon Inc. / Tokyo
$90.00 - In stock -
Inaugural 1971 issue of legendary Japanese underground arts periodical, Black Magazine (or Black Notebook), a pioneering platform of the 1970s subculture in Tokyo. A magazine like no-other, each issue "a paradise of 1970's heretical culture", introduces a new wave of illustrators and photographers, radical criticism, avant-garde comics, sadistic literature, poetry, underground film and theatre, and all manner of transgressive, esoteric and erotic material, alongside well-known authors... This scarce first issue with incredible cover by Japanese illustrator Ken Katayama, features work/contributions by author Izumi Suzuki, film director Michio Okabe, artist Genpei Akasegawa, critic Junzo Ishiko, author Boris Vian, film director Eiichi Uchida, film critic Jin'ichi Uekusa, manga artist Shotaro Ishinomori, author Mieko Kanai, music critic Masaaki Hiraoka, artist Koichi Tanigawa, manga artist Shigeru Sugiura, graphic designer Mad Amano, doll artist Shimon Yotsuya, illustrator G. Akechi, art critic Junzo Ishiko, art critic Yoshida Yoshie, film director Toshio Matsumoto, graphic artist Keiichi Tanaami, author Koji Suzuki, artist Toshio Saeki, manga artist Shigeru Mizuki, manga artist Mori Masaki, manga artist Mitsuhiko Yoshida, artist Tsunehisa Kimura, playwright Jūrō Kara, and many more. A lot of great things started in the pages of this unique magazine. A highly recommended publication!
Good—Very Good copy, general wear/age.
1971, Japanese
Softcover (staple-bound), 160 pages, 21.5 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Lemon Inc. / Tokyo
$90.00 - Out of stock
Third 1971 issue of legendary Japanese underground arts periodical, Black Magazine (or Black Notebook), a pioneering platform of the 1970s subculture in Tokyo. A magazine like no-other, each issue "a paradise of 1970's heretical culture", introduces a new wave of illustrators and photographers, radical criticism, avant-garde comics, sadistic literature, poetry, underground film and theatre, and all manner of transgressive, esoteric and erotic material, alongside well-known authors... This third issue, themed "Heaven and Hell", features incredible cover by renowned Japanese doll artist (and female doll actor) Simon Yotsuya, and contributions by ero guro master Toshio Saeki, artist Genpei Akasegawa, art critic Junzo Ishiko, "Funeral Parade of Roses" director Toshio Matsumoto, Butoh dancer Natsu Nakajima, poet and critic Akiko Baba, photographer Masatoshi Naitō, manga artist Ryuzan Aki, literary critic Katsutarō Isogai, illustrator Akechi Goro, writer Masaki Umehara, author Utagawa Taiga, literary critic Nobuo Kasahara, essayist Shinichi Kusamori, critic Hidetomo Kanaoka, illustrator (Flower Travellin' Band) Shinobu Ishimaru, manga artist Shigeru Sugiura, scholar Aoi Suenaga, artist Takahashi Shōtei, illustrator Yosuke Inoue, and many more. A lot of great things started in the pages of this unique magazine. A highly recommended publication!
Good copy, general light wear/age/some creasing to corners, tanning.
1981, German
Softcover, 190 pages, 23 x 17 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Schirmer & Mosel / Munich
$65.00 - Out of stock
First 1981 edition of the photo-book dedicated entirely to legend of the New German Cinema, actress Hanna Schygulla, in the films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Profusely illustrated throughout in colour with film stills spanning Love Is Colder Than Death (1969) to Lili Marleen (1981), with an autobiographical text by Schygulla herself and a contribution by Fassbinder, with whom she collaborated intensively. Over 12 years, Hanna Schygulla appeared in 23 Fassbinder movies. A must for any fan.
Hanna Schygulla (b. 1943) is a German actress and chanson singer. Associated with the prolific young theater and film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, for whom she first worked in 1965, she is an award winning actress who was active in the New German Cinema.
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.