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.
2022, English
Hardcover, 200 pages, 29.5 x 27.5 cm
$95.00 - In stock -
FAMILY: THE SOURCE FAMILY SCRAPBOOK provides an immersive view into the public and private world of the Southern California occult commune The Brotherhood of the Source. This lavishly illustrated book reproduces 200 original scrapbook pages assembled by family historian Isis Aquarian from 1972-1977, documenting the group's dramatic rise and fall, from their time living together in the Hollywood Hills operating their wildly popular Source vegetarian restaurant on the Sunset Strip to their exodus to Hawaii and San Francisco as the group began to unravel. Copious unpublished photographs, newspaper clippings, letters, manifestos, album art and flyers, augmented by descriptive captions by Isis Aquarian, reveal the Source Family's astonishing trajectory, from controversial leader Father Yod's spiritual awakening to the group's wild musical and social experimentations, to the provocations that led to the group's paradise lost. These pages provide a revelatory, firsthand view into the widely misunderstood phenomenon of new religious movements and cults of the 1960s and 70s.
2023, English
Softcover, 224 Pages, 23.5 x 18 cm
Published by
Semiotext(e) / Los Angeles
$39.00 - Out of stock
Edited by Robert Leonard
Foreword by Chris Kraus
Artist, gallerist, and writer Giovanni Intra's inventive approach to art writing provides a guide to the New Zealand and Los Angeles art scenes of his era.
Everything you read about Los Angeles is true. The city adapts to its own mythology. It's such a ludicrously discussed place that I always feel slightly idiotic in my attempts to produce a serious discourse about it. Raves in the desert, however, are superb. And ecstasy is a great drug. Also, if you hadn't heard, music sounds better when you're high. And the desert surrounding LA is wondrous.—Giovanni Intra, "LA Politics"
Before his early death in 2002, Giovanni Intra enjoyed a rollercoaster ride through the art world. He was an artist and gallerist-cofounding two legendary galleries, the artist-run space Teststrip in Auckland and China Art Objects Galleries in Los Angeles-as well as a writer. Clinic of Phantasms provides a guide to the New Zealand and Los Angeles art scenes of the day, including texts on key artists from New Zealand (John Hurrell, Fiona Pardington, Denise Kum, Ava Seymour, Ann Shelton, Gavin Hipkins, Daniel Malone, and Slave Pianos) and Los Angeles (Charles Ray, Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy, Dave Muller, Evan Holloway, John McCracken, and Julia Scher).
What makes Intra's work of enduring significance is his inventive approach to art writing, which was informed by his interest in punk, surrealism, and Daniel Paul Schreber, the famous case study in paranoia and hallucination. This volume features writing on Intra from Chris Kraus and Mark von Schlegell, Andrew Berardini, Roberta Smith, Tessa Laird, Will Bradley, Joel Mesler, and Robert Leonard.
"He emerged the radically elegant punk, whip-crack smart and charming as hell . . . The hilarious honesty and sharp intelligence of Giovanni was to me a breeze, a knife, a wonder."—Andrew Berardini, "Everything You Read About Giovanni Intra is True"
Published by Bouncy Castle and Semiotext(e).
2022, English
Softcover, 312 pages, 11.20 x 19 cm
First edition, 2022 Edition of 666,
Published by
Knowledge Editions / Brighton
$40.00 - In stock -
HELL'S GATES is back: HELL'S GATES REDUX. Like Francis Ford Coppola did with his untouchable 1979 masterpiece Apocalypse Now, in 2001 he added an extra 49 minutes of footage that included entire sequences cut from the original film to show even more insanity of war. HELL'S GATE REDUX collects the first two volumes of the Hell's Gates series: Hell's Gates (2018) and Hell's Gates: Notre Damned, an act of God (2019). This edition publishes both volumes together for the first time, also extra content documenting the decimation of these fraudulent unholy places of depravity and sin.
Published on the occasion to celebrate ten years of Knowledge Editions publishing and Printed Matter's New York Art Book Fair 2022 at 548 W 22nd St.
Knowledge Editions Book 36, designed by Tim Coghlan.
First edition, 2022 Edition of 666
1989, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 174 pages, 19 x 26 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
University of Missouri Press / Missouri
$520.00 - In stock -
First, only edition of the best and still the most comprehensive book published on pioneering feminist performance/body artist Hannah Wilke, this wonderful monograph was published in 1989 to accompany the exhibition 'Hannah Wilke : A Retrospective' at the University of Missouri, St. Louis, the first and only survey of the influential American artist’s work during her lifetime. Now very collectible, this lovely landscape hardcover volume collects all of Wilke's major bodies of work, heavily illustrated in colour and b/w and chaptered by central themes, alongside Wilke's own writings and an essay by Joanna Frueh. A stunning, intimate and enlightening book that feels almost more like an artist's book than a monograph. Highly recommended.
Hannah Wilke (1940 — 1993) was an American painter, sculptor, photographer, video artist and performance artist. Wilke's work is known for exploring issues of feminism, sexuality and femininity. Wilke first gained renown with her "vulval" terra-cotta sculptures in the 1960s, often mentioned as some of the first explicit vaginal imagery arising from the women's liberation movement. In 1974, Wilke began work on her photographic body art piece S.O.S — Starification Object Series, in which she merged her minimalist sculpture and her own body by creating tiny vulval sculptures out of chewing gum and sticking them to herself — for Wilke chewing gum was "the perfect metaphor for the American women — chew her up, get what you want out of her, throw her out and pop in a new piece.″ She performed live and created videotapes and photography in the early 1970s, often posing as a glamour model or pin-up, wresting the means of production of the female image from male hands and into her own. Her use of the body in her artistic practices was considered controversial by some feminist critics, sighting her beauty as impediment to understanding her work. This changed in the early 1990s when Wilke began documenting the decay of her body ravaged by lymphoma in her last work, Intra-Venus (1992–1993), mirroring her photo diptych Portrait of the Artist with Her Mother, Selma Butter, 1978–82, which portrayed her mother's struggles with cancer. Intra-Venus was exhibited and published posthumously partially in response to Wilke's feelings that clinical procedures hide patients as if dying was a "personal shame." Wilke once answered the critics who commented on her body being too beautiful for her work by saying "People give me this bullshit of, 'What would you have done if you weren't so gorgeous?' What difference does it make? ... Gorgeous people die as do the stereotypical 'ugly.' Everybody dies." During her lifetime, Wilke was widely exhibited, and although controversial, received critical praise. However, until recently, museums were hesitant to acquire work by women artists who, including Wilke, engaged in protests decrying their lack of inclusion during the feminist movement of the 1970s. Wilke's work, with its confrontational use of female sexuality and the fact that it does not fit into a distinct genre or style, was in very few permanent collections when she was alive. Today, however, when theoretical and artistic strategies have changed and when art is increasingly cognizant of social context, Wilke's work has found rightful place among the most important artwork of the past forty years.
Very Good copy in VG dust jacket (preserved in mylar jacket).
1990, Japanese / French / English
2 volumes in cardboard slipcase (w. adhered Man Ray "stamp"); volume 1 68 pages (colour ill.) volume 2 196 pages (b/w ill.), 22.5 x 29.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Sezon Museum of Art / Tokyo
$120.00 - Out of stock
Wonderful, visually exhaustive two-volume boxset catalogue for the traveling exhibition held on the centenary of Man Ray's birth in Japan in 1990-1991.
Each volume of this Japanese publication on the American artist Man Ray serves as a wonderful index of his incredible lifetime of work. Born Emmanuel Radnitzky in 1890 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Man Ray was a renowned representative of avant-garde photography in the 20th century and is considered as the pioneer of Surrealist photography. A major contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal, Man Ray produced major works in a variety of media including drawings, objects and films, but considered himself a painter above all. Volume One compiles many examples of his diverse non-photographic works, reproducing his many paintings, drawings, objects, prints and book editions in full colour. Volume Two (the heavier of the two volumes) focuses on his prolific photographic work, copiously illustrated with a huge catalogue of beautifully reproduced monochromatic works throughout his entire career -- Paris, America, Dada, Surrealism and beyond -- showcasing his significant contribution to the evaluation of photography as a form of modern art.
Accompanying texts by Merry Foresta, Lucien Treillard, Toshiharu Ito in Japanese, French and English. Primarily in Japanese language. Includes full biography, bibliography and catalogue of all works.
Good-Very Good copy. Tanning to slipcase, light wear to cover otherwise Very Good in general.
?, French / Japanese
Hardcover, 48 pages (all heavy board), 18.5 x 10.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
? / Japan
$100.00 - In stock -
First and only edition of the one-of-a-kind Japanese Jean-Luc Godard "MADE IN U.S.A." film book. This photo souvenir book is printed on thick board pages and made up of full-colour stills from Godard's 1966 classic "MADE IN U.S.A.", starring Anna Karina, Jean-Pierre Léaud, László Szabó, Yves Afonso, and Marianne Faithfull. Includes text/dialogue fragments throughout in French; profiles on the actors, Godard, cinematographer Raoul Coutard, producer Georges de Beauregard; lyrics to Marianne Faithfull's featured "As Tears Go By"; comic strip; and other texts in Japanese and French.
A very special collectable Godard book.
"With its giddily complex noir plot and color-drenched widescreen images, Made in U.S.A was a final burst of exuberance from Jean-Luc Godard’s early sixties barrage of delirious movie-movies. Yet this chaotic crime thriller and acidly funny critique of consumerism—starring Anna Karina as the most brightly dressed private investigator in film history, searching for a former lover who might have been assassinated—also points toward the more political cinema that would come to define Godard. Featuring characters with names such as Richard Nixon, Robert McNamara, David Goodis, and Doris Mizoguchi, and appearances by a slapstick Jean-Pierre Léaud and a sweetly singing Marianne Faithfull, this piece of pop art is like a Looney Tunes rendition of The Big Sleep gone New Wave."
Very Good copy with some faint foxing/dustiness to pages.
2010, English
Softcover, 207 pages, 21 x 14.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by
Western Sydney University / WA
$70.00 $40.00 - Out of stock
Conceptual Beauty is a collection of essays that are in some way representative of a particular moment in contemporary Australian art: a moment marked by the enduring belief in the social power of art but also by cognizance of the largely illusory nature of individual agency; a moment energised by the lively debates of post-structuralist theory and the politics of representation (in particular feminist perspectives), but one also marked by a sense of loss, namely the loss of the aesthetic dimension of art in the wake of conceptualism. Many of the essays are about works that seek to connect art with wider social and political questions in full awareness of its limitations; works that grapple with the apparent dichotomy between critical idea and beautiful object; works that are drawn equally to conceptual approaches that engage in meta-analysis of language and institutions - including the figure of the artist him/herself - and to the well-crafted piece, the affectively joyful. Conceptual Beauty includes essays on the work of Robyn Backen, Barbara Campbell, Maria Cruz, Anne Ferran, Adam Geczy, Bronia Iwanczak, Vanila Netto, David Noonan, Mike Parr, Sue Pedley, Patricia Piccinini, Ben Quilty, Julie Rrap, Robyn Stacey, Monika Tichacek and Ruth Watson amongst others.
As New copy with some light tanning.
1994, Japanese / English
Hardcover, 92 pages, 19.3 x 13.4 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Nippon Geijutsu Shuppan (NGS) / Japan
$380.00 - Out of stock
Very rare 1994 hardcover volume of nude photography by French photographer Jacques Bourboulon from Japanese imprint Nippon Geijutsu Shuppan (NGS). Cover to cover glossy collection of Bourboulon's colour-saturated photography spanning many years, capturing the beauty of his young amateur models in nature. Printed in Japan. First edition, never re-printed.
Jacques Bourboulon (b. 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 through the 1970s—1980s, 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. Bourboulon's pictures were shot with a Pentax camera and focus on bright light and sharp contrasts, playing on the sun-kissed colours of his natural environment. 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.
1980, French
Hardcover, 110 pages, 20 x 27.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Editions Filipacchi / Paris
$400.00 - Out of stock
First edition of the collectable cult classic "Des corps naturels" photo book by French photographer Jacques Bourboulon, first published in 1980 by Filipacchi, Paris. A collection of Bourboulon's nude photography alongside a collection of sonnets by French singer Serge Gainsbourg. 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, nature and simplicity of the island life 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 switched to nude photography. Bourboulon's pictures were shot with a Pentax camera and focus on bright light and sharp contrasts. His most typical pictures portray girls and women on the Spanish island of Ibiza, playing on the juxtaposition of blue sky, white walls, and sun-tanned skin. His images become iconic through the pages of PHOTO magazine, CLub, High Society, Playmen and calendars for Pentax and BASF. Bourboulon's photography books sold over 400,000 copies.
Very Good copy in good dustjacket.
1984, French
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 86 pages, 31 x 25 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Carrere / Paris
$500.00 - Out of stock
The very collectable cult photo book "Attitudes" by French photographer Jacques Bourboulon, first published in 1984 by Carrere, Paris. An iconic colour-saturated collection of Bourboulon's photographs capturing the beauty of his young amateur models in nature. 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 with good dustjacket.
1982, French
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 86 pages, 31 x 25 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Contrejour / Paris
Kactus / Paris
$650.00 - In stock -
The very rare and collectable cult photo book "Coquines" by French photographer Jacques Bourboulon, this first edition published in 1982 by Contrejour and Kactus, Paris. An iconic colour-saturated collection of Bourboulon's photographs capturing the beauty of his young amateur models in nature. 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 (b. 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 through the 1970s—1980s, 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. Bourboulon's pictures were shot with a Pentax camera and focus on bright light and sharp contrasts, playing on the sun-kissed colours of his natural environment. 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 in Good dust jacket with closed tears. Some small tape residue on some pages throughout.
1972, Japanese
Softcover, 34 pages, 20 x 21.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Hanashi-no-Tokushu / Tokyo
$140.00 - In stock -
First edition of Japanese photographer Yoshihiro Tachiki's photo book "Erotica Larotica", published in 1972. This book is one of the early masterpieces of Tatsuki — a unique collaboration between the Austrian painter Dina Larot (b. Maria Elisabeth Lebzelten in 1942), a student of Kokoschka best-known for her paintings and drawings of "women" in Austria, and photographer Yoshihiro Tatsuki, best known for his photography of "women" in Japan. It consists of playful portraits and nudes of Lalo herself and her friends lavishly dressed and undressed photographed by Tachiki in Vienna, paired with SM-lesbian erotic drawings and paintings by Larot throughout, plus a few photographs from a Crazy Horse show in Paris in the mix.
Tatsuki was born into a family that operated an photographic portrait studio. While at Tokyo junior College of Photography, he exhibited photographs of his family at the Fuji Photo Salon. After graduation, he began working as a photographer at Ad Center under the art direction of graphic designer Seiichi Horiuchi. Tatsuki’s name entered the limelight when he was just 26 years old with the publication of "A Fallen Angel", an astonishing 56 pages feature of his photographs shots for Camera Mainichi. Since starting as a freelance photographer in 1969, he has worked on the front lines of the advertising, magazine, publishing, and motion picture industries. He has published a number of celebrated photo books on female subjects and is best-known for works such as GIRL, EVES, Private (Mariko Kaga), Aoi Toki, My America, and Portrait of Family.
Very Good copy with publisher's obi-strip and dust-jacket. Light cover wear and pinch to spine, one page with crease to top corner.
1993, Japanese
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 194 pages,14 x 20 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Fusosha / Tokyo
$120.00 - In stock -
Scarce, first edition of this wonderful 1992 Araki photo album. "For this photographic record, Araki uses the art name Shakyojin (or photo-maniac) in imitation of Gakyojin (obsessive, or maniac, artist), used by the ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai."- Kotaro Iizawa. From cover to cover this book is entirely comprised of Araki's photographs taken in the year 1992, presented chronologically and in rich colour. It begins and ends with portraits of Araki's beloved cat Chiro, and filled with an abundance of Araki's favourite subjects - women, nudes, flowers, still-lifes, Japanese city details and more Chiro. Filmmaker Jim Jarmusch even makes an appearance. A lovely collection.
Very Good copy in Good dust jacket. Few fox spots to blank end papers.
2016, English / Dutch
Softcover (staple-bound with acetate cover), 40 pages, 23 x 30 cm
Ed. of 250,
Published by
Kunstverein / Amsterdam
$34.00 - Out of stock
Hans de Vries concentrated on the study and registration of processes and appearances that occur in and are created by nature. De Vries was a close observer, an onlooker, an eyewitness, whose aim was to discern and document the relationship between man and his natural environment. His practice has been referred to as “micro-emotive art”, a term coined by the Italian artist Piero Gilardi. ‘Hans de Vries Works 1968–1975’ is De Vries’s first exhibition since he stopped producing art at end of the 1970s. It is a retrospective of all the publications and book-related works including parallel articles and essays about his practice.
1976, German
Softcover, 96 pages, 19 x14 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Walther König / Köln
Edition Lebeer Hossmann / Brüssels
$40.00 - Out of stock
First edition of this rare collection of the photographs of Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte (1898—1967). German language edition issued by Walther Koenig in Cologne and Edition Lebeer Hossmann in Brüssels, on the occasion of the traveling exhibition La fidélité des images — René Magritte: Cinématograph et photographie. With 111 photos and film images by Rene Magritte.
René François Ghislain Magritte (1898—1967) was a Belgian surrealist artist known for his depictions of familiar objects in unfamiliar, unexpected contexts, which often provoked questions about the nature and boundaries of reality and representation. His imagery has influenced pop art, minimalist art, and conceptual art.
Good copy with some marking and tanning to covers.
1980, English / Hebrew
Hardcover, 86 pages, 24 x 22 cm
1st UK Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
The Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora / Tel-Aviv
$35.00 - Out of stock
Scarce first hardcover edition of the catalogue "Kafka—Prague", published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Beth Hatefutsoth, The Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, Tel-Aviv, in 1980. The "Kafka-Prague" exhibition is the first of its kind at Beth Hatefutsoth. It tells the story of an exceptional writer who made an unforgettable contribution to world literature. Kafka's story is recounted against the background of his birthplace —the city of Prague — a meeting point for eastern and western cultures. This is a city where ancient Jewish communities flourished in a ferment of intellectual achievement; a city that produced Jewish thinkers and creators who made an indelible impression on the twentieth century. This exhibition was prepared and compiled for Beth Hatefutsoth by the photographer, Jan Parik. it comprises documentary material on the life of Franz Kafka, collected from various sources by Parik, as well as exceptional photographs of Prague which he took himself. Parik's camera captures the landscape that surrounded Kafka, and offers the visitor a glimpse of the unique atmosphere of Prague through its churches and towers, bridges and alleys, as well as through the endless corridors of the office buildings. All texts in both English and Hebrew.
Very Good copy.
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.
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
? / ?
$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.
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.