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.
1977, English
Softcover (silver foil cover w. original plastic sleeve), 94 pages, 20.3 x 26.9 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
E P Dutton / New York
$150.00 - Out of stock
A now sought-after piece of published history, "Hard Corps : Studies in Leather and Sadomasochism", was published in 1977. This famous photographic book takes a personal look inside the world of SM in the 1970s, with thoughtful and revealing texts by Michael Grumley that follow the encounters and stories of SMs many varied practitioners, alongside the photography of Ed Gallucci (who shot for the hugely influential US Rock magazine Crawdaddy!, as well as Rolling Stone, Penthouse, Esquire and Playboy).
First edition copy in it's printed foil cover in plastic sleeve. Very Good copy - light wear to sleeve from age.
1971, German
Softcover, 464 pages, 29.7 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
DuMont / Köln
$85.00 - Out of stock
Huge, densely-illustrated volume compiled by German publisher/editor/essayist/curator Walter Aue, who worked closely with conceptual and performance artists in the 1960s-1970s. Laid-out by Aue himself, the book feels like a very natural scrap-book compendium of artist contributions, reproducing artworks, documentation of happenings, texts, photographs, diagrams, collages, news-clippings, instructions, etc. across over 450 pages, with Aue's type-written opening essay and cataloguing throughout. Features the most notable conceptual, actionist and performance artists of the period, spanning Fluxus, Arte Povera, radical architecture, Nouveau Realisme, etc. including Dieter Rot, Joseph Beuys, Robert Smithson, Pino Pascali, Stanley Brouwn, Jannis Kounellis, Klaus Rinke, Ben Vautier, Al Hansen, Walter Pichler, Hilla and Bernhard Becher, Giuseppe Penone, Ettore Sottsass, Gilbert and George, Walter De Maria, Wolf Vostell, Hans Hollein, Imi Knoebel, Barry Flanagan, Allan Kaprow, Carolee Schneemann, Hamish Fulton, Christo, Elfriede Jelinek, Dennis Oppenheim, Urs Lüthi, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Rühm, Blink Palermo, Lawrence Weiner, Ed Ruscha, HA Schult, Hermann Nitsch, James Lee Byars, Jan Dibbets, Jochen Gerz, Mauricio Kagel, Nam June Paik, Otto Mühl, Arnulf Rainer, Jan Voss, George Brecht, Robert Filliou, Franz Erhard Walther, Timm Ulrichs, Daniel Spoerri, Erich Reusch, Paul Pechter, Rainer Giese, Jörg Immendorff, Henning Christiansen, Gilberto Zorio, Panamarenko, Joseph Kosuth, Dan Graham, Dick Higgins, Ian Baxter, Mel Bochner, Haus-Rucker-Co, Markus Raetz, Sottsass, Nam June Paik, Hans Haacke, Tetsumi Kudo, Bruce Mclean, On Kawara, and so many more.
Depending on the artist, texts are in English, German, Dutch, etc. Opening essay in German.
Very Good, light wear/tear to top spine.
1979, French
Softcover, 192 pages, 20.5 x 15 cm
Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Editions PAC / Paris
$90.00 - Out of stock
One of the earliest and scarcest books dedicated to the great French actress and singer, Jane Birkin. Written by Jean-Philippe Thomann and published in 1979, this heavily illustrated volume forms an early biography of her personal life and an important document capturing her diverse and challenging career as actress (working with Alain Resnais, Agnès Varda, Jean-Luc Godard, Michelangelo Antonioni, Jacques Doillon, Serge Gainsbourg, Jacques Rivette, to name a few), model, singer, and her work in theatre. Photographs, film stills, magazine covers, film posters and record jackets are accompanied by hand-written notes by Birkin, a filmography, discography and much more.
Very good copy with light wear and light peeling to cover laminate. Crisp copy throughout.
1983, French
Hardcover, 84 pages, 27 x 25 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Contrejour / Paris
$100.00 - Out of stock
First edition of French photographer Claude Nori's classic self-titled 1983 monograph, published by Contrejour. Beautiful hardcover edition illustrated throughout with Nori's atmospheric photos that "bear the imprint of a fascinated, passionate observer and storyteller. Claude Nori succeeds masterfully in capturing that mixture of Mediterranean lifestyle and carefree holiday spirit that awakens memories and longings in us all."
Born in 1949 in Toulouse to parents who emigrated from Italy, Claude Nori discovered photography during the May ’68 events at a time when he thought he would become a director.
In 1974, he left Toulouse for Paris and there established Contrejour: a newspaper, an editing house, and a gallery in Montparnasse. It quickly became the spot for meetings and promotion of new forms of photography. Contrejour has been publishing artist’s books by photographers such as: Luigi Ghirri, Guy le Querrec, Bernard Plossu, Sebastiao Salgado, Pierre and Gilles, Edouard Boubat, Robert Doisneau, and Willy Ronis.
In 1984, he co-founded the magazine Camera International. He is a Mediterranean photographer, par excellence. He’s given us many books, among them Vacances a l’Italienne (“Italian Holidays”) and Stromboli.
2018, English
Hardcover, 176 pages, 23 x 28 cm
Ed. of 1000,
Published by
Sturm & Drang / Zürich
$110.00 - Out of stock
Inspired by his travels and short trips along the Italian coastline with fellow photographer Luigi Ghirri in the late 1970's, French photographer Claude Nori decided in 1982 to record images around Italian beaches. He was interested in capturing the annual rituals of this uniquely Mediterranean passage of time. An atmosphere of joyful beach games, first kisses, swimming and the joyful exuberance of youthful cliques seeking to experience everything life has to offer in those short few weeks during summer.
"Mothers begged me to take photos of their daughters, who asked me in turn to shoot a portrait of their boyfriends to whom they dedicated their beauty to. I imagined love stories between boys and girls who just wanted to be filmed and photographed together, between fiction and reality, lovers for a day or a summer."
Captured mostly in rich black and white images and some colorful splashes of yellow walls, red italian cars and green bikinis these atmospheric photos bear the imprint of a fascinated, passionate observer and stroyteller. Claude Nori succeeds masterfully in capturing that mixture of Mediterranean lifestyle and carefree holiday spirit that awakens memories and longings in us all. You can almost hear the jukebox hits of yesteryear in your head and smell the peculiar mix of sunscreen and the salty air.
Born in 1949 in Toulouse to parents who emigrated from Italy, Claude Nori discovered photography during the May ’68 events at a time when he thought he would become a director.
In 1974, he left Toulouse for Paris and there established Contrejour: a newspaper, an editing house, and a gallery in Montparnasse. It quickly became the spot for meetings and promotion of new forms of photography. Contrejour has been publishing artist’s books by photographers such as: Luigi Ghirri, Guy le Querrec, Bernard Plossu, Sebastiao Salgado, Pierre and Gilles, Edouard Boubat, Robert Doisneau, and Willy Ronis.
In 1984, he co-founded the magazine Camera International. He is a Mediterranean photographer, par excellence. He’s given us many books, among them Vacances a l’Italienne (“Italian Holidays”) and Stromboli.
2019, English
Softcover (hand-finished, staple-bound), 30 pages, 17 x 12.5 cm
Ed. of 280 copies,
Published by
EVA.C / London
$36.00 - Out of stock
Comprised of amateur S&M images from a single series produced by an anonymous photographer, Kane is the first book to be published by EVA.C, a London-based imprint run by Emma Capps and Anna Howard. Little else is known about the images, but each is marked with handwritten text which simply reads 'Kane'.
Beautifully printed in a limited run of only 280 hand-bound copies, discreetly wrapped in raw foiled card covers housed within tinted glassine paper sleeves.
2019, English
Softcover,
Ed. of 500,
Published by
Periodico / Zürich
$30.00 - In stock -
PERIODICO #3
Periodico is an independent magazine from Zürich, edited by Marc Asekhame and Teo Schifferli.
ISSUE 003 12 18
In this issue of Periodico, Mitchell Anderson looks at a history of Cindy Crawford Pepsi ads, 67 Anna-Sophie Berger reviews Norm Macdonald’s Net flix special, Anna Khachiyan considers Playboy’s backflip on nudity and Daniel Horn discusses New Models. Also featured is Kaspar Müller’s 2018 advertisement for the Swiss drop manufacturer Ricola and a suite of photographs of a work by the artist, commissioned for archival documentation in 2011. A comic strip by Bernhard Hegglin recounts a dream had on May 25th, 2018. With Chantal Kirby and Matthew Linde, Periodico produced a photoshoot of the Paul Poiret replica dresses featured in Linde’s curatorial project Passageways, recently shown at Kunsthalle Bern; as well as a series of scenographic images from the exhibition 陰府 (Shady Mansion) by Amy Lien and Enzo Camacho, recently shown at Kunstverein Freiburg.
Published in an edition 500 copies.
1989, English
Softcover (french-folds), 160 pages, 34 x 25 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Terrazzo / Milan
$100.00 - Out of stock
TERRAZZO was a very special biannual publication on architecture and design, edited and published between 1988–1995 by Barbara Radice, a prominent Italian author, design critic and member of the Memphis Milano design group. In conjunction with Ettore Sottsass, Christoph Radl, Anna Wagner and Santi Caleca, Radice created a unique and thoughtful periodical that focused on contemporary works of design and architecture, within Italy and abroad, touching on a vast array of disciplines in each issue, including photography, literature, poetry, history, science, philosophy, art and anthropology.
TERRAZZO 2
Spring 1989
ANDREA BRANZI
Architecture in shadow
FRANK GEHRY
Detailing by Frank Gehry
photographs by Santi Caleca
PAUL LUBOWICKI SUSAN LANIER projects
FRANCESCO CLEMENTE
on architecture
ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE
glass
DESIGN FOR HEROES
TRAVEL NOTES
by Ettore Sottsass
on light
photographs by Ettore Sottsass
GREEK TEMPLES: THE POLYCHROMY
by Joseph Rykwert
FRAN LEBOWITZ ON ARCHITECTS
interview
PLANS (No. 2)
Islamic, the Middle Ages
1989, English
Softcover (french-folds), 34 x 25 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Terrazzo / Milan
$100.00 - Out of stock
TERRAZZO was a very special biannual publication on architecture and design, edited and published between 1988–1995 by Barbara Radice, a prominent Italian author, design critic and member of the Memphis Milano design group. In conjunction with Ettore Sottsass, Christoph Radl, Anna Wagner and Santi Caleca, Radice created a unique and thoughtful periodical that focused on contemporary works of design and architecture, within Italy and abroad, touching on a vast array of disciplines in each issue, including photography, literature, poetry, history, science, philosophy, art and anthropology.
TERRAZZO 3
Fall 1989
DAN FLAVIN
ETIENNE LOUIS BOULLEE
Homage to Etienne Louis Boullée
by Aldo Rossi
A Newton by Etienne Louis Boullée
ALDO ROSSI
Excerpts from A Scientific Autobiography
by Aldo Rossi
The face of architecture by Ettore Sottsass
photogaphs by Santi Caleca
SHIRO KURAMATA
Purple shadows
by Andrea Branzi
photographs by Kishin Shinoyama
ROBERTO BALDAZZINI LORENA CANOSSA
interiors
TRAVEL NOTES
Ettore Sottsass
on walls
photographs by Ettore Sottsass
INTERACTIVE DESIGN
by Francesco Carla
on the design of video games
BEAUTY
by Herbert Muschamp
PLANS (No. 3)
Renaissance, Palladio essay by Marco Frascari
1964, German
Hardcover, 80 pages, 30 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Fravex / Kiel
$50.00 - Out of stock
1964 first edition of this short-lived annual German hardcover book on human figure photography. Almost entirely made up of full-bleed black and white photography of female nude models in naturalist and studio settings, at times revealing the continued influence of Bauhaus' Neue Optik movement, with work by Andre de Dienes (who became famous as the first photographer of Marilyn Monroe), Lilo Gwosdz, Gerhard Vetter, Lussa Vince, Fritz Meisnitzer, and many more. Beautiful book.
Good-Very Good copy (small knocks to cover edge)
2015, English / French
Softcover, 306 pages, 115 x 175mm
Published by
Sequence Press / New York
Urbanomic / Cornwall
$49.00 - Out of stock
If philosophy has always understood itself and its World according to the model of the photograph, then how can there be a "philosophy of photography" that is not viciously self-reflexive? By thinking the photograph "non-philosophically", Laruelle discovers an essence of photography that precedes its historical, technological and aesthetic conditions. Challenging the customary assumptions made by any "theory of photography" that leaves its own "onto-photo-logical" conditions uninterrogated, and utilizing the concept of a "generalized fractality" to interrogate artistic creation, The Concept of Non-Photography exposes a rigorous new thinking of the photograph in its relation to philosophy, science and art.
Bilingual (English/French) edition. Translation by Robin Mackay.
François Laruelle, Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris West Nanterre La Défence, is the founder of ‘non-philosophy’ and the author of around twenty works, including Une biographie de l’homme ordinaire, Principes de la non-philosophie, Le Christ futur: Une leçon d’hérésie, and Philosophie non-standard.
Contents
Preface
What is Seen in a Photo?
The Philosopher as Self-Portrait of the Photographer; Towards an Abstract or Non-Figurative Theory of Photography; The Photographic Stance and Vision-force; Universal Photographic Fiction
A Science of Photography
The Continent of Flat Thoughts; A Science of Photography; What Can a Photo Do?; The Identity-Photo; The Spontaneous Philosophy of Photography; The Photographic Mode of Existence; The Being-Photo of the Photo; Photographic Realism; Problems of Method: Art and Art Theory. Invention and Discovery; On the Photo as Visual Algorithm; On Photography as Generalised Fractality; On the Spontaneous Philosophy of Artists and its Theoretical Use; The Photographic Stance and its Technological Conditions of Insertion into the World; Being-in-photo and the Automaticity of Thought: the Essence of Photographic Manifestation; The Power-of-Semblance and the Effect of Resemblance; A Priori Photographic Intuition
A Philosophy of Creation
The Grain of the Walls; Ethic of the American Creator as Fractal Artist; The Fractal Self and its Signature: A New Alchemical Synthesis;The Concept of 'Irregularity-force'; The Fractal Play of the World. Synthesis of Modern and Postmodern; Towards a Non-Philosophical Aesthetics
2018, English
Hardcover, 112 pages, 20 x 25.5 cm
Published by
MoMA / New York
$59.00 - Out of stock
Bogdan Bogdanović (1922-2010) was a Yugoslav architect, theorist, professor and a one-time mayor of Belgrade. His idiosyncratic memorials to the victims and heroes of World War II, scattered around the former Yugoslavia, continue to attract attention today, more than 25 years after the country's collapse. The monuments, cemeteries, mausoleums, memorial parks, necropolises, cenotaphs and other sites of memory Bogdanovic designed between the early 1950s and late 1970s occupy a unique place in the history of modern architecture, redrawing the boundaries between architecture, landscape and sculpture in varied and unexpected ways.
This book presents Bogdanovic's built oeuvre through his own eyes, in a selection of nearly 50 colour photographs of his memorials, which the architect took soon after the completion of each project. Carefully staged and taken with professional medium-format cameras, these photos, many of them previously unpublished, are in themselves works of art that bespeak their author's surrealist sensibility.
The publication includes an introduction by the architectural historian Vladimir Kulic, a preface by curator Martino Stierli and a selection of Bogdanovic's own thoughts on photography, excerpted from an unpublished interview that Kulic conducted in 2005.
2006, English
Softcover (gold foil with white slipcase), 48 pages, 15.3 x 23 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Cone Denim / New York
$70.00 - Out of stock
Now out-of-print publication produced on the occasion of New York artist/fashion designer Susan Cianciolo's show "Woman of the Crowd" at New York's Sears-Peyton Gallery and LACE in Los Angeles, 2006.
"Artist/fashion designer Susan Cianciolo's show "Woman of the Crowd" centered around a collaboration with Cone Denim (the oldest denim company in the U.S.). Past collections have involved Susan's handmade books, music, photography, movies, and clothing. Her unconventional approach to fashion is a mix of delicate detail, hand sewing, embroidery and projects with various photographers, musicians and film makers. For this show artist/photographer Mark Borthwick, and writer/researcher/curator Patricia Mears, and art directors Takaya Goto and Lesley Chi of Goto Design are some of the people working with Susan. Additionally, she will be showing a line of clothing made out of denim."
This gorgeous, now out-of-print book documents these exhibition projects, collaborations and garments through photography and texts.
Please note: these are the last copies available, and include the white slipcase. These copies are new, but have general wear and tear to the covers. The book pages are clean and tight within.
1979, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 188 pages, 28 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
St. Martin's Press / New York
$180.00 - Out of stock
Incredibly rare hardcover edition of the first (only) printing of cult photobook "High School U.S.A.", Jim Richardson's intimate 1979 portrait of American adolescence at Rossville High in Rossville, Kansas.
For three years in the late 1970's, Richardson photographed and documented the life of these high school teenagers, coming back every year to vicariously live through all of the life-altering events that high school presents to these young adults. Richardson's photographs of students, teachers, and coaches at Rossville High School in Rossville, Kansas, combined with the students' own words, capture the high school experience from football season to graduation and through identity struggles and romantic involvements that files perfectly alongside Joseph Szabo's great "Almost Grown".
Very Good copy with Very Good dust jacket. Light edge/corner wear, now protected under plastic wrap.
2013, English
Hardback, 256 pages, 29 x 25.5cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by
Hardie Grant Books
State Library of Victoria / Melbourne
$60.00 - Out of stock
Now out of print, Decade 1970-1980 highlights Ellis as one of Australia’s most important chroniclers of 1970s Australia. The photographs, predominantly black and white, are drawn from a core selection originally made by Rennie, from his own unpublished book, and supplemented by other significant and iconic images from the Rennie Ellis Photographic Archive and the State Library of Victoria’s collection. Many of the photographs are accompanied by extended captions written by Rennie Ellis and are published for the first time!
A social documenter and flâneur, Ellis used his camera as a passport to navigate new experiences, resulting in a culturally important and vast body of work. Decade explores the cultures and sub-cultures of the seventies: the political upheavals, alternative lifestyles and counter culture, the women’s movement, gay liberation, the new religions and cults, pop festivals, the Vietnam and other protests, massage parlours, the disco scene, the blossoming of Australia’s film industry, the new sexual freedom, Aboriginal rights, street festivals, the new theatre, fashion, drugs and the emergence of a decadent and hedonistic society that would later characterise the Eighties.
Edited by multi-award winning photographer, Stephen Dupont, with essays by Manuela Furci, Director of the Rennie Ellis Photographic Archive, Paul Cox, Film maker and Photographer and Susan Van Wyk, Senior Curator of Photography at the National Gallery of Victoria.
No other photographer has documented Australian society in such depth and with such insight into the human condition as Rennie Ellis. Active from the 1970s until his death in 2003, Rennie Ellis' non-judgmental approach was his 'access-to-all-areas' pass. Ellis used his camera as a key to open the doors to the social arenas of the rich and famous and to enter the underbelly of the nightclubs, bearing witness to the indulgences and excesses. In today's post-Henson era, these captured moments offer an intimate access to an Australia tantalisingly, but sadly, now almost out of reach.
As new copy.
2014, English
Hardcover, 252 pages, 29 x 25.5cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by
Hardie Grant Books
State Library of Victoria / Melbourne
State Library of Victoria
$60.00 - Out of stock
With an introduction by photographer and Rennie contemporary William Yang and an essay by photographer and art critic Robert McFarlane, Decadent highlights Ellis as one of Australia's most important chroniclers of the 1980s. A beautiful limited edition hard cover lavishly illustrated with near 150 photographs, both colour and black and white, that are drawn from the Rennie Ellis Photographic Archive and the State Library of Victoria Rennie Ellis collection. Decadent explores the rise of the hedonism that we now associate with the 1980s. Ellis' boundary-pushing, racy and sometimes voyeuristic works capture a society that seems to be revelling in its abandonment of the politically charged 1970s documented in Decade.
No other photographer has documented Australian society in such depth and with such insight into the human condition as Rennie Ellis. Active from the 1970s until his death in 2003, Rennie Ellis' non-judgmental approach was his 'access-to-all-areas' pass. Ellis used his camera as a key to open the doors to the social arenas of the rich and famous and to enter the underbelly of the nightclubs, bearing witness to the indulgences and excesses. In today's post-Henson era, these captured moments offer an intimate access to an Australia tantalisingly, but sadly, now almost out of reach.
As new copy.
1976, German
Softcover, 120 pages, 29.5 x 21 cm
Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Verlag Dieter Fricke / Frankfurt
$55.00 - Out of stock
Barry Kay's wonderful "Die Anderen Frauen" (The Other Women) photo book from 1976. Intimate black and white documentary portrait collection of Australian transgender women in Sydney (and Melbourne) in the mid 1970's. Melbourne-born Barry Kay (1932-1985), was a highly acclaimed stage and costume designer of international renown, who later in his career also made a name for himself as a distinguished photographer.
From the cover : "In this book Barry Kay documents Australian transvestism, female impersonation and Sydney's unique transsexual community. His photographs were made during visits to Australia in 1974 and 1975"
Very Good copy. German edition, published by Verlag Dieter Fricke, Frankfurt.
1968, German
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 370 pages, 22 x 22 cm
Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Württembergischer Kunstverein / Stuttgart
$120.00 - Out of stock
The amazing Bauhaus book, published in 1968 and designed and typeset to abolish all Upper Case letters by Herbert Bayer (one of the most influential members of the Bauhaus) for the first major Bauhaus survey exhibition after the Second World War, curated by Prof. Ludwig Grote, dr. Dieter Honisch, Herbert Bayer and Hans Maria Wingler, at Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart.
This is the hard cover edition of what is without a doubt one of the most comprehensive and characteristic Bauhaus reference books ever published.
370 pages (with multiple paper stocks) contain no less than 650 colour and black and white illustrations selected from the Bauhaus Archiv, documenting the output of the Bauhaus from Weimar to Dessau to Berlin. This heavy, exhaustive volume is split into the following sections : preliminary course and teaching (includes Iteen, Moholy-Nagy, Albers, Schlemmer, Hirschfield-Mack, Klee and Schmidt); workshops (includes Teaching on Architecture, Sculpture, Stage, Stained Glass, Photography, Metal, Carpentry, Pottery, Typography, Mural Painting and Weaving); architecture and design (includes Gropius, Hannes Meyer, Mies van der Rohe, Hilberseimer, Brenner, Heiberg, A. Mayer, Stam Wittwer, Arndt, Bayer and Breuer); painting, sculpture, graphics (includes Josef Albers, Arndt, Bayer, Feininger, Itten, Kandinsky, Klee, Marcks, Moholy-Nagy, Muche, Schlemmer, Wols, etc.); life at the bauhaus; continuation of the teaching; biographies; bibliographies; index.
Includes introductory essays by Ludwig Grote, Walter Gropius, Heinz Winfried Sabais, Otto Stelzer, Hans Eckstein, Nikolaus Pevsner, Jurgen Joedicke, Will Grohmann and Hans M. Wingler.
Artists included: Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, Gunta Stolzl, Joost Schmidt, Oskar Schlemmer, Walter Peterhans, Georg Muche, Lilly Reich, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Hannes Meyer, Gerhard Marcks, Johannes Itten, Ludwig Hilberseimer, Max Bill, Wassily Kandinsky, Lyonel Feininger, Alfred Arndt, Josef Albers, Marianne Brandt, Herbert Bayer, Paul Klee, Josef Hartwig, Wilhelm Wagenfeld, Christian Dell, Otto Lindig, Theodor Bogler, Wols, and so many others.
Includes references to all aspects of the Bauhaus, including: Itten's Preliminary Course, Klee's Course, Kandinsky's Course, Color Experiments, Carpentry Workshop, Stained Glass Workshop, Pottery Workshop, Metal Workshop, Weaving Workshop, Stage Workshop, Wall Painting Workshop, Display Design, Architecture, Typography and Layout; the Bauhaus Press, the Weimar Exhibition, 1923, Moholy-Nagy's Preliminary Course, Albers' Preliminary Course, Bauhaus Building, The Masters' Houses, Other Buildings in Dessau, Architecture Department, Weaving Workshop, Typography Workshop: Printing, layout, posters, Photography, Exhibition Technique, Wall Painting Workshop: Wall paper, Sculpture Workshop, Stage Workshop, Extracurricular Activities, Spread of the Bauhaus Idea, Bauhaus Teaching in the United States and much more.
All texts in German.
Of all the artists to pass through the Bauhaus, none lived the Bauhaus ideal of total integration of the arts into life like Herbert Bayer (1900 - 1985). He was a graphic designer, typographer, photographer, painter, environmental designer, sculptor and exhibition designer. Between 1925 and 1928, Bayer was head of the printing workshop at the Bauhaus and produced many designs that became standards of a Bauhaus "style." Bayer was instrumental in moving the Bauhaus to purely sans serif usage in all its work, and is especially known is his lowercase, which continues in this 1968 catalogue.
Hardcover 2nd edition w. illustrated dust jacket (protected under plastic wrap) - good copy throughout, with the common bind-splitting at some intervals due to old glue and paper weight (seems to have been previously repaired). All pages still bound and present. Heavy spotting to outer top block edge, tanning to pages edges, otherwise bright and very clean throughout. Good jacket, only light wear.
2018, English
Softcover, 368 pages, 17 cm x 23 cm
Published by
Fw: Books / Amsterdam
$76.00 - Out of stock
This publication offers a spectrum of views on how the myriad forms of exhibiting photographies can increase our understanding of how images operate today, as well as what they do to us when we interact with them. In the Digital Age, “photography” is best described with adjectives connoting a medium in constant flux: liquid, fluid, flexible, unstable. As such, there is no primary format for displaying photographs. By drawing upon the diverse perspectives of a group of curators, scholars, photographers, and artists based in the field of contemporary photography, this volume aims to provide a foundation for a wider discourse about exhibiting photographies in the twenty-first century.
1986, Japanese / English
Hardcover (cloth-bound in glassine and printed cardboard slip-case, obi-strip), 152 pages
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Chikuma Shobo / Tokyo
Comme des Garçons / Tokyo
$950.00 - Out of stock
"Comme des Garçons 1981-1986" is one of the most beautiful and sought after fashion photo-books ever published.
Since the inception of Japanese fashion label Comme des Garçons in 1969, founder Rei Kawakubo applied a particular aesthetic to every aspect of Comme des Garçons, extending her vision to the company's packaging, furniture, interior design, graphic design, and publishing, including a selection of some of the fashion world's most visually compelling and challenging books and printed materials.
This wonderful and very iconic collection of photographs presents Rei Kawakubo's groundbreaking, innovative designs from an exciting period of Comme des Garçons history, between 1981 and 1986, as photographed by some of the most important fashion photographers of our time, including Arthur Elgort, Hans Feurer, Eddy Kohli, Peter Lindbergh, Steven Meisel, Paolo Roversi, Oliviero Toscani, and Bruce Weber, among others.
This gorgeous and incredibly rare clothbound volume, wrapped in original publisher's glassine overlay and housed in original printed cardboard slip-case, perfectly captures a very important and exciting moment in the history of fashion, and is considered one of the most-collectable and prized fashion photo-books to come out of the 1980s.
Very Good copy with original obi-strip.
1986, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 140 pages, 27 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Quartet Books / London
$160.00 - Out of stock
First English hardcover edition of the stunning Charlotte Rampling photobook. With an introduction by the great Dirk Bogarde, this lavishly illustrated volume is a pictorial biography of one of the world's greatest stars of film. Beginning with Rampling's first Z-card in 1963, over 100 photographs trace her early modelling career and bold international film career, including her roles in Luchino Visconti's "The Damned" (1969), Liliana Cavani's "The Night Porter" (1974), John Boorman's "Zardoz" (1974), Dick Richards' "Farewell, My Lovely" (1975), Woody Allen's "Stardust Memories" (1980), Sidney Lumet's "The Verdict" (1982), Angel Heart (1986), to name a few, plus shoots by famous photographers such as Helmut Newton, Alice Springs, David Bailey, Cecil Beaton, Jeanloup Sieff, Bettina Rhiems, Peter Knapp and others.
Very Good-Fine hardcover copy in Very Good-Fine dust jacket, protected under mylar wrap.
1971, French
Hardcover (clothbound w. dustjacket), 88 pages, 25 x 31 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Editions Filipacchi / Paris
$100.00 - Out of stock
First edition of this great monographic book on the work of Surrealist visionary Hans Bellmer, published in 1971 by Editions Filipacchi, Paris. Heavily illustrated throughout with wonderful reproductions of Bellmer's incredible drawings, photography, sculptures, paintings, alongside texts in French, biography and bibliography.
German artist Hans Bellmer (13 March 1902 – 23 February 1975), was best known for the life-sized pubescent female dolls he produced in the mid-1930s. "Bellmer was born in the city of Kattowitz, then part of the German Empire (now Katowice, Poland). Up until 1926, he'd been working as a draftsman for his own advertising company. He initiated his doll project to oppose the fascism of the Nazi Party by declaring that he would make no work that would support the new German state. Represented by mutated forms and unconventional poses, his dolls were directed specifically at the cult of the perfect body then prominent in Germany. Bellmer was influenced in his choice of art form by reading the published letters of Oskar Kokoschka (Der Fetisch, 1925)."
2016, English
Softcover, 480 pages, 15.5 x 21.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by
IDEA / London
$160.00 - Out of stock
SUMMERCAMP, the second photography book from Parisian fashion brand Vetements, is 480 glossy pages featuring the company's Spring/Summer 2017 collection. With over 500 images photographed by Pierre-Ange Carlotti, and featuring Lotta Volkova, Paul Hameline and an assortment of friends and collaborators, SUMMERCAMP is said to be the most complete photographic record of a fashion collection. It features Vetements' collaborations with Alpha Industries, Brioni, Carhartt WIP, Comme Des Garcons Shirt, Champion, Church's, Dr. Martens, Eastpak, Hanes, Juicy Couture, Levi's, Lucchese, Mackintosh, Manolo Blahnik, Reebok, and Schott NYC. It also, like the first book, sold out instantly.
Fine, As New copy.
1993, English / Japanese
Softcover, 36 pages, 22 x 29 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Street Editorial Office / Tokyo
$40.00 - Out of stock
1993 issue of the iconic STREET magazine from Japan. No. 52 "STREET FASHION AT PARIS PRET-A-PORTER COLLECTION : MARCH 1993".
Every issue is entirely full-bleed pages of photographs by legendary Japanese street style photographer Shoichi Aoki. For this, one of the special fashion week issues, instead of photographing the world's major fashion events on the runway, Aoki is celebrated for turning his camera to the crowds, documenting the incredible outfits of the people in the audience and surrounds, amongst which are many familiar designers, models, editors, musicians, artists... Aoki's Street (and later also Fruits) are essential style goldmines, creating valuable photographic documents of the times like no other magazine.
Condition: Very Good (very light wear)