Sunday, 24 March 2013

Cynthia Macadams / Emergence



Brilliant portrait of American women by Macadams including Patti Smith, Laurie Anderson, Margie Beals, Marisol Escobar, Laurel Wise, Michelle Phillips, Jane Fonda, Barbara Hammer and loads of other cool as hell cats. Brilliant.

Garry Wingrand / Women Are Beautiful



Scarce in such a good condition. Compiled by Szarkowski. 85 photographic plates depicting women with Winogrand's characteristic spontaneity and "inspired amateurism." "Winogrand was an innovator and one of the most dazzlingly reckless members of what John Szarkowski called photography's 'new generation of primitives...' his style appeared to be no style--effortless, loose, and as uncalculated as a snapshot" (Roth, The Book of 101 books: Seminal Photographs Of The 20th Century). Beautiful book that's part street style and part photodocumentary, shot between the early sixties and 1975. Highly recommended.

soft power, ludovica gioscia, 2011


peggy moffitt having a bath in 1965


Tuesday, 12 March 2013

new things for march on the site.


Concrete Mama - Prison Profiles from Walla Walla




Brutal and intimate portrait of screws, cons, visitors, prison wives at Washington State Penitentiary, considered at the time to be the worst prison in the U.S. Inside Concrete Mama, as McCoy and Hoffman showed without editorial comment or first-person intrusion, some men worked on and rode motorcycles, kept pets, dressed as women, negotiated shaky arrangements with prison officials and roamed the yards in total leisure. "They went inside the walls, they looked, they listened, they learned, they sought to understand ... ." A real classic in the vein of Danny Lyon. Highly recommended.

Stile In Progress: L'Uomo Vogue 1968-1998



The best book on menswear every by a long shot. Around 300 pages of astounding work from Weber, Turbeville, Sims, Meisel, Toscani, Roversi and co. plus Warhol, Barry White, Elton John, Hubert de Givenchy, Picasso, Serge Gainsbourg, Lou Reed and so many more. Amazing!