Monday, 4 November 2013

#janefonda in the seventies


#janefonda in they shoot horses 1969


Monday idol #janefonda holding a cat. this seems to be becoming a theme..


Joe Mckenna - Joe's First Issue


A real monster. The incredibly scarce and huge Joe's First Issue, arguably the most desirable magazine/portfolio's of the nineties by one of the greatest stylists ever. Very personal, it's essentially Joe's favourite work with his favourite people, who happen to include Bruce Weber, Steven Meisel, Paul Cadmus, Paolo Roversi, Azzedine Alaia, Vanessa Paradis, Dirk Bogarde and so on, and there's lots of it, quite a lot unpublished elsewhere. Legendary.

Linder Sterling - The Secret Public


Ultra scarce. Linder Sterling and Jon Savage's 'The Secret Public' could be one of the most important pieces of publishing from the punk/new wave period. Published as New Hormones no.2, no.1 being Spiral Scratch by The Buzzcocks. Linder of course is mostly known as the person behind the Buzzcocks' Orgasm Addict sleeve and her work for Factory records, and Savage as the author of 'England's Dreaming'. In retrospect the groundbreaking images first seen in the Secret Public are central to the narrative of Punk/Post Punk and the Manchester scene. Jon Savage: "I now think that The Secret Public wrote its own script. It was a deliberately hermetic document that forced you to enter on its own terms. There were few concessions to any ideas of marketing and accessability. Hearts were not worn on the sleeve. It fully explored its dichotomies: cool designed outer images covering angry, savage montages, women placed in bondage but by their own design (or is that in itself a product of internalised oppression?), metropolises that offered opportunity and excitement at the same time as they ate you alive. Its impact was qualitative rather than quantitive: perhaps this is why, at its best, it has not dated at all."

Concrete Mama : Prison Profiles from the Walla Walla


Scarce. 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.