Tuesday, 3 December 2013

Yan Morvan / Gang Story


Very scarce- on account of it being banned shortly after it's release. One of the best books on gangs and gang culture by the great Yan Morvan- who is more of a journalist or a war correspondant than a classic photographer. "Yan Morvan has been documenting gangs in France's suburbs for 40 years, he's followed the Hell's Angels, Skinheads and even serial killer Guy Georges, who took him hostage in 1995 and tortured him for three weeks. This experience forced Morvan to call it quits but, in 2000, he released the book Gangs Story, providing a retrospective of his work." From the bikers of the seventies, skinheads, 50s kids etc to current banlieu crews they're all here. Morvan really hung out with his subjects, so there's lots of very personal stuff, it's a real insight into peoples lives. Crews, firearms, drugs, junkies, sex, corpses and the like. Hundereds of brilliant and candid photographs. One of the best. 

Antonio Lopez / Antonio 60s


Scarce. Super beautiful folio of Antonio's 60s work. Lovely text by Bill Cunningham, followed by lots of nice pictures (by Cunningham too) and then page after page of beautiful work. So good. 

Antonio's New York Story '78



Very scarce. Wonderful large format overview of Lopez and his time in NY. Has work for Fiorucci, Bloomingdales, Vogue Italia, his photographs of Divine, Grace Jones (some later published in Instamatics), and if that wasn't enough- lots of pictures of him by the mighty Bill Cunningham- with Cathy Dahnmen, Warhol, Jerry Hall, Paloma Picasso, Lagerfeld, Alain Delon and so on. wow.

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potential gigolo. #gillianwearing 1992-1993


you can't beat 50s rock'n'roll. #gillianwearing signs that say. amazing portrait of the streets in 93.


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