Monday, 25 July 2016

Gianni Castagnoli 80's Xerochromes

Milan. Franco Maria Ricci. 1979. First Edition. Square Folio, 60pp. Printed wraps as issued. Numerous Colour plates. Text in English, Italian and French.

Super 1979 work created with an early colour photocopy machine. Pop goes new wave! Very beautiful, and with some brilliant texts.


Penelope Slinger 50% The Visible Woman (signed limited edition)

London. Narcis Publishing. 1971. First edition. 8vo, Unpaginated (ca120pp). Black boards with gilt in photographic dustwrap in slipcase as issued. Numerous Black & White plates. Book near fine, in like dustwrapper. As is always the case, the silver endpapers eroded somewhat. Number 45 of 50 signed and numbered copies. Hardback.. Book: Near Fine. Dustwrap: Near Fine.

First book from London born Slinger. "The book as a whole constitutes a challenge both to the repressive society whose essence it reveals and to woman themselves. It is a revelation of how little, female phantasy has been explored and how its importance does not lie simply in an up-beat positive discovery of a hidden, better self. Penny Slinger shows that the necessary process of facing feminine sexuality head on is not easy." Laura Mulvey, Spare Rib Magazine, 1971. An early 70's feminist masterpiece.


30 Anni di Vogue Italia

Milan. Conde Nast SPA. 1995. First edition. 4to. Unpaginated (ca 250pp). Black raw edged cloth in folded dustwrap. Numerous Black & White plates.

Killer book compiling 30 years of the best of Vogue Italia. Paolo Roversi, Sarah Moon, Bourdin, Meisel, Lindbergh, Ferri, Klein, Lategan, Unwerth, Rubartelli and so on. Fashion full stop. In a book. Amazing.

20 Anni di Vogue Italia

Milan. Conde Nast SPA. 1984. First edition. 4to. 512pp. Grey cloth in silver dustwrap. Numerous Black & White plates. Text in Italian. Hardcover.. Book: Near Fine. Dustwrap: VG+.

The best work from a who's who of fashion photography from the mid sixties to the early eighties. Meisel, Bob Richardson, Rubartelli, Helmut Newton, Jeanloup Sieff, Guy Bourdin, Sarah Moon, Turbeville, Weber, Avedon, Irving Penn and the list goes on. And there's 500 pages of it. Incredibile!

Mark Borthwick 1978

New York. Self Published. 1997. First Edition. 4to, Unpaginated (ca 200pp). Printed wraps. Numerous Black & White plates. Softcover.. Book: VG+. .

Self published. Borthwick's first book. More an artist's book than monograph 1978 sums up everything Mark Borthwick's work is about. Texts, notes, awkward silhouettes, shadows and places.

Larry Clark 1992

New York. Thea Westreich & Gisela Capitain. 1992. First Edition. 4to, 336pp. Stiff printed wraps as issued. One of 1000 copies. First and only edition. A little wear to spine. Softcover.. Book: VG+. .

Larry Clark's best book, and one of his toughest to find, especially in a good condition. No text. Intense portraits and scenarios of violence, masculinity, male sexuality, youth and slacker culture, managing to be both beautiful and extreme in equal measure.

Hal Fischer 18th near Castro St.

San Francisco. NFS Press. 1978. First Edition. Small oblong 8vo, Unpaginated (ca 52pp). Numerous Black & White plates. Softcover.. Book: Near Fine. .

Wonderful little book from Fischer who is better know for his work on gay semiotics (what colour hankerchief goes in what pocket etc.). Here he devoted his talents to a rather cruisy bench on 18th street in San Francisco's gay district (The Castro) for a period of 24 hours, observing who's around and what they're doing. Lovely conceptual project with nice text and super images. Inscribed by Fischer in 1979.

Will Mcbride "R"

Frankfurt. Self Published. 1988. First Edition. Small 8vo. 88pp. Printed wraps as issued. Numerous Colour and Black & White plates. Text in German. Clean, tight, no bumps.. Softcover.. Book: Fine. .

Ultra beautiful self published effort from McBride- he of Show Me, Zeig Mal. Based on a friend of Mcbride's- Richard Geldmacher, Mcbride presents poetry and a series of photographs, unseen elsewhere, which depict essentially a new wave teenage diary.




"I groaned with pain..." - Sex, Seditionaries and the Sex Pistols

Westwood, Vivienne; McClaren, Malcomb; Stolper, Paul; Wilson, Andrew.

London. Stolper Wilson. 1996. First Edition. Square 4to. 32pp. Only 500 copies. White wraps with Seditionaries 'Tits' to cover. Black & White throughout. . Softcover.. Book: Near Fine. .

Catalogue from the 1996 exhibition of the same name. Featuring Sex and Seditionaries pieces and artworks by Reid from the collections of Westwood, McClaren, Reid and Richmond. A rare piece of Kings Road epherema.


Monday, 18 July 2016

pucci s/s 2008 by juergen teller. dm for info/purchase. #pucci #juergenteller


pucci s/s 2008 by juergen teller. dm for info/purchase. #pucci #juergenteller


pucci s/s 2008 by juergen teller. dm for info/purchase. #pucci #juergenteller


ken pate, roquette rockers, 1975. magic. dm or check website for info/purchase.


ken pate, roquette rockers, 1975. magic. dm or check website for info/purchase.


ken pate, roquette rockers, 1975. magic. dm or check website for info/purchase.


antonio lopez new york story, 1978. photographs by bill cunningham. pen work by lopez. dm or check website for info/purchase. #antoniolopez #billcunningham #juanramos #divine #gracejones


antonio lopez new york story, 1978. photographs by bill cunningham. pen work by lopez. dm or check website for info/purchase. #antoniolopez #billcunningham #juanramos #divine #gracejones


antonio lopez new york story, 1978. photographs by bill cunningham. pen work by lopez. dm or check website for info/purchase. #antoniolopez #billcunningham #juanramos #divine #gracejones