Thursday, 11 July 2024

Annie Flanders / Details Volume 1 (all issues)





"Yes, you're on the list. In most of New York's private clubs, if you're on the list, you're in. Then you never know what to expect inside. The same applies here at Details: if you're on our list, you're in. In for surprises. We're a private publication. Our doorman is your mailman." The magazine that introduced Bill Cunningham to the world amongst other things. I would argue that as far as fashion and the culture of fashion goes, this is the best 'thing' there is, it's really hard to find anything so consistently thorough, on the mark and good. 












 

Annie Flanders / Details Volumes 1-4.

 
 
"Yes, you're on the list. In most of New York's private clubs, if you're on the list, you're in. Then you never know what to expect inside. The same applies here at Details: if you're on our list, you're in. In for surprises. We're a private publication. Our doorman is your mailman." The golden years as far as style in downtown NYC, chronicled by Cunningham and Flanders and with a dizzying array of contributors. A key piece of fashion history. 

Thursday, 24 November 2022

Michael Clark Company : Our caca phoney H.

 Programme for an earlier MC outing, with Leigh Bowery, Charles Atlas, BodyMap, and The Fall.








Thursday, 13 October 2022

Parinoir

Parinoir

Nicolas Silatsa

Edition : First / Paris / Self Published / 1981 / Hardcover. / VG+ / VG+

Small 4to, 144pp. Cloth in photographic dustwrapper. Black & White plates. Text in French.

Self published portrait of blackness in late seventies and early eighties France. Silatsa came from Cameroon to study refridgeration but abandoned his study after 2 years to concentrate on photography, of which this is the result. Very much an every day chronicle of life in Paris and a document of the immigrant experience, with all the good and bad that entails. 

 



tokyo dolls

Tokyo Dolls

Hiromi Tsuchida

Nice book on late 70s trans life in Tokyo. Published in the Seven Sha series – whic also included the brilliant Document Park and Document Teenager. 

 


 

Thursday, 16 September 2021

Steven Bamberg / Urban Nomads : Photographs



Photo documentary on the Ching-a-Ling MC Nomads, a primarily Puerto Rican street gang in Belmont, Bronx. Bamberg himself is a sort of inside outsider, being a former gang member himself from Brooklyn who studied photography and fine art. This was his first and I think only show and offers a real inside view of a much mid-represented and under documented world which seems to have become part of NYC folklore. With two texts which are also excellent.