Shirt of the Day! Jerry Hsu's How About Never
This very limited edition high-quality shirt was designed by Jerry Hsu just for his signing at Arcana. Scant numbers remain. Act fast via this link!
Sorry - sold out!
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Posted Sep 18, 2026
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Posted Sep 17, 2026
Upcoming Events
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24th, 4:00 - 6:00 PM
CHRIS WALLACE: ANOTHER WORLD, VOLUME 1
PUBLICATION LAUNCH
CHRIS WALLACE: ANOTHER WORLD, VOLUME 1
PUBLICATION LAUNCH
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14th, 4:00 - 6:00 PM
RICHARD POLSKY: I SOLD ALICE COOPER'S ANDY WARHOL
BOOK SIGNING
RICHARD POLSKY: I SOLD ALICE COOPER'S ANDY WARHOL
BOOK SIGNING
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21st, 4:00 - 6:00 PM
CATHERINE OPIE: ON IDENTITY AND COLLECTIVITY APERTURE PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP SERIES
BOOK SIGNING + DISCUSSION
CATHERINE OPIE: ON IDENTITY AND COLLECTIVITY APERTURE PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP SERIES
BOOK SIGNING + DISCUSSION
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5th, 4:00 - 6:00 PM
CHARLIE UNKELESS: THE LIGHTS ARE TOO LOUD, THE SOUND IS TOO BRIGHT - TALES FROM THE ROAD WITH OINGO BOINGO
BOOK SIGNING
CHARLIE UNKELESS: THE LIGHTS ARE TOO LOUD, THE SOUND IS TOO BRIGHT - TALES FROM THE ROAD WITH OINGO BOINGO
BOOK SIGNING
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Posted Aug 29, 2026
BOOK SIGNING WITH JERRY HSU at Arcana: 9/12/26, 4 - 6 PM
Arcana-friend Jerry Hsu's excellent new MACK photo-book How About Never is coming, and Arcana manager Jesse Pearson will be interviewing Jerry about it live here at the shop on Saturday, September 12th followed by a signing. The event begins at 4 PM. All are welcome; refreshments provided. Order a signed copy here! See you there!
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Posted Jul 23, 2026
AVE PILDAS BOOK SIGNING THIS SATURDAY, JULY 25TH 2026, FROM 4 UNTIL 6PM
Please join us at Arcana this Saturday, July 25th, from 4 until 6 PM for a signing with photographer Ave Pildas celebrating his new book. From the publisher: "Africatown offers an intimate and joyful portrait of one of Los Angeles’ most culturally rich weekly gatherings: the Sunday African Marketplace in Leimert Park. Built on friendship, trust, and community exchange, the project captures the people, stories, and spirit that make this space a living celebration of life. What began as a chance visit after a jazz benefit concert in the area quickly grew into a two-year journey of connection. Drawn by the radiant energy of the market, where vendors share traditional clothing art, food, and music from across the African diaspora, Ave became a familiar presence. Over time, he was affectionately nicknamed the 'picture man.'" (Pildas Green Foundation, 2026). Can't make it? Purchase a copy from us for shipping or pick-up here!
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Posted Jul 12, 2026
Please Join Us on SATURDAY (7/18), 4-6m for a book signing with CHRISTOPHER ANDERSON for INDEX.
A life isn’t a straight line, it doesn’t conform to an easy narrative. Christopher Anderson’s career has spanned conflict zones, presidential campaigns, near-death experiences, and moments of quiet domestic tenderness, all captured with a rare poetic sensibility. His new @stanleybarkerbooks publication INDEX gathers nine series from across his career, each presented as an individual volume.
From his early images in Afghanistan, where he was already working as a journalist on 9/11 and continued to document events through the span of the second Gulf War, to Haiti, where he boarded a wooden boat with hopeful migrants bound for America until it began to sink, a story that earned him the Robert Capa Gold Medal. From volumes that chart the places he has called home, such as France and New York, to places that have left their mark on him, like China. From books that record tender moments with his family on holiday to immersive accounts of conflict in some of the world’s most troubled corners, even his fascination with cars finds its place here. Gathered as nine volumes housed in a slipcase by the acclaimed designer Brian Roettinger, INDEX is a breathtaking way to experience the defining events and fleeting intimacies that shaped the first decades of the millennium.
“I suppose, from the outside, it looks as if I stopped being one kind of photographer to become another. To me, the same photographer who boarded a boat with Haitians trying to sail to America showed up to photograph Trump’s inner circle in the West Wing… continual points on a spectrum, colors bleeding together in the rainbow. The previous works inform and shape the photographs that follow.” - @christopherandersonphoto
A limited quantity of INDEX will be available for sale only at Saturday's event starting at 4:00 PM - first come, first served, one per person. We're sorry, but due to the fact this is now sold out with the publisher in the US, we are unable to offer advance sales. If you cannot attend and would like to purchase a signed copy, please send us a request to be placed on a waiting list. Should there be any remaining following the event, we will fulfill requests in the order in which they have been received. Thanks for understanding.
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Posted May 27, 2026
Book Signing with Bruce Talamon on Saturday, May 30th at Arcana!
Arcana is brimming with pride to present our friend, the legendary photographer of soul, funk, and R&B musicians, Bruce Talamon this Saturday, May 30th, from 4 until 6PM. Refreshments? Yes! Bruce signing the lovely new edition of his Taschen-published book Soul R&B Funk: Photographs 1972-1982? Yes again! Please join us. And if you are unable to be here in person, be here in spirit by purchasing Bruce's book via our website here. See you soon!
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Posted May 03, 2026
Upcoming Events, May 2026 - Please Join Us!
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Posted Apr 30, 2026
SATURDAY, 5/9, 4-6 - SHANIQWA JARVIS: GUTS BOOK SIGNING
Please join us at Arcana on Saturday, May 9th, from 4 until 6PM, to celebrate the launch of Shaniqwa Jarvis's beautiful new book GUTS.
GUTS (Super Labo, 2026), with an introduction by Essence Harden, is a 120-page offering of Jarvis’s inner world; an unfolding of florals, self-portraits, double exposures, and editorial images that resist a fixed narrative. Instead, they function as reflective pauses, grounded in the act of noticing beauty in unexpected places.
Flowers signal perseverance and the instinct to grow against all odds, while editorial portraits blur into self-portraiture, shaped by Jarvis’s hand and presence. Water, windows, and reflections recur throughout, holding a tension between how we believe we are seen and how we see ourselves.
Made across South Africa, Greece, Korea, New York, Japan, California, and the Pacific Northwest, GUTS is a meditation on reflection, perseverance, and veneration—of nature, emotion, and the quiet moments that shape how we move through the world.
* Books will be available for sale at the event
* Shaniqwa will be on hand to sign books and generally make everyone's day brighter with her presence.
* If you cannot attend and would like a signed copy of GUTS, please send us an email. Should there be copies remaining after the event, we will fulfill requests in the order in which they have been received.
* Thanks to Las Jaras Wines for their support!
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Posted Apr 24, 2026
Brad Donenfeld Book Signing and Discussion for "Looking. Seeing," Saturday, April 25th from 4:00 to 6:00 PM!
Please join us Saturday, April 25th between 4:00 and 6:00 PM as we host a book signing and discussion with Los Angeles-based artist and photographer Brad Donenfeld in conjunction with the publication of Looking. Seeing. Beautifully produced and printed, it is a comprehensive survey of fifty years of his creative visual work beginning with his iconic sixties headshop poster Peace Man - produced as a teenager - through his own recent personal color photography. He will be joined for what promises to be a thought-provoking discussion of his artistic evolution with gallerist and art consultant Eli Consilvio. If you cannot attend and would like to purchase a signed and numbered limited edition copy of Looking. Seeing., please place your order here.
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Posted Mar 01, 2026
Brandon Ruffin: Migration Patterns - Book Signing + Discussion - Saturday, 3/7/26, 4:00 - 6:00 !
Please join us at Arcana on Saturday, March 7th between 4:00 and 6:00 PM for a discussion about and celebration of Brandon Ruffin's book Migration Patterns.
If you aren't able to attend on Saturday, you can order a signed copy of Migration Patterns here.
If you aren't able to attend on Saturday, you can order a signed copy of Migration Patterns here.
Rooted in personal history and collective memory, Migration Patterns offers a powerful reflection on the enduring presence of Southern Black culture in Northern California; particularly in the cities of Oakland, San Francisco, and Ruffin’s hometown, Richmond.
The project opens with Siobhan, a poem by Enjoli Flynn-Ruffin, and is accompanied by an essay from journalist and cultural critic Pendarvis Harshaw. Together, these texts frame the book not simply as a collection of photographs, but as a lyrical meditation on legacy, migration, and the evolving meaning of home.
As a descendant of Louisianans who moved west during the Great Migration, Ruffin explores how culture is carried across distance and time. How it adapts, resists erasure, and remains encoded in language, movement, and ritual. Rather than illustrating history in a didactic sense, Migration Patterns moves with a quiet intimacy, allowing traces of Southern identity to surface through atmosphere, memory, and presence.
Woven into the work is a contemplative tension between life and death, between arrival and departure. Ruffin stands in the stillness of both birth and mourning, asking what it means not only to migrate across land, but also across spiritual thresholds. In this sense, Migration Patterns becomes not just a document of physical relocation, but a reflection on the migrations we each undergo: into being, into legacy, and eventually, into memory.
The work is especially attuned to the emotional terrain of transition. It considers what is lost and what endures when communities are displaced or transformed, and how those shifts impact one’s sense of belonging. At its heart, Migration Patterns is a reflection on lineage: on what it means to be the continuation of a story, and on the responsibility of documenting that story with care.
With this monograph, Ruffin adds a vital voice to the canon of contemporary Black photography. One that bridges past and present, personal and communal, silence and testimony.