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JIM GANZER: LIFE LIVED - SIGNED BY THE LEGENDARY SURFER
(GANZER, JIM). Ganzer,Jim, Larry Bell & Jim Fitzpatrick. Ventura, CA: Indoek, I00240427. 2024. First Edition of 500 Numbered Copies. 16 1/4 x 10 3/4", Folio. Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. New. 96pp, profusely illustreated in b&w. Designed by ITAL/C.
PLEASE NOTE: Mr. Ganzer will be signing copies of "Life Lived" at Arcana Saturday, April 27th, between 4:00 and 6:00 PM. If you cannot attend and would like to order a signed copy to have shipped or to pick up at the shop, please purchase by selecting "Add To Cart" below. Orders will begin shipping Tuesday, April 30th.
"Born in 1945 in Illinois, Jim Ganzer is now widely known as a Malibu surf legend and an underground LA icon. He and his group of surf friends inspired the 1978 film, Big Wednesday, written and directed by John Milius. When the Coen brothers were developing The Big Lebowski, Milius introduced them to Ganzer, who influenced Jeff Bridges’s famous character, The Dude. A graduate of Chouinard Art Institute, Jim Ganzer emerged as an artist when the surf and skate culture-inspired world was not yet a billion-dollar industry, but an afterthought in a mostly hardware-focused segment. He became the voice of the subculture in the ’80s for inventing cult garments under the brand, Jimmy’Z, combining form with function. Ganzer collaborated with Ed Ruscha on several works, such as “Brave Men Run in My Family” and “Sea of Desire” and also starred in Ruscha’s film, Miracle. He has shown his art in many esteemed group and solo exhibits in California and all over the world since 1971. “Life Lived” is a collection of Jim Ganzer’s black & white photography from the 1960s through the 1980s, his ink drawings, and furniture." A brand new, most handsome example of this fabulous new publication on this renowned local artist and innovator's contribution to Southern Californa culture limited to five hundred copies additionally SIGNED by Jim Ganzer.
Inventory Number: E000JGLL
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CITY OF DREAMS: LOS ANGELES INTERIORS - SIGNED BY TIM STREET-PORTER AND ANNIE KELLY
(STREET-PORTER, TIM). Street-Porter, Tim & Annie Kelly. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, I00240416. 2024. First Edition. 12 x 9", 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. New/New. 9780847899944
PLEASE NOTE: Ms. Kelly and Mr. Street-Porter will be signing copies of "City of Dreams: Los Angeles Interiors" at Arcana this Saturday, April 20th between 4:00 and 6:00 PM. If you cannot attend and would like to order a signed copy to have shipped or to pick up at the shop, please purchase by selecting "Add To Cart" below. Orders will begin shipping Tuesday, April 23rd.256pp, profusely illustrated in color. "Los Angeles’s Tim Street-Porter has been chronicling this metropolis’s architecture and interiors for over twenty-five years. This stunning collection of inspiring homes begins with a look back, which includes examples of iconic houses inspired by Hollywood film fantasies, Modernist residences by such luminaries as John Lautner, and Frank Gehry’s Deconstructivism-style home. The heart of the book features today’s forward-looking homes, divided into two sections: Living with Art and Design and Los Angeles Modern. Antiquarian Joel Chen artfully blends an eye-catching collection of period furniture and Chinese objets while interior designer Jean-Louis Denoit’s house sparkles with a Tony Duquette gilded mirror and an abalone shell chandelier. Another trend is the renovation of modernist houses with a personal touch. Artist Mary Weatherford’s reworking of her A. Quincy Jones–designed home, in collaboration with designer Oliver Furth, has a striking orange bedroom. Illuminating Los Angeles’s dramatic indoor-outdoor living spaces, this tome is a must-have for architecture and design enthusiasts." A brand new, most handsome example of this exquisite new publication additionally SIGNED by both photographer Tim Street-Porter and author Annie Kelly.Tim Street-Porter is the renowned Los Angeles-based architecture and design photographer that has produced numerous books, including “L.A. Modern”, “Palm Springs: Modernist Paradise”, “Splash: The Art of the Swimming Pool“, and “Casa Mexico.”Writer and designer Annie Kelly is the author of the successful “Rooms to Inspire” series, as well as “Living in Paradise”, “Splash: The Art of the Swimming Pool“, and “Casa Mexico.” She writes about lifestyle for such publications as “Belle” and “The Los Angeles Times.”Inventory Number: E000AK+TSP
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THOM BROWNE. - SIGNED BY THE DESIGNER
(BROWNE, THOM). Browne, Thom. With an introduction by Andrew Bolton. New York: Phaidon Press Limited, I00240404. 2023. First Edition. 12 x 9", Stout 4to. Printed Boards in a Clamshell Box. Fashion Monograph. New/No Jacket - As Issued. 420pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. 9781838667047
Thanks to everyone for making Saturday's Thom Browne event such a rousing success!!! We sold out right at 6:00 PM, and a wonderful time was had by all. Though we are now temporarily out of stock, Mr. Browne and Phaidon have been kind enough to promise us additional SIGNED copies within two weeks. If you'd like to purchase one to arrive with us later in April, please place your order below!
"With a vast celebrity clientele, Thom Browne is widely recognized for modernizing today’s professional uniform: the suit. As the company’s twentieth anniversary nears, Thom Browne. celebrates the legacy of the house. The book features an introduction and texts by Andrew Bolton, the Wendy Yu curator in charge of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, and specially commissioned photography by Johnny Dufort presenting more than two hundred looks from past seasons. It concludes with a tableau of show installations that further illustrate the house’s design philosophy and evolution. Published as a hardback enclosed in a clamshell box, the book includes four, six, and eight-page gatefolds along with more than forty translucent vellum pages featuring the brand’s signature four stripes. It also includes a Thom Browne-designed grosgrain ribbon." A brand new, most handsome example of the elegant 2023 Phaidon first edition in the publisher's clamshell box additionally SIGNED by Thom Browne still in its printed shipping carton.
Thom Browne is an American fashion designer and the founder / creative director of Thom Browne, a luxury fashion house based in New York. Initially celebrated for his distinctive approach to men’s tailoring in 2003, Browne has since expanded the collections to include womenswear, childrenswear and accessories. He has also become known for his highly conceptual runway presentations which have gained global attention for their thought-provoking themes and dramatic settings. In 2023 he became chairman of the CFDA.
Inventory Number: E000TB
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THE PSEUDONYM LIBRARY OF ALLEN RUPPERSBERG - SIGNED BY THE ARTIST
(RUPPERSBERG, ALLEN). Ruppersberg, Allen as "Al Reed". New York: Christine Burgin Books, I002403312024. 2024. First Edition. 8 1/4 x 6", 8vo. Illustrated Self-Wrappers. Artist's Book. As New.. np (136pp), profusely illustrated in color. Designed by Jason Burch. Published in conjunction with Allen Ruppersberg's 2024 exhibition entitled "25 Ways To Start Over" held at Mark Selwyn Fine Art, "The Pseudonym Library of Allen Ruppersberg" is a graphically striking artist's book that reproduces the covers and interior details of thirty-three lurid vintage paperbacks from the artist's personal collection alongside bio-bibliographic details revealing their both famous and obscure nom de plume authors. Ruppersberg himself has more adopted the pseudonym of Al Reed in his own output over the years, and his passion for blurring autobiographical narrative combined with passionately collecting / archiving the printed and recorded artifacts of Post-war popular culture meet gloriously head-on in this wonderful visual survey. A brand new, most handsome example of this hot-off-the-press title from Christine Burgin Books additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "A. Ruppersberg" in black ink on the title page. Inventory Number: I00240331
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BINDING THE DEVIL: SATANISM AND WITCHCRAFT REFLECTED IN 20TH CENTURY TOMES - FIRST EDITION OF 666 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
Astraleyes. Los Angeles: Bibliomancers, I00240328. 2024.. First Limited Edition OF 666 Copies. 8 1/4 x 5 1/4". Paperback. Book Design Survey. New. 108pp,106 illustrations in color. Cover photographs by Just Loomis. "Binding The Devil..." is a spectacular survey of late twentieth Century cover art and interior illustrations for Witchcraft, Satanic, and Black Magik-themed books. The art and graphic design veers towards the lurid, macabre, and sexual, and delightfully so. A brand new, most handsome example of the 2024 first printing - destined to sell out quickly - limited to six hundred and sixty-six copies additionally SIGNED AND DATED "Astraleyes" / 2024" by the author in gold marker on the title page. Inventory Number: I00240328
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DAWOUD BEY: ELEGY - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER
(BEY, DAWOUD). Bey, Dawoud, Valerie Cassel Oliver, LeRonn P. Brooks, Imani Perry & Christina Sharpe. Richmond, VA & New York: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and Aperture, I00240223. 2023. First Edition. 11 1/2 x 12". Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. New/New. 176 pages, 75 illustrations in black and white. 978-1-59711-5643
"Renowned for his Harlem street scenes and expressive portraits, Dawoud Bey continues his ongoing series on African American history focusing on the landscape to create a portrait of the early African American presence in the United States. "Elegy" brings together Bey’s three landscape series to date - "Night Coming Tenderly, Black (2017)", "In This Here Place (2021)", and "Stoney the Road (2023)" - elucidating the deep historical memory still embedded in the geography of the United States. Bey takes viewers to the historic Richmond Slave Trail in Virginia, where Africans were marched onto auction blocks; to the plantations of Louisiana, where they labored; and along the last stages of the Underground Railroad in Ohio, where fugitives sought self-emancipation. Essays by the exhibition’s curator, Valerie Cassel Oliver, and scholars LeRonn P. Brooks, Imani Perry, and Christina Sharpe illuminate the work. By interweaving these bodies of work into an elegy in three movements, Bey doesn’t merely evoke history, he retells it through historically grounded images that challenge viewers to go beyond seeing and imagine lived experiences. A brand new example additionally SIGNED by photographer Dawoud Bey.
Inventory Number: E000DBE
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GALERIE HALF: SELECTED WORKS / SPACES
(GALERIE HALF). Smith, Cameron. Introduction by Rosa Park. Foreword by Kathe Clements and Tommy Clements. Photography by Shade Degges. Paris, France: Flammarion, I00240217. 2023. First Edition. 12 1/2 x 9 1/2", 4to. Cloth with Pasterdown. Design Monograph. New/No Jacket - As Issued. 342pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English. "A favorite purveyor to the Los Angeles design cognoscenti, Galerie Half is imbued with a sense of timeless imperfection. Pieces from disparate design traditions converge seamlessly in a single room: a bleached Gustavian daybed is flanked by a Roman statue, a Venetian mirror reflects African masks, and a rustic farmhouse table is framed by caned chairs. Galerie Half is talented at constructing such diverse compositions. A vivid hue can create synchronicity between the timeworn patina of a glazed terracotta planter and the softened leather of an Advocat and Press chair by Le Corbusier–Pierre Jeanneret. A monochromatic palette of contrasting textures can ground a room, creating harmony between luxurious and humble materials, or signed and anonymous designs. Similarly, complementary shapes can provide balance—the horizontal stripes on a Finnish floor lamp echo those in Marcel Breuer’s 1932 armchair, and the seductive curve of Carlo Mollino’s Suora lamp mimics that of Rick Owens’s marble stool. The genius of Galerie Half and the celebrity homes that they have appointed lies in this artful curation of individual elements with soul.". A brand new, most handsome example of this exquisite document photographed by Shade Degges that does poetic justice to the refined aesthetic bent of one of Los Angeles' treasures. 978-2-08-042724-3 Inventory Number: I000240217
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YELENA YEMCHUK: MALANKA - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER
(YEMCHUK, YELENA). Yemchuk, Yelena & Ioana Pelehatai. Zurich, SWITZERLAND: Edition Patrick Frey, I00240213. 2024. First Edition. 10 x 7 1/2", 4to. Pictorial Self-Wrappers. Photography Monograph. New.. np (176pp), 121 color illustrations. Text in English, Ukranian, and Romanian. 978-3-907236-67-3
(176pp), 121 color illustrations. Text in English, Ukrainian, and Russian. "Ukrainian-born, Brooklyn-based photographer and painter Yelena Yemchuk is most commonly known for her fashion and portrait photographs, which have appeared in Italian and Japanese Vogue, V, the New Yorker and The New York Times. Yemchuk makes images that teeter on the threshold between her Eastern European heritage and her daily life in New York; between fiction and reality; between the grand beauty of 1960s cinema and the social and built environments of post-Soviet realms. As with all of her work, "Malanka" is a personal, feminine, surrealist and magical project. The eponymous tradition is a pre-Christian folklore ritual driving out winter and welcoming spring, an ancient custom reminiscent of Persephone’s return in Greek mythology. It is celebrated on January 14th, the old New Year in the Julian calendar, by ethnic Romanians in western Ukraine. In 2019 and 2020, Yemchuk traveled to Crasna (Krasnoilsk in Ukrainian) to document the night-long festival. Accompanying Yemchuk's striking photographic documentation is a poetic essay by Romanian cultural journalist Ioana Pelehatai. A brand new example additionally SIGNED by Yelena Yemchuk on the title page.
Inventory Number: E000YYM
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PUBLISH YOUR PHOTOGRAPHY BOOK: THIRD EDITION - SIGNED BY AUTHOR MARY VIRGINIA SWANSON
Swanson, Mary Virginia & Darius D. Himes. Santa Fe, NM: Radius Books, I00240205, 2023. Third Edition. 10 3/4 x 7 3/4", Small 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. New.. 272pp, 200 color illustrations 978195516125
The first book to demystify the process of producing and publishing a book of photographs, Publish Your Photography Book was first released in 2011 and subsequently sold out two editions. This highly anticipated third edition guides photo-based artists through the steps involved in publishing a book of their work. Industry insiders Darius D. Himes and Mary Virginia Swanson survey the current landscape of photography-book publishing and point out the many avenues to pursue and pitfalls to avoid. This updated, expert guide covers: a history of the photobook; an overview of the publishing industry; the process of bringing your project to book form (with both traditional publishing and self-publishing options); how to market a photography book (including a dialogue with collectors on the limited edition and artist-made books); case studies with published photographers; and valuable resources on production materials, publishing and marketing timelines. Filled with educational wisdom, the book features interviews and contributions from artists, agents, editors, designers, printers, publishers, distributors, booksellers, curators and librarians who share their experiences and provide advice about each step on the path to publication and placement. A removable workbook helps readers address book preparation, draft submission guidelines, production timelines and marketing plans. With over 50 years of combined industry experience and insights, the authors also provide both historical context and contemporary expertise about the international photobook scene, including awards, fairs and grants.
This updated edition's stellar list of contributors includes Regina Maria Anzenberger, Bob Aufuldish, Julia Borissova, Barbara Bosworth, Frish Brandt, Sonel Breslav, Joan Brookbank, Jane Brown, Jason Burstein, David Campany, Alejandro Cartagena, Bruno Ceschel, Nelson Chan, Lewis Chaplin, Clément Cheroux, David Chickey, Joshua Chuang, Mary DelMonico, Sarah Espenon, Jon Evans, Chloe Ferres, Tricia Gabriel, Susan kae Grant, Kris Graves, Hans Gremmen, Nathalie Herschdorfer, Todd Hido, Deborah Hollis, Tiffany Jones, Christina Labey, Joan Liftin, Michael Lundgren, Lesley A. Martin, Christopher McCall, Lisa McCarty, Clifton Meador, Dan Milnor, Arezoo Moseni, Colleen Mullins, Azu Nwagbogu, Martin Parr, Cecile Poimboeuf-Koizumi, Alan Rapp, Rixon Reed, Ruth R. Rogers, Laura Russell, Markus Schaden, Mike Slack, Søren Solkær, David Solo, Gerhard Steidl, Alan Thomas, Ian van Coller, Anne Wilkes Tucker, Amy Wilkins, Deborah Willis, Denise Wolff, Nancy E. Wolff, Carl Wooley, Sophie Wright and Philip Zimmermann.
A brand new example additionally SIGNED by author Mary Virginia Swanson in ink.
Inventory Number: E000PYPB
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SOFIA COPPOLA: ARCHIVE (SECOND PRINTING)
(COPPOLA, SOFIA). Interview with Lynn Hirschberg. Designed by Joseph Logan and Anamaria Morris. London, ENGLAND: MACK, I00240126. 2023. Second Printing. 21.6 x 28cm, 488 pages. Paper back with embossed dust jacket. New. 978-1915743138
"Archive" is the first book by Sofia Coppola, covering the entirety of her singular and influential career in film. Constructed from Coppola’s personal collection of photographs and ephemera, including early development work, reference collages, influences, annotated scripts, and unseen behind-the-scenes documentation, it offers a detailed account of all eight of her films to date. Mapping a course from The Virgin Suicides (1999), through Lost in Translation (2003) and Marie Antoinette (2006), to The Beguiled (2017) and her upcoming feature Priscilla (fall 2023), exploring Priscilla Presley’s early years at Graceland, this luxurious volume reflects on one of the defining and most unmistakable cinematic oeuvres of the twenty-first century.An art book personally edited and annotated throughout by Coppola, Archive offers an intimate encounter with her methods, references, and collaborators and an unprecedented insight into her working processes. Accompanying the highly personal images and texts from Coppola’s archive is an extended interview with renowned film journalist Lynn Hirschberg discussing the remarkable oeuvre they reflect.Inventory Number: I00240126
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WINOGRAND COLOR - SIGNED BY AUTHOR MICHAEL ALMEREYDA
(WINOGRAND, GARRY). Almereyda, Michael & Susan Kismaric, Editors. Los Angeles: Twin Palms Publishers, I00240117. 2023. First Edition. 12 x 12", Large Oblong 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Jacket. Photography Monograph. New/New. 176pp, 150 color illustrations.
"Garry Winogrand is known primarily for his spontaneous and energetic street photography in black-and-white. What is lesser known is that Winogrand also shot more than 45,000 color slides between the early 1950s and late 1960s. These photographs were often taken between assignments, when the photographer, working on his own, developed and refined an approach to his medium that was increasingly open, independent, and radical. He routinely photographed with two cameras strapped around his neck, one loaded with color film, the other with black and white.
"Winogrand Color" presents one hundred and fifty photographs selected from the archives at the Center for Creative Photography by the American film director, Michael Almereyda and former Museum of Modern Art curator, Susan Kismaric. It is the first monograph dedicated to the artist's rarely seen color work. A brand new example additionally SIGNED in ink by author Michael Almereyda. 978-1-936611-18-8 Inventory Number: E000GWC -
MARK STEINMETZ: FRANCE 1987 - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER - PRE-ORDER - SHIPPING 1/23/24
(STEINMETZ, MARK). Steinmetz, Mark. Paso Robles, CA: Nazraeli Press, I00240115. 2023. First Edition. Large Quarto. Cloth with Pictorial Pastedown. Photography Monograph. New/No Jacket - As Issued. 9781590055960
"In the summer of 1987, I was 26 years old, a couple years out of graduate school, and living in a derelict apartment outside of Boston. I had received an artist’s residency in the South of France, and so, in August, I flew to Paris. I stayed a few weeks with close family friends in a top floor apartment on the Avenue de Wagram. My friends were working in fashion and film, and I was told my bed had once belonged to Jane Fonda before she became Barbarella. The weather was getting colder, and they gave me a brown corduroy jacket to wear that Jean Seberg (Godard’s Breathless, Preminger’s Bonjour Tristesse) had cried on. I would eat some breakfast and run around Paris photographing all day—hardly eating because I had no money—returning to their apartment for dinner and a glass of champagne."
"Later in the year, I went to the South to begin my artist’s residency at the Camargo Foundation, in Cassis, a town on the sea not far from Marseille. The writer Virginia Woolf, the pointillist Paul Signac, the fauvists André Derain and Raoul Dufy, and the Provençal poet Frédéric Mistral, had spent extended periods of time in Cassis. I took day trips from Cassis to Arles, Aix, Marseille, and Nice, and could process my film in the simple darkroom that was supplied to me.""In 1987, there were no cell phones or digital cameras. To meet up with someone you had to set a time and a place and each of you had to stick to the plan. The seasons seemed to linger around more, and in general, everyone seemed to have more time. The parks, museums, and subways were less crowded. The rhythm of daily life was more relaxed. People were worried in 1987, but not as worried as we are now.” – From the Introduction by Mark SteinmetzThis wonderful collection of previously unpublished photographs by Mark Steinmetz, made some thirty-five years ago during an extended stay in the South of France, provides welcome insight into his earliest years as a working artist. It comprises over sixty photographs beautifully printed in duotone on Japanese Kasadaka art paper, and bound in Burgundy linen. Limited to only one thousand casebound copies, France 1987 will sell out quicklyA brand new, most handsome example of this exquisite Nazraeli Press offering additionally SIGNED "Mark Steinmetz" in ink.Inventory Number: E000MSF1987
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TODD HIDO: THE END SENDS ADVANCE WARNING - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER
(HIDO, TODD). Hido, Todd. Paso Robles, CA: Nazraeli Press, I00240115. 2023. First Edition 1/6000. 14 x 17", Oblong Small Folio. Pictorial Cloth. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 104pp, 80 color illustrations. Designed by Bob Awfuldish and Todd Hido. 9781590055953
"For over 25 years, Hido has crafted narratives through loose and mysterious suburban scenes, desolate landscapes, and cinematic portraits. Irrespective of its title, this is a book about hope and beauty and why we seek it so desperately at this time. For his latest images he has roamed as far as the Hawaiian Islands and their meteorological opposites; the shores of the Bering Sea, and Nordic fjords above the Arctic Circle. Even with such geographic diversity, Hido captures places that feel at once familiar and unknown; welcoming and unsettling. With this stunning new monograph, Hido picks up where his previous title "Bright Black World" left off, presenting some eighty new and previously unpublished landscape photographs. "The End Sends Advance Warning" is beautifully printed on heavyweight art paper and bound in offset printed linen. The book also includes nine tipped-in photographs printed on Kasadaka art paper, as well as tipped-in and laid-in booklets. A masterpiece of an artist’s book, and a must for the serious contemporary art library." A brand new, pristine example of the 2023 first printing limited to six thousand clothbound copies, signed by Todd Hido.
Inventory Number: E000THTESAW
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DEAN WAREHAM: HEARING VOICES - SELECTED LYRICS 1987-2021: ARTWORK BY ED TEMPLETON - SIGNED BY BOTH
(WAREHAM, DEAN) (TEMPLETON, ED). Wareham, Dean & Ed Templeton. Paso Robles, CA: Nazraeli Press / Anatol, I00231203. 2023. First Edition 1/1000 Copies. 4to. Illustrated Cloth over Boards. Artist Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 94pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w + illustrated covers. 9781590055922
PLEASE NOTE: Mr. Wareham and Mr. Templeton will be signing copies of "Hearing Voices - Selected Lyrics 1987-2021" at Arcana Saturday, December 9th, between 4:00 and 6:00 PM. If you cannot attend and would like to order a signed copy to have shipped or to pick up at the shop, please purchase by selecting "Add To Cart" below. Orders will begin shipping Tuesday, December 12th.
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Hearing Voices is a collection of lyrics by songwriting great Dean Wareham. Born in Wellington, New Zealand, Wareham moved to New York City as a teenager, in August 1977. It was here, in high school, that he met future bandmates Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang. All three went on to attend Harvard University, and in 1987 founded Galaxie 500, for which Wareham was the singer, guitarist and principal songwriter. Galaxie 500 released three albums For Rough Trade between 1987 and 1991 that have only grown in stature and influence. Wareham’s next band Luna recorded seven albums for Elektra and Beggar’s Banquet, followed by four albums as Dean & Britta (with wife Britta Phillips), and three simply as Dean Wareham, including his most recent album I Have Nothing to Say to the Mayor of L.A. Also a writer, Wareham’s memoir, Black Postcards, was published by Penguin, and he has contributed to Salon, Pitchfork, the Talkhouse and Counterpunch. Hearing Voices is the first published collection of his lyrics, and is the result of a unique collaboration with the artist Ed Templeton, who created the illustrations for the book. Ed Templeton’s drawings, paintings and photographs have been widely exhibited and published in the United States, Europe and Asia. Hearing Voices is his fifth title with Nazraeli Press. A brand new example of the first edition limited to one thousand unnumbered copies additionally SIGNED by Dean Wareham and Ed Templeton.
Inventory Number: E000DWET-HV
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DEAN WAREHAM: HEARING VOICES - SELECTED LYRICS 1987-2021: ARTWORK BY ED TEMPLETON - DELUXE SIGNED AND NUMBERED SLIPCASED EDITION LIMITED TO ONE HUNDRED COPIES
(WAREHAM, DEAN) (TEMPLETON, ED). Wareham, Dean & Ed Templeton. Paso Robles, CA: Nazraeli Press / Anatol, I00231203, 2023. First Deluxe Edition 1/100 Copies. 4to. Illustrated Cloth over Boards in Illustrated Slipcase. Artist Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 94pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w + illustrated covers. 978-1-59005-592-2-DLX
PLEASE NOTE: Mr. Wareham and Mr. Templeton will be signing copies of "Hearing Voices - Selected Lyrics 1987-2021" at Arcana Saturday, December 9th, between 4:00 and 6:00 PM. If you cannot attend and would like to order a signed copy to have shipped or to pick up at the shop, please purchase by selecting "Add To Cart" below. Orders will begin shipping Tuesday, December 12th.
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Hearing Voices is a collection of lyrics by songwriting great Dean Wareham. Born in Wellington, New Zealand, Wareham moved to New York City as a teenager, in August 1977. It was here, in high school, that he met future bandmates Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang. All three went on to attend Harvard University, and in 1987 founded Galaxie 500, for which Wareham was the singer, guitarist and principal songwriter. Galaxie 500 released three albums For Rough Trade between 1987 and 1991 that have only grown in stature and influence. Wareham’s next band Luna recorded seven albums for Elektra and Beggar’s Banquet, followed by four albums as Dean & Britta (with wife Britta Phillips), and three simply as Dean Wareham, including his most recent album I Have Nothing to Say to the Mayor of L.A. Also a writer, Wareham’s memoir, Black Postcards, was published by Penguin, and he has contributed to Salon, Pitchfork, the Talkhouse and Counterpunch. Hearing Voices is the first published collection of his lyrics, and is the result of a unique collaboration with the artist Ed Templeton, who created the illustrations for the book. Ed Templeton’s drawings, paintings and photographs have been widely exhibited and published in the United States, Europe and Asia. Hearing Voices is his fifth title with Nazraeli Press. A brand new example of the deluxe first edition limited to one hundred numbered copies SIGNED by Dean Wareham and Ed Templeton housed in a decorative cloth slipcase.
Inventory Number: E000DWET-HV-DLX
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NEW GROUND: JACOB SAMUEL AND CONTEMPORARY ETCHING - SIGNED BY THE PRINTMAKER
(SAMUEL, JACOB). Adler, Esther, Mona Hatoum, Cristina Iglesias, Shio Kusaka, Rita McBride, Josiah McElheny, Mathew Monahan, Meredith Monk, Gabriel Orozco, Gert and Uwe Tobias, Charline von Heyl, James Welling, Jonas Wood, Christopher Wool & Jacob Samuel. New York: Museum of Modern Art, I00231128. 2023. First Edition. 10 1/2 x 9". Illustrated Boards. Printmaking Monograph. New/No Jacket - As Issued. 176pp, 310 color illustrations. 978-1633451551
PLEASE NOTE: Mr. Samuel will be signing copies of "New Ground: Jacob Samuel and Contemporary Etching" at Arcana Saturday, December 2nd, between 4:00 and 6:00 PM. Music for the afternoon will be supplied by DJ Dave Muller. If you cannot attend and would like to order a signed copy to have shipped or to pick up at the shop, please purchase by selecting "Add To Cart" below. Orders will begin shipping Tuesday, December 5th.
Over the course of four decades, Santa Monica-based master printer and publisher Jacob Samuel has collaborated with some of the most influential painters, sculptors, photographers, performance artists, and musicians of the 20th and 21st centuries to make etchings, a medium grounded in techniques more than five centuries old. Through a traditional but maximally flexible approach, he was driven to prove that etching could be a successful contemporary medium, and the breadth, variety and creativity in the works he published is evidence of his success in making old master printmaking relevant to artists today. Published for an exhibition that draws from Mr. Samuel’s catalog of more than seventy projects, New Ground presents a selection of works by a diverse range of artists including Ed Ruscha, John Baldessari, Jonas Wood, Shio Kusaka, Barry McGee, Wangechi Mutu, Christopher Wool, Chris Burden, Nancy Rubins, Mona Hatoum, Rebecca Horn, Jannis Kounellis, Cristina Iglesias, Rita McBride, Josiah McElheny, Mathew Monahan, Meredith Monk, Gabriel Orozco, Gert and Uwe Tobias, Charline von Heyl, James Welling, and many more. This richly illustrated hardbound catalogue features an essay by curator Esther Adler, interviews with thirteen of the artists Samuel has worked with, and a checklist detailing every project published by Edition Jacob Samuel in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art. A brand new example additionally SIGNED by master etcher - and decades-long Arcana pal Jacob Samuel.
Inventory Number: E000JSNG
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JIM GOLDBERG: COMING AND GOING - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER
(GOLDBERG, JIM). Goldberg, Jim. London, UK: MACK Books, I00231004. 2023. First Edition. 13 1/2 X 10 1/2", Large 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Photography Monograph. New./New.. 360pp, profusely illustrated in color. Designed by Jim Goldberg. 978-1-912339-77-8
"Coming and Going is Jim Goldberg’s unique work of autobiography. Since 1999, Goldberg has been photographing his daily life through all its vicissitudes and returning to his studio to re-imagine and investigate these images through a practice of collage, annotation, montage, and reconstruction for which he has become renowned. This book charts a course through the grief following the death of one’s parents, the life-altering birth of a child, the heartbreak of divorce, and the rediscovery of love. Told using a correspondingly tumultuous blend of singular and combined imagery, personal notes, collages, and ephemera, the book captures the bittersweet realities of an individual life while reflecting on the universal, inescapable comings and goings that shape us and the ways we grow to understand ourselves. Familiar from celebrated works such as Rich and Poor (1985), Raised by Wolves (1995) and Open See (2009), Goldberg’s visual language employs sequence and narrative with a feverish intensity. History, memory, and imagination collide in a vividly material practice to which the influences of fiction and film, and the book form itself, are central. Coming and Going offers a fierce, vulnerable, and at times overwhelming account of a life and a search for the elusive universals of experience – an achievement that constitutes Goldberg’s masterwork and a significant contribution to contemporary bookmaking."
A brand new, most handsome example of the 2023 MACK first printing of this spectacular undertaking aditionally SIGNED "Jim Goldberg" in ink.
Inventory Number: E000JGCAG
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RICHARD EDSON: YEAR ZERO - LOCKDOWN JOURNAL - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER
(EDSON, RICHARD). Edson, Richard. New York: Artvoices Art Books, I00230930, 2023. First Printing. 10 x 7 1/2". Pictorial Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 979-8986841304
548 pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. "I began the Year Zero Lockdown Journal on March 20th, 2020. On the first day I took my bicycle and camera and rode through the empty, silent streets of Los Angeles. Everything looked the same, but everything was completely different. I took photos and came back and wrote about it. And I kept it up for next twelve months, through our personal and collective isolation, through the ups and downs of the pandemic, the slow, halting opening of society, the politicization of the virus, the George Floyd protests, the elections, the Stop-the-Steal movement, and the storming of the Capital. Covid-19 was beyond anything we thought possible or could even imagine. It's the stuff of science fiction and dystopian nightmares. But the writers and doomsayers were right. And here we are. Each of us who have lived through Year Zero have our own stories to tell. This, in photographs and texts, is mine." Published by Artvoices Books, "Year Zero - Lockdown Journal" features two beautifully packaged hardcover books in a slipcase subtitled, "Spring & Summer" and "Fall & Winter."Richard Edson has been acting in films for nearly forty years, appearing in over one hundred movies and television shows. His more notable roles include a disreputable parking garage attendant in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), Howard the Duck (1986), Jim Jarmusch's cult film Stranger Than Paradise (1984), Eight Men Out, and Joey Breaker (1993). He also appeared in Platoon (1986), Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), Tougher Than Leather (1988), Let It Ride (1989), and Do the Right Thing (1989). He starred in the 1993 movie Super Mario Bros as Spike (1987). As a photographer he has had four solo exhibitions in Los Angeles and has been in countless group exhibits. He has also appeared in Juxtapose, Puta, and The Propagandist magazines and photography assignments for Wax Poetics and American Apparel, and many others. Until recently he had a monthly photo spread / column in the Los Angeles downtown arts magazine, Citizen LA. In addition to acting and photography he was a founding member and first drummer for the seminal art rock band Sonic Youth, and drummer / trumpet player for the legendary New York Afro-dance band, Konk.
Inventory Number: E000REYZLJ
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MORE RICK OWENS
(OWENS, RICK). Danielle Levitt, Photographer. New York: Rizzoli, I00230922. 2023. 10 x 13 in, 200p. Fashion Monograph. New.
Rick Owens remains one of the most daring and influential fashion designers working today. This new book of photographs describes an exceptionally fertile and transformational period in his career, one that saw him experiment with new shapes, the application of new materials, and an unprecedented use of color.
Lavishly documenting men’s and women’s collections and featuring Owens’s continuing collaboration with the photographer Danielle Levitt, this book is an unabashed love letter to one of the most devoted followings in contemporary fashion.
Picking up where Rizzoli’s previous monograph on Owens’s work left off, looks from his critically lauded homage to the rock-and-roll designer Larry Legaspi set a frenzied visual pace that never lets up—right through the pandemic, when Owens memorably staged shows on the Lido di Venezia.
Here, the continued evolution of nearly three decades of Owens’s “grunge-meets-glamour” worldview is seen close up. Grace and grit are paired with an obsession with structural transformation and movement, where diaphanous, flowing shapes contrast with sharp objects. This formal invention is matched by a mania for new and exotic materials. The use of translucent bovine leathers, brightly dyed snakeskin, and the hide of the pirarucu, a massive Amazonian fish, are applied to old and new icons of the brand. Color is now firmly part of the Owens legendarium, and a profligacy of pink, orange, blue, green, and iridescent hues now vie with trademark black, oxblood, and dust that have been part of the palette since the inception of the brand.
Owens’s newest provocations, grounded by the portraiture of Danielle Levitt, achieves a sublime unity in this essential volume. 9780847873371 Inventory Number: I00230922 -
Shaniqwa Jarvis: Everywhere You Go There You Are
(JARVIS, SHANIQWA). Los Angeles, 2023: Shaniqwa Jarvis in collaboration with Control Gallery, I00230729. . Limited Edition of 300 copies. 8 1/2 x 9 inches. Paperback. New.
Published in conjunction with the must-see exhibition at Control Gallery in Los Angeles.
"Jarvis embarks on a quest to reconnect with a sense of place and redefine the concept of home through her compelling visual art. Delving into the interplay of solitude, nostalgia, and self-connection, Everywhere You Go, There You Are shines a light on an often overlooked aspect of Jarvis’ evolving career. This new body of work diverges from the emotional portraiture she is renowned for, encompassing medium and large format photographs —significantly marking her expansion into painted textiles and collages, which are a nod to the innocence of youth. Through these mediums, Jarvis explores the essence of childlike wonder and creativity, adding depth and layers to her story of place and identity.
'I am making images that people may not want to see from me, which I often see as part of my own identity politics. When I step back and look at what my memory allowed me to forget, I see that no matter where you go, there you are. These beautiful yet banal moments serve as reminders to pay attention, to be present, and to create deliberately.' shares Shaniqwa Jarvis." - Control Gallery
Limited edtion
Inventory Number: I00230729
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AWOL ERIZKU: MYSTIC PARALLAX - SIGNED BY THE ARTIST (SHIPPING JULY 18th, 2023)
(ERIZKU, AWOL). Erizku, Awol, Ashley James, Doreen St. Felix, Urs Fischer & Antwaun Sargent. Foreword by Ishmael Reed. New York: Aperture and The Momentary, I00230705. 2023. First Edition. 12 x 9 1/2". Cloth in Illustrated Dust Jacket. Artist Monograph. As New/As New. 9781597115469
300pp, 168 illustrations in color and b&w. "Working across photography, film, video, painting, and installation, Awol Erizku's work references and re-imagines African-American and African visual culture, from hip hop vernacular to Nefertiti, while nodding to traditions of spirituality and Surrealism. This comprehensive monograph spans the artist’s career, blending his studio practice with his work as an in-demand editorial photographer working regularly for the New Yorker, New York magazine, Time, and GQ, among others, and features his conceptual portraits of Black cultural icons such as Solange, Amanda Gorman, and Michael B. Jordan. As Erizku recently told the New York Times, “It’s important for me to create confident, powerful, downright regal images of Black people.”
Featuring essays by critically acclaimed author Ishmael Reed, curator Ashley James, and writer Doreen St. Félix, and interviews with the artist by Urs Fischer and Antwaun Sargent, Mystic Parallax is a luminous and arresting testament to the artist’s tremendous power and originality."
A brand new, most handsome example of this spectacularly designed and produced first monograph additionally signed "Awol Erizku" in ink on the front pastedown.
Inventory Number: E000AEMP
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FAMILY: THE SOURCE FAMILY SCRAPBOOK
(BROTHERHOOD OF THE SOURCE, THE). Aquarian, Isis, Charlie Kitchings and Jodi Wille. Los Angeles, CA + Brooklyn, NY: )therworld + Sacred Bones Books, I00230314. 2022. First Edition. 11 x 12". Pictorial Boards. Photographic History. New./No Jacket - As Issued. 220pp, profusely illustrated in color and black and white. 978-0999609989
"Family: The Source Family Scrapbook" provides an immersive view into the public and private world of the Southern California occult commune The Brotherhood of the Source. Edited by Isis Aquarian, Charlie Kitchings, and Jodi Wille, this lavishly illustrated book reproduces two hundred original scrapbook pages assembled by family historian Isis Aquarian from 1972-1977, documenting the group’s dramatic rise and fall, from their time living together in the Hollywood Hills operating their wildly popular Source vegetarian restaurant on the Sunset Strip to their exodus to Hawaii and San Francisco as the group began to unravel. Copious unpublished photographs, newspaper clippings, letters, manifestos, album art and flyers, augmented by descriptive captions reveal the Source Family’s astonishing trajectory, from controversial leader Father Yod’s spiritual awakening to the group’s wild musical and social experimentations, to the provocations that led to the group’s paradise lost. These pages provide a revelatory, firsthand view into the widely misunderstood phenomenon of new religious movements and cults of the 1960s and 70s." A brand new, pristine copy of this enthralling document.Inventory Number: E000IAFTSFS
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Bruce Weber - All-American XXII: That Towering Feeling
(WEBER, BRUCE). Nan Bush and Bruce Weber.. Little Bear Press, I00221215, 2022. 9 1/2 x 12 in. 152 pages • 97 color & 64 duotone plates. Softcover, 1/1000. New.
Consider the sky on a new moon night; gaze out at horizon by the sea as the waves roll in. That “towering feeling” explored in this year’s edition of Bruce Weber’s All-American journal can be experienced in such moments—when the immensity and inscrutability of human emotion intersect with the practical vagaries of life on this fragile earth.
Time is a central presence in this 22nd edition. A rich, poignant photo essay by Weber lies at the heart of the issue—a reunion with Aungelique Patton-James, a poet he met while working in Detroit sixteen years ago. Equal part reminisce and reverie, this story presents a new, unexpected take on central themes of Weber’s oeuvre: the tension between fantasy and reality, the importance of family, the seduction of romance and the joys of juxtaposition—in this case Aungelique with the beguiling actress and model Tina Kunakey from Biarritz.
The hopeful pursuit of Dr. Denise Herzing, a marine biologist who has spent the better part of her career trying to crack the language to dolphins, is beautifully documented by the photographer Tanya Burnett. An intimate view of Dr. Paul Farmer, the celebrated co-founder of Partners in Health and tireless advocate for the poor, is shared by the photographer and writer Behna Gardner, who traveled with him extensively. And Bruce Weber shares a deeply personal tribute to Alden Powers, a young musician and student who he photographed for many years.
All-American XXII: That Towering Feeling includes lyrics by Geoff Stephens and Les Reed and a suite of poems by William Stafford. 9798218093464 Inventory Number: I00221215 -
Topographies: Aerial Surveys of the American Landscape Stephen Shore
(SHORE, STEPHEN). With essays by Noah Chasin and Richard B. Woodward. MACK , I00221214, 2022. 30.5 x 25.2 cm, 204 pages. Hardcover. New.
Topographies: Aerial Surveys of the American Landscape presents the latest body of work from Stephen Shore: a series of photographs shot by drone from 2020 onwards, which reveal in arresting detail the interplay of natural and man-made landscapes in Montana, North Carolina, New York, and beyond.
In this new body of work, Shore revisits the original ambitions of the renowned 1975 exhibition ‘New Topographics’, using a new aerial viewpoint to consider afresh the concerns of the movement – the objective, the commonplace, and the relationship of the natural and man-made in the American landscape – reflecting on how these might be applied in the twenty-first century.
As much as exploring the formal possibilities of the aerial photograph, Topographies displays a glorious dedication to detail and surprise, in which the slightest bend of a river or turn of a shadow uncovers the textures and colours of America’s urban and suburban landscapes, all investigated with Shore’s signature rigour.
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Joan Didion: What She Means
(DIDION, JOAN). DELMONICO BOOKS/HAMMER MUSEUM Joan Didion: What She Means Edited by Hilton Als, Connie Butler. Introduction by Ann Philbin. Text by Hilton Als, Joan Didion.. DELMONICO BOOKS/HAMMER MUSEUM, I00221211, 2022. 9 x 12.5 in. / 128 pgs / 80 color / 32 bw.. Cloth. New.
An exploration of the visual corollary to Didion’s life and work and the feeling that each generates in her admirers, detractors and critics—including artists from Helen Lundeberg to Diane Arbus, Betye Saar to Maren Hassinger, Vija Celmins and Andy Warhol
In Joan Didion: What She Means, the writer and curator Hilton Als creates a mosaic that explores Didion's life and work and the feeling each generates in her admirers, detractors and critics.
Arranged chronologically, the book highlights Didion's fascination with the two coasts that made her. As a Westerner transplanted to New York, Didion was able to look at her native land, its mores and fixed rules of behavior, with the loving and critical eyes of a daughter who got out and went back. (Didion and her late husband moved from New York to Los Angeles in 1964, where they worked as highly successful screenwriters, producing scripts for 1971's The Panic in Needle Park and 1976's A Star Is Born, among other works, before returning to New York 20 years later.) And from her New York perch, Didion was able to observe the political scene more closely, writing trenchant pieces about Clinton, El Salvador and most searingly the Central Park Five. The book includes more than 50 artists ranging from Brice Marden and Ed Ruscha to Betye Saar, Vija Clemins and many others, with works in all mediums including painting, ephemera, photography, sculpture, video and film. Also included are three previously uncollected texts by Didion: “In Praise of Unhung Wreaths and Love” (1969); a much-excerpted 1975 commencement address at UC Riverside; and “The Year of Hoping for Stage Magic” (2007).
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William Eggleston: The Outlands: Selected Works
(EGGELSTON, WILLIAM). Foreword by William Eggleston III Texts by Rachel Kushner and Robert Slifkin.. DavidDavid Zwirner Books, I00221211, 2022. 10.75 × 14.75 in | 27.3 × 37.5 cm. Softcover, with flaps. New.
A selection of nearly one hundred previously unseen images from the 1960s and 1970s by the pioneer of color photography, William Eggleston.
The Outlands, a series of photographs taken by Eggleston between 1969 and 1974, establishes the groundbreaking visual themes and lexicon that the artist would continue to develop for decades to come. The work offers a journey through the mythic and evolving American South, seen through the artist’s lens: vibrant colors and a profound sense of nostalgia echo throughout Eggleston’s breathtaking oeuvre. His motifs of signage, cars, and roadside scenes create an iconography of American vistas that inspired a generation of photographers. With its in-depth selection of unforgettable images—a wood-paneled station wagon, doors flung open, parked in an expansive rural setting; the artist’s grandmother in the moody interior of their family’s Sumner, Mississippi home—The Outlands is emblematic of Eggleston’s dynamic, experimental practice. The breadth of work reenergizes his iconic landscapes and forms a new perspective of the American South in transition.
Accompanying the ninety brilliant Kodachrome images and details, a literary, fictional text by the critically acclaimed author Rachel Kushner imagines a story of hitchhikers trekking through the Deep South. New scholarship by Robert Slifkin reframes the art-historical significance of Eggleston’s oeuvre, proposing affinities with work by Marcel Duchamp, Dan Graham, Jasper Johns, and Robert Smithson. A foreword by William Eggleston III offers important insights into the process of selecting and sequencing this series of images.
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DOUG AITKEN: WORKS 1992-2022 - SIGNED BY THE ARTIST
(AITKEN, DOUG). Aitken, Doug, Joseph Akel, Daniel Birnbaum, Marc Spiegler, Terry Riley, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Joseph Grima, April Lamm, Susan Solomon & Jorg Heiser. London, UK: MACK Books, I00221206. 2022. First Edition. Stout 4to. Debossed Cloth. Artist Monograph. New/No Jacket - As Issued. 608pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. 9781913620257
PLEASE NOTE: Mr. Aitken will be signing copies of "Works 1992-2022" at Arcana Saturday, December 16th between 4:00 and 6:00 PM. If you cannot attend and would like to order a signed copy to have shipped or to pick up at the shop, please purchase by selecting "Add To Cart" below. Orders will begin shipping Tuesday, December 19th.
"This comprehensive new book explores the career of multimedia artist Doug Aitken, following the path from his first major works through to the present day. Aitken’s practice encompasses large-scale film installations such as Sleepwalkers (2007), site-specific sculptures including his Underwater Pavilions (2016) installed off the coast of Catalina Island, California, and peripatetic happenings like Station to Station (2013), which saw a train containing a travelling studio cross the USA from the Atlantic to the Pacific, staging unique performance events at each stop. Weaving together images and text in an energetic composition of rhythm and movement, this authoritative volume mirrors the ways in which Aitken has approached and explored the contemporary world in his conceptual body of work across multiple mediums. Works 1992-2022 features an introduction by Joseph Akel, an extended essay on Aitken’s oeuvre by Daniel Birnbaum, plus archival essays and interviews with the artist by writers Marc Spiegler, Terry Riley, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Joseph Grima, April Lamm, Susan Solomon, and Jörg Heiser."
Inventory Number: E000DAW1992
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Steven Klein
(KLEIN, STEVEN). . Phaidon, I00221111, 2022. 356 × 305 mm (14 × 12 in), 464 pages. Hardbound. New.
The first and only monograph on Klein, whose hyperreal and sexually charged images have captivated viewers for 30 years.
One of the fashion industry's most cunning provocateurs, photographer Steven Klein has created many of the most iconic images of our time. Klein's photographs blur the line between fiction and reality, resulting in stunning tableaux that only exist within his fantastical worlds. Although his images include some of the most photographed people in the world, they disappear into the narrative of Klein's imagination.
The book includes images originally published in magazines such as Interview, W, Vogue, Vogue Italia, Vogue Paris, Vogue Hommes, i-D, among many others, and iconic faces such as those of Madonna, Brad Pitt, Kim Kardashian, and Rihanna.
Klein has worked with notable clients including Balenciaga, Dolce & Gabbana, Tom Ford, Alexander McQueen, and Louis Vuitton. His work has also been exhibited at galleries and museums globally such as Deitch Projects, Gagosian, and the International Center of Photography, among others. Edited by author Mark Holborn, this first survey of Klein's work showcases his extravagant, hyperreal creations and illuminates his singular vision.
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Henry Taylor B Side
(TAYLOR, HENRY). Edited by Bennett Simpson. Foreword by Johanna Burton. Text by Wanda Coleman, Karon Davis, Charles Gaines, Harmony Holiday, Bob Kaufman, Walter Price, Bennett Simpson, Frances Stark. Conversation with Henry Taylor, Hamza Walker.. DELMONICO BOOKS/THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, LOS ANGELES, I00221109, 2022. 9 x 11 in. / 240 pgs / 191 color.. Hardbound. New/No Jacket - As Issued.
The official catalog accompanying the major retrospective at MoCA LA. Henry Taylor creates a grand pageant of contemporary Black life in America.
Surveying 30 years of Henry Taylor’s work in painting, sculpture and installation, this comprehensive monograph celebrates a Los Angeles artist widely appreciated for his unique aesthetic, social vision and freewheeling experimentation. Taylor’s portraits and allegorical tableaux—populated by friends, family members, strangers on the street, athletic stars and entertainers—display flashes of familiarity in their seemingly brash compositions, which nonetheless linger in the imagination with uncanny detail. In his paintings on cigarette packs, cereal boxes and other found supports, Taylor brings his primary medium into the realm of common culture. Similarly, the artist’s installations often recode the forms and symbolisms of found materials (bleach bottles, push brooms) to play upon art historical tropes and modernism’s appropriations of African or African American culture. Taken together, the various strands of Taylor’s practice display a deep observation of Black life in America at the turn of the century, while also inviting a humanist fellowship that pushes outward from the particular.
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ICE COLD: A HIP-HOP JEWELRY HISTORY BY VIKKI TOBAK
(TOBAK, VIKKI). Taschen, I00221014, 2022. 9.8 x 13.4 in., 388 pages. Hardbound. New/No Jacket - As Issued.
Whether it's diamond-encrusted grills, oversized “truck” style chains, bust-down Rolex and Patek Philippe watches or a Tiffany necklace, jewelry is a cornerstone of hip-hop culture. Glittering, blinged-out jewels are the shining statement of a collective identity: unapologetic, charismatic, and street savvy.
Spanning the history of hip-hop jewelry, from the 1980s to today, Ice Cold: A Hip-Hop Jewelry History is a stunning compilation of storytelling and visuals. Hundreds of extraordinary images of every major hip-hop artist on record celebrate how “Ice” has become a proclamation of identity and self-expression.
Starting with Run-DMC’s gold Adidas pendants and Eric B. & Rakim’s ostentatious dookie rope chains and Mercedes medallions, the jewelry then transforms from street style into a booming design culture. The hip-hop tradition of “show up and show out” reaches new heights with artists like Pharrell Williams, Jay-Z, Gucci Mane, and Cardi B, whose over-the-top pieces integrate unique pop culture references, unconventional materials, and enduring collaborations with artists like Takashi Murakami.
Author Vikki Tobak reveals – in great detail – the work of pioneering jewelers such as Tito Caicedo of Manny’s, Eddie Plein, and Jacob the Jeweler as well as newer artisans such as Avianne & Co., Ben Baller/IF & Co., Greg Yuna, Johnny Dang, Eliantte, and many more.
Ice Cold is a treasure trove of dazzling, inspirational style, featuring the work of leading photographers, including Wolfgang Tillmans, Janette Beckman, Jamel Shabazz, Timothy White, Gillian Laub, David LaChapelle, Danny Clinch, Chris Buck, Mike Miller, Phil Knott, Raven B. Varona, Al Pereira, Albert Watson and many more.
A foreword by hip-hop superstar Slick Rick and essays by A$AP Ferg, LL COOL J, Kevin “Coach K’ Lee and Pierre “P” Thomas of Quality Control Music take us on personal journeys into their jewelry universe.
Ice Cold goes beyond the ostentatious bling to reveal a transformative story that is loud and proud.
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Diane Arbus: Documents
(ARBUS, DIANE). Texts by 55 authors, including Hilton Als, A. D. Coleman, Holland Cotter, Jacob Deschin, Germaine Greer, Hilton Kramer, Arthur Lubow, Janet Malcolm, Francine Prose, Sukhdev Sandhu, Peter Schjeldahl, Adrian Searle, Susan Sontag, Lynne Tillman, and Colm Tóibín Edited by Max Rosenberg. David Zwirner Books/Fraenkel Gallery, I00221014, 2022. 8.5 × 11 in | 21.6 × 27.9 cm, 496 p. Hardbound. New/No Jacket - As Issued.
Through an assemblage of articles, criticism, and essays from 1967 to the present, this groundbreaking publication charts the reception of the photographer’s work and offers comprehensive insight into the critical conversations, as well as misconceptions, around this highly influential artist.
Best known for her penetrating images exploring what it means to be human, Diane Arbus is a pivotal and singular figure in American postwar photography. Arbus’s black-and-white photographs demolish aesthetic conventions and upend all certainties. Both lauded and criticized for her photographs of people deemed “outsiders,” Arbus continues to be a lightning rod for a wide range of opinions surrounding her subject matter and approach. Critics and writers have described her work as “sinister” and “appalling” as well as “revelatory,” “sincere,” and “compassionate.” Through an assemblage of articles, criticism, and essays from 1967 to the present, Diane Arbus Documents charts the reception of the revolutionary photographer's work.
Illuminating fifty years of evolution in the field of art criticism, Documents provides a new template for understanding the work of any formidable artist. Organized in eleven sections that focus on major exhibitions and significant events emerging from Arbus’s work, as well as on her methods and intentions, the sixty-nine facsimiles of previously published articles and essays––an archive by all accounts––trace the discourse on Arbus, contextualizing her inimitable oeuvre. Supplemented by an annotated bibliography of more than six hundred entries and a comprehensive exhibition history, Documents serves as an important resource for photographers, researchers, art historians, and art critics, in addition to students of art criticism and the interested reader alike.
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LIZA LOU
(LOU, LIZA). Julia Bryan-Wilson and Cathleen Chaffee and Glenn Adamson and Elisabeth Sherman, Contributions by Carrie Mae Weems. Designed by Conny Purtill.. Rizzoli Electa, I00221004. 2022. 9 x 11-3/4, 296 pages. Hardcover. Art Monograph. New/No Jacket - As Issued.
The most comprehensive book on the work of Liza Lou, whose popular and critically acclaimed installations made entirely of beads consider the important themes of women, community, and the valorization of labor.
Liza Lou first gained attention in 1996 when her room-sized sculpture Kitchen was shown at the New Museum in New York. Representing five years of individual labor, this groundbreaking work subverted standards of art by introducing glass beads as a fine art material. The project blurred the rigid boundary between fine art and craft, and established Lou's long-standing exploration of materiality, process, and beauty. Working within a craft métier has led the artist to work in a variety of socially engaged settings, from community groups in Los Angeles, to a collective she founded in Durban, South Africa. Over the past fifteen years, Lou has focused on a poetic approach to abstraction as a way to highlight the process underlying her work.
In this comprehensive volume that considers the entirety of Lou’s singular vision, curators, art historians, and artists offer important perspectives on the breadth of the work. 9780847870752 Inventory Number: I00221004 -
AVE PILDAS: STAR STRUCK - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER
(PILDAS, AVE). Campany, David & Ave Pildas. Los Angeles: Deadbeat Club Press, I00221000. 2022. First Edition 1/750 Copies. 4to. Gilt-Stamped Cloth with Pictorial Pastedown. Photography Monograph. As New./No Jacket - As Issued. 104pp, profusely illustrated in duotone. Designed by Clint Woodside. 978-1-952523-04-5
PLEASE NOTE: Mr. Pildas will be signing copies of "Star Struck" at Arcana Saturday, October 8th between 4:00 and 6:00 PM. If you cannot attend and would like to order a signed copy to have shipped or to pick up at the shop, please purchase by selecting "Add To Cart" below. Orders will begin shipping Tuesday, October 11th.
"Hollywood Boulevard, Walk of Fame, 1970s. You were there, with your camera, with your love of life and people. It seems you turned the sidewalk into a little stage, and everyone came for a momentary audition. Some wanted to be famous, some were ok with a walk-on part, most were just happy to see you.”
So writes David Campany of the pictures in Star Struck, the first monograph from the legendary Ave Pildas in more than forty years. These photographs were made between 1972 and 1975 in perhaps the most famous of the many famous spots in Los Angeles – but at a time when Hollywood had more of a neighborhood feel and a raucous diversity was the norm.
In Pildas' generous and gentle view, everyone is an A-list celebrity. And he should know! Those who have sat before his camera include Billie Holiday, John Coltrane, and the Velvet Underground. Pildas brings the same joyous discipline to regular folks on the street as he did to his well-known work for DownBeat magazine and Capitol Records.
In the end, the most beautiful and beguiling thing about Star Struck is that you’re not sure if the title refers to the people whom Ave Pildas encountered on Hollywood Boulevard, or to the photographer himself. A brand new, most handsome example of this charming volume hot off The Deadbeat Club Press limited to seven hundred and fifty copies additionally SIGNED by Ave Pildas in ink.
Inventory Number: E000APSS
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PENNY WOLIN: GUEST REGISTER
(WOLIN, PENNY) Penny Wolin. Cheyenne, Wyoming. Printed at Trifolio SRL, Italy: Crazy Woman Creek Press, I00221000. 2022. First Edition 1/2000. 14 x 11 inches, 88 pages, 51 tritone plates, tritone and 4-color. Hardcover. Photography Monograph. New/No Jacket - As Issued. “Penny Wolin from Cheyenne, Wyoming flies into Hollywood on the wings of inspiration and intuition and lands at the St. Francis Hotel. There, in three short weeks as a tenant, Penny creates a body of photographs and text comparable to those of the great documentary photographers of the 20th century, only to be hidden in the photographer’s archive for nearly fifty years – until now.”
— Norman Mauskopf, Photographer
When Penny Wolin created Guest Register in 1975, she was twenty-one and a recent transplant to Hollywood from Cheyenne, Wyoming. You can see the residents of the St. Francis Hotel as people who could not fit in elsewhere, or you can see them, as Wolin does, as people whose dreams are bigger than their rooms. She moved into the 1920s hotel, a five-story pay-by-the week building on Hollywood Boulevard and began photographing her neighbors. She could see at once it was a “milieu of dreamers,” both those who “had not yet realized their dreams” and those who “had left them behind.” Wolin suspended judgement. She was not categorizing the residents as she made her rounds, and her project was not intended to fix anything. This generosity of spirit is the defining quality of Guest Register. The book is arranged as a tour, one image per spread, with residents identified by their room number and an insightful caption. The tour begins on the ground floor in room 105, vacated by the death of a former stuntman, and rises to a barbell aficionado in the penthouse, before returning to earth by way of an artisan welder in the basement, who seems to have lit his cigarette with a flaming torch. Guest Register is a both a culmination and a relaunch for an endeavor that is about the possibility of a second chance for all of us.
9780967635743 Inventory Number: I00221000 -
KANDIS WILLIAMS
(WILLIAMS, KANDIS) Introduction by Ebony L. Haynes. Text by Hannah Black. Conversation between Kandis Williams and Okwui Okpokwasili. David Zwirner Books, I00220922, 2022. 9 x 7 inches, 96 Pages. Hardcover. New/No Jacket - As Issued.
The inaugural volume in a new series of books, Kandis Williams documents the Los Angeles–based artist’s exhibition A Line. Interrogating issues of race, nationalism, authority, and eroticism, her topical work is made across collage, sculpture, and video.
Williams draws on her background in dramaturgy to envision a space that accommodates the biopolitical economies that inform how movement might be read. Looking at the interconnections between popular culture and myth, she relates in her work anatomy, regions of Black diaspora, and communication and obfuscation. Williams’s body of work shapes an alternative language that examines how Black moving bodies are regarded. Williams continues to make visible the inexpressible violence Black bodies have been subjected to in dance and beyond.
Featuring contributions by the curator of 52 Walker—a David Zwirner gallery space—Ebony L. Haynes and the artist and writer Hannah Black, and a stirring conversation between Williams and the artist Okwui Okpokwasili, the book serves as an extension of the exhibition. Included are high-quality illustrations of the artworks alongside rich archival materials. 9781644230688 Inventory Number: I00220924 -
THE ART OF RON COBB
(COBB, RON). Titan, I00220921, 2022. 12 x 9 inches, 208 Pages. Hardcover. New.
During his sixty-year career, Ron Cobb provided concept art for some of the biggest films in sci-fi cinema. From designing spaceships for Alien, Dark Star, and Firefly and Delorean from Back to the Future to character designs for Conan the Barbarian and creature concepts for Star Wars and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Ron has left a legacy of artwork behind to inspire future generations of concept artists.
This beautiful coffee table book is full to the brim with Ron Cobb’s artwork from throughout his career and includes exclusive insights from the talent he worked with along the way, including James Cameron, Joe Johnston, Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale, and Nick Castle. 9781789099584 Inventory Number: I00220921 -
MARK NEVILLE: STOP TANKS WITH BOOKS (SECOND EDITION)
(NEVILLE, MARK). Nazraeli Press, I00220920, 2022. 12 x 13 inches, 180 Pages. Hardcover. New/No Jacket - As Issued.
British artist Mark Neville moved home and studio from London to live in Kyiv, Ukraine, last year. With 100,000 Russian troops amassed on the Ukrainian border and the whole country on the cusp of war, Neville’s book project, Stop Tanks With Books, calls on the international community to urgently support Ukraine and help deter further Russian invasion.
Since 2015 Neville has been documenting life in Ukraine, with subjects ranging from holidaymakers on the beaches of Odessa, to the Roma communities on the Hungarian border, the churchgoers and nightclubbers of Kyiv, to both civilians and soldiers living on the frontline in Eastern Ukraine. Eighty of Neville’s photographs are brought together in this book, edited by David Campany, together with short stories about the conflict from Ukrainian novelist Lyuba Yakimchuk; research from the Centre of Eastern European Studies in Berlin about the 2.5 million Ukrainians already displaced by the war; and a call to action for the international community.
Employing his unique, activist strategy of a targeted book dissemination, Neville sent out 750 complimentary copies of the book’s first edition to key policymakers, opinion-makers, ambassadors, members of parliament, members of the international community and its media, as well as those involved directly in peace talks. The aim is for recipients of this book to be prompted into real action which will result in an end to the war, an end to the killing in Eastern Ukraine, and the withdrawal of Russian forces from occupied territories in Donbas and Crimea. An additional 750 copies were also available through Nazraeli Press for general distribution internationally, and quickly sold out.
Neville wrote in the first edition: “The atmosphere is extremely tense. Bomb shelters and siren drills are being prepared in the capital. Do we stay and fight? Or do we flee Ukraine completely? I wonder what the international response would be if Stockholm, London, Paris, or New York were threatened with an unprovoked and imminent invasion by Russia? Our book is a prayer and a necessary plea to the international community and Nazraeli Press and I have pulled out all the stops to get our book printed and disseminated before Putin invades." Published post-invasion, this important second edition of the book includes an updated artist’s statement and maps. 9781590055861 Inventory Number: I00220920 -
MARC KARZEN: LATE NIGHT BUMPERS - 40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
(KARZEN, MARC). Self-Published, I00220916, 2022. 8 x 10 inches, 72 Pages. Hardcover. New/No Jacket - As Issued.
Television shows use images, animations, photographs or graphics before and after commercials as a way of identifying to the channel surfing viewer what they are watching and create a cushion between the show and commercials. These images are called bumpers. In broadcasting, if a local affiliate switched from a local spot back to the network’s show and was off by a second or two, bumpers close that gap.
Over 11 years from 1982-1992, I photographed a series of slice of life New York moments that punctuated segments and guests on Late Night with David Letterman.
This work is all pre-digital, predates Photoshop and everything was shot on 35mm and 120 film cameras.
Graphics art director Bob Pook, graphics producer Edd Hall and I set off into the night over the years to find as many possible ways to integrate the Late Night with David Letterman name into New York life.
These Bumpers challenged viewers to find where and how the show title was integrated into an image as they were only on screen for 3 seconds at a time.
Sometimes we brought props that we put in camera. But for most images, our team of designers, Bill Shortridge, Arlen Schumer and Bob Pook prepared the prints with rub-on type, glued on polaroids, air brush and markers onto the mounted chromogenic master C-prints.
Finally, Dave had approval of all images before they made the airwaves.
Enjoy having a look again, even if it's for the first time!
A brand new, most handsome example additionally SIGNED by author Marc Karzen. 9781006285219 Inventory Number: I00220916 -
BETYE SAAR: SERIOUS MOONLIGHT
(SAAR, BETTY) Edited with text by Stephanie Seidel. Foreword by Alex Gartenfeld. Text by Sampada Aranke, Edwidge Danticat. Interview by Leah Ollman.. ICA Miami / Delmonico Books, I00220915, 2022. 11 x 8 inches, 208 Pages. Hardcover. New.
Rarely seen installation works that exemplify this pioneering artist’s critical focus on Black identity and Black feminism
Showcasing a lesser-known aspect of Saar’s art, Betye Saar: Serious Moonlight provides new insights into her explorations of ritual, spirituality and cosmologies, as well as themes of the African diaspora. Featured here are significant installations created by Saar from 1980 to 1998, including Oasis (1984), a work that will be reconfigured at ICA Miami’s Saar exhibition for the first time in more than 30 years.
With compelling scholarship and rich illustration—combining new installation photography and archival material—the monograph provides a fresh look at this significant artist’s critical and influential practice. Betye Saar: Serious Moonlight reinforces and celebrates Saar’s standing as a visionary artist, storyteller and mythmaker, and the ongoing significance and relevance of her work to the most pressing issues in America today. 9781636810362 Inventory Number: I00220915 -
YOSHITOMO NARA: PINACOTECA
(NARA, YOSHITOMO) Text by Simon Reynolds, Stephanie Rosenthal. Pace Publishing, I00220908. 2022. 10 x 12 inches, 112 Pages. Hardcover. New/No Jacket - As Issued.
Recent works and a gorgeously crafted miniature gallery from the much-loved Japanese artist
From the outset of his career, Japanese painter and sculptor Yoshitomo Nara (born 1959) has fruitfully explored the relationship between art and the space in which it is placed. At the cornerstone of Nara's recent exhibition in Pace's London gallery was the most recent product of his ongoing study: a new multiroom installation that was reworked from an earlier project titled London Mayfair House.
Borrowing its title from the Ancient Greco-Roman term for a public art salon, Pinacoteca (2021) is a specially crafted, tiny, homelike structure that imitates an exhibition space. On the internal walls, the artist hung new paintings on wood and canvas as well as drawings on paper, used envelopes and cardboard boxes. On the external walls, which have been directly painted onto, Nara hung new paintings that are stylistically simpler and more graphic than the works inside the installation.
Yoshitomo Nara: Pinacoteca presents a close look at the structure, as well as the artist’s recent paintings, sculpture and works on cardboard also displayed in the exhibition. An essay by acclaimed music writer Simon Reynolds explores the relationship of music to Nara’s artistic production, and an essay by curator Stephanie Rosenthal dives deep into the role of built environments in the artist's oeuvre. 9781948701556 Inventory Number: I00220908