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Bad
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBen Robertson
Sydney: Blue Books / Studio Magazines, 2004.A special issue of Blue focussing on leather and SM. (not only) Blue was a glossy coffee table art magazine produced between 1995 and 2007 by Studio Magazines in Sydney, who also published the successful photography magazine, Black+White. “Blue’s agenda is to showcase artists whose work is an authentic representation of gay relationships, gay lifestyles and gay issues” (Blue’s editorial statement) and it did so in a large format filled with nude and semi nude art photography. The premiere issue featured William Yang, Tom Bianchi, Pierre et Gilles, Edmund White, Fiona McGregor, and Ian Roberts, and over its 12 year history featured work from top photographers and features on artists and celebrities including Robert Mapplethorpe, Leigh Bowery, Boy George, Erwin Olaf, k.d. lang, Bruce of LA, Dennis Rodman, Elton John, John Waters, Karl Lagerfield, Jeffrey Smart, Yukio Mishima, Paul Cadmas, William S. Burroughs, George Platt Lynes, Gilbert and George, Rupert Everett, Uma Thurman, Wilhelm von Gloeden and countless others.
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Belfast Punk: Warzone Centre, 1997 – 2003 (Deluxe Edition)
AU$650.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRicky Adam
Bologna: Damiani Editore, 2017.The deluxe edition, limited to 15 copies, with an original signed and numbered photograph by Ricky Adam. “The Warzone Collective began in 1984 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, when a few local punks decided to consolidate their efforts and find their own venue, practice, and social space. In 1986, the Collective opened Giros, its first premises in Belfast, which contained a vegetarian cafe, practice space, and screen printing facilities. It soon became a focal point for anarchists and punks. In 1991 the Collective moved Giros to a larger and more ambitious venue, the spot where all of the photographs in this book were taken. Over the years, thousands of people passed through Giros’ doors. A strong D.I.Y. ethic defined the way gigs and events were organized. It didn’t have an alcohol license, and it was an all ages venue. The Warzone Centre, or The Centre as it was called by some, became the countercultural hub for the greater Belfast area and beyond. Bands from all over the world played there, and it was famous for being one of the best in Europe for D.I.Y. punk. The photographs in this book were taken between 1997 and 2003. Toward the end of 2003, the Centre closed, leaving a huge gap in radical Belfast culture. It reopened in 2011, in a different venue on the opposite side of town and is still going strong today.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Seeing & Being Seen
AU$600.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWilliam Yang
Brisbane: Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, 2021.The deluxe edition, limited to only 50 copies signed by the artist with a limited edition archival inkjet print Golden Summer 1987 / 2016 by William Yang, printed on Hahnemuhle Smooth Cotton Rag paper. The print is signed, titled, dated and editioned by the artist in ink, and mounted inside the upper board in a mylar sleeve housing. “William Yang: Seeing and Being Seen explores photographer and performer William Yang’s five decades of prolific art practice. This is the first major survey exhibition and publication on the artist by a state gallery. Featuring reproductions of over 200 photographs, it traces Yang’s career from his heady early days as a social photographer in the 1970s documenting Sydney’s queer scene through to some of his well-known series addressing family ties, sexual and cultural identity, and the Australian landscape. Developed in collaboration with the artist, the publication also examines the artist’s deep connections to Queensland, including his mid-career explorations of growing up in the far north of the state.” (publisher’s blurb)
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The Australian Native Bear Book: Photographic Studies by Cazneaux
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[Harold] Cazneaux
Sydney: Art in Australia, 1930.Photos of Koalas and with two woodcuts by Margaret Preston. MUIR 1348.
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Finding Your Family Photographs: Major Photographic Collections of Aboriginal People in Western Australia
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartThe Centre for Indigenous History and the Arts
Perth: The Centre for Indigenous History and the Arts, The University of Western Australia, 1999. -
Ben Westwood
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBen Westwood
Tokyo: E. T. Insolite, 1999.“A celebration of femininity — fetish photography by Ben Westwood, the son of British fashion designer Vivienne Westwood. The first monograph of the new star of U.K. fetish photography, Ben Westwood, is full of fetish and chic costumes from “Agent Provokature,” the cultic lingerie shop that his beloved brother runs. This is his first photo collection. Many erotic photos of women posing provocatively in lingerie and fetish gear. Some partial nudity, a little full nudity.” (publisher’s blurb)
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My Uncle’s Murder
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWilliam Yang
Brisbane: Andrew Baker Art Dealer, 2009.Exhibition catalogue for a series of works recounting the story of Yang’s Chinese uncle being shot by the white manager on a North Queensland cane farm.
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Natures Mortes
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMichael Cook
Brisbane: Andrew Baker Art Dealer, 2021.Catalogue for Cook’s final solo show at Andrew Baker.
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Broken Dreams
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMichael Cook
Brisbane: Andrew Baker Art Dealer, 2012.Catalogue for Cook’s first international exhibition, held at October Gallery, London.
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Everything I want to be when I grow up
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPolly Borland
Brisbane: University of Queensland Art Museum, 2012.Celebrated Australian photographer, Polly Borland is famous for her experimental, stylised, and occasionally unsettling portrait images. This exhibition catalogue is from her survey show at UQ Art Museum (University of Queensland), the first to bring together the various diverse threads of her practice. Curated by Alison Kubler, it includes portraits of famous faces such as Cate Blanchett, Nick Cave and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, and the series Australians, The Babies, Bunny and Smudge, and the most recent series, Pupa. “Borland, who draws inspiration from Diane Arbus, carefully directs the costumes, makeup, and poses of her models, creating scenes that are intimate and dystrophic.” This copy signed by Borland.
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Between Worlds
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPolixeni Papetrou
[Melbourne]: Polixeni Papapetrou, 2009.Catalogue for a series of photographic works by contemporary artist Polixeni Papetrou (1960- 2018).
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Life’s Still A Beach
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRennie Ellis
Melbourne: Hardie Grant Books, 1998.A continuation of Rennie Ellis’ 1980s ‘Life’s a…’ series. Australians at the beach in the 1990s.
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Life’s a Parade
AU$250.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRennie Ellis
Melbourne: Lothian, 1986.Uninhibited 1980s Australian fashion culture captured by Rennie Ellis as part of his Life’s a series.
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Decade, 1970-1980
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRennie Ellis
Melbourne: Hardie Grant Books and State Library of Victoria, 2013. -
School Photography
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Dunn
Sydney: Piper Press, 1988.1980s Australian secondary school text on photography with a foreword by Max Dupain and 190 photographs by Australian secondary students.
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City Indians: Photographs of Western Tribal Fashion
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartChris Wroblewski; Nelly Gomez-Vaez
Frankfurt am Main: Eichborn Verlag, 1983.Photographic study of youth subculture in the United Kingdom and Europe in the late 1970s/early 1980s. Divided into sections: Mohicans, Piercing, Skinheads, Rock and Roll, Sons of Hell, Leather, Sic Boys, Dress, Tattoo, Hare Krishna, and Rasta. This copy inscribed by Wroblewski on the title page and with an inscribed laid in postcard of his photograph of one of the tattooed subjects featured in the book.
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Starting Again: A Time in the Life of William Yang
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWilliam Yang
Melbourne: William Heinemann, 1989. -
Soseiki: Wakaki hi no geijutsukatachi / Eikoh Hosoe Portraits
AU$450.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEikoh Hosoe
Tokyo: Kokusho Kankokai, 2012.125 mostly previously unpublished portraits of 35 of Japan’s leading 20th century artists in their youth. Features butoh dancers, writers, artists, and creatives such as Yayoi Kusama, Yukio Mishima, Kazuo Ohno, Tatsumi Hijikata, Min Tanaka, Akira Sato, Yoko Ashikawa, Masuo Ikeda, Shuji Terayama, and others. Limited to 1,500 unnumbered copies, this copy signed by Eikoh to the front free endpaper.
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Superb Youth in a Camera Life-Class, For Artists and Students including Anthropometry and Anatomy (2 Volumes)
AU$2,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn S. Barrington
London: John S. Barrington, 1970.John S. Barrington (1920-1991) was a prolific 20th century British physique photographer. Receiving a formal art training in Paris, he was also a visual artist and sculptor, and earlier in his career worked in theatre design. Barrington began picking up and photographing men at the pool, eventually going on to establish one of the most prolific physique studios of the 20th century, during which time he probably published and distributed more full male nudes than any of his contemporaries up until the changing censorship laws in the latter part of the century. Superb Youth in a Camera Life-Class is one of his scarcest works, unrecorded in public collections, and with a stated limited edition of 100 copies (though this could be Barrington’s marketing at work). It combines his photography and visual art with detailed instruction in the art of the measurements and proportions of the male body, and features numerous photographs and drawings of many of his favourite models, who were also his lovers or unrequited lusts. A prospectus at the end of volume two alludes to a third and fourth volume to be published and available only to subscribers of the first two volumes, though no record can be found of them ever having been published. Rare, unrecorded in OCLC at October, 2023.
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T*
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGiordano Bonora
Milan: Mousse Publishing, 2019.“This book is inspired by the pictures that Giordano Bonora, a young streetcar operator and aspiring photographer, took of Bolognas small transgender community in 1980 (although it would be more correct to speak, in this case, of proto-Transgenderism). Reproduced here for the first time, these raw and gilded images reflect–during a period in Italy characterized by subversive movements and political revolts that were not just rooted in questions of identity–attempts made by T* people at a construction of the self outside the binary logic of the genotypically XY male/genotypically XX female.” (publisher’s blurb) This copy in the publisher’s plastic wrap.