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1960s Nichigeki Music Hall Program: The Legend of the White Serpent
AU$35.00 Read MoreAdd to cartNichigeki Music Hall
Tokyo: Nichigeki Music Hall, 1960.Program for a 1960s topless revue at the Nichigeki Music Hall, also known as the Nihon-Gekijo, an iconic Tokyo theatre from the 1930s up until 1981 when it was demolished for redevelopment. Post-war the theatre hosted burlesque shows and motion picture features for American servicemen and tourists.
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1970s Nichigeki Music Hall Program: [Your Skin is Mont Blanc Snow]
AU$35.00 Read MoreAdd to cartNichigeki Music Hall
Tokyo: Nichigeki Music Hall, 1972.Program for a 1970s topless revue at the Nichigeki Music Hall, also known as the Nihon-Gekijo, an iconic Tokyo theatre from the 1930s up until 1981 when it was demolished for redevelopment. Post-war the theatre hosted burlesque shows and motion picture features for American servicemen and tourists.
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Paris-Tokyo Golden’60 Teijin Fashion Fair
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTeijin
Tokyo: Teijin, 1960.Program for a 1960s fashion show in Tokyo featuring Parisian models Nicole Crassat, Chrstine Saunier, Laure Nicole, Anne-Marie Bocheux, and Marianne Leroy-Beaulieu. Rare, unrecorded in OCLC or CiNii.
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The Context
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAlexandro Segade
New York: Primary Information, 2020.“The Context reimagines the superhero comic book as a queer parable of belonging. The story follows six powerful beings from different worlds who find themselves inexplicably adrift together in an otherwise lifeless void: Biopower, Cathexis, Barelife, Objector, Drives, and Form. The characters, each named for a concept drawn from critical theory, engage one another in skintight fight scenes that often look like sex scenes, and philosophical debates masked as exposition.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Sam Snyder’s Fabulous American Water Follies: Australian Tour 1956 Official Souvenir Program
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSam Snyder
Melbourne: Freelance Press, 1956.Programme for a 1956 Australian tour of Sam Snyder’s Water Follies, a swimming show featuring musical and theatrical performance, diving, synchronised swimming, and more. Shows in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, and Perth.
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Camera in Hawaii
AU$45.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPeter Gowland; Adolphe Barreaux
Louisville: Whitestone Publications, 1963.Glamour photography in Hawaii: Waikiki, underwater, beach girls, nudes, surfing, partying, nature. Descriptions of Hawaiian life, fashion, and culture throughout. Whitestone Photo Book 42.
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What We Could Have Become: Reflections on Queer Feminist Filmmaking
AU$27.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMalu Blume
[Eindhoven]: Onomatopee, 2021.“The publication What we could have become explores the radical potentials of care and speculative fiction in the context of queer feminist collective filmmaking. Departing from the experimental short film The Book of S of I (2020) by Malu Blume, this publication is a documentation of the film project just as much as its own artistic medium. Using a performative mode, it weaves together film stills with unreleased set photography, creating a visual narration that reflects caring and kinship through a queer feminist — and femme — lens. With a foreword by editor Sascia Bailer, the booklet contains a transcript of the filmÂ’s narrative voice over and an essay on queer utopian care in the context of The Book of S of I and its making, both written by the artist Malu Blume. The publication concludes with a conversation between Malu Blume and their co-producers, friends and artistic collaborators Ipek Hamzaoglu, Laura Nitsch and Sophie Utikal, moderated by Sascia Bailer. In this conversation the artists and discuss the chances and challenges of collective film making in the context of producing The Book of S of I.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Scientific Research on Historic Asian Ceramics: Proceedings of the Fourth Forbes Symposium at the Freer Gallery of Art
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBlythe McCarthy; Ellen Salzman Chase; Louise Allison Cort; Janet G. Douglas; Paul Jett
London: Archetype Publications, 2009. -
The Araki Effect
AU$75.00 Read MoreAdd to cartFilippo Maggia; Nobuyoshi Araki
Milano: Skira, 2019.“Over 300 images by the most famous contemporary Japanese photographer from the 1960s to today. Nobuyoshi Araki (Tokyo, 1940) is known the world over for his controversial erotic portraits of Japanese women, often bound using the kinbaku (Japanese bondage) technique. A unique figure in contemporary photography, he has always found creative inspiration in his daily existence, without making any distinction between his personal life and public and professional practice. The Araki Effect offers a broad overview of his career: from the first series from 1963-1965, Satchin and His Brother Mabo, to Subway of Love, a large collection of images taken in the Tokyo subway between 1963 and 1972, the year he also made Autumn in Tokyo, which recounts the autumn he spent wandering through the city in the twilight hours. These are followed by Sentimental Night in Kyoto, less well-known than the famous Sentimental Journey, both tributes to his wife, Yoko; Balcony of Love, Death Reality, Tokyo Diary from 2017, and one of his latest collections, Araki’s Paradise from 2019. The power of Araki’s images lies precisely in the force they emanate, the essence of the feeling – be it pain or joy – that the Japanese master puts into every picture. Araki transforms the set into a stage on which only he and the subject exist.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Playback
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRaymond Chandler
London: Harrap, 1985. -
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[On’na no hengen]
AU$180.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJo Keito
Kariya: [Shibafune garo], 1980.Portfolio of 20 prints plus 1 signed copperplate engraving by Japanese artist Jo Keito (1949-).
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Inner Portraits by Szukalski
AU$65.00 Read MoreAdd to cartStanislaw Szukalski
San Francisco: Last Gasp, 2020.Stanislaw Szukalski was a Polish sculptor, painter, draftsman and anthropologist. He was part of the Chicago Renaissance in the 1920s, enjoyed fame in 1930s Poland as a nationalistic sculptor, but spent his last years in obscurity. This book presents a major survey of his portraiture of peers, patrons, and historical figures. Most artworks are accompanied by essays and background information, along with personal anecdotes and reflection, providing an intimate and articulate discussion on art, politics, philosophy, and more. Szukalski is now remembered for both his striking artwork and political, scientific, and philosophical views, including the pseudoscientific-historical theory of Zermatism. In 2018 Szukalski became the subject of the critically acclaimed Netflix documentary ‘Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski’ directed by Irek Dobrowolski and produced by Leonard DiCaprio. Introduction by Ernst Fuchs.
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William S. Burroughs: A Collector’s Guide
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEric C. Shoaf
Providence: Inkblot Publications, 2014.“For decades collectors have marveled and admired the works of William S. Burroughs. The sheer number and variety of publications, whether books, pamphlets, limited editions, signed editions, magazine or journal contributions, contributions to the works of other authors, or simply books and other printed biographical material about Burroughs is well over a thousand different items. The purpose of this Collector’s Guide is to provide a gathering of Burroughs material which was available in the published world through 2008.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Sex-Theater
AU$90.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAndrew Gelpke
Zurich & Leipzig: cpress & Spector, 2015.“Andre Gelpke’s series Sex-Theater was produced in the 1970s and depicted performers from a number of different sex theatres in Hamburg’s St. Pauli district. “The fascination that captivated me as a photographer came from the personality of the individual, from the performer who was prepared to realize in public the secret sexual fantasies of an inhibited society, simply in exchange for a fee.” Sex-Theater was first published as a book in 1981 and quickly sold out. The edition produced by Spector Books together with cpress represents a new “staging” of the series: it includes an expanded selection of images and new texts, and is presented in a form that offers this collection of photos a contemporary framing. The era that is depicted here is over, and the decline of these clubs is documented in Sex-Theater.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Sistaaz of the Castle: SistaazHood: Trans Sex Work Support Group, Cape Town
AU$48.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJan Hoek; Duran Lantink; Gerda van de Glind; SistaazHood
[Ghent]: Art Paper Editions, 2019.“Jan Hoek, fashion designer Duran Lantink and trans sex worker organisation SistaazHood present ‘Sistaaz of the CastleÂ’, an ongoing project about the colorful looks and lives of transgender sex workers that roam the streets of Cape Town, South Africa. Most of the girls are homeless, living under a bridge near Cape TownÂ’s castle. The Sistaaz are eager activists, proud to be trans, proud to be a sex worker, and even prouder of their stunning sense of style. And they want it to be acknowledged. A series of photographs and a fashion collection based on the girlsÂ’ appearance and their ability to turn whatever they find into the most exuberant outfits was created. This has already resulted in a fashion show at Amsterdam Fashion Week (a show in Cape Town in still on the wish list) and a photo exhibition in Foam Amsterdam.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Slow Death Zero
AU$35.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJon B. Cooke; Ronald E. Turner
San Francisco: Last Gasp, 2021.“Slow Death Zero is a revival of the legendary underground horror comix anthology, Slow Death. This one-shot 50th anniversary edition includes all-new comix by 33 writers and artists, with one classic reprint by R. Crumb, 28 stories and pin-ups to chill the bones in our temperature-rising age of global warming. Inspired by the ecological advocacy of the original title, which debuted on the very first Earth Day in 1970, this edition features horrifying tales depicting the environmental calamity facing our world in this time of climate change. The book is headlined by a savage depiction of the implications of the melting polar ice cap in Antarctica, by award-winning cartoonist/illustrator William Stout, who provides the cover. Also included is work by Richard Corben, Rick Veitch, Drew Friedman, Bryan Talbot, Hunt Emerson, Peter Kuper, and many more, as well as unseen work by the late, great Greg Irons. This is a wild and outrageous collection of environmental-themed horror stories, a fat compilation by the most diverse team of Slow Death contributors ever assembled!” Edited by Jon B. Cooke and Ronald E. Turner.
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Dream/Life
AU$1,100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTrent Parke
Sydney: Hot Chilli Press, 1999.Photoseries of Sydney streetlife taken over 5 years in the 1990s. The first published book of Australian photographer Trent Parke (1971-). In 2007 Parke became the first Australian member of Magnum Photos.
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Super Dsquared
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLeslie Kee
[Tokyo]: Danny & Teddy Press, 2013.Photodocumentation of fashion label Dsquared2’s 2013 SS men and women collection by Japan based Singaporean photographer Leslie Kee (1971-). Kee is a successful commercial photographer with numerous big brand clients. His work has been published in fashion magazines including Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Rolling Stone and taken portraits of celebrities including Madonna, Beyonce, Kate Moss, Lady Gaga, Yoko Ono, Jackie Chan, and many others. This copy inscribed by Leslie Kee.
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Ankoku Buto: The Premodern and Postmodern Influence on the Dance of Utter Darkness
AU$25.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSusan Blakeley Klein
Ithaca: East Asia Program, Cornell University, 1988.“A brief introduction to the history, philosophy, and techniques of the Japanese avant-garde dance movement, Ankoku Buto. Evoking images of grotesque beauty, revelling in the seamy underside of human behavior, Buto dance groups such as Sankai Juku and Dai Rakuda-kan have performed to wide critical and popular acclaim, making Buto one of the most influential new forces in the dance world today. The monograph traces the development of Buto from its birth in the bleak post-war landscape of 1950s Japan, and then addresses the question of Buto as a post-modern phenomenon, before going on to examine the influence of traditional Japanese performance on Buto techniques. The last chapter analyzes a specific dance (Niwa – The Garden) by Muteki-sha, to show how these techniques are used concretely. Includes translations of four essays on Buto by contemporary Japanese dance critics.” (publisher’s blurb)
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The Outlaw Bible of American Art
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAlan Kaufman
San Francisco: Last Gasp, 2016.“A 700-page revolutionary art world shocker: a Who’s Who alternative canon of marginalized or famed audodidactic paint-slinging loners who followed their own outrageous, sometimes catastrophic visions to the heights of fame or the depths of Hell. Documenting movements from the post-war to the present, this anthological barbaric yawp contains manifestos, essays, interviews and biographies from some of the most cutting edge American art writers plus hundreds of full color and black and white images and rare photos. The Outlaw Bible of American Art brings together everything from NO! artists, Blackstract Expressionists, Beats and Beckettian Distortionists to Dystopic Futuristic Pranksters, Subcultural Gonzo Anthropologists and Self-Mutilating Visionary Unigenderists in a rollicking visually gorgeous celebration of the reclaimed no-holds-barred spirit of American Art. Includes Boris Lurie, Forrest Bess, Gertrude Stein, Tom Wolfe, Dash Snow, Carlo McCormick, Annie Sprinkle, John Yau, Allen Ginsberg, R. Crumb, Claes Oldenberg, Thomas Nozkowski, Richard Kern, Joe Coleman, Molly Crabapple, David Choe, Robert Williams, Nick Zedd, David Wojnarowicz and hundreds more.” (publisher’s blurb)