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The Abyss
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLeo Holmes
: Fall of Man, 2019.A Thelemic journey through the Abyss and the Myths of Descent presented in ten parts.
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Gap At the Left Hand of Odin
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAskr Svarte
: Fall of Man, 2019.Modern Norse paganism / Odinism.
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Death of an Alchemist
AU$800.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMichael Prior
Melbourne: Prior Art, 2019.A short compendium of photo-alchemical works chronicling the photographer’s passage toward the void. The final published work by experimental photographer Michael Prior documenting the effects of advanced myeloma on his body through alternative photographic processes. The works are arranged into three themes: Shades of the Alchemist; Garden Images. The Premonitory Return to Nature; The Hospital Room and its Uncanny Inhabitants. Each image has an accompanying commentary relating to the individual image as well as the broader themes, technical and philosophical, which underlie their creation. An accompanying exhibition was held at Fox Darkroom & Gallery, 16 February – 3 March 2019. Prior passed away in May of that year. Preface by Ellie Young. Editing by Dr Dianne Clifton and Richard Freadman. Elegantly bound by Nikola Doslov of Renaissance Bindery. Unrecorded in OCLC or Trove. This copy inscribed by Prior.
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Nature Boy
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBrad Rimmer
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2019.“Nature Boy is a sequel to Australian photographer Brad Rimmer’s monograph Silence (2009). Probing at the essence of rural Australia and the emotional impact of the natural landscape upon individual psyches. Rimmer this time adds stories to the compendium. The raw, yet poetic narratives conjure the late adolescent years of a lad wrestling with whether to stay or leave his remote country homeland for the lure of the city and so much more. A coming-of-age account, the elegant mix of observation and heartfelt reminiscence are almost autobiographical, and hint to the nascent sensibilities of the young Rimmer as an artist.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Monte Cassino (Con Amore)
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSteven Nestor
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2019.“Monte Cassino: Con Amore is an exploration by Steven Nestor of the destruction of a small Italian town Monte Cassino and its monastery in the Second World War. Surviving copies of The Illustrated London News from 1944 lead Nestor on a journey to discover and record the last remaining traces of the devastation of the town and the Benedictine monastery built on the site of the original Abbey chosen and founded by St Benedict in the 6th century. Blending original material from his research archive alongside his own images, Nestor encourages the viewer to cross into an elusive but violent past. The photographic windows throughout this book look out onto a buried past that continues to inform and shape our present through the fragments that have survived destruction, the passage of time and a human quest to overcome disaster. This is a journey across unremarkable contemporary places and into their dark history: forlorn graffiti semaphores in a space once littered with casualties of battle, a collapsed street sign lies unnoticed on the edge of town and autumns mulch burns on the road that snakes its way up to the summit of worship and war.” (publisher’s blurb) This copy signed by Nestor on the title page.
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Monte Cassino (Con Amore) w/ Print
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSteven Nestor
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2019.“Monte Cassino: Con Amore is an exploration by Steven Nestor of the destruction of a small Italian town Monte Cassino and its monastery in the Second World War. Surviving copies of The Illustrated London News from 1944 lead Nestor on a journey to discover and record the last remaining traces of the devastation of the town and the Benedictine monastery built on the site of the original Abbey chosen and founded by St Benedict in the 6th century. Blending original material from his research archive alongside his own images, Nestor encourages the viewer to cross into an elusive but violent past. The photographic windows throughout this book look out onto a buried past that continues to inform and shape our present through the fragments that have survived destruction, the passage of time and a human quest to overcome disaster. This is a journey across unremarkable contemporary places and into their dark history: forlorn graffiti semaphores in a space once littered with casualties of battle, a collapsed street sign lies unnoticed on the edge of town and autumns mulch burns on the road that snakes its way up to the summit of worship and war.” (publisher’s blurb) This copy signed by Nestor on the title page and with a signed photographic print in a paper folder laid in.
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Waiting Under Southern Skies
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartColin Abbott
Sydney: T&G Publishing, [2019].“Waiting Under Southern Skies is a selection of evocative, and previously unpublished, images from Colin Abbotts personal archive of over 50 years documenting Australian life, as it presented to him. It is an intimate narrative of people and places during a period of immense social change in Australia.” (publisher’s blurb) This copy signed by Abbott on the title page and with a signed photographic print in a paper folder laid in.
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Bjelke Blues: Stories of Repression and Resistance in Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s Queensland, 1968-1987
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEdwina Shaw
[Brisbane]: AndAlso Books, 2019. -
Gateways Through Light and Shadow: A True Relation of What Transpired Between Frater Ashen Chassan, His Scryer Benn mac Stiofan and the Spirits
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBryan Garner; Frater Ashen Chassan
Portland: Azoth Pres, 2019. -
’93: Punching the Light
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSimon Burstall
[Bologna]: Damiani, 2019.Photo documentation of the early 90s underground rave subsculture in Sydney, Australia, captured by the then 17 year old Simon Burstall.
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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.
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Yokoo Tadanori: Grand Theatre of Live Painting: Something’s Happening at the Museum Today
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartYokoo Tadanori
[Kobe]: Yokoo Tadanori Museum of Contemporary Art, 2019.Published to accompany the 2019 exhibition dedicated to works that Tadanori created in front of live audiences. Tadanori thrives on the focus, and the energy, that painting in public provides and this catalogue includes photos of audiences observing the artist.
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Materia Oscura
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDanilo De Rossi
[Madrid]: Studio Danilo de Rossi, 2019.Photographs, digital renderings and texts by Italian architect and designer Danilo De Rossi. A projection of the future as imagined by the intersection of humankind and technology. Limited artists’ book, 100 signed and numbered copies, of which this is number 31.
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Helmut Newton: [SUMO]
AU$250.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHelmut Newton; June Newton
Koln: Taschen, 2019.Published 20 years after the original SUMO, one the biggest feats of 20th century art publishing. Includes the Celebrating 20 Years of Sumo booklet.
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The Black Captain
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTeo Treloar
Brisbane: Andrew Baker Art Dealer, 2019. -
Brian Blomerth’s Bicycle Day
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBrian Blomerth
New York: Anthology Editions, 2019.A visual history of the world’s first acid trip. With an introduction by Dennis McKenna. “Illustrator, musician and self-described “comic stripper” Brian Blomerth has spent years combining classic underground art styles with his bitingly irreverent visual wit in zines, comics, and album covers. With Brian Blomerth’s Bicycle Day, the artist has produced his most ambitious work to date: a historical account of the events of April 19, 1943, when Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann ingested an experimental dose of a new compound known as lysergic acid diethylamide and embarked on the world’s first acid trip. Combining an extraordinary true story told in journalistic detail with the artist’s gritty, timelessly Technicolor comix style, Brian Blomerth’s Bicycle Day is a testament to mind expansion and a stunningly original visual history.” (publisher’s blurb)
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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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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 Castle, 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 Towns 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 girls 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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Post-Butt: The Power of the Image
AU$35.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMelani De Luca
: Onomatopee, 2019.“Post-Butt analyses the virality of images in our mediated society. It is a case study around the image of female butts, bootys, and behinds, and their influence in media, society and art. The butt is the protagonist of mass-mediated culture, it is the democratic sex organ par excellence. The phenomenon of bootyfication exists in many contexts, as varied as the exploitation of the body in colonialism to 90s hiphop culture. Post-Butt goes through different periods in time and place, to analyse the political meaning of the usage of the image of the female buttocks. It discusses the role of the booty in varied cultural expressions such as film, Internet art, music videos, dance and plastic surgery; and aims to reflect on how our society is conditioned by viral images that do not only exist in the digital context, but have deep consequences on our physical world as well.” (publisher’s blurb)
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The New Woman’s Survival Catalog
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartKristen Grimstad; Susan Rennie
New York: Primary Information, 2019.“Published in 1973, The New Womans Survival Catalog is a seminal survey of Second Wave feminist efforts, which, as the editors noted in their introduction, represented an ‘active attempt to reshape culture through changing values and consciousness’. Assembled by Kirsten Grimstad and Susan Rennie in only five months, The New Womans Survival Catalog makes a nod to Stewart Brands influential Whole Earth Catalog to map a vast network of feminist alternative cultural activity in the 1970s. Grimstad and Rennie set out on a two month road trip in the summer of 1973, meeting and interviewing all the featured organisations and individuals, and gathering information and further references along the way to complete the publication. From arts organisations to bookstores and independent presses, health, parenting, and rape crisis centres, and educational, legal and financial resources, this book provides crucial insight into feminist initiatives and activism nationwide during the Womens Movement. Styled as a sales catalog, The New Womans Survival Catalog comprises listings and organisational descriptions, articles, and extensive illustrations, as well as a ‘Making the Book’ section, detailing the publications production.” (publisher’s blurb)