Social documentaries amid this pist

Mark Borthwick, Social documentaries amid this pist

Mark Borthwick, Social documentaries amid this pist
Softcover, 240 pp., web offset 1/1, 210 x 270 mm
Edition of 250
Published by Mark Borthwick (2002)

$150.00 ·

condition: good, minor edge wear, binding intact.

A social documentary. An appropriation of distinctions between elements. Grey area. An essay in images that repeat themselves. An apparent way to dilute the importance of one over another. Black and white photographs, hand written texts, and xeroxed pages.

all color book of Flowers

Moira Savonius, all color book of Flowers

Moira Savonius, all color book of Flowers
Softcover, 72 pp., offset 4/4, 220 x 290 mm
Edition of 5000
ISBN 0-7064-0324-X
Published by Octopus Books

sold

condition: fair, worn cover, interior in good condition, first edition, excellent reference copy.

all color book of Flowers, published in 1974 by Octopus Books, London. A collection of 100 photographs of flowers from around the world. Color illustration on front and back cover, all color photographs inside. Contents: Flowers that change the landscape; Europe; North America; South America; Australia; Africa; Asia; The development of garden flowers; Acknowledgments.

The Last Whole Earth Catalog

Stewart Brand, The Last Whole Earth Catalog

Stewart Brand, The Last Whole Earth Catalog
Softcover, 452 pp., web offset 1/1, 10.75 x 14.25 inches
First edition (1971)
ISBN 0-394-70459-20
Published by Portola Institute

$55.00 · out of stock

condition: good, edge wear, worn cover/spine, interior discolored, very good reference copy.

We can’t put it together. It is together.

The Whole Earth Catalog is an American counterculture catalog published by Stewart Brand between 1968 and 1972, and occasionally thereafter, until 1998. Although the WECs listed all sorts of products for sale (clothing, books, tools, machines, seeds — things useful for a creative or self-sustainable lifestyle), the Whole Earth Catalogs themselves did not sell any of the products. Instead the vendors and their prices were listed right alongside with the items.

The title Whole Earth Catalog came from a previous project of Stewart Brand. In 1966, he initiated a public campaign to have NASA release the then-rumored satellite photo of the sphere of Earth as seen from space, the first image of the “Whole Earth.” He thought the image might be a powerful symbol, evoking a sense of shared destiny and adaptive strategies from people. The Stanford-educated Brand, a biologist with strong artistic and social interests, believed that there was a groundswell of commitment to thoroughly renovating American industrial society along ecologically and socially just lines, whatever they might prove to be.

Function
The Whole Earth Catalog functions as an evaluation and access device. With it, the user should know better what is worth getting and where and how to do the getting. An item is listed in the Catalog if it is deemed:

1. Useful as a tool
2. Relevant to independent education
3. High quality or low cost
4. Not already common knowledge
5. Easily available by mail

Catalog listings are continually revised according to the experience and suggestions of Catalog users and staff.

Purpose
We are as gods and might as well get good at it. So far, remotely done power and glory — as via government, big business, formal education, church — has succeeded to the point where gross defects obscure actual gains. In response to this dilemma and to these gains a realm of intimate, personal power is developing — power of the individual to conduct his own education, find his own inspiration, shape his own environment, and share his adventure with whoever is interested. Tools that aid this process are sought and promoted by The Whole Earth Catalog.

Muhammad and the Marathon

Christopher Nance, Muhammad and the Marathon

Christopher Nance, Muhammad and the Marathon
Hardcover, 62 pp., offset 4/1, 8.75 x 10.75 inches
First edition, signed
ISBN 0-9648363-2-7
Published by Christopher Productions, Inc.

$40.00 ·

condition: very good, shelf wear, interior unblemished, first edition, excellent reference copy.

Before Christopher Nance arrived in 1985 at NBC-TV in Los Angeles, he began his career as a weathercaster and television personality in 1979 in his hometown of Monterey, California. Since 1982, Nance has talked to over 450,000 students with his self-designed program, offered at no charge, called Let’s Talk Weather. Nance was fired from his job at NBC in 2002 after developing “a reputation for profane and menacing off-air behavior, marked by sexual innuendo and violent outbursts.”

“To my mother Sarah, my daughter Noel and to all the boys and girls who dream the wonderful dreams. You are the future.”

— Christopher Nance, 1995

If not for the weather we would all be naked!

Christopher Nance, If not for the weather we would all be naked!

Christopher Nance, If not for the weather we would all be naked!
Hardcover, 62 pp., offset 4/4, 8.75 x 11.25 inches
First edition, signed
ISBN 0-9648363-8-6
Published by Christopher Productions, Inc.

$15.00 ·

condition: fine, shelf wear, interior unblemished, first edition, excellent reference copy.

Before Christopher Nance arrived in 1985 at NBC-TV in Los Angeles, he began his career as a weathercaster and television personality in 1979 in his hometown of Monterey, California. Since 1982, Nance has talked to over 450,000 students with his self-designed program, offered at no charge, called Let’s Talk Weather. Nance was fired from his job at NBC in 2002 after developing “a reputation for profane and menacing off-air behavior, marked by sexual innuendo and violent outbursts.”

“My new motivation is my God, my wife Nicholette, my family and friends.”

— Christopher Nance, 1998

all color book of Kittens

Howard Loxton, all color book of Kittens

Howard Loxton, all color book of Kittens
Hardcover, 62 pp., offset 4/4, 215 x 290 mm
Edition of 5000
ISBN 0-7064-0325-8
Published by Octopus Books

sold

condition: fair, missing dust jacket, worn cover, interior in good condition.

all color book of KITTENS, published in 1974 by Octopus Books, London. A collection of 108 photographs of kittens being as cute as they can, doing kitten things: drinking milk and playing with string. Black and white illustration on front and back cover, all color photographs inside. Contents: You and your kitten; The new arrival; The variety of kittens; Discovery and exploration; In high places; Kittens at play; Acknowledgments.

Forbidden Dreams

Rebecca Blake, Forbidden Dreams

Rebecca Blake, Forbidden Dreams
Hardcover, 132 pp., offset 4/4, 11 x 13 inches
Edition of 10,000
ISBN 0-7043-2475-X
Published by Quartet Books

$40.00 ·

condition: very good, with dust jacket, shelf wear, first edition, excellent reference copy.

Forbidden Dreams (1984) is the first monograph by Belgian-born, New York-based photographer Rebecca Blake. Elegant and darkly alluring fashion photography/erotica from the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Made in USA

Bernadette Corporation, Made in USA

Bernadette Corporation, Made in USA
Softcover, 128 pp., offset 4/1, 7 x 10 inches
Edition of 500
Fall/Winter 1999-2000
Published by Bernadette Corporation

out of print

condition: very good, shelf wear.

Bernadette Corporation: three people in New York City (today, 1999, or 2000) working together on a new fashion magazine called Made In USA and making art. We came from different backgrounds, but we had something in common: we wanted to change the world because we didn’t like the way it was.

The first issue of Made in USA is devoted to how people create their own spaces, spaces that can be invisible or imaginary. You may have heard this trend called DIY (do-it-yourself) or Amateurism. We like to call it the EMPTY WIDE SPACE trend, a place we can all disappear to, instead of being anti-everything and writing the new manifesto, or instead of being pro-everything and buying the latest CD.

7 Windmill Street W1

Mark Leckey, 7 Windmill Street W1

Mark Leckey, 7 Windmill Street W1
Hardcover, 162 pp., offset 4/4, 160 x 230 mm
Edition of 2000
ISBN: 978-2-940271-34-4
Published by JRP|Ringier/Walther König

out of print

condition: fine, minor shelf wear.

Mark Leckey’s best-known video, Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore (1999), is a 15-minute journey into urban British youth culture from the mid 1970s to the early 1990s. Leckey’s presentation of twenty years of dance hall material does not, however, result in a documentary work: the video is rather a visual essay with hedonistic promises of club culture, the birth of funky chic, and the cultural shift of the rise of Acid House. Active in music production through donAtella, a glam-trash duo formed by the artist and Ed Liq, Leckey also makes live performances, CDs, and sound installations. Plunged into the lowbrow of culture, Leckey is one of the most perceptive cultural readers of Western societies.

This publication is the first to be dedicated to his work. Conceived as a source book of his working methods and fields of interest, it has been edited by the artist and features images of his main productions, as well as a wealth of other visual materials he has gathered through the years. In addition to original contributions, it includes reprints of texts from Michel Leiris and the 19th century-writer Walter Pater, as well as song lyrics. Designed by NORM in close collaboration with the artist, this printed project takes the shape of a hardbound drawing book, accentuating the idea of a point of departure rather than arrival.

The book was realized on the occasion of Leckey’s solo exhibition at the Museum für Gegenwartskunst Migros in Zurich, a co-edition with König Books London.

Portrait Photographs

Bernhard Fuchs, Portrait Photographs

Bernhard Fuchs, Portrait Photographs
Hardcover, 114 pp., offset 4/4, 24 x 30 cm
Edition of 2000
ISBN 3-901756-32-9
Published by Fotohof Editions

out of print

condition: very good, moderate shelf wear.

When Austrian-born photographer Bernhard Fuchs shoots a portrait, the landscape is as important as the face. His portrayals of people from his native village, Mühlviertel, show them in places where they have deep roots. When the subjects live in cities, the photos express the rootless quality of urban life, with open doors and blank walls providing backdrops. Accompanying text by renowned photojournalist Timm Starl.