Old friends and veterans of Manhattan's late 70s downtown scene, writer and editor Glenn O'Brien and artist and collector Richard Prince share a love of the surface flotsam of American life--"we are both PhDs in American shtick," as O'Brien puts it. This beautifully bound, slip-cased volume marks their first collaboration, setting O'Brien's sparse verse alongside Prince's equally reduced black blobs in a mutual vocabulary of simplicity and humor of gesture.

Human Nature: (Dub Version)

Arts & Photography

Richard Prince

Glenn O'Brien

Other Media

Greybull Press

"Maripol's portraits represent an intimate and glamorously blurry love letter..." —The Village Voice During the early 80s, New York’s Lower East Side was a hotbed of creative activity. Unknown artists were synthesizing the fertile ground at the legendary New York nightclubs Studio 54, the Mudd Club, Club 57, Palladium, and Danceteria while on their way to international fame and acclaim. Among those emerging were Madonna, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Grace Jones, Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf, Vincent Gallo, Anna Sui, Exene Cervenka, Kid Creole, and Diego Cortez. Maripol was part of a collective of artists, graffiti writers, street dancers, and performers who all thrived together in the explosive downtown eccentricity. As an image maker and stylist for Madonna during her “Like a Virgin” days, jewelry designer, art director, and producer Maripol relentlessly documented the movers and shakers of the early 80s scene through the lens of her instant Polaroid SX-70. Collected for the first time in Maripolarama, Maripol’s photographs vividly depict the extraordinary personalities that inhabited the “forever” hip, arty Manhattan clubland during the post-punk era when hip hop was in its earliest stages and graffiti covered the landscape. Whether it’s Andy Warhol, Debbie Harry, Basquiat, or Madonna modeling a bright pink wig, Maripolarama provides lively and inspiring insight into a time long gone.

Maripolarama

Diego Cortez

Sui, Anna

Anna Sui

Individual Artists

powerHouse Books

ccording to Glenn O Brien, Jessica Craig-Martin is the master (or perhaps we can still say mistress in this context) of the dark side of the glamour world and society pages. However, this claim is not for her charming images of socialites but rather the devilish details that normally escape the tidy veneer of these elevated worlds. Carefully cropped photographs eliminate the faces of her subjects, yet focus on the make-up, the augmented breasts, the jewels and sequins, the manicured nails and de hors de d oeuvres. The result is a captivating and realistic photographic essay on fashion, fantasy and illusion that is presented through 67 full-page colour photographs and accompanied by short essays from Glenn O Brien and Angus Cook.

Jessica Craig-Martin: Privilege (English and French Edition)

Photography & Video

Images en Manoeuvres

Im August 1993 – Nirvana spielten im Roseland Ballroom in New York – photographierte Jesse Frohman Kurt Cobain für den Londoner Observer. Neun Monate später setzte der Musiker seinem Leben ein Ende. Frohmans Session, der letzte offizielle Phototermin vor Cobains Tod, ergab Bilder, die zu Ikonen der Rockphotographie wurden. Kurt Cobain – Die letzte Session enthält die komplette Photoserie des der Frontmann im Hotel als seltsames Wesen in Fliegermütze, Ozelotmantel und Jackie O-Brille, allein und mit seinen Bandkollegen; und im Roseland als hochkonzentrierter Musiker. Der britische Rockjournalist Jon Savage schildert, wie das Shooting trotz widrigster Umstände zustande kam, er war anwesend, weil er in der Nacht davor mit Cobain ein ausführliches Interview ge führt hatte, das ebenfalls abgedruckt ist. „Mr G Style“ Glenn O’Brien erinnert sich an den Befreiungsschlag, den Nirvana für die Rockmusik bedeuteten. Zwanzig Jahre nach dem tragischen Tod von Kurt Cobain ist Die letzte Session eine visuell kongeniale und bewegende Hommage an den King of Grunge.

Kurt Cobain: The Last Session

Music

Schirmer/Mosel

There is something powerfully erotic about Catholic schoolgirl uniforms. The blazer or sweater, the immaculate white shirt, the pleated skirt, the knee socks and athletic shoes are the stuff of legend. It's a charming fetish, as psycho-sexually resonant as the black motorcycle jacket or the nurse's uniform. Intended to bring equal status to the student body, and to induce its wearers to behave, the uniform often embodies a nascent rebellion against sexual repression. With Katlick School, Sante D'Orazio has produced a witty visual narrative of flirtation, starring a beautiful Latina schoolgirl named Kat. She holds her notebook like a shield to ward off advances. But with her skirt hiked up and snaps not buttons on her shirt, there's a hint of come-hither. We soon discover that the pleated skirt conceals Snoopy bikini underwear and a tattoo. Kat is willing to trade her trainers for thigh high spike heeled boots and as the fantasy unfolds we get to see her entirely out of uniform.

Katlick School

teNeues

This book collects the witty, irreverent essays and musings of one of America's foremost pop culture critics. Almost twenty years' worth of columns, concerning a whole range of topics -- from music to art, politics to food -- come alive in this survey of the insightful and hip writings of Glenn O'Brien. As a journalist and writer, O'Brien has worked on projects with Warhol and Madonna, and written for a host of magazines. Whether writing about the Stock Market or the punk group the Dead Kennedys. O'Brien brings to his eclectic taste both unflagging insight and an ample dose of humor.

Soapbox: Essays, Diatribes, Homilies and Screeds 1980-1997

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

Imschoot Drukkerij Joz

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