An in-depth look at the iconic work of the internationally recognized photographer.

Wolfgang Tillmans (Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series)

Arts & Photography

Jan Verwoert

PETER HALLEY

Midori Matsui

Johanna Burton

Individual Artists

Phaidon Press

The bible of indie culture. index A to Z celebrates the uncompromising personalities, humor, and DIY brilliance of the indie generation and captures the spirit of the era with sections like F for Fashion, featuring designers Kate Spade and Marc Jacobs; I for Indie with Harmony Korine and John Waters; and others such as Royalty, Vanished, and X-Rated. Paying homage to Generation X's "It" glossy, this volume is packed with index's most memorable interviews and greatest photographs of the time, including previously unpublished outtakes and party pictures. Beginning as a low-budget, oversized fanzine in 1996, index magazine quickly became one of the most influential small publications in the United States. With a smart and irreverent voice that epitomized the late '90s indie ethos, the magazine brought together some of the most relevant cultural figures who were at that time young and often unknown, and who have since become cultural icons or celebrities, including Bjork, Scarlett Johansson, Alexander McQueen, and Ryan McGinley, to name just a few. New interviews with founders Peter Halley and Bob Nickas, a reminiscence by Bruce LaBruce, and a historical overview by Wendy Vogel offer further looks behind the scenes.

index A to Z: Art, Design, Fashion, Film, and Music in the Indie Era

Bob Nickas

Bruce LaBruce

Reference

Rizzoli

Published by David Kordansky Gallery on the occasion of the exhibition Green April, June 4 - July 16, 2016, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles Foreword by Jonathan Binstock, text by Jenelle Porter, and an interview with Peter Halley Hardcover, 116 pages, fully illustrated in color including 5 fold-out plates. English, 2017 Designed by Purtill Family Business

Sam Gilliam Hardcover

Jonathan Binstock

Janelle Porter

David Kordansky Gallery

Peter Halley's SELECTED ESSAYS 1981-2001 combines, in part, texts from Collected Essays 1981-1987, published originally by Bruno Bischofberger Gallery, Zurich, in 1988, and Sonnabend Gallery, New York, in 1991, and from Recent Essays 1990-1996, Edgewise Press, 1997.  SELECTED ESSAYS includes such seminal texts as "Beat, Minimalism, New Wave and Robert Smithson," "Against Postmodernism:  Reconsidering Ortega," "The Crisis in Geometry," "Frank Stella... and the Simulacrum," "Some Notes on the Computer Landscape," and several previously unpublished essays.  Halley writes:  "In retrospect, I feel that my essays of the 1980s delighted in the play of ideas; they were intended to be provocative, exaggerated and polemical.  For better or worse, this body of work created some small critical position for myself as a writer.  Throughout the '90s, I have wrestled with my writing to avoid the entrapment of defending this established position, a prospect that I would find both dull and fruitless."  Within the general arc of post-industrial, post-humanist development, Halley addresses the central issues of abstraction, not only in painting but in culture, formalism, modernity, communication and technology, architecture, language, and the role that human affect plays, if any, in society.  SELECTED ESSAYS 1981-2001 gives us a picture of art, culture, and history that is uniquely Halley's own - "preeminently analytical, perceptive, balanced, and visionary."

19 black and white illustrations

Selected Essays: 1981-2001

Edgewise Press, Inc.

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