This is the story of the legendary Ray Petri and his gang Buffalo, who started a revolution in the 1980s in the world of fashion and style. Starting from the street and bringing together all their different influences, backgrounds and individual talents, mixing them with music and photography, Buffalo was born, and soon in demand by high fashion establishments around the world.

Buffalo: Ray Petri

Arts & Photography

Jamie Morgan

Lorenz, Mitzi

Photography & Video

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Paul Fryer's first collection of poems is illustrated with keen insight by Damien Hirst. Together they have produced a beautiful diatribe against current complacencies that, remarkably, also show a precious tolerance and love for their fellow men and women. They have concocted an acute distillation of manners, cultures and prejudices, a polemic, even, that reflects a light suffused with a powerful disinterest, a disturbing sine qua non.

Don't Be So...

Hirst, Damien

Miller, Harland

Fryer, Paul

Individual Artists

The Greek island of Leros was for 20 years and more the site of the world's most notorious and brutal asylum for the insane. The Magnum photographer Alex Majoli has chronicled its inmates and their return to a sane world and integration into society, the work of the famed Italian psychiatrist Franco Basaglia. Leros raises a number of questions. How could such a regime have existed? And how could anyone have survived it? This book was given the Judges' Special Recognition in the best books category of the International Pictures of the Year Awards 2003 and included in the PDN Photography Annual 2003 in the best books category.

Leros

Laura Facchi

Jannis Kounellis has charged himself with an elemental vision of art and life: fire is one of the mediums he uses to express his profound visual imagination. In Echoes in the Darkness he reveals the questions that drive him.

Jannis Kounellis: Echoes in the Darkness: Writings and Interviews, 1966-2002

Kounellis, Jannis

Codognato, Mario

D'Argenzio, Mirta

History & Criticism

The limitless boundaries of the internet, and the endless possibilities that exist in cyberspace for communication and information, are what drives Nick Waplington's survey of what this new media holds for the artist and society in general. Not bound by social, moral or ethical considerations, the internet and its implications were elaborated on for Waplington's presence at the Venice Biennale. Nick Waplington's contribution to the Venice Biennale in 2001 expresses a yearning for the artistic and commercial freedom that the web might yet expose, and a celebration of the dislocated reason behind conventional thoughts and the media they use. Somewhere out there lies the new unchartered frontier of cyberspace. In that Babel there are images, dreams, inert and vital messages, anonymous ciphers and calculating incubi. Because it is faceless, as if somehow subterranean, human dialogue and the expression of ideas can multiply without responsibility, without the parameters of authorial disciplines or social conventions. Could this be anarchy, of the kind that artists linger on street corners for? Nick Waplington, alert to these possibilities, went last year with a series of works to the Venice Biennale, which had commissioned him to elaborate on this theme. The result was undeniably the work of an artist, one who embraces the limitless avenues of freedom of expression on the internet. For Waplington the medium is certainly the message, but one far more profound than McLuhan's epithet, since this is a medium not bound by social, moral or ethical considerations. It's as if he had found himself a child again, locked in the toy shop overnight, where train sets would double as conveyor belts of ideas, and Action Man as a table leg. "If, as I suspect," says Waplington, "the internet has broken the stranglehold of governments and large media corporations on mass communication, then we could be in for a very exciting period of development on a number of different levels. Would a breakdown of current modes of social, moral and political cohesion be too much for a man to ask for?"

Learn How to Die the Easy Way

Waplington, Nick

McCormick, Carlo

In Bosozoku, Japan's leading maverick photographer reveals a unique vision of the notorious Japanese bike gangs, often linked to the underground activities of the Yazuka. A former member of the Bosozoku himself, Masayuki Yoshinga has revealed hidden secrets of Japan's biker gangs.

Bosozoku

Masayuki Yoshinaga

Kandahar, a city of Pashtuns noted for their gaiety, so to speak, where Mullah Omar had made his final headquarters, has traditions of men in high-heeled sandals, with make-up of kohl and painted nails like sultry silent-movie stars. They liked to have their pictures taken and, because the Taliban most certainly needed passports, their vanities were accomodated in the hole-in-the-wall photo shops that exist in downtown Kandahar. Magnum photographer Thomas Dworzak, on war assignment for the New Yorker, discovered their photographs days after they had fled the city. They hung among portraits of Bruce Lee, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Ahmed Shah Massoud, their faces retouched by the artful brushwork of the photographer. As exotic backdrops the subjects have chosen chalets in the Swiss Alps, where the mountains are green and Julie Andrews sings, rather than the forbidding grey and brown of their own country. Some are alone, others with a friend or a Kalashnikov, with garish colours stroked into the theme, along with flowers. They were the killers who have fled, leaving behind an absurd record of their presence.

Taliban

Anderson, Jon Lee

Dworzak, Thomas

Rees, Thomas

Reflex is a kaleidoscope of the youth culture of modern Japan, sex-obsessed, star-struck, and violent, struggling to overcome hidebound traditions that nevertheless pervades a world encompassed by bobby sox and Sony. Alarming yet playful in its frankness, it offers Western audiences a coherent view of Japanese subcultures as seen from within by Japan's leading creative artists. Forty contemporary Japanese artists, professional and amateur photographers, Manga illustrators, and renegade artists are included. Reflex is co-edited by Mark Sanders (senior editor for Another Magazine), Kyoichi Tsuzuki (artist and editor of the award-winning Roadside Japan), and Fumiya Sawa (consultant and co-curator on the Barbican Gallery's exhibition JAM: Tokyo - London).

Reflex: Contemporary Japanese Self-Portraiture

Mark Sanders

Fumiya Sawa

Kyoichi Tsuzuki

In Hermanovce: Four Seasons with the Roma, Jarret Schecter has photographed the world of the Romany gypsies as never before, with unrivalled access to their demi-monde. By taking the settlement of Hermanovce, in Eastern Slovakia, as his subject, Schecter has revealed a system of traditions and cultures both noble and unfathomable--that of the Roma.

Hermanovce Four Seasons With the Roma

Schecter, Jarret

Sorrenti, Francesca

The collapse of Russian communism in 1991 resounded to the shudder of an empire. Soviet imperialism and empiricism was dead and lands, nations, and peoples would henceforth be free from the tyranny of the communist diktat. But it also sounded the death knell of a small, impoverished, and forgotten land-locked state in the Caucasus which had the misfortune to be of geopolitical importance. Stanley Greene's photographs in Open Wound are so powerful as to make Chechnya our responsibility. He is unashamed to use guilt, with his painter's eye, to relate the deeds of men in Chechnya to our own conduct.

Open Wound: Chechnya 1994-2003

Caujolle, Christian

Glucksmann, Andrè

Greene, Stanley

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