En 1968, Dennis Stock prend la route pour un périple de 5 semaines sur les autoroutes californiennes, documentant l'acmé de la culture hippie. Ces images en noir et blanc ont été agencées pour créer la série California Trip, d'abord publiée en 1970, et depuis devenue un emblème du mouvement de l'amour libre qui a impacté tout une décennie. Cet ouvrage est la reproduction en facsimilé de l'édition de 1970.
Après Bicycle Day, qui racontait la première prise de LSD, et dans le même format de roman graphique, Brian Blomerth nous raconte cette fois-ci l'histoire de Gordon et Valentina Wasson, le couple de scientifiques qui a popularisé l'usage des champignons hallucinogènes.
En 1979, JEB publiait à compte d'auteur sa première série photographique Eye to eye : Portrait of Lesbians, témoignage révolutionnaire à l'époque de couples lesbiens de différents âges et milieux sociaux dans leur quotidien - travaillant, en famille, s'amusant, etc. Des textes d'autrices renommées (Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, Joan Nestle) et des témoignages des modèles accompagnaient la série. Anthology republie auhourd'hui cette oeuvre qui a mis sur le devant de la scène une communauté invisible. Des essais de l'artiste et écrivaine Tee Corinne, de la footballeuse Lori Lindsey et de la photographe Lora Flash ont été ajoutés.
En parallèle de sa carière filmographique, le réalisateur Jim Jarmusch a réalisé des séries de collages sur papier en utilisant des photos tirées des journaux. Des célébrités d'époques passées, des inconnus pris sur le vis sont anonymisés ou masqués par d'autres extraits dans un exercice mêlant absurdité et commentaire poétique. Ces oeuvres de petit format sont ici présentées en un joli volume témoignant de la capacité de l'artiste à voir dans des images du quotidien une potentialité comique.
Pendant près d'une décennie, la photographe Akasha Rabut a documenté la culture florissante de la Nouvelle-Orléans. Dans son premier livre, elle révèle l'esprit de la ville à travers des figures clé comme les filles du Caramel Curves, le premier club de moto noir entièrement féminin, les cow-boys urbains Southern Riderz, et bien d'autres représentants de la ville, afin de permettre à un grand public de connaître les beautés et les spécificités de cette réalité urbaine en constante évolution.
Reissued for the first time in decades, an underground classic of street photography documenting San Francisco's late 1970s Halloween celebrations: the macabre and irreverent "Mardi Gras of the West"
Originally published in limited quantities in 1981, Halloween: A Fantasy in Three Acts collects photographs taken by Ken Werner at San Francisco's adult Halloween celebrations from 1976 to 1980, assembling a visual narrative of American consciousness and popular culture as seen through lenses of queerness, black humor, and the macabre. Once touted as the "Mardi Gras of the West," the raunchy, mostly open-air nighttime costume parties documented by Werner were hugely popular events organized primarily by LGBT and sex worker advocates, attracting tens of thousands of curious attendees as well as conservative ire from around the nation. Reissued for the first time in decades, this underground classic explores a bacchanalia worthy of the pagan and occult roots of the Halloween ritual--a magical dream/nightmare-land of terror and joy, with uninhibited celebrants reveling in stunning self-made guises that combine cartoon logic, sexual extravagance, and a highly irreverent take on American mythologies.
The paintings, drawings, and mixed-media works of Joe Roberts are transportive in the cosmic sense. Through their intuitive blend of styles and subjects, they serve as portals into a welcomingly hallucinatory world: a place where gleeful mashups of childhood signifiers (comic book detritus, cartoon mascots) exist cozily alongside countercultural reference points (ouija boards, sci-fi paperbacks, UFOs) and earnest flashes of the personal (diaristic sketches, confessional trip reports).
Reissued for the first time since 2015, LSD Worldpeace documents the extraordinary creativity and scrappy methods of Roberts's early career, replete with collages, action figures, and dioramas, in addition to the paintings for which he's become so celebrated. With introductory texts by Myla DalBesio and Matthew Ronay, LSD Worldpeace is the product of a wildly imaginative artist moving freely between modes, guided by a boundless vision.
The best of the celebrated blog Epicly Later'd, Patrick O'Dell's intimate photo-diary dedicated to documenting the adventure and mayhem of the 2000s NYC skate/music/downtown scene.
In 2004, well before the advent of social media as a global phenomenon, photographer Patrick O'Dell launched the celebrated blog Epicly Later'd. Dedicated to documenting the adventure and mayhem of the NYC skate/music/downtown scene, the site distinguished itself with its offhand wit, its irreverent cast of characters, and an intimate photo-diary format years ahead of its time. Nearly two decades later, the impact of O'Dell's work can be appreciated in full: its influence is now apparent across photo, art, and skate culture, and the original photographs still astonish. Compiled by O'Dell and editor Jesse Pearson, Epicly Later'd collects the best of the blog into a body of work that's evocative, funny, and wildly compelling.
"Wayward youth and joy and oblivion--here are all the moments I remember and many that I don't! Patrick's exacting eye for the fractured beauty in our shared chaos captured it all." - Chloë Sevigny
A dreamlike exploration of intimacies and memory rendered in powerful photographs and lyrical texts, featuring an interview by Arooj Aftab and an afterword by Tessa Thompson.
"A sublime, aching collection of images." -- Chan Marshall (Cat Power)
For decades, photographer Kate Sterlin has made an artistic practice of examining the boundaries between individual, family, and community. In her first book, Still Life: Photographs & Love Stories, she delivers a meditation on love and its ability to weather the brutal specificities of life, death, family and race in America. Pairing intimate photographs with poetic, lyrical writings, Still Life is a hypnagogic narrative that unfolds in a series of overlapping episodes and identities, a testament to one artist's commitment to creation and a dreamlike blend of the personal and the universal.
"...Pagnano's photographs remind us of the importance of documenting moments as they occur so that we can savour the pleasures of the past and look at the present with fresh eyes." - Huck Brooklyn's Empire Rollerdrome opened its doors in 1941 and soon became the borough's premier destination for recreational and competitive roller skating. But it wasn't until the late 1970s that the celebrated rink reached iconic status by replacing its organist with a live DJ, installing a state of the art sound and light system, and renaming itself after the nationwide dance craze it had helped to originate: the Empire Roller Disco was born. In 1980, Forbesmagazine sent the acclaimed street photographer Patrick D. Pagnano to document the Empire and its legendary cast of partygoers. The resulting photographs, gathered in TK for the first time, capture the vibrant spirits, extraordinary styles, and sheer joys of Brooklyn roller disco at its dizzying peak.
Illustrateur et musicien à l'origine d' une vaste productions de zines, bandes dessinées et couvertures d'albums de musique, Brian Blomerth est devenu célèbre grâce à son style unique mêlant underground et classicisme. Avec Bicycle's Day, l'artiste raconte l'historie vraie du chimiste suisse Albert Hofmann qui ingéra en 1943 une dose expérimentale d'un nouveau composé connu sous le nom d'acide lysergique diéthylamide, se lançant de fait et sans le savoir dans le premier trip sous acide, après quoi il partit faire un tour en vélo. Combinant une approche journalistique avec son propre style de bande dessinée, ce livre témoigne de toute son importance dans ce milieu créatif.
William Softkey and the Purple Spider est le deuxième récit rêveur du caricaturiste CF, relatant les aventures les aventures de William Softkey, expérimentateur de gravité, à la rencontre d'une araignée interdimensionelle dans une bibliothèque secrète. On y retrouve le trait et les couleurs propres à CF, dans un contexte de techno-fantaisie paranoïaque, d'étranges êtres emblématiques et de motifs en demi-teintes psychédéliques.
"Jerry makes it look so easy. Every time I open this book, my camera gets heavier." -- Daniel Arnold
Legendary skateboarder and artist Jerry Hsu started his blog NAZI GOLD in 2009 as a repository for the cell phone photos he'd been collecting alongside his more traditional photography and film practices: shots of friends and strangers, roadside curiosities, and anything else that seemed to merit instant sharing with both peers and the public. In the ensuing years, the site grew from an exercise in visual note-taking into a uniquely hysterical embodiment of both Hsu's keen artistic sense and his razor-sharp wit. Documenting his journeys through the high and low trappings of our culture, Hsu's work captures everything from bootleg t-shirts and bathroom stall graffiti to unexpected truths and the occasional startling moment of humanity. An unerringly creative and endlessly clever chronicle of the deep ironies of our modern world, The Beautiful Flower Is the World, now in a lush hardcover second edition, collects the best of Hsu's blog photography into a compelling and immersive whole.
In August of 1970, 28-year-old Lou Reed quit the Velvet Underground, moved home to Long Island, New York, and embarked on a fascinating alternate creative path: poetry. Spending months in relative isolation, the musician refashioned himself, publicly vowing to never again play rock and roll. Reed wrote verse and contributed his work to journals and small press publications. ''I''m a poet,'' he proclaimed from the stage of St. Mark''s Church in March 1971. Though his retirement from music wouldn''t last-only six months later he began recording his debut solo album-Reed''s passionate identification with the written word was solidified, and would last the rest of his life.br>br>i>Do Angels Need Haircuts?/i> is an extraordinary snapshot of this turning point in Reed''s career. This book, the first to be produced by the Lou Reed Archive, gathers poems, photographs from the era-by Mick Rock, Moe Tucker, and others- as well as images from rare poetry zines. Featuring a new foreword by Anne Waldman, archival notes by Don Fleming, and an afterword by Laurie Anderson, Do Angels Need Haircuts? provides a window to a little-known chapter in the life of one of the most singular and uncompromising voices in American popular culture.
Ce livre paru en 2016 présente l'incroyable collection de Jack Womack, qui tout au long de sa vie a rassemblé ce qu'il trouvait sur les OVNI. Manuels de communication avec les martiens, traités scientifiques douteux, mais aussi costumes de cinéma, bibelots en tous genres, plans de vaisseaux, phénomènes nocturnes inexpliqués et fascicules de propagande, on y trouve tout ce qu'il a fallu pour semer le doute dans l'Amérique bien pensante du XXe siècle.
Would you like to meet a witch? What would happen if she popped you into a sack and stole you away? In illustrating Ian Serraillier's striking poem, Ed Emberley shows us what took place when such a thing happened to two clever and resourceful children. Anthology is thrilled to present 1973's Suppose You Met a Witch, a beautiful and wondrous book that lets us all experience what it must be like to be under a witch's spell.
A visual biography of the infamous ketamine researcher John C. Lilly.
Since 2019, graphic novelist Brian Blomerth's stunningly original comix histories have combined detailed research and riotous visual wit to illuminate the discovery of LSD (in Brian Blomerth's Bicycle Day) and the popularization of psilocybin mushrooms (in Brian Blomerth's Mycelium Wassonii). Now, in the third entry in his ongoing series, Blomerth opens a porthole on the life, experiments, and addictions of John C. Lilly--the man whose development of the isolation tank, controversial studies in dolphin cognition, and ketamine-fueled dives into the nature of consciousness made him perhaps the most notorious researcher of the psychedelic era. Featuring alien visitations, interspecies encounters, and no shortage of concerned onlookers, Brian Blomerth's Lilly Wave sees a beloved artist working from an expanded palette of industrial ink-splatter and oceanic airbrushing to bring readers a story that's equal parts cosmic and paranoid, transcendent and tragic.
A Dance with Fred Astaire est une extraordinaire collection d'anecdotes et d'éphémères rares mettant en vedette un casting vertigineux d'icônes culturelles à la fois underground et mainstream. Des souvenirs et des entrées de journal, des conversations et des aperçus du travail de Mekas côtoient des collages de cartes postales magnifiquement reproduites, des coupures de journaux, des négatifs de films, des listes, des affiches et des photographies, des enveloppes et des lettres, des couvertures de livres, des télégrammes, des dessins animés et des griffonnages.
In Party In The Back, celebrated skateboarder Tino Razo has documented ? and shredded ? abandoned backyard swimming pools throughout Southern California. The resulting body of work, showcased here for the first time in Tinos book, elevates itself beyond a bunch of thrill-seekers navigating the suburban landscape, juxtaposing renegade sessions by world class skateboarders with dramatic architectural photographs of a lost American dream.
The definitive book on legendary Swedist psych band, Träd, Gräs och Stenar.
The story of Träd, Gräs och Stenar is also a defining story of alternative culture. Across multiple incarnations, the musicians of this iconic group (whose name translates to «Trees, Grass and Stones») have drawn on their roots in jazz and the avant-garde, the iconoclastic art and theater of the 1960s, and the back-to-the-land «green wave» movement to blaze a pioneering trail across fifty years of endlessly improvisational, resolutely DIY rock and roll jams. In this book, the collective's members tell their story for the first time, accompanied by a vast archive of photographs, newspaper clippings, posters, flyers, album covers, and paintings. With its in-depth oral history and astonishingly rich visuals, this book provides an insight into over five decades of internationally-renowned music innovation and countercultural history.
Norma Tanega était une musicienne, chanteuse et artiste peintre dont la renommée devint internationale avec le single "Walkin' My Cat Named Dog." en 1966. Elle a également été parolière pour Dusty Springfield et s'est produite avec de nombeux groupes dans les années 2000. A côté de sa carrière de musicienne solo, elle a toujours pratiqué la peinture dès l'âge de 16 ans. Cet ouvrage est le premier à se consacrer uniquement à sa peinture.
