Vol. 2, No. 9 of Artforum (March 1964) with Ed Ruscha's famous ad on page 55 showing that his artists' book Twentysix Gasoline Stations was rejected by the Library of Congress, and advertising its retail price of $3.00.
Condition: Very Good, reader's creasing along spine; soft creasing and light foxing to covers; now in a custom-made, protective mylar jacket.
Item #2199
Paul Kooiker is among the most interesting conceptual photographers currently working in the Netherlands. Although his work consists entirely of photographic images, he is not so much a photographer as a sculptor and installation artist. Exploring themes like voyeurism, innocence and clichés leads Kooiker to construct collections of images that are of uncertain origin, subject and significance. Published in conjunction with the 2014/2015 exhibit of the same name at the Hague Museum of Photography, the resulting exhibition monograph is a bewildering array of two hundred photographic works, in which images.....
Item #2191
A fun collection of eight publications from the hippie bus company the Green Tortoise. The service was found in 1973 as a slow-paced, counterculture alternative to mainstream long-distance bus travel. The buses featured mattress-lined interiors instead of traditional seats, allowing passengers to sleep while rolling down the highway, alongside a communal approach to cooking meals, and excursions often stopped at counterculture spots along the way such as natural hot springs. The collection features six catalogs covering trip itineraries and prices plus two newsletters, the Green Tortoise Trails. Trips included adventures.....
Item #2186
Special republication of Interview Magazine's December 1985 issue, produced in 2018 to celebrate Gucci's new SoHo location at 63 Wooster Street. Founded in 1969 by Andy Warhol and John Wilcock, Interview has deep roots in the SoHo arts community, making it a fitting choice to commemorate the fashion house's new neighborhood flagship. The sealed publication reproduces Madonna's original December 1985 cover, while the reverse of the sealed sleeve features a stylized print of the SoHo neighborhood with a nod to Gucci's new address. In addition to the original interview with.....
Item #2177
Scarce photobook by American photographer Crawford Barton. Featuring over 50 black-and-white photographs documenting queer joy on the streets of San Francisco in the 1970s, an epicenter of the queer age of innocence. Both participant and voyeur, Barton captures monumental moments, both public (parades and protests), and intimate (lovers embracing and nudes) together providing a snapshot of the city and its queer community entering a new age of celebration.
Condition: Very Good+, light edgewear; light rubbing to covers.
Item #2169
A collection of American painter Delmas Howe's homoerotic rodeo cowboy paintings. Blending a Neoclassical style with Renaissance and Baroque influences, Howe's male nudes, set against the backdrop of the American West, portray cowboys and rodeo scenes with a mythical and manly tone, addressing both the gay community and commenting on the great American myth of the West.
Condition: Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket, tiny corners bumps to corners; DJ with light edgewear.
Item #2168
A second edition printing of 2,000 copies, originally published in 1989 on the occasion of Galerie Janssen's exhibition bringing together every known painting from George Quaintance's male physique period. An influence on Tom of Finland, American artist George Quaintance's drawings of the 1940s and 1950s helped pioneer gay aesthetics. His idealized depictions of the strong, muscular male physique helped establish the macho man as a defining image within homosexual visual culture.
Condition: Very Good, .5" small bump to right edge of front cover; light indentations along right edge and bottom.....
Item #2166
The Village Voice (May 30–June 5, 1969), Vol. XVI, No. 33, featuring several significant and now-scarce advertisements related to conceptual art, including works by Adrian Piper and Yayoi Kusama, as well as advertisements for exhibitions by curators Lucy Lippard and Virginia Dwan. The issue includes: - A 2" × 1" advertisement on page 15, the second in a series of conceptual artworks from the beginning of American conceptual artist Adrian Piper's career. Engaging in the ideational relocation of geometric space, the "advertisement" consists solely of a statement by the artist.....
Item #2181
A scientific volume featuring scholarly articles and natural history lithographic plates entitled Nouvelles Archives du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris, Tome Neuvieme. This series published research, descriptions of new specimens and reports by professors and researchers affiliated with the National Museum of Natural History, Paris, as well as accounts from global expeditions. Volume 9 contains 26 lithographic plates, including 9 hand-colored plates depicting fish, crabs, birds, shells and other natural history subjects. Notable articles include "Recherches sur les poissons des eaux douces" by Léon Vaillant, accompanied by eighteen lithographic plates.....
Item #2172
No. 21 of a limited edition of 1,000 copies. Featuring full-page reproductions of the homoerotic drawings and watercolors by the Russian-born painter, set designer and costume designer Pavel Tchelitchev (also spelled Tchelitchew). In his foreword, author David Leddick explores Tchelitchev's Neo-Romantic depictions of the male nude, magical scenes populated with dreamlike figures, elaborate costumes and uninhibited erotic imagery, illustrating how the artist's work creates a guilt-free dream world in which the viewer is invited to engage with the human body as an object of beauty.
Condition: Very Good+, light soiling.....
Item #2165
A first edition limited to 2,500 copies, this photography book by Bruce Bellas also includes a DVD of 12 digitally-remastered short films. It presents 107 rare, restored, full-color male physique and nude photographs by Bruce of Los Angeles, celebrating his influential and groundbreaking contributions to male nude photography and the classic beefcake aesthetic. Bruce Bellas took on the moniker Bruce of Los Angeles, shooting male physique and bodybuilder photographs, working for the magazines that began appearing in the 1940s-'50s of male physique photos, often with homoerotic allure. He eventually set.....
Item #2171
No. 102 of a limited edition of 150 handcrafted copies of an essay by British author and painter Denton Welch, detailing his first encounter with British poet Dame Edith Sitwell and her brother, Osbert Sitwell. Complementing Welch's essay are three detailed line drawings, later transformed into etchings by French illustrator Pierre Le-Tan. Edmund White provides a contextualized foreword, highlighting Welch's ability to infuse his literary observations with luminous, poetic and vivid detail. Letterpress-printed on deckled Arches paper at the Graphic Arts Workshop at Dartmouth College. Scarce.
Condition: Fine.
Item #2164
The scarce first printing of Walt Curtis' love story on the streets of Portland, which became Gus Van Sant's first feature film that launched a career. Sprinkled with photographs of Curtis and his protagonists in old town Portland.
Condition: Very Good+, light scuffing/rubbing to covers; initials in pen on title page and full name in pen on first page; now in a custom-made, protective mylar jacket.
Item #1117
The catalog for the ICA Philadelphia's hit exhibit of Dirt on Delight in 2009. In a rave review for The New York Times, Roberta Smith observed that this "close to groundbreaking" show, in its diversity, reminds us that ceramics "has one of the richest histories of any medium on the planet," and the works gathered here range from modestly-scaled pots to larger installations, crossing false delineations between fine arts, crafts and "outsider" practices. Among the artists included are Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Jeffry Mitchell, Robert Arneson, Kathy Butterly, Nicole Cherubini, Lucio.....
Item #2184
The hardcover, book-length exploration of Maurizio Cattelan's surrealist and absurd photographs done in collaboration with commercial photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari, and which are published in Cattelan's limited edition magazine Toiletpaper. Colliding commercial photography with twisted narrative tableaux and surrealistic imagery, these images mark a new phase in Cattelan's often provocative art production. Texts by James Hoff. Out of print
Condition: Near Fine, minor scuffing to covers; no jacket as issued.
Item #2183
Considered one of the first full-length queer graphic novels. The book is a mix of comics, games, puzzles, and activities, following Stanley as he tries to discover the origin of a mysterious leather mask he finds. Published by London's Gay Men's Press, it's a significant work in LGBTQIA+ comics history, known for its humor and commentary on gay life. Author David Shenton is a prominent British cartoonist known for his work in queer publications like Gay News and Capital Gay, and others such as The Guardian. Scarce.
Condition: Very Good.....
Item #2149
Documenting Bruce Bellas' (Bruce of Los Angeles) more "raw" nude male photography prior to his West Coast fame and the stylized physique model photos. These images were taken largely in Nebraska in the late 1930s, many of the models being military men or hitchhikers. He would photograph them in hotel rooms or outdoors, and develop the prints himself.
Bellas went on to become Bruce of Los Angeles, shooting male physique and bodybuilder photographs, working for the magazines that began appearing in the 1940s-'50s of male physique photos, often with.....
Item #1572
Jim French's 1976 photobook of male nudes, his third. Photos in both color and black and white, mainly outdoor photography or non-studio environments. Some images with a gauzy, 1970s vibe. Less polished than his later work, but still artistically and masterfully rendered.
French founded Colt Studio in 1967 with his business partner, Lou Thomas, and built it into one of the most successful gay male erotica companies in the United States. No dust jacket as issued. Scarce. Must be 18 years or older to purchase.
Condition: Very Good, light.....
Item #2161
Jim French's 1992 photobook of black and white male nudes. A combination of studio and outdoor photography, artistically and masterfully rendered.
French founded Colt Studio in 1967 with his business partner, Lou Thomas, and built it into one of the most successful gay male erotica companies in the United States. Scarce. Must be 18 years or older to purchase.
Condition: Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket; light edgewear and some scuffing to jacket.
Item #2160
Erotic photographs of men from behind by various photographers throughout the years. Volume 1 covers the years 1900-1970 and includes photos by Robert Mizer, Bruce of Los Angeles, Gerhard Riebicke, Horst P. Horst and many others. All in black and white.
Volume 2 ("Rear Views") covers years 1970-1995 from 30 photographers with including Horst Ewerlin, Jean-Manuel Vuillaume, Tom Bianchi, Peter Berlin, Carlos Quiroz, Gene Bagnato, and others. Largely in black and white, with 16 pages of color photographs.
The limited text is in German. Volume 1 has a......
Item #2151
A complete collection of Hungarian-born artist, designer and art theorist György Kepes's Vision + Value series. Published between 1965 and 1966, this set of six anthologies brings together essays and illustrations from artists, designers, architects and scientists exploring key topics in visual culture. Each volume is organized around a central theme: The Education of Vision; Structure in Art and Science; The Nature and Art of Motion; Module, Symmetry, Proportion, Rhythm; Sign, Image, Symbol; and The Man-Made Object.
By bringing together physicists, mathematicians, composers, designers, historians and other thinkers, Kepes.....
Item #2147
Published on the occasion of Swedish artist Hilma af Klint’s inclusion in the 2013 Venice Biennale and featuring her explorations of the intersections between the occult and nature, it opens with a full-color reproduction of a previously unseen 1920 notebook by af Klint titled Blumen, Moose, Flechten (“Flowers, Mosses, Lichens”). Filled with illustrations, diagrams and handwritten commentary in German, it offers an intimate look at the unique geometric visual language she used to conceptualize the invisible forces of the visible and metaphysical realms.
A collection of responses to af.....
Item #2117
Authored by American food writer John Thorne, this collection of five now scarce booklets from the early 1980s represents some of the earliest iterations of Thorne’s work. These self-published culinary booklets would later evolve into his ongoing newsletter, Simple Cooking, first launched in 1983.
Each booklets focuses on a single topic, allowing Thorne to capture the impulses, stories and small details that shape home cooking, elements often lost in the polished recipe writing of the 1980s and 1990s. The collection includes these titles:
- A Treatise on Onion Soup.....
Item #2124
Issue #2 of the full-color graffiti art magazine Under Cover showcasing graffiti tags submitted by readers and contributors from around the world. Created with the intention of providing graffiti artists a publication that represents the art form with the quality it deserves, and with minimal emphasis on editorial intervention or layout trends, the magazine leaves as much space as possible for photographs of graffiti writers, from New York to California, Australia and beyond.
With a variety of tag signatures in pen on the front cover (one dated '94) and.....
Item #2113
Published on the occasion of her retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2011-200, this monograph documents nearly 800 black-and-white photographs created over nine years by American photographer Francesca Woodman.
A photographer from the age of 13, Woodman’s surrealist images explore the female body, often through a distinctive form of self-portraiture. Her figures appear semi-obscured, sometimes nude, sometimes clothed, creating playful yet intimate scenes drawing inspiration from artists such as Man Ray and Claude Cahun, while circumventing traditional portrait photography.
Woodman’s untimely death at the.....
Item #2114
