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Punk 45: The Singles Cover Art of Punk 1976–80

Published by Soul Jazz Books.
Edited by Jon Savage, Stuart Baker. Foreword by Bobby Gillespie. Text by Peter Saville, Richard Hell, Richard H Kirk, Seymour Stein, Geoff Travis, Martin Moscrop, Glenn Branca, Jamie Reid, Dave Robinson, Roger Armstrong, Martin Mills, Gee Vaucher, Savage Pencil, Dennis Morris.

Hundreds of iconic punk singles designs from the punk revolution, featuring the Sex Pistols, the Stooges, Richard Hell, the Ramones, the Clash, Talking Heads and many more

PUBLISHER
Soul Jazz Books

BOOK FORMAT
Flexi, 8.25 x 10.75 in. / 380 pgs / 800 color / 200 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 10/25/2022
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Catalog: FALL 2022 p. 87   

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ISBN 9781916359819 TRADE
List Price: $49.95 CAD $69.95

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Ruby Ray: Kalifornia Kool

Photographs 1976-1982

Published by Trapart Books.
Introduction by Carl Abrahamsson.

Punk and industrial culture in late '70s and early '80s San Francisco

PUBLISHER
Trapart Books

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 8.25 x 8.25 in. / 200 pgs / 12 color / 160 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 2/19/2019
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Catalog: SPRING 2019 p. 80   

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ISBN 9789198451238 TRADE
List Price: $39.95 CAD $54.95 GBP £35.00

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Total Excess

Photographs by Michael Zagaris

Published by Reel Art Press.
Edited by Dagon James. Foreword by David Talbot. Afterword by Peter Frampton.

It has been said of Michael Zagaris’ photographic oeuvre that it is the “last untouched rock archive.” Zagaris was responsible for shooting everyone in the rock music scene in San Francisco in the 1970s and ’80s, including The Clash, Grateful Dead, Blondie, Sex Pistols, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, Patti Smith, Led Zeppelin, and many more.

Zagaris’ photographs are some of the best portraits of their kind. Because a lot of his work was taken for pleasure rather than pay, the vast majority of his archive has remained unseen until now. Total Excess is the complete anthology of his incredible rock photography. This is the first book in a series of collaborations between Reel Art Press and Zagaris.

Michael Zagaris (born 1945) grew up in the Central Valley of California. In 1967 he entered law school and also started working for Robert Kennedy as a speechwriter. The trauma of witnessing Kennedy’s assassination at close quarters propelled Zagaris away from politics and law and into photography, and he began covering rock music in San Francisco. He also captured some of the most vital counterculture figures of that period, including Billy Bowers, Divine, Peter Berlin, The Cockettes and Jim Carroll, who used one of Zagaris’ portraits for the cover of his book Basketball Diaries. In 1973 he began as a team photographer for the San Francisco 49ers, and the Oakland As in 1981, both of which he continues to shoot to this day. Zagaris lives in San Francisco.

PUBLISHER
Reel Art Press

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9.5 x 12 in. / 272 pgs / 30 color / 200 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 11/15/2016
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Catalog: FALL 2016 p. 29   

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ISBN 9781909526402 TRADE
List Price: $60.00 CAD $84.00

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Galaxie 500: Temperature's Rising

An Oral and Visual History

Published by 20-20-20.
Text by Mike McGonigal, Naomi Yang.

A fascinating oral history of one of American indie rock's most enduring and influential acts

PUBLISHER
20-20-20

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 8 x 10 in. / 192 pgs / 214 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 10/4/2022
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Catalog: FALL 2022 p. 86   

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ISBN 9781737440017 TRADE
List Price: $35.00 CAD $49.00 GBP £25.00

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Linder

Published by Ridinghouse.
Text by Dawn Ades.

Linder’s photomontages violate, liberate and celebrate the human body to question the mechanics of gender and its ties to consumer culture and media.

Linder is best known for her pioneering photomontages that replace the sexualised imagery of soft-focus pornographic centrefolds with commodities of domestic middle-class life. Surprising, humorous, and at times shocking, these precise compositions bring to light the powerful fantasies and repressions that underlie our social expectations of identity.

Spanning almost four decades, this monograph interweaves numerous photomontage series throughout Linder’s career, demonstrating the artist’s manipulation of disparate source material – from brightly saturated male pornographic imagery to softly lit portraits of ballerinas. Accompanying over 250 illustrations, a conversation between the artist and Dawn Ades reconciles her work with the history of photomontage.

PUBLISHER
Ridinghouse

BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 8.88 x 11.25 in. / 270 pgs / 255 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 7/1/2015
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Catalog: Publisher Backlist

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ISBN 9781909932098 TRADE
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Metallica: The Black Album in Black & White

Photographs by Ross Halfin

Published by Reel Art Press.
Introductions by Ross Halfin, James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett, Jason Newsted, Robert Trujillo.

The authoritative portrait of the bestselling metal classic, with unseen photographs from the recording sessions and tours

PUBLISHER
Reel Art Press

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9.5 x 12.5 in. / 224 pgs / 171 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 10/19/2021
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Catalog: SPRING 2022 p. 2   

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ISBN 9781909526761 TRADE
List Price: $55.00 CAD $77.00

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The World's Worst

A Guide to the Portsmouth Sinfonia

Published by Soberscove Press.
Edited by Christopher M. Reeves, Aaron Walker. Foreword by Gavin Bryars. Text by Christopher M. Reeves.

Butchering the classics through avant-garde amateurism: the Portsmouth Sinfonia embodied the joyous collectivism of 1970s British counterculture

PUBLISHER
Soberscove Press

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 6.75 x 9 in. / 232 pgs / 30 color / 80 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 5/26/2020
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Catalog: SPRING 2020 p. 80   

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ISBN 9781940190235 TRADE
List Price: $28.00 CAD $39.00 GBP £25.00

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Marred for Life!

Defaced Record Covers from the Collection of Greg Wooten

Published by J&L Books.
Edited by Jason Fulford. Text by Greg Wooten.

Found art in the form of record covers, lovingly and mischievously vandalized by anonymous music lovers

PUBLISHER
J&L Books

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 6 x 8.5 in. / 160 pgs / 275 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 4/23/2019
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Catalog: SPRING 2019 p. 86   

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ISBN 9780999365526 TRADE
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The Birth of Rock and Roll

Published by Dust-to-Digital.
Edited with introduction by Jim Linderman. Conversation with Joe Bonomo.

In The Birth of Rock and Roll, Americana collector Jim Linderman has arranged a storyboard of sorts that dramatizes the spirit of rock and roll in its early days—when "a juke-joint with fifty patrons was a big show," as Linderman writes in his introduction. "A church with fifty congregants was a full house. The annual square dance at the town hall, a rent party, a fish-fry, the honky-tonk piano in the whore house, the union meeting … There was no real money in it. A performer was lucky to be fed, get drunk and get laid." The photographs have little to do with the conventional iconography of the birth of rock and roll: conspicuously absent are pictures of young white men in Memphis, poodle skirts, Alan Freed and Bill Haley's Brylcream. These photographs instead document and celebrate the pure but indefinable essence of rocking. Ordinary, anonymous men, women and children—some white, some black—are holding guitars and strumming while looking relaxed or frantic, but nearly always blissful. Some of the action takes place in rural fields, some in dance halls, some at civic events, some in living rooms and basements. Wherever there was an urge to make acoustic or electric music—whether to help at a rent party, busk in front of a crowd or testify in the name of Jesus—there was an uncredited photographer there to snap an image, and these are the photographs that comprise Linderman's fascinating narrative.

PUBLISHER
Dust-to-Digital

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9.75 x 12 in. / 160 pgs / 134 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 4/28/2015
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Catalog: SPRING 2015 p. 62   

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ISBN 9780981734286 TRADE
List Price: $29.95 CAD $41.95 GBP £53.00

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Andy Warhol's The Chelsea Girls

Published by D.A.P..
Edited with text by Geralyn Huxley, Greg Pierce. Foreword by Rajendra Roy. Essay by Gus Van Sant. Contributions by Patrick Moore, Signe Warner Watson.

Warhol’s iconic portrayal of the Factory scene and ’60s New York

PUBLISHER
D.A.P.

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9 x 12 in. / 328 pgs / illustrated throughout.

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Pub Date 4/24/2018
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Catalog: SPRING 2018 p. 5   

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ISBN 9781942884187 TRADE
List Price: $65.00 CAD $90.00 GBP £55.00

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