“I asked people to give me a few hours of their sleep. To come and sleep in my bed. To let themselves be looked at and photographed. To answer questions. To each participant I suggested an eight hour stay.” “J’ai demandé à des gens de m’accorder quelques heures de leur sommeil. De venir dormir dans [...]
Coney Island New York, 1969 – 1986 is a collection of photos by Bruce Gilden in his signature comical and often unflattering style. He is known for his New York street photography, especially his extreme close-ups of New York mobsters, prostitutes and basically anyone else he can hold a camera and flash to. *Click on [...]
Album Recording in Progress, New York, May 2011. Photos by Hedi Slimane.
‘Football Casuals’ were young blokes (read: football hooligans) with working-class roots who hung around football games in Leeds and all across England in the 80′s (high time was between ’84 and ’88) getting into all sorts of mischief. Unlike Skinheads wearing chunky Doc Martens, the Casuals went under the radar with their dress, which allowed [...]
This age of fashion photography is long gone. After working for Harper’s Bazaar from the 1940s to the 1960s, Lillian Bassmann no longer liked the direction in which it was going; deciding defiantly to destroy decades worth of negatives (her life’s work) and move towards more personal projects. Only one forgotten bag of negatives from [...]
Most of what I know about Detroit comes from the movie Detroit Rock City. The first time I saw this movie AC/DC were playing a huge stadium show that same night and a friend and I were really close to going without tickets and trying to storm the gates. If you’ve seen the movie you’ll [...]
More cinematic than ever; here is a selection of our friend Ryan McGinley’s most recent works from his exhibition ‘Somewhere Place’ held in Amsterdam during April and May this year.
We love Elle Muliarchyk. Born in Belarus and having lived basically everywhere else, she now resides in the city where it all seems to come together; New York City. Starting out as a model, she quickly became bored of having no input into the creative process. She decided instead to be everything at once: a [...]
All wigged up. With her dad. Karen O likes Chich. Motherfucking Lemmy has a soft spot for Chich. Listening to Cannibal Corpse. Hangin’ with babes at Venice. Sippin’ on Gin and Chich. Chich is scared of Lil Wayne. Blissing out with Michael Pitt. Sky high. Getting close to Heidi. Hey Seth. Chich isn’t interested in [...]
