So, the reading matter. There are topics for comics, noise zines, transgressive zines etc... But there are much more than the vaguely "same" underground scene that can be interesting. Once in a while you find very interesting things from sources what didn't expect, since magazines was filed in fashion section or photography or architecture, which you might not regularly check out.
I remember well the case of
S magazine. Danish fashion/art/erotic magazine. Latest issue is #13. #6 I bought the first, but it was solely due naked woman on cover. It caught my eye in bookstore among fashion magazines and when browsing it further, it wasn't your regular Vogue at all. It's like erotic/sex mag blended with art and fashion. And with very little of commercial brand conscious BS. You don't have to see almost any advertising in it. If there is spread of naked chick in neat b/w photo, there might be small text in corner who made the shoes, but that's all.
Magazine just established office also in NYC (besides Copenhagen). Website seems to be under work, but blog is there:
http://www.smagazine.com/blog/2011/11/24/new-issue/Sample pictures? Well, each issue varies. Some are great, some merely good. A little bit here, but hardly a good sample due each magazine is c. 250 pages in full A4. Compared to size of those monstrous issues, price is cheap. In Finland, I guess Akateeminen Kirjakauppa is only distributor, but around europe, I guess bigger professional magazine dealers should have it in shelves. Especially in old issues, it's very vague. You can hardly find the name of magazine anywhere, or maybe not realize it really is just "S". In later issues it have often had clearer "S-Magazine" type logo.
some samples:
http://www.thequietfront.com/home/tag/iselin-steirohttp://www.lifeiscarbon.com/weblog/2012/03/sexy-shameless-sweaty-and-scandinavian.html
Another pretty decent Danish magazine seems to be
PIST PROTTA.
QuoteEach issue of the experimental Danish art magazine Pist Protta employs an original layout design and conceptual premise. For issues 65 through 70, the editors have decided to "pretend to be a normal Danish art magazine," which may be the strangest strategy to date. With text almost exclusively in Danish
Issue 70 is the last one, from 2011. It's bigger than A4. Kind of stupid tabloid type of size, too big for most of book shelves. But this glossy paper printed art mag is this time like collage of weird avantgarde, surreal, erotica etc. Big page may have Paul Macgarthy "spaghettiman" image next to bondage and weird vintage images. Next pages with sculptures, newspaper clippings or close-up of fat womans hairy cunt. Most text is in danish, but merely short info text below images. Magazine has been around since 1981, but I happened to find it by accident, being lured by curiosity to check out what damn thing is sticking out of shelves in bookstore.
Silvershotz must be my favorite photo magazine. I think early on, it was much more focused on large format photography and fine-art prints. Each issue would include mindblowing images, but also articles of various vintage photo developing processes etc. It is very collector oriented and very artsy. And there is kind of noble arrogance there. But at the same time, later issues has been very open also for digital photography and even one issue with extensive piece (and cover art) of iPhone photo artists. Each issue 100 pages, with several pages per artists.
http://www.silvershotz.com/About quality of contributors, maybe Finns can be interested in Kati Leinonen.
http://katileinonen.com/http://www.frantisekstrouhal.com/The latter guy uses bromoil prints, making sometimes ghostly images more of pictorialism than standard clean photos. They also put out annual Folio, which is all about artists works, no articles or such.
No sleaze or transgressive stuff, but total magick of craftmanship can be found from many issues.
I'm interested in suggestions, links, etc of ART, EROTIC, CULTURE, RELIGION, DEATH, ARCHITECTURE, etc... please no music, no sports, hi-fi etc. Preferably unusual, not trivial pop culture & consumerism.
