Interesting magazines (art/culture/etc)

[Tommy Carlsson]

Just a quick bump on this thread to mention that Taschen is right now selling this amazing set of 1940s/50s Arts & Architecture magazine, 10 vol box set, complete reprints. Looks stunning, so I'm thinking £150 for the set is a pretty sweet deal. RRP was $700.

http://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/architecture/all/03888/facts.arts_architecture_1945_54_the_complete_reprint.htm

[online prowler]

Looking forward to this journal soon out on Creation Books.



http://www.creationbooks.com/creation-pages/creationnewtitles.html

[online prowler]

Nieves Books.

Fanzines by artists, directors, plus. Versatile selection. 

http://www.nieves.ch/

[FreakAnimalFinland]

ODISEO volume, no 1.
http://folchstudio.com/stories/odiseo-issue-1

Odiseo is an independent publication for adult entertainment appealing to the confident and intelligent man of today. It includes a selection of stories with an erotic point of view, paired with the most cutting edge ideas in an exquisite uncoated smooth paper.

Publication Details 104 pages Format: 16,5 x 24 cm Paper: eural 90 g/sm (4+4) + gloss varnish Cover: invercote g 200 g/sm paper (4+2) laminated Binding: rustic sewn Print run: 1000 units

so what we have here? Full color artsy nude photosets and in middle you suddenly find interesting interview with John Cage and essays about Charles Darwin and Franz Liszt! It's kind of weird concept when you think of it. Semi fashionable nude shoots and material for intelligent men? I guess 1000 copies worldwide is the expected target audience! HAH!
Good thing is, that unlike vast majority of fashion/erotic/mens interest magazines, this is not cluttered by advertisements, but simply 100% content. No ads, no bullshit.
There is quite little to read, and their 3 different covers idea is kind of turn off for me.. but I'm all in favor for attempts to approach "sex mags" from some alternative angle.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

ah, and to add... Check out the folchstudio link given above. Magazines designer & art director runs the publishing company that put this out. He does mainly fashion design, lay-outs for magazines, catalogues, typographical design etc. Therefore quite far from usual sleazy lay-outs.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

well, lets put one more today.
2013 debut issue of THE OPERA !



I have never seen any very interesting erotic / nude titles of Kerber, but I guess they should exists? At least they start this new magazine for classic & contemporary nude photography with great taste!

Browse few pages in slideshow at:
https://www.kerberverlag.com/en/no_cache/productsearch/controller/Search/action/show/product/1995.html

200 pages in A4 size, soft cover, but basically would qualify as "art book" instead of magazine.

Barron Claiborne, Bart Hess, Bear Kirkpatrick, Christian Coigny, Christian Kettiger, Christian Witkin, Cynthia Berger, David Bellemere, David Lindsey Wade, David Spaeth, Elene Usdin, Eric Marrian, Imogen Cunningham, Jo Schwab, Joachim Baldauf, Jonathan Narducci, Kim Joon, Kirchknopf + Grambow, Jürgen Klauke, Madame Peripetie, Marc van Dalen, Michael Barolet, Mona Kuhn, Olivier Valsecchi, Quentin de Briey, René Fietzek, Ruben Brulat, Valeria Mitelman and many more.

Some art little bit average, too modern, too colorful or somehow lame to my taste, but that is still minority. There is great variety in approaches, but one could say, mostly older works stand out and those who have eye for classic beauty like Christian Coigny.

Perhaps little bit pricey title, but I guess there won't be many issues per year..

[FreakAnimalFinland]

TISSUE
bought 3rd issue. Now little regret not getting 2nd issue as well when I had the chance. This is art/sex magazine from Hamburg/Germany and issue 3 is 120+ pages, often in full color, kind of art magazine lay-out with Miroslav Tichy (drawings), Walter Dahn, Andy Warhol, Hans Petri, Walter Dahn and many more. Interview with guy who did 8 years art project taking photos of his mother having sex with strangers was pretty good. Most of articles are brief and not THAT useful is you know something of the subject before.

You can see video of "flip through magazine" on their site:
http://tissuemagazine.com/

[FreakAnimalFinland]

ZOO magazine


I have not seen any other issues but this latest, #37.
My assumption is that it's most of all "regular" fashion + art magazine, with leanings to "lifestyle" and whatever. But this particular issue immediately captured my attention due being Homage to Irina Ionesco. Includes plenty of her unpublished photos as well as pretty interesting long interview where she talks of her career, methods, models, her serious obsessions etc.

Lemmy /Motorhead interview is ok, but there's never anything new. All the talk of iron cross or "why you have rebel hat", drinking of jack daniels etc has been talked so many times.....  Some artists features, including friends of Irina.

Of course it's brutal turn-off to open magazine and see first spread being Audi advertizement, but if you can get over that, this particular issue is pretty good mix of art and fashion - and latter happens often in semi-nude b/w manner.. Lots of topless stuff.

Thick as fuck. You can pre-view 75 pages at:
http://www.zoomagazine.de/the_magazine/current_issue/

[Eloy]

N-Sphere Art Magazine

A monthly magazine featuring visual arts in various forms, from the old to the new, from the camera to the needle point. Gradually expanding to form its own galaxy, the N-Sphere includes an interconnected section with the music world.

At the passing of 2012, N-Sphere Omega, our last issue, includes: Predrag Pajdic, Die Selektion, Enfant Terrible's Exploitation, Cult of Youth, Popovy Sisters, Cronenberg's Stereo, Stranger Than Fiction, Francesca Mele, Kyle Thompson, Vincent Bergerat, Aëla Labbé, John Santerineross' Désiré Project, Guido Cagnacci.

http://sfere.ro/nsphere

[Bob]

Abraxas Journal

Nice English journal about art the occult, witchcraft etc by Fulgar.
I think good quality production for the price and fairly large in size.

http://fulgur.co.uk/abraxas/

[Scat-O-Logy]

I have been following NY based photographer, Chris Arnade for quite some time now. His photography is focused on addiction and the people around it. Along with his photos, he shares few words about what was happening during that time and he also gives brief introduction about the person and his past. If I remember correctly, his work was already discussed on this forum but HERE's some of his works.

The main reason why I started rambling about the works of Arnade is because he introduced me to another photographer with the same focus, documenting addiction in Ottawa. The guy, namely Tony Fouhse, has already published an book which can be viewed HERE. I personally find this form of photography very intriguing. Photos of shattered destinies and broken dreams. On the other hand, I also find it interesting to hear their stories and sort of "see the faces of addiction".

This might not be the right topic for this kind of photography but I wasn't able to find a better one.

[Bob]

[cr]

Yeah, I'm a subscriber of Rokko's Adventures since issue 2 and it's one of my favourites. Very interesting and insight articles and interviews about a wide range of themes, often also about 'typical' Austrian ones, like recently the 'Prater Freaks'. It was also where I found out first about the work of Rimaldas Viksraitis.
So if you can read German (only occasional articles are in English) - I can only recommend it.
I also got the mentioned book Avant garde from below for free (maybe because I always pay a bit more when renewing the
subscription)

[david lloyd jones]

Abraxas Journal

Nice English journal about art the occult, witchcraft etc by Fulgar.
I think good quality production for the price and fairly large in size.

http://fulgur.co.uk/abraxas/

abraxas journal is a fine uk occult/art thing with super quality printing, good articles etc. their film/occult issue is especially worth looking into.