“They see the guns, us getting high, they see us drinking, they see us getting pulled over by the cops, tagging. They don’t see the moments that you capture, like with family, having a good time.... life.”
– Clever, member of WestSide Playboys 13

The Virgin of Guadalupe, with pious hands, looks down mournfully on the corner of Pico Boulevard from a mural painted on a liquor store facade. There is an angel beneath her and a spiral of barbed wire in the background. As the camera clicks, two figures step out the store - “Saca-me una foto...”

They were Muerto and Midget, two members of the notorious street gang The WestSide Playboys 13, and this was their neighborhood.

It was 1992, the most violent year in the history of Los Angeles, when British photographer Robert Yager began walking the neighborhoods of central LA.

Edited by Pouria Khojastehpay thirty years later, 550BC presents the first compendium of Robert Yager’s award- winning work spanning over a decade. From slanging crack on the corner to county jail visits, and back to the streets of Rampart-era LA, Yager’s authentic portrayal of the Playboys is an intimate look from a point of view only possible walking amongst them.

Specifications - Hardcover. 260 pages. Edition of 550. Dimensions: 32 x 22 cm.

What Does Memory Taste Like by chef Bo Bech is part cookbook and part memoir featuring personal anecdotes and essays from employees, guests and friends.

Specifications - Hardcover. Format: 28 x 22 cm. 316 pages. 

“The viewer...should enter my work through their own eyes, and their own lives,” the photographer Wolfgang Tillmans has said. An incisive observer and a creator of dazzling pictures, Tillmans has experimented for over three decades with what it means to engage the world through photography. Presenting the full breadth and depth of the artist’s career, Wolfgang Tillmans: To look without fear invites us to experience the artist’s vision of what it feels like to live today.

From ecstatic images of nightlife to abstract images made without a camera, sensitive portraits to architectural slide projections, documents of social movements to windowsill still lifes, astronomical phenomena to intimate nudes, Tillmans has explored seemingly every imaginable genre of photography, continually experimenting with how to make new pictures. He considers the role of the artist to be that of “an amplifier” of social and political causes, and his approach is animated by a concern with the possibilities of forging connections and the idea of togetherness.

Tillmans has rejected the prevailing conventions of photographic presentation, continuously developing connections between his pictures and the social space of the exhibition. In his installations, unframed prints are taped to the walls or clipped and hung from pins, and framed photographs appear alongside magazine pages. Constellations of images are grouped on walls and tabletops as photocopies, color or black-and-white photographs, and video projections, exemplifying the artist’s idea of visual democracy in action. “I see my installations as a reflection of the way I see, the way I perceive or want to perceive my environment,” Tillmans has said. “They’re also always a world that I want to live in.”

Growing up in London’s East End, Alexander McQueen left school at fifteen to become a tailor’s apprentice on Mayfair’s Savile Row. At twenty-two, he attended the prestigious art and design college Central Saint Martins and, after presenting his 1992 graduate collection that was bought on the spot by influential fashion stylist Isabella Blow, went on to change the course of fashion history.

Celebrated for his uniquely radical aesthetic, McQueen has captured the public’s imagination as few other fashion designers have before or since. Like his designs, McQueen was de ant in his opinions. His quotes on creativity, “You’ve got to know the rules to break them. That’s what I’m here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition”; and women, “I design clothes because I don’t want women to look all innocent and naive…I want people to be afraid of the women I dress”; make this a thoroughly thought-provoking book. Featuring specially commissioned illustrations, this is the perfect gift for fans of fashion and of McQueen, capturing the sharp wit and unbridled spirit of a true visionary.

Specifications - Hardcover. 176 pages.

Since his death in 2011, Lucian Freud’s reputation as one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century has continued to grow with his inimitable large-scale paintings of human figures hanging in museums worldwide and reaching dizzying prices at auction. Art historians note his talent, brilliance, and complicated personal life, but until now, his own voice has often not risen above the noise. Full of verbal and visual wit, affection and irreverence, Freud’s letters now provide a revealing and at times revelatory personal look at his life and process.

This volume brings together Freud’s early letters, gathered with the endorsement of the Freud estate, from both private collections and public archives, including the Freud Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, and the Tate. Ranging from schoolboy notes to his parents to his early recognition as a professional artist, the letters, which often feature drawings and characterful visual quirks, present the multiple facets of Freud’s complex personality.

Coauthored by David Dawson, Freud’s longstanding personal assistant and now director of the Lucian Freud Archive, and Martin Gayford, author, critic, and acquaintance of Lucian Freud, these extraordinary, illustrated letters are reproduced in facsimile alongside striking reproductions of Freud’s works of this period. Linked by a narrative that weaves the letters and paintings into the story of his life, including his first marriage and separation, this book provides an intimate and fresh perspective on the first three decades of the artist’s life.

Specifications - Hardcover. 392 pages.

Now widely acclaimed as one of the world’s greatest photographers, Saul Leiter (1923–2013) remained relatively unsung until he was rediscovered by curators and critics in his early 80s, and his work has been drastically re-evaluated over the last two decades. Leiter’s images evoked the flow and rhythm of life on the mid-century streets of New York in luminous colour at a time when his contemporaries were shooting in black and white. His complex and impressionistic photographs are as much about evoking an atmosphere as nailing the decisive moment.

One of electronic music’s most intriguing and often outspoken characters, DJ Sprinkles aka Terre Thaemlitz moved to Japan from the US in 2001 and as Resident Advisor report the mix is his own sonic reaction to Japan’s worrying “Fuzoku” laws, which allows Police to enter and raid clubs for the “crime” of dancing. A recent Time Out Tokyo article highlighted how “venues routinely post ‘No dancing’ signs, with some even sending staff onto the floor to ask customers to stop moving to the music,”. Thaemlitz deeply dug tracklist boasts an esoteric assortment of rarities from a collection of underground ’90s house figures including Fingers Inc, Gene Farris, Lectroluv, Braxton Holmes and Classic Man. Russian deep house producer Alex Danilov and the now defunct MyMy collaboration between Nick Höppner and Lee Jones lend a more contemporary feel to the mix.

"In Ark Journal Volume VIII we reflect on the idea of a more fluid and holistic way of thinking and creating. We visit perfumer Barnabé Fillion of Arpa Studios in Paris whose work is inspired by his own synaesthesia, visualising fragrances as invisible landscapes. In New York, Landon Metz, an artist whose practice explores painting as a fluid meditative activity, has created an exclusive series of artworks for Ark Journal. We also share a personal memoir by renowned New York-based fine art photographer Martien Mulder. She is a minimalist whose images are sober yet warm and accessible, with photographs reflecting her travels, her movements and her life. 

The homes selected for this issue, from Los Angeles to a small city in Northern Italy and from Copenhagen to Brussels, open new perspectives on the culture of specific sites and how the houses relate to their surroundings. John Pawson’s house for Michael Maharam is entirely built from stone from the mountainous site and its liveable minimalism creates a dialogue between nature, architecture and the occupants. Similarly, Kim Rahbek Hansen’s summer house on the island of Falster by Terese Erngaard of Swiss practice Diener & Diener, tells beautifully of finding the right place on the margin between land and sea. Also lapped by waves, in Helsinki, a sauna pivots between private and public life for Finnish architect Tuomas Toivonen and Japanese designer Nene Tsuboi, who are creators and custodians of this contemplative but communal space.

A multitude of creativity, languages and origins comes together in this issue. Among others we meet the multidisciplinary designer Raf Simon in conversation with curator and design director Marco Sammicheli. Also bridging fashion, art and design Ann Demeulemeester and her partner and collaborator Patrick Robyn share their four decade-long creative journey."

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POP is a fashion magazine aimed at women and men who understand that fashion is a wonderful prism through which so much of contemporary creativity and cultural change is refracted. It was conceived and launched from the offices of The Face magazine in the late-Nineties.

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The entertainment issue, Autumn 2022 from TANK magazine.

This issue of TANK is inspired by our contemporary predicament in which, as philosopher Byung-Chul Han says: “Reality itself appears to be an effect of entertainment.”

Justin E.H. Smith tackles the Marvelisation of the superhero epic from Siberia to California, while Joe Kennedy tracks the evolution of entertainment from “pure incident” to Love Island’s Balearic-dazed ASMR soundscape. Izabella Scott heads for the ugly place where the legal system and reality TV meet, and Ursula Schulz-Dornburg explores a ramshackle kid’s world. Stay in your seat for Asa Seresin on Times Square’s lost pornography theatres and the value of looking with pleasure, while Ha-Joon Chang exercises an appetite for economics. Stay tuned for Sammy Lee’s poetic unpacking of K-pop and Korean soft power, while Philippa Snow discusses beatings and cinematic bad-boys.

But wait, there’s more… Images featuring the best and most beautiful of A/W 2022 await you from Takashi Homma, Xiaopeng Yuan and Daniel Clavero. Isabelle Wenzel throws some shapes, while Chus & Greg look back in fandom nostalgia. Our own fashion manifesto is a new approach to dissecting what fashion means today. Plus, you’ll find interviews with Geoff Dyer, Hannah Black and Jenny Erpenbeck, and new original fiction from Marieke Lucas Rijneveld.

Representing the ideal balance between function and esthetics. Pilo No.2 Fabric Shaver is gentle yet effective and removes lint and pilling from all kinds of materials. With 6 precision razor blades and a large shaving area, Pilo No.2 Fabric Shaver is stronger and more efficient than other fabric shavers on the market.

Specifications - Shaving time: 2 hours, battery charing time: 2 hours, weight: 152g, dimensions: 67x67x93mm, power: 5W.

Representing the ideal balance between function and esthetics. Pilo No.2 Fabric Shaver is gentle yet effective and removes lint and pilling from all kinds of materials. With 6 precision razor blades and a large shaving area, Pilo No.2 Fabric Shaver is stronger and more efficient than other fabric shavers on the market. 

Specifications - Shaving time: 2 hours, battery charing time: 2 hours, weight: 152g, dimensions: 67x67x93mm, power: 5W.

This pocket-sized notebook is always close by, always handy, to capture happy moments, make grocery lists, or write down those perfect quotes that you will absolutely remember.

Specifications - Uncoated softcover / Dot grid sheets. 64 pages. Dimensions: 127 x 185 mm

Dingbats*' expertise has led to the creation of the finest 160gsm writing and art paper and a notebook certified for strict environmental credentials. When you hold a Dingbats* Pro Notebook, you’re holding centuries of paper-making tradition in your hands. With Dingbats* Pro Notebooks, they offer an exquisite companion that meets the highest standards required by writers, painters, graphic artists, illustrators, art students, scientists, engineers, technicians and above all journal lovers. The finest natural white paper is enclosed between sustainable textile covers that are made from renewable resources that look and feel elegant. Due to its unique surface, this paper is very well suited for different drawing and painting techniques as well as mixed media techniques. The colour flows beautifully and the brilliance is preserved. High contrasts and excellent colour intensity can be achieved with every technique, watercolour, acrylic and pastel-painting techniques as well as sketching with coal and red chalk. The natural-white artist paper with a unique matte surface is also very well suited for writers and doodlers using fountain pens, pens, fineliners or pencils. It is lignin free, acid free and age resistant.

Specifications - Hardback cover. 17.6 x 25 cm. 128 pages. Space between dots is 5 mm. Plain pages.

Dingbats*' expertise has led to the creation of the finest 160gsm writing and art paper and a notebook certified for strict environmental credentials. When you hold a Dingbats* Pro Notebook, you’re holding centuries of paper-making tradition in your hands. With Dingbats* Pro Notebooks, they offer an exquisite companion that meets the highest standards required by writers, painters, graphic artists, illustrators, art students, scientists, engineers, technicians and above all journal lovers. The finest natural white paper is enclosed between sustainable textile covers that are made from renewable resources that look and feel elegant. Due to its unique surface, this paper is very well suited for different drawing and painting techniques as well as mixed media techniques. The colour flows beautifully and the brilliance is preserved. High contrasts and excellent colour intensity can be achieved with every technique, watercolour, acrylic and pastel-painting techniques as well as sketching with coal and red chalk. The natural-white artist paper with a unique matte surface is also very well suited for writers and doodlers using fountain pens, pens, fineliners or pencils. It is lignin free, acid free and age resistant.

Specifications - Hardback cover. 17.6 x 25 cm. 128 pages. Space between dots is 5 mm. Plain pages.