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30
years
TASCHEN
50
years
Alis first
professional fight
Ali vs 75
years
Superman DC Comics
Who will
outsell whom?
Est. 1980
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30
YEARS
Est. 1980
Ali vs Superman
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From early childhood, Muhammad Ali was fifties, but in the collective memory of the world to dozens of photographers, journalists, writers,
my hero. Like many others of my generation, he was a living legend, and most of his entourage ex-opponents, managers, lawyers. All in all, it
I remember watching the first live broadcasts were still around. So I spoke to Alis manager, was an amazing experience, the result of which
of his fights with my family, which for us in Bernie Yuman. He was familiar with our pub- was described by Spiegel magazine as the most
Germany was in the middle of the night. When lishing house and with the model for the Ali megalomaniacal book in the history of civiliza-
I was 16 years old, I read his autobiography book that I had in mind: the legendary SUMO tion, the biggest, heaviest, most radiant thing
The Greatest: My Own Story, and 20 years later by Helmut Newton. Bernie visualized the scale ever printed. Today, seven years after the pub-
I saw Ali at the 1996 Olympic Games and of the project at once: a book unlike any other, lication of GOAT, we are proud to publish this
watched Leon Gasts award-winning documen- a book to be remembered for generations to affordable edition at last so that Alis genius can
tary When We Were Kings. It was then that I come, one that would chronicle a man whose be shared with the widest possible audience.
began to understand why I was so fascinated by prominence would be felt as strongly far in the Smaller in size but not in impact, this new version
him: the man was cool and charismatic, dressed future as it is today. So I sent a copy of SUMO of GOAT brings the peoples champ to the people.
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immaculately, had a great sense of humor and with a letter to Ali. It didnt take long until a
a phenomenal joie de vivre...and more than desperate Bernieusually never short of words This year TASCHEN turns 30. That another
anything else, he stood up for his beliefs and called me: I was just on the phone with The childhood hero of mine, Superman, and his
did exactly what he wantedand he was right. Champ, who received your Newton book, and mythical publishing house, DC Comics, are
And despite his illness later in life, he didnt give he wondered why you sent him, a Muslim, a celebrating their 75th birthday with a giant
up, and with the Olympic torch in his hand, he book full of naked women? How do we get out TASCHEN-book is a fortunate coincidence and
conquered the heart of everyone. of this? What shall I say? I told him to explain a fitting reminder of my roots as a comic-book
In 1992 I had a revelation: we planned to pub- that all the girls in the book were very poor and dealer. No matter who outsells whom, Ali or
lish a catalogue raisonn of Dals paintings. had no money to buy clothes. Five minutes later Superman, we are in for an amazing race!
As always, we produced a mock-up of the book a relieved Bernie was on the phone againAli
for the trade. At that time we still used stickers laughed, was happy to collaborate, and under- Peace,
to apply the title of the book to the slipcase. stood that this book could become an important
It being summer, and the temperature rising, part of his heritage. Four years later we looked
the D happened to drop off suddenly, leaving at what felt like a million photographs of Ali in
the title to read ALI. Then Ali was still in his archives all over the world, visited and talked Benedikt Taschen, October 2010
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Four-color fantasy
Super heroes from the Atom to Zatara: 75 years of DC Comics
XL
Format
75 Years of DC Comics:
The Art of Modern Mythmaking
Paul Levitz
Hardcover, 5 fold-outs, format:
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In 1935, DC Comics founder Major Malcolm publishers 75th anniversary, TASCHEN has is 38-year DC veteran Paul Levitz, whose
Wheeler-Nicholson published New Fun No. 1, produced the single most comprehensive book in-depth essays trace the companys history,
the first comic book with all-new, original mate- on DC Comics, in an XL edition even Superman from its pulp origins through to the future of
rialat a time when comic books were mere might have trouble lifting. More than 2,000 digital publishing.
repositories for the castoffs of the newspaper imagescovers and interiors, original illustra-
strips. What was initially considered to be dis- tions, photographs, film stills, and collectibles Year-by-year timelines that fold out to nearly
posable media for children was well on its way are reproduced using the latest technology to four feet and biographies of the legends who
to becoming the mythology of our timethe bring the story lines, the characters, and their built DC make this an invaluable reference for
20th centurys answer to Atlas or Zorro. More creators to vibrant life as theyve never been any comic book fan.
than 40,000 comic books later, in honor of the seen before. Telling the tales behind the tomes
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The Golden Age
of comics The history of DC Comics is one
It all started with Superman of the worlds most colorful stories
and no one can tell it better
than the brilliant Paul Levitz.
Stan Lee
doomed planet (named Krypton by Siegel in a comic issued in April starring Superman and
nod to its fellow noble gas, helium, where Edgar other DC heroes, sold only at the New York
Rice Burroughss John Carter had discovered fairgrounds at the unprecedented price of 25
his greater-than-normal strength from the cents. And in May, the first four stories from
lesser gravity of Mars), and a bullet-proof skin Action were collected into Superman No. 1, the
that would have saved Siegels father, and the first solo title for a comic book character. When
hero was born. that comic started running new material with
Supermans success was so great that Siegel the second quarterly issue, the demand for art
and Shuster got one of their wishes almost was so great that it was clear Shuster would need
immediately: On January 12, 1939, Superman a substantial Superman art studio team. The
debuted as a daily newspaper strip, with a model for increasing production came from a
Sunday strip added later that year. This more mixture of the newspaper comics
than doubled the amount of Superman material tradition of assistants ghosting material signed
being created, and vastly extended the audience by the strips creators, and the factory system
the character could reach. The phenomenon that Lloyd Jacquet and others had used to supply
continued, with a special Worlds Fair one-shot the early comics publishers, with salaried artists.
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I do nothing that a man of Same Bat-time,
Same Bat-channel
unlimited funds, superb physical
endurance, and maximum
scientific knowledge could not do. Super-hero superstar Superman and Batman were the yin and yang
Batman of the comics. Together they covered the range of
psychological appeals and established DC as
the premier comics publisher.
Jerry Robinson, Golden Age comics artist
grave voice even in the middle of the most appeared on the cover of every DC title where
improbable action. In a rare and serendipitous it was remotely plausible. He pushed other
moment, a new issue of Batman featuring the co-stars out of The Brave and the Bold, and
Riddler hit newsstands just as Frank Gorshins even popped up in Jerry Lewis within months.
hysterical chuckle stopped audiences in their A Batman newspaper strip launched in 1966
tracks. The first episode aired a day later, for an eight-year run, just as the longstanding
concluding with a Same Bat-time, same Bat- Superman strip was fading away.
channel cliffhanger that catapulted the show The Batman show itself was deceptively simple,
to the top 10. The comic blew off the newsstand with West, Burt Ward as Robin, and an array of
like nothing DC had seen in decades. spectacular guest villains stylistically triumph-
After almost three decades as a mainstay of ing over tight budgets, short shooting schedules,
comic books, Batman was suddenly a fad. It and formulaic plots on pure energy, and captur-
was a time when America moved from one phe- ing the zeitgeist. America needed an outrageous
nomenon to another with a cultural speed and laugh, and turning the melodrama of pulp drama
passion greater than ever, as mass media and
mass advertising achieved essentially universal
penetration . . . but most families only had a
choice of three television channels, focusing
attention in a much more concentrated fashion
than is possible now in the 21st century.
DCs sister company, Licensing Corporation
of America, originally formed to expand
Supermans merchandise program, began han-
If DC wasnt ready for the real world, the real dling outside properties, including James Bond
world was ready for DC. during that craze a few years before, and was
On January 12, 1966, Batman hit the airwaves.
At the time, most American television was lim
ited to three broadcast networks, and virtually The comic blew off
all new series debuted in the fall. But ABC, with
the weakest set of affiliate stations (and so, in
the newsstand like
that pre-cable/satellite era, the smallest poten- nothing DC had seen
tial audience), decided to try a new approach
and begin a group of programs labeled as The
in decades.
Second Season. Reportedly conceived by pro-
ducer Bill Dozier while watching a screening of well set up to ensure that all things Bat-themed,
the 1940s Batman movie serials at a party from costumes to lunch boxes, reached stores
thrown by Hugh Hefner, the show was an ideal quickly. The print runs on the comics ratcheted
camp treatment of the Caped Crusader, with up, month after month, until the magic number
Adam West playing the hero with a perfectly of a million copies of an issue sold, and Batman
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The most secret
superpower Superman is our version of
Keeping the myth alive Greek myth . . .an inspiration
to ordinary people.
Gloria Steinem
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The Champ is back!
Cassius Clay in the pool of the Sir John Hotel
in Miami where he was residing while training
in August 1961. Photo Flip Schulke, 1961
Universally acclaimed as the greatest sports- To honor this living legend, TASCHEN created the best interviews and writing of the last five
man of the modern era, someone who trans- an epic book, as powerful and vibrant as the decades to round off the picture of the Champ,
formed not just his sport but the cultural status man himself, a phenomenal artefact that this monumental publication is finally available
of athletes everywhere, Muhammad Ali still reflects the scale of Alis many achievements: in an affordable, unlimited edition.
towers over the sweet science of boxing, Greatest of All TimeA Tribute to
more than three decades after announcing his Muhammad Ali is a book with the power, cour- Today, seven years after the publication of
retirement. Acknowledged as one of the most age, depth, creativity and dazzling energy of its GOAT, we are proud to publish this affordable
remarkable personalities of our time and extraordinary subject. Containing thousands edition at last so that Alis genius can be shared
undoubtedly the most popular sporting person- of imagesphotography, art and memorabilia with the widest possible audience. Smaller in
ality ever, his status as the finest heavyweight from over 100 photographers and artists, two size but not in impact, this new version brings
champion to grace a ring is beyond all doubt. gatefold sequences, original essays as well as the peoples champ to the people.
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The undisputed heavyweight
champion of books, at a knockout
price
Rumble
broken by Ken Norton? Who was Ken Norton? $ 25.My cousin wouldnt go, said he couldnt overwhelming. Down on the floor, in the center, looks the size of a childs playpen, only with men we think victory is imminent, but because Ali is
Ali was no kid by then. He was 32. He was trying stand to see Ali lose or worse, get knocked out. were four screens connected in a box shape. in it. Ali senses everyones fear. He turns and still in this fight. Foreman is really slowing down.
in an urban
to come back and he didnt have it. I figured he What was I going to do? After taking incessant Surrounding the screens and closest to them starts working the crowd. Ali is covering up and it looks like Foreman is
needed the money, thats why he kept fighting. teasing from a local white guy, I put down a bet: were the people in the $ 100 seats. White men, The combatants move to center ring. They face hurting him. Ali shakes his head to let everyone
I couldnt hate him for that, but I just didnt eight bucks at 31 odds (some sanity had pre- maybe two or three thousand of them. A little each other while the ref instructs them. Again, know he isnt hurt. A glimmer of hope springs up
jungle
want to see him get hurt bad. I also figured, in vailed in the street odds by fight night). I had just dollop of white engulfed by an ocean of color. I cant hear any of what is said because of the among us. We look at each other.
my young, simple mind: hey, theres no one out enough left for fare into the city and the price of Custer and the Indians I thought. They better Is it possible? Maybe? By the eighth, the din is at
there who will really hurt him. Hell make some the ticket. Once Id paid for the ticket and paid hope Ali doesnt get hurt too bad. a 100 decibels. We sense something. Foreman is
By Gregory Allen Howard money for himself and get on with his life. You off the bet, Id be broke, but I was going. I felt Suddenly, I get an elbow in my side. The Puerto Dont get hurt, man. tired. He throws a sluggish punch, misses and
know, retire. Leave us with vague memories of inside I had to go. Rican next to me offers me a swig of some of ends up entangled in the ropes. Ali looks fresh. Ali
what he once was. The E-Train was packed going to the Garden. It kind of liquor. He has to be drunk already to I look down in the row. peppers him with combos. Little flicking punches.
There was only one problem with my little was full of men of color, full of dread. There was offer it to me. I decline for obvious reasons. But Tears are welling up in Cheers roar out around the Garden. Were
scenario for Alis life. George Foreman. no buzz or pre-fight chatter. There was a pall over I look down the row of men; theyre all getting stomping on our feet, our hearts in our throats.
October 30, 1974 Id seen this behemoth George Foreman on TV. the car. The looks they gave each other across drunk and smoking grass. Obsessively. In a mens eyes. More fast Ali is tagging that big bastard.
A night that will play out in my mind forever. He was taller, bigger, and more muscular than that train: guilt, sadness, worry. And, when the hurry. And they arent getting high in a jovial, drinking and smoking. Ali cracks him with a hard right.
No, I was not in Zaire. There may have been Ali. Hell, he was scary. The TV commentators looks got too intense, these black and Puerto party way. There is something manic about it. Foreman folds over.
tens of thousands of fans watching the fight in kept showing clips of two fights over and over: Rican men would look down at the floor, ashamed Then it dawns on me. Theyre trying to get Foreman spins to the mat.
Kinshasa, but 99 % of the audience watched Foreman h itting Frazier so hard, he lifts him they had revealed so much of themselves, wasted quickly before the fight starts, trying to din. Ali is talking to Foreman, who stands there Foreman is counted out!
Muhammad Ali vs George Foreman the off the canvas. And Foreman destroying Ken ashamed at their lack of faith. Like me, they felt insulate themselves from the pain theyre antici- like The Mummy Ali described him as. From Pandemonium in the Garden. Everyone hugging
Rumble in the Jungle on screens in cinemas Norton. And now Ali, my hero, was going to face they were going to a funeral. Their despair made pating when they see Ali go down. Hurry up. Alis expression and head-wagging, I think Ali is everyone. Everyone crying. Strangers hugging
and auditoriums. Millions of words have been this monster. me worry even more. If they were older and wiser Drink fast. Hit this joint. Quick. These men are talkin shit! Dont do that, Champ; youll only and crying. And the chant goes up.20,000 voices.
written about events, small and large, surround- I was scared for him. It was as if I were going to not partying at all. They have the look of soldiers make Foreman angry. Ali, Ali, Ali
ing Alis fights. But the world was not present for be in that ring myself, getting my brains beaten on a plane about to parachute out. The Bell. The silent Bell. They meet in the The lights come up as if by magic. The doors fly
that backstage drama. We saw Ali on screen, on out. There was no talk of Ali winning, not from
giant screens. Our drama was the drama of that anybody; not even his fans:
Much as I loved him, Something else I realized that night. We were
one. All of us in that arena. I didnt know any of
center. Ali is the aggressor. He smacks Foreman open. More magic. Arm in arm with strangers
on the head with a right. Foreman is unfazed. we pour out.
moment, in those darkened arenas and auditori- Hope he dont get hurt too bad. I and millions others like those men in that row, or in front of me, or any- Ali cannot hurt this man. Ali, Ali, Ali, ALI
ums and bars. We were there with Ali in spirit,
but our bodies were elsewhere.
Last fight for him.
Or: Hell be alright well, he wont die.
me thought that Ali was where. But, as soon as you looked at them, there
was a nod as if to say, Hey, brother, Im here with
Suddenly Ali goes on the ropes.
This is nuts. Foreman follows him and starts
Out on 7th Avenue we are met by 10,000 more
fans. Fans who were not at the fight. 30,000
I was in Queens, New York, staying with my Some white men weighed in with That draft going to die in this fight. you. Were gonna hurt tonight, but Ill be here pounding the hell out of him. Big thunderous crazy people. Climbing on top of cars and cabs.
aunt. (Okay, I was young.) Like a lot of boys of dodgers gonna get shit beat outa him. Foremans with you. body shots. Men in the crowd are covering their The traffic cant move. Horns are blasting. And
my generation, we were a little too young to have gonna kill Allie (thats the way they said his The lights dimmed. The din became deafening. eyes. Theyre thinking: it might end right here. the chant goes on.
experienced the full Ali. Too young to have seen name sometimes). Ill give 41 Clay gets and this is how they felt, then it must really be I guess there was sound coming from the PA sys- But a weird thing happens, right at the end of the Ali, Ali, Ali, ALI, ALI
Clay vs Liston I or II, or Williams, or Terrell, to knocked out. bad. Ali is going to die tonight and they know it. tem, but I never heard a word from the speakers round, Ali comes off the ropes and tags Foreman 30,000 men marching up 7th Avenue, stopping
have gone through the exile years, to have really Knocked out? It was going to be hard enough see- I had never been to the Garden before. My heart that night. No ringside commentary could be with a combination. We leap to our feet. We look traffic for 30 blocks around.
grasped Ali vs Frazier. No, for me, the first real ing Ali lose, but knocked out? Wild visions circled was pounding when I entered the arena on a heard. No bell. Nothing. Just that Garden din at at each other. No, it was just a combo. He hasnt ALI! ALI! ALI! ALI! ALI!
blush of comprehension of the spectacle of an in my head of Ali being carried out on a stretcher. high floor. As I walked in, I was met by a sea 80 decibels; white noise. (No, colored noise.) hurt the ox. Ali has survived the round. It mustve lasted for an hour. Hours. I cant
Ali fight was the Rumble in the Jungle. As fight night approached, I became tense and of colored humanity: black men, brown men, Ali enters the arena in Kinshasa. The din goes We breathe a sigh of relief. remember. I was lost in a fog. But, for me, that
Like millions of black boys, I loved Ali. His anxious. My aunt couldnt understand, but my yellow men; Africans, Puerto Ricans, Black up to 90 and stays there. The men in my row see Second round. A replay. Ali on the ropes. night has lasted forever. It was the most exciting
mouth, his brashness, his racial pride gave me cousin did. He was older. He had grown up with Americans, South Americans, Central Amer him. We cheer, but the cheer is hollow. Ali moves Foreman pounding. This time Foreman gets and transcendent moment Ive ever experi-
courage, made me strong. As baseball legend Ali. He was even more worked up than I was. icans, East Indians, West Indians, American to the ring and starts dancing. I am almost over- through with a shot and Ali is dazed, but still on enced. I knew that night Icould win in life. I
Reggie Jackson once said, the impact was over- He explained to me thered almost never been a Indians, Haitians, Jamaicans a-plenty. A Tower come with emotion. Dont get hurt, man. I look his feet. Ali is now talking shit again. I implore knew it. Sure, I fully expected problems, chal-
whelming: the most famous man in the world heavyweight championship fight with 41 odds. of Babel of color. The din of languages blotted down the row. Tears are welling up in mens Ali to shut up. Hes just going to make him mad- lenges, difficulties, but I also knew that Icould
was beautiful, articulate, proud and black. Then he saw me panic and tried to calm me out any sound from the PA system. I couldnt eyes. More fast drinking and smoking. der. BOOM! BOOM! Big hard shots to Alis and would overcome every single obstacle in my
Much as I loved him, I and millions of others down. But those are just street odds. (I was hear anything except the noise of voices in the I look around some more. Everywhere I see the body. Then, at the end, Ali flicks a combo again. path. Odds didnt mean anything. I knew that
like me thought Ali was going to die in this fight relieved?) Then: The Vegas book is 31. (Oh, arena. Spanish, Spanglish, black slang, Chinese, same thing: grown men, tough men, crying. Not A cheer ripples through the crowd. Still no night I would prevail as a man. As a black man.
against George Foreman. (What will I do if he thats okay then, I guess?) French, Creole, patois and other languages Id sobbing, but with tears running down brown and damage to Foreman. And now, when doubt or fear crowd my soul, I
loses? If he gets hurt? Gets crippled?) Ali had Come the day of the fight, decisions had to be never heard or heard of. 20,000 people! The black faces. They wipe them away furtively, but Third round. Another replay. Ali on the ropes. think of that night, and then I become fearless
already lost to Joe Frazier in 1971 in the Garden. made. Would I bet? Would I get my cousin to Third World was representin. the tears still rain down. But Foreman is slowing down. He is still throw- again. Because Ali, my champion, lit me up that
But Ken Norton? Ali had lost to a nobody take metosee the fight at Madison Square I stumbled to my seat on the end, about two Several minutes later, Foreman jogs in. As he ing bombs, but slower. Ali flicks back. By the night, put fire in my chest.
called Ken Norton? He had gotten his jaw Garden? I had $ 35 to my name. Tickets cost thirds of the way up. I tried to take it all in. It was ducks into the ring, it shrinks. I mean, that ring fifth, all 20,000 of us are on our feet, not because And baby Im still burning!
As a man who
never looked down on those and also justice and equality.
who looked up to him in their fight for freedom,
ever made
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Our Fair Lady
The Tiffany princess in the little black dress
In his distinguished career as a Hollywood stu- the photojournalistic movie still, but when he facets of Hepburns beauty and elegance, as she
dio photographer, Bob Willoughby took iconic met the Belgian-born beauty, Willoughby was progresses from her debut to her career high of
photos of Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor enraptured. She took my hand like... well a My Fair Lady in 1963. Willoughbys studies,
and Jane Fonda, but remains unequivocal about princess, and dazzled me with that smile that showing her on set, preparing for a scene, inter-
his favorite subject: Audrey Kathleen Ruston, God designed to melt mortal mens hearts, acting with actors and directors, and returning
later Edda van Heemstra Hepburn-Ruston, he recalls. to her private life, comprise one of photogra-
best known as Audrey Hepburn. Willoughby As Hepburns career soared following her phys great platonic love affairs and an unri-
was called in to shoot the new starlet one morn- Oscar-winning US debut in Roman Holiday, valed record of one of the 20th centurys touch-
Wearing a beautiful dress designed ing shortly after she arrived in Hollywood in Willoughby became a trusted friend, framing stone beauties.
for her by Givenchy, Audrey reclines on a
grandiose bed in Paris When It Sizzles.
1953. It was a humdrum commission for the her working and home life. His historic, perfec-
Photo Bob Willoughby, 2010 portraitist often credited with having perfected tionist, tender photographs seek out the many
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The last outlaw
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Graffiti and unsanctioned art
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Trespass
A History of Uncommissioned Urban Art
Ethel Seno (Ed.), Carlo McCormick,
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In recent years street art has grown bolder, book to present the full historical sweep, global Also includes:
more ornate, more sophisticated andin many reach and technical developments of the street Unpublished images of street art by Keith
casesmore acceptable. Yet unsanctioned pub- art movement, Trespass features key works by Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat
lic art remains the problem child of cultural 150 artists, and connects four generations of Unpublished photographs by Subway Art
expression, the last outlaw of visual disciplines. visionary outlaws, including Jean Tinguely, luminary Martha Cooper
It has also become a global phenomenon of the Spencer Tunick, Keith Haring, Os Gemeos, Unpublished photos from the personal
21st century. Jenny Holzer, Barry McGee, Gordon Matta- archives of selected artists
Made in collaboration with featured artists, Clark, Shepard Fairey, Blu, Billboard Incisive essays by Anne Pasternak (director
Trespass examines the rise and global reach of Liberation Front, Guerrilla Girls and Banksy, of public arts fund Creative Time) and civil
graffiti and urban art, tracing key figures, events among others. It also contains dozens of pre rights lawyer Tony Serra
and movements of self-expression in the citys viously unpublished photographs of long-lost Special feature: exclusive preface by Banksy
social space, and the history of urban reclama- works and legendary, ephemeral urban art- Paolo Buggiani, Minotaur
tion, protest, and illicit performance. The first works. Brooklyn Bridge, New York City, 1980
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City view
By Marc and Sara Schiller
With each piece of free public art,
they reclaim a part of the city that has
been sold off to advertisers.
Marc and Sara Schiller
pearance of public space. The idea that a com- are sketching and blowing their images up on
pany can buy the side of a building, the realiza- copy machines; they are photographers by docu-
tion that billboards are reproducing like rats, menting their work, and they are sculptors as
and that publicly funded art is often the result of they case the city streets to determine what
watered-down compromises, eats away at the building is appropriate for their piece.
street artists soul. With each piece of free public An art movement has never before gone through
art, they reclaim a part of the city that has been so many iterations so quickly. The Internet,
sold off to advertisers. combined with the digital camera, has allowed
Many people are too quick to view street art artists to see work from around the world over-
through the lens of vandalism. They mistakenly night. They can react to the pieces, ask questions
believe that the artists are taking beautiful via email, see comments that admirers or critics
buildings and defacing them. And yet, most are making, and incorporate all of this into the
street artists work in neglected neighborhoods piece they make the next day. Sharing their
and place their work on forgotten buildings. stories, a strong community has developed that
They look for the rundown building with paint pushes each artist to develop materials that can
chipping off, with weeds growing out of the side- withstand the weather, to identify locations that
walk. Their motivation is to beautify these will make more impact, and to continue to push
buildings and to create something truly special. forward their ideals.
They believe that the art adds something to the Overwhelmingly, it is the strong sense of com-
city, creating an energy that enhances eroding munity that characterizes this group of artists.
buildings. If you put a piece of art on a vapid An unwritten code has emerged that binds them
advertisement that is plastered all over town together. It can be as simple as offering a bed,
does the community disagree with your efforts? couch, or floor to a traveling artist. Or the will-
If you beautify a rotten door, does its inhabitant ingness to work on a group piece. Or perhaps
not applaud you? being there in a time of need, offering up a mark-
er or a can of spray paint. As admirers and urban
inhabitants, we are brought into this community
That first moment you notice a stencil on the They believe that the art in a silent, steady manner every time we are sur-
pavement, a sticker on the back of a mailbox, or
a metal sculpture attached to a street sign, you
adds something to the city, prised by seeing a new piece, and as we daily
search for more unauthorized public art. The
are suddenly transported into another worldto creating an energy that viewer knows that the city is alive and that the
a vibrant subculture that infiltrates and eradi- enhances eroding buildings. artist cannot live without making this art.
cates the monotony of daily life. Your commute Ultimately, it is a shared view of the world and
to work, or that short trip to the store, now the belief that small acts can make a difference
becomes an adventure as you search for creativ- Over the years, technology has played a critical that will be identified with this movement.
ity in unexpected places. role in the rapid development of unauthorized
The artists featured in this book work freely in public art. The affordable digital camera means
the city streets, often anonymously, ignoring that every piece can now be documented and
what the outside world thinks. They give away shared, encouraging other artists to go higher, Opposite: ZEVS, Liquidated McDonalds
Paris, 2005
their art for free, bucking the pressures of com- bigger, and better. Technology has also allowed
Left: Roadsworth, Male
merce that govern both museums and galleries. these artists to be multifaceted. Gone are the Baie St. Paul, Quebec, 2007
Working outdoors, they have just minutes to days when you were considered only a photogra- Below: Faile, Boxers
create a piece or risk the threat of arrest. These pher or only an illustrator. Todays street artists IsraelPalestine Wall, Palestine, 2007
magical, ephemeral pieces they leave for us to
enjoy may last for minutes or sometimes days,
constantly changing with the weather, or altered
by a fellow artist, or removed by an angry build-
ing owner. Climbing high or going underground
into tunnels to place their work, these artists are
often motivated by the danger inherent in
putting up the piece.
It is the interplay between the urban environ-
ment and the artists who see the city as one
giant canvas that captivates the imagination.
Never before have we seen public art reach such
a scale as we now see with the works of Blu, or
become so pervasive as we see with Shepard
Faireys, or so copied as that of Banksy, or so del-
icate as that of Swoon.
Instilled in these artists is the concept that
images and ideas are there to be co-opted,
manipulated, and then transferred freely around
the world. Street artists bemoan the rapid disap-
29
Sexy in the city
Howard Huangs anime-inspired glamour girls
When photographer Howard Huang began inspired by his love of comic books and anime. games. The trick is to rework an image to
shopping his fashion book around New York in His composite photos feature exotic locales, enhance my vision, without drawing attention
2002 he had no idea he was about to become lush interiors, or the neon-washed nighttime to cheesy Photoshop special effects, says
the master of urban photography. Back then, streets of Manhattan. His shapely heroines, Huang, who studied under advertising photog-
Huang, originating from Taiwan, thought including singer Jacki-O, actress Vida Guerra, raphy master Michel Tcherevkoff. The result is
urban girls were just women who lived in the and reality TV stars Hoopz, Deelishis, and a unique marriage of the new pictorialism with
city, explaining, English is my second language; Risky Jones, escape on sleek motorcycles; rob classic glamour photography, and a look at the
I was still learning. Nonetheless, when the edi- banks with guns drawn and Halliburton cases little known niche market of African-American
tor of Black Men magazine asked if he knew spilling money; brandish swords like Japanese and Latina bikini models, collectively known as
how to shoot sexy women he said, Sure! and assassins; conjure fire; hunt big game, and gen- urban girls.
set about staging the magazines voluptuous erally kick ass while displaying their own gener- Angel Lola Luv, Aka Lola Monroe
singers, models, and actresses in fantasies ous posteriors in photos reminiscent of video Photo Howard Huang
When booty calls
By Dian Hanson
The word urban, according to the Oxford model be accepted by the projected readership? paper, experimenting with cross processing,
English Dictionary, comes from the Latin urbs, And not to be ignored, would a model that selenium, and sepia tones. I made old 30s, 40s
for city, and means pertaining to or characteris- appealed to urban African Americans alienate pin-up girl glamour. We had a lot of equipment
tic of a city or town. In modern American par- the white boys at Wal-Mart? [] to borrow and I took advantage of everything. I
lance, urban means pertaining to city-identified Enter Howard Huang. bought my first fine art camera then and got into
ethnicities, primarily African American. Born in Taipei, Taiwan, in 1971, Huang grew up urban architecture. I was sneaking into build-
Though the euphemism was adopted as a deli- addicted to Japanese anime such as Ghost in the ings, taking pictures from different angles.
cate way to racially profile product, it is now Shell and Megazone 23. When he was 12 his During this time Huang met his wife, Jamie, also
used by black and white alike to describe music, family moved to sunny Honolulu, Hawaii, but an art student. Shes been with me throughout
fashion, literature, attitude, and yes, a new Howard remained an indoor guy. I was in my the whole thing, he laughs.
generation of pin-up girls. own world, drawing funny characters inspired The whole thing began with graduation in
Black Men, launched in 1998, was the first of the by comic books. I was always trying to get away 1996, when Huang confidently decamped to
urban mens lifestyle magazines. A loose mix of from happy, colorful, sunny Hawaii. New York with his portfolio. I thought I was
GQ, Vibe, and Playboy, Black Men delivered a Huang knew he wanted a career in art, but his really cool and went straight to Vogue, then W
suave, upscale fantasy of life in the city with the practical parents envisioned him as a high-paid magazine, and Details. Of course, nothing,
tagline For men who appreciate the finer things lawyer or businessman, and told him the only Thank you very much.
in life. Between the hip-hop music reviews and way he could go to art school was to pay his own Huang was undeterred. Hed become fascinated
mens fashion spreads were layouts of bikini- tuition. He worked as a tour guide, saving money with computers as an adjunct to photography in
clad women, surpris- school, experimenting
ingly modest for their with composite images
imagined gritty urban and retouching, even
roots, a new sort of generating 3-D images
girl next door blend- as early as 1993. He
ing multi-racial exoti- found a commercial
cism with demure old photographer in New
Hollywood glamour. York, Michel
The decision to keep Tcherevkoff, seeking an
the girls clothed was assistant proficient in
simple economics: digital manipulation,
With no nudity the and was offered the job
magazine could get immediately.
into Wal-Mart, the I was doing his silhou-
vast chain of Middle etting, retouching, and
American cut-rate color correction and
superstores. [] learning a lot, but he
The success of Black also offered me the
Men quickly inspired opportunity to use his
competitors, first loft studio on the week-
King and Smooth, ends, cause hed go
then XXL, with more away to his country
music reviews; home. I was doing
F.E.D.S., with a rough- model tests again, and
er street edge; and shooting for a bunch of
Show, with more skin. While adhering to the to attend a real art school on the mainland, small fashion magazines, even fixing peoples
lifestyle template, each successive magazine put while taking courses at Honolulu Community computers, because New York is expensive, and
a bit more emphasis on the girls, and on fine- College. His major there was graphic design, but I had $36,000 in school debt to pay off. But I
tuning a beauty esthetic that accurately reflect- then he took a photography course. was also experimenting, and quit Michel after
At first I just wanted to take pictures of girls, he four years because I was so anxious to do my
says, but my instructor inspired me a lot and I own thing. I shot stock stuff for Getty Images,
These booty girls arent decided I wanted to be a fashion photographer. I shot fashion for Urban Latino, my first urban
fashion models, but I treat was fascinated by the Armani catalogs, photos by
Avedon, Irving Penn, and Herb Ritts; all this
magazine, and finally took a job with a studio
producing home furnishing catalogs. It was dur-
them like they are, and black and white stuff. ing this time that I got a call from XXL maga-
they appreciate it. He was accepted into the photography program
at San Franciscos Academy of Art, where, to
zine, asking if I knew how to shoot swimsuit
girls. Id never heard of XXL, but said,
generate money for tuition and housing, he Sure!having no idea what they meant.
ed the tastes of the new urban man. This meant approached local fashion agencies and offered He quickly found out. His first urban bikini girl
booty, as butt has long trumped breast in African to shoot model tests. When my classmates were was actually for King, XXLs sister publication.
American culture. But just how much booty? taking pictures of fellow classmates [for assign- Her name was Sara [Stokes], from P. Diddys
Must a butt be proportionate to the rest of the ments] I was already using fashion agency girls, reality show Making the Band. I thought of it as
body, and if not, how disproportionate could a he says. Thats where I began using my comic fashion and shot her glamorous, S/M sexy. It
Hoopz, Gypsy, and Maliah Michel
Opposite: Esther Baxter
backside be? Since bigger booties are generally book and film inspirations. [] was the right decision to launch his hip-hop
Photos Howard Huang attached to bigger women, would a truly thick I was in the darkroom a lot, coating my own career.
33
Confessions
Adam Lindemanns second volume is the demand. From Art Deco to the Wiener Clmence Krzentowski, Zesty Meyers and
follow-up to Collecting Contemporary, an Werksttte, Bauhaus to the Eameses, the Evan Snyderman, Murray Moss, Patrick
unprecedented success, introducing the lay French modernists, and a whole bunch of Seguin, Alasdhair Willis), select tastemakers
of a connoisseur
reader to collecting contemporary art, with designers many havent heard of yet, this vol- (Jacques Grange, Marc Jacobs, Karl Lagerfeld,
tell-all interviews with the biggest players in the ume is the best guide to the collectability and Peter Marino, Robert Rubin, Ian Schrager, Axel
global art market. The idea for this volume overall desirability of design for connoisseurs Vervoordt), and auction experts (Gerti Draxler
came when he was furnishing his new house. and amateurs alike. from Dorotheum, Vienna, Philippe Garner
Art collectors like myself who hung beautiful from Christies, Peter and Shannon Loughrey
Insiders tips on how the design art market really works contemporary paintings on their walls suddenly Collecting Design tells all about an addictive from LAMA, Los Angeles, Alexander Payne
saw their furniture look sad and tired, occupation, vintage pieces vs. limited editions, from Phillips de Pury, Richard Wright, James
Lindemann writes in his introduction, relating the big names and what to keep an eye on, all Zemaitis from Sothebys).
how hobby became passion and an overwhelm- from the perspective of a passionate collector
ing desire to know everything. Which is how meeting market luminaries for in-depth Lindemann writes: Sitting down for hours with
this latest volume manages to give such a conversationshis fellow collectors (Bruno 32 experts, I can now discuss the finer points
perfect introduction to collectible design: Bischofberger, Michael Boyd, Peter M. Brant, of Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann versus Eileen
it follows the path its author took. Dennis Freedman, Dakis Joannou, Reed Gray, Carlo Mollino versus Gio Ponti, of Marc
Todays design market has its roots in the late Krakoff, Ronald Lauder), the dealers Newson versus Ron Arad, and so on. I hope you
eighteenth century: artists created porcelain (Anthony DeLorenzo, Suzanne Demisch, will enjoy and profit from this fascinating field
pieces in editions that were soon in great Ulrich Fiedler, Barry Friedman, Didier and as much as I have.
34 35
Today, people are more aware
of design and realize
that it is a good investment. When I was a kid, do you know
what influenced me in design?
Peter M. Brant, Collector, Greenwich (CT) The television program Playboy
after Dark. Peter Brant
the way to Zaha Hadid and Marc Newson. He is so well known for his Arts and Crafts furniture. and Antonio Homemthey were collecting Art great. Design, however, is viewed more for its its wonderful to do that. But as far as value goes,
also the owner of The Magazine Antiques, Art Then he got interested in Art Deco, really Deco furiously. Then I became interested in place in history. A great Philadelphia chair or packaging it as art, to me thats difficult. It is
in America and Interview. through Fred, and thats how Jed Johnson, early American furniture like Duncan Phyfe, makes you think about great design from that great furniture.
Warhols companion and friend, became inter- around 1970 or 1971. I was also collecting Art period in Philadelphia, its the history that
Getting started ested in being a great decorator. Jed passed away Deco silver very seriously, like Jean Puiforcat, comes to mind. Early influences
I started out collecting in the late 1960s. I in the airplane tragedy, TWA flight 800 en route and was spending a lot of time in Paris, from I have been involved with The Magazine When I was a kid, do you know what influenced
became interested in Art Deco furniture when from New York to Paris in 1996. We miss him. 1969 to 1972. I did a movie with Andy in Paris in Antiques over the years, since 1983. I see that me in design? One of the first influences was the
I was just out of college. When I came to New Fred Hughes had one of the really great eyes for 1973 and lived in Paris for about two months the connoisseurship of collecting, in one respect, television program Playboy after Dark. I guess
York, I bought an apartment and I wanted to buy the decorative arts, he understood it, was inter- during the filming and spent most of that time has diminished; it is simply too difficult to be an its premise was to show pretty girls, at least
some furniture and express my tastes in doing ested in it and studied it. Besides working for antiquing. expert on everything from Arts and Crafts, to thats what I felt when I was a teenager. Of
this apartment, so I hired a decorator, Michael Andy as a business manager and art dealer, he Actually, I was always collecting. In the 1980s,
Greer, who was famous at that timehe had had a broad interest in many things and proba- when I was playing polo in England and every-
helped Jackie Kennedy redecorate the White bly could have been one of the great decorators body would be out there watching the games and
House. He was a very good decorator, but he was of our time. I have enormously high regard for fishing in the afternoons, I would be in London
primarily interested in Directoire furniture. My him. I would say that in decorative arts he had going antiquing because I really liked Edward
interest was in more modern furniture, and in William Godwin, Charles Mackintosh, William
looking around I got to know the work of Ward Morris, Philip Webb and the Aesthetic and the
Bennett. He is a very famous furniture designer Arts and Crafts movements. []
of the 1960s and early 1970s. So I did my apart- Sometimes we paid very
ment in mostly Ward Bennett furnituresofas, little for a piece and other
chairsand that got me interested in design.
times the higher prices...
Opposite top: Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Side chair,
19091911, stained oak and rush, 73 cm (28 3 4 in.) high.
I liked some of the Art Deco pieces and Tiffany
you cant always get every-
From the Ingram Street tea rooms, Glasgow. Courtesy
lamps I found at Lillian Nassau on 57th Street. Phillips de Pury & Company
At the time, I was very close with Fred Hughes,
Andy Warhols business manager, who was also
thing for very little. Opposite bottom: George Nakashima, Burl walnut
table, 1978, burl walnut, four rosewood butterfly joints,
40.2 x 128.3 x 172 cm (15 7 8 x 50 1 2 x 67 3 4 in.)
Peter Brant, publisher and businessman, is one interested in Art Deco. We kind of influenced Christies Images Limited 2005
of the most influential collectors of his genera- Andy to focus on French Art Deco, because Below: Shiro Kuramata, Miss Blanche chair, 1988,
tion. He owns great works by Andy Warhol, Andy really preferred American painted among the best eyes of anybody I have ever met thick acrylic resin, anodised aluminium and artificial
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jeff Koons, Julian furniture, folk art type furnitureAmerican, and he certainly had a stronger influence on me roses, 93.5 x 63 x 58 cm (36 3 4 x 24 3 4 x 22 3 4 in.).
Courtesy Sothebys
Schnabel, Richard Prince, and has long had a Maryland, Baltimore decorated painted than Andy.
Right: Marc Newson, Orgone Stretch Lounge, 1993,
passion for 20th century design. He is a con- furniture. That was his first choice, and his During the period of the late 1960s, I was also aluminium and enamel, 62 x 179 x 83 cm (24 3 8 x 70 1 2 x
noisseur of design from American Empire all other favourite was Gustav Stickley who is buying art from people like Ileana Sonnabend 32 5 8 in.). Courtesy Phillips de Pury & Company
Philadelphia furniture, to Mollino, to everything course there were some beautiful girls there,
else, because it really requires a lot of study. I starlets and some others, but then, in the back-
think what is happening now is that a designer ground of that after-dark New York apartment
does something, produces an edition of it and we was a Franz Kline painting, and then there was a
know exactly how many there are because it is Willem de Kooning that caught my eye.
well documented. For that reason, people feel Also the furniture looked kind of special. I do
more comfortable with contemporary design not remember what it was at the time but it
than they do with work from the prior periods. looked special. It had a look, and modernism
It is documented and that is important for the was in play, coming out of the 1950s, and I think
prospective buyer. it embedded itself in my youthful mind. So
I mean, think of Jean Prouvthe market comes everybody gets someplace for different rea-
up with an African Prouv table every other sonsI guess some people notice and others do
month. When I bought mine there were sup- not.
posed to be only twelve in the world. How many
are around now? I think about 25, and more Advice for the new collector
might appear. On the other hand, if somebody I think the new collector should try to find
shows you a Lockheed Lounge, most of the deal- something that he or she can afford on a reason-
ers know the name of everybody who owns one. able budget, that perhaps has been overlooked
So that brands it, in a dealer way, by knowing temporarily, that perhaps was produced in the
how rare it is. 1970s or 1980s, that has great quality and does
These new editions are virtually packaged like not demand the higher prices. There are terrific
works of art and they are selling for high prices. auctions in Chicago, like Wright, great auctions
Value of design and art In the case of Marc Newson, he is certainly very that you can pick from. If you had collected
I do not consider a piece of furniture of mine in high up there. I think he is one of the great George Nakashima ten years ago, you would be
the same light as a work of art. Yes, it is an artis- designers of the 20th century because every- in the chips, right? I started collecting him 15
tic creation and, in the decorative arts, it can be thing he has done from watches [Ikepod] to years ago, 20 years ago, because I thought it was
a masterpiece, but that is quite different from a planes to furniture has just been genius. I think great stuff. Now it is very expensive. So you have
work that changes the way you think about the idea of showing his work in an art gallery is to look for things that are high quality, that peo-
things. An artist should make you think differ- fine. You know, Ileana Sonnabend is showing ple believed in and collected, and you have to
ently when you look at a work that is really 1950s antiquities with Patrick Seguin because become knowledgeable.
36 37
Sleepwalking in a
curious alter-reality
A retrospective of Rauchs delirious painting
New Leipzig visions
A monograph of truly epic scale
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Bursting with radiant and unsettling juxtaposi- Wall fell. In the late 1980s, having finished his range of writings that illuminate the personal,
tions, Neo Rauchs paintings are wormholes into studies at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig symbolic, and formal complexities of Rauchs
worlds of startling psychological power and cul- under Arnold Rink and Bernhard Heisig, he world. Wolfgang Bschers open and sensitive
tural collisions. His scenes involve the viewer in explored diverse approaches to painting in dia- account of a walk through Rauchs neighbor-
a history that is at once mythic, intimate, and logue with works he encountered by Francis hood reveals the painters compassion and mod-
present. Through a deep consideration of phi- Bacon, the New Wild Painters, and the pre- esty. Harald Kunde tracks Rauchs stylistic
losophy, art history, literature, and his own Renaissance painters he saw during his travels development through its main semantic threads
dreamscape, Rauchs paintings depict the preci- in Italy. By 1993, he had arrived at the unique and historical influences. Gary Tinterow draws
pices of progress and the struggles of communi- style of intertwining figuration and abstraction from his work on Rauchs exhibition at the
cation. Electrified by their rich palettes, Rauchs that characterizes his uvre and has brought Metropolitan Museum to offer the reader a
fragmented landscapes and timeless characters him international attention and respect. Only a guide to the symbols that form the painters
dance between pop and baroque, social and psy- book of truly epic scale could begin to unpack extensive mythology. These essays complement
chological, graphic and painterly. Born in the emotional, historical, and formal density of Rauchs work with nuanced insights while
Leipzig in 1960, Rauch learned his trade behind Rauchs canvases. Comprising over 450 pages, allowing the images room to speak on their own.
the Iron Curtain. His influences and interests including more than 250 large-scale reproduc- Within this atlas, readers will discover the rich
were shaped by personal hardship and the tions, this monograph is the most inclusive col- density and enigmatic openness of Rauchs
tumultuous changes of East Germany after the lection of his work to date. It offers a generous paintings.
40
Open pit
Walking and talking The painter as shepherd of pictures:
with Neo Rauch they mustnt break out, the fence must hold.
By Wolfgang Bscher Where the canvas ends, art ends too.
Neo Rauch
No one took any notice of my companion, in presage the quakes to come. In interviews, strolling through a city, and feel pressure make others aware that such lucid dreams
jeans, black shirt, and tennis shoes. No one Rauch has repeatedly described himself as a mounting in my bladder. Theres no public toilet should be taken seriously. Not just passed off
turned to look; all eyes were fixed ahead. The medium: a man under the influence of outside in sight, so I go into a bar, in a basement. I follow and waved through.
procession had an optimistic air, confident in forces. He returns to the subject now: Painting a corridor and come to a big, square room. I had watched him in the studio, his painting
what the future would bring, as if all were walk- is a natural process. Things pass through the Twenty by twenty meters wide, and just as high. nook in the former Leipzig Spinning Mill. A
ing in an enormous propaganda poster for a painter. He has to shape, lend order to these I enter it at one corner, and the bar is on the long rough, primitive place, more like an old hunting
strangely unrevolutionary first of Mayevery things, but he has no control over what forces wall opposite. I cross the room, order some- cabin than anything one would imagine as the
one out for the glorious last of September! And itself on him. thing, and ask for the john. The barkeeper studio of an internationally renowned artist.
so it was. What appeared so brand new about While walking, your thoughts have free rein. directs me to the other corner of the wall
the area was brand new. The young forest, the Whatever you say to the person walking beside through which I came in. I turn around and see
lakeas far as the eye could see, the landscape you, to yourself, or to an imaginary companion the walla twenty-by-twenty-meter black, cast-
was new, man-made. For hours we had been is said in the rhythm of the walk. Naturethe iron mandala. And at its midpoint, a symbol of
walking through what was once an immense word now came up again. Im a conservative by luck. This dream changed my work. It was a call
open pit coal mine, dug out by the German nature, I heard him say, and its easy for me to to order, concentration, centering. After that I
Democratic Republic, exhausted, and then explain whyits no wonder, in view of so much started painting the large black pictures. Thats
transformed by the triumphant new nation into loss. Rauch had lost both his parents not long how it began, what I am today. The motif of the
an equally immense recreation area. It was the after his birth. A train accident, here in Leipzig. bladdersomething wrong at the midpoint, Opposite: Heimkehr, 2010, signed chalk lithograph,
printed on handmade paper with a hand-lever press,
Easter march of a new era. They were about twenty years old, the two of something that demands relief. He didnt con- 44 x 33 cm (17.3 x 13 in.)
Cultural critique now hung in the air. Cutting them. Youre not adult at twenty. Belated chil- sider the dream too private, Rauch explained. Below: Stoff, 1998, oil on canvas, 250 x 200 cm
remarks about the ugly garishness of the fash- dren, they were. And, with a pause: After I dont mind talking about things like this, to (98 3 8 x 78 3 4 in.)
ions were uttered almost automatically. But something like that you dont feel much like
then my companion expressed a different, pleas- overthrowing everything all the time. When
antly unacerbic thought: This whole thing here people want to overthrow something, you ask,
is one great healing of wounds. Entire villages what good would come of it?
A journalist once asked him whether he loved
Germany. Rauch replied that he knew very well
what the man expected to hearthe famous
This dream changed Theodor Heuss repartee, I love my wife.
my work. It was a call to Instead, Rauch quoted Schopenhauer: Love is
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Physique painter
as Renaissance man
The flamboyant life and forbidden art of George Quaintance
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George Quaintance was an artist ahead of and his high-camp erotic art existed in a demi- Raised on a farm in rural Virginia, Quaintance
his time, a man who forged several successful monde of borderline legality. traveled a fascinating path of reinvention: at
careers, yet never enjoyed mainstream fame. Half a century on, the masculine fantasy world various points in his life he was a Vaudeville
Had he been born a few decades later, we created by Quaintance, populated by Latin dancer, the favored portraitist of Washingtons
might know him today as a multi-tasking lovers, lusty cowboys and chiseled ranch hands, smart set, and a celebrity hair designerthough
celebrity stylist, as a coach on Dancing with retains its seductive allure. His highly prized he never actually touched hair.
the Stars, or perhaps as the fine artist he paintingsnumbering just 55rarely come
aspired to be. to auction, instead selling privately for undis- TASCHENs Quaintance traces his remarkable
But Quaintance, who died in 1957, lived and closed sums. As the preeminent male physique life story and reintroduces his colorful, kitschy
worked during an era when homosexuality artist of the 1940s and early 50s, his work for and culturally resonant paintingsworks that
was repressed, when his joyful paintings and Physique Pictorial, Demi-Gods and Body made George Quaintance the most popular and
physique photos could not depict a penis. In Beautiful inspired a generation of artists like successful physique artist of his time, and one
an era before Stonewall, the sexual revolution, Tom of Finland, Harry Bush, Etienne, and of its most intriguing figures. Manolo, 1952, oil on canvas
gay rights and the AIDS crisis, Quaintance other, lesser stars in their constellation. 101.5 x 76 cm (40 x 30 in.)
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An artistic journey
of endless reinvention These pictures do not simply
invite us to gaze at the mostly
unclothed men, but allow us to see
By Reed Massengill
the men gazing at one another.
Michael Bronski
Had he been born rather than died in 1957, we of Finland (Touko Laaksonen 19201991), Harry mysteries to me, after all these years. advent of Levis as an art form, stating that He rediscovery. Twenty-five years after his death, a
might today know the physique artist George Bush (19261994), Etienne (Dom Orejudos After high school Quaintance departed for inspired Quaintance to use them in many paint- 1982 profile in the San Francisco gay tabloid The
Quaintance (19021957) as a multi-tasking mid- 19331991), and other lesser stars in their con- New York City to attend art school, but became ings, which helped, we think, to establish the Voice said of the artist, Quaintance was gifted
dle-aged celebrity stylist, as a Dancing with the stellation. As for Quaintance the man, like many instead a dancer. He teamed up with a female present fashion trend toward Levis and boots. with so much drive and artistic talent that he had
Stars coach, or as an aging gay porn star. Hed whove succeeded in becoming single-name enti- partner, Frances Craig, to become a featured Writer Michael Bronski has called Quaintances the ability to transcend the puritanical restric-
now be entering his 50sthe new 30s, if we tiesPicasso, Cocteau, Warhol, Marilyn, Brando, act in a group called The Collegiates. How artwork extraordinarily daring and out, an open tions of the times and leave us something of his
believe the hype. Instead, the artist died in a sig- and Madonna come to mindhe strained at the Quaintance transitioned from vaudeville celebration of gay sexuality, a political as well as daring imagination in his paintings. The follow-
nificantly more repressive time, when his male confines of a working-class upbringing. performer and dance instructor to creator of a cultural achievement, observing that While ing year, the porn magazine In Touch published
physique artwork could never show a penis; His restless meanderings led him on a journey of elaborate coiffures for women we shall never pre-Stonewall culture dictated that romance an extensive color portfolio of Quaintances
when it still was illegal to send nude photographs reinvention both fascinating and far-reaching know, but it was likely an offshoot from illustra- might never be an option for homosexual men, paintingssome of which had never been pub-
through the mail; and in an era predating the before he ascended to his peak as an artist. tion work he began picking up in New York. Quaintance proved in painting after painting, lished in colorproclaiming him the founding
Stonewall Rebellion, the sexual revolution, the My ancestors were all farmers, Quaintance His hairstyles were flights of fancy with evoca- drawing after drawing, that this romance was as father of gay beefcake art.
gay rights movement, and the AIDS crisis. wrote in the popular physique magazine Grecian possible for gay men as for heterosexuals. In his His artwork was reproduced occasionally in the
During the half century since his death the world Guild Pictorial shortly before his death. There essay Blatant Male Pulchritude: The Art of late 80s and 90s, while the original paintings
My first problem was George Quaintance and Bruce Webers Bear changed hands on rare occasions, through pri-
to get over those high blue Pond, Bronski further notes that These pictures vate sales shrouded in secrecy, making it difficult
do not simply invite us to gaze at the mostly to chronicle their provenance or value. An art
mountains I was born unclothed men, but allow us to see the men dealer in possession of an early original land-
behind. gazing at one another. scape canvas from Quaintances Virginia period
While his professional aspirations took him was offering it publicly for $35,000 in 2009, but
across the United States, Quaintance had not the physique canvases always generate stronger
tive names like Rhumba, Armament, and had a permanent home since leaving Virginia at interest and higher prices. Even lesser works in
Medusa, which no quantity of rollers, setting 18. In July 1953, a few months prior to his 51st poor condition are known to swiftly fetch
lotion, or hair lacquer could have held in place Opposite: Gloria, 1953, oil on canvas,
birthday, he paid $6,000 for a home on two adja- $10,000 due to rarity and to their cultural signif-
for longer than a few moments. His coiffure crea- 101.5 x 81 cm (40 x 32 in.) cent lots in the Aztec Park subdivision in icance among gay collectors. Of Quaintances 55
tions livedand lookedbest on paper, as he Above: An idealized portrait of George, posing with Phoenix, Arizona. Advertisements published completed canvases, 18 have been lost, while
imagined and illustrated them. Havasu Creek, 1948, his first celebration of Latino after his move referred to his new abode as many of the remaining are in need of restoration.
cowboys, here seen frolicking in the Grand Canyon.
Still, his hair illustrations led Quaintance to yet Rancho Siesta. He created the illusion of a vast TASCHEN has restored 24 of the iconic works
Right: Night in the Desert, 1951, oil on canvas
another line of work. In 1938 he was hired to 96.5 x 86 cm (38 x 34 in.)
ranch populated by cowboys running the for this book, returning them to the vivid splen-
staff trade show booths in various cities repre- Quaintance Studios somewhere in Paradise dor Quaintance intended.
senting Procter & Gambles then-popular Drene growing post-war gay audience. Unlike Bonomo Valley, a place of male camaraderie, tight Levis, Hopefully the lost paintings may still be discov-
shampoo. and Weider, Mizer wanted to exploit the gay and models who lived just a horseback ride away. ered, and the renewed interest in Quaintance the
About the same time Quaintance was working market to the fullest, and by the time he pub- In reality, Rancho Siesta was a modest suburban artist and cultural pioneer will continue to grow.
the trade show circuit for Procter & Gamble, lished the first issue of Physique Photo News in home, but here is where he was most creative The sum of the mans talent must be measured
young Victor Garcia immigrated to New York May 1951, Quaintance knew hed found a home and experimental. It was here too that not only by his own creations, but in terms of its
City from his native Puerto Rico. Shortly after for his talents. His Havasu Creek (1948) incalculable impact on those who followed, by
his arrival in 1938, Victor met and posed for phy- appeared on the back cover and its conceivable the works he inspired and the doors he opened.
sique photographer Lon Hanagan (19111999), that Quaintance helped Mizer see the benefit of Quaintance was among For all the flowery prose in the physique maga-
who was just beginning to publish his work under
the name Lon of New York. Lon had been intro-
the artistic alibi and adopt the less specific title
Physique Pictorial with the second issue.
the first artists to openly zines that memorialized Quaintance following
his death, perhaps Grecian Guild Pictorial
duced to Quaintance in the mid-30s, and know- Mizers magazine launch triggered an explosion eroticize items of apparel. summed it up best, noting in its July 1958 issue
ing he had a passion for Latin types, Lon intro- of titles that had less to do with muscle building Reed Massengill simply: In his work, he is immortal.
duced Quaintance to Victor. and more to do with open appreciation of male
The pair became inseparable. Although the beauty clad in scant more than a posing pouch.
parameters of their relationship shifted over the The huge demand for physique magazines Quaintance met Edwardo, the Mexican/Indian
following two decades from lovers, to compan- among image-hungry gay men provided an model he considered his muse, whose handsome
ions, to business partners, Victor would remain ongoing outlet for Quaintances art. face and muscular form were included in many
the stabilizing force in Quaintances harried life. While nothing Quaintance painted was exactly of his Arizona works.
Late in 1947 Quaintance and Victor moved to new, his take on established themes was fresh Quaintance could not tame his restlessness,
Los Angeles. Victor had for several years wanted and direct. The burly workmen in Pyramid however, and in October 1957 he agreed to sell
to live in a warmer climate, and he convinced Builders (1952) are viewed from below, playing Rancho Siesta to a married couple. He packed up
Quaintance that he could get valuable portrait to the voyeur and accentuating shapely thighs, his brushes and canvases and moved once again
commissions and free-lance illustration work for firm buttocks, and broadly developed lats. In to Los Angeles, where he died in November, not
the popular movie magazines. Quaintances most Hercules (1956) a snake coils across the heros by falling from a leaping stalliona poetic death
important new contact in Los Angeles proved to crotch, while in Orpheus in Hades (1952) the in keeping with his artbut from an ordinary
be was Bob Mizer, who lived at home with his demonic hands and forearms of a sharp-nailed heart attack at St. Vincents Hospital. No autopsy
mother in downtown L.A., where he photo- Lucifer press against the groin of Orpheus. was performed, and his body was cremated in
graphed near-naked men in the converted parlor Quaintance was also among the first artists to accordance with his wishes. His ashes were
has changed dramatically, and yet the gay fantasy were no artists or talented people among them, of her rooming house. Mizers now legendary openly eroticize items of apparel, which, in the interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in
world created by Quaintance, populated by lusty yet I drew, painted and modeled in clay as early Athletic Model Guild (AMG) was just beginning hands of younger artists Tom of Finland and Glendale, California.
cowboys and chiseled ranch hands, retains its as I can remember, and I did it with the assur- to take shape in the late 40s and he was happy to Harry Bush, would be openly fetishized a few Like the photographs of his contemporary
allure as the preeminent physique art of the 1940s ance and the ability of experience, while the mys- commiserate with Quaintance about the chal- years later. One of the physique magazines George Platt Lynes (19071955), Quaintances
and early 50s, and as inspiration for artists Tom teries of running a farm are still very great lenges of publishing male photographs for the praised Quaintance model Bill Bredlau for the work languished for a period before its recent
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the seminal avant-garde fashion magazine Finding a copy of i-D in its early years was not resonated with who they wanted to become.
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cept. Beginning with inflated bubbles and inter- projects include the Groningen Museum, East
active installations in the 1960s, the group, con- Pavilion, in Groningen, Netherlands, (1994),
sisting of the architects Wolf D. Prix, Helmut the BMW Welt in Munich, Germany (2007),
Swiczinsky, and Michael Holzer began to create and the Akron Art Museum in Ohio, USA
harsh interventions in the urban context under (2007). Current projects include the Muse
the headline architecture must burn. The des Confluences in Lyon, France, the House
designs of the buildings are like oversized sound of Music in Aalborg, Denmark, the European
boxes, with dancing silhouettes and collapsing Central Banks new headquarters in Frankfurt
Mini Opera Pavilion, Munich, Germany, 20082010
lines that are always rushing and echoing. As am Main, Germany, and the Dalian
Photo Duccio Malagamba one of only a few groups in those early times, International Conference Center in China.
Life in motion
The forerunner of the moving image
Eadweard Muybridge
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Hans Christian Adam (Ed.)
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animal locomotion. In 1872, he famously helped and other animals, and of nude or draped sub- Locomotion (1887) are reproduced here. In
settle a bet for former California governor jects engaged in various activities such as run- addition, Muybridges handmade and extremely
Leland Stanford by photographing a galloping ning, walking, boxing, fencing, and descending rare first illustrated album, The Attitudes of
horse. Muybridge invented a complex system of a staircase (the latter study inspired Marcel Animals in Motion (1881) is reproduced in
electric shutter releases that captured freeze Duchamps famous 1912 painting). its entirety. A detailed chronology by British
framesproving conclusively, for the first time, researcher Stephen Herbert throws new
that a galloping horse lifts all four hooves off the This resplendent book traces the life and work light on one of the most important pioneers
ground for a fraction of a second. For the next of Muybridge, from his early thinking about of photography. Below: Jumping over boys back (leap-frog),
three decades, Muybridge continued his quest anatomy and movement to his latest photo- detail of plate 168
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The last of the Mohicans: A new series
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86
Im glad you became
a bookseller rather than Then [Barnes & Noble] opened one
an actor. of the largest in this chain on 17th Street
and Union Square North, exactly
five blocks away, and sales went up.
Lee Strasberg to Fred Bass
Fred Bass
anything they wanted. He spent at least an hour Im sitting next to Sophia Loren. She was abso- originally a textbook store on 18th Street and Will said, Eight sounds better.
and a half and just asked to have one clerk stand lutely gorgeous, and she says, I just wanted to 5th Avenue (in New York), was put up for sale At that time New York was in big, deep financial
by him to handle the books, and he was very nice thank you for getting me the books that I needed and he came along and bought it for $75,000 trouble, and Will wrote an article that started by
and very polite. He bought a Spanish dictionary, and I wanted to apologize for not being able to and built it to what it is now. The guy was a gen- saying the eight miles worth saving in this city
some childrens books, just books that struck come into the store, but we didnt have time and ius and hes done a superb job on it. are at the corner of Broadway and 12th Street.
him as he browsed. He was disappointed it would be a little problem. Because shed be My story with Barnes and Nobles is that after They are the crammed shelves of the Strand
because he really wanted to be in the rare book hounded. they really started getting big, Riggio opened up bookstore. Wills syndicated article appeared in
room to look at early childrens books and the Thats my 15 seconds of fame, or glory. a store five blocks south of me. We were quite 80 papers throughout the country, and 8 Miles
night managers dont have the keys. worried, but our sales went up. Then he opened of Books became our motto.
But the most famous person? Sophia Loren. DH: Glory, definitely. Most independent book- up another one on 6th Avenue and 21st Street, Then we did an expansion a couple years ago,
After Lee Strasberg died I got a call from Ana sellers see the big chains like Barnes and Noble and our sales went up. Then he opened one of and we changed it to 18 miles. Its really some-
Strasberg, who asked me for some books, saying, as the enemy today, is this true for you and the the largest in this chain on 17th Street and thing like 21 miles, but, again, 18 sounds better.
Theyre for Sophia. Well come down and get Strand? Union Square North, exactly five blocks away, And, of course, therere also a lot of books in
them. Ana Strasberg showed up and she says, FB: No. Leonard Riggio originally ran a small and sales went up. So when I met with Riggio a storage.
Now, I want you to give them to her yourself. textbook store not too far from me, and what I couple years ago, I said, Gee, would you open
She takes me out and pushes me into a car and heard was that Barnes and Noble, which was up another bookstore closer? I want to increase DH: And are those books cycled down onto the
my sales. He laughed, and he wasnt surprised shelves when you get space?
that my sales went up: my prices are better and I FB: Oh, yeah. Were constantly working on them.
have a different mix. To keep this place smoothly operating, I have
four or five thousand boxes of books from private
collections that we bought and we just put aside,
Somebody called from so if, for some reason, people stop selling me
books, Ill have at least a years supply of reserve.
his office one time and said,
Michael Jackson would the Army I brought back a whole batch of copies Somebody will come into New York and take
DH: I dont see that happening. Ill bet the sell-
ing of books has increased in this economy.
like to shop in the store, of Millers Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of over an apartment that has built-in bookshelves, FB: Yes. Tremendously.
could you keep it open for Capricorn and sold them at a nice profit. I was then suddenly realize theyre going to have a
sorry I didnt fill up footlockers with them, but party on Saturday night and those shelves look DH: Are books currently a good investment?
him? that was illegal at the time. I was in Germany barren. Theyre very well educated, they just FB: Heres my advice to people who want to
during the Korean War and I could pick those up dont have time, so we put together a collection invest in books: buy what you like in the field you
in Paris. for them of what theyre interested in. like so you can enjoy the book no matter what. A
DH: So, Fred Bass fearlessly faces the future, lot of my customers do buy heavily in rare books
but lets look into the past. Much of America is DH: Men often come back from war with more and theyre sitting on them. The prices are going
currently obsessed with the TV show Mad Men, sophisticated tastes. Was that the case with you? Why would you want to up quite a bit, but if you have a first edition or
about a Madison Avenue advertising agency in FB: What I saw was the European booksellers, something and you mark it for $500 and sud-
the early 1960s. Does your memory of New York how the Europeans really loved their book- keep riding a horse when denly 20 other dealers have copies that theyre
in this period match what we see of Don Draper stores. In Germany, every small town had one or you have an automobile? selling for $100, then your book isnt worth
and company? two or three bookstores. In England, too. I kept $500. Still, good quality books will continue ris-
FB: I lived in a town called Pelham then, and it saying that theres got to be a bigger demand for But our rare books and ing in value.
was just filled with advertising executives. A guy books in the U.S. I wanted to make the big book- fine editions, they will
DH: So whats the future of the Strand?
by the name of Jay McNamara who was head of
Young and Rubicam was a close friend of mine
store that would carry everything.
stay and do very well, as FB: Im thinking of changing our store into a
and he was as wild as Don. They worked hard, DH: You even sell books by the foot. What sort works of art. gentlemens club. Seriously, Im getting a lot of
they played hard, and the drinking was very, very of person buys books that way? calls asking me if Im buying Barnes and Nobles
heavy. When I went out with them I would have FB: At the beginning it was a dream for us; peo- out. I just say, Well, Im sorry I put them out of
two Manhattans before lunch and then have ple would come in and say, Oh, we just want to DH: And speaking of measurements, you brag business. You heard theyre up for sale.
some wine with lunch. And, I got to tell you, the fill up shelves with books. Now, were finding about how many miles of books you have.
day went very fast. In fact, I feel like going out people who come in and say, We would like FB: Do you know the origin of the story? DH: Shame on you, Fred, for putting poor
and having two Manhattans right now. some modern literature. We would like all the [Pulitzer Prize winning journalist] George F. Barnes and Noble out of business.
And yes, they had bars set up in their offices to classics. They dont just want to fill up shelves; Will used to come in here. One day [in the FB: But just imagine how many stores I can fea-
entertain clients. And there was a very free flow they want very good stuff. 1970s] he was looking around the store and he ture TASCHEN books in after I buy them out.
of sex in those times. The pill (introduced in said to me, Can I get a column out of this, on the
1960) was responsible for a lot of it. Our town DH: Theyre not just looking for pretty bindings? Strand? I showed him around and gave him all
was a soap opera. FB: Very often they want pretty bindings, but the stories I could, and then he said, How many
they want the pretty bindings to have substance. feet of books do you have? The photographs on
DH: And, of course, this was the time when Texas Instruments had just come out with a pp. 8789 are taken from:
Ralph Ginsberg came out with his controversial hand-held adding machine and one of my clerks New York. Portrait of a City
magazine Eros. Opposite: Anonymous, Filming On the Town with Gene had gotten one. I grabbed him and I said, Go Reuel Golden
FB: Oh, yeah. There were publishing break- Kelly and Frank Sinatra, 1949. MGM, courtesy of Photofest. around and count the sections, multiply by Hardcover, format:
throughs. Grove Press came into prominence Above: Cornell Capa, Literary Cocktail Party at George how many shelves, and multiply that by 25 x 34 cm (9.8 x 13.4 in.),
Plimptons Upper East Side Apartment, 1963. Estate of 560 pp.
and then it started to be anything goes. The Cornell Capa / International Center of Photography / And, he came out with a figure that was like, 49.99 / $ 69.99 /
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The sights and sounds
of American jazz
Claxtons photographs of legendary jazz musicians
Plus CD
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remastered
recordings
made during
Berendts
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In 1960, photographer William Claxton and The book Jazzlife, the original fruit of their this updated volume, which includes a foreword
noted German musicologist Joachim Berendt labors, has become a collectors item that is by William Claxton tracing his travels with
traveled the United States hot on the trail of highly treasured among jazz and photography Berendt and his love affair with jazz music in
jazz music. The result of their collaboration fans. In 2003, TASCHEN began reassembling general. Jazz fans will be delighted to be able
was an amazing collection of photographs and this important collection of material along to take a jazz-trip through time, seeing the
The Ramsey Lewis Trio
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Photo William Claxton unknown street musicians. from those trips. They are brought together in experienced it.
91
You talking to me? Limited to 1,200 numbered copies,
each signed by Steve Schapiro
Previously unseen photographs from Scorseses masterpiece
Taxi Driver has long been regarded as a cine- more punishing with the passage of time. Schapiros archives, offering fans a trip back
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its list of 100 Greatest Movies, saying: The moments and actors behind the scenes. This
Photo Steve Schapiro power of Scorseses filmmaking grows ever book features hundreds of images selected from Caption
93
Shooting Taxi Driver
By Martin Scorsese
This is the summer of 2010, and Im in London sion of itself, and we lived and breathed it, slicked hair. Every last one of them was crucial,
shooting a movie. Thirty-five years ago, I was in walked and drove through it, let our story in one way or another, to the texture of this
New York shooting a very different kind of become infected and overwhelmed by it, just movie, a movie that none of the studios had
movie, during a very different era. like Travis Bickle. wanted to touch.
And it was a very different New York. The city is I made Taxi Driver with some old friends and I put everything of myself into Taxi Driver.
clean and becalmed nowa nice place to visit collaboratorsRobert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, Many of us did. We wouldnt have had it any
with your kids, do some shopping, see the sights. Jodie Fosterand new ones like Schrader, other way.
Thirty-five years ago, it wasnt. The city was in Cybill Shepherd, Albert Brooks, and the DP,
dire straits, right on the edge of bankruptcy, and Michael Chapman. Thirty-five years later, New
severe cuts had been made in sanitation, police York has changed; weve all changed. And some
service, and the subwaysin fact, the famous of the people who made Taxi Driver possible
issue of the Daily News with the headline Ford are gone now. The great Bernard Herrmann,
to City: Drop Dead came out when we were who passed away in his sleep hours after
The Taxi Driver screenplay
editing. For many who lived in the five bor- recording the final notes of our score ... Peter seemed very close to me.
oughs, it was a desperate time, and you could Boyle, a remarkable actor ... Julia Phillips, one It was as if I wrote it, thats
feel it out there, day and night. For us, every- of the producers ... Joe Spinell, who had only how strongly I feel about it.
thing in Paul Schraders brilliant scriptthe recently started to act in movies and who had
Martin Scorsese
loneliness, the paranoia, the feeling of barren, himself gotten a hack license to make ends meet
dirty streets filled with angry peoplewas mag- ... my old dear friend Vic Argo ... and Gene
nified. New York had become a nightmare ver- Palma, the strange street drummer with the
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A chat with the Rat
Brett Ratner by Dian Hanson I met Benedikt when TASCHEN put out
SUMO. I boughtI cant remembermaybe
10 of them. Ive given most of them away,
stupidly enough, cause now theyre like
15 grand apiece.
Brett Ratner
DH: So is this eternal boyishness the reason you to me. I met Benedikt when TASCHEN put out of film, cause film cost money, and I didnt have BR: Roman is a survivor. He lost his family in ment. He has such individuality, down to the art
were such good friends with Michael Jackson? the big book. I boughtI cant remembermay- any money. the Holocaust. His wife was murdered with a on the walls in his bedroom with the big cocks.
BR: Yeah, we loved having fun. We were always be 10 of them. Ive given most of them away, stu- I get there and there are 30 supermodels, half child in her belly. I respect him as an artist, and I Im a big collector, too. I wish when I was offered
playing practical jokes on people, but the thing pidly enough, cause now theyre like 15 grand naked, with Grace Jones in bondage, with all his dont judge people. I cant get on record defend- Basquiats and Warhols when I was a kid I had
that connected us was really movies and music. apiece. diaries spread out all over the floor, buckets of ing what he did, but hes one of the greatest liv- had the money to buy them.
We would watch Willy Wonka and the Choco blood, piles of coke, and Rolling Stones music ing filmmakers, and he continues to do great I only buy things that I love. Thats why my
late Factory over and over again. DH: Why do you buy TASCHEN books in quan- blasting. This lasted for three days. I didnt go to work. The Ghost Writer was an amazing movie. home is so personal to me. Theres not one thing
But he would also do something like wake me up tity? school, and I didnt have money, and I didnt Theres a picture of him and me sitting on the set that Ive bought without a story. Theres a story
in the middle of the night and go, Meet me in BR: Well, Im a collector, but Im also a big, gen- want to ask him for money, so I kept putting the reading the TASCHEN Polanski book. behind every single ashtray, every single frame.
the car. He had this little Asian driver he called erous guy. I give a lot of gifts. I gave Jackie Chan film through the camera. I put it through the When I met Roman and he told me how much
Kato who wore a chauffeurs hat and a tuxedo. a Sumo book. I was trying to hook up Jackie with camera three times, so it has superimposed he loved Rush Hour, I didnt care who liked my DH: Is it true Helmut Newton inspired you to
We once drove to a 7-Eleven in Santa Barbara at Benedikt, so I gave him this book. Months go by, images. Later I cut the footage together into a movies anymore, and I put him in Rush Hour 3. take your own photos?
4 in the morning. And Michael says, Meet me and I get something in the mail from Jackie three-minute short. I sent it to Mick Jagger, and The irony is that I asked Roman about BR: Yes, totally. I love taking pictures, and
in the bathroom. I go, Michael, 4 in the morn- Chan, a piece of metal. Jackie calls me up and Newton had an interesting view of the richthat
ing in a 7-Eleven bathroom? Were going to have says, Did you get my package? I said, Yeah, sophisticated, wealthy lifestyle. I remember
a problem here. He puts an Incredible Hulk what is it? He says, If you guess, I will give you June telling me that she asked Helmut, Do you
mask on top of his head and goes in there with a blowjob. And he hangs up. think youre a genius? And he said, No, I just
balloons, and we start filling up water balloons. I I cannot figure it out. Weeks go by. I have 12 have a certain twisted gift.
say, What are we doing with these? He goes, people in my house looking at this thing and they Im just fascinated by artists, like Araki. I own all
Were going to throw them at people. have no idea what it is. his Polaroids. OK, not all of them, but I was in
So were driving in his stretched Lincoln Finally Jackie comes to town, comes straight to Japan 15 years ago, and I went into a gallery, and
Navigator, and hes in a Hulk mask sticking out my house, grabs the piece of metal, goes down- he was there putting up all these Polaroids. I
of the sunroof, looking for people at 4 in the stairs to the Sumo book, takes this piece of said, How much for that? He goes, Its not
Brett Ratner is the happiest man alive, with very morning in Santa Barbara. [Laughs] There are metal, and it slides perfectly into the stand. Like really for sale. I bought them all right off the
good reason. At age 41 hes directed eight Holly no people even in LA after 2 in the morning, but a lip. He says, This stand has a flaw. The book is wall, 200, and I made him sign as many as he
wood films, including the highly successful Rush we found a guy, a drifter, and he says, Kato, hit so heavy that the cover of the book droops. He could until I had to get on a plane.
Hour series, which have collectively grossed the brakes. had a lip made to stop the book from drooping. People who really know me know that Im that
over one billion dollars. Russell Simmons is his Now imagine a sad drifter guy walking down the So, of course, I have the Araki book on a stand, guy that loves art and photography, but most
surrogate father; Robert Evans, Peter Beard, street, and all of a sudden a stretched Lincoln the Sumo book, and the LaChapelle book in this people just think I love women. My dream is to
and Roman Polanski are his best friends. Hes Navigator slams on its brakes, and out of the gallery area, and the next time Jackie came one day have a TASCHEN book on me, in the
dated actress Rebecca Gayheart, model Alina sunroof pops the Incredible Hulk, and hes going back, he brought me lips he had made for all of directors series. Its going to be another 30, 40
Puscau, and tennis champ Serena Williams. His to throw something at you. You couldnt believe them. years, but I think it will come out one day.
Beverly Hills mansion was previously home to the guys face. Michael starts throwing water I have the Ali book in the gallery too, and then
Ingrid Bergman, James Caan, Kim Novak, and balloons and the guy is running for his life. I the rest spread throughout my house. I have DH: Which brings me to my last question: When
Allen Carr, and currently contains a collection said, Michael, you dont think the cops are every book from TASCHEN. Its insane. I had are you going to settle down, stop showing up in
of TASCHEN books that rivals any of our going to know? Youre the only guy with a fuck- David LaChapelle come to my house and go the gossip columns, and give your mom some
stores. Whats not to be happy? ing 80-foot stretched Lincoln Navigator. What through every page of his book and explain to grandchildren?
if this guy goes to the police and says The me how he did each picture. And he wrote on the BR: Thats the irony: I love kids. Ive made mov-
Dian Hanson: So tell me how it all began. Incredible Hulk was throwing water balloons intro, No one has ever made me go through this ies. Ive met the most interesting people in the
Brett Ratner: I was born in Miami Beach on at me from a [Ratner is laughing too hard entire book. I had Courtney Love there with
March 28, 1969, and I wanted to be a director to continue] So thats the type of shit that we me, so she was keeping him distracted. The Opposite above: 18 year old Brett, NYU film student Chinatown, which is considered probably the
since I was 8 years old. I dreamed of going to would do. Peter Beard book is my all-time favorite, Opposite below: A trio of TASCHEN books in Brett greatest film every made, right? I said, What
NYU Film School, cause I saw the movie because Peters also a friend of mine. Ratners home, the Araki and LaChapelle on custom part of that film is personal? And he says,
stands made to match his SUMOs
Raging Bull. Thats what 10-year-olds were DH: Were starting to see why youre the happi- I was in a club when I was 17 years old and Peter Brett, I was broke. I needed a job. People put
Above: Covergirl Alexis Texas, Brett Ratner, and editor
watching. It was a very violent movie, but I just est man on earth. Is there anything that youve Beard sat next to me. He said, So what do you Dian Hanson at The Big Butt Book launch, TASCHEN so much superficial importance on this stuff. It
loved the artistry of it. ever wanted that youve not been able to get? do? I said, Im a film director. He goes, What Beverly Hills turned out to be a masterpiece, but no one was
I was an only child and lived in one house with BR: Of course, but I persevere. I wanted to be a do you mean youre a film director? Youre 12 Right: Brett Ratner, Chris Tucker, and Roman Polanski setting out to make the greatest movie ever
my mom, my grandparents, and my great-grand- director for the right reasons: I love to tell sto- years old. [Laughs] I was at NYU Film School. examine TASCHENs Roman Polanski on the set of The made, and thats why its so good. A lot of people
Ghost Writer
mother. I didnt have a father around, but I had ries. It wasnt about having a huge house, or get- He goes, Do you have a film camera? Bring it to out there think that because theyre a film direc-
my grandfather, and I had this guy named Al ting rich, or having nice cars. But the friends this address tomorrow. Im a photographer. I tor theyre God incarnate. I just love being a
Malnik [Miami lawyer, entrepreneur, and res- that Ive been able to make are a bigger accom- didnt know what to expect so I only had six rolls he says, This is the best film Ive ever seen, storyteller, whether its with a photograph, a
taurateur], who was an incredible role model plishment for me than all the things that Ive cause I put Some Girls on it, the song that commercial, a music video, a short film, a fea-
and father figure. My friends now are still father done. That I became friends with Michael [Beard] kept playing over and over again. Mick ture film; thats what I do. Im not trying to win world. The one thing that I havent done is
figures, all in their 60s, 70s and 80s: Bob Evans, Jackson, that Roman Polanski is one of my clos- Jagger gave me the song for free. I think you an Oscar; Im trying to enjoy my life and stay gotten married. Im looking forward to having a
Steve Winn, James Toback. Also guys known for est friends, Bob Evans, a relationship with should take that short film and put it in the cata- relevant. family and settling down, but Im not really look-
having a great time in Hollywood, really enjoy- Helmut Newton. logue. Nobody has ever seen this, cause its ing, because I need to be taken care of still.
ing their lives, like I do. never been commercially released. Its the best DH: So much for film, lets talk about your col- [Laughs] You know?
I cannot remember ever being sad; I consider DH: Do you collect Helmut Newtons work? thing Ive ever done. To see Bretts homage to lections.
myself kind of pathologically happy. And Ive BR: I have a lot of Helmuts. The first time I ever Peter Beard go to: www.taschen.com/ratner BR: Im just a fan. A fan of art, and a fan of DH: The eternal happy boy.
never had a drink, never had a drug, never had a saw Helmuts work was in Bob Evanss house. It Benedikt. I love people who are great at what
cigarette, never had a coffee. Every day I just was all over the walls. I started buying all his DH: Youre the man, Brett! But you mentioned they do and put such passion and commitment
thought about being a director. books, then I became friendly with Helmut, and Roman Polanski a ways back. Do you support into something. Hes a risk-taker, and a racon-
he started giving me his books and signing them him in his ongoing legal trouble? teur, right? He loves life. He loves entertain-
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