Charlie White: Photographs

Full color images and complete details of Charlie White's three recent photographic projects. This is a thorough treatment of an artist whose images have explored the limits of pornography, the modern psychological landscape, and the emotionally fraught relationship between self-perception and appearance.

Helmut Newton's SUMO

Weighing over 65 pounds, measuring more than two feet long, and breaking any previous size record in book publishing, SUMO contains 480 pages of every aspect of Newton's career of subversive and erotic photography.

Kohei Yoshiyuki: The Park

Kohei Yoshiyuki's nighttime photographs, taken with infrared film and flash in Japan's Shinjuku, Yoyogi and Aoyama Parks during the 1970s, capture the illicit sexual encounters, both heterosexual and homosexual, that frequently occurred there under the cloak of darkness. The Park's images not only reveal hidden sexual exploits, but also uncover many spectators ardently lurking in the darkness, waiting to join in--and quickly raise issues of voyeurism and surveillance. Originally published as Document Kouen in Japan in 1980 and long out of print, the austere and acclaimed first edition of this book now commands prices near $1000 per copy. This new, updated edition, featuring an interview of the artist by colleague Nobuyoshi Araki and an essay by the noted photo critic Vince Aletti, contains all 60 works from the infamous Park series, reproduced from new scans in deluxe duotones. This work has not been seen by the public since the 1970s, and has been known only to cult collectors until now.
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2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl

"In 2012, his part memoir, part anthropological journey through many things spiritual, metaphysical, and just plain eerie, Pinchbeck illuminates not the world’s end but the many ways in which our social structures are disintegrating. Into 2012 Pinchbeck fits Jung, crop circles, Martin Heidegger’s critique of technology, the ecological theories of Rudolf Steiner, the parables of Christ, Jared Diamond’s Collapse, and even the confessions of Whitley Strieber." — LA Weekly
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Cunt Coloring Book

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The Modern Drunkard

Attempting to deconstruct America's joyless obsession with sobriety, The Modern Drunkard offers today's befuddled drinkers a comprehensive and instructive manual on how to drink-and how to do it well. Through articles, anecdotes, cartoons, and illustrations, Frank Kelly Rich campaigns to revive the lost art of tippling and taps a deep vein of boozy lore and legend through the ages, uncovering etiquette and expertise from some of history's greatest guzzlers.
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Room With a View

The young, buxom "Burlesque Queen" of Portland, Oregon, has begun a distinctive photographic career by posing in a vanishing breed of unique motel room environ-ments across the country. Writes Lucy in her introduction, "Room With a View is not merely a pin-up book: it is as much about the room as it is about me. I think of myself as a fixture in that room, like a lamp or a chair. The kind of motel rooms that particularly attracted me had wood paneling, forgotten '60s- and '70s-era oil paintings, strange lighting, fantasy themes, tiled bathrooms, wacky wallpaper, and no outside view."
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Sexuality, Magic, and Perversion

Sexuality, Magic, and Perversion surveys such outre subjects as sex magic, left-hand Tantrism, and the initiates of Aleister Crowley’s Order of Oriental Templars. This fascinating and highly readable book also discusses the role of magical fantasy in contemporary pornography. Appendices cover obscurities such as Ralph Chubb’s homoerotic mysticism and the women bishops of the Mariavite Church in Poland. (Out of Print)

Strange Creations: Aberrant Ideas of Human Origins from Ancient Astronauts to Aquatic Apes

Charles Darwin wasn’t the only one to come up with a contemporary explanation for the origin of human beings. Homespun fantasies and myths abound — the imaginative creations of dreamers, cult leaders, amateur scientists, racists, and rogues. Among the theorists this collection introduces are the eccentric English lord who believes that men are a cross between extraterrestrials and their Martian servants, a successful television journalist whose book suggests that humans evolved from aquatic apes, and a UFO investigator convinced that humans were bred as pets for brilliant dinosaurs. (Out of print)

Fat Pig

Cow. Slob. Pig. How many insults can you hear before you have to stand up and defend the woman you love? Tom faces just that question when he falls for Helen, a bright, funny, sexy young woman who happens to be plus sized-and then some. Forced to explain his new relationship to his shallow (although shockingly funny) friends, finally he comes to terms with his own preconceptions of the importance of conventional good looks.
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Toilets of the World

Powder room, comfort station, privy, loo, dunny … the infinite variety of names we invent for this universal necessity, the toilet, is matched by an extraordinary variety of designs worldwide, from miniature log cabins in the Canadian wilderness to state-of-the-art cubicles in Japan, and from huts on stilts in the Caribbean to solar-powered sanitary ware in New Zealand. This light-hearted but highly informative photographic journey reveals the idiosyncrasy and inventiveness that characterize the construction of the humble toilet around the globe.
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Photography for Perverts

Learn how to meet and work with exotic models, and how to find techniques that match your wildest visions, plus tips on where to exhibit and publish your explicit photographs. Included are legal and ethical disscusions, a guide to fighting censorship, and a large selection of radical sex resources--all illustrated with Gatewood's mindblowing photos.
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Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow

A leading exponent of punk-based, DIY art, Smith here presents his most ambitious project to date — an art book exactly as long as the work it’s interpreting: 760 drawings, paintings, photos, and less definable images in 760 pages. Extraordinary tableaux of the detritus of war — a burned-out Königstiger tank, a melted machine gun — coexist alongside such phantasmagoric Pynchon inventions as the “stumbling bird” and “Girgori the octopus.” Smith has stated his aim to be “as literal as possible” in interpreting Gravity’s Rainbow, but his images are as imaginative and powerfully unique as the prose they honor.
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The Art of Seduction

1. Choose the right victim; 2. Create a false sense of security - approach indirectly; 3. Send mixed signals; 4. Appear to be an object of desire - create triangles. 5. Create a need - stir anxiety and discontent; 6. Master the art of insinuation; 7. Enter their spirit; 8. Create temptation; 9. Keep them in suspense; 10. Use the demonic power of words to sow confusion; 11. Pay attention to detail; 12. Poeticize your presence; 13. Disarm through strategies of weakness and vulnerability; 14. Confuse desire and reality - the perfect illusion; 15. Isolate the victim; 16. Prove yourself; 17. Effect a regression; 18. Stir up the transgressive and taboo; 19. Use spiritual lures; 20. Mix pleasure with pain; 21. Give them space to fall; 22. Use physical lures; 23. Master the art of the bold move; 24. Beware the aftereffects.
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The 48 Laws of Power

Law 7: Get others to do the Work for you, but Always Take the Credit; Law 8: Make other People come to you – use Bait if Necessary; Law 9: Win through your Actions, Never through Argument; Law 11: Learn to Keep People Dependent on You; Law 14: Pose as a Friend, Work as a Spy; Law 17: Keep Others in Suspended Terror: Cultivate an Air of Unpredictability; Law 38: Think as you like but Behave like others; Law 44: Disarm and Infuriate with the Mirror Effect; Law 48: Assume Formlessness.
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Astonish Yourself: 101 Experiments in the Philosophy of Everyday Life

Droit's strange and delightful little volume explores some of the biggest questions in philosophy with exercises instead of terminology-laden tracts, by encouraging readers to discover the ways in which small or familiar acts--fasting, prowling, playing--can become "the starting point for that astonishment which gives rise to philosophy." There are exercises to calm, to disorient, to humanize, to displace; for instance, listening to shortwave radio at night, Droit writes, will help readers realize that "perpetually around you, woven into the air...are these hundreds of voices murmuring, in dozens of unknown or unrecognizable languages, of which you know nothing, expect that they spread an obscure and changing human crust, unendingly, over everything." Other exercises include: telephoning at random; drinking while urinating; looking at people from a moving car; contemplating a dead bird; turning off the sound on the TV; looking for blue food; considering humanity to be an error; smiling at a stranger.
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Puppetry of the Penis

A few years ago, Simon Morley and David Friend began performing their repertoire of "dick tricks" in Melbourne, Australia. Hitting England's shores to overwhelming critical acclaim at the 2000 Edinburgh Festival, their show has also played in Montreal and Toronto, and is on its way to Broadway. (Out of Print)
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A Hand in the Bush

A slick hands-on guide to the ins and outs of vaginal fisting.
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Scarecrow and Other Anomalies

Consuming all of the most fantastic symbolist, futurist, cubist, surrealist, expressionist, anarchist, dadaist, existentialist, post-modernist and every other -ist compositions that can be had, Girondo's Scarecrow stands alone as a one-of-a-kind, bug-eyed creation.
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David Lynch: The Air Is on Fire

The first major collection of artwork by the acclaimed movie director David Lynch. This catalogue of his artistic output, published on the occasion of a large-scale exhibition at the Fondation Cartier in Paris, covers a wide variety of disciplines: painting, photography, drawings, sculpture, furniture, music, and "moving pictures." His art echoes his films in theme and aesthetic, yet offers viewers a fresh and more intimate glimpse into his singular universe. The book also contains several essays that analyze his artworks, as well as a conversation with Lynch, interviewed within the context of the show. 469 illustrations in color.
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Visions from Within the Mechanism: The Industrial Surrealism of Jeffery Scott (1019)

The stunning and hyper-realistic photography presented here is not captured in real time, but through a laborious process of manipulation. Each picture represents an average of fifty hours of meticulous work in which elements are assembled from dozens of images to construct the combined whole. Mr. Scott conjures amazing characters, environments and situations that thoroughly blur the line between the real and the imagined. Layer upon layer of information reveals in-depth philosophies, concepts and stories.
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Feminine Anarchy 2 : Girls Pissing in Public

Description: "These uninhibited girls claim their right to pee in the corner or to let their warm juice soak through their panties and trickle down their long legs. Conservative men may perceive this as a threat to the traditional privilege of taking their cocks out of their pants and pissing wherever they choose."

What the Fuck: The Avant-Porn Anthology

Description: "The writers herein are not afraid to explore and exploit the nature of postmodern human sexuality in the 21st Century, with their own brand of twists and curves."
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Outer Dark

Description: "Outer Dark is a novel at once fabular and starkly evocative, set is an unspecified place in Appalachia, sometime around the turn of the century. A woman bears her brother's child, a boy; he leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he died of natural causes. Discovering her brother's lie, she sets forth alone to find her son. Both brother and sister wander separately through a countryside being scourged by three terrifying and elusive strangers, headlong toward an eerie, apocalyptic resolution."
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The Photographer's Sweethearts

Heavy, heavy, stuff.
"Setting herself a difficult task, British Columbia's Hartog debuts magnificently with a tale - said to be based on real events - of a pedophile and his not-quite-transcendent love of nature and children: a first novel at once so riveting and disquieting that it may well prove unforgettable. In the early 1900s, young Louie Olsen has come from Denmark to California to see the towering sequoias for himself and to live close to nature while observing its wonders through the eye of his camera. Foremost among those wonders is the naked beauty of children, and Louie's own childlike ways give him no lack of young acquaintances. Poetic in evoking California's landscapes and seasons, this is also painfully meticulous in detailing the black deeds of a complex man descending through a darkness still quite human to a place where demons dwell" (Kirkus Reviews).
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