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| Title: Acme BOY |
| By (author): Phil Strongman |
| ISBN10-13: 1963814134 : 9781963814132 |
| Acme BOY: The Birth of Punk & Anti-Fashion 1975 - 1985...and Other Twisted, True Stories from Pre-Internet Counterculture By Phil Strongman Itâ s 50 years since the â street coutureâ shop Acme Attractions opened - and November 1975 sees the 50th anniversary of the first SEX PISTOLS gig. Which makes it perfect timing for Phil Strongman's Acme BOY - the stunning inside story of Acme, BOY, PUNK and â anti-fashionâ ; the London youth culture explosions of the 1970s and â 80s - eruptions that end up having global influence. By turns amusing, intriguing and shocking, Acme BOY features not only the author's own story - and his involvement with the Pistols, The Clash, Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood - but also contains exclusive words from Acme Attractions founder John Krivine and BOY co-founder Steph Raynor. These two men had shops crammed with classic jukeboxes and staffed by film-maker and Radio 6 DJ Don Letts, Rough Trade boss Jeannette Lee, DJ Jay Strongman (relation) and stylist Eric Rose. Their customers included John Lydon, Sid Vicious, Bob Marley, Andy Warhol, Rudolf Nureyev, Peter Oâ Toole, Rod Stewart, Daryl Hall, Boy George, Joe Strummer, Chrissie Hynde, Billy idol, Patti Smith, Deborah Harry, Philip Sallon, Steve Strange and Adam Antâ ¦ And BOY clothing, now labelled BOY LONDON, continues to be worn by 21st century stars like Rihanna, Madonna, Cara Delevingne and Jessie J - yet the untold story of the brandâ s tangled roots are both revealing and fascinating. Back in 1975 and 1976 Kingâ s Road proto-punk was initially dubbed The Big Sleaze by fashion mags before it rapidly became notorious as Punk, the shattering scene that shocked the UK, caused riots in Chelsea, raised questions in Parliament and basically invented the Indie genre; inspiring film-makers such as Quentin Tarantino and musicians REM, Nirvana, Dead Kennedys, Black Flag, Green Day and many others in the US, Europe, Japan, Korea and worldwide. Post-Punk, Mod, New Romanticism, Two-Tone, Goth, Rockabilly, the Warehouse scene all followed in swift succession - writer and film-maker Strongman saw these movements develop and was deeply involved in many of them. He is unique in being the only person to have designed for Acme Attractions and BOY and Fans - whilst later managing bands, taking photos and supplying clothes to Sign of The Times, Ad Hoc, BOY and Vivienne Westwood. His designs have been worn by Anita Pallenberg, Roger Daltrey, Billy Connelly and Pamela Stephenson as well as hundreds of Punk, New Wave and Indie musicians. With its gripping text and an array of rare and unseen photos, images and illustrations, Acme BOY is one of the most important, and personal, contemporary books to explore London fashion in general and the â 70s Punk era in particular. |
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Pages: 75
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| Published: Blurring Books - March 2026 |
| Format: Paperback |
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| List Price: 23.00 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 102 |
| Title: 1 of: 27 |
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| Title: All Lover The Place |
| By (author): Daniel Shepard |
| ISBN10-13: 196381424X : 9781963814248 |
| Over the course of 2024, Daniel Shepard traveled through New York, Mexico, Japan, Indonesia, Thailand, and Chicago-each place leaving its mark through references he picked up along the way: sign paintings on the street, inside jokes, passing feelings, and fleeting moments. This body of work documents Shepard's journey via illustration-what you're seeing are scenarios straight from the source. |
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Pages: 48
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| Published: Blurring Books - July 2025 |
| Format: Paperback |
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| List Price: 20.00 Pounds Sterling |
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Qty Available: 43 |
| Title: 2 of: 27 |
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| Title: Any Sunday in Coacalco |
| By (author): Tyler Blint-Welsh |
| ISBN10-13: 1963814010 : 9781963814019 |
| Any Sunday in Coacalco, offers an unvarnished and intimate glimpse into the subculture of Mexican luchadores, the global phenomenon thatâ s inextricably tied with Mexican identity. Through a blend of reportage and deeply personal portraits, New York photographer Tyler Blint-Welsh highlights the roughness, absurdity, and passion that defines lucha libre, with a collection of images depicting raw violence, feats of athleticism, and moments of vulnerability. With a distinct perspective, honed over years as a journalist for the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, Blint-Welsh takes a documentarianâ s approach to a cultural performance, showcasing the aspects of machismo, tradition, and parody that have turned lucha libre into one of Mexicoâ s biggest pop-culture exports. For his debut photobook, which was shot in a single afternoon, Blint-Welsh traveled to an outdoor wrestling ring on the outskirts of Mexico City, with a pair of cameras and seven rolls of 35mm film. |
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Pages: 72
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| Published: Blurring Books - October 2024 |
| Format: Hardback |
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| List Price: 20.00 Pounds Sterling |
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Qty Available: 194 |
| Title: 3 of: 27 |
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| Title: BIG SHOTS!! Volume Two: More Shots From the Worlds of Music, Fashion and Beyond |
| By (author): Phillip Leeds |
| ISBN13: 9798986197586 |
| In partnership with Blurring Books, Leeds is set to release BIG SHOTS!! Volume 2: More Shots from the Worlds of Music, Fashion and Beyond, a new collection of photographs that captures the faces from the epicenter of culture. A compilation of previously unpublished work, Phillip has continued documenting some of the biggest names in popular culture as well as behind-the-scenes tastemakers and influencers. BIG SHOTS!! Volume 2 offers more than 500 color Polaroid portraits. The book features GRAMMY award winner SZA on the cover, plus foreword by global music and fashion icon, and multi GRAMMY winner Pharrell Williams. This volume includes portraits of Chris Rock, Lee â Scratchâ Perry, James Lipton, Brian â KAWSâ Donnelly, Dave Grohl, George Clinton, Sister Nancy, Q-Tip, Snoop Dogg, Ari Melber, John David Washington, Mike Ness, Ndaba Mandela, Megan Thee Stallion, Swizz Beatz & Alicia Keys, plus countless others. The original Polaroid images of these world-renowned subjects have been showcased from New York City, to Tokyo, to Hong Kong. In November 2023, BIG SHOTS! photography lined the walls of the HK outpost of lifestyle brand, Pleasures, accompanied by a book signing by Phillip Leeds, for the apparel companyâ s N.E.R.D. capsule collection. BIG SHOTS!! Volume 2 provides readers a unique vantage point into an era of music and fashion as it crossed in front of Phillipâ s camera and shared through the ever-nostalgic format of the Polaroid. |
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Pages: 372
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| Published: Blurring Books - August 2024 |
| Format: Hardback |
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| List Price: 28.00 Pounds Sterling |
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Qty Available: 75 |
| Title: 4 of: 27 |
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| Title: Bowieâ s Back |
| By (author): Ron Gott |
| ISBN10-13: 1963814169 : 9781963814163 |
| Bowieâ s Back is a collection of never-before-seen photographs of David Bowie live in concert as Ziggy Stardust at Friars Aylesbury (1972) and the Low/Heroes at Madison Square Garden (1978). Prior to this project, these images lived on contact sheets and Ron Gott had never seen them printed out. After seeing these, DB Burkeman immediately decided that they needed to be shared with the world. |
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Pages: 60
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| Published: Blurring Books - September 2024 |
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| List Price: 20.00 Pounds Sterling |
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Qty Available: 24 |
| Title: 5 of: 27 |
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| Title: Branded Bronx Bags |
| By (author): Thatcher Keats aka DSM III (g.a.e.t) |
| ISBN10-13: 1736156241 : 9781736156247 |
| Tragic and beautiful, ridiculous and sublime, these photographs are a record of the branded proprietary names of street drugs of The Bronx in the years around the Crack and AIDS epidemics. Heroin brand names were mostly associated with trouble and cocaine brand names were mostly associated with good living/the high life. These images tell stories, provide cautionary tales, sell through sex appeal, reference topical issues and engage in Truth In Advertising. Told through the photographs of New York based photographer, Thatcher Keats. |
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Pages: 36
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| Published: Blurring Books - January 2023 |
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| List Price: 14.99 Pounds Sterling |
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Qty Available: 14 |
| Title: 6 of: 27 |
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| Title: Call Me Timothée: The Timothée Chalamet Look-Alike Competition |
| By (author): Jonathan Hollingsworth |
| ISBN10-13: 1963814177 : 9781963814170 |
| On October 27th 2024, Anthony Po (Cheeseball Man), the mastermind of whimsical public events attended on a massive scale, organized a Timothée Chalamet look-alike competition in NYCâ s Washington Square Park, which heâ d advertised weeks prior via anonymous, mysterious fliers posted around the city. Hundreds of spectators and a bevy of prospective Timothées turned up, only to be upstaged by the surprise appearance of the real Timothée Chalamet. After the NYPD shut down the event and issued a summons and fine to photographer Jonathan Hollingsworth for setting up a shoot without a permit, he turned to his Polaroid camera as backup, producing fleeting, anonymous, and dreamlike portraits of the Timothées who got to be stars for a day in the galaxy of Timothée Chalamet. The competition was more than just a well-attended curiosity in the park, but a definitive moment that captured the zeitgeist, treated as a major media event. Call Me Timothée includes a Q&A with organizer Anthony Po and a rich selection of images documenting the event and capturing the many Timothées of the day. |
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Pages: 68
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| Published: Blurring Books - December 2024 |
| Format: Hardback |
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| List Price: 27.00 Pounds Sterling |
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Qty Available: 37 |
| Title: 7 of: 27 |
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| Title: Cow Corner: Cricket World Cup 2024 |
| By (author): Vikram Valluri |
| ISBN10-13: 1963814045 : 9781963814040 |
| Cow Corner is a photographic exploration by Vikram Valluri capturing cricket's influence on India during the Cricket World Cup 2023. The journey extends through Pune, Ahmedabad, Delhi, Mumbai, and Ladakh, showcasing cricket as an integral part of life beyond sport. The pages feature images treated to give the appearance of photographs that have been printed, handled, and weathered, providing a genuine, tactile feel. These visuals seem as if they have been passed among fans, becoming worn and cherished over time. "Cow Corner" uncovers cricket's role in transcending cultural, political, and religious divides, offering a unique glimpse into the sport's deep resonance across India. |
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Pages: 48
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| Published: Blurring Books - October 2024 |
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| List Price: 16.00 Pounds Sterling |
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Qty Available: 96 |
| Title: 8 of: 27 |
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| Title: CRASH BANG: Pictures from a Punk 1976-1982 |
| By (author): DB Burkeman |
| ISBN10-13: 1736156268 : 9781736156261 |
| Crash Bang: Pictures from a Punk is a never before seen collection of photos from 1976-1982 of the punk & new wave music scenes in London, New York & LA. In the 70â s, DB Burkeman was a 16-year-old school dropout in London. While struggling to become a professional photographer, he was simultaneously struggling with substance abuse issues. Spending all his disposable income on self-medicating, rolls of film would inevitably get thrown into a bedside drawer where they remained undeveloped for 40 years. In the 90â s, DB made his name in the U.S. rave world as DJ DB. He then became a music executive for record companies and more recently he authored three successful books with Rizzoli. After his motherâ s death, he went back to London and cleared out his old bedroom. He discovered a bag of undeveloped 35mm rolls of film, unearthing a time capsule of the explosion of punk rock captured through performances and intimate moments. |
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Pages: 148
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| Published: Blurring Books - April 2024 |
| Format: Hardback |
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| List Price: 32.00 Pounds Sterling |
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Qty Available: 112 |
| Title: 9 of: 27 |
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| Title: Every Pill I Took: 2000 - 2001 |
| By (author): Michael Lorenzini |
| ISBN10-13: 173615625X : 9781736156254 |
| In our pill-happy society there is a pill for everything. Corporate legal drug dealers, aka Big Pharma, have for decades put design thought into clever pill presses and multicolored gel-caps to distinguish their products and attract buyers. So too, in the 1990s and 2000s when ecstasy swept the club and rave scenes, the branding of pills was essential to the marketing, a way for the user to identify a good high from cold medicine or a batch of poison. Ecstasy branding was often based on well-known corporate logos. Easily identified, pill makers latched onto the brand recognition of our corporate society subverting the brands at the same time. A process the cultural critic Carlo McCormick says â collapses the ever-convergent space between subversive youth culture and acquiescent mainstream passive consumption.â While working as a nightlife photographer, New York-based Michael Lorenzini became fascinated by the design details in ecstasy tablets and wanted to document this underground art form. He proceeded to photograph every pill he took from 2000-2001. Although jewel-like in their tiny colorful forms, the macro photographs, shot on slide film with an extreme macro lens, reveal hidden imperfections and textured landscapes. |
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Pages: 36
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| Published: Blurring Books - January 2022 |
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| List Price: 20.00 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 265 |
| Title: 10 of: 27 |
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