„I chose this old fan magazine as my book project because I like everything about it--the design, the printing and the photography. I love the subject matter--the stars we remember and the ones we do not. Men, who obviously held a place for a while in the evanescence of Hollywood and youth. I seek to preserve, come what may, the ephemeral.“ (Jack Pierson)
“In the interstices between film and photography, ad stereotypes and clichés of a Californian paradise, Jack Pierson (born 1960) produces pictures that are deliberately sensual and sentimental. Through a subtle hybridization of genres they raise the central question of autobiographical sincerity as the work’s theme and site. By arresting intimate moments, they compose a familiar, private world, happy and nostalgic. By disclosing (or pretending to disclose) something of the artist, they acquire a natural quality that turns them into secret confessions. We are simultaneously in the artist’s studio and in the middle of his life, and, I’d be tempted to add, in the idealizing and loving grace of his gaze.” ―Henry-Claude Cousseau
The classic hardcover is now available in paperback, featuring a new cover design by Patrick Li.
Die von Reiner Speck und Gerhard Theewen herausgegebene édition séparée bietet ausgewählten Künstlern die Möglichkeit, authentische Beiträge in der Tradition des Künstlerbuches zu realisieren. Die Textbeiträge stammen entweder vom Künstler selbst oder von Autoren, die er selbst bestimmt und die den Künstlerbeitrag begleiten und ergänzen, sich aber nicht interpretierend einmischen. Die bisher entstandenen Ausgaben präsentieren Originalbeiträge aus den Bereichen Fotografie, Zeichnung, Theorie, Typographie und elektronischer Bildbearbeitung.