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Album

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Album

February 1970-January 1971
(12 issues; missing #4 & #8)

Album was published in London from 1970 to 1971. Its editor was Bill Jay.

It was a magazine of photography’s incursions.

Every page is black and white. No ornament, austere blocks of text. The effect is like drawing a curtain, or dimming the lights in a theater, only without the direction dictated by film, leaving you free to wander.

There are no advertisements.

Its concern was the actuality of practice. Old essays followed new talents in a critical space where “art photography” was as ludicrous a term as “art painting,” and what appears easy and available as a technology is, like any artistic practice, much more fugitive and essential.

Duane Michals, Issue #7

Issue #1

from “On Being a Radical Photographer,” an interview with Blankfort, Issue #1

W. Eugene Smith, “Black Man’s Battleground,” Issue #2

from Issue #2

W. Eugene Smith, “Mailbox,” Ku Klux Klan series, Issue #2

from Press Cuttings, Issue #2

from Quotes, Issue #1

Gordon Bennett, “San Francisco,” Issue #11

from Opinions, Issue #1

Bill Brandt, “Friar’s Bay,” Issue #1

from Opinions, Issue #7

Manuel Alvarez Bravo, “Luz restrida,” Issue #9

from John Thomson’s “Illustrations of China and its People,” Issue #9

George N. Barnard, official photographer to Sherman’s Campaign, Issue #7

Harvey Himelfarb, from the Visual Dialogue Foundation portfolio, “Premonitions of a Tyranny of Culture,” Issue #10

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Heresies

Apr 3

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Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics ran independently from 1977 to 1993. Each issue focused on a different topic such as food, theater, or ecology. Between the covers you’ll find photography, film stills, sculptures, paintings, poems, prose, memoirs, collage, and documentations of performance art. Contributors included Harmony Hammond, Ida Applebroog, May Stevens, Mary Beth Edelson, Sally Webster, and Amy Sillman.

Here is the homepage for the 2009 documentary on Heresies called “The Heretics”, directed by Joan Braderman. The site includes an index to the articles.

We have 24 of the 27 issues of Heresies in our back stacks. Come explore them.

Heresies, Vol. 4, No. 1, Issue 13. 1981.
Cover, Back cover.

Heresies, Vol. 6, No. 1, Issue 21. 1987.

Heresies, Vol. 6, No. 1, Issue 21. 1987.
Cover, Back cover.

Heresies, Vol. 4, No. 2, Issue 14. 1982.
Cover, Back cover.

Heresies, Vol. 3, No. 4, Issue 12. 1981.
Cover, Back cover.

Heresies, Vol. 2, No. 3, Issue 7. Spring 1979.
From the article “Portrait of an Office” by Margaret Willey

Heresies, Vol. 2, No. 3, Issue 7. Spring 1979.

Heresies, Vol. 7, No. 3, Issue 27. 1993.

Heresies, Vol. 6, No. 3, Issue 23. 1988.
“Baby Contest” by Annette Savitski

Heresies, Vol. 5, No. 1, Issue 17. 1984.
Feminist Theatrical Performances

Heresies, Vol. 3, No. 4, Issue 12. 1981.
Jersey Shore Women’s Wrestling Club

Heresies, Vol. 7, No. 2, Issue 26. 1992.
Maria Serebriakova, untitled collage, 1989.

Heresies, Vol. 7, No. 2, Issue 26. 1992.
Russian Billboard

Heresies, Vol. 7, No. 1, Issue 25. 1990.
“Predominant Ideology” by Kristin Reed, 1988. Krylon, xerox, gouache, chalk. 12″x14″.

Heresies, Vol. 1, No. 3, Issue 3. Fall 1977.
Betsy Dam, The 7000 Year Old Woman. Performance #2, a street event, fully clothed. Photo by Su Friedrich.

Heresies, Vol. 6, No. 1, Issue 21. 1987.

Heresies, Vol. 5, No. 1, Issue 17. 1984.
Judith Ren-Lay as “Ivy Mouse”

Heresies, Vol. 2, No. 3, Issue 17. Spring 1979.

Heresies, Vol. 3, No. 4, Issue 12. 1981.
Photo by Carol Harmel.

Heresies, Vol. 1, No. 3, Issue 3. 1977.

Heresies, Vol. 1, No. 3, Issue 3. Fall 1977.
Sandra Desando

Heresies, Vol. 6, No. 3, Issue 23. Fall 1988.
“No Longer Afraid” by Susan Spencer Cole

Heresies, Vol. 6, No. 3, Issue 23. Fall 1988.
Installation and Set for “Private Places” by Vernita Nemec

Heresies, Vol. 5, No. 1, Issue 17. 1984.
“T.V.” by Marina Gutierrez, 1979, Monoprint/Color Etching

Heresies, Vol. 4, No. 1, Issue 13. 1981.
“The Rat Patrol” by Christy Rupp, 1979

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Strapazin

Nov 20

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First launched in 1984, Strapazin is a Swiss-based, German language comics magazine focused on the underground and independent scenes. The aesthetic of the work selected is often defined by expressive, gestural drawings filled with motion and energy. Notable Strapazin contributors include SVA’s own Gary Panter and David Sandlin, as well as Daniel Johnston, Le Dernier Cri and Julie Doucet.

The SVA library has 25 issues of Strapazin from June 1994 through the current issue.

Strapazin, No. 106. March 2012.
Cover by Sharmila Banerjee

Gary Panter
Strapazin, No. 76.

Gary Panter
Strapazin, No. 53. December 1998.

Daniel Johnston
Strapazin, No. 95. June 2009.

David Sandlin
Strapazin, No. 93. December 2008.

Strapazin, No. 39. June 1995.

Helge Reumann & Xavier Robel
Strapazin, No. 103. June 2011.

Le Dernier Cri
Strapazin, No. 53. December 1998.

Luca Schenardi
Strapazin, No. 53. December 1998.

Hans Scharer
Strapazin, No. 53. December 1998.

Julie Douect
Strapazin Special Issue; Bubbles, Boxes & Beyond. 2000.

Julie Doucet
Strapazin Special Issue; Bubbles, Boxes & Beyond. 2000.

Strapazin, No. 53. December 1998.
Photo by Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs

Patrick Savolainen
Strapazin, No. 107. June 2012.

Xiang Ya Ta
Strapazin, No. 100. September 2010.

Yuichi Yokoyama.
Strapazin, No. 109. December 2012.

Yan Cong
Strapazin, No. 100. September 2010.

Christina Gransow
Strapazin, No. 104. September 2011.

Ludmilla Bartscht
Strapazin, No. 104. September 2011.

Nine Antico
Strapazin, No. 104. September 2011.

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Magazine Covers – 1970-1979 (Part 3 – Art) +++

Oct 20

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+++ See Pictures +++

Please enjoy this sopping sampling of sweet and sour color from 1970’s art magazines.

Art News was founded in 1902 and is the most widely circulated art magazine in the world.

ArtNews. April 1972.
“Sweet and Sour” by Ed Ruscha.
(Strawberries, peppers, olives, peaches, anchovies, pickles, washes of jam juice.)

Art International was based in Switzerland and ran from 1956-1984.

Art International, Volume XXI. March 1978.
Art by Pierre Alechinsky.

Novum Gebrauchsgraphik, now called Novum, is an international graphic design magazine based in Germany.

Novum Gebrauchs Graphic. February 1977.
African Hairdresser’s Sign (Unknown Artist).

Art International, Volum XXII. February 1978.

Art International, Volume XXII. February 1978.
Art by Richard P. Lohse.

Art International, Volume XX/3-4. March/April 1976.
Art by Alun Leach-Jones.

Avante Garde had a short run of only 14 issues between 1968 to 1971.

Avante Garde. January 1970.
Art by Thomas Weiil

Connoisseur is a publication of self-proclaimed high-brow culture and art:

Connoisseur. April 1976.

ArtForum is a contemporary art magazine.

ArtForum. 1971.
Still from “Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son” (1969).

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Leaves

Mar 21

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Leaves is a 36-image folder depicting the botanical beauty of leaves through photography, advertisements and illustration. The wide range of leaves in this folder make it one of the many in the Visual Arts Picture Collection that can be a helpful aid in drawing reference.