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"...Moving from 1972 right up to present day, Showboat chronologically surveys the relationship between punk and sex through original posters, flyers, record covers, photographs and ephemera drawn from the editor’s punk archive, The Mott Collection.

The publication includes anecdotes, lyrics, manifestos, personal essays and overviews as told by a wide array of contributors – including Sex Pistols’ Paul Cook, VF contributor Vivien Goldman, Eve Libertine of Crass, and writer Will Self..."

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"Chinesische Nacktheit in griechischer Natur, so könnte man die neuen Arbeiten von Fotograf REN HANG salopp beschreiben. Die Bilder entstanden während Hangs Aufenthalt in Athen und Attica im April vergangenen Jahres. Sichtlich unbeschwert, leichtfüssig und mit einem Schuss Humor inszeniert Hang seine Aktbilder in der freien Natur. Befreit vom politischen Druck und der prüden Gesetzgebung in seiner Heimat entdeckt er das Genre neu. ATHENS LOVE ist frisch und verspielt, eine Ode an die Lebenslust..."

By Betsy Horan

"Though the photographs in Huger Foote’s series “Now Here Then” were taken largely between 1995 and 2002, they represent an entirely “new” body of work. Starting in 2008, the Memphis-born photographer took a three-year “semi-stationary” break from his normally nomadic lifestyle, and spent the time revisiting his past work — and specifically, the work prints he’d created from years’ worth of negatives. For photographers, work prints are meant to be provisional: temporary placeholders for the final, perfect exhibition prints. They show thescars of time — which was precisely what caused Foote to have the “a-ha” moment that...

By Ashleigh Kane

"Photographer Ren Hang’s affinity with nature and the nude form continues in his latest book Athens Love. Continuing to produce work outside of his native home of China, where he is often censored or in trouble with police who threaten to arrest him, for his latest book Hang trips to Attica and Athens in Greece. While his last book NEW LOVE was shot in New York, here Hang swaps skylines and cityscapes to shoot his friends gazing into glistening lakes, obscured between rocks, swamped by daffodils or amongst cactus and aloe vera plants..."