photography by NICOLAS ALAN COPE
All pictures are from Whitewash, powerHouse Books, Brooklyn, New York, 2013
I moved to Paris from Los Angeles 10 years ago and haven’t been back since. But this is exactly how I remember it. Bright, hot, incessant clear light casting blackety-black shadows from Brutalist blocks, which take the history of architecture and silently reduce and contain it, like lunar tombs. Or Aztec temples morphed into foam-core cartoons. This kind of light makes decisions easier, more black and white: good vs. bad; pure vs. impure; aspiration vs. collapse; determined, grim optimism vs. self-indulgent despair. The suggestion of a monolithic old Hollywood black-and-white movie set encourages self-invention and feelings of self-consciousness as you make your way down an imaginary long white staircase. There’s not another living soul around and the spotlight is on you, wiping away any flaws or imperfections: you hallucinate into who you wanna be… Exactly how I remember it…
— RICK OWENS
[Table of contents]
Roland Barthes The Rustle of Language
by Camille Bidault-Waddington
night pictures
by Olivier Zahm and Stéphane Feugère with a portfolio by Patrick Sarfati
by Glenn O'Brien
by Olivier Zahm
by Luca Lo Pinto
by Olivier Zahm
by Olivier Zahm
by Donatien Grau
by Olivier Zahm
by Camille Bidault-Waddington
by Mario Sorrenti
by Paolo Roversi
by Sandy Kim
by Katerina Jebb
Kacper Kasprzyk
by Marcelo Krasilcic
by Terry Richardson
by Chikashi Suzuki
by Johan Sandberg
by Olivier Zahm
by Olivier Zahm
by Ken Miller
by Jeffrey Deitch
by Olivier Zahm
by Ed and Deanna Templeton