Reads #58
RUSSH
Words to stimulate the mind.
Mark Borthwick: Synthetic Voices by Olivier Zahm and Jeff Rian (ART DATA)
"We were able to taste each other's breath without even touching." scribbles NY photographer Mark Borthwick. This book makes commonalities sexy - floorboard sprints in white panties and an ironing board, or perching on the boudoir dresser in turquoise eveningwear. This is his version of domestic athletics in serious blues. And if you thought bowl cuts weren't cool, Chloe Sevigny says now you do.
Hey Rube by Hunter S. Thompson (PAN MACMILLAN)
Wild days at the sport desk with Hunter's witty ESPN enlightenments like Boxing Sucks and The Tragedy Of Naked Bowling. Follow the gonzo champion of the world as he rounds up the latest political sex scandals (circa early 2000s) and the NBA score. Side-tracked always ("But wait! Don't touch that dial! Stay tuned for the Point of this story..") it's the signature rants and rampages that make us cackle out loud. Besides when did we ever care for football anyway. Let us think, never.
Tennis Courts by Giasco Bertoli (PERIMETER BOOKS)
These are the silent places mortals in white pleated skirts come to battle. Sometimes overgrown, occasionally crumbling and always with a waft of sneaker screeches and sweat droplets. Bertoli searched the world for these long forgotten lonely courts that nature had stolen back - snow-soaked in Berlin, dusk-lit or lost amongst the woodlands - only for their despair to become the obsession of man once more.
8 Women by Collier Schorr (MACK)
She was looking for a face to fall in love with, instead photographer Collier Schorr wound up with eight. Eight perfect/imperfect sentient beings. Schorr (of Comme des Garçons and Bottega Veneta fame) was the one who dared to look deep into Freja Beha Erichsen's gaze and ask: 'Who are you?' No longer musician nor model nor artist - her chosen few lay their insides bare. Each one taking their turn as an object of desire. Secret women's business that even made the Richard Prince gush, "It's great. It's beautiful. It's the best book I've seen you do ... And I'm not even half-way thru.”