Jonas Mekas has worked together with Andy Warhol, George Maciunas, John Lennon, and many others. In New York he was an influential figure in the New American Cinema, although he came to film-making relatively late. In 1944 Mekas and his younger brother Adolfas had to flee from the Nazis for copying leaflets. They were interned for eight months in a labour camp in Elmshorn. The Soviet occupation prevented him from returning to his native Lithuania aft

Fifty years after Neil Armstrong, one of the Apollo 11 crew, placed his left foot on the surface of the moon for the first time in human history, our fascination with Earth’s satellite has lost none of its power. NASA Apollo 11: Man on the Moon tracks the astronaut’s journey to the moon and documents the visual materials that the three crew members brought back with them. They were supplied with a Hasselblad 500EL Dat

An amalgamation of many hopes, ESP magazine alludes to our sixth sense, the 1965 Miles Davis album of the same name, and remains a space for Whole Earth Citizens. Designed by Experimental Jet Set, the second issue explores the art world under the global pandemic, through the notion of the “glitch” as a positive concept to liberate, rock, and agitate a rigid aristocratic system in which art has traditionally been market-driven and US-centric. Essays, reviews, and

One of the most splendid visual overviews published on Roland Topor's illustrated career, this over-sized book was produced on the occasion of the major survey exhibition of the great French illustrator, author, humorist, satirist, play-write, actor, poet, painter, performer, sculptor, in 1985. Opening with Topor's illustration for Fellini's Casanova (1975) and closing with a portrait of Topor urinating by artist Pol Bury, this wonderful book encompasses everything between via the penmanship of one of Europe's greatest

Since it was published in 2005, this book has become a cult classic. Yto Barrada's work poetically explores issues of migration, diaspora, access and exclusion. The Strait of Gibraltar has become one of the main gateways for illegal immigration into Europe. Barrada, a Parisian-born photographer of Moroccan heritage, captures a mood of longing, weariness and alienation in this book. She asks the question: what is the condition of a country whose people are all leaving,