Author: Anneke

Ed van der Elsken – Bagara

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Ed van der Elsken (1925-1990) was born in Amsterdam, where he was trained as a stonecutter and sculptor until 1944. Inspired by the photojournalistic Picture Post and Weegee’s Naked City he shifted his interest from sculpting to photography in the late 1940s. When he tried his luck Paris in 1950, he took up a job…
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Kiev Jaguar Stingl – Die besoffene Schlägerei

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Kiev Stingl was born in 1943 in Aussig a.d. Elbe in Sudetenland, from which he and his mother had to flee after the end of World War II. After having first having found refuge in Mannheim he was relocated to Hamburg in 1949, where he attended secondary school and unsuccessfully studied Politicology and Ethnology. Since 1975 he has been active as a composer, lyricist, singer, actor and performer and…
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William Levy – Jeremiad Chants (An Absolute Polemic)

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Jeremiad Chants, subtitled An Absolute Polemic, was published independently by William Levy and illustrator Peter Pontiac in 1979. With a print run of only 500 copies and Fluxus artist Willem de Ridder as a designer, this little book is a true countercultural gem. Levy’s seductively packaged but caustic chapters would…
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Jack Spicer – Lament for the Maker

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sold outAmerican poet Jack Spicer was born in 1925 in Los Angeles, where he graduated from Fairfax High School in 1942 and studied at the University of Redlands from 1943 and 1945. After having worked as a movie extra and private investigator, Spicer moved to Berkeley, where he attended the University of California and started writing and publishing poetry. Together with his friends Robert Duncan and Robin Blaser, Spicer set out to create a new kind of poetry….

Ins & Outs Magazine #2

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Ins & Outs magazine was initiated by Salah Harharah, who ran a travel agency from Amsterdam and wanted to model a monthly events periodical after London’s Time Out magazine. Eddie Woods and Jane Harvey, freshly arrived in Amsterdam from London, joined the editorial board in 1978 and put together three issues of the magazine that same year. But instead of the periodical for Amsterdam’s tourist trade that Harharah had in mind, Woods and Harvey turned…
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