German artist and activist Gustav Metzger was born to Jewish parents in Nuremberg in 1926. Having found refuge from the Nazis in the UK in 1939 and having been awarded a grant by the Jewish community there after the war, he was able to study at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp in the late 1940s. His experience of mankind’s destructive capabilities during World War II led him to formulate his concept of…
In the edition Thursdays Moloko+ compiles the poems that Ace Farren Ford published in his 4 Thursday chapbooks: A Year of Thursdays, Escape from beneath the Valley of Thursdays, Exiled once more to the Island of Thursdays and Love Theme from Thursdays plus a chapter of previously unpublished poems Beyond that farther Mountain of Thursdays. These older and newer poems are combined in the book with a fine selection of Ace’s collages done between 2010 and 2022…
From the Divan of Petra Vogt was published by Cold Turkey Press, Rotterdam in 1976. The final version of this sought-after edition – with poems and photographs from Kathmandu by Ira Cohen – has a black silkscreened cover and a purple title page. However, as a try-out a handful of copies were put together with a white cover and a white title page in 1976. One of these very rare white-cover versions has…
American photographer, poet and publisher Ira Cohen was born to deaf parents in the Bronx in 1935. After having dropped out of Cornell University, having married and having had two children with his wife Arlene Bond, Cohen sailed to Tangier in 1961, where he stayed for four years. In those years Cohen published his seminal Gnaoua journal with contributions by Jack Smith…