We had an excellent time at the NY Book Fair this year. Thanks to everyone who was able to come by and give us some love and also thank you to all of the wonderful people who showed us a good time while we were in the city.
If you werent able to pick up our new books you can get them here!
See you soon!
Thanks again,
Charlie, Alec, Carrie, Hans & the rest of the LBM team.
Just in time for the New York Art Book Fair, we are debuting two new books: A Head With Wings by Anouk Kruithof and The Little Brown Mushroom Coloring Book by Jason Polan. If you can’t visit us at the Fair, buy yours here.
We are pleased to announce the second book in our new series:
Lonely Boy Mag. (No. A-2: Boys and Their Cars)
Edition of 1000
Designed by Jenny Tondera
Publication date, June, 2011
64 pages, 5.4×8.5in, color offset, staple-bound
The second in a series of men’s magazines, this issue features text and photographs by Todd Hido, Alec Soth, Chad States and erotic dioramas by Peter Davidson.
See more images from the book here.
“I vividly remember as a kid finding a friend’s older brother’s stash of literary erotic men’s magazines and thinking how bizarre the objects and the stories within them were.” An excellent review of Lonely Boy Mag. at PhotoEye by Antone Dolezal.
Buy yours here
I’m happy to report that we’ve raised around $10,000 for Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami relief.
If you ordered a book, please note that these books take us a long time to assemble. Your patience is greatly appreciated.
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I’m excited to announce the release of our new book, Conductors of the Moving World, by Brad Zellar. The third in our series of books inspired by Little Golden Books, this is our most extravagant publication to date. Combining the beautiful snapshots of Japanese Police Inspector Eizo Ota with the Koan-like text of Brad Zellar, the result is a Zen travelogue through 1972 America. (more info on the book here).
What puts this book over the top is the design by Hans Seeger. Though still as compact as our previous publications, Conductors of the Moving World includes 17 original hand-tipped C-Print photographs and one business card. It is stunningly beautiful. Moreover, each copy is unique. The 17 images in each book are chosen from a larger pool of 60 and then sequenced according to chance. (A math professor at Northwestern has told us that there are over sextillion different possible variations).
I’m also thrilled to announce that everyone involved (the Ota family, Brad Zellar, LBM) has agreed that all proceeds from Conductors of the Moving World go to Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami relief. Additionally, Brad Zellar and LBM will be doing a booksigning at The International Center For Photography on Friday, March 18, 6:00pm–7:30pm. ICP has also generously agreed to to give all proceeds to Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami relief.
This book has been a fantastic labor of love. It has taken us days just to insert the prints into 100 copies of the book. I’m so proud of this book and everyone involved:
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Lonely Boy Mag. (No. A-1: Alec Soth’s Midwestern Exotica)
Edition of 1000
Designed by Alec Soth
Publication date, March, 2011
64 pages, 5.4×8.5in, color offset, staple-bound
$18 Buy it here
The first in a series of men’s magazines, this issue features poetry, erotic text, pictures of ex-girlfriends and a photo-story by Soth.
More pictures here
Conductors of the Moving World
by Brad Zellar
Edition of 500
Designed by Hans Seeger
Publication date, March 2011
30 pages, french-folded, 6.625×7.875in, custom side stapled
B/W offset with 17 hand-tipped, color photographs
$55 All proceeds go to Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami relief. Buy it here
More images here
In the autumn of 1972, a delegation of Japanese police officials visited the United States to study traffic control in several large cities, including New York, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles. The unofficial photographer for the delegation was Eizo Ota, an inspector with the law enforcement department of the Yamanashi Prefecture, and he produced a record of the group’s travels that might best be described as forensic tourism.
Using Inspector Ota’s snapshots as launching points, Brad Zellar plundered traffic manuals, haiku anthologies, the Watergate transcripts, and The Godfather for textual inspiration. The mysterious result is a Zen travelogue through 1972 America.
From a collection of 60 C-Prints, a mix-and-match assortment of 17 will be hand-tipped into individual volumes, making each book a singular work of art.
$55 All proceeds go to Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami relief. Buy it here
Buy your holiday LBM gifts now and your Little Brown Merchandise will come wrapped in the Jason Polan poster: How To Become A Little Brown Mushroom.
Come visit the LITTLE BROWN MUSHROOM WEB STORE today!!!!
Come visit the LITTLE BROWN MUSHROOM WEB STORE today!!!!
Along with lots of new stuff (Trent Parke Poster, Brighton Bunny Boy Zine, LBM Hat) we’ve dropped the price on our T-Shirt and still have some copies left of the fantastic book, Man With Buoy by Seth Lower.
Buy your holiday LBM gifts this week and your Little Brown Merchandise will come wrapped in the Jason Polan poster: How To Become A Little Brown Mushroom (while supplies last):
