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Ira Cohen – From the Divan of Petra Vogt (first collated copy)
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, Brion Gysin, William Burroughs, Harold Norse a.o. Cohen returned to the US…
Roger Knoebber – Hysteresis: A Profile of Brion Gysin
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New Collectible: Ira Cohen – Kathmandu Portfolio (1976)
Ira Cohen produced his Kathmandu Portfolio during a week’s stay in Rotterdam at his friend Gerard Bellaart’s place in 1976. The portfolio of 12 photographs was a joint production of John Chick’s Bardo Matrix imprint from Kathmandu, with whom Cohen and Angus MacLise had teamed up in 1974, and Gerard Bellaart’s Cold Turkey Press from Rotterdam. The jacket was silkscreened black and silver and Ira Cohen’s photos inside were printed offset as 12 separate postcards…
Edgar Allan Poe – The Fifth Day
The Sea Urchin pamphlet The Fifth Day is a passage lifted from Edgar Allan Poe’s tale Manuscript Found in a Bottle. The tale was first published in 1833 after it had won an award of $50 in a contest organised by the Baltimore Saturday Visiter. The version published by Sea Urchin is how it later appeared in Poe’s own Broadway Journal in 1845.Manuscript Found in a Bottle is a tale in which a drifting narrator describes how his ship sets sail from Batavia to the Sunda islands in the Malay Archipelago…