Apr 2, 2024
The Drawer, by Vince Aletti
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The Drawer, by Vince Aletti
Photos from 'The Disco Files 1973–78: New York's Underground, Week by Week' by Vince Aletti (with interview by Fran Lebowitz) — back in stock from D.A.P. Publishing! In 1973, Aletti became the first person to write about the emerging disco scene. His engagement with disco nightlife continued throughout the decade as he wrote his weekly column for 'Record World' magazine, which incorporated top ten playlists from DJs across the US (such as Larry Levan, Larry Sanders, Walter Gibbons, Tee Scott and Nicky Siano) alongside Aletti's own writings and interviews. As disco grew from an underground secret to a billion-dollar industry, Aletti was there to document it, and 'The Disco Files' is his personal memoir of those days, containing everything he wrote on the subject (most of it between 1974 and1978) augmented with photography by Peter Hujar and Toby Old. This book is the definitive and essential chronicle of disco, true from-the-trenches reporting that details, week by week, the evolution of the clubs, the DJs, and above all, the music, through magazine articles, beautiful photographs, hundreds of club charts and thousands of record reviews. Pictured here: 1. Drag Queens Mugging, Halloween (II), 1978, © @peterhujararchive 2. New Orleans Dancefloor © Tony Old 3. Refreshments at New York, NY 4. Onlookers at Roseland © Tony Old 5. The men's room at G.G. Barnums © Tony Old 6. Boys at Les Mouches © Tony Old 7. Upside Down at Les Mouches © Tony Old 8. Portrait of Vince Aletti, © @peterhujararchive Read more via linkinbio. @vincealetti #vincealetti #discofiles #vincealettidisco #disco #discoplaylist #peterhujar #tonyold https://www.instagram.com/p/CpBGaeGJdbf/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
TOMORROW, Feb 11 at 12PM EST: Vince Aletti and Carmen Winant in conversation, live on Zoom Sign up for free on Eventbrite via link in bio Join Aletti and Winant for this discussion on their latest publications with @selfpublishbehappy Editions! In 2022 SPBH published 2 photobooks composed of found photography: 'The Drawer' by Vince Aletti and 'Arrangements' (co-published by @images_vevey ) by @carmen.winant. American critic and curator Vince Aletti has been collecting photographs printed on the pages of magazines and books since the 1970s. 'The Drawer' documents the curator's hundreds of tearsheets, newspaper clippings, gallery announcements, and other ephemera stacked in a drawer of an antique flat file in his East Village apartment. 'Arrangements' began with a simple premise: the collection of sheets of paper—ripped from books—featuring multiple photographs and inlaid narratives. Carmen's constructed pages trouble how the idea of “theme” operates as the engine of a book, instead taking the act of arranging, both in discrete pages and as a whole, as its own meaningful subject. This event brings together the two authors to discuss how found photography can be arranged and re-contextualised to create multivalent narratives that voice our personal and collective histories. The discussion will provide attendees with an insight into the parallels and differences between approaching found material as an artist and as a curator. #vincealettithedrawer #carmenwinantarrangements #vincealetti #carmenwinant https://www.instagram.com/p/CofpC6WJKSL/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Without a printed word, 'Vince Aletti: The Drawer' from @selfpublishbehappy assembles the vintage images of a single cabinet drawer. Read an interview between @vincealetti & @vanmeterwilliam on the acclaimed curator’s scrapbook celebration of the beauty of photography and the printed page "At first glance, 'The Drawer' is like flipping through the scrapbook of an adult with fine-tuned taste. But it’s more than that, Aletti’s assemblage captures a portrait of the man himself. It’s a window into his tastes and passions, and a look at what moves him. It says so much about the writer, despite containing no words (there are no captions and no introduction)." Read more via linkinbio. #vincealetti #vincealettiscrapbook #vincealettithedrawer https://www.instagram.com/p/CoFuUvmprfl/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Can’t do better. Can. Not. #Repost @matthewhiggs2015 ・・・🔥📖🔥 Vince Aletti’s ‘The Drawer’. An extraordinary oversized text-free visual ‘essay’ drawn from Vince’s expansive archives of printed matter. One of the great ‘photo books’ of this century. 📸📖📸 Published by Self Publish Be Happy. & Available where all good books are sold! Essential doesn’t do it justice. Kudos to all concerned! 👏👏🙂 @vincealetti #vincealetti @selfpublishbehappy https://www.instagram.com/p/CnioL6POFL-/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Thank you @artforum ! Read Vince Aletti (as told to Zack Hatfield) on one of the hottest forthcoming books on our list, 'Vince Aletti: The Drawer,' releasing in January from @selfpublishbehappy Hatfield writes, "One of what seems like only a handful of working photography critics today, Vince Aletti is also a prolific collector of print ephemera, much of it archived within a single massive filing cabinet in his longtime East Village apartment. [Here,] Aletti talks about his new photobook, 'The Drawer,' which shuffles this matter into alluring, Warburgian juxtapositions of high and low, iconic and unknown. Mapped out over the course of a single afternoon, the book is a meditation on how images shape desire, a remedy to the cold calculations of the algorithm, and the wordless memoir of a great and grateful eye." Read Aletti on Aletti via linkinbio. @vincealetti @hatzack #vincealetti #vincealettithedrawer #vincealettidrawer https://www.instagram.com/p/CmJ_ThIpf7f/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
TONIGHT!!! Tuesday, December 6 from 6-8PM @dashwood_books presents Vince Aletti signing advance copies of 'The Drawer,' published by @selfpublishbehappy American critic and curator Vince Aletti has been collecting photographs printed on the pages of magazines and books since the 1970s. For the very first time the hundreds of tearsheets, newspaper clippings, gallery announcements, and other ephemera stacked in a drawer of an antique flat file in his East Village apartment have been documented in the new book 'The Drawer.' The 75 multi-layered compositions created by Aletti are a celebration of the beauty of photography and the printed page, as well as testimony of the author's unique ability to voice the complexity and variety of desire, personal and collective histories, and the power of art to reflect and shape who we are. Pre-order a signed copy via linkinbio. Dashwood Books 33 Bond Street NY, NY, 10012 @vincealetti #vincealetti #vincealettithedrawer #vincealettidrawer https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl1pCj6pM19/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
TOMORROW, Tuesday, Feb 23 from 6 – 7PM, @icp & @damiani_books present photographer Erik Madigan Heck in conversation with Vince Aletti on the occasion of Heck’s newest publication, 'Erik Madigan Heck: The Garden.' Inspired by Catholic iconography and other mythic pictorial traditions, 'The Garden' is an ongoing body of work depicting Heck’s wife and two young sons in a variety of richly colorful surrounds. This program is free with a suggested donation of $5. Reserve your signed copy of 'Erik Madigan Heck: The Garden' through ICP’s shop and book your ticket via linkinbio! @nomenusmag @vincealetti #erikmadiganheck #vincealetti https://www.instagram.com/p/CLnC8q5p60Y/?igshid=1kdshjuc9abn