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Metropolis Bookshop

Locality: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 3 9663 2015

Address: Level 3/252 Swanston Street 3000 Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.metropolisbookshop.com.au

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23.01.2022 Araki by Araki Nobuyoshi Araki distills decades’ worth of images down to 512 pages in this ultimate retrospective of his career. First published by Taschen as a Limited Edition and now back in a new, compact format, this intimate collection delves deep into Araki’s best-known imagery: Tokyo street scenes; faces and foods; colourful, sensual flowers; female genitalia; and the Japanese art of bondage. And then there’s the watermelon teasing us on this scorcher of a day.

22.01.2022 Corinne By Bruno Stettler ~ A book dedicated to the muse of photographer Bruno Stettler, Corinne (aka Colli, Coco, Acid), with whom he worked between 1980 and 1986. A key figure in Zurich’s party scene in the 1980s, she played a pivotal role in getting the photographer access to numerous celebrity figures and musicians, among them David Bowie, Public Enemy, Motorhead, and the Beastie Boys. Corinne, who passed away in 2016 at the age of 53, was not just a party girl, groupie, ...and model she would also take on different personalities. In private portraits and snapshots from backstage or out the city, Stettler captures her many facets, her kinetic, one-of-a-kind character, and her femme fatale allure. I’ve couldn’t resist slipping in a favourite photograph by Bruno of Corinne (the first I ever saw) in the embrace of darling Lemmy that isn’t included in this book. It graces the cover of another book, Bruno Stettler - Als War's Das Letzte Mal (Sturm & Drang) on his music photography from the 70s and 80s that we also carry, when available.

21.01.2022 SIGNED COPIES Boy On Fire: The Young Nick Cave We’re so pleased to have some signed copies of Mark’s much anticipated biography of the young Nick Cave. We’ll make a note on the website once these have sold but until then consider all copies available as signed by the author, Mark Mordue. A beautiful, profound and poetic biography of the formative years of the dark prince of Australian rock 'n' roll, Boy on Fire is Nick Cave's creation story. This is a portrait of the ar...tist as, first, a boy, and then as a young man. A deeply insightful work which charts his family, friends, influences, milieu and, most of all, his music, it reveals how Nick Cave shaped himself into the extraordinary artist he would become. As well as a powerfully compelling biography of a singular, uncompromising artist, Boy on Fire is a fascinating social and cultural biography, a vivid and evocative rendering of a time and place, from the fast-running dark river and ghost gums of Wangaratta, to the nascent punk scene which hit staid 1970s Melbourne like an atom bomb, right through to the torn wallpaper, sticky carpet and the manic, wild energy of nights at the Crystal Ballroom. See more

12.01.2022 Dolly Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics is a landmark celebration of the remarkable life and career of a country music and pop culture legend. As told by Dolly Parton in her own inimitable words, explore the songs that have defined her journey. Illustrated throughout with previously unpublished images from Dolly Parton's personal and business archives. A gem of a book.

11.01.2022 *Biting the clouds: a euphemism for being stoned on opium ~ Biting The Clouds: A Badtjala Perspective on the Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act, 1897 by Fiona Foley combines historical, personal and cultural imagery to reclaim the Badtjala story from the colonisation narrative. . In this groundbreaking work of Indigenous scholarship, nationally renowned visual artist Fiona Foley addresses the inherent silences, errors and injustices from the pers...pective of her people, the Badtjala of K'gari (Fraser Island). She shines a critical light on the little-known colonial-era practice of paying Indigenous workers in opium and the 'solution' of then displacing them to K'gari. . Licenced Licentiousness, from the series Horror Has a Face, 2017. @fiona_foleyartist @uqpbooks #naidoc2020 #alwayswasalwayswillbe #badtjala #indigenousaustralianart #indigenousaustralia #colonialshame #metropolisbookshop See more