Metropolis Bookshop

10/05/2023

We are delighted to have a stall at the Melbourne Art Book Fair next week featuring some of our favourite publishers including: 550BC - About Books - Aperture - Bluecoat Press - Cafe Royal Books - Colpa Press - Contra Mundum Press - Feral House - Four Corners - Half Letter Press - Klasse Wrecks - Mamama-Paris - Park Books - Perfectly Acceptable - Pilot Press - RM Editions - Shelter Publications - Timeless + Treville. Hope to see you there!
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Melbourne Art Book Fair is part of Melbourne Design Week 2023, aninitiative of the Victorian Government in collaboration with the NGV.





📷 Homer Sykes - Stonehenge 1970s Counterculture. Cafe Royal Books

16/12/2022

PROTEST GRIM REAPERS
The grim reaper is an enduring figure at demonstrations. The reaper—or sometimes simply an angel of death—appears at protests for any cause where the gravity of a death figure feels appropriate. The reaper traditionally carries a scythe and wears a black hood and a skull mask or skull face paint, but sometimes the scythe is replaced with a different symbolic object. In general, the reaper tells spectators: ‘I am here because this is a matter of life or death for someone or something. I don’t want to be here, but because of you, your corporation, your politicians, or your crimes against humanity, my presence is justified. If this wasn’t deadly serious, I would have stayed at home or worn something else.’

For the past four years Marc Fischer has been collecting press photos of grim reapers at protests against hunger, radioactive waste, animal abuse, the death penalty, the Vietnam war, the closing of a Chrysler plant, demands for clean air and water, restrictions on abortion and more. Protest Grim Reapers reproduces details from 27 press photos spanning from the late 1960s to the early 1990s.
Published by Half Letter Press

14/10/2022

PROVOKE - We are thrilled to have Nitesha's stunning reprint of all three editions of this absolute classic Japanese photobook publication available at Metropolis.

Provoke was first published in November 1968 as a dojin-shi , or self-published magazine. The subtitle for the magazine was “Provocative Materials for Thought” and each issue was composed of photographs, essays and poems. After releasing the second and third issue the group - Koji TAKI, Takuma NAKAHIRA , Yutaka TAKANASHI, Takahiko OKADA and Daido MORIYAMA - broke up. Provoke 's grainy, blurry, and out-of-focus photographs were initially ridiculed and caused a great deal of controversy, yet it had a strong impact at the time, both inside and outside of the photography world.

Today, Provoke has become an extremely rare book with very few people having seen the original. While running their second-hand bookshop Nitesha was fortunate to be able to purchase all three volumes. Rather than putting them back into the market they decided to make a reprint of these extremely rare and inaccessible issues. We’re very pleased that they did.

28/09/2022

15/06/2022

AMPHETAMINE SULPHATE
Now at Metropolis ~
Captagon by Philip Best (Whitehouse)
Human Rights edited by Philip Best
Scum by Alex Binnie
Marty Page by Martin Bladh (IRM)
Talisman Angelical by Samantha Davies & Matthew Bower
The Mindshaft by Steve Finbow
The Devils by New Juche
Stupid Baby by New Juche
Four Circles by Meg McCarville
Alone by Thomas Moore
Forever by Thomas Moore
Small Talk at the Clinic by Thomas Moore & Steven Purtill
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre by Josiah Morgan
Specialist Fabricator by Gary Mundy (Ramleh)
Missing by Josh Peterson
The S*x Shops of Sherman Oaks by SJXSJC
Invisible Manifesto by Audrey Szasz
Zealous Immaculate by Audrey Szasz
Happy Days by Jason Williamson (Sleaford Mods)
Slab From Paradise by Jason Williamson

15/05/2022

Come visit our market stall at the PHOTO 2022 PHOTOBOOK WEEKEND

Saturday May 21 12 - 7.30
Sunday May 22 12 - 4

Photographic Studies College 37 - 47 Thistlethwaite St South Melbourne

📷 Larry Clark / Chris Steele-Perkins / Karlheinz Weinberger

18/03/2022

We are delighted to be part of the Melbourne Art Book Fair’s online platform and to celebrate these fabulous publishers both online and at our bookstore which is located just a few blocks from the NGV. Do come by and say hi. We’re open –

Friday 11 - 6
Saturday 11 - 6
Sunday 11 - 6

BUY OLYMPIA
CAFÉ ROYAL BOOKS
COLPA PRESS
DASHWOOD BOOKS
FECKARSE
HALF LETTER PRESS /
PUBLIC COLLECTORS
KLASSE WRECKS
MATARILE EDICIONES
MICHAEL LINDSEY DAVISON
PERFECTLY ACCEPTABLE
REPEATER BOOKS
RUIN PRESS
SACRED BONES RECORDS
SESSIONS PRESS
SOLAR BOOKS
SPURL EDITIONS
STANLEY / BARKER
TIMELESS EDITIONS

📷 Homer Sykes - Stonehenge 1970s Counterculture – Café Royal Books
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Timeless Editions

https://metropolisbookshop.com.au

03/03/2022

Melbourne Art book Fair 18 - 20 March

Metropolis is delighted to be part of the Melbourne Art Book Fair’s online platform. Our bookshop will also be open throughout the art book fair and Melbourne Design Week so if you're around do drop in to say hi and check out the publishers we are featuring, including the fabulous Colpa Press, plus a whole range of books across art, photography, architecture, counterculture, music, fashion and literature +++

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COLPA PRESS ~ Founded in San Francisco in 2010, Colpa Press publishes art books, limited edition prints and art objects including the wildly popular rave flyer series, one of my particular favourites OCULTAS by Luca Antonucci and David Kasprzak (the publishers of Colpa Press), BASEMENT TAPES 🔥and Mitsu Okubo's collaboration with Luca Antonucci MOVIE MEMORY… and more

In 2016, COLPA co-founded the San Francisco Art Book Fair

17/02/2022

MELANIE NISSEN - HARD AND FAST
Melanie Nissen was the co-founder and photographer of the legendary Los Angeles magazine, Slash. Between 1977-1980 she photographed the Los Angeles punk scene, taking photos of the fans, the bands and the scene around her. Local heroes like Screamers, Bags, Germs, X, Go-Go’s, Black Randy, Weirdos, Dils, Zeros, Alley Cats, Deadbeats, Fear along with local legends Brendan Mullen, Kim Fowley, Claude Bessy, Russ Meyer, Penelope Spheeris, northern neighbors The Nuns, Avengers, Crime, Dead Kennedys, The Offs and visitors including Pere Ubu, Magazine, Devo, Damned, Cramps, Dead Boys, Peter Tosh, Ramones and S*x Pistols all form her body of work from this time. These images are from a box in the garage and are all that’s left of a larger body of work.

12/02/2022

✶ NEW ARRIVALS ✶
TECHNO GLOBALIZATION PANDEMIC
Editor Bart van der Heide argues that techno music can not only function as an ecstatic and collective experience, but can also serve as a platform for socio-critical discourse. The authors of this anthology examine techno music and its scene on the basis of current social issues.

HANS BELLMER THE DOLL
The return of an old favourite from Editions Treville.

HURTS SO GOOD: THE SCIENCE AND CULTURE OF PAIN ON PURPOSE
Deliberate and consensual pain has been with us for millennia, encompassing everyone from Black Plague flagellants to ballerinas dancing on broken bones. Masochism is a part of us. It lives inside workaholics, tattoo enthusiasts, and all manner of garden variety pain-seekers. At its core, masochism is about feeling bad, then better-a phenomenon that is long overdue for a heartfelt and hilarious investigation.

MERET OPPENHEIM - MY EXHIBITION
Published in conjunction with a touring retrospective exhibition, this publication surveys work from the artist's precocious debut in 1930s Paris, the period during which her notorious fur-lined Object in MoMA's collection was made, through her post-World War II artistic development, up to her death in 1985.

JUDY BLAME'S OBITUARY
by Derek McCormack, the author of fashion-inflected novels that cast luminaries such as Elsa Schiaparelli and Balenciaga as characters. This collection brings together for the first time McCormack's fashion journalism in a sort of memoir in essays with 20 years' worth of interviews, reminiscences and reviews of fashion shows and books.

ANTOINE D'AGATA X CHARLES BAUDELAIRE , FLEURS DU MAL
For Baudelaire, the photographic medium is not an art but a technical means of representing reality. As a counterpoint to Baudelaire, Antoine d’Agata reworks his own photographs through digital intervention to return to engraving, as if to go from the pixel to the line of the time. This publication includes an original uncensored edition of Baudelaire’s collection accompanied by engraved prints by d’Agata (French text)

21/01/2022

20th CENTURY SUMMER by Greg Hunt, renowned skateboarding filmmaker and photographer, features 41 previously unpublished black-and-white photographs from Greg's first ever rolls of film, exposed with a hand-me-down Minolta X-700 35mm camera while on an American skateboarding tour in the summer of 1995.

“The images are in loose chronological order, but the exact location of most is unknown. Everything was captured on twelves rolls of film with my first camera, a used Minolta X-700 I received as a gift just weeks before. Shot with no photographic training or aspiration, these pictures are simply an intuitive reaction to my life at the time.” – Greg Hunt

Published by Film Photographic