Some Collages [Hardcover] Jarmusch, Jim; Kennedy, Randy and Lucy Sante

Although Jim Jarmusch is best known for his storied career in independent cinema, over the years he has produced hundreds of pieces of collage art, the majority of which has been rarely seen by the public. Drawing inspiration from the largest medium of cultural documentation―newspapers―Jarmusch delicately crafts each work by layering newsprints on cardstock. Doppelgänger Andy Warhols are posed in a vast tunnel not unlike the depths of the Large Hadron Collider, Patty Hearst’s mugshots drift across Edwardian portraits, and a man’s identity is disguised with a coyote’s head: maybe he was a celebrity, politician, perp, or all three. In Some Collages, these small-scale (notecard-size) pieces not only pay homage to the documentation medium but are a reminder of how even mundane images can be reconfigured into work that is alternatively funny, scary and strange.

Jim Jarmusch is a film director, writer, musician, producer, and artist. A prominent figure in independent cinema, his notable films include Stranger than Paradise (1984), Down By Law (1986), Dead Man (1999), Broken Flowers (2005) and Only Lovers Left Alive (2013). Some Collages is his first book of collage artwork.

Randy Kennedy is an American writer. Born in Texas, he moved to New York City in 1991 and worked for twenty-five years as a staff member and writer for The New York Times, first as a city reporter and for many years covering the art world. For The New York Times and The New York Times Magazine he has written about many of the most prominent artists of the last 50 years, including John Chamberlain, Claes Oldenburg, Nan Goldin, and Isa Genzken.  A collection of his city columns, Subwayland: Adventures in the World Beneath New York, was published in 2004, and his first novel, Presidio, was published in August 2018. He is currently director of special projects for the international art gallery Hauser & Wirth. He lives in Brooklyn.

Lucy Sante is a writer and artist. A longtime contributor to the New York Review of Books, Sante has also been the film critic for Interview and Wigwag, photography critic for The New Republic, book critic for New York, a translator, editor, and professor, among many other roles. The recipient of numerous awards (including Guggenheim and Cullman Fellowships, an American Scholar Award for Best Literary Criticism, and a Grammy for Best Album Notes), Sante’s most recent book is Maybe the People Would Be the Times, published in 2020.