Published by Real Life, New York City, 1980
Seller: DIAMOND HOLLOW BOOKS / MILES BELLAMY, ANDES, NY, U.S.A.
Condition: VG. Staple-bound softcover, 24 pages. Mild age-toning, couple tiny pockmarks to front cover, see image. Contains Richard Princes "Primary Tansfers" and Kim Gordon's "Trash Drugs and Male Bonding" among other pieces.
Published by Real Life Magazine New York, NY, 1980
Seller: Specific Object / David Platzker, New York, NY, U.S.A.
24 pp.; 27.9 x 21.4 cm.; staple bound; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed; Issue number three of Real Life Magazine, edited by Thomas Lawson. Contents include: "Primary Transfers," by Richard Prince; "'The Destroyed Room' of Jeff Wall," by Dan Graham; "Fashion Moda," an interview by Thomas Lawson; "Trash Drugs and Male Bonding," by Kim Gordon; "Going Places," by Thomas Lawson; "Laurie Spiegel," by Steven Fraccaro; "Inserted Realities: Corner Insert," by Dara Birnbaum and "Michael Hurson," an interview by Susan Morgan. Also includes a single page advertisement for "The Offices of Fend, Fitzgibbon, Holzer, Nadin, Prince & Winters." Cover by Thomas Lawson. Reference : No. 7.4 and 7.5 in "Artists' Magazines : An Alternative Space for Art" by Gwen Allen. Cambridge / London, MA / United Kingdom : The MIT Press, 2011, pp. 184, 187, 291. Good. Yellow discoloration and light soiling of covers including an area of soiling on recto and some staining to verso. Light yellowing of contents and light yellow soiling of title page, contents otherwise clean and unmarked.
Published by Real Life Magazine New York, NY 1979 - 1994, 1979
Seller: Specific Object / David Platzker, New York, NY, U.S.A.
20 vol. : (various page counts); 20 vol. : 28 x 21 cm. each (aprox.); staple bound; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed Complete set of all Twenty-Three issues in Twenty volumes of Real Life Magazine, edited by Thomas Lawson. Includes issues 1 through 23 published irregularly between March 1979 and Autumn 1994, in New York City and later at CalArts in Valencia, California. Contributors included Sherrie Levine, Richard Prince, Dan Graham, Jeff Wall, Kim Gordon, Fashion Moda, Adrian Piper, Louise Lawler, David Robbins, Julie Ault, Coosje van Bruggen, Dara Birnbaum, David Hammons, Allan McCollum, Judith Barry, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Mark Dion, David Salle, Barbara Kruger, William Wegman, Ida Applebroog, and many, many others. Very Good. Light wear to some issues in set including yellowing of covers and pages, rubbing of cover edges, gentle bumping of corners, and light soiling of covers. Contents of all volumes are clean and unmarked.