August 23rd, 6-8 pm

Purple Portfolio, Purple Anthology

Glenn Horowitz Bookseller is pleased to announce the publication of Rizzoli’s Purple Anthology, a book celebrating the 15th anniversary of Purple Magazine, and an accompanying limited edition portfolio of photographs by five artists whose work has appeared in Purple Magazine: Juergen Teller, Richard Kern, Jack Pierson, Terry Richardson, and Richard Prince. The portfolio is comprised of five signed and numbered 16” x 20” photographic prints housed in a purple cloth clamshell box. The Purple Portfolio is a publication of JMc & GHB Editions and has been made in an edition of ten, each priced at $25,000.

A repository for all matters visually cultural Purple has become the magazine industry’s reference bible for inspiration, guidance, and emulation. Co-founded in 1992 by Olivier Zahm and Elein Fleiss Purple set out to cut a fresh path in the already visual-and-idea saturated fields of art and fashion periodical production. Disdaining to divide the two worlds, art and fashion, Purple set its sights on marrying them together using a radical editorial approach. Celebrated fine artists were commissioned to shoot fashion editorial spreads, a decision which gave rise to a whole new feel in fashion spreads- something individualistic, a raw improvisational aesthetic that parted company from the editorial boardroom consensus take. The aesthetic carried forward into styling the look of the publication, in its graphics, attitude and sensibility. Over the years Purple worked closely with individual artist contributors building stable connections with such culturally celebrated figures of today as Terry Richardson, Wolfgang Tillmans, Juergen Teller, Jack Pierson, Richard Kern and Inez van Lamsveerde. Artists who have contributed to Purple’s pages include Richard Prince, Christopher Wool, John Currin, and Vanessa Beecroft. The result of all this cultural cross-pollination was revolution in the look fashion and magazines.