READ: WALTER PFEIFFER

The first major LN-CC book feature of 2013 is built around a rare selection of Walter Pfeiffer books, each signed by the seminal photographer himself. To launch the limited selection an exclusive interview with Pfeiffer, conducted by world-renowned book collector Conor Donlon, features today at LN-CC.com. The interview begins with Pfeiffer discussing his early work and the resistance to his starkly homoerotic visions of beauty. After taking a fifteen year hiatus from photography, Pfeiffer ultimately finds himself gaining global recognition from both the art and fashion world.

"Beauty is very temporary, flitting in fact. I want to photograph it before it's gone."

Conor Donlon has been curating the LN-CC selection of rare books since inception. Originally a student of fashion design, after completing his MA Donlon began working with the artist Wolfgang Tillmans. Beneath Tillman's studio was a gallery space in which Donlon opened his first intimate bookshop. His uncompromising selections were seized upon by both the fashion and art crowds that visited the gallery, and proved the beginning of a life spent travelling the world in search of the finest underground printed matter. 

His ever-changing and unparalleled offering of counterculture and youth culture publications are an integral part of both the instore and online world of LN-CC.

THAT VERY NIGHT A FOREST GREW

The 1963 classic, “Where the Wild Things Are” by Maurice Sendak, winner of the 1964 Caldecott Medal as the "Most Distinguished Picture Book of the Year was an integral part of my childhood.

(Max wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind and another and his mother called him "Wild Thing!" and he said "I'll eat you up!" and he was sent to bed without eating anything....that very night in Max's room a forest grew)

Flipping through pages of my first copy mom and dad got me when I was three had this really vivid imagery that seeped into my subconscious at an early age and has stayed close to my heart all these years. It was the best illustration book I have ever seen, better than the classics (think Peter Pan, Little red riding hood, etc.)

I wanted to take a wild leap back into my childhood but I couldn’t seem to locate my first copy so I decided to get a new one at fully booked over the weekend.