Welcome to the Please Take A Seat issue, where we explore the radical act of sitting as a lens to investigate our fragmented new zeitgeist. In roughly 300 pages, we examine sitting through the polychromatic lens of sexuality, racial politics, spirituality, capital punishment, and the American justice system. What does it mean to sit? What does it mean to have a seat at the table?
This issue includes a fascinating 35-page, in-depth exploration of the life and work of the inimitable Nan Goldin, and a portfolio of recent photographs, which include candid, personal images of her friend Thora, landscapes, the summer uprisings, and stills from her new film, Sirens. For the past five decades, Goldin has captured the turmoil of love, loss, trauma, dependency, and personal resurrection in her iconic images of friends and lovers with searing, visceral honesty. Her celebrated Ballad Of Sexual Dependency changed the way we experience contemporary photography forever. In an intimate interview, we discuss her life and work during lockdown, making the critics cry, and her advocacy group P.A.I.N., which was founded in response to the opioid epidemic in a quest to take down the Sackler Family for manufacturing and distributing the drug Oxycontin.
The issue also features captivating conversations between Miranda July and Isabelle Albuquerque on companionship and July’s new film Kajillionaire, Kembra Pfahler and Hans Ulrich Obrist on the extremism of performance art, Sterling Ruby and Lucinda Devlin on capital punishment, Derek Fordjour and Torkwase Dyson on Black consciousness, Jermaine Francis and Beatriz Maués on sustainable fashion, Brad Phillips and Roe Ethridge on photography, and Gajin Fujita and Gabriella Sanchez on visibility in the diasporan panorama of Los Angeles.
The issue also includes Peter Opsvik’s “philosophy of sitting,” a feature on Mario Ayala ahead of his inclusion in Hammer’s Made in LA biennial, Peter Shire interviews emerging furniture designer Ryan Preciado, nine Black LA creatives discuss what it means to have a seat at the table by May Daniels, Otani Workshop discusses ancient Japanese pottery techniques, Marlen Keller explores biophilia, a suite of drawings by the late, great Japanese femdom artist Namio Harakawa, and a 14-page portfolio of photographs from artist Paul McCarthy’s latest legendary drawing sessions where he and German actress, Lilith Stangenberg take on the roles of Adam and Eve, Adolph and Eva, Arts and Entertainment.
Autre invites you to take a deep, dark dive down into the psyche of a strange new era—a time when many of us are doing more sitting, more reflecting, and more introspection than we ever imagined.
Fashion editorials by Eddie Chacon, Josh Hight, Lucas Christiansen, Marianna Sanvito, Till Janz, and Vitali Gelwich.
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01 Nan Goldin: Thora floating, Connecticut, Nan Goldin, 2020
02 Miranda July photographed by Parker Woods in Downtown Los Angeles, styled by Rebecca Ramsey, hair by Charlie Le Mindu
03 Kembra Pfahler photographed by David Brandon Geeting at her studio in New York City, wearing Rick Owens
04 Jermaine Francis & Beatriz Maués; Lost & Found
05 Thalita Farias photographed by Vitali Gelwich in Berlin, styled by Toby Grimditch
06 Kaila Wyatt photographed by Vitali Gelwich in Berlin, styled by Toby Grimditch
07 Moustapha photographed by Till Janz in Berlin, styled by Toby Grimditch
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(Warning 18+ only. Strong Sexual Content and Mature Themes)
Welcome to the edge of chaos issue. At its inception, we were unknowingly at the brink of a worldwide viral pandemic. Little did we know how close to the edge we really were. From the neurological, to the astrological, to the gastronomical, this issue is a creative journey before and after the world changed forever.
The issue features Doug Aitken And Catherine Opie in conversation with Dr. Robert Bilder on The Neuroscience Of Creativity, Arthur Jafa and Isabelle Albuquerque, Carsten Höller and Spiral Theory Test Kitchen, Raymond Pettibon and Aaron Wrinkle, Brad Phillips and Petra Cortright On Sports, Astrophysicist Heino Falcke on Black Holes, Omer Arbel and Kulapat Yantrasast discuss Biological Concrete, 40 Years Of l.a.Eyeworks, A Quarantine Diary by Sasha Frolova, a conversation with photographer Brian Griffin.
Cover 1: Arthur Jafa and Isabelle Albuquerque in conversation. Photographs by Pat Martin.
Cover 2: Legendary Dutch photographer, Paul Kooiker, from his series “The Rumour,” which will be featured in a book to be released by Art Paper Editions later this month.
Cover 3: Iconic American model Debra Shaw by Eoin Moylan and stylist Naomi Miller.
Cover 4: Portraits and interview of photographer Brian Griffin by Josh Hight and stylist Julian Ganio
Fashion editorials from Josh Hight, Thomas Hauser, Joseph Kadow, Eoin Moylan, Patrice Brylla,
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Whew! The past decade was bananas. Autre Magazine is excited to announce The Decade Of Influence issue. Just in time for the holidays, our limited-edition cover includes a unique peel-able and collectible sticker, featuring Maurizio’s Cattelan’s now ubiquitous found fruit sculpture, “Comedian,” and a conversation between the artist and multi-hyphenate, Sasha Grey about the who, what, where, when and why of the now insta-famous banana.
Our massive Winter 2019/2020 issue explores the past decade’s strange zeitgeist with a number of fascinating conversations. Director Gus Van Sant and musician Rain Phoenix discuss everything from selling out, to making music, to the legacy of River Phoenix. Hans Ulrich Obrist visits Genesis Breyer P-Orridge for a conversation about gender and a new pandrogynous future. Jennifer Herrema and Ariel Pink talk bedroom tapes in the era of streaming. Brian Butler has lunch with Kenneth Anger. ICA director Jamillah James interviews artist Sadie Barnette and her father Rodney Barnette who founded the Compton Chapter of the Black Panthers. We also feature a unique photographic dialogue between the late Robert Rauschenberg and Hedi Slimane in a noir-ish consideration of Los Angeles, then and now. And we visit futurist and cultural anthropologist Riane Eisler in Carmel to discuss early partnership societies and how the collab generation is not just a trend, it’s a matter of our survival. Lastly, Harper Simon visits the legendary Harry Dean Stanton.
The issue also includes a tantric mediation for the new decade by writer Gideon Jacobs. Brad Phillips writes about the metaphysical paintings of outsider insider artist Verne Dawson. Heji Shin photographs YouPorn’s new virtual avatar Jedy Vales. Charlie Le Mindu on the cutting edge of cosmetic surgery. And we explore the past, present, and future of iconic shopping thoroughfare Rodeo Drive through the prism of commerce and architecture, with contributions from Virgil Abloh and Rem Koolhaas.
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Cover: Mantel by photographer Till Janz (@Artworld Agency) and stylist Toby Grimditch featuring Maja Mihelic (@The Hive Management) wearing Annaliese Griffiths
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"I did masturbate to Elvis the first time. But I didn’t know what it was. It was like a new thing for me." – John Waters.
Introducing Autre’s 8th issue – a little late for Summer, but timely nonetheless – featuring the inimitable Pope Of Trash himself, JOHN WATERS, in conversation with LA-based artist and musician SETH BOGART. At 10 pages, 3,500 words and portraits by Bennet Perez on the beach in Provincetown, it’s the filthiest and most entertaining interview we have ever published.
We also visit the midnight movie Psychomagic mystic, ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY at his apartment in Paris for a conversation with writer PATRICK STEFFEN about beauty, meeting Kenneth Anger, and sex as a creative energy. You will also find conversations between curator HAMZA WALKER and Sonic Youth’s KIM GORDON, celebrated California Minimalists HELEN PASHGIAN and LARRY BELL, and DONNA HUANCA discusses her solo museum exhibition at the Marciano Foundation with LITA ALBUQUERQUE, and A Cold Wall*’s SAMUEL ROSS and industrial designer RON ARAD on working class architecture. In addition, URS FISCHER, choreographer MADELINE HOLLANDER AND JEFFREY DEITCH discuss art in the age of cobotics. We also talk to photographer PAUL MPAGI SEPUYA on the pornography of images, artist CHRISTINA QUARLES on fragmented figuration, and we sit down WITH CONNAN MOCKASIN for dessert at The Lodge Room in Los Angeles.
In this issue, you will also find an essay on TOMASO BUZZI’S erotic city two hours north of Rome with photographs by MATTHEW MODINE, and an essay by photographer MATTHEW ROLSTON on the legend of Harper’s Bazaar’s editor Carmel Snow.
Lastly, we collaborated with OLD PAL (sharable cannabis) on a limited edition 50 page supplement featuring 38 Los Angeles-based artists called DID THE EARTH MOVE FOR YOU? Photographed by BENNET PEREZ at a studio in Chinatown, with an introduction by PETER SHIRE, it features indelible portraits of a unique creative generation in the new cultural epicenter of the world: Los Angeles. Only 500 of these special documents exist. The first 100 orders online will receive a FREE copy for your collection.
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Autre’s Spring 2019 issue takes a fascinating twisting and turning ecological journey that explores artists’ relationship to our current fragile ecosystems and zeitgeist. We speak to contemporary artists, but we also interview experts in their respective fields about certain volatile Los Angeles phenomena like wildfire and police pursuits.
Tom Sachs and Vito Schnabel converse about surfing and the myth of Swiss neutrality. Los Angeles-based artist, Ariana Papademetropoulos visits the last living surrealist, Pedro Friedeberg in Mexico City. We interview legendary performance and video artist, Joan Jonas, and multidisciplinary composer and choreographer, Meredith Monk. Rising actor, Buddy Duress describes how to do voiceovers while incarcerated, and record producer, John Carroll Kirby talks about working with Solange and Karl Lagerfeld. We also spoke to photographer, Susan Ressler about her exploration of corporate Los Angeles in the 1970s. Isabelle Albuquerque plays dress up at the landmark Bob Baker Marionette Theater. Photographer CG Watkins takes us on a strange and violent cinematic journey through snowfall in London, and Joseph Kadow shoots a gorgeous fashion story at twilight outside of Berlin styled by the brilliant Toby Grimditch. Click here to preorder. The issue ends with a conversation between fashion designer, Rick Owens and photographer, Rick Castro about the underground queer community of 1980s and ‘90s LA.
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Esteemed Berlin-based stylist, Toby Grimditch art directs a fashion editorial shot by Joseph Kadow at Sanssouci Palace In Potsdam, Germany. It features emerging Dutch model, Aniek Klapwijk, wearing a full look from Y/Project, a label creatively helmed by Glenn Martens that combines “conceptual and inventive detailing with playful proportions and a witty take on historical references.”
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COVER 1: Milan Zrnic shoots 14 rising personalities in formal wear for a 30-page editorial.
COVER 2: Legendary stylist, James Valeri shoots a fashion story with rising Gabonese model, Mariam Eya, who wears full looks from Gucci’s Fall 2018 runway collection, which is an ode to the iconography of Los Angeles’ movie industry.
COVER 3: Autre’s Fashion Director, Eddie Chacon, shoots Play House, styled by Michele Andrews, featuring her three ultra cool progeny in high fashion at the legendary Egan House in Seattle, here in a dress by Jil Sander.
Autre’s Fall/Winter 2018 issue looks towards the bright and beautiful future with bountiful, blind optimism, and no particular theme. Architect John C. Portman set the stage for this futuristic positivity in 1974 when he broke ground on his hyperspacial postmodernist masterpiece, The Westin Bonaventure. In this issue, we consider the hotel as a symbol of Los Angeles as a city of the future, and the collective energy of changing topographies and attitudes in the cultural industrial complex. We also look at the new westward migration as a sort of nouveau manifest destiny for the art and fashion sectors. We speak to legendary Chinese artist Ai Weiwei who will descend on Los Angeles with three major solo exhibitions in the hopes of utilizing the influence and fantasy factory of the city’s talent industry to promote his humanitarian efforts, particularly the refugee crisis. In these pages, the director of the new Frieze Los Angeles, Bettina Korek, and Jeffrey Deitch discuss Los Angeles as the new, less tribalistic, multicultural beacon for a global cohort of artists, gallerists and collectors. And Nicodim Gallery’s Ben Lee Ritchie Handler speaks to painter Robert Yarber who surveys the failures of modernism and the vertigo of our new cityscapes with his falling or floating figures against black or neon-lit skylines. In over 100 pages of editorial fashion coverage, we explore these shifting demographics, testaments to waste, excess, glamour and identity, or lack thereof. There is cult denim label, 69’s non-demographic vision for the future with an interview of the anonymous designer.
This issue also features the work of Finnish photographer Iiu Susiraja, David Brandon Geeting, Sergei Barchuck, and interviews of Harumi Yamaguchi, Jim Goldberg, Brad Phillips and Tao Lin, rare books dealer Carl Williams on the LSD library, and Jayson Keeling talks about photographing Aaliyah.
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Autre’s rainbow magic Summer 2018 Issue features a 23-page interview of the legendary Los Angeles-based Norwegian-born photographer Torbjørn Rødland who has three major solo exhibitions this summer. One in Los Angeles at David Kordansky gallery, one at Bergen Kunsthall in Norway and one at Fondazione Prada in Milan. The feature includes a double interview with Autre’s editor-in-chief Oliver Maxwell Kupper and one with Serpentine Gallery’s director Hans-Ulrich Obrist. This issue also includes over 40 pages of fashion editorials with LVMH prize finalist Eckhaus Latta and Maryam Nassir Zadeh. Autre also interviews actor Matthew Modine with rare photographs from the set of Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket, feminist surrealist Penny Slinger, Lisa Immordino Vreeland on the legacy of photographer Cecil Beaton with gorgeous self portraits, Duncan Hannah on living the high life in New York City, Marilyn Minter on her new show at Regen Projects, legendary German New Wave director Wim Wenders, and Herb Alpert. The summer edition also includes an excerpt from Françoise Hardy’s memoirs, interviews with Lauren Halsey about her community-based practice and Koak about the power of comics, and a special photo document from Pierre-Ange Carlotti.
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Our Spring 2018 Issue features a candid 10-page interview of the inimitable and legendary director Paul Thomas Anderson - whose film Phantom Thread received six Academy Award nominations – with brilliant photos by Amanda Demme. The issue also includes interviews of Japanese street photographer Daido Moriyama, Larry Clark, experimental filmmaker Jonas Mekas, restauranteur Mr. Chow, iconic fashion designer agnès b., an intimate photo editorial by Chrome Hearts' Laurie Lynn Stark of Djuna Bel and Niki Haas, and Ren Hang's last editorial.
Autre's amazing - best yet - winter issue is officially here. A rare interview of YAYOI KUSAMA is our cover story. Inside: an interview of HARMONY KORINE post retrospective at The Pompidou in Paris, an interview of controversial artist ANDRES SERRANO fresh off a Supreme collab, a 30-page fashion story featuring new LA designers - No Sesso, Empathy & Bebet SS17 shot by Eddie Chacon and styled by Sissy Saint-Marie, AGNES VARDA in conversation with street artist JR, actor VAL KILMER, EMMA TILLMAN, ceramist/artist PETER SHIRE, the great JUDITH BERNSTEIN and the legendary RONNIE SPECTOR from The Ronettes.
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