RE/Search News: Vintage Ballard photos, JGB book bonus
Author: Simon Sellars • Feb 11th, 2008 •Category: Ballardosphere, Salvador Dali, Shepperton, William Burroughs
Vale & J.G. Ballard, 1982. Photo courtesy RE/Search Publications.
RE/Search Publications are currently offering 25% off on a pack of their four Ballard titles: RE/Search 8/9, the illustrated Atrocity Exhibition, J.G. Ballard Conversations, and J.G. Ballard Quotes. The four would normally sell for US$80, but are being offered for US$60.
They’ve also onlined a series of colour photos of Ballard from 1982 and 1987, some recognisable as accompaniments to the interviews in RE/Search 8/9. They’re great shots, featuring Ballard clowning around in his living room under his aluminum palm tree (hardly a suitable image for the storied, psychopathic genital mutilator of Crash, now is it?), in his study, and with RE/Search publisher Vale in JGB’s backyard.
There are also lots of photos detailing the contents of JGB’s very disorganised bookcase, significantly featuring a load of art books (Dali, Picasso, Bacon, Munch, Ernst, Delvaux), Le Corbusier, a few Burroughs, Hitchcock by Truffaut, and a book on Crash Injuries. There’s nary a novel in sight, including his own. There are some novels in sight, including his own!
J.G. Ballard, 1982. Photo courtesy RE/Search Publications.
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I always wonder why authors have _any_ copies of their own books on their shelves, so I’m quite surprised that he actually seems to have a fair few copies of his books (well, five or six)
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I’m sure none of us are particularly surprised by the lack of fiction or the abbundance of hardbacks on the surrealists, but it’s pretty interesting none the less.
There are novels there - apart from JGB’s own, in various languages (’salut l’amerique!’), there’s Nabokov, Kerouac, Burroughs, Ian Watson and Martin Bax identifiable in the pics JD linked to. And poetry - George MacBeth’s ‘A Doomsday Book’ is prominent.
yes, you are correct and i am guilty of skimming!