Little Joe: A book about queers and cinema, mostly library of congress

Little Joe: A book about queers and cinema, mostly library of congressSPBH Editions 2024 Sam Ashby (ed.) The cult periodical Little Joe, published as a limited edition zine from 2010 to 2021, challenged the mainstream narrative of film history with a rebellious, queer perspective. Rather than reviewing new releases, it explored forgotten and overlooked films and celebrated a diverse spectrum of cinema from obscure art films to porn to Hollywood classics as worthy of critical debate. Stubbornly print only, Little Joe was

implicitly exposing the distance between artist and subject

Pildas made these photographs in perhaps the most famous of the many famous spots in Los Angeles – but at a time (between 1972 and 1975) when Hollywood had more of a neighborhood feel and a raucous diversity was the norm

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invoking contemplation and peace

without prejudice or judgment

the central section spans the American photographer’s entire oeuvre

Recurring concrete shapes and perplexed human beings punctuate the journey with a faintly elegiac tone which conjures up an inverted Arcadia

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Drawing from Lange’s extensive archive

as geographical destiny and as political metaphor

discarded things

fresh eyes