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Please join Arcana: Books on the Arts for a very special book signing with photographer Richard Edson. "I began the Year Zero - Lockdown Journal on March 20th, 2020. On the first day I took my bicycle and camera and rode through the empty, silent streets of Los Angeles. Everything looked the same, but everything was completely different.” - Edson
With a history encompassing professional skateboarding and his apparel brand Sci Fi-Fantasy, Jerry Hsu's photography practice is one of deep observation, humor, and everyday pathos. His new book Lonley City (Friend Editions, 2023) is filled with iPhone photos taken while going about his life in the world - yet he seems to come across (or be more attuned to noticing) small moments that almost read as very short stories on the human condition.
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Working across photography, film, video, painting, and installation, Awol Erizku's work references and re-imagines African-American and African visual culture, from hip hop vernacular to Nefertiti, while nodding to traditions of spirituality and Surrealism.
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For the past fourteen years, artist, actor, and skateboarder Jason Lee has traversed America making quiet, reflective photographs detailing the landscape and its oft-overlooked and forgotten places. TX | CA 17 is the first time Lee has published images from a single outing.
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Please join us Saturday, May 6th between 4:00 and 6:00 PM for a very special book signing with artist / photographer / skate legend – and all-around awesome human being – Ed Templeton! Hot off the presses, his latest is the years-in-the-works Wires Crossed, which documents nearly twenty years of life on the road with some of the most notable skaters of his generation.
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Join us art Arcana Books on Saturday, April 8th, 4:00 - 6:00 pm, for a book signing with Melba Levick and Rubén Mendoza for Casa Santa Fe!
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Join us for a very special Sunday afternoon presentation with authors Isis Aquarian, Jodi Wille, and Charlie Kitchings to celebrate the publication of Family: The Source Family Scrapbook. For the event the three will host an exhibition of rare photographs and printed materials from the Source Family Archive housed at the UC Santa Barbara Library's Special Research Collections, engage in a discussion about the Family and the book, and sign copies afterwards.
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In collaboration with the University of California, Irvine and Arcana Books, we are excited to announce an in person discussion between LAXART's director Hamza Walker and Yusuf Hassan and Kwamé Sorrell of BlackMass Publishing. Their discussion will be held at Arcana Books on Saturday, January 28th at 4pm.
On Saturday, January 14th between 4:00 and 6:00 PM, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts for a book signing for Lawrence Weschler's brand new Hat & Beard publication, A Trove of Zohars. For the event Mr. Weschler will be joined by photographer and early-photographic process historian Stephen Berkman for a discussion about the book and the shrouded-in-mystery Zohar Studios.
