SPRING 2019 2 www.carpetbombingculture.co.uk NEW RELEASE MYLDN A Street View of London Life Babycakes Romero E L T I This is his photographic T A STREET VIEW OF LONDON LIFE W love letter to London. MYLDNPHOTOGRAPHY BY BABYCAKES ROMERO E A city of possibilities N which has in fact become the impossible city £15.95 USA$24.95 CAN$29.95 Following on from his daily photo blog, renowned London street photographer Babycakes Romero brings you MYLDN. ISBN A Street View of London Life. A compelling collection of 978-1-908211-73-6 documentary images showing both the communities and cultures which make up the multicultural melting pot that is Dimensions London. These photos, carefully curated here for the first 185x265mm time, bear witness to the real heart and soul of the people that make up the metropolis. Narratives and interactions depicting Pagination scenes of love, hope, struggle and everyday life. 192pp The intensity, the craziness, the inequality, the mayhem, the Format conflict, the injustice, the beauty and the essence of what Hardback makes the city what it was, what it is and what it will be. Each stolen moment recording and documenting a different perception of both the place and its people. 3 www.carpetbombingculture.co.uk 4 www.carpetbombingculture.co.uk NEW RELEASE Third book in a collection Two Scooter Boys Finger Salute The Lost Tribe celebrating B ritish youth Martin ‘Sticky’ Round E L T I If you rode to rallies in the 80s T W and 90s then this book will E N mirror your experiences £16.95 Scooterboys are the lost tribe of British youth culture. USA$24.95 CAN$32.95 Unrecognised, uncelebrated and unwanted; misunderstood by a general public who mistook us for Mods. We weren’t ISBN Mods though. 978-1-908211-75-0 By the 1980s myself and tens of thousands of scooter riders Dimensions collectively rejected that label. Instead, we took the roadmap 220x165mm of British youth disaffection and carved a new bypass. This route took us beyond the UK’s faded seaside resorts, Pagination allowing us to spread our creed across the continents. 192pp Format Tuned and customised Vespa and Lambretta scooters gave Hardback us freedom to roam; transport to live for the weekend. Shared experiences of riots, local hostility and police harassment built strong fraternal bonds that endure to this day. 5 www.carpetbombingculture.co.uk 6 www.carpetbombingculture.co.uk NEW RELEASE Made In Britain MADE BRITAIN A photographic history L OOK BACK / LEAP FORWARD of Britain at work Patrick Potter E L T I T A PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF BRITAIN AT WORK W Patrick Potter E A hundred years of Britain N at work and our post-industrial future £19.95 USA$34.95 CAN$39.95 This epic collection of photographs documenting Britain at work reminds us of our collective power and gives us hope for ISBN the future. 978-1-908211-76-7 Dimensions Britain is changing. Don’t panic! Let’s talk. Who were we? Who are we? Who do we want to be? Look back. Leap forward. 240x196mm Pagination We can hardly remember what it was like to be a 208pp manufacturing nation. Work has changed so much, so fast. We may well be facing a future where work no longer exists at all in Format the way we remember it. That is why this brilliant collection of Hardback photographs, compiled from the Mirror archives and curated by Carpet Bombing Culture is so fascinating, and so relevant. 7 www.carpetbombingculture.co.uk 8 www.carpetbombingculture.co.uk NEW RELEASE Truth Bombs Sticking it to the Man Nick McFarlane E L T I T An explosive collection of W E over 200 colour stickers N created to make a statement £16.95 USA$25.95 CAN$32.95 “A truth bomb”, according to the Urban Dictionary “is a fact or ISBN piece of knowledge that, when told to a listener, is devastating 978-1-908211-74-3 to the listener's argument or world view.” Well in this case, The Man should prepare to be hit right Dimensions between the eyeballs and mind blown apart by a global 185x185mm underground coalition of artists, illustrators, pop-culture Pagination pirates, graphic agitators and agent provocateurs, protesting the wicked ways of the world. 68pp How you spin each sticker gives it the magical personal touch. Format Let us commodify your dissent and we guarantee that your Softback resistance will be spectacular. 9 www.carpetbombingculture.co.uk 10 www.carpetbombingculture.co.uk NEW RELEASE Street Trip STREET Life in NYC TRIP Photographs by Matt Weber LIFE IN NYC E L T I T Photographs by Matt Weber Images that are both W E timely and timeless N Matt Weber has been shooting the streets of New York for the £17.95 past 40 years, many of his images taken while running fares in USA$29.95 CAN$34.95 his New York City taxi cab. His camera captures New York without pretense and with the love and attention that only a ISBN native could afford. Each image documenting the small yet 978-1-908211-72-9 extremely significant moments in the life of a city that never sleeps. Dimensions 185x265mm Street Trip: Life in NYC is a compellingly curated collection of Pagination his finest street photography, an authentic look at daily life from someone who has consistently been ‘in the right place, at the 192pp right time’. Format Hardback His images are both timely and timeless and tell the stories of real life in the Big Apple in unfiltered and honest detail. 11 www.carpetbombingculture.co.uk First book in a collection Two Finger Salute MODS celebrating British A Way Of Life youth Patrick Potter First title in a collection of books under the ‘Two Finger Salute’ series featuring the £16.95 heyday of Mod from 64-66 USA$24.95 CAN$32.45 Youth cultures never die. Every time someone falls in love with a style, an attitude, a posture, a way of seeing the ISBN world; that subculture is reborn, just as imminent and vital 978-1-908211-59-0 as it was the moment that it first appeared. Dimensions The Two Finger Salute series explores the enduring power 220x165mm of British Youth Rebel cultures from 1950 onwards with photography, essays and interviews. Pagination • Features many images never before seen of Mods in 192pp their heyday Format • The Mod phenomenon contemporized with Hardback commentary and essays that explore its legacy and philosophy 12 www.carpetbombingculture.co.uk NEW RELEASE SKINS A Way Of Life Patrick Potter E L T I Includes never before seen T W images capturing the defiant E N spirit and eccentric creativity of British Youth £16.95 The true skins have never gone away. Skinhead is the only USA$24.95 CAN$26.95 British style tribe that still genuinely scares people. 1969 is happening again... ISBN 978-1-908211-66-8 Number two all over. Ben Sherman shirt. Braces. Doc Martens. Harrington jacket. Trojan records. Ska music. Dimensions Tattoos. Pints. Pubs. Football. Respect. Working class 220x165mm pride. Se cond book in a Pagination “SKINS: a way of life.” is a beautiful hardcover collection collection of photographs of skinhead culture from 192pp Two Finger the late 1960’s throughout the 1980’s. Many of Salute Format these images have never been published before. celebrat Hardback Presented with a series of articles, commentary and ing British quotations designed to celebrate the essence of the youth skinhead cult. 13 www.carpetbombingculture.co.uk THE STORY OF STEPHANE RAYNOR. THE GUY THAT FIXED LONDON FROM HIS UNDERGROUND CONTROL PAD. MODS, HIPPIES, DUB, SOUL BOYS, PUNKS, NEW ROMANTICS, THE E, FASHIONISTA, ACID HOUS NIGHT CLUBBING, HIPSTERS & QUEER. NEW RELEASE All About The Boy By Stephane Raynor E L T I T Artist, innovator, designer, W E N anarchist, hedonist, maverick, Raynor lives like he means it £29.95 USA$44.95 CAN$49.95 Discover the true story of the man behind the iconic ISBN London fashion label ‘BOY’ told by the man himself - 978-1-908211-65-1 Stephane Raynor. Packed with punk attitude and original photography, buy a ticket and take the ride. Join Raynor on Dimensions a journey through a life less ordinary - lived in a tireless 285x235mm pursuit for THE NEW. Pagination Artist, innovator, designer, anarchist, hedonist, maverick, 240pp Raynor lives like he means it. The guy behind the guy behind the guy - he was there man...fomenting and Format agitating in the background of punk, new romantic, acid Hardback house, you name it. A VISION OF A WORLD where ordinary people can live like 14 pop stars. www.carpetbombingculture.co.uk NEW RELEASE Derek Ridgers Photographs Derek Ridgers E L T I T 40 years of portraiture covering W E music, film, popular culture, N sport and fashion £34.95 USA$45.00 CAN$49.95 Derek Ridgers is one of the UK’s foremost portrait photographers with a career spanning forty years. He is ISBN best known for his photography of music, film and 978-1-908211-69-9 club/street culture – photographing everyone from James Brown to The Spice Girls, from Clint Eastwood to Johnny Dimensions Depp. 328x233mm During his career, Ridgers has worked for many Pagination publications, including Time Out, The Sunday Telegraph, 240pp NME, The Face, Loaded, The Sunday Times, The Sunday Independent, GQ Style and Arena. Format Hardback 15 www.carpetbombingculture.co.uk 16 www.carpetbombingculture.co.uk NEW 2019 EDITION ! S PARIS ‘68 M D REVISITED, O R R E O NEW Y ORK, P W BET HLEHEM I C E T R HULL U O R M E S ! BEST SELLER Banksy You Are An Acceptable Level Of Threat Gary Shove & Patrick Potter E L T I T W E Updated 2019 edition including N Paris ‘68 Revisited, New York, £24.95 Bethlehem and Hull USA$39.95 CAN$45.95 ISBN The single best collection of photography of Banksy’s street 978-1-908211-30-9 work that has ever been assembled for print.