Studio Paradiso

Softcover | first edition | 624 pages

Published by Voetnoot, 2013.

Introduction by Dirk van Weelden. Text in English, French and Dutch. Issued with four alternate covers (this copy: cover 3). Approximately 600 black and white photographs.

From 1980 to 1990, Natkiel brought his Rolleiflex and a flash to concerts at Paradiso, Amsterdam's long-running music venue, and pulled people aside. Punks, skinheads, new-wavers, mods, Rastafarians, squatters, metalheads. He set them against whatever neutral surface was nearby, a tiled bathroom wall or a corridor, and photographed them straight on in high-contrast black and white. Over the decade he made more than a thousand portraits. This book collects roughly 600 of them, a typology of subcultural self-invention in a single building across ten years. Black and white throughout.

Condition: very good