GAYLETTER

Printed Matter — that tiny little maze of a store — has everything; feminist, drugs, minimalism, sex and of course, queer work. As we mentioned in an earlier post they’re closing and moving soon, but they’ve still busy turning out events on the daily. Working till the last minute is fierce!

They are having a launch event on Thursday, July 30th, Christopher Schulz will be releasing Hidden Among The Leaves. The zine is 28 pages, printed in Black & white and color comes from Pupa Press, who publish their own content mostly under the zine format. For their 12th issue of their series Básicos (Basics), Schulz has taken images from his periodical, Pinups. It operates primarily based on a single male nude (OK…) that ultimately can be turned into a large-scale poster. Though for Hidden Among the Leaves, he “takes the idea of re-composition further, leading Schulz to cut up the images themselves and present them in new arrangements, creating new narratives of the photo project.” I haven’t seen Pinups in the flesh, because I am fairly new at GAYLETTER, but I do love what I’ve seen on the internet (Google it — The past covers are hot). Maybe I’m biased toward black and white photography, or maybe I just like bears, who knows! Regardless, I’m interested in this work.

The event sounds like a cool thing to check out and no, this heat won’t be breaking anytime soon, so if you must, think of another excuse. The weather is hot. This zine looks hot. We’ll can all shvitz together.

6:00PM-8:00PM, Printed Matter, Inc., 195 10th Ave., NY, NY.