Kamikaze: Revue d'Information Panique (3 Volumes, All Published).
Paris: Christian Bourgois / Galerie du Jour (Agnès B), 1976-1997. First Editions. Folio. A three volume graphzine from Roman Cieslewicz; the Polish-French graphic artist who worked in the photomontage tradition of John Heartfield, in rather parallel fashion to Barbara Kruger. (Where Kruger was trained in paste-ups at Mademoiselle, Cieslewicz worked for Vogue and Elle). His "Panic News Review" was a kind of late-20th century doomscroll, unfolding across two decades, with stark compositions imaging both political atrocities and celebrity culture; from Nixon, Hitler, Milošević, and Yeltsin to Madonna, Maradona, Muhammad Ali, and Barrry White. Cieslewicz's designs accompanied by texts and illustrations from the likes of David Bailey, Christian Boltanski, Marie-Laure de Decker, and Roland Topor. Cieslewicz was working on the maquette for the final issue just before his fatal heart attack in 1996. Minor scuffing to illustrated wrappers; near fine. An uncommon set, with only two OCLC records located in North America.
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