Desertshore
Jan Tumlir - Brian Kennon
2008, 1st printing. edition of 250. 9.25x11" 79 pages.
Desertshore, my title, is borrowed from the 1970 album by Nico, the cover of which shows the po-faced chanteuse posed against a sandy expanse, riding a white horse, drawn along by a child. In order to guess at where she is going, one might want to start the point of departure. Famously, Nico was born under the sign of Mars, during the punishing bombing raids of the allied powers on an already defeated Germany. She grew up amidst the ruins of Berlin, before setting off for London and then New York to pursue a “triple-threat” career in modeling, acting and singing. Catching the attention of Andy Warhol in the latter half of the sixties, she was foisted on the band he was managing at the time, The Velvet Underground, thereby putting the finishing touch on what remains to this day the ideal art-rock equation. As she began work on Desertshore, however, the VU had already disbanded, and her solo status is clearly reflected in the desolation of the cover image, which is taken from a film by Philippe Garrel titled La Cicatrice Interieure. Nico and her child guide are located in the middle of nowhere. Only their darker complexions and brown riding boots distinguish them from the uniform whiteness of the desert backdrop and the horse. As in a film by Antonioni, one might imagine that they are on their way to disappearing.(...)
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