IRA Cohen: Into the Mylar Chamber by Cohen, IRA
IRA Cohen: Into the Mylar Chamber by Cohen, IRA

IRA Cohen: Into the Mylar Chamber

"Looking at your pictures is like looking through butterfly wings." -Jimi HendrixBetween 1968 and 1971, in a...
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Author: IRA Cohen
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IRA Cohen: Into the Mylar Chamber by Cohen, IRA

IRA Cohen: Into the Mylar Chamber

BD$75.12
IRA Cohen: Into the Mylar Chamber by Cohen, IRA

IRA Cohen: Into the Mylar Chamber

BD$75.12
Author: IRA Cohen
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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"Looking at your pictures is like looking through butterfly wings." -Jimi Hendrix

Between 1968 and 1971, in a loft on New York's Jefferson Street, the poet, photographer and filmmaker Ira Cohen created some of the most mythic images of the late 1960s. Inspired by his friends Jack Smith and Bill Devore, Cohen's initial experiments with black light developed into an experimental ritual space he termed the Mylar Chamber--a simple room of hinged boards hung with reflective Mylar film. Through his extended network, and with the support of artist and set designer Robert LaVigne, Cohen invited visitors to play another self within this small theater, among them Jimi Hendrix, William Burroughs, Vali Myers, Jack Smith, Angus MacLise, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Lionel Ziprin, Ching Ho Cheng, Petra Vogt, Charles Ludlam, John McLaughlin and the rock group Spirit.

In December 1969, in a summary of the past decade, Life magazine declared that "few came as close to explaining the euphoric distortions of hallucinogenics" as Cohen through his Mylar Chamber photographs, but the full story draws upon much deeper ideas surrounding identity and the power of the image.

This is the first book to explore Cohen's iconic Mylar Chamber photographs. Published on the 50th anniversary of the Life magazine feature, and with several gatefolds, it includes more than 70 images from this intensely creative period, each digitally restored from the original negatives by Cohen's friend and collaborator, Ira Landgarten. It also includes an interview with Cohen, excerpts from his poetry, critical writing from Allan Graubard and Ian MacFadyen and further reflections from Timothy Baum, Alice Farley and Thurston Moore.

Ira Cohen was born in the Bronx in 1935. A countercultural renaissance man, Cohen made films, photographs and poetry, edited the magazine Gnaoua and authored The Hashish Cookbook. Cohen became well known for his 1968 movie using the Mylar technique, The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda, soundtracked by Angus MacLise, the original drummer of the Velvet Underground. In 2008 Nina Zivancevic, writing in NY Arts magazine, described Cohen's life as "a sort of white magic produced by an alchemist who turned his back on the establishment in order to find God, art and poetry." He died in 2011.

Author: IRA Cohen
Publisher: Fulgur Press
Published: 11/26/2019
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.94lbs
Size: 13.60h x 9.30w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781527236332
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