Books published by Hassla Books

For our fifth issue of Space Magazine, we knocked on the doors - at home and at work -of those who refuse to follow a conventional path. On these pages, you'll find a roll call of one-of-a-kinds doing it their way. To them we raise a glass. Here's to everyone who has a terror of repetition - making it up as they go along. _x000D_Our cover star, the stylist Camille Bidault-Waddington, is just such a non-conformist. Ask fashion insiders, and they will tell you that Camille lands some of the most competitive gigs in the industry. But it's not her impressive CV that convinced us to put her on the cover - shot in Camille's Paris apartment by Casper Sejersen. Instead, it's Camille's authentic approach, looking for "real" inspiration instead of trawling Pinterest. _x000D_For our second cover, we took a trip with a raconteur. His name is Ricky Clifton, a man who texts in capital letters and calls himself THE ONLY DUMPSTER DIVER. Ricky is one of the New York art scene's true cult figures - an interior designer to the art world, decorator, florist, ceramicist, inventor, antique dealer and former taxi driver. This spring, photographer Victoria Hely-Hutchinson and set designer Julia Wagner jumped on Ricky's bandwagon, drinking tea with art power couple Helen and Brice Marden, hanging out by gallery owner David Zwirner's multi-coloured swimming pool and drinking at the hypnotic bar in Rachel Fienstein and John Currin's home. With our portraits of Camille and Ricky, we dedicated our fifth issue to the radicals, people with originality in their bones and outrageous ideas in their brains - from the worlds of design, architecture, fashion and culture. Some may be under-the-radar, others influential and recognised. But the individuals we meet in this issue all live in colour. _x000D_

Including:Ray JohnsonMatt ConnorsScott CovertOlivia DiVecchiaJohn FaheyRobert HawkinsRichard HellKaren KilimnikErik LaPrade (David Hammons)Nicholas MaravellMarlon MullenPeter NadinRichard Princeand William S. Wilson

Assemblage under quarantine: new works from the celebrated Boston School photographer and artistJack Pierson's (born 1960) latest book, New Pieces, features new assemblage works that the artist started making during quarantine in his Ridgewood, Queens, studio. Assemblage has long played a role in Pierson's career, from his early verité installation pieces to his iconic "word pieces." These new works consist mainly of items found in and around his studio building, which were then pinned directly to the wall. As Bonnie Morrison writes, "These are things that Pierson has accumulated as well as the things that have no doubt accumulated around him. To be fabricated in the year everything took on different meaning is also to take every fabricated thing's meaning different(ly)."

Facepots focuses on the recent ceramic work of New York-based artist Dan McCarthy (born 1962)--highly animated and emotionally charged objects formed through an immediate, hands-on process. The volume situates McCarthy's ceramics historically and includes a visual essay by the artist himself, featuring images and icons that served as inspiration.

Trevor Shimizu is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice encompasses performance, video, and sculptures, yet it is his paintings and drawings, which allows him the fastest and most direct way of visualising an idea. Shimizu is primarily concerned with the generic and cliché situations of everyday life, whilst simultaneously being informed by popular media.

Josh Brand creates unique photographic objects, or photograms, through an open-ended process of darkroom experimentation. Brand exposes photographic paper to light filtered through semitransparent materials, including sheets of punctured plastic or strips of cardboard. Other works contain fragments of representational imagery culled from photographs of objects, places, and people in Brand's daily life. Brand's images reflect his commitment to photography as a way of perceiving and signifying the everyday alongside the ethereal. His approach allows for continuous improvisation and dialogue between works because, according to the artist, the "fragment of one picture is the starting point for another".