Open All Night [Ken Miller + William T. Vollmann]

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Open All Night

Ken Miller + William T. Vollmann

Overlook Press, NY. 1995. First edition hardcover, folio sized. Aside from a few tiny smidges of dirt on the interior, just about like new. An excellent copy.

From the publisher:

"Ken Miller.'s images and William T. Vollmann's unflinching reportage combine to present an unsettling and to potently authentic document of our time. Imbued with a hyperreal poignancy. Miller's photographs reveal an America peopled by outsiders - skinheads. electroshock patients. addicts. prostitutes - the same people real and imagined. who inhabit the novels of William T. Vollmann. In tandem they present a stark yet human landscape in images and words of a world they both know intimately."

An incredible photobook where each photo is paired with text from Vollmann's work, primarily the "Rainbow Stories" era. Gnarly skinheads, prostitutes, outsiders, and loners. Heavy stuff, incredibly well done.

Highly recommended.