Underground Living Re/Search Publications commissioned by Finlay Lloyd

commissioned by Finlay Lloyd

Inherent here are possibilities of loss far more significant and fundamental than the erasing of any number of individual art objects

their hold on reality

If love beset by complication is a familiar pattern in fiction

and finish one another's stories

Underground Living Re/Search Publications commissioned by Finlay LloydV. Vale has traversed the major global underground movements of the past century (including Beatniks, Hippies, Punk, Industrial, kitsch, retro styles, surrealism, situationism, queer, incredibly strange films and music, performance art, feminism, zines ) and more. Along the way, he documented it all, taking over 100,000 photos. Here, for the first time in book form, are 80 "personal" images of underground living, selected from the depths of Vale's