Boo-Hooray is dedicated to the organization, stabilization, and preservation of the 20th and 21st century cultural movements, specializing in ephemera, photography, and book arts. We publish books, catalogs, artists’ books and LPs, as well as stage exhibitions all over the world.
The Alan Vega Archive
Thursday, Jun 20, 2019 - Tuesday, Jul 09, 2019
Alan Vega (June 23, 1938 – July 16, 2016), best known for being half of the legendary proto-punk duo Suicide, was also a prolific poet and visual artist. From his groundbreaking presence fronting Suicide in the early 1970s, to his solo music career from the 1980s up until his death, Vega’s mark on music was indelible and inspiring.
The Alan Vega Archive, collected by his widow and long-time collaborator Liz Lamere, consists of audio and video, tour documentation, flyers, and ephemera, as well as photographs and press pertaining to his music career. Also collected are his personal notebooks and sketchbooks in which he wrote lyrics, poetry, and notes. His sketchbooks contain original drawings and designs. In addition to his sketchbooks, small collages and hundreds of pen and ink drawings on paper spanning the 1970s up until his death in 2016 chart his growth and evolution as an artist in conjunction with his musical output.
The Fab Five Freddy Archive at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
The Fab 5 Freddy Archive consists of Freddy’s production materials and business records, scripts, treatments, and creative notes. The Archive also consists of a substantial collection of reel-to-reel tapes, VHS, CDs, and DVDs from Freddy’s career. Because of Fab 5 Freddy’s icon status, his archive follows the thread of hip-hop internationally including the narratives of lesser-known musicians, artists, and filmmakers along with that of world-renowned and groundbreaking artistic figures. Additionally, this archive includes clothing and behind-the-scenes photographs of hip-hop history, including the birthday party of Sean “Diddy” Combs. Many photographs are also production shots from videos and films Freddy has worked on from the 1980s up until present.
Boo-Hooray Catalog #4: The Underground Press
Boo-Hooray is proud to present our fourth catalog, dedicated to the 1960s and ‘70s underground press. For over a decade, we have been committed to the organization, stabilization, and preservation of cultural narratives through archival placement. Today, we continue and expand our mission through the sale of individual items and smaller collections. We invite you to our space in Manhattan’s Chinatown, where we encourage visitors to browse our extensive inventory of rare books, ephemera, archives and collections by appointment or chance.
The newspapers and magazines presented here–along with innumerable peer publications–established a trans-Atlantic network of underground press. This network provided an alternative to mainstream news and culture outlets, which had proved to be inept at covering the rapidly evolving social and political landscapes in Western Europe and America. Though each had its own focus, these publications share histories of government prosecution, censorship, and surveillance; an animating mission of pushing the boundaries of cultural and political discourse; and shoestring budgets. Taken as a whole, these publications present a wide view of the countercultural zeitgeist of the 1960s and 70s.
Boo-Hooray Catalog #3: Small Archives and Collections
Boo-Hooray is proud to present our third catalog, dedicated
to small collections and archives. For over a decade, we have been committed to the organization, stabilization, and preser- vation of cultural narratives through archival placement. Today, we continue and expand our mission through the sale of individual items and smaller collections.
We invite you to our space in Manhattan’s Chinatown, where we encourage visitors to browse our extensive inventory of rare books, ephemera, archives and collections by appointment or chance.
Boo-Hooray Catalog #2
Boo-Hooray welcomes you to our second ever antiquarian book catalog, Catalog #2. For over a decade, we have been committed to the organization, stabilization and preservation of cultural narratives through archival placement. Today, we continue and expand our mission through the sale of individual items and smaller collections, in addition to archives.
Boo-Hooray Catalog #1
Boo-Hooray welcomes you to our first ever antiquarian book catalog, Catalog #1. For over a decade, we have been committed to the organization, stabilization and preservation of cultural narratives through archival placement. Today, we continue and expand our mission through the sale of individual items and smaller collections, in addition to archives.
The May '68 Paris Uprising Collection of Posters and Ephemera at Yale University
The May ’68 Paris Uprising Collection of Posters and Ephemera consists entirely of documents that were created by – and for – a revolution. In the collection are 85 street posters (75 were produced by the Atelier Populaire), and an assemblage of ephemera retrieved during the uprising, and safeguarded after, by Atelier Populaire founder Phillipe Vermès. These flyers, handbills, newspapers, and newsletters offer a first-hand account of the events as they transpired, representing France’s cry for reform.
View Paris - May 1968 at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
The Hip-Hop History Archive at Cornell University
The core of the Hip Hop History Archive at Cornell University was established by Johan Kugelberg, who sought to locate and preserve the earliest artifacts he could find pertaining to the origins and influence of hip hop as music, culture, and community in the Bronx, New York City.
In 2008, Kugelberg founded the Cornell University Hip Hop History Archive, which has since grown to include other collections such as the archive of early hip hop photographer Joe Conzo, Jr, containing over 10,000 prints and negatives; the archive of Charlie Ahearn, director of Wild Style (1983), the first hip hop feature film; the archive of Ernie Paniccioli (Word Up magazine’s photographer and author of Who Shot Ya: 3 Decades of Hip Hop Photography); and “architect of hip hop,” Afrika Bambaataa.
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