Hymag
Tuesday: 09:00 - 17:30
Wednesday: 09:00 - 17:30
Thursday: 09:00 - 17:30
Friday: 09:00 - 17:30
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About Hymag
Guinness World Record: "Largest Collection Of Magazines (http://bit. ly /TxCD04)
To educate, excite & inspire
Hymag Description
The James Hyman Magazine Archive currently houses over 80, 000 magazines, ‘fanzines’, journals, newspapers and ‘little magazines’. * This continuously growing, self-acquired collection contains many publications that cover a substantial time-span to encompass birth, flowering, decay and death over a range of cultural and commercial cycles:
The archive covers complete mini social histories, trends and fashions and the transformation of certain popular titles – for example Heat, which initially began as a film-led entertainment magazine later evolved into a celeb /gossip magazine for women. The historical importance of this collection is invaluable and includes the following categories:
Advertising, Animation, Anthropology, Art, Automobile, Business, Celebrity, Computing, Design, Entertainment, Fashion, Film, Fringe, Humour, Internet, Media, Men's Magazines, Music, Nature /Science, New Age, Paranormal, Philosophy, Politics, Photography, Science Fiction, Sociology, Spirituality, Sport, Technology, Television, Urban, Youth
Who knows whether digital will completely supersede print as a communication medium; whatever the outcome, the archive reflects the durability of the magazine as a history of what has worked or failed for the 2, 500* different publications it houses.
Hyman’s primary mission has been to collect the history of printed popular culture, however the archive is both a collection of artefacts and an artefact in itself as well as a cultural resource. A physical ‘installation’, the collection illustrates the transition of the magazine into a valued artefact that is both threatened and enhanced by the online magazine boom. Hyman’s archive is also a work of art with an aura that any magazine aficionado or culture commentator can recognise, experience and value.
*Count increasing
Why all these Magazines?
Well, Simon Reynolds seems to sum it up succintly in this extract from his "Retromania" book (http://amzn. to /mB1wFr):
"Vintage magazines provide the kind of information that's hard to find on the internet owing to the particular way its archiving system is structured. Online, you can uncover a vast amount about an artist in terms of diachronic trajectory
(discography, biographical arc). Much harder to reconstruct is the synchronic context: what was going on at the precise moment in time of a record's release, whether in terms of the genre in which the group operated, the general state of music culture, or the political and social backdrop.
A musty, yellowing 1970s copy of NME, Melody Maker, Creem or Let It Rock is a precious capsule of circumstantial evidence: reviews and features about contemporaneous groups, but also record company adverts and the graphic design and typography, which ooze period vibe.
You can't fully understand the impact of glam rock without a sense of how drab and style-less regular rock groups looked then, of how visually depleted the whole media environment was. Likewise, the stark angular minimalism of post-punk groups and record covers derived its salient edge from juxtaposition with scruffy Old Wave and Stiff-style pub rock.
A time-slice of history, stubbornly analogue, the vintage music magazine in some sense resists the decontextualising vortex that is netculture, that endless end of history that never stops churning. "
Reviews
#RecordMirror September 22 1990. He’s tough, he’s mean, he’s the widest-girthed geezer you’ve ever seen. His name is #TurboB and he’s the “lyrical #JesseJames” who fronts #SNAP!, the phenomenally successful sound machine who blasted into our #charts with “The Power.” #becontentwithcontent
#LaVieParisienne 193, ‘Anatomiquement vôtre.’ #becontentwithcontent
#Lavieparisienne 193, ' Anatomically yours. ' #becontentwithcontentTranslated
🌷🏹Our 2nd episode with @know_wave, ‘LOVE’ is available to listen to on: https://www.mixcloud.com/know_wave/hymag- episode-2-love/ 💕💓
@know_wave x @hymag ‘LOVE’ available on Mixcloud! https://www.mixcloud.com/know_wave/hymag- episode-2-love/
♥️💕HAPPY #VALENTINESDAY💕♥️💖 with @bizarremagazineuk February 2000 ‘Suburban perversion.’ #becontentwithcontent 🍒🌹🎀💓💖
@connaissancedesarts January 2019. ‘#JeanJacquesLequeu, Bâtisseur de Fantasmes’ at the @petitpalais_musee until March 31st! Spotted @alexia4real’s personal favorite, ‘Et nous aussi nous serons mères; car...’ (1793-94) on @transportforlondon. #becontentwithcontent
@Connaissan cedesarts January 2019. ' #Jeanjacqueslequeu, builder of fantasmes' at the @petitpalais_musee until March 31st! Spotted @ Alexia4real''s personal favorite, ' and we will also be mothers; because... ' (1793-94) we @transportforlondon. #becontentwithcontentTranslated
@forteantimes, February 2004. ‘#AugustStrindberg on absinthe, #ThomasDeQuincey on #opium, #AldousHuxley on #mescalin, #LewisCarroll on #mushrooms.’ #becontentwithcontent
@tatlermagazine, November 1988. #JessicaRabbit drawn by #RussellHall. 'Siren of the times Jessica Rabbit confesses to a weakness for small men who are big fun. Screen husband #RogerRabbit -"a real honeybunny"- and co-star #BobHoskins- "my favorite sugar-daddy- kept her entertained on the set of #WhoFramedRogerRabbit? her movie debut. Otherwise she tends to be reclusive, keeping to her hutch in the hills, "It's not easy being a girl and looking like this," she sighs. #becontentwithcontent
♥️♥️ #Graphis 315. #Love Lamp, Product and Soul. 'With the #LoveLamp, Bruce M. Tharp is specifically concerned with the union of #emotion and artifact. Examining how the ordinary #objects that surround us can assist in satisfying deeper human needs, this lamp is intended to be a #symbol of shared love- to pull of the chain and click on the light is to tug at the heartstring of another.' #CUDDLES ♥️💕 #becontentwithcontent
In anticipation of #Tarantino’s ‘#OnceUponaTimeinHollywood,’ @spinmagazine September 1994. 1969 Revisited! #Manson vs. #Woodstock by Mike Rubin. ‘When #JimiHendrix lit up woodstock 25 years ago, with an electrifying #StarSpangledBanner the age of #Aquarius was upon us. Or was it? Eight days earlier, #CharlesManson’s followers creepy-crawled into the dark side of #American history.’ #becontentwithcontent
@thesource November 2002. @lilkimthequeenbee. ‘Breaking Away’ Words #heidisiegmundcuda And Photographs by #sherylnields. ‘It’s been five years since #Biggie was gunned down in #LosAngeles but #LilKim says she still talks to him every day. “I feel him. I think we’re closer now than when he was alive. That’s just something you wouldn’t ever understand unless you lost somebody close to you”’ #becontentwithcontent
@artreview_magazine January & February 2019. ‘No matter if the replicants of #BladeRunner (set in Los Angeles circa 2019) haven’t come to pass, when we have the dystopia-in-waiting that is #elonmusk and his ilk instead.’ #becontentwithcontent
Punch 28th Nov - 4th Dec 1990. ‘#TheIronLady, but has she really gone?’ 🧟♀️
@vogueitalia January 2005. Fashion Forever, @steven_meisel_photograph’s Hollywood . Fashion editor: @edward_enninful MUA: @patmcgrathreal Hair: @jimmypaulhair . Exec Producer: #MayaMarzolf. Producer: #OliverHicks. A.D: @Duzansky D.P: #SebastianKim. #becontentwithcontent
#Event no22. #Marylin's Lost Letters. 'Legend, lover, letter writer. Letter writer? Here, edited by #MalcolmBurgess are a few of the products of #Hollywood's most distinctive pen.' Includes letters to #ShelleyWinters, #DaleCarnegie, #SigmundFreud, #JaneRussell, #TSEliot... '
to Jane Russell, September 3rd 1953. Dear Jane, Cures for depression: when I'm depressed I simply close my eyes and say, 'Oh no, you're not as depressed as #JoanCrawford. This never fails to work. Yours helpfully, #MarylinMonroe.' #becontentwithcontent
@rollingstone, April 19 1969. Not the least unusual thing about #SunRa is his name. He gets asked about it continually. “That’s the name the creator gave me, you might say.” #becontentwithcontent
@gotmilk 1996 @officialspikelee ‘You’re on a mad quest for calcium.’ #becontentwithcontent
More about Hymag
Tuesday: 09:00 - 17:30
Wednesday: 09:00 - 17:30
Thursday: 09:00 - 17:30
Friday: 09:00 - 17:30
Saturday: -
Sunday: -