THE JULIA FOXES. TWO OF THEM. BOTH DANGEROUSLY BRILLIANT. EXCEPTIONALLY RARE NOW, BOTH OF THEM.

THE FIRST IS SYMPTOMATIC

OF A RELATIONSHIP GONE SOUR... PUBLISHED 2015.

Heartburn / Nausea - Symptomatic Of A Relationship Gone Sour. The first book by the then 25-year-old Julia Fox. Four years before Uncut Gems, seven years before Kanye and the full fashion force. 
 

Teenage runaway and life didn't get any easier. This is an extremely raw photobook with artwork, notes, drawings documenting three highly toxic relationships.
 

Fox was interviewed by Katja Horvat for Dazed about this book in 2015; 

‘I just wanted to take something bad and make it good. For myself, but also for anyone else that has been in a fucked up situation’. 
 

It's hard to say how many copies there were of this first book. The next book was an edition of 100 so maybe that's a good guess. It is exceptionally scarce now. Like no other copies anywhere online. Doubtless it got very rare and very expensive after the whole Ye episode - but that is not the only reason: It is also completely brilliant. It's like Raised by Wolves but autobiographical. Frightening. 
 

PTSD. THE SECOND BOOK, PUBLISHED IN TWO EDITIONS

IN 2016. ONE FOR FRIENDS -

NO IDEA HOW MANY OF

THOSE WERE MADE. AND

THEN AN 'OFFICIAL' EDITION

OF 100 COPIES. WE HAVE

ONE OF EACH EDITION. AND AFTER THAT, NONE. GONE.

She threw herself into this book. Made it happen. She spent a month in poverty-stricken Louisiana, almost on purpose. The result is not quite like any other book. It could be what Madonna's Sex book might have been if it had been shot by Larry Clark. 
 

It is also one hell of a good fashion/photography book. There are iconic images on every page. 
 

Like a very painful Virgin Suicides. 
 

When you start seeing things. This the right hand page to the previous picture. The works from the book were exhibited at the Magic Gallery, Canal Street, New York in February 2016. 
 

Role reversal. There is a great interview with Julia Fox and Mike Krim on Autre in which she says: 

I think there comes an immense sense of power in expressing the truth about violence in love and during sex….exposing one's vulnerabilities and creating a dialogue surrounding different sexual and emotional experiences….women have urges. Women have fetishes. Women don't always have to be the sweet innocent ones who only have sex when they're in love. Women can exploit men as well as the other way around. In my new book I explore my sexuality with a few prostitutes, male and female, gay and straight. 
 

Amazing image to end on. That really has it all going on. 

Now we have one of each of the editions of PTSD. The first first edition edition and the first second edition. Either way, it is such a rare find now. Only $2000 on Amazon of course but... la di da... that's algorithms for you.