
Death Book II
- Publisher
- Baron Books
- Year
- 2020
- Specifications
- Softback
30.8 x 24 cm
232 pages
Limited edition of 500 copies
Second edition (reprint June 2024)
Art direction by Max Siedentopf
Introduction by Slava Mogutin
Three bullet holes pierce the book from front to back
Dedicated to Bruce LaBruce's archive of rarely published or previously unpublished work marked by morbid fascinations, this second Death Book gathers performances, actions, film production stills and photographs that challenge the viewer to look beneath the veneer of Western society. It brings the material together for the first time, with archival pieces never exhibited before from projects including Hustler White, Otto; or Up with Dead People and L.A. Zombie. Edited as loosely connected vignettes of horror in which carnage is accelerated rather than overcome, it questions existing values, hierarchies and perceptions of good and evil. Faces and body parts of actors and artists appear, among them Francois Sagat, Tiger Tyson, Tony Ward, Kembra Pfahler, Slava Mogutin, Ron Athey, Genesis P-Orridge and Lady Jaye, Dash Snow, Brad Renfro and Asia Argento, with LaBruce himself. Art director Max Siedentopf designed the book as a paraphrase of the Bible.