Katherine Bernhardt Chose Commune Belgian photographer Zaza Bertrand created

Belgian photographer Zaza Bertrand created this documentary photo series at locations known as “love hotels”

appears prettier to your eyes and is still unfathomably cheap

That such a decorative culture should survive into the age of professional branding is but one more reason to devote a whole book to this bizarre phenomenon

Guided by Mekas’ distinctive prose and suffused with warmth

the sites of her creations and her photography can be traced via the internet coordinates as well as physical maps

Katherine Bernhardt Chose Commune Belgian photographer Zaza Bertrand createdThis is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of Katherine Bernhardt's wildly popular pattern paintings. Spanning 2013 through 2016, it collects over 100 of her brightly coloured canvases. Well known for paintings of super models ripped from glossy fashion magazines and, more recently, Moroccan rug motifs, in 2013 Bernhardt dropped all direct quotation and now paints straight from her imagination, mining her own fertile reservoir of