Purple Magazine Issue 34: The Love Issue

Fall/Winter 2020, the Love issue, published in the first year of the pandemic with sixteen covers and Glenn O'Brien's "True Love" at the front.

Paul B. Preciado writes a library of love, McKenzie Wark on femmunism, Claire Fontaine on the twenty-fifth hour, Emanuele Coccia on love as a domestic mystery, Alain de Botton on Pygmalion, Frédéric Beigbeder on the French kiss, Simon Liberati on his own love stories and Alejandro Jodorowsky on what love is. Allen Ginsberg's "Song" is reprinted. Interviews take in David Hockney, Sarah Lucas, Pierre Cardin, Urs Fischer, Deana Lawson, Nicolas Party, Ed Atkins, Camille Henrot, Virgil Abloh, Jenna Gribbon, Somaya Critchlow, Nevine Mahmoud and AA Bronson. Juergen Teller shoots Balenciaga, Bruce Gilden shoots Gucci, Casper Sejersen shoots Louis Vuitton and Katja Rahlwes shoots Saint Laurent.

Hans Bellmer, Paul McCarthy, Francis Picabia and David Horvitz contribute portfolios, Katerina Jebb files "Love Letters," and Maurizio Cattelan closes with a tribute to Black Lives Matter.