Purple Magazine Issue 44: The Analog Issue

Fall/Winter 2025, the Analog issue, arguing for the hand and the negative against the machine across sixteen covers.

A running "Why Analog?" question is answered by David Lynch, James Cameron, Brian Eno, Marguerite Duras, Carl Sagan, Isamu Noguchi, Robert Montgomery, Thomas Lélu, David Sax and Artus de Lavilléon. Hakim Bey writes on immediatism, Byung-Chul Han on the gaze, Emanuele Coccia on animism, Frédéric Beigbeder on France against the robots, Daniel Pinchbeck on technofeudalism and Beau Friedlander on what AI cannot do. Aleph Molinari interviews Candida Höfer, Thomas Ruff, Lina Ghotmeh, Mark Leckey and Sharon Eyal; Olivier Zahm talks to Harri Peccinotti, David Carson, Willy Chavarria and Nicolas Godin, and is himself interviewed by Rita Ackermann. Juergen Teller photographs Balenciaga's fifty-fourth couture collection and Cameron McCool shoots Kim Gordon in Gucci.

Irving Penn, Nan Goldin, Joanna Piotrowska, Katerina Jebb, Richard Prince and Takashi Homma supply the photography, and Alighiero Boetti and Roman Signer the art.