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DFA Records : the early years
BONUS 4x6” C-print made from the original negative
Print of The Rapture live at Roseland Ballroom, NYC, 2003 (NEW FOR 2026!)
Edition: 600 copies
Cover: Hardcover, tipped in photo of DFA drum kit in studio, embossed letters with title and author
Size: andPage Count: 8.25 x 9.5 inches, 160 pages with 111 color and 35 black and white photos; portraits, parties, candids, office and studio documentation, live performances
Preface: Tim Soter
Forward: Mike Wolf, Music Editor, writer, Time Out New York 2000–2008
New interview: with The Rapture, Gabriel Andruzzi, Vito Roccoforte and Luke Jenner
Discography: 2002-2007
As the photographer Tim Soter says in the preface, “This book is for the fans. It’s for the gearheads, the photo nerds, the party people, the music historians and the completists. It’s for the guest list beggars, the friend of a friend, the plus ones and the plus nones. It’s for the artists themselves, who can expect to see a few photos they haven’t seen before. This book is for those who got turned on to DFA after the fact and of course, it’s for the ones who were there.”
After Y2K proved to not be the end of the world, youth of New York were ready for a release of anxiety in the form of more dancing, more beats and, of course, more parties. There wasn’t a camera in every pocket in the early aughts and photographers were often the only ones to document rare moments in real-time. Tim Soter is one of these few photographers. A devoted music fan of the ’90s, he’d grown up with the dissatisfaction of limited coverage of his heroes within magazines and wanted to change that for underground music fans. While he was shooting for Rolling Stone and other music mags back in 2003, he simply reached out to label manager Johnathan Galkin and asked, “Hey, can I photograph everyone at DFA?”.
DFA Records: The Early Years captures a unique place and time for the studio that would ultimately give us LCD Soundsystem and presents the DFA bands in their raw beginnings. From candid Polaroids of Tim Goldsworthy and James Murphy to rare band press shots, Soter uses his photography and primitive Hotmail correspondence to tell the story of DFA from 2003 to 2007. He presents a visual diary for fans, taking them back to a unique time in NYC’s music history—before streaming services and before price-gouging ticket hubs. Within these 160 pages are photos from shows at Roseland, Hammerstein, and the Bowery, parties at Tonic, Volume Club, private lofts and never-before-seen images of the founders just being kids together. The story reveals the beginning of a collective that started with the likes of The Rapture, Black Dice, The Juan MacLean, Gavilán Rayna Russom, Delia Gonzales, and, of course, LCD Soundsystem. Vivid and energetic, this is a book for fans to find themselves in the crowd and quite literally point and say, “I was there.”
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ISBN: 978-0-578-44045-3
DFA Records : the early years
UK SHIPPING ONLY
1 4x6” C-print made from the original negative
Print of The Rapture live at Roseland Ballroom, NYC, 2003. (NEW FOR 2026!)
BONUS PRINT for UK buyers!!!!
(we realize shipping is a lot to the UK, so we’re adding a bonus print to your UK order!)
1 4x6” C-print made from the original negative
Print of James Murphy and Tim Goldsworthy, founders of DFA, at DFA studios, 2003
Edition: 600 copies
Cover: Hardcover, tipped in photo of DFA drum kit in studio, embossed letters with title and author
Size: andPage Count: 8.25 x 9.5 inches, 160 pageswith 111 color and 35 black and white photos; portraits, parties, candids, office and studio documentation, live performances
Preface: Tim Soter
Forward: Mike Wolf, Music Editor, writer, Time Out New York 2000–2008
New interview: with The Rapture, Gabriel Andruzzi, Vito Roccoforte and Luke Jenner
Discography: 2002-2007
ISBN: 978-0-578-44045-3
As the photographer Tim Soter says in the preface, “This book is for the fans. It’s for the gearheads, the photo nerds, the party people, the music historians and the completists. It’s for the guest list beggars, the friend of a friend, the plus ones and the plus nones. It’s for the artists themselves, who can expect to see a few photos they haven’t seen before. This book is for those who got turned on to DFA after the fact and of course, it’s for the ones who were there.”
After Y2K proved to not be the end of the world, youth of New York were ready for a release of anxiety in the form of more dancing, more beats and, of course, more parties. There wasn’t a camera in every pocket in the early aughts and photographers were often the only ones to document rare moments in real-time. Tim Soter is one of these few photographers. A devoted music fan of the ’90s, he’d grown up with the dissatisfaction of limited coverage of his heroes within magazines and wanted to change that for underground music fans. While he was shooting for Rolling Stone and other music mags back in 2003, he simply reached out to label manager Johnathan Galkin and asked, “Hey, can I photograph everyone at DFA?”.
DFA Records: The Early Years captures a unique place and time for the studio that would ultimately give us LCD Soundsystem and presents the DFA bands in their raw beginnings. From candid Polaroids of Tim Goldsworthy and James Murphy to rare band press shots, Soter uses his photography and primitive Hotmail correspondence to tell the story of DFA from 2003 to 2007. He presents a visual diary for fans, taking them back to a unique time in NYC’s music history—before streaming services and before price-gouging ticket hubs. Within these 160 pages are photos from shows at Roseland, Hammerstein, and the Bowery, parties at Tonic, Volume Club, private lofts and never-before-seen images of the founders just being kids together. The story reveals the beginning of a collective that started with the likes of The Rapture, Black Dice, The Juan MacLean, Gavilán Rayna Russom, Delia Gonzales, and, of course, LCD Soundsystem. Vivid and energetic, this is a book for fans to find themselves in the crowd and quite literally point and say, “I was there.”
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{ OVERSTOCK! The printer duplicated ten copies so that overstock is being offered here at a reduced price. Each book has a yellow X over the cover and “overstock” stamped on the colophon page.}
116 pgs. Hardcover, 55 plates printed on 140# Mohawk proPhoto Pearl paper, tipped in page of text on Brite Hue yellow 24lb paper, hand stamped colophon page, cover paint is Hansa Yellow Light acrylic mixed with hard acrylic extender
10 copies each with a unique cover
NO covers are duplicated from the Dummy Edition, this second edition completes the printing so that every photo in the book is printed as a unique cover
Environments unites fifty five images shot over twelve years, each photo recognizing quirky and dryly funny surroundings. A skeleton leg bathes in the window light of the sun, a filling station offers a drive-up milk dispenser, an urn equipped with a princess telephone allows easy communication beyond the grave. Nature and mankind fight to dominate in an absurd dialog for those who see it. All the evidence is in the book. These photos are tarot cards to be read. Book includes an essay on criteria along with a quiz!
Each copy of this dummy series has a unique cover with ten different covers in total. The copy you order will be yours alone! No one else will have the same cover. This printing retains all of the qualities of a polished photography book, but some of the work-in-progress charm of a book dummy. Book covers will be selected randomly.
Environments (Second Edition) OVERSTOCK is in the collection of Hasselblad Foundation library
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36 pages; Limited to an edition of 150, published by Cafe' Royal Press. Signed.
Third printing contains additional spreads not found in the First printing.
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BOOK EXCERPT: “The mid-'90s saw a significant shift in the social behavior of NYC after dark. This was, for all intents and purposes, really the last pre-internet, pre-cellphone era. The last time when, if you were meeting a friend at night, you had to plan it out in advance, because "Where are you?" wasn't yet a textable thing. It was the last time you could get lost in the city without a map app. It was the last time you had to be in the moment, without that tick of false self-assurance created by constantly checking your phone to see what everyone in the 'world' was up to. You talked to strangers more. You would see friends on a weekly basis and knew only their first name - and nothing more."
"Electronic Music: New York City 1995" is in the library of the Museum of Modern Art, Thomas J. Watson Library at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as the library of Martin Parr.
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122 pgs. Hardcover, printed on 150 gsm Munken Polar Rough
ForTress (a book about Arthur Tress by Tim Soter) documents the rare, honest friendship between two creative personalities. Arthur is a world-renowned Surrealist photographer and essential figure in the history of photography. He has been making photographs since the 1960s and his works appear in the collections of major museums internationally. A photographic artist I (Tim Soter) am currently concentrating on producing unique, immersive photo-biographies.
ForTress is a funny tale told very openly with photographs, wild collages and emails like “don’t let my book clog up your drains” and “hi I just had some dental surgery and my mouth is sore so I will call you now” usually sent in haiku form or ALL CAPS! Arthur allowed me to show him as I see him, and is one hundred percent unselfconscious, never once objecting to anything - even sending me his own books with instructions to cut them up and use them.
This books SAYS it’s about Arthur Tress but don’t be fooled. It’s a book about creative learning, being receptive and seeing into the future. It existentially describes a deep connection with an imaginative human. Our constant correspondence while I was making the book BECAME the book! There most likely won’t be a Tress biography other than this, so this is the official record about a photographer who literally still shoots a hundred rolls of film each month.
For fans of 70’s ballads, brainteaser books and old people who turn out to be wizards.
“A closer look shows that Soter has crafted an immersive and often surprisingly touching photobiography, depicting Tress’s creative spirit but also showing him as a down to earth human being and passionate and dedicated artist. The book is an honest and warm hearted tribute to both the free-thinking nature that Tress embodies, and the friendship they built over the years. In the end, ForTress is as much about Arthur Tress as it is about Soter himself, encouraging us to look more closely at how we face and follow our own obsessions.
The book is an honest and warm hearted tribute to both the free-thinking nature that Tress embodies, and the friendship they built over the years. In the end, ForTress is as much about Arthur Tress as it is about Soter himself, encouraging us to look more closely at how we face and follow our own obsessions.” -Olga Yaskevitch, Collector Daily
ForTress is in the collection of Thomas J. Watson Library at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Alec Soth library, the International Center of Photography library, as well as the library of Special Collections of Stanford University, among others
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ISBN: 978-0-578-44045-3
ForTress - Limited Drawn and Painted Edition
Limited to only 32 copies, this edition is signed by both Tim Soter and Arthur Tress with an edition stamp/numbered on the colophon page. Each copy comes with a unique painting and/or drawing done directly in the book on page 107, sealed with an archival matte fixative.
32 copies, 122 pgs. Hardcover, printed on 150 gsm Munken Polar Rough, additional drawing/painting on pg. 107
ForTress Limited Drawn and Painted Edition is in the collection of the library of the International Center of Photography
ForTress(a book about Arthur Tress by Tim Soter) documents the rare, honest friendship between two creative personalities. Arthur is a world-renowned Surrealist photographer and essential figure in the history of photography. He has been making photographs since the 1960s and his works appear in the collections of major museums internationally. A photographic artist I (Tim Soter) am currently concentrating on producing unique, immersive photo-biographies.
ForTress is a funny tale told very openly with photographs, wild collages and emails like “don’t let my book clog up your drains” and “hi I just had some dental surgery and my mouth is sore so I will call you now” usually sent in haiku form or ALL CAPS! Arthur allowed me to show him as I see him, and is one hundred percent unselfconscious, never once objecting to anything - even sending me his own books with instructions to cut them up and use them.
This books SAYS it’s about Arthur Tress but don’t be fooled. It’s a book about creative learning, being receptive and seeing into the future. It existentially describes a deep connection with an imaginative human. Our constant correspondence while I was making the book BECAME the book! There most likely won’t be a Tress biography other than this, so this is the official record about a photographer who literally still shoots a hundred rolls of film each month.
For fans of 70’s ballads, brainteaser books and old people who turn out to be wizards.
ForTress - Limited Drawn and Painted Edition is in the collection of Thomas J. Watson Library at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Hasselblad Foundation library and the collection of Jim Goldberg
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ISBN: 978-0-578-44045-3
ONLY 2 LEFT!!
UNIQUE new edition of only six books! Each one hand inscribed in pen and ink by Duane Michals, with a different variation of the book title on page 104. Michals has also signed below his inscription. Book numbering is noted on the colophon page with a roman numeral, I-IV. No two books have the same inscription.
140 pgs. Hardcover edition of 6. Each book is unique containing a tipped-in page removed from my copy of Duane Michals, Pantheon Books, 1986, personally embossed. Signed on colophon page by Tim Soter, author.
"TIM! GO AWAY!” is a project exploring my obsession with photographer/artist Duane Michals. The book contains my letters written to Michals, samples of his handwriting and detailed stories relating this infatuation, plus photographs shot during his workshop, his gallery openings, plus photos of my collection of his thirty three individual book titles. This book is full of funny stories recounting my methods of stalking one’s hero into a real friendship. Ultimately the book becomes a self-portrait and a way to explore the connection that some artists have with the mentors in their field, whether they meet them in real life or not.
"TIM! GO AWAY!" is in the collection of the library of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the library of the International Center of Photography and the collection of David Solo, among others.
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8×10” 84pgs; softcover, uncoated paper stock
Books are stamped with gold fumetti cloud and signed in pencil
2026
Fumetti is an Italian word – literally “little puffs of smoke” – a reference to speech balloons, the narration in comics. Outside Italy, fumetti often refers to a specific genre: photo comics—stories told using photographs instead of drawn illustrations, with dialogue added in speech bubbles or captions. In the past I have considered figuring out a way to bridge the gap between comics and photography.
Fumetti pairs photos taken in the early 2000s, in a body of work that would become the collection known as The Ship Escaped, with comic books that Soter has had since he was a child. The visual relationship between the two is often ironically funny, contains similar textures or patterns or perhaps has elements or characters that repeat from the photograph to the comic frame.
Originally printed in 2011 as a Deluxe Edition of only ten numbered copies, Fumetti is in the collection of the Watson library of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Currently available for US shipping only.