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V Vale at a Glance
V. Vale is a writer and publisher. He is also a keyboard player and, as Vale Hamanaka, was a member of the initial configuration of Blue Cheer, prior to that band becoming famous as a power trio.See Portrait of Vale Hamanaka/V. Vale at www.brautigan.net. He is the publisher and primary contributor to books and magazines published by his company, RE/Search Publications. Vale, who is the host of the television talk show Counterculture Hour on public access channel 29 in San Francisco. studied English at UC Berkeley, and is a Japanese-American.
In 1977, while working at City Lights Bookstore, with...
Modern Primitives
the top-selling Re/Search title
Modern Primitives (Re/Search)
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When this book came out in 1989, most of the world had no idea that a large group of people in the Bay Area were starting to heavily tattoo and pierce their bodies. Composed of interviews with an unbeliveable who's-who of the body art scene, this is the book that single-handedly brought body piercing and tattooing to the mainstream.
Release Date: 12/31/1969
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Vale and RE/Search
- RE/Search Publications
- Since 1977, beginning with Search & Destroy, we've produced personal (not corporate), ground-breaking books on subjects ranging from punk rock to incredibly strange music, tattooing / body piercing to S&M, zines to pranks, incredibly strange films to Survival Research Laboratories,William S. Burroughs to J.G. Ballard. RE/Search Publications have long been Required Reading / the underground canon--primary source books that continuously inspire you to Do-It-Yourself & Be Creative...
- Guide to Essential Experiences
- War on Iraq or North Korea: What's Really Going On?
- The RU Sirius Show - Show #22: ReSearch Publisher V. Vale re: J.G. Ballard
- V. Vale is an alternative publishing hero. He's published dozens of awesome books and periodicals through his ReSearch imprint. Here he talks to us mostly about his recent books with J.G. Ballard
- Interview with V.Vale
- Since 1977 V. Vale has been documenting underground culture, first in his punk zine Search and Destroy, and since 1980 in his RE/Search series -- collections of lengthy conversations with such artists and provocateurs as Jello Biafra, William S. Burroughs and Bob Flanagan. Covering everything from punk and feminist culture to the zine and body modification phenomena to promoting "obscene" books like Octave Mirbeau's The Torture Garden and J.G. Ballard's The Atrocity Exhibition, RE/Search flinches from nothing society has to cough up.
Re/Search in the Blogsphere
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RE/Search Ephemera
- The Sound of Young America: Podcast: Zines with V. Vale and Josh Karp
- V. Vale's "Search and Destroy" and "Re/Search" are both seminal texts of the counter culture. Presaging (and later documenting) zines, they shed light on movements from punk rock to body modification to pranks. Their newest book, "Pranks 2" is the sequel to one of my all-time favorites, "Pranks."
- SRL in Berkeley by Vale
- Those of us who live in the Bay Area are fortunate in that we're occasionally able to experience, firsthand and in the flesh, a Survival Research Laboratories event. A live SRL performance offers so much more than a video/film ever can, including any Virtual Reality invention of the future.
Vale Videos
About Re/Search Publications
RE/Search Publications is a United States magazine and book publisher, based in San Francisco, founded and edited by V. Vale in 1980. It was the successor to Vale's earlier punk rock fanzine Search & Destroy (1977 - 1979), started with $100 from Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. RE/Search itself began as a tabloid-sized magazine. Following the third issue, issues 4 and 5 were collected as a single volume, a "special book issue". Subsequent issues all retained the book format.
RE/Search has published books on various underground topics. Titles include Pranks, Incredibly Strange Films, and Modern Primitives, and the subject matter includes profiles of William S. Burroughs, J. G. Ballard, and others.
