Lee Scratch Perry - Black Ark

Edited:

Andreas Koller, The Visual Estate of Lee Scratch Perry 

Publisher:

Patrick Frey

Year: 2026

Format: Hardcover

Edition: Second

Condition: New

The 600-page book takes as its point of departure a visual inventory made in spring 2021 at the Black Ark in Kingston, Jamaica—where Perry produced his music from 1973 onwards. It documents the studio as both recording site and continuously evolving visual environment: mural paintings and drawings, and shape-shifting assemblages of records, instruments, often obsolete recording equipment and media devices, found objects, and collages including posters, newspaper and magazine clippings, and appropriated books—layers upon layers, rhizomatically entangled with the building, its furniture, and Perry’s life and persona. The premises have since been sold, and the book stands as a record of a world on the verge of disappearing.