'69 ON THE ROAD VELVET UNDERGROUND PHOTOGRAPHS
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Published by: Fierce Pup Productions, New Jersey, 1996
Softcover, 52 pages
20 × 22.8 cm
Language: English
Condition: Good. The cover shows handling marks and small surface imperfections, but the interior remains clean and well-preserved.
Photographed by Doug Yule, ’69 On the Road offers a rare visual account of the Velvet Underground during one of their most formative touring years. Rather than focusing on staged portraits, Yule turns his camera toward the fleeting, unguarded moments that defined the band’s life between performances quiet pauses, backstage rituals, and the subtle tensions and intimacies that accompany constant travel.
Across its 52 pages, the book assembles a concise yet evocative sequence of black-and-white photographs that reflect the texture of late-1960s counterculture. The images reveal the band not as mythic icons, but as a tightly knit unit navigating the rhythms, exhaustion, and electricity of the road.
Originally released in 1996 by the independent publisher Fierce Pup Productions, this edition has become increasingly scarce. Its excellent condition preserves the clarity and immediacy of Yule’s documentation an essential artifact for admirers of the Velvet Underground and for anyone drawn to the visual history of American rock.
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Intermission exists in the space between documentation and devotion an ongoing archive of cultural fragments that refuse to vanish. Each title within our portfolio is selected not for trend, but for tension: between what was meant to disappear and what insists on remaining.
We work with objects that speak quietly but persistently publications, recordings, and editions that define the undercurrents of art, sound, and design. Together they form a living record of marginal brilliance, a collection that privileges significance over scale.
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We encourage collectors to engage not only with the content, but with the gesture of preservation itself: a quiet commitment to memory.
Every Intermission title is handled as an artifact. We believe that preservation is an act of reverence one that begins the moment you open a cover or unspool a tape.
To experience a piece, do so slowly. Allow the air to touch the paper, let light fall softly over each page. Avoid excess pressure; handle edges rather than surfaces. Each mark, fold, or patina is part of its passage through time evidence of care rather than decay.
We encourage collectors to engage not only with the content, but with the gesture of preservation itself: a quiet commitment to memory.
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