With her trusty sidekick Leo (her beloved dog), Bridgette Bloom is a child of the wilderness. With a feral spirit and the abandon of a forest sprite, Bloom follows in the great tradition of American wanderers – documenting with her camera all along the way. Bloom’s photographs are like a beautiful dream in someone else’s afterlife – a cinematic elysium that explodes in cloudbursts of life altering reminders to never waste even a single moment. See more photos and read an interview after the jump. [SEE MORE....]

Emmanuel Perrotin has just opened a new gallery in Hong Kong and presents its inaugural exhibition with the artist Kaws, whose real name is Brian Donnelly, entitled The Nature of Need, which is on view until June 30, 2012.

Photograph by Rory DCS

Taschen is releasing the second edition of erotic photographer Chas Ray Krider’s Motel Fetish. The first edition has been long out of print and includes photographs in the vein of 1950s erotic set in classic seedy motels. Editor Eric Kroll says, “A number of years ago I began to see distinctive layouts in Hustler’s Leg World that got me nervous. The photographs were that good. Whoever it was had style and made the women his women. Krider women. Women I began to desire on a monthly basis. In the world of professional golf there is an expression ‘the world’s greatest golfer not to win a major tournament. Chas Ray Krider was the world’s greatest erotic photographer not to have a book.”  The new edition hits bookstores this June.

Hailing from Vermont, Matt Valentine and Erika Elder are MV & EE, a folky, psychedelic outfit whose amazing new album Space Homestead is full of rough-around-the-edges, yet beautiful lo-fi gems that remind you an eternal country summer.  Listen below to the great track Sweet Sure Gone, which has been on loop for the past few days, and you can purchase the full album which came out a few days ago on the Woodsist label. Text by Oliver Maxwell Kupper for Pas Un Autre

MV & EE – Sweet Sure Gone

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Photograph by Abbey Meaker

by Danny Sangra

Artwork by Brenhan Bowers

Artist and musician Brendhan Bowers curates the 10th volume of Monday Mixtapes exclusively for Pas Un Autre. [download]

Artist Galen Pehrson’s animated short, entitled El Gato, an erotic reinterpretation of Rebel Without a Cause, voiced by the likes of James Franco, Jena Malone, and Devendra Banhart is on view now as part of James Franco’s Rebel.