Unlicensed Records 5 x 25 cm4 ink

5 x 25 cm4 ink Riso print and hot stamping

He created a world that was his very own

Ed van der Elsken assembled a photobook on the theme of feasts

and music worlds

Unlicensed Records 5 x 25 cm4 inkOver the last few decades, the term bootlegginga practice once relegated to smugglers and copyright infringershas become understood as a creative act. Debates about homage, appropriation and theft, already common in the art world, are now being held in the spheres of corporate branding, social media and the creative industry as a whole. Today, bootlegging has become an aesthetic in and of itself, influencing everything from underground record labels