Derek Pell is a visual artist, photographer, writer and satirist. He is the editor in chief of Zoom Street Magazine. He was editor of DingBat Magazine for 12 years, and a contributing editor to PC Laptop. Under both his name and his pen names, most notably Norman Conquest, Derek Pell has authored more than 30 books, many of which he designed and illustrated, including the Doktor Bey series, Bewildering Beasties, Assassination Rhapsody, Lost In Translation, and The Little Red Book of Adobe LiveMotion, along with several collections of his work.
He had been a regular contributor to Playboy, National Lampoon, LA Weekly, as well as a columnist for The Westport News. His work has been featured in such publications as Adobe Magazine, Natural History, The Times, Rolling Stone, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, and Fiction International. Since 1968, his work has appeared in hundreds of literary magazines and small press publications in the U.S. and Europe.
Table of Contents
- 1 Biography
- 2 Photography
- 2.1 Doktor Bey's handbooks of strange sex
- 2.2 Naked Lunch at Tiffany's
- 2.3 Assassination Rhapsody (Semiotext) by Derek Pell (1992-11-22)
- 2.4 Graduating with 1st Class Honours
- 2.5 Bewildering Beasties (Dover Humor) by Derek Pell (2003-03-28)
- 2.6 The Little Red Book of Adobe Livemotion: A Radical Guide to Flash Animation
- 2.7 Shoot to Thrill: A Hard-Boiled Guide to Digital Photography
- 2.8 The Marquis De Sade's Elements of Style
- 2.9 X-Texts (New Autonomy Series)
- 2.10 Doktor Bey's suicide guidebook: Introduction and collages
- 2.11 More interesting reads:
Biography
Derek Pell dropped out of the Art Institute of Chicago in the late 1960s and opened The Not Guilty Bookshop & Press on Martha’s Vineyard. His writing & art began appearing in publications of experimental literature under various pseudonyms, most notably Doktor Bey and Norman Conquest. His primary style was incorporating mixed-media and using collage-text and cut and paste techniques. After the success of his Doktor Bey series in the late 1970s, Derek Pell moved to Los Angeles in the eighties, during this period he was charged by the FBI for defacing US Currency while working on a mail-art performance. He began experimenting with cybertext, hyperlinks, and other computer-aided art in 1991. Pell & Conquest currently reside in the Bay Area where they edit Black Scat Books, a small independent press devoted to “Sublime Art & Literature.”
Photography
Pell has been involved with photography since 1974. He writes the Zoom Street blog (zoomstreet.wordpress.com) and is the author of SHOOT TO THRILL: A HARD-BOILED GUIDE TO DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY (Que: 2009)
His only other nonfiction book is The Little Red Book of Adobe LiveMotion (No Starch / O’Reilly) -a guide to Flash animation. He has worked as a press photographer for UPI, and his photographs have appeared in The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Rolling Stone, LensCulture, The Times, New York, Interview, L.A. Weekly, American Forests, Fiction International, The Village Voice, and Zink.
More interesting reads:
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Last update 2021-08-06