Faces of Ecstasy

Regular price £80.00 GBP
Just millimetres across, Ecstasy tablets may be among the smallest and most widely consumed forms of art. Featuring stolen logos, cartoons, political symbols, internet memes, and cultural references, the pills carry the visual language of the moment that made them. Their designs tell us nothing reliable about the drugs inside, but reveal a great deal about the culture surrounding them. Faces of Ecstasy is a five-year investigation into this hidden design language. Through more than 1,200 macro photographs and rare underworld interviews, Adam Fierman and Peter Andrew Lusztyk document a largely anonymous world of pill producers, chemists, dealers, collectors, and… Read more