AN ANNIE FLANDERS SOHO WEEKLY NEWS ARCHIVE OF PHOTOGRAPHS AND EPHEMERA. After years running her ...

AN ANNIE FLANDERS SOHO WEEKLY NEWS ARCHIVE OF PHOTOGRAPHS AND EPHEMERA. After years running her own chic downtown store and running a manufacturing business in Ethiopia, Annie Flanders pivoted to journalism, taking a position as the style editor of Soho Weekly News. The Soho News, as it was known, was a literate, artsy paper that championed the charms of its neighborhood and positioned itself as a competitor to The Village Voice. As she had at Abracadabra, Flanders promoted hip new designers and cutting-edge fashions, working with photographers like Bruce Weber and Bill Cunningham to show the clothes and the models to their best advantage. This lot features photographs, manuscripts and ephemera from Flanders' time at Soho News, including the following: Box 1: a large collection of photographic prints by various photographers, housed in tabbed folders, most 8 x 10 inches (203 x 255 mm), artists include ALLEN TANNENBAUM; ANTON PERRICH; ELIN VON SPRECHLESEN; FRANCIS ING; ROXANNE LOVIT; TOM O'BRIEN; G. VASQUEZ DUARTE; KEVIN HIGGINS; LOUIS GONZALEZ; TOM PUZZUTELLI; COLLETTE; MARIA ROBLEDO; BERT ANDREWS; BOB MURRAY; DAVID JAMES; WILLY SPILLER; CATHERONE LEUTHOLD; SHEILA ABRAMSON; and others, approx. 150 prints. Box 2: a file relating to Betsey Johnson, including a birth announcement for her daughter, a head shot, a cartoon for NY Times, an ad for Johnson's children's pajamas; an accordion file of club ephemera, including flyers for The World, the Copacabana, Studio 54, and Palladium; a partial asset listing for the Roxy Roller Rink Accordion; a group of Tony Gleaton catalogs and ephemera. Box 3: a red cloth Soho News Apron; a collection of fashion prints by TONY GLEATON; a collection of Soho News broadsides advertising the Style section, approx. 15; a file of Bill Cunningham mss for Soho News; magazine ephemera, including bumper stickers and postcards; 8 boxes of slides, including one labeled 'Bruce Weber Linda Ronstadt haircut' and 6 from the Camp Soho Weekly shoot by Bill Cunningham; with film strips in envelopes. Box 4: 39 issues of Soho News, Feb 2, 1977- April 2, 1980, duplicates present, some issues married with original photographic prints from Flander's archive, including works by TONY GLEATON, FRANK HORVAT and FRANCIS ING. Box 5: ADULT SUMMER CAMP/CAMP SOHO NEWS by BILL CUNNINGHAM. approx. 54 8 x 10 inch prints plus 25 contact prints, plus 2 11 x 14 prints (one color one black-and-white) all from Summer / June 7, 1979 Soho News Style issue 'Camp,' a shoot organized by Bill Cunningham showing models engaged in summer camp activities of camping, boating, etc. Plus 15 additional Cunningham prints; a file of Soho News correspondence, incl. a copy of Annie Flanders' contract; and additional issues of the magazine, October 14, 1976-Sept 9, 1981. Footnotes: Marcia Weinraub (1939-2022) was born in the Bronx. As a young woman, she studied fashion and journalism at NYU (and won the 1959 Miss NYU pageant!) before launching a career as buyer for various department stores. In 1967 she opened her own store on the upper east side, Abracadabra, a funky boutique specializing in new and avant-garde designers. She met Chris Flanders, an actor, and though they never married, she took his last name and also changed her first name when he suggested she was more of an 'Annie' than a 'Marcia.' Abracadabra ran for a few years, then Flanders moved to Ethiopia to oversee a leather manufacturing enterprise. In 1976 she was hired as the Fashion Editor for the Soho Weekly News, a newspaper designed to rival the more popular and famous Village Voice. The Soho News shut down in 1982, and with $6000 of her own money, Flanders started Details with many of her Soho News staffers. Details was to be a diary not just of a neighborhood, but of the whole city--its nightlife, restaurants, art, music and fashion scenes. It's motto? 'A party in a magazine.' The magazine published monthly (rather than weekly, like the Soho News) and featured photography from some of the most important photographers working at the time: Bruce Weber, Steven Meisel, Amy Arbus, Patrick McMullan—and Flanders' very close friend, Bill Cunningham. Cunningham is best known for his long association with the New York Times but Flanders first gave him the most freedom of any editor. Details caught on with its audience but never found financial stability. Flanders sold out to an investor in 1986, who then sold the magazine on to S.I. Newhouse in 1988. She remained as Editor-in-Chief for a short period before being pushed out altogether. Then, the publisher made the head-scratching decision to turn Details into a men's magazine before the entire project was shut down in 2015. Flanders' post-Details career included co-sponsoring the Love Balls of 1989 and 1991, and a later move to Los Angeles where she continued to write and consult until her death in 2022. 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