Sofasosexy
Rankin
2002
Early-2000s Dazed-era British fashion/editorial culture distilled into a single project: nude models photographed on the battered orange faux-leather sofa at the Dazed & Confused offices, deliberately mixing eroticism with anti-glamour humour.
Read the catalogue note →- Creator
- Rankin
- Publisher
- Vision On Publishing
- Edition / printing
- First edition, 2002 — printing not separately numbered
- Country
- UK
- Language
- English
- ISBN-10
- 1903399521
- ISBN-13
- 978-1-903399-52-1
- Format
- Compact illustrated stiff-wrapper/board-bound photobook; 128 pp.; approx. 158.8 × 209.6 mm; printed in Slovenia
- Pagination
- 128 pages
- Dimensions
- approx. 158.8 × 209.6 mm
- Condition
- Very Good to Very Good+ — approx. 7.8–8.1 visually
- Completeness
- Original £12.99 barcode/price label present
Catalogue note
Early-2000s Dazed-era British fashion/editorial culture distilled into a single project: nude models photographed on the battered orange faux-leather sofa at the Dazed & Confused offices, deliberately mixing eroticism with anti-glamour humour.
Credit / attribution note: Rankin’s current site labels the format “Hardback”, while contemporary/specialist booksellers and later distribution catalogues describe the ISBN as paperback/softcover/limp card wrappers. The archive uses neutral physical-description language.
Edition / bibliographic note: Front reads “SEXY”; rear reads “SOFAS”, visually resolving the title across both sides. Contemporary and later catalogues disagree on binding terminology, so the archive describes the physical object neutrally.
Condition note: Bright covers with modest edge/corner wear and intact price label; sampled colophon clean.
Preserved discrepancies / uncertainties: Rankin’s current site labels the format “Hardback”, while contemporary/specialist booksellers and later distribution catalogues describe the ISBN as paperback/softcover/limp card wrappers. The archive uses neutral physical-description language.
Research status: Core ISBN, publisher, 2002 date and 160-page extent independently revalidated 15 Aug 2026. Binding terminology remains intentionally neutral because available catalogues use inconsistent hardback, softcover and wiro descriptions.
Legacy record ID: 007
Why this object matters
The 2002 sofa project preserves a distinctive, tightly bounded strand of Rankin's photographic practice and the informal environment of Dazed. It is a strong original project book, with a narrower documentary scope than Bourdin's process volume. Conflicting pagination and binding descriptions remain unresolved.
Evidence limits: No new physical inspection or collation was performed. Copy-specific conclusions remain limited to the retained catalogue and accession evidence.
Score and assessment method
Archive Importance: 8.4 / 10.
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