Olivier Zahm, the notorious founder of Purple magazine, chronicles the world around him in nonstop photographs. And what a world it is, replete with daring models, counter-cultural artists and performers, and the hip denizens of Paris, New York, LA and more.
He captures the lives of the creative elite, himself included, and in O.Z. DIARY, has personally selected and organized hundreds of images into a wildly adventurous visual autobiography.
“Photography is Olivier Zahm’s conceptual tool—his way to interject ideas into the world,” states, art critic Donatien Grau in an Afterword.
Accompanied by a droll tribute from Glenn O’Brien—no stranger to hip nightlife himself—and additional text by Jeff Rian, long-time Purple contributing writer, and Donatien Grau, OLIVIER ZAHM DIARY 
“Olivier leads a sort of heroic life. He is out there in the world, looking for more. He is the exemplar of urban adventure. He pushes the envelope of joie de vivre, like Chuck Yeager pushing the wildly shaking X-1 rocket rocket plane to the edge of space in The Right Stuff. He’s the test pilot of the night.”—Glenn O’Brien
By Olivier Zahm
With text by Glenn O’Brien, Jeff Rian and Donatien Grau
Hardcover / 8.25” x 12” / 608 pages / 600 color and B&W photos / $85.00 U.S.
Rizzoli New York / ISBN: 9780847841387 / Release date: October 2014About the Authors:
Olivier Zahm was an art critic for Artforum and Flash Art before cofounding Purple magazine in 1992 with Elein Fleiss. Also an artistic director, Zahm has curated exhibitions at MOMA PS1, the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, and the Centre Pompidou.
Since 2004, Zahm has been working as a photographer, shooting for magazines, and exhibiting internationally. Glenn O’Brien is a New York-based author, essayist, editor, creative director and bon vivant. His world-syndicated column “The Style Guy” has been the style bible for men of all ages. His book, How to be a Man, was published by Rizzoli in 2011.
Jeff Rian is an American writer and musician. He has been an associate editor of Purple magazine since 1992, and is a professor at l’Ecole Superieur d’Arts Cergy-Paris. Donatien Grau is a Parisian art critic, writer and academic who has written extensively on contemporary art and philosophy for many international publications.
