Altered States: The Library of Julio Santo Domingo

Julio Mario Santo Domingo, Jr. (1957-2009) was a collector and visionary who imaginatively amassed—with a fantastic disregard for traditional concepts of high and low culture—the world’s greatest private collection related to the subjects of drugs, sex, magic, and rock and roll. A library of up to 100,000 books, and equal amounts of ephemera (posters, photographs, paintings, records, newspapers, medicine bottles, dolls, badges, opium pipes, bongs, pinball machines, syringes, beds and a fossilized grapefruit), this extraordinary collection is vividly documented in Altered States: The Library of Julio Santo Domingo.