The most comprehensive photographic study of an extraordinary city, Berlin, Portrait of a City offers some 560 pages of aerial views, street scenes, portraits, and more to trace the city from the Roaring Twenties to the ruins of war to its rebirth as political and cultural capital. Quotes from famed Berlin icons and connoisseurs, from Marlene Dietrich to David Bowie, accompany the images. Hardcover, 25 x 34 cm, 4.08 kg, 560 pages
TASCHEN is proud to announce the long-awaited, latest and final publications from artist David LaChapelle: a two-volume project to complete his career-spanning anthology. Here, Good News picks up from Lost + Found, Part I, in a monumental curation of images never before published in book form. It marks a dramatic conclusion to LaChapelle’s five-book narrative, one that has captivated a generation of viewers across the globe. Hardcover in box, 27.8 x 35.5 cm, 3.57 kg, 276 pages
David LaChapelle: Lost + Found, Part I / by David LaChapelle (Author), Издательство: Taschen, Серия: , Страниц: 278, Переплет: твердый, ISBN: 9783836570459
Art history acquires a new rhythm in this unique anthology of artists’ record covers from the 1950s to today. More than 500 covers trace the interaction of music and visual art through modernism, Pop Art, conceptual practice, and beyond. Featured covers include Salvador Dalí’s skewered butterfly for Jackie Gleason and Damien Hirst’s symbolic skull for the Hours. Hardcover, 29.3 x 29.3 cm, 3.84 kg, 448 pages
Bettina Rheims assembles more than 300 of her favorite pictures from the past 35 years. Shooting anonymous subjects and global icons like Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell, Rheims has pushed at the breaking point between beauty and imperfection. This unique personal record of a defiant career that has shaken up iconography brings together renowned series like Chambre Close, Héroïnes, and Rose, c’est Paris. Hardcover, 21.4 x 27.4 cm, 2.65 kg, 452 pages
Dive into one of the most colorful pop culture phenomena of mid-century America. In this handy edition gathering hundreds of images and ephemera, urban archaeologist Sven Kirsten takes us on a journey through Tiki history, from the first Pacific island exploration to Hollywood jungle fantasies and elaborate temples built to celebrate Tiki as the god of recreation. Hardcover, 14 x 19.5 cm, 1.12 kg, 640 pages
American pioneer Alfred Stieglitz defined early 20th-century photography, creating the school of “Photo Secessionism” and founding cult art, literature, and avant-garde photo journal Camera Work. This beautiful book reproduces the entire 50-issue run, originally published between 1903 and 1917—a benchmark of photography as art form. Hardcover, 14 x 19.5 cm, 1.29 kg, 552 pages
Over 200 paintings, sculptures, photographs, and conceptual pieces trace the story of modern art’s innovation and adventure. With explanatory texts for each work, and essays introducing each of the major modern movements, this is an authoritative overview of the ideas and the artworks that shook up standards, assaulted the establishment, and trailblazed new ideas. Hardcover, 14 x 19.5 cm, 1.20 kg, 696 pages
Welcome to the comprehensive catalogue of logos. Across industry, media, music, and more, this far-reaching collection explores the irrepressible power of a brand’s graphic representation. Thematic chapters explore how text, image, and ideas distill into a symbol. In handy reference-book size, this is a definitive introduction to the philosophy—and triumphs—of visual branding. Hardcover, 14 x 19.5 cm, 1.29 kg, 664 pages
From cameras to kitchenware, Lego to Lamborghini, follow the makers and shapers of industrial design in Industrial Design A–Z. This revised and updated edition covers the individual designers, the global businesses, and above all the genius products that have synthesized form and function to transform our daily lives. Hardcover, 14 x 19.5 cm, 0.98 kg, 616 pages
From delivery boy to one of the most important industrialists in history: founder of Kodak George Eastman had a decidedly American career. Upon his death, his house became an international museum of photography and film: to this day, it holds the largest collection of its kind in the world. This volume curates the most impressive images from the collection in an incomparable overview of photographic history. Hardcover, 14 x 19.5 cm, 1.17 kg, 768 pages
Lewis W. Hine. America at Work (Bibliotheca Universalis) / by Peter Walther (Author), Lewis W. Hine (Photographer), Издательство: Taschen, Серия: , Страниц: 544, Переплет: твердый, ISBN: 9783836572347
Fashion History from the 18th to the 20th Century (Bibliotheca Universalis) / , Издательство: Taschen, Серия: Fashion, Страниц: , Переплет: , ISBN: 9783836557191
In this illustrated fashion story, 400 fashion advertisements from the Jim Heimann Collection trace not only the changing trends and silhouettes of the 20th century but also the evolution in their marketing, as fashion developed from an exclusive Parisian salon business into today’s global mega-industry. Hardcover, 15.1 x 19.5 cm, 1.22 kg, 592 pages
If you thought these paintings were familiar, look again, and look closer. Part art history, part detective work, this fascinating collection explores 100 world-famous works of art through enlarged details, revealing the fashions and lifestyles, the loves and intrigues, politics and people that truly make a masterpiece. Hardcover, 14 x 19.5 cm, 1.26 kg, 788 pages
Once synonymous with eyesore highway bridges and crumbling, unloved walls, concrete has been reborn as adventurous and sexy. This Bibliotheca Universalis edition considers the elaborate feats and prodigious engineering of contemporary concrete architecture, from stars such as Tadao Ando and Herzog & de Meuron, to fresh new studios like the Russian SPEECH. Hardcover, 14 x 19.5 cm, 0.99 kg, 632 pages
The self as a subject is one of the most fascinating and fruitful of artistic enterprises. From the 15th century to today, this collection brings together some of the best examples of self-portraiture to explore the genre’s evolution over the centuries as well as the enduring questions of selfhood and self-representation that have besieged human experience for centuries before social media and the selfie. Hardcover, 21 x 26 cm, 0.57 kg, 96 pages