Saul Leiter photographed and painted nearly every day for over sixty years, amassing an enormous archive, most of which remained unseen during his lifetime. Finding inspiration within a few blocks ...
This unique visual collection celebrates the very best contemporary Maximalist interior design as well as making the connection to a much longer historical tradition of excess. Maximalism is a styl...
Escape to the seafront, or get lost in the wilds of the forest and discover the remote architectural masterpieces that are just as inspiring as your destination.Spanning all continents,...
Best surf conditions or the rarity of a perfect session is what makes surfing so unique and intense. In Surf Porn, not only the right swell, right wind, right tide and weather are important but the...
In the Beginning Was the ComputerA history from early calculating machines to todayThe story of the evolution of machines in computer history is full of the disruptive innovations...
In 2020, an extraordinary trove of nearly a thousand photographs taken by Paul McCartney on a 35mm camera was re-discovered in his archive. They intimately record the months towards the end of 1963...
Jones's Icones contains finely delineated paintings of more than 760 species of Lepidoptera, many of which it described for the first time, marking a critical moment in the study of natural history...
The powerful aesthetic and philosophical framework that Modernism ushered in during the early part of the 20th century revolutionized the built world, transformed our living spaces and lifestyles, ...
The amiably spontaneous pictures taken by Sam Shaw (1912–1999) are well known: the native and life-long New Yorker shot countless cover photographs for Life and Look in the fifties and sixtie...
Curated and edited by the artist Ina Otzko, 100 Norwegian Photographers is a magnificent volume of photos from today’s Norwegian photography scene.Otzko gives one hundred contempo...
This is the first book to emphasize the wide spectrum of emotional archetypes through which Munch reveals various existential obsessions such as love, desire, jealousy, angst and death, and states ...
People and their relationships with each other are the focal point of photographs by Rosalind Solomon. The photos show well-known figures and ordinary people as they go about their daily lives and ...
"30 Years of Polaroids" presents a vivid cross-section of Bruno Bisang's Polaroid archives.Once a simple tool to test lighting, angles, and moods, this format is now a relic o...
This book highlights architectural drawings from the Albertina’s superb collection and offers new insights into the genre.Since the medium began, artists have used architectural d...
A richly illustrated, authoritative global survey of the best and most creative interior designers and decorators working todayOur surroundings are the key to our comfort and happiness,...
After a career spanning sixty years, Sir Don McCullin, once a witness to conflict across the globe, has become one of the great landscape photographers of our time. McCullin’s pastoral view i...
From the walls of the Salon to the pages of weekly newspapers, war imagery was immensely popular in postrevolutionary France. This fascinating book studies representations of contemporary conflict ...
Amidst the tumult and revolution that characterized the latter half of the 20th century in Latin America and the US, women artists were staking their claim in nearly every field. This wide-ranging ...
Gustav Klimt’s 1907 publication of his illustrated edition of Lucian’s ancient work Dialogues of the Courtesans was the first time he exhibited his erotic art to the public, and it led ...
Tutankhamun’s royal voyage into paradise, as told by ancient Egyptian treasuresBuried in the 14th century BC but unearthed by Howard Carter in 1922, the objects entombed with Tutankhamu...