Calling All EC Fan-Addicts!A history of the world’s most notorious comicsIn 1947, Bill Gaines inherited EC Comics, a new venture founded by his legendary father M. C. Gaines...
Behind the scenes of Nic Roeg’s 1976 sci-fi masterpiece starring David BowieFirst advertised as a “mind-stretching experience,” Nicolas Roeg’s 1976 The Man Who Fell to...
Gleaned from thousands of images, this book offers the best of American print advertising in the age of the “Big Idea.” From the height of American consumerism, bold and colorful campai...
Shaken, Not StirredThe most complete account of the making of the James Bond series“Bond, James Bond.” Since Sean Connery uttered those immortal words in 1962, the mos...
Best of BauhausThe definitive reference work, now in a compact formatIn a fleeting 14-year period between two world wars, Germany's Bauhaus school of art and design changed the fa...
In a fleeting fourteen year period, sandwiched between two world wars, Germany’s Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideals for the future, the school...
As special photographer on the sets and locations of Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather trilogy, Steve Schapiro had the remarkable experience of witnessing legendary actors giving some of t...
A photo tribute to our four-pawed friendsIn celebration of the world’s favorite animal, we bring you over 400 photographs of or about dogs. With pictures from the 19th century to today,...
Ads of the 1970s get funky and socially consciousBoth eclipsed and influenced by television, American print ads of the 1970s departed from the bold, graphic forms and subtle messages th...
Filling notebook after notebook with sketches, inventions, and theories, Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) not only stands as one of the most exceptional draftsmen of art history, but also as a m...
Journey back to early 20th-century Italy“You may have the universe,” composer Giuseppe Verdi once said, “if I can have Italy.” Back in the mid-19th century, Verdi&rsqu...
Backstage pass to the Fab FourIn early 1964, photographer Harry Benson received a call from the photo editor of London’s Daily Express, who asked him to cover the Beatles’ t...
The deceptively simple lemon takes center stage in the second volume of TASCHEN’s collaboration with The Gourmand, masters of the rich intersection of food and art. The star of Renaissance ga...
First advertised as a “mind-stretching experience,” Nicolas Roeg’s 1976 The Man Who Fell to Earth stunned the cinema world. A tour-de-force of science fiction as art form, the mov...
Mert Alas, born in Turkey, and Marcus Piggott, born in Wales, met in 1994, at a party on a pier in Hastings, England. Piggott asked Alas for a light, the pair got talking, and rapidly discovered th...
The genius and the angst of a tortured talentToday, the works of Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) are among the most well known and celebrated in the world. In paintings such as Sunflowers,...
The official illustrated history of Depeche Mode by Dutch artist Anton CorbijnIn November 2020, Depeche Mode were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and Dave Gahan, accepting the...
Louis Isadore Kahn and a luminous modernist languageLouis Isadore Kahn (1901–1974) treated each building like a temple. Across the United States, in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Isr...
An essential, early portrait of Africa’s wildlife crisis“The deeper the white man went into Africa, the faster the life flowed out of it, off the plains and out of the bush...vani...
Pastel DreamsThe powerful architecture of North KoreaErased by bombing during the Korean War, North Korea’s trophy capital of Pyongyang was entirely rebuilt from scratch fro...