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The essential guide for the collector of mechanical wristwatches, with complete information on over 1,400 models from 130 international brands.

With Wristwatch Annual, collectors have at hand a wealth of information on the latest offerings from today’s most important watch producers, from Swiss mainstays like Rolex and Patek Philippe to the maverick independent brands springing up across Europe and the U.S. The book is arranged alphabetically by producer, and the movement, functions, case, band, price, and variations of each pictured watch are fully described.

This year’s edition, like its predecessors, features a variety of additional articles on independent watchmaking, key personalities in the watch world, and the technical aspects of horology. An illustrated glossary and a primer on watch care help acclimate the reader to the world of fine timepieces.

About the Author:

Peter Braun is editor-in-chief of the renowned German wristwatch magazine Armbanduhren. Marton Radkai, an independent journalist, has edited the English-language edition of Wristwatch Annual since 2011.

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Yevonde (1893–1975) was a businesswoman and tireless creator, as an innovator committed to colour photography when it was not considered a serious medium, her work is significant in the history of British portrait photography. Yevonde championed photography during a time where there were few women photographers working professionally, and this book tells the story of her life, works, and 60-year career.

Yevonde: Life and Colour brings the photographer’s works together again for the first time in 20 years and features previously unpublished works. This book showcases her experimentation with a range of techniques and genres including colour photography, portraiture, still-lifes, solarisation, and the Vivex colour process, and repositions her as a modern artist of the twentieth century.

This highly illustrated publication provides in-depth context to Yevonde’s images, considering their aesthetic and mythic references. Yevonde’s portraits embody glorified tradition countered with a desire for the new.  Her most renowned body of work is a series of women dressed as goddesses posed in surreal tableaux from the 1930s.

About the Authors:

Clare Freestone is Curator, Photography, at the National Portrait Gallery, London. Recent publications include Photographs in Dialogue UAE – 1971 – UK (2020) and Ida Kar: Bohemian Photographer (2011), with contributions made to Love Stories: Art, Passion & Tragedy (2020).
Pamela G. Roberts is a researcher and curator. Recent publications include Alvin Langdon Coburn (2015) and A Century of Color Photography (2008), with contributions made to Madame Yevonde: Be Original or Die (1999).
Susanna Brown is a photography curator who previously worked for the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Recent publications include Tim Walker: Wonderful Things (2019) and Horst: Photographer of Style (2014).
Lucinda Gosling is Head of Sales & Research at Mary Evans Picture Library. Recent publications include John Hassall: The Life and Art of the Poster King (2021), Great War Britain: The First World War at Home (2014) and Brushes and Bayonets: Cartoons, Sketches and Paintings of World War I (2008), with contributions made to Art of Feminism (2019).
Lizzie Broadbent has worked with teams for over 25 years in complex business, consulting and non-executive roles. Her blog, Women Who Meant Business, tells the stories of business women working in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Georgia Atienza is Assistant Curator, Photographs (Acquisitions and Collections), at the National Portrait Gallery, London. Contributions made to recent publications include Love Stories: Art, Passion & Tragedy (2020), Ida Kar: Bohemian Photographer (2011) and The Virginia Woolf Bulletin (Issue No. 21, January 2006).

A magical concoction of the mischievous, tender, whimsical, and debauched real-life adventures of Alan Cumming, told in his own words and pictures. Described by the New York Times as “a bawdy countercultural sprite” and named one of the most fun people in show business by Time magazine, Alan Cumming is a genuine quadruple threat — an internationally acclaimed, award-winning star of stage, television, and film, as well as a New York Times best-selling author whose real-life vivacity, wit, and charm shine through every page of his third book, You Gotta Get Bigger Dreams. In these forty-five picture essays, Cumming recounts his real-life adventures (and often, misadventures), illustrated by his own equally entertaining photographs. From an awkward bonding session with Elizabeth Taylor to poignant stories about his family and friends to some harsh words of wisdom imparted by Oprah that make up the title of this collection, You Gotta Get Bigger Dreams is as eclectic, enchanting, and alive as its author.

About the Author:

Alan Cumming is the author of two books: Tommy’s Tale: A Novel of Sex, Confusion, and Happy Endings and the #1 New York Times best-selling memoir Not My Father’s Son. He has also had an exhibition of his photographs, Alan Cumming Snaps! His day job is acting, and most recently he was seen on TV as Eli Gold in the CBS drama The Good Wife, on Broadway in his Tony Award–winning role as the Master of Ceremonies in Cabaret, and in concert, touring the world with his cabaret show, Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs, which was also released as a live album. Alan is also a loudmouth — sorry, activist — who believes that knowledge is power and equality is a right, not a privilege. 

In commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Yukio Mishima, one of the leading figures in modern literature, The Death of a Man presents a sublime -- and often shocking -- visual record of the last few months prior to his sensational ritual suicide in November 1970.

The author of masterworks such as The Temple of the Golden Pavilion and Forbidden Colors, Mishima, a celebrated figure in postwar world literature, remains a controversial figure in Japan. His reactionary politics and the spectacular nature of his death had so profoundly impacted Japanese society that images associated with the event were never publicly shown.

In the months prior to the November incident, he enlisted Kishin Shinoyama to create a photographic, radical work of fiction, a photo essay on the death of the Japanese "everyman." In images often suffused with militarism and eroticism, a parade of men, including a sailor, a construction worker, a fisherman, and a soldier, are shown meeting grisly, dramatic ends.

Published for the very first time, these stylized images of men dying alone serve as prologues to the real-world culmination of Mishima's pursuit of total art. Locked in a performance with one inescapable end, Mishima offered his own body as its final act.

With texts by Mishima and his closest intimates and first-person reminiscences of his final moments, this book promises to be an unprecedented interrogation on the nature of performance and the role of artist as actor, provocateur, and revolutionary.

About the Author:

Kishin Shinoyama is one of the titans of Japanese postwar photography. In 2018 Louis Vuitton reprinted his landmark 1981 work on the Silk Road.

#NSFW is an Erotic Greatest Hits of photographer Rankin’s nude work. Throughout his twenty-five year career, he has returned time and again to photographing the female form. #NSFW presents a collection of his favourite shots. Unapologetic. Provocative. Beautiful. Designed on a super-size scale, the book takes nude photography to the next level, brazen yet intimate.

 - Photographer Rankin’s most daring shots
 - These images are NOT SAFE FOR WORK
 - A collection of stunning nude photography
 
Always intending to celebrate and empower women, Rankin brings a signature humour and cheek to his nudes, creating playful images that challenge preconceptions.

#NSFW is an Erotic Greatest Hits of photographer Rankin’s nude work. Throughout his twenty-five year career, he has returned time and again to photographing the female form. #NSFW presents a collection of his favourite shots. Unapologetic. Provocative. Beautiful. Designed on a super-size scale, the book takes nude photography to the next level, brazen yet intimate.

 - Photographer Rankin’s most daring shots
 - These images are NOT SAFE FOR WORK
 - A collection of stunning nude photography
 
Always intending to celebrate and empower women, Rankin brings signature humour and cheek to his nudes, creating playful images that challenge preconceptions.

A visually stunning book that approaches erotic photography from a female point of view, curated by Iman Whitfield 

If you spend a reasonable amount of time online, chances are you may have stumbled across the phrase: #SENDNUDES. A staple of millennial lingo, the term is used to request sexually explicit photographs, typically over text messaging and dating apps. Over time, #SENDNUDES has also evolved into a meme, deployed as a common punchline in image and video internet jokes.

Today, #SENDNUDES is making another transition — as the title of a carefully curated book of nude photography. In collaboration with Iman Whitfield, MENDO reached out to photographers all over the world and asked them to send their favorite shots of female sensuality and intimacy. The result is a visually stunning photo collection approaching erotic photography from a female point of view, celebrating the diversity of female beauty and body confidence, and teasing the delicate line between that which is revealed and that which remains private.

The featured images were sent from all over the world, from such highly skilled erotic photographers as Dennis Swiatkowski, Fauve Bouwman, and Paul Bellaart — each bringing a distinctive style and approach to female sensuality, intimacy, and elegance.

Iman Whitfield is a creative director and (fashion) film director. She graduated from the Willem de Kooning Academy with a video series titled „LoveStories“ that went viral. Since then she has created fashion films for major brands like Scotch & Soda, Nike, Suitsupply, and Lois Jeans. Iman loves to observe people and their characteristics, constantly capturing those around her on film or through photographs.

These are the best bikes to be found anywhere right now, giving every kind of cyclist an overview of what is out there. Whether a BMXtreme or mountain bike enthusiast, a keen tourer or racer, a city commuter or courier, or simply fascinated with the constantly advancing mechanics and engineering of folding and other innovative bike designs, this book has something for you.

The bikes on display come from across Europe, East and South Asia and North America, not to mention examples from the southern hemisphere. The major bike manufacturers like Boardman, Giant and Fuji are of course featured, but also more maverick material from Biomega, Calfee and Daymak.

100 Best Bikes is the essential resource for anyone wanting to know about the best in design and engineering for every kind of bike

Fashion of the 21st century: Shaping the styles of tomorrow

This two-volume compilation brings together highlights from TASCHEN's Fashion Now! series to create a comprehensive overview of fashion design around the world at the start of the 21st century. Edited by i-D creator Terry Jones, this book is an indispensible work of reference for anyone interested in the future of fashion. Fast-rising new designers - tomorrow's superstars - feature alongside industry giants and established practitioners:

100 современных дизайнеров моды.

Этот двухтомник включает в себя лучшее из ташеновской серии Fashion Now! создавая исчерпывающее описание мира моды начала 21-го столетия. Собрание, редактором которого выступил создатель журнала i-D Терри Джонс, является бесценным источником вдохновения для любого, кто интересуется будущим моды. Восходящие звезды на модном небосклоне - будущие суперзвезды - представлены в этом каталоге:

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Haider Ackermann / Azzedine Alaïa / Giorgio Armani / Kris Van Assche / Agnes B. / Christopher Bailey - Burberry / Neil Barrett / Luella Bartley / Walter Van Beirendonck / Véronique Branquinho / Thom Browne / Consuelo Castiglioni - Marni / Dean & Dan Caten - Dsquared / Roberto Cavalli / Hussein Chalayan / Maria Cornejo - Zero / Francisco Costa - Calvin Klein / Giles Deacon / Christophe Decarnin - Balmain / Ann Demeulemeester / Domenico Dolce & Stefano Gabbana - Dolce & Gabbana / Alber Elbaz - Lanvin / Silvia Venturini Fendi / Alberta Ferretti / Limi Feu / Tom Ford / Dai Fujiwara - Issey Miyake / John Galliano - Christian Dior / Jean Paul Gaultier - Hermès / Nicolas Ghesquière - Balenciaga / Frida Giannini - Gucci / Katharine Hamnett / Ann Valérie Hash /Desiree Heiss & Ines Kaag - Bless / Lazaro Hernandez & Jack McCollough - Proenza Schouler / Tommy Hilfiger / Viktor Horsting & Rolf Snoeren - Viktor & Rolf / Margaret Howell / Marc Jacobs - Louis Vuitton / Rossella Jardini - Moschino / Wolfgang Joop - Wunderkind / Christopher Kane / Donna Karan / Rei Kawakubo - Comme des Garçons / Adam Kimmel / Sophia Kokosalaki / Michael Kors / Tao Kurihara

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Christian Lacroix / Karl Lagerfeld - Chanel / Ralph Lauren / Christophe Lemaire - Lacoste / Julien MacDonald / Hannah MacGibbon - Chloé / Tomas Maier - Bottega Veneta / Martin Margiela - Maison Martin Margiela / Antonio Marras - Kenzo / Stella McCartney / Alexander McQueen / Angela Missoni / Roland Mouret / Kate & Laura Mulleavy - Rodarte / Richard Nicoll / Nigo - A Bathing Ape / Dries Van Noten / Lucas Ossendrijver - Lanvin / Rick Owens / Bruno Pieters - Hugo Boss / Stefano Pilati – Yves Saint Laurent / Zac Posen / Miuccia Prada / Gareth Pugh / John Richmond / Narciso Rodriguez / Sonia Rykiel / Jonathan Saunders - Pollini / Marios Schwab / Jeremy Scott / Raf Simons - Jil Sander / Martine Sitbon - Rue du Mail / Paul Smith / Anna Sui / Jun Takahashi - Undercover / Olivier Theyskens / Justin Thornton & Thea Bregazzi - Preen / Aitor Throup / Riccardo Tisci - Givenchy / Jean Touitou - APC / Giambattista Valli / An Vandevorst & Filip Arickx - AF Vandevorst / Donatella Versace / Stuart Vevers - Loewe / Milan Vukmirovic - Trussardi / Alexander Wang / Junya Watanabe / Vivienne Westwood / Bernhard Willhelm / Matthew Williamson / Yohji Yamamoto / Italo Zucchelli - Calvin Klein.

Rooms with a view. A collection of 100 heavenly hideaways

When travelling for business, we often prefer hotel rooms of the same type in London, Paris, or Shanghai. It s just more convenient. A different set of rules applies when they search for a place to celebrate a special family holiday, a weekend with a new lover, or a few days of blissful solitude with some great books. Suddenly a balcony with postcard-worthy views counts more than the number of TV channels, a sumptuous bed with a heavenly mattress and hand-ironed linens more than Wi-Fi connection in every nook and cranny of the hotel building.

That s where this new TASCHEN collection comes in. A compilation of 100 hotels, in countries from Abu Dhabi to Vietnam, the two volumes make it a breeze to choose where to relax next. The gamut runs from dream castles like Villa Feltrinelli on Lake Garda to the glass-fronted hipster chic of Juvet Hotel in Norway; from Mediterranean pensiones with nostalgic flair and moderate rates to the pricey-yet-worthy desert glamour of Amangiri resort in Utah s canyon country. Even dedicated web scouts will be tempted by this book to cuddle up on their sofa for a round of paper travelling. While fans of interior design might use it as an inspiring global selection of splendid sofas, beds, lights, and bathroom features.

 - 100 very special hotels and guesthouses all over the world
 - rom bed & breakfast basic to six-star luxurious
 - Selected by TASCHEN s style and travel department according to criteria like stylistic harmony, location, service, and cost-performance ratio
 - Each hotel comes with a reader-friendly chart listing the number of rooms, current prices, type of cuisine, amenities, plus the all-important X-factor: the feature that makes staying there a truly unique experience
 - The full scope of contemporary travel in two neat volumes, coffee table-sized and with countless glossy photographs

The female form has been a central theme in art for as long as there has been some form of artistic expression.

This new title is a worthy addition to that veritable canon that celebrates feminine grace and strength. Compiled over a period of seven years, this volume of photographs is a visual tribute to the women of Denmark — to their womanly beauty and integrity as individuals. The subjects come from all walks of life — models, singers, artists, actresses, artists, and students. Serene and timeless, every portrait allows the individual personality to shine through. The reader is immediately struck not only by the pride these women take, both in their bodies and in their spirits, but also by their indomitable strength and sense of purpose.

With solid bodies of work in their respective fields and worldwide acclaim as top practitioners, photographer Bjarke Johansen and creative director Simon Rasmussen are vital creative presences, both in their native land of Denmark and in international circles.

 - A powerful and original addition to any photographic library
 - 100 Great Danes is an exciting project showcasing some of the most beautiful women of Scandinavia
 - A perfect gift for all admirers of the female form
 - Also available as Collector's Edition - Limited Edition of 50 copies, slipcase, and portfolio with one of two signed and numbered photo prints

This celebration of contemporary street photography — in all its edgy, strange, beautiful, haunting, colorful, and humorous glory — brings together the work of a new generation of talented artists

Over the past few decades, the long tradition of street photography has been wholly transformed by the proliferation of digital cameras, the Internet, and smartphones.

A new generation of photographers have embraced this modern technology to capture the world around us in a way that is un-staged, of-the-moment, and real. Exploring this rich seam of emergent and exciting street photography, the 100 photographs featured in this book are presented on doublepage spreads along with commentary about the work and its creator. Curated by David Gibson, a street photographer and expert in the genre, this stunning book offers a truly global collection of images. Gibson’s insightful introduction gives an insider’s overview of street photography, illuminating its historic importance and its renaissance in the digital age.

About the Author:

David Gibson is a street photographer, the author of The Street Photographer's Manual, and a founder of the street photography collective In-Public. He regularly leads street photography workshops in London and other cities across the globe.

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100 GreatStreet Photographs открывает читателю всю красоту, остроту, странность и необыкновенную свежеть уличной фотографии. Это современное, молодое племя художников, которые работают в ярком и немного шутливом стиле.

Запоследнее время старые традиции уличной фотографии были полностью трансформированы, в основном, из-за появления современной техники, такой как цифровые фотокамеры, смартфоны и интернет. В книге 100 Great Street Photographs подробно рассказывается о том, как молодое поколение фотографов внедрило эти современные технологии, чтобы показать мир вокруг нас в реальном времени, без постановок и фильтров. Исследуя эти новые и увлекательные уличные снимки, автор собрал 100 лучших из них, и поместил в своей книге на полноценных разворотах, на 2 страницы. Также, в издании можно найти подробное описание жизни и творчества самих создателей этих шедевров.

Купив 100 Great Street Photographs, созданную David Gibson, который и сам является уличным фотографом и профессионалом жанра, Вашему вниманию откроется поистине, потрясающая своим масштабом, коллекция фотографий. Остроумное введение от автора дает полнуб рецензию уличной фотографии, как искусства, освещая ее историческую значимость и перерождение, во времена цифрового прогресса.

Об авторе

Дэвид Гибсон – уличный фотограф, автор знаменитого «Руководства уличного фотографа» и основатель коллектива street фотографии - In-Public. Он регулярно проводит мастер-классы в Лондоне и других городах, по всему миру.

Between July 1945 and November 1962 the United States is known to have conducted 216 atmospheric and underwater nuclear tests. After the Limited Test Ban Treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1963, nuclear testing went underground. It became literally invisible - but more frequent: the United States conducted a further 723 underground tests, the last in 1992. 100 Suns documents the era of visible nuclear testing, the atmospheric era, with one hundred photographs drawn by Michael Light from the archives at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the U.S. National Archives in Maryland. It includes previously classified material from the clandestine Lookout Mountain Air Force Station based in Hollywood, whose film directors, cameramen and still photographers were sworn to secrecy.

The title, 100 Suns, refers to the response by J.Robert Oppenheimer to the world’s first nuclear explosion in New Mexico when he quoted a passage from the Bhagavad Gita, the classic Vedic text: “If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst forth at once in the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One . . . I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” This was Oppenheimer’s attempt to describe the otherwise indescribable. 100 Suns likewise confronts the indescribable by presenting without embellishment the stark evidence of the tests at the moment of detonation. Since the tests were conducted either in Nevada or the Pacific the book is simply divided between the desert and the ocean. Each photograph is presented with the name of the test, its explosive yield in kilotons or megatons, the date and the location. The enormity of the events recorded is contrasted with the understated neutrality of bare data. Interspersed within the sequence of explosions are pictures of the awestruck witnesses.

The evidence of these photographs is terrifying in its implication while at same time profoundly disconcerting as a spectacle. The visual grandeur of such imagery is balanced by the chilling facts provided at the end of the book in the detailed captions, a chronology of the development of nuclear weaponry and an extensive bibliography. A dramatic sequel to Michael Light’s Full Moon, 100 Suns forms an unprecedented historical document.

Since the beginning of civilization, women have worn underwear. Justified as protection, or a hygienic necessity, this "second skin" was devised to satisfy perverse erotic instincts. A "trap laid by Venus" to entertain and stimulate the fantasies of both the woman who wears them and the man who discovers them. Corsets, bras and panties are not utilitarian items - they are elements in a mystic ritual linking man and woman. They act as an obsessive focus for fantasy, for the sex they conceal is powerless without the decorations and seductions which separate us from it. Pleasure would perish without censorship.

Women have always known how to stimulate the latent fetishism of the men around them. Under her dress, a Greek girl of the classical period would wear a belt around her hips which was of no practical use except to draw attention to her feminity. Likewise, the women of Rome already wore garters round their thighs, though the stocking had not yet been invented. In our own century, vamps, starlets, pin-ups and models have filled our cínema screens, our advertising hoardings, our office calendars and our imaginations with the erotic engineering of the garter belt and the surreptitious rustle of nylon stockings.

Dessous traces the evolution of this living mythology from its first steps in the dawn of civilization to its apotheosis in the films and advertising campaigns of the modern world. Lavishly illustrated, it demonstrates how the conflict between the need to conceal and the will to reveal has provided women with the means to explore their own sexuality and exercise an erotic ascendancy over men. The result is a richly aphrodisiacal meditation, an intimate exploration of the props of our theatre of desire.