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 100 duotone and 47 color photographs

Swiss photographer Bruno Bisang has been on a life-long artistic quest to document the unending, multi-faceted varieties of the feminine mystique. His photographs are more than mere idealizations of the female form. They are expressions of Bisang's desire to record the independent spirit of his subjects-international models and celebrities such as Claudia Schiffer, Tyra Banks, and Monica Bellucci. This collection of exquisitely observed photographies is a luminous distillation of essence and form, "a record of women's radiance" that expresses Bisang's belief that "Every woman possesses a fount of femininity and unique sensuality".

Bruno Bisang is a much sought-after Swiss fashion photographer who lives and works in Zurich, Milan, Paris and New York City. He photographs advertising campaigns for most of the major fashion houses and his work appears regularly in magazines such as Vogue, Max, GQ, and Amica.

100 duotone and 47 color photographs

Published fall 2004, this collection of exquisitely observed photographs is now available in a beautifully bound, slip-cased Collector’s Edition. Swiss photographer Bruno Bisang has been on a life-long artistic quest to document the unending, multi-faceted varieties of the feminine mystique. More than mere idealizations of the female form, his photographs are expressions of Bisang’s desire to record the independent spirit of his subjects and his belief that "Every woman possesses a fount of femininity and unique sensuality".

* A luminous distillation of essence and form now in a beautifully bound slip-cased Collector’s Edition
* A collection of duotone and color portraits of world-famous models such as Claudia Schiffer, Tyra Banks, and Monica Bellucci

This book, published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same title (Milan, Spring 2009), is produced in collaboration with Dolce & Gabbana.

Always audacious, sometimes outrageous, Vogue’s images distinguish themselves by their willingness to explore the limits of contemporary ideas of beauty and they are created by the greatest photographers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The one hundred or so featured prints reveal profoundly sensual and highly provocative narratives that bear witness to complex cultural attitudes toward female appearance and self-expression.

From the neoclassical figures of Edward Steichen to the unconventional nudes of Annie Leibovitz, the aggressive portraiture of Helmut Newton, and the modernism of Steven Klein, the photographs in this volume consider the evolving female subject, in all her strength and contradiction. An entire section is devoted to Irving Penn, who transforms the face and body into images of extraordinary imaginative and aesthetic power.

Exploring bold new strategies of representation – computer manipulation, retouching, photomontage, found imagery and methods of veiling and disguising – the artists here present provocative faces to the world that are sometimes alluring, sometimes touching, sometimes frightening, but never less than riveting.

Whether Gillian Wearing’s masked self-portrait, Aziz + Cucher’s neutral façades, Lawick Müller’s composite portrait of a couple, Cindy Sherman’s disquieting disguises or Orlan’s disturbing experiments with cosmetic surgery, these faces demand our attention.

Celebrities rule the modern world, and close behind them are the paparazzi, fuelling the media’s endless fascination with the rich and famous, while they themselves keep a low profile.

Bruno Mouron and Pascal Rostain are respected photo-reporters, based in Paris but ready to go anywhere for a scoop. They began working together in the late 1970s as contributors to the magazine Paris Match, and by 1986 they had set up a formal partnership, founding the agency Sphinx. Over the decades, they have honed the instincts required to catch the moment when a glance, a pose and a setting are most perfectly matched, capturing movie stars and models, rock stars and royalty.

From London to Paris, Hollywood to Cannes, here is a star-studded selection of those who live their lives in the spotlight, sometimes welcoming the camera, sometimes pursued by it.

Elizabeth Taylor and Grace Kelly, Michael Jackson and Kate Moss are among the iconic faces glimpsed in encounters that can be intimate, witty or confrontational. Spontaneity and immediacy are everything, with the blur of movement or the drama of tight close-ups contributing to the creation of some truly memorable shots that could never have been planned in advance.

Packed with striking black-and-white images that hark back to the golden age of photo-journalism, famous challenges us to recognize and celebrate a fresh frame of reference through which great photography can be judged.

Dutch photographer Anton Corbijn was long a hot tip among insiders of the pop scene and the recording industry. His first book, now available again, catapulted him into the limelight and made him the much sought after and celebrated lensman of rock and pop that he is today.

Along with Visconti and Rossellini, Fellini established the fame of Italian cinema. His subject is the life and dreams of ordinary folks, musicians, carnies, and clowns. Fellini biographer Tullio Kezich presents all 23 films, with texts, film stills, partly unpublished set photographs, and sketches by Fellini who was not only a master filmmaker but a gifted caricaturist.

In this book the successful French writer Francois-Marie Banier, whose intellectual mentor was Salvador Dali, reveals himself as a sensitive photographer. He shows his friends from international social and cultural circles in private, relaxed and unmasked.

Though he is best known for his Art Nouveau and Art Deco nudes, when Frantisek Drtikol (1883-1961) passed way, he left more portrait photography than anything else--thousands of images made between 1910 and the 1930s.

This ambitious book is the first ever devoted to those portraits alone. The selection, culled from some 2,000 in Prague's National Archive, presents a gallery of eminent Czechs and Slovaks during the first Czechoslovak Republic, as well as prominent visitors to the country from many walks of life. Apart from their pure documentary value, these images reflect Drtikol's efforts to capture his sitters' inner selves, bridging idealism and materialism.

The artist has also been the subject of The Photographer Frantisek Drtikoland Photographs by Frantisek Drtikol; this volume is compiled and written by Josef Moucha.

Drawing on George Harrison’s personal archive of photographs, letters, diaries, and memorabilia, Olivia Harrison reveals the arc of his life, from his guitar-obsessed boyhood in Liverpool, to the astonishment of the Beatles years, to his days as an independent musician and bohemian squire. Here too is the record of Harrison’s lifelong commitment to Indian music, and his adventures as a movie producer, Traveling Wilbury, and Formula One racing fan. The book is filled with stories and reminiscences from Harrison’s friends, including Eric Clapton, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and many, many others. Among its previously unpublished riches are photographs taken by Harrison himself beginning in the mid-1960s. It is a rich tribute to a man who died far too young, but who touched the lives of millions.

Photographer and painter, Yelena Yemchuk is most commonly known for her fashion and portrait photographs. Yet her personal work, usually shot on a 35mm camera while traveling around the globe, has rarely been seen. On one such trip to her hometown of Kiev, Ukraine, Yemchuk visited Gidropark, an island on the Dnieper River that she frequented as a girl. On the beaches, sports grounds and woodlands that populate the park, she found herself face to face with the characters and faces that she continually searches for. Taken over three summers between 2005 and 2008, Yemchuk captures life in Gidropark as only she can portray it. Families stripped down to their bathing suits (or even less) enjoying a picnic take on a Felliniesque quality through her lens. Each image is an exquisite film still, giving the viewer not only the image on the page, but richly creating an entire storyline of its possible before and after.

Yelena Yemchuk was born in Kiev, and immigrated to the United States with her parents when she was eleven. She studied at Parsons School of Design in New York and Art Center in Pasadena. She has contributed to Italian Vogue, Japanese Vogue, Another, The New Yorker and The New York Times among many others.

Sie war die populärste aller Hitchcock-Blondinen, bevor sie zur untadeligen Aristokratin und Landesmutter des Fürstentums Monaco wurde. Grace Kelly, 1929 als Tochter eines millionenschweren amerikanischen Bauunternehmers und einer deutschstämmigen Mutter in Philadelphia geboren, kam schon mit 23 Jahren zu Starruhm. Regisseur Fred Zinnemanns Zwölf Uhr mittags katapultierte sie 1952 an die Spitze der beliebtesten Schauspielerinnen, und die drei Hitchcock-Klassiker "Bei Anruf Mord", "Das Fenster zum Hof" (beide 1954) und "Über den Dächern von Nizza" (1955) machten sie zur Stil-Ikone der 50er Jahre. Die Metamorphose von Hollywoods leading lady Grace Kelly zu Fürstin Gracia Patricia von Monaco vollzog sie 1956 mit der ihr eigenen Eleganz und Ausschließlichkeit. Seit der "Jahrhunderthochzeit" mit Rainier III. und ihrem glanzvollen Einzug in den Grimaldi-Palast von Monte Carlo spielte sie ihre Rolle als Repräsentantin - und Hauptattraktion - eines bis dahin eher unbedeutenden Zwergstaats mit vollendeter Grazie. Ihr tragischer Unfalltod 1982 schockierte die Welt und ließ die Frau, deren Leben ein Märchen war, das die Wirklichkeit schrieb, zur unsterblichen Legende werden. Star-Portraitist Howell Conant (1917-1999), dem wir die wunderschönen Tiffany-Photos von Audrey Hepburn aus unserem letzten Programm verdanken, begleitete bereits Grace Kellys Filmkarriere, bevor er zum Hofphotographen der Grimaldis avancierte. Unser Band ist also alles in einem: Bildbiographie, eine Sammlung der schönsten Publicity-Portraits und fürstliches Familienalbum.

218 Abbildungen in Farbe und Duotone.

The top female box-office star of 1954, Grace Kelly's status as icon takes in an 11-film, three-year, screen career and a glamorous later life as Princess of Monaco. More than any other star, she was in three memorable films the quintessential Hitchcock blonde, delineating traits of cool beauty, depths of hidden passion, intelligence, playfulness, and style- in short, the qualities that led biographer James Spada to call her “the pious man's Marilyn.” Yet Grace Kelly also showed her versatility and won her acting honors for playing against type in the title role in the grimly realistic movie The Country Girl. Grace Kelly was a classic beauty, a public figure, and serious actress representative of an era.

The Movie Icon series: People talk about Hollywood glamour, about studios that had more stars than there are in heaven, about actors who weren't actors but were icons. Other people talk about these things, TASCHEN shows you. Movie Icons is a series of photo books that feature the most famous personalities in the history of cinema. These 192-page books are visual biographies of the stars. For each title, series editor Paul Duncan has painstaking selected approximately 150 high quality enigmatic and sumptuous portraits, colorful posters and lobby cards, rare film stills, and previously unpublished candid photos showing the stars as they really are. These images are accompanied by concise introductory essays by leading film writers; each book also includes a chronology, a filmography, and a bibliography, and is peppered with apposite quotes from the movies and from life.

Hollywood star, royal bride, beloved princess – Grace Kelly lived all three roles with a style all of her own. Renowned for her cool beauty and faultless good taste, the young actress stood apart from the other film sirens of the fifties, with 1000s of women, both in the US and Europe, emulating her classic yet accessible style. Her marriage to Prince Rainier of Monaco in 1956 catapulted Grace Kelly to further fame and cemented her influence on the world of fashion. From the Parisian catwalks to the pages of Vogue, the ‘Grace Kelly Look’ became the look of the moment.

This book, the first to look exclusively at Grace’s unique style, accompanies an enchanting exhibition at the V&A opening in April 2010. Sumptuously illustrated, the book introduces Grace’s glamorous wardrobe as she transformed herself from actress to bride to princess.

An illustrated celebration of Grace Kelly, one of Hollywoods brightest stars, is already long overdue. This book will also coincide with two significant anniversaries: 2006 sees 50 years since she married Prince Rainier and 2007 is the 25th anniversary of her death. 

The book will include a detailed biography and over 160 pictures and contact sheets, many of which are reproduced for the first time. 

Hand-written documents and famous quotes on and from Grace Kelly complement impressive iconographic research (family pictures, national archives, private collections, press agencies, newspapers). Also included are images and contact sheets from prestigious photographers, all of which give us a highly individual portrait of a cinematic legend.