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SHOEBOX. These aspiring models have flown in from all over the world to Paris, the ogre city, where the quest for beauty feeds on new faces. Soon, these uprooted girls will be transformed into sophisticated creatures of universal glamour. Stéphane Coutelle, the renowned beauty photographer, will be one of the architects of this transformation. But by receiving them in the Shoebox Studio during the first days of their Parisian stay for a brief session, unencumbered by any strict production objectives, Coutelle pays tribute to their identity and their peculiarity, both perhaps even more short-lived than their youth. This first meeting aims to capture psychology, a past before professional reflexes can take hold before any complicity is established. The artist acts here without preconceived ideas, open to everything. The situation is not the conventional one of the artist and his model. The girls’ looks carry questioning and expectations, but determination as well. They know their fate will unwind behind the closed doors of shooting sessions, and that there will be little time to learn the rules of the game …Coutelle’s portraits sometimes trouble us. We could attribute this disconcertment to a kind of harshness or voyeurism on behalf of the photographer. But in reality, these images express certain solidarity; it is not Coutelle himself who is unrelenting, but the world in which both the artist and his model evolve. Shoebox Studio is a major project because the portraits lead us from private, individual psychology to the contemporary human condition in which the need to be seen and recognized has become a global quest, a social phenomenon.

This exquisite volume showcases a collection of raw, provocative portraits, nudes, and snapshots of quotidian life shot over the past seventy years by one of photography's greatest image makers -- Victor Skrebneski.

Skrebneski Documented is an intimate compendium of photographs shot over the past seven decades by the illustrious Chicago-based photographer Victor Skrebneski. Edited by the photographer himself, this evocative collection features his best-known images, including his series of "black-turtleneck-sweater portraits" -- dramatic black-and-white portraits of iconic stars including Liza Minnelli, Bette Davis, and Orson Welles; dynamic, blurry motion studies; provocative nude photographs of flawless, sculpted bodies; and Dadaist collages comprised of body parts. Capturing the experimental, boundary-pushing spirit and unceasing wit of Skrebneski's images, this volume documents a who's who of famous faces, including portraits of Andy Warhol, Audrey Hepburn, Vanessa Redgrave, David Bowie, Iman, John Malkovich, Dennis Hopper, Fred Astaire, and Diana Ross. For photography, art, and fashion lovers alike, this is a true collector's item that celebrates the exhilarating work by one of America's greatest photographic artists.

About the Author:

Victor Skrebneski is an American photographer distinguished for his fashion and portrait work.

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Пролистать книгу Skrebneski Documented: 1948-2018

This lavish fourth volume in Abrams’ Slim Aarons collection revels in this photographer’s decades-long love affair with Italy. From breathtaking aerials of the Sicilian countryside to intimate portraits of celebrities and high society taken in magnificent villas, Slim Aarons: La Dolce Vita captures the essence of “the good life.” Slim Aarons first visited Italy as a combat photographer during World War II and later moved to Rome to shoot for Life magazine, yet even after relocating to New York, he would return to Italy almost every year for the rest of his life.

The images collected here document the aristocracy, cultural elite, and beautiful people, such as Marcello Mastroianni, Ursula Andress, Joan Fontaine, and Tyrone Power, who lived la dolce vita in Italy’s most fabulous places during the last 50 years. The introduction by Christopher Sweet shares stories from Aarons’s years in Italy and new insights about his life and career.

A collection of stunning portraits of Hollywood stars, including Jennifer Lopez, Kim Kardashian, Charlize Theron, Samuel L. Jackson, and Angelina Jolie, captured by Davis Factor, the great-grandson of legendary cosmetics pioneer Max Factor.

Founded in 1990 by Davis and Dean Factor, the great-grandsons of Max Factor, Smashbox Studios and the Smashbox brand have become legendary in the world of glamour and makeup.

Born in a Los Angeles studio and put to the test by professional makeup artists and photographers, Smashbox is the heir to the most storied brand in American cosmetics. Known for makeup on and off the set, Smashbox draws from a legacy of over a century of Hollywood glamour, creating for today’s celebrities what the house of Factor had done for the likes of Clara Bow, Joan Crawford, Jean Harlow, Bette Davis, Judy Garland, and many other icons of the golden age of cinema.

Collected together for the very first time are more than three decades of portraits of women — and quite a few men — taken by Davis Factor at Smashbox Studios. Capturing some of the most important actors and celebrities of the era, the book is a snapshot of Hollywood glamour today, in the tradition of George Hurrell and other legends of the golden age of film.

About the Author:

Davis Factor is an American photographer and the cofounder of Smashbox with his brother, Dean. Robert Downey Jr. is an American actor.

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Пролистать книгу Smashbox: Make S#!+ Happen

The biggest and most comprehensive volume on Steve McCurry published to date and the final word on forty years of McCurry’s incredible work. Written and compiled by Bonnie McCurry, Steve’s sister and President of the McCurry Foundation, Steve McCurry: A Life in Pictures is the ultimate book of McCurry’s images and his approach to photography.

The book brings together all of McCurry’s key adventures and influences, from his very first journalistic images taken in the aftermath of the 1977 Johnstown floods, to his breakthrough journey into Afghanistan hidden among the mujahideen, his many travels across India and Pakistan, his coverage of the destruction of the 1991 Gulf War and the September 11th terrorist attacks in New York, up to his most-recent work. Totalling over 350 images, the selection of photographs includes his best-known shots as well as over 100 previously unpublished images. Also included are personal notes, telegrams and visual ephemera from his travels and assignments, all accompanied by Bonnie McCurry’s authoritative text – drawn from her unique relationship with Steve – as well as reflections from many of Steve’s friends and colleagues.

Steve McCurry: A Life in Pictures is the complete, definitive volume on McCurry.

About the authors:

In an incredibly successful career spanning over 40 years Steve McCurry has created some of the most evocative and best-known images in photography. He has been awarded the Robert Capa Gold Medal, the National Press Photographers Award, and four first prize recognitions at the World Press Photo Contest.

Bonnie McCurry is Steve McCurry’s sister and is president of Steve McCurry Studios and director of ImagineAsia, a non-profit organization primarily working in Afghanistan. During her trips to Afghanistan she has taught English to high school girls, supported numerous educational initiatives, and founded the Young Women’s Photographic Initiative.

The Art of Movement is an exquisitely designed, beautifully produced book that captures the movement, flow, energy, and grace of many of the most accomplished dancers in the world. These are the artists, from all walks of life, who are defining dance today. Here they are frozen in time in the most exquisite poses, and yet there's a feeling of movement in every photograph that makes the appear to be dancing across the pages. Accompanying the photographs are intimate and inspiring words from the dancers, as well as from choreographers and artistic directors, on what dance means to them.

Dance is experiencing an unprecedented moment in popular culture. The Art of Movement is the perfect book for newly avid fans, as well as long-time lovers of dance.

About the Authors:

Ken Browar is a renowned fashion and beauty photographer. His passion for dance began when he lived in Paris and photographed dancers from the Paris Opera Ballet.

Deborah Ory began her photography career while injured as a dancer, photographing rehearsals. She has worked as a photo editor at House & Garden and Mirabella, and has also done her own work as a photographer. Together, Browar and Ory are the creative team behind NYC Dance Project. Their work has been featured in magazines worldwide including Harper's Bazaar, Dior Magazine, L'Uomo Vogue, and many others. Their photographs have been exhibited at many galleries.

The electric spirit of Saturday Night Live as captured by longtime resident photographer Mary Ellen Matthews

Andy Samberg in a giant martini glass. Billie Eilish peeking out of a pile of snow. Kevin Hart writing his own cue cards. Paul Rudd as Paul McCartney. Sarah Silverman dusting the NBC marquee. Alec Baldwin as the Godfather.

These are just a few examples of Matthews's bold, dynamic, and playful celebrity portraits that for over two decades have artfully highlighted the hosts and musical guests who help bring the show to life.

Week after week, photographer Mary Ellen Matthews makes magic happen on Saturday Night Live with her inventive, irreverent, and truly original photography for the “bumpers”—portraits of the host or musical guest that transition the show to and from commercial breaks.

Published on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of SNL and exquisitely designed by Pentagram, this book is the first collection of Mary Ellen’s remarkable body of work as well as a celebration of America’s longest-running comedy TV show.

Includes:
* More than 200 color portraits and behind-the-scenes photographs
* A foreword by SNL founder and executive producer Lorne Michaels
* Mary Ellen Matthews in conversation
* A thumbnail index of all the images with captions by the photographer

About the Authors:

A New York Native, Mary Ellen Matthews has been a top entertainment portrait photographer for over two decades. She has created colorful, iconic images of every well-known personality of the age. Since 1999, she has been the photographer for Saturday Night Live, where she has been responsible for creating (and re-creating each season) the distinctive look of the show’s still images.

Alison Castle is the editor of numerous books on photography, film, and design, including The Stanley Kubrick Archives, Linda McCartney: Life in Photographs, Saturday Night Live: The Book, and Jacques Tati: The Complete Works.

Emily Oberman is an award-winning multidisciplinary designer whose work encompasses brand identity, motion graphics, publications, packaging, advertising, and digital. She is a partner in the New York office of Pentagram, the acclaimed international design studio, where her clients have included Saturday Night Live, Warner Bros., Netflix, Amazon, and many more.

Exclusive celebrity portraits by photographer Nikolai von Bismarck capture the new course of Dior menswear under the direction of contemporary fashion innovator Kim Jones.

Known for slim silhouettes and precise tailoring, Dior Homme has long been a leader in menswear. In this new volume of exquisite portraits of celebrities and style influencers, photographer Nikolai von Bismarck celebrates the thoroughly contemporary style of the revered French fashion house.

In the world of contemporary men's fashion, Christian Dior's sophisticated legacy has been upheld by innovative designers, especially current creative director Kim Jones, who's received praise for incorporating both couture values and streetwear elements into his work. With his years of experience at the heart of the fashion world and working on photographic reportages all around the globe, von Bismarck captures striking images of Kim's designs, which fuse exquisite detail, romantic patterns, and soft colors with traditionally masculine silhouettes while retaining the modern edge of streetwear through sports shoes and chunky industrial jewelry. Jones's reverence for Dior's heritage is evident in the photographs - even in his most daring innovations he nods to Christian Dior's favorite patterns and floral motifs, as well as tailoring inspired by the signature couture designs of vintage Dior. A rare look inside an iconic menswear brand consistently at the foreground of celebrity style, The Dior Sessions is a must-have for Dior fans, fashion aficionados, and stylish men everywhere.

About the Author:

Nikolai von Bismarck is a photographer specializing in portraiture, reportage, and fashion photography. Born in London in 1986, Nikolai first began working for Mario Testino and became the youngest photographer to shoot for a Condé Nast publication, before attending Parsons School of Design and training under Annie Leibovitz for two years. Vying to explore his own photographic projects, Nikolai travelled widely around Africa, Eastern Europe and Asia; his reportage projects have been featured in The Times and The Daily Mirror. Nikolai's fashion and portraiture work has also appeared in numerous publications, including Vogue and Harper's Bazaar.

Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, Gregory Peck, Rita Hayworth, Marilyn Monroe — the brightest stars of the silver screen couldn't resist curling up with a good book. This unique collection of rare photographs celebrates the joy of reading in classic film style.

The Hollywood Book Club captures screen luminaries on set, in films, in playful promotional photos, or in their own homes and libraries with books from literary classics to thrillers, from biographies to children's books, reading with their kids, and more.

Featuring nearly 60 enchanting images, lively captions about the stars and what they're reading by Hollywood photo archivist Steven Rea, and a glamorous stamped case design, here's a real page-turner for booklovers and cinephiles.

Amateurs, wedding photographers and portrait photographers of all kinds learn how to maximise the beauty of natural light in this first-ever technique book from acclaimed photographer Elizabeth Messina.

Natural light is by far the favourite choice of most amateur, wedding and portrait photographers, but many stick to conventional approaches, leaving the myriad, gorgeous possibilities of natural light unexplored.

This first-ever book by popular wedding, lifestyle and portrait photographer Elizabeth Messina shares her secrets on capturing flattering natural light in any lighting scenario, to create luminous portraits that appear lit from within.

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Пролистать книгу The Luminous Portrait: Capture the Beauty of Natural Light for Glowing, Flattering Photographs

The definitive monograph on the pioneering photographer Marcel Sternberger, whose psychological portraits have defined the way we see the icons of recent history. Photographer Marcel Sternberger pioneered the technique of the "psychological portrait," and redefined the boundaries of portrait iconography in the twentieth century. Combining an interest in contemporary art and science with the desire to break free from the constraints of conventional portraiture, Sternberger’s pictures reveal as much about their author and their time as they do about their subjects. He photographed many of the most influential figures in art, science, and politics, ranging from Franklin Roosevelt and Albert Einstein to Frida Kahlo and George Bernard Shaw. Engaging his subjects — encouraging conversation, play, and gesture during photography — he elicited expressions of their characters that transformed his portraits into living works of art, and defined the public perception of his subjects’ personas. With an introduction describing Sternberger’s remarkable career and hundreds of unseen photographs, sketches, notes, and contact sheets, this is the first book to celebrate the work of one of the twentieth century’s most important image-makers.

About the Authors:

Jacob Loewentheil is a photography historian and an expert on the portraiture of Marcel Sternberger. Phillip Prodger is head of photographs at the National Portrait Gallery in London.

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Пролистать книгу The Psychological Portrait: Marcel Sternberger's Revelations in Photography на сайте издательства.

Sir Paul Smith, with a wry grin in front of a bookshelf. Javier Bardem, utterly relaxed, in sneakers in a sunny field. Rasmus Kofoed, chef at Geranium in Copenhagen, one of the best restaurants in the world, atop an ivy-covered wall. What all these portraits have in common- along with a sense of closeness and privacy-is a glass. For this is how Gérard-Philippe Mabillard photographs his friends and acquaintances, all celebrities from the world of film, art, fashion, design, and culture.

Mabillard himself worked as a creative professional before taking the position of director of the Vin du Valais non-profit association. For him, the glass, filled with wine or water, is the link between the people he portrays: a symbol of friendship and community. Through his photography project, Mabillard is supporting the NGO Fondation Moi pour Toit in Colombia.

About the Author:

Gérard-Philippe Mabillard worked in watchmaking at the Swatch Group for the Calvin Klein brand before becoming director of the association Interprofession de la Vigne et du Vin du Valais in 2010. He also ran both a thermal bath centre and a tourism region in his native canton of Valais, Switzerland. An economist with a specialisation in marketing, he also has a passionate interest in cinema and photography. Through friends and acquaintances, he has maintained close contact with internationally renowned figures from the artistic world for several years now.

Style meets movement: a new photography book featuring more than eighty of today's most famous dancers, captured in movement and styled in garments designed by some of fashion's biggest names.

From renowned photographers Ken Browar and Deborah Ory, the husband-and-wife team behind NYC Dance Project and the best-selling photography book The Art of Movement, comes their follow-up book for fans of dance, fashion, and photography. Spotlighting today's greatest dancers -- from ballet to modern -- in clothing by today's and yesterday's most celebrated designers, this stunning volume takes the relationship between style, fashion, and dance as its subject. The dancers bring the pages to life with their grace and movement, becoming one with what they're wearing. Whether in couture gowns from Dior, Valentino, Oscar de la Renta, vintage Halston, Moschino, and Bill Blass, or in costumes designed by Martha Graham herself, the world-renowned dancers featured in these pages -- including Tiler Peck, Daniil Simkin, Misty Copeland, Christine Shevchenko, Xander Parish, and Olga Smirnova--bring movement to style.

About the Authors:

Ken Browar is a renowned fashion and beauty photographer. His passion for dance began when he lived in Paris and photographed dancers from the Paris Opera Ballet.

Deborah Ory began her photography career while injured as a dancer, photographing rehearsals. She has worked as a photo editor at House & Garden and Mirabella, and has also done her own work as a photographer. Together, Browar and Ory are the creative team behind NYC Dance Project. Their work has been featured in magazines worldwide including Harper's Bazaar, Dior Magazine, L'Uomo Vogue, and many others. Their photographs have been exhibited at many galleries.

Louise Bourgeois, Ann Hamilton, Willem de Kooning, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Mapplethorpe, Keith Haring, Richard Meier, Daniel Libeskind, Zaha Hadid, James Watson, Nicole Kidman, Dennis Hopper, Vanessa Redgrave, Glenn Close, Dennis Quaid, John Malkovich, John Huston, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Spike Lee, Salman Rushdie, Gary Indiana, Gore Vidal, David Bowie, Lou Reed, Steve Tyler and B.B. King. A rich gallery of artists, architects, writers, scientists, actors, directors, musicians, singers and business people in these portraits taken by the great American photographer between the seventies and today.

“Timothy Greenfield-Sanders works on the portrait like a painter of another age. Thanks to his 11 x 14 inch Fulmer & Schwing, an old wooden box dated 1905, which he uses as if he were using palette and brush, he produces portraits that are detailed but not psychological. This way he shows that it is possible to create portraits of people without pathos yet revealing their soul all the same.

Greenfield-Sanders is not interested in the fleeting moment; he is interested in the limited time of a sitting. He asks little of his subjects, he lets them take on a natural portrait posture, he offers few suggestions and lets the composition come emerge on its own. Those who pose for him are offered his seat, the same seat each subject sits on and where each subject has left a part of himself or herself. In this he is not a modern portrait artist, like the painter Lucian Freud, who, working with the dramatic quality of his subject adds so much of his own that he transforms it into abstraction.

Some works by Greenfield-Sanders could seem to be hyperrealist, but his eye looks more towards the European tradition. His recent use of the diptych also indicates this. His attention is focused on celebrities, popular icons, as were Rembrandt and Velбzquez in their day, portraying the great figures of their time; perhaps a turning point in his future development would be to take a look at ordinary, anonymous people, as Caravaggio had done.

This attention to popular icons likens Greenfield-Sanders to Warhol, whom he admires. Yet he does not rehash Warhols poetic language: the genial Andy used a Polaroid, a modern means that was devoid of expressive qualities and required no know-how: anyone can take a Polaroid; Greenfield-Sanders, on the other hand, uses a sophisticated wooden camera which gives his images that specific character that distinguishes his unmistakable personality.

In his black and white portraits Greenfield-Sanders comes very close to the imagery of cinema, some close-ups recall Fritz Lang. His strength lies in his will not to invent a photographic form. In colour he searches for his subject, the strength of tones and contrasts, he seeks the perfection of chromatic quality and combinations that can be astonishing. For example the beautiful portrait of Nicole Kidman, where the red material of her dress, the unlit red background and the rosy colour of the face blend together bringing eyes and hands to the fore.

Undoubtedly one of Greenfield-Sanders’s greatest merits is his being able to limit the distance that separates the portrait from the observer. Not everyone can do this (Mimmo Paladino)

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders was born in Miami Beach, Florida in 1952. He studied at Columbia University, New York, where he graduated in History of Art in 1974. He attended the American Film Institute in Los Angeles and, in 1977, he received a specialised diploma in Fine Arts. He lives and works in New York.

One of today's foremost fashion and celebrity photographers, Tom Munro has been making defining images since the mid-1990s.

Munro achieves his results by encouraging his subjects to reinterpret their personalities for his lens, revelling in seductive roleplay or darkly-lit melodrama. The subjects gathered here include some of the biggest names in pop culture today-Ashton Kutcher, Brooke Shields, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Christina Ricci, Courtney Love, Daniel Craig, Dustin Hoffman, Ewan McGregor, Isabella Rossellini, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jennifer Aniston, Johnny Depp, Jude Law, Julianne Moore, Justin Timberlake, Lauren Hutton, Leonardo DiCaprio, Linda Evangelista, Madonna, Marion Cotillard, Matt Dillon, Matthew McConaughey, Naomi Campbell, Patrick Dempsey, Rob Lowe, Scarlett Johansson, Stephanie Seymour and Tom Cruise, to name only a few. This volume-Munro's first monograph-affirms his status as a portraitist of the first rank.

English by birth, Tom Munro moved to New York in 1990, embarking on his own career as a photographer in 1997, and achieving overnight success with his early editorial shoots for British Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. Over the last ten years, Munro has contributed to some of the world's most prestigious magazine publications including Vogue, Italian Vogue, L'Uomo Vogue, Russian Vogue, China Vogue and Details. Munro's dedication to his craft has attracted some of the fashion and beauty industries' most prestigious names, including Armani, Banana Republic, Burberry, Calvin Klein, Converse, Gap, Givenchy, Hugo Boss, Lacoste, L'Oreal, Moschino, as well as music icons such as Beyonce, Justin Timberlake and Madonna.

Most recently Munro directed Madonna's music video "Give it to Me," the success of which led to him directing a second video, "Die Another Day," and shooting the book for her Sticky and Sweet world tour.