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Instant Andy. Before there was Instagram, there was Warhol “A picture means I know where I was every minute. That’s why I take pictures. It’s a visual diary.” - Andy Warhol Andy Warhol was a relentless chronicler of life...

"For the person who gets a kick out of movies such as Shrek 2 and Finding Nemo, consider Animation Now!, a survey of 80 of the great cartoonists and animation studios worldwide, from Hollywood's Pixar, Walt Disney, and DreamWorks SKG, to decidedly hi...

Annie’s Big Book. 40 years of era-defining photography, now in an accessible edition When Benedikt Taschen asked the most important portrait photographer working today, Annie Leibovitz, to collect her pictures in a SUMO-s...

The Origins of a Legendary Photographer. Annie Leibovitz’s photographic beginnings and Rolling Stone reportage Annie Leibovitz began working as a photographer in the early 1970s, which was a volatile and frenetic time in America. The lines h...

The subject is Japanese photographer Araki, a man who talks about life through photographs. His powerful oeuvre, decades' worth of images, has been pared down to 540 pages of photographs which tell the story of Araki and comprise the ultimate ret...

Red petals and rope binding. The ultimate Araki collection Decades’ worth of images have been distilled down to 568 pages of photographs in this ultimate retrospective collection of Nobuyoshi Araki's work, selected by the artist himself....

Welcome to the era of the no-panties coffee shop. Tokyo "entertainment centers" in the early 1980s photographed by Araki It started in 1978 with an ordinary coffee shop near Kyoto whose waitresses famously wore no panties under their min...

Sentence structures. The architectural treatises which shaped our world If you’ve ever wondered what goes through architects’ minds when they design buildings, you’ll be happy to know that there’s no shortage of brilliant r...

If you’ve ever wondered what goes through architects’ minds when they design buildings, you’ll be happy to know that there’s no shortage of brilliant reading material to satisfy your curiosity. Wading through the archives at your local library may pr...

Of buildings and men. Architects on their favorite subject If you’ve ever wondered what goes through architects’ minds when they design buildings, you’ll be happy to know that there’s no shortage of brilliant reading materi...

Great Leap Forward: Contemporary Architecture in China The past five years have seen a revolution in Chinese architecture - the emergence of independent designers, and a number of new stars - and above all new and interesting buildings that are no...

TASCHEN's new architecture series brings a unique perspective to world architecture, highlighting architectural trends by country. Each book features 15 to 20 architects—from the firmly established to the up-and-coming—with the focus on how they have...

TASCHEN’s new architecture series brings a unique perspective to world architecture, highlighting architectural trends by country. Each book features 15 to 20 architects—from the firmly established to the up-and-coming—with the focus on how they have...

It might surprise some to hear that Spain has a vibrant culture of contemporary architecture. Delayed by the Spanish Civil War and the ensuing dictatorship under Franco, the emergence of modernity in Spain may have been late in coming, but today’s yo...

TASCHEN’s new architecture series brings a unique perspective to world architecture, highlighting architectural trends by country. Each book features 15 to 20 architects—from the firmly established to the up-and-coming—with the focus on how they have...