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This latest title in the Mini Bible series celebrates the people who have left an indelible mark on the last sixty years. From popular and music culture, through movies, politics, science, art, literature, fashion and the news - the whole of stardom is covered. Over 350 amazing photographs of celebrities of today and yesterday are reproduced in full colour and vintage black and white. The stunning pictures speak for themselves; there is no text other than the captions.

In this work nude photographers from all over the world pay tribute to the beauty of the human body. Not vulgar and coarse, but artistic and erotic, this large format photographic book will appeal to a broad public, both male and female. Over 400 pages filled with stunning photographs of the human body.

Mini Watch Bible, the new substantial reference book about the world's most remarkable time pieces. This highly imaginative work shows you hundreds of photographs of stunning luxury watch designs.

Surely one of the most luxurious images in our collective imagination is that of a streamlined vessel crossing the blue line of the sea's horizon. This book is the ultimate showcase for those who dream of experiencing sea cruising in absolute luxury. This exquisite collection of photographs shares with you a feeling of limitless and luxurious freedom that can only be experienced on the open sea. 400 pages are filled with superb colour photographs. Aerial shots, exterior and interior views showcase 90 of the very best sailing yachts and motor yachts available in the world today.

Minimalism and Fashion is the first book to examine the minimalist movement in fashion while addressing its confluence with and divergence from similar currents in art, architecture, and design. Organized by decade, the text explores the evolving relationships and influences between fine art and the art of sartorial minimalism and is accompanied by more than 150 breathtaking images.

This sumptuous volume considers the work of the world’s most important designers and artists in fascinating juxtaposition. It contains creations by noteworthy designers, including Madeleine Vionnet, André Courrèges, Halston, Karl Lagerfeld, Rei Kawakubo, Miuccia Prada, Yohji Yamamoto, Helmut Lang, and many others. There are major works by such key minimalist artists as Frank Stella, Sol LeWitt, Donald Judd, Dan Flavin, Rachel Whiteread, Peter Halley, and Jeff Koons. The volume’s photography includes editorial shots by the greatest image makers of this century and the previous, including Richard Avedon, Hiro, Francesco Scavullo, Guy Bourdin, David Bailey, William Klein, Corinne Day, and Juergen Teller.

The dialogue among fine art, photography, and fashion is explored in a brilliantly woven text that clarifies how each form has influenced the other. With its extraordinary art and insight, this book is a must for lovers of fashion as well as fine art and photography books.

Already well established as a fashion photographer, Pierre Thomas Karkau decided to get behind the scenes and under the clothes. Here are models stripped down to their bare essentials in images that are as alluring and provocative as they are playful and humorous. With the enthusiastic eye of a party guest and the attention of a true voyeur, Karkau tantalizes us with scenes that are erotic, imaginative, sophisticated, and fun - with photographs that bring us closer to each model's secret. Pierre Thomas Karkau trained as an interior designer. He became interested in fashion photography during the 80's and has been well established in the field since 1990.

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Modernist Photography reexamines the classic period of twentieth-century photography using new critical approaches to consider five recurrent visual themes during the years 1915 to 1945. These themes cut across such stylistic movements as Pictorialism, Surrealism, and the New Vision, and include the transformation of objects, experimental images of the body, visions of the city, the industrialization of the countryside, and experimental directions in poster design and typography. This thematic approach fosters new perspectives on such key photographers as Bernice Abbott, Brassaï, Walker Evans, Raoul Hausmann. Dorothea Lange, Gordon Parks, and Man Ray and emphasizes the interactions between European and American practitioners. The catalogue will include chapters on each of the five themes by ICP curators Christopher Phillips and Vanessa Rocco. It is based on a selection of seventy works from the Daniel Cowin Collection, a recent donation to the International Center of Photography.

The people in Mona Kuhn’s photographs are nude but not naked. Completely relaxed before the camera, they give the impression that nothing could clothe them better than their own skin. With a unique style, Kuhn’s intimate photographs of both young and old are sensual compositions of skin and wrinkles, light and shadow, gestures and gazes. She creates taughtly composed images which balance sharply rendered portraits against blurred backgrounds to lure the eye and provoke the imagination. A Los Angeles-based artist of German-Brazilian ancestry, Kuhn photographs in naturist communities in France. The models are her friends, and the resulting photographs reveal a comfortable and graceful intimacy between the artist and her subjects. Containing luscious young bodies that suggest the meditative repose of classical statuary, the mood is languorous, projecting an almost Edenic eroticism that is neither “sexy” nor exploitative.

After his bestselling book Déja vu, Jean-Baptiste Mondino presents his equally mesmerizing sequel Two Much. His photographs, digitally processed pictures, and video clips radically changed the commercial strategies of the rock, pop and fashion industry and made him the image guru of the young generation. Presenting Mondino‘s creative output of the past five years, Two Much bears striking witness to the delight he takes in playing with zeitgeist expressions and to his boundless ingenuity. Technically brilliant, with an equally rich and scintillating mix of black humor, glamour, and bizarre erotic visions, Two Much is an essential source of inspiration for all those who by profession or by passion deal with photography, advertising, and lifestyle.

Spanning over a decade of his portrait work, showing some of the most dynamic, influential, and controversial figures in modern politics, popular culture, sports, entertainment, technology, science, space travel, and global culture, Money People Politics is an electrifying retrospective from renowned contemporary photographer, Marco Grob. Whether a candid moment of vulnerability, raw emotion, or the direct, unadulterated gaze, Grob’s portraits are uniquely ennobling, but ultimately human. Through his autonomous and intimate photographic process with each special personality that has impacted and shaped recent culture, the photographer has been granted a rare and privileged “front-row seat to history.” Wholly passionate and committed to his craft that began as a beloved hobby over 30 years ago, Marco Grob believes that when you “carry a camera, you carry a responsibility.”

This book accompanies an exhibition to be held at the Museum of National History in Denmark from August 2016 to January 2017, to be opened by HRH Crown Prince Frederik and HRH Crown Princess Mary

 - Important portraiture from the last 10 to 15 years shown together for this first time in this instantly timeless photography collection; subjects include Steve Jobs, Stephen Hawking, the Dalai Lama, and Hollywood elite
 - Poignant and dedicated quotes from some of Marco Grob’s luminary subjects as Astronaut Scott Kelly and Vice President Joe Biden are special features of this grand photography tome
 - The cover is a highlight on its own ― it includes three motives in a lenticular image
 - Design by Creative Direction Charles Blunier & Co.
 - Exhibitions and book signings to be announced soon

About the Author:

Born in Olten, Switzerland, Marco Grob worked for 20 years as a still life photographer before deciding to focus entirely on people and portrait photography in 2003. In addition to successful commercial work in the film and advertising industries, Marco’s work appears regularly in magazines like TIME, GQ, Vogue, Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, Wired, and New York Magazine. His work has earned him numerous awards throughout his career, including an Emmy Award and a prestigious Hasselblad Masters Award in 2007. Mr. Grob lives in New York, but follows his work around the world.

This book celebrates Italian film diva Monica Bellucci in 150 pictures by glamour photographers such as Helmut Newton, Peter Lindbergh, Richard Avedon, Jean Baptiste Mondino, Bettina Rheims and Ellen von Unwerth.

Monica Bellucci, italienischer Superstar des Films und weltberühmtes Model, kam in Città di Castello in Umbrien zur Welt und begann ihre Karriere mit 16 Jahren als Photomodel. Monica Belluccis Filmkarriere begann Anfang der 1990er Jahre. 1992 wirkte sie als eine von Draculas Bräuten in ihrem ersten großen, englischsprachigen Film mit, Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Mit ihren Rollen in Der Zauber von Malèna, Pakt der Wölfe und Irreversibel machte sie sich beim internationalen Kinopublikum einen Namen, am bekanntesten wurde sie jedoch als Persephone in Matrix Reloaded und Matrix Revolutions und als Maria Magdalena in Passion Christi, Regie Mel Gibson. 2005 spielte Bellucci in dem Fantasyfilm Brothers Grimm die schöne, böse Spiegel-Königin. Sie erhielt den Nastro d’Argento-Preis als beste Nebendarstellerin (2003) und war für mehrere andere Preis nominiert, so 1996 für den César als beste Nebendarstellerin in Lügen der Liebe – L’Appartement. Das Buch versammelt die 150 schönsten Photos der italienischen Diva, aufgenommen von den bedeutendsten Glamourphotographen der Welt wie Peter Lindbergh, Helmut Newton, Fabrizio Ferri, Richard Avedon, Ellen von Unwerth und vielen anderen. Monica Bellucci freut sich sehr auf ihr Buch und wird es mit Auftritten in den Medien aktiv unterstützen. Sie lebt mit ihrem Mann, dem Schauspieler Vincent Cassel, und zwei Töchtern in Paris.

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An exquisite tribute to Italy’s most important contemporary model and actress.

As a model, Monica Bellucci graced the covers of magazines such as Elle and Esquire before achieving success as an actress whose notable appearances include roles in Bram Stoker’s Dracula, The Matrix Reloaded, The Passion of the Christ, and The Matrix Revolutions. This glamorous volume features 150 of the most exquisite, sensual photographs of Bellucci throughout her twenty-year career taken by the world’s most important photographers, including Peter Lindbergh, Helmut Newton, Fabrizio Ferri, Richard Avedon, and Ellen von Unwerth. Monica Bellucci will appear in the 2010 Disney film The Sorcerer’s Apprentice with Nicolas Cage.

This book celebrates Italian film diva Monica Bellucci in 150 pictures by glamour photographers such as Helmut Newton, Peter Lindbergh, Richard Avedon, Jean Baptiste Mondino, Bettina Rheims and Ellen von Unwerth.

About the Authors:

Monica Bellucci achieved early stardom as the cover girl for the 1991 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. Since then, she has appeared in countless fashion campaigns as well as in many acclaimed films. Currently, she is the face of Dior Cosmetics. 

Giuseppe Tornatore is one of Italy’s most important contemporary film directors best known for Cinema Paradiso, which won the 1989 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. His latest film, Baarìa, has been critically acclaimed and is a 2010 Academy Award nominee.

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Latitude Zero is the culmination of a 25,000-mile odyssey that begins at the mouth of the Amazon River, moving in a westward direction, documenting the precious pact between humanity and nature within one degree north and south of latitude zero through Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, the Republic of Kiribati, the Republic of Nauru, Indonesia, the Maldives, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo, Gabon, and Sao Tome e Principe.

No itinerary or agenda was necessary. The purpose of Latitude Zero was to be as visually playful and uninhibited as possible, to simply be authentic and document life with a capital L. Any point within the equatorial zone was fair game, unless geography (Manaus) or politics (Mogadishu) dictated otherwise. And imagine a meal of beans and rice deep in southern Colombia’s rainforest with the FARC guerrillas, or eating turtles laced with honey with the Congolese pygmies, or dining in a loud testosterone-driven petrol platform cafeteria off Gabon’s Atlantic coast!

The work of the Swiss-American photojournalist, Monique Stauder has been published in TIME, the New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, GEO and Mother Jones, among others. She has travelled from the camps of Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka to the island nation of East Timor, and from the Balkans to the Nuba Mountains in Sudan on behalf of international humanitarian NGOs and countless editorial publications. Stauder has master’s degrees in international relations and history.

With Marilyn Monroe's last interview with Richard Meryman for Life on August 3, 1962

British photographer Rankin commemorates his finest work through his largest retrospective book to date – MORE.

As one of the most compelling celebrity and portraiture photographers of our generation, Rankin brings a charged vitality to all the subjects he portrays. A new in-depth retrospective book, MORE is a comprehensive overview, documenting the photographer’s most individual and best work from the worlds of fashion, music, and media from the past 20 years.

Organised by themes, including nudes, portraits (featuring iconic personalities such as Tom Hardy, The Rolling Stones, and Emma Watson), beauty, fashion, and myths (a collaboration with artist Damien Hirst showing a contemporary portrayal of ancient mythical monsters), MORE is a rich, diverse, and revealing collection of photography.

Upon reflection of MORE, Rankin says, “If you look at my work and compare it to others, it’s a little uncomfortable, a bit strange, and a bit challenging.…I think my pictures are anti-celebrity—get them off the pedestal, get them face-to-face.…If you look at the work, it’s leveling.”

Through this philosophy, Rankin manages to make us see familiar faces such as Heidi Klum and Beth Ditto in fresh and challenging ways. “Some photographers poke and antagonize, some are really silent, some are demanding…I’m persuasive” says Rankin.

Never content with the status quo, Rankin constantly innovates through pioneering projects, such as the project ALIVE: In The Face Of Death and his current publishing venture, HUNGER magazine. Although a master of carefully constructed staging and composition, Rankin’s images are always packed to the brim with freshness and spontaneity.

With a foreword by William Boyd and an in-depth interview between Michael Holden and Rankin, MORE is indispensable for anyone who admires the work of this photographic master.  For those wanting even more of MORE, also available are 100 Collector’s Editions of the book with the title hand-written on the jacket by Rankin himself, presented in a refined clamshell box with a numbered photoprint.

British novelist and author of MORE’s foreword, William Boyd, reveals: “There are wonderful portraits in this book, world-class, in my opinion, where we see that Rankin has managed to garner something new about even the most familiar faces.”