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36 duotone and 74 color photographs

36 duotone and 74 color photograhps

Published last fall, Andreas H. Bitesnich's book of sophisticated nude portraits is now available in a beautifully designed, slip-cased edition of 300 copies. This stunning collection of mostly color photographs was hailed as an unusual departure for an artist previously acclaimed as a master of black and white photography. It includes images of nude "forms" that are erotic and highly charged yet also simple and technically perfect, images that are a hallmark of Bitesnich's signature style

Jean-Paul Four is celebrated for his magnificent nudes in black-and-white. He loves women and his photos show a clear fetishist tendency.

Jean-Paul says he prefers working with non-professional models, as he feels they show greater emotional commitment. He must have some amazing friends, because his girls are all very beautiful and perfectly suit his style of outstandingly tasteful explicit photography.

Als Mode- und Werbefotograf entdeckte Jean-Paul Four die Ästhetik des nackten Frauenkörpers und ist inzwischen bekannt für seine außergewöhnliche, oft fetisch-orientiert s/w-Fotografie. Jean-Paul: „Ich bevorzuge jetzt mehr die Arbeit mit nicht-professionellen Models, weil ich fühle, daß sie mit einem tieferen emotionalen Engagement dabei sind.“ Er muß über einen erstaunlichen Freundeskreis verfügen, weil alle seine Modelle wunderschön sind und sich perfekt in seinen künstlerischen Stil einfügen, der von kraftvoller Erotik geprägt ist.

The first volume in the bestselling One Hundred & One series devoted to the United States, this book is a unique photographic tour of the most charming towns along the American littoral, from ancient New England fishing towns and the wide strands of Florida’s beach towns to the rugged West Coast.

Stephen Brewer’s inviting text not only draws attention to aesthetic, natural, and architectural points of interest in every region but also brings to life the special history of each place, from William Randolph Hearst’s "castle" on California’s central coast to Newport’s grand nineteenth-century "cottages." Every stretch of the U.S. coast is included — Maine’s bracing fishing coves, Louisiana bayous, and undiscovered gems like California’s Eureka, a charming Victorian town just beyond the "Lost Coast" in the state’s far north.

An appendix provides details about hotels, restaurants, shops, and nearby points of interest for each town. This tour of the hidden treasures and charming sights of America’s seaside is the perfect inspiration for the armchair traveller or anyone considering a vacation closer to home.

Манящая прелесть небольших и тихих провинциальных городков, окутанная величавым духом Франции. Чарующие ароматы цветов и переплетающиеся лабиринты узких переулков. Отправьтесь в увлекательное путешествие по французским провинциям!

A sequel to the highly successful One Hundred and One Beautiful Small Towns in Italy, this book expands the series to include the most enchanting hamlets of France. Gorgeously illustrated as well as informative, One Hundred and One Beautiful Small Towns of France is a journey through the French countryside, a place where the pace slows, locals engage strangers in conversation, and every town has a unique story to tell. Travel between the hilltop towns of the Central Massif and the Pyrenees to rockbound coastal fishing villages in Normandy and Brittany. Breathtaking full-colour photographs create the perfect atmosphere as you discover these unexplored places, and descriptive sidebars offer invaluable information on local curiosities to indulge, unique artisanal products to buy, and age-old culinary specialties to sample. A detailed appendix is the perfect source on where to shop, sightsee, and dine - avec plaisir!

Whether you are an armchair traveler or a Francophile planning another trip, this volume is the guide to the hidden treasures of France that proves once and for all that the heart of this popular travel destination lies in the countryside far from the grandeur and pomp of Paris.

About the Author

Simonetta Greggio was born in Italy, but her passion was always for France. She studied literature in Paris under Milan Kundera and has coauthored numerous lifestyle books, including Provence, Luberon, and La Cote d'Azur.

101 reasons to go back to Italy! This compact information-filled volume will take you from the jewel-like atmosphere of the Amalfi Coast with its Byzantine Duomo, to the refined beauty of Siena and its world-renowned Palio; to the ancient Etruscan hill-town of Cortona and more. An excellent arm-chair guide, this remarkable book takes readers on a tour of Italy's 101 most spectacular villages and towns, all of which are presented in vivid colour images side by side with their history and most important sights. In addition, each entry features suggestions of what to see, do, eat, and buy, while a detailed appendix tells you exactly where to go for the best of each.

A sequel to the highly successful One Hundred & One Beautiful Small Towns in Italy and One Hundred & One Beautiful Small Towns in France, this book is a unique photographic tour of the most beautiful towns in every region of England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Wales. The towns of Britain’s countryside are among the most charming and unchanged in Europe’s history. Readers will want to roam the countryside: from the Norman castle towns of the southeast to the spectacular Roman architecture of Bath and St. Albans, and from Celtic cottage farms in the Scottish lowlands to the stone and iron towns of the Welsh borders and the north, One Hundred & One Beautiful Small Towns in Great Britain is as much about the history of the Isles as it is about their beauty today.

Tom Aiken’s eloquent and informative text not only draws attention to aesthetic, natural, and architectural points of interest in every region, but also brings to life the history of each place, from Shakespeare’s Stratford-on-Avon to the royal Cowes, the monastic abbeys of Yorkshire to prehistoric Ireland, and from the Pagan past of the Scottish Highlands to the legends of Roman Britain. A thorough appendix provides travel tips and details and locations for hotels, restaurants, and shops of interest in all the towns. Whether you’re an armchair traveller or an Anglo-phile planning yet another trip, this volume is the guide to the varied heritage and hidden treasures of Britain.

About the Author

Tom Aiken is a writer, poet, editor, theatre director, musician, and critic. A cultural historian of Britain and Europe, he is a past winner of the Lincoln Memorial Essay award, author of two young adult novels, and has contributed to the Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, and The Spectator.

More than any other country in the world, it is Italy that we turn to for gastronomic inspiration.

101 Beautiful Towns of Italy: Food and Wine takes readers along on a one-of-a-kind tour through the tantalizing tastes of Italy's varied landscape to explore hilltop and seaside towns, where the flavours of Italy scent the air, a good meal is considered the highest form of art and a fine bottle of wine is never hard to come by. In Alba, savour the refined taste of the white truffle accompanied by a hearty glass of Barolo.

Head to Parma for a sampling of prosciutto di Parma, and don't forget to pick up a wheel of parmigiano-reggiano. Travel to the hills of Tuscany, where a glass of red Vino Nobile di Montepulciano accompanies your meal of filetto d'anatra con tartufo (truffled duck breast) and to Campania, home of Naples, the Amalfi coastline, and, of course, pizza, in its many forms, but almost always topped with mozzarella di bufala.

Descriptive sidebars key readers into the best restaurants in town, where to buy the ingredients to prepare the dishes featured (and where to shop for the wine to accompany them) as well as tips on what to see during a visit. A sprinkling of recipes rounds out this information-packed resource. Included is an appendix with in-depth listings to help travellers plan their culinary journeys: what wine cellars to visit, where to dine, and how to navigate a busy market.

Whether you're an armchair traveller or an Italophile planning another trip, this volume provides an excellent guide.

In the aftermath of World War II, New York emerged as a world-class city and the de facto national financial capital, becoming a magnet for moguls and strivers. At the same time the city remained a collection of small towns made up of people going about their daily rounds. No other publication captured this twin identity as successfully as Look magazine.

In the pre-television era, the editors of Look recognized the great demand for photographs of all kinds - politicians, titans of industry, and unsung heroes, glamorous events and intimate moments, society matrons and showgirls, violent crime and courtroom drama - that provided entertainment and diversion to voyeuristic subscribers to the magazine. Reaching a peak circulation of nearly 8 million in the late 1960s, Look was a national publication with a focus on the fascination and allure of New York.

The magazine's New York images - more than 200,000 in all - were donated to the Museum of the City of New York. Only in New York draws from that astonishing archive to present the tapestry that was New York in the 1940s and 1950s.

In this book, the photographer of I’m One: 21st Century Mods turns his probing lens to the world of Rockers.

With their tattoos, leather jackets, slicked-back hair, and beloved British motorbikes - BSAs, Triumphs, Nortons, and Royal Enfields - Rockers are the nemesis and antithesis of the fastidiously groomed Mods. Elvis, James Dean, and Marlon Brando made rocker style synonymous with rebellion, sparking a global cult. Friedrichs follows the British rocker tribe as its members congregate in parking lots, pubs, cafes, dance and pool halls, as well as huge gatherings at Jacks Hill and the Ace Café. Alternating between rich, vibrant color and gritty black and white, these photographs capture a spirit of unapologetic defiance in clothing as well as attitude, every bit as strong today as it was sixty years ago. Trenchant and revealing commentary from Friedrichs’ subjects sheds light on the impulses, yearnings, and motivations of this enduring international rebel chic subculture.

A recognized prodigy at age 10, world famous by age 23, Orson Welles was a triple magician of theater, radio, and film - and by age 25 a promising figure in American politics. President Franklin Roosevelt encouraged him to try a run for the Senate; newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst branded him a pariah. But by the time he turned 30, Orson Welles’ professional success ended irreversibly; from then until the day he died, he endured ridicule and reproach over what many judged his “failure.” Few knew how feverishly he had persisted as an independent filmmaker. Now, decades after his death, “new” work keeps emerging, and his reputation as an undefeated genius and creator only grows.

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.

Over the last fifteen years, Shawn Mortensen has photographed cutting-edge culture-makers while also revealing the gritty reality of urban street life and the world’s political climate. Truly with his finger on the pulse, Mortensen took photographs of the in crowd before they were the in crowd. His subjects range from celebrities such as Gwen Stefani, Marcello Mastroianni, and Tupac Shakur to contemporary artists like Raymond Pettibon, Brice Marden, and Francesco Clemente. Yet these portraits are juxtaposed with haunting photo essays on the Zapatista movement in Chiapas, Mexico; the ghettoes of Jamaica; and the landscape of Mongolia - often with startling results.

Irreverent, sexy, and avant-garde, Out of Mind places Shawn Mortensen alongside the most important contemporary photographers.

150 colour images

Outdoor Lighting: Fashion and Glamour explores the skills required to get the very best results from daylight – the most versatile and challenging resource at the photographer’s disposal.

During recent years, fashion and glamour photography has increasingly shifted away from the false and formal setting of the studio towards greater use of real-life locations and outdoor lighting. Using high quality images from around the world, it looks at the whole process of conducting a fashion shoot, from the client’s brief to the choice of location, the time of day and techniques employed. With tips and explanations from the photographers and clear diagrams of the set-up, it shows a wealth of different ways in which natural light can be controlled, manipulated and artificially enhanced to create a mood, flatter the subject and catch the eye.
Key features

* International collection of outdoor fashion and glamour photography.
* Shows both the physical steps and the thought processes involved from brief to finished image.

Readership

* Aspiring and Professional Photographers.

Owning a yacht is the ultimate status symbol. Universally perceived as the exclusive domain of the rich and the famous, yachting is a decidedly rarified world. Arguably the most well-known private yacht of all time, the 325-foot (99-meter) Christina O, owned by Aristotle Onassis in the 1950s and 60s, was the playground for heads of state such as Winston Churchill and the Kennedys, opera diva Maria Callas, and Hollywood sweethearts such as Ava Gardner and Elizabeth Taylor. Pictured here along with the newly rebuilt Christina O are 20 other mega-yachts, including the newly completed and wildly colorful Guilty, designed by Jeff Koons for the art collector Dakis Joannou; Tom Perkins’ modern sailing yacht Maltese Falcon, the ultramodern sailing yacht Esense, and the refit classic Delphine.

The yachts pictured here are special for many reasons: because they are the fastest, or the most innovative, or the most technologically advanced, or because of their travels to exotic locations around the globe. Outrageous Yachts provides information about the yachts’ builders and designers, and tours each of the magnificent vessels — ranging in size from 138 to 424 feet (42 to 129 meters) — from stem to stern. This volume promises to be irresistible to anyone who has a yacht or dreams of owning one.
Notes:
Annual maintenance usually runs to 15 percent of the cost of a yacht
Today there are approximately 6,000 yachts that exceed 100 feet (31 meters) in the world

About the Authors:

Jill Bobrow is Editor in Chief of ShowBoats International, the world’s premiere luxury yacht publication. Previously, she was Founding Editor of Boat International USA magazine. She has co-authored more than a dozen books, including Classic Yacht Interiors and The World’s Most Extraordinary Yachts, and has cruised on many renowned yachts in countless locales around the world.

Kenny Wooton is Executive Editor of ShowBoats International. Formerly Editor in Chief of Yachting magazine, he has been a journalist for marine magazines for most of his career. A lifelong yachting enthusiast, his work has taken him to exotic yachting destinations all over the world.

Dana Jinkins is co-founder, art director, and principal photographer of Concepts Publishing Inc., which specializes in books on yachts and yachting destinations worldwide. Her photography appears regularly in international yachting, travel, and lifestyle magazines and books.

George Nicholson, chairman of Camper & Nicholsons International, the world’s oldest leisure marine company, is one of the most widely cruised and knowledgeable super-yachtsmen in the world.