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If you have a passion for fashion, Pro Digital Fashion Photography will help put you at the forefront of this competitive field. It explains all you need to know, from setting up the perfect studio and working with models, to post-production skills and how to break into, and compete within, the fashion photography business. With projects for photographers to practise and insider advice from respected professionals, this book will help you develop the skills and style needed to create a winning portfolio and ultimately succeed in this dynamic industry.

Bruce Smith is a world-class fashion and beauty photographer whose work has been continually published in fashion magazines and on billboards all over the globe for the past 30 years. He teaches masterclasses in France, Italy and Cuba, runs workshops in the UK, and online courses in association with the award-winning BetterPhoto.com. He also lectures at The Shoot Smarter University in Chicago.

“My new book, Profiles, is a collection of portraits taken over the last six to eight years, including exceptional profiles of creatives in the arts and cinema, plus meaningful images of family and friends. The images originate from editorial assignments and personal sittings, and are a reflection on my fascination with the person and their innate beauty and character.”
— Marc Hom
 
Originally from Copenhagen, Denmark, MARC HOM has made an indelible mark in the world of fashion photography and is now one of the leading portrait photographers living today. He is known for his timeless and classic portraits of some of the most creative, influential, and notable individuals of our time. Amongst his subjects are Robert Redford, Johnny Depp, Alicia Vikander, Angelina Jolie, Christopher Walken, Brie Larson, Kate Winslet, Julian Schnabel, Wiz Khalifa, Iggy Pop, Matthew McConaughey, Ben Affleck, Michelle Obama, Quentin Tarantino, David Beckham, Royal families, and politicians, for such leading publications as W Magazine, Vanity Fair, GQ, German Vogue, Esquire, and Harper’s Bazaar. His first book, Portraits, was published in 2006. He lives in Brooklyn Heights with his wife Marie-Louise and their two small children.

• A stunning array of colour and black & white portraits of some of the most charismatic figures of contemporary culture
• Renowned photographer Marc Hom captures the essence of each of his personality “profiles” in a singular magical moment of candid vulnerability and vivid beauty
• This dazzling compendium is destined to become a classic for any modern photography book collection
• Exhibitions and book signings to be announced soon
• Also available as Collector's Editions. Limited Edition of 100 copies. “Exceptional profiles of creatives in the arts and cinema”

Peace, love, and pudenda. How men's magazines turned hot and hippy between 1967–1972

In a brief golden span between 1967 and 1972, the sexual revolution collided with recreational drug exploration to create "psychedelic sex." While the baby boomers blew their minds and danced naked in the streets, men’s magazine publishers attempted to visually recreate the wonders of LSD, project them on a canvas of nubile hippie flesh, and dish it up to men dying for a taste of free love.

Way Out, Groovie, Where It’s At — each magazine title vied to convince the straight audience it offered the most authentic flower power sex trip, complete with mind-bending graphics and all-natural hippie hotties. Along the way hippies joined in the production, since what could be groovier than earning bread in your birthday suit?

At its height, psychedelic sex encompassed posters, tabloids, comics, and newsstand magazines, but the most far-out examples of all were the glossy magazines from California, center of both hippie culture and the budding American porn industry. It’s these sexy, silly reminders of peace, love, and pudenda we celebrate in Psychedelic Sex. So put on your beads, tune up your sitar, and let the love-in begin!

This book focuses from a chronological perspective on photography as a tool for a new visuality and the rupture of the role of the spectator: photographic exhibitions from 1928 to 1955, from the spaces designed by Lissitzky's to The Family of Man; the trajectory of utopian architectural-photographic space and from post-Revolutionary Russia to America during the Cold War. This space documents the exhibitions designed by Lissitzky (Pressa, Film und Foto, etc); German, Italian and Spanish exhibitions in the 1930s, and exhibitions in MOMA during the Second World War.

109 duotone and color photographs, 2 gatefolds

teNeues introduces a beautifully bound, slip-cased Collector's Edition of Pure Dance, the extraordinary collection of dance photographs published this season. In a series of breathtakingly beautiful pictures taken over a period of five years, Dieter Blum focuses his astute camera on 37 of 53 dancers in the world-renowned Stuttgart Ballet to explore the sculptural aspects of this exquisitely schooled human form; its strength, suppleness, discipline, mystery and possibilities for movement. Because all of the dancers are photographed in the nude, Blum succeeds in capturing the dynamic movement, musicality, and magic of the classically trained dance artist. Each photograph is a distilled, evocative frozen fragment of an art form that by its nature is fleeting and ephemeral.

Dieter Blum's photographs of musicians, dancers, and artists have appeared in Vanity Fair, Time, Spiegel, and Stern. He divides his time between Dьsseldorf and Esslingen, Germany.

* A series of nude dance photographs unlike any other published in a beautifully bound, slip-cased collector's edition
* Strikingly beautiful photographs that explore the sculptural aspects of this exquisitely schooled human form

Here is a collection of dance photographs unlike any other. In a series of breathtakingly beautiful pictures taken over a period of five years, Dieter Blum focuses his astute camera on 37 of 53 dancers in the world-renowned Stuttgart Ballet to explore the sculptural aspects of this exquisitely schooled human form; its strength, suppleness, discipline, mystery and possibilities for movement. Blum succeeds in capturing the dynamic movement, musicality, and magic of the classically trained dance artist. Each photograph is a distilled, evocative frozen fragment of an art form that by its nature is fleeting and ephemeral.

- A collection of nude dance unlike any other

- Strikingly beautiful photographs that explore the sculptural aspects of this exquisitely schooled human form

After having appeared in vast numbers of books and magazines, Pussy Club is the first collection of photos by Dirk Krauzig, the highly regarded photographer who understands uniquely how to show off his models in their best possible light.

In Pussy Club, Dirk once again demonstrates his skill at combining the provocative with the elegant. His work is classical, the lighting extravagant. Out of the darkness, his models fix the observer with dignity, charisma and a powerful erotic magnetism. Seductive divas with erotic secrets...

Located in historic city walls with just the right kind of atmosphere, a club bar serves as a suitable backdrop. Here, where the heart of life normally beats a pace, fascinating ladies take to the stage with no one else for company. Here they show off their passionate side, self-possessed, proud, and breathtakingly beautiful.

Come with us on a trip to a secret sensual universe of soft tender light and velvety shadows. Let the sensuality and sultry atmosphere of this book seduce you!

Nach ungezählten Veröffentlichungen in Magazinen und Büchern erscheint mit Pussy Club der erste eigene Bildband des renommierten Fotografen Dirk Krauzig, der es auf so einzigartige Weise versteht, seine Modelle mit Licht zu umhüllen.

In Pussy Club beweist Dirk Krauzig einmal mehr, daß es möglich ist, Provokantes und Eleganz miteinander zu verbinden. Seine Arbeiten sind klassisch, die Lichtführung extravagant und seine Modelle treten dem Betrachter würdevoll, charismatisch und mit machtvoller erotischer Ausstrahlung aus dem Dunkel entgegen. Verführerische Diven voller Geheimnisse...

Als atmosphärisch dichte Kulisse dient eine Club-Bar in historischen Mauern. Hier, wo normalerweise pulsierendes Leben herrscht, betreten faszinierende Frauen ganz allein die Bühne, zeigen sich und ihre Leidenschaften, selbstbewußt, stolz und wunderschön.

Kommen Sie mit auf eine Reise in ein geheimnisvolles erotisches Universum, durch weiches Licht und samtige Schatten und lassen Sie sich von der Sinnlichkeit und Atmosphäre dieses Buches verführen!

Often referred to poetically as the “delta of venus” , this mysterious, triangular-shaped area, nestling by the female crotch is what doubtless attracts virtually every man (and also many women) more than any other! What is it about the look of a woman’s tush (or pussy, as it is also affectionately called) that is so fascinating? In our topless age, why is this most feminine of all forbidden zones still strictly shielded from prying eyes? Who knows, who can say? However, it is common knowledge that nothing inspires erotic imagination more than this yummy triangle, which attracts voyeuristic looks as magically as the Bermuda Triangle attracts ships and aeroplanes.

The incredible variety of shapes and colors, both inside and outside, featuring everything from bold hair styles to naked hairless pleasure, is simply breathtaking. It is almost as if the pussies are before our very eyes, glistening slightly, and we are virtually able to inhale their seductive scent or taste it; these pussies have been very skillfully photographed to set them off in the very best light. Enjoy!

Didier Carré, Ludmilla Foblova, Emanuel Fouquet, Ulrich Grolla, J. Stephen Hicks, Dirk Krauzig, Chas Ray Krider, Karl Louis, Bryon Paul McCartney, Jean Najean, George Pitts, Katerina Rudlova, Jiri Ruzek, Jim Fredlund, Frank Sabino, Renee Azcra Woodward, Ragnar Gischas, Robert Baham, Carnish, Felix Kirsch, Günther Hagedorn, Stephan B., Dimitar Petrov, Mark Page, Jeremy Saffer, Veselin Valchev, Jürgen Wunderlich, Sabine Modotti, Igor Amelkovich, Stefan Schaal

Poetisch oft als „Delta der Venus“ verklärt, ist jenes geheimnisvolle Dreieck im Schoße der Frau wohl derjenige Körperteil, der fast alle Männer (und auch viele Frauen!) anzieht wie kein anderer. Was macht den Anblick dieser Pussies und Muschis und wie wir sie sonst noch liebevoll nennen, so faszinierend? Ist es das auch im Zeitalter des „oben Ohne“ immer noch vor Blicken streng gehütete weiblichste aller Geheimnisse? Wer weiß es schon! Nichts dient aber der Beflügelung der erotischen Fantasie mehr als dieses magische Dreieck, das voyeuristische Blicke so magisch anzieht wie das Bermuda-Dreieck Schiffe und Flugzeuge.

Man glaubt sie förmlich leicht glänzend vor sich zu sehen, ihren verführerischen Duft einzuatmen oder sie gar zu schmecken, diese fotografisch kunstvoll ins beste Licht gesetzten Pussies.

Ähnlich wie bei anderen Bildbänden aus dem Skylight-Verlag, etwa über prachtvolle Brüste (Boob Mania), knackige Hinterteile (Hot Cheeks 1 + 2) und die mehr oder weniger behaarten Dreiecke (Shaven or Unshaven), vermögen diese intimsten Aufnahmen für den Kenner und Liebhaber der puren Weiblichkeit zur echten Manie zu werden.

Photographer, costume designer, avid diarist - Cecil Beaton was also a 'romantic royalist' whose glittering photographs of Queen Elizabeth II became among the most widely published portraits of the twentieth century. This fascinating book explores Beaton's long relationship with the Queen and the royal family and describes how his royal portraits shaped the monarchy's public image from the 1930s to the late 1960s. It is a celebration of Beaton, the enduring flair of his portraits, and the myriad sources of inspiration that resulted in photographs so powerful that they moulded the world's perception of a princess, monarch and mother.

In Radiant Identities, photographer Jock Sturges explores issues of youth and the liberation of body and spirit.

These unforgettable images are made from his own circle of acquaintances and family; the settings are their homes and stretches of naturist beaches in France and Northern California. In superb reproductions, Sturges evokes the classical spirit of Old Master paintings and late-nineteenth-century photographic tableaux, while probing concepts of emergent sexuality and psychological intimacy. Radiant Identities is the second volume in Sturges's ongoing work. Physically and psychically revealing, these deeply felt images are gloriously natural and wonderfully compelling. Elizabeth Beverly's introductory essay, drawn in part from conversations with Sturges's subjects, adds a new dimension to the photographs.

These personal reflections shed light on the unique collaborative process by which Sturges's remarkable photographs are made. In the book's afterword, noted photography critic A.D. Coleman places Sturges in the context of current debates surrounding censorship in the arts, and discusses the themes of innocence and sexuality in the photographs.

Rainforests are special places. Strung around the globe across five continents, they are natural cathedrals on the grandest scale, their lush, humid precincts not only places of great beauty but also home to more than fifty per cent of the world's known wildlife species. This is biodiversity at its most dramatic: a bewildering variety of plants, birds, mammals and invertebrates depend on the rainforest environment, with the total number of species continuing to grow almost daily as scientists make constant new discoveries. Yet, while we still have so much more to learn about rainforests, they are disappearing - cleared and burned, thanks to human greed for land and demand for timber and other forest resources.

In "Rainforest Safari", James Parry explores these extraordinary landscapes with reference to 25 sites, and reveals the fascinating range of wildlife they support. The book looks at the various types of rainforest, at their different ecosystems and at the diverse features that make them such exciting places to visit." Rainforest Safari" also looks at the human dimension of rainforests: at the indigenous peoples whose way of life is firmly rooted in the forest ecosystem, at the devastating impact of uncontrolled deforestation and other forms of exploitation, and at the conservation work now underway to try and save what is left of these unique habitats. In the final chapter, the book takes a forward view, assessing what the future may hold for rainforests, especially in view of their value in the battle to stem climate change.

Contents:
Foreword; Intro; A Background to Rainforests; Africa (6 sites); Asia (7 sites); Australasia (3 sites); North America (2 sites); Central, South America (6 sites); The Future for Rainforests; Resources; Index.

A decade after his first TASCHEN book, Deus ex machina, master photographer Ralph Gibson returns with an exquisite collection of nudes, combining the best of his recent work with an in-depth interview by Eric Fischl. Strikingly graphic, meticulously composed, and loaded with subtle provocations, Gibson’s mysterious, dreamlike images pay homage to greats such as Man Ray and Edward Weston, while continually pursuing new frontiers.

Perfectly intimate. The infinite subtlety of the female form

Master photographer Ralph Gibson returns with an exquisite collection of nudes, combining the best of his work with an in-depth interview by Eric Fischl. Strikingly graphic, meticulously composed, and loaded with subtle provocations, Gibson’s mysterious, dreamlike images pay homage to greats such as Man Ray and Edward Weston, while continually pursuing new frontiers.

Perfectly Intimate. The infinite subtlety of the female form

Master photographer Ralph Gibson returns with an exquisite collection of nudes, combining the best of his work with an in-depth interview by Eric Fischl. Strikingly graphic, meticulously composed, and loaded with subtle provocations, Gibson’s mysterious, dreamlike images pay homage to such greats as Man Ray and Edward Weston, while continually pursuing new frontiers.

Sensual and softly surreal, the nude photography of Ralph Gibson frames the female form both organically and graphically, referencing art history while also innovating in the arena of erotic imagery, at once summoning visceral sensation and calling out for tactile attention. Thumb through this exquisite tribute to the contours and curves of womanhood and experience the intimacy of the photographic lens.

Reviving TASCHEN’s sold-out Collector’s Edition, this tribute gathers the best of Gibson’s exquisite nudes alongside some of his most recent works in an accessible, revised format, complete with a fresh in-depth interview by Eric Fischl. Strikingly graphic, meticulously composed, and loaded with subtle provocations, the master photographer’s mysterious, dreamlike images pay homage to greats such as Man Ray and Edward Weston, while continually pursuing new frontiers.

"A photographer once said that beauty in women is endless. Perhaps it was I who said it. [...] I love photographing women and could say that the form of the female body is absolute and perfect." —Ralph Gibson

The photographer:

Ralph Gibson began taking pictures while in the U.S. Navy in the 1950s, and later assisted Dorothea Lange and Robert Frank before establishing his own studio in New York. The recipient of NEA and Guggenheim grants, Gibson was made a Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government in 2002.

The author:

Eric Fischl is an internationally renowned figurative painter and sculptor. Born in New York and educated in Arizona and California, he is currently based in the New York area with his wife, painter April Gornik.

Ray Petri, der "König des Männer-Stylings", war einer der einflussreichsten und erfolgreichsten Mode-Stylisten der 80er-Jahre. Als er 1989 starb, wünschte er sich von seinen Freunden, ein Buch über seine Buffalo-Arbeit zusammenzustellen. Dieses liegt nun vor, und das Ergebnis ist ein Lobgesang auf einen Mann, der als erster Männern Röcke anzog und schwarze Models einsetzte.

Was aber war Buffalo? Der Begriff kommt aus der Karibik und bedeutet etwa so viel wie "harte Jungs, Aufsässige". Buffalo war eine Gruppe junger, kreativer Leute, die sich aus Sängern (Nick Kamen, Neneh Cherry), Fotografen (u.a. Jamie Morgan und Marc Lebon), Stylisten (Mitzi Lorenz u.a.) und Ray Petri, der treibenden Kraft hinter allem, zusammensetzte. Durch ihre Arbeit im Bereich der Männermode definierten sie den urbanen Look der Jugendkultur der 80er-Jahre. Petri beschrieb Buffalo als einen "funktionalen und gestylten Look; Antimode mit einer gehörigen Prise Rotzigkeit." Wie bei fast allen Veröffentlichungen des Verlags Schirmer/Mosel, ist auch dieses Buch ein liebevoll und aufwändig gestalteter Fotoband. 150 meist großformatige Schwarzweiß- und Farbaufnahmen sowie mehrere Essays von Freunden und Bekannten bringen die Atmosphäre der wilden Zeit der Buffalos und das Besondere, das Ungewöhnliche dieser ungestümen Gruppe hervorragend rüber.

Am beeindruckendsten an diesem Band ist, dass die Bilder und Stylings sich von allen anderen Modefotografien der Achtziger dahingehend unterscheiden, dass sie zeitlos sind -- auch auf die Gefahr hin, dass dieser Begriff abgegriffen erscheint. Vielen erscheint die Mode der 80er-Jahre -- selbst heute, in der Zeit des "Retro" -- als unmöglich und schrecklich hässlich. Ganz anders in diesem Buch: Obwohl es eine Hymne auf die Achtziger ist, erzählen die Bilder ebenso von früheren oder späteren -- und auch von heutigen Zeiten. Sie sind einfach anders und... na: zeitlos eben! Grund genug, sie sich immer wieder und wieder anzusehen. Und was verlangt man mehr von einem guten, gelungenen Fotoband?