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The name Rolex is recognized around the world. It has become an icon of beauty, quality, accuracy, style, and taste. While there are other fine manufacturers of timepieces, none has reached this pinnacle of public respect and acclaim. The watches produced by Rolex over the last 100 years are celebrated in this lavishly illustrated classic, now in a revised and expanded third edition. Over 30 newly discovered wristwatches are included in this volume, along with new information and a revised value guide. In addition there are detailed looks at some of Rolex's legendary movements. Dowling and Hess, both acknowledged Rolex authorities, have captured the watches' beauty in color photography and present the most thorough and extensive history written of the company. The watches and the extensive information this book offeres to collectors make it a truly useful volume, one that will be cherished by watch lovers around the world.

For the past 50 years, the covers of Rolling Stone have depicted the icons of popular culture — from John Lennon, Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, Madonna, and Steve Martin to Rihanna, Louis C.K., Adele, Radiohead, and Barack Obama — cementing their legendary and influential status. No other magazine has the illustrious history and prestige of having defined popular culture from the birth of rock and roll to the present.

This fantastic collection is newly revised and updated to include the covers from all 50 years of Rolling Stone history. With an updated introduction by Jann S. Wenner as well as new excerpts from the magazine and quotes from photographers and their celebrity subjects, this nostalgic journey down the memory lane of music, entertainment, and politics is irresistible.

About the author:

Rolling Stone was founded by publisher Jann S. Wenner and music critic Ralph J. Gleason in 1967. It has a circulation of more than one million readers in the United States and widespread international circulation. Wenner is also the head of Wenner Media and the publisher of Us Weekly and Men’s Journal. In 2005, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Rolling Stone and Wenner are based in New York City.

Это не первая книга о ROLLING STONES. Можно побиться об заклад, что она будет далеко не последней.
Почти 50 лет ROLLING STONES являются объектом, приковывающим внимание миллионов последователей, критиков и недоброжелателей.
С момента появления группы неоднократно объявлялось о ее закате. Но каждый раз они ломали стереотипы, создавая музыку, которая помогала передать дух своего времени и, в конечном счете, становилась вечной.

After the pandemic, Rome will never be the same again, because the Eternal City has discovered the silence of man’s absence, an overpowering loneliness.

Like the rest of the world, Rome stopped during the pandemic triggered by Covid-19, remaining indefinitely in a state of suspended animation. The images taken in those days by the photographer Moreno Maggi capture this particular moment of a sleeping city and reveal a side of Rome that has never been seen before, in which the lines and geometries of the great works emerge more clearly than ever before, in all their beauty. Augmented reality makes the experience even more evocative, with visions of the deserted city created with a drone.

Psychoanalyst Massimo Recalcati reminds us of what can always happen in dreams or nightmares: the familiar scene of the city emptied out. Art historian Claudio Strinati, an exceptional guide to this surreal city, describes monuments, historic buildings, and squares. 

Beauty envelops us and saves us in a version of Rome that becomes a symbol of eternal rebirth. This is a large volume that commemorates one of the most intense periods of the century.

About the Author:

Massimo Recalcati is an eminent psychoanalyst who has published numerous books. Claudio Strinati is one of the most authoritative art experts and a connoisseur of seventeenth-century Italy. Moreno Maggi is an architectural photographer.

Originally published in hardcover in 2009, this abridged, flexi-cover edition highlights the best of Erwitt's collection of photographs of this magnificent metropolis.

A wonderful addition to teNeues' Elliott Erwitt series and a must-have for lovers of Rome and its people.

Città Eterna. A photographic portrait of Rome

Rome is the city where past and present, spectacle and the everyday collide around every corner; where Baroque drama flourishes alongside ancient classical wonders; where necks crane to admire Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel; and where Fellini immortalized la dolce vita. This photographic portrait of Rome brings you all the history and all the wonders of an incomparable cultural capital.

This bumper photographic portrait of Rome brings together hundreds of photographs from the 1840s through to today to explore the extraordinary history, beauty, and art of this incomparable cultural capital.

From sepia and black and white to colour, these outstanding images dating from the 1840s to the present day allow us — through the eyes of such photographers as Giacomo Caneva, Pompeo Molins, Giuseppe Primoli, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Carlo Bavagnoli, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Pasquale De Antonis, Peter Lindbergh, Slim Aarons, and William Klein — to discover Rome in its many compelling guises: as the center of the Roman Empire, as one of the cradles of the Renaissance, as a favourite destination for travellers and a rich patchwork of varied neighbourhoods, as the seat of the Roman Catholic Church, a stage for politics, and as the perfect backdrop for film and fashion shoots.

Reaching back into illustrious archives, some of the book’s early images offer us a privileged Grand Tour glimpse of some of Rome’s most treasured landmarks, revealing the Colosseum, Roman Forum, and Spanish Steps almost void of crowds. Later pictures survey the city’s contrasts — from the luxurious homes and leisure activities of the privileged to street stalls and laundry lines in the working-class districts of Trastevere and Testaccio. Some documentary-style shots show us the dark power of Mussolini, the city bedecked with his own iconography and imagery of strength, athleticism, and the fatherland.

As colour photography comes in, the city transitions from a neo-realismo aesthetic to postwar recovery and hedonism: all the glamorous gowns, exotic celebrities, and Via Veneto café culture immortalized by Fellini. Many famous faces are here, including Louis Armstrong, Elizabeth Taylor, Audrey Hepburn, Marcello Mastroianni, Sophia Loren, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Anna Magnani, and Valentino.

The author:

Giovanni Fanelli, professor of Architecture History at the University of Florence, is the author of several works of architectural history, urban history, graphic arts and photography, translated into several languages; he has been the Scientific Director of the Fondazione Ragghianti (Lucca) and is series editor for a number of titles of Laterza publishers (Rome).

Unser Band, der aus Anlass des 70. Geburtstags von Romy Schneider (1938–1982) neu aufgelegt wird, ist eine Hommage in Bildern, die all die glanzvollen, intimen, auch tragische Momente der beruflichen und privaten Metamorphose Romy Schneiders vom »süßen Mädel« zur schönen, selbstbewussten Frau, zur gefeierten Schauspielerin und Diva versammelt. Es sind Photographien, die der italienisch-französische Photograph Giancarlo Botti von Romy zwischen 1961 und ihrem Tod 1982 aufgenommen hat. Die frühesten Bilder zeigen sie im Modesalon von Coco Chanel bei der Kostümprobe für ein Filmprojekt mit Luchino Visconti. In den folgenden zwei Jahrzehnten photographierte er sie u. a. bei den Dreharbeiten von Was gibt’s Neues, Pussy?, Halb elf in einer Sommernacht, Spion zwischen zwei Fronten, Die Geliebte des anderen, Das Mädchen und der Kommissar, Nachtblende, Gruppenbild mit Dame und Eine einfache Geschichte. Der vertraute Umgang zwischen dem Photographen und seinem Star führte auch dazu, dass Romy ihn häufig zu privaten Phototerminen bat. So nahm er Romy mit Sohn David in ihrer Pariser Wohnung auf und photographierte ihre Hochzeit mit Daniel Biasini. Die Beziehung fand ihren Höhepunkt in einer großen erotischen Aktserie, die Romy Schneider selbst angeregt hatte und die hier erstmals zusammenhängend veröffentlicht ist. Giancarlo Botti, 1930 in Italien geboren und seit Ende der 50er Jahre in Frankreich ansässig, machte sich mit Photoreportagen und Prominenten-Portraits einen Namen. Unser Band ist das Zeugnis einer langjährigen, von Sympathie und zunehmender Vertrautheit geprägten Zusammenarbeit mit Romy Schneider, die 1960 mit einem Reportage-Auftrag der französischen Frauenzeitschrift Marie Claire begann.

An intimate glance at Hollywood behind closed doors is revealed in this collection of glamorous, erotic and fascinating photographs shot in the Penthouse suite at the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills.

Throughout the year of 2008 an exquisite selection of celebrities including George Clooney, Cindy Crawford, Minnie Driver, Eva Herzigova, Dennis Hopper, Rachel Hunter, Sir Elton John, Heidi Klum, Kid Rock, Ray Liotta, Lindsay Lohan, Tatjana Patitz, Christian Slater, Sharon Stone and Donald and Rossif Sutherland were all invited to “live” in Room 23.

Deborah Andersonʼs photographic gaze is able to lasciviously lure Sharon Stone into bed with Cheryl Tiegs, makes men crawl submissively at Lindsay Lohan feet and brings a coquette smile to Heidi Klum pretty face while standing next to a bellboy with his exposed derrière.

Shooting people in beds and bathtubs, Deborah Andersonʼs sensual point-of-view lets her get physically close to her subjects, but also allows her to capture the essence of their personality, their sex appeal, sense of humor, irony and at times lets seep through their innermost fantasies. Despite all, her subjects remain the untouchable icons we know and adore - behind locked hotel room doors they are removed from reality, distantly desirable and mysterious. A simple peek through the voyeurʼs keyhole gives us a taste of luscious perfection we long for.

The celebrities portrayed in this book were invited by Diana Jenkins, to many more than a mere acquaintance. Growing up in Sarajevo, this charismatic businesswoman now lives divided between London and Los Angeles. After escaping the horrors of the Bosnian War, in which she lost a brother, Diana Jenkins established an international foundation dedicated to rebuilding the infrastructure of a war-tattered nation.

The idea for this book sprung from an encounter with Deborah Anderson, whose style in photography has been located by the Los Angeles Times as somewhere between classic French erotica and Helmut Newton. Like her father Jon Anderson, legendary lead vocalist of YES, Deborah has worked with many music talents over the years as singer songwriter.

With a characteristic mix of humor, vitality, and eroticism, German photographer Roswitha Hecke has created a body of sensitive portraits and reports spanning forty years, four continents and all aspects of human life: German theater, French cinema, Zurich prostitutes, Paris transvestites, a Bronx private eye or the homeless on the Bowery. This volume accompanies a major retrospective in Berlin.

For the Italian photographer Gabriele Rigon the female nude is nature’s finest gift. He is so moved by this aesthetic that he translates his feelings into still images, or “intimate moments in time”, how he prefers to describe his pictures. Gabriele Rigon never works with many models, as he gives the special working relationship with the models the top priority. For him it is the most important thing to create an atmosphere of trust, understanding, merriness and friendship, where the camera becomes just a tool for capturing the moments he shares with the models. So it is no surprise that his pictures exude a kind of romantic and poetry.

Taschen 25th Anniversary Series

"Animal sexuality differs from eroticism in that human sexuality is limited by taboos and the domain of eroticism is that of the transgression of these taboos" is how Georges Bataille explains eroticism. Casting a new light on that most human of acts, Roy Stuart presents us here with a book of erotic power rarely seen. The brilliant technique and skillful presentation of his videos and stills present sexuality directly and without prudery.

 Stuart's photos and glimpse videos have aquired cult status even amongst experienced hardcore fans, and with good reason, for they represent an exquisite representation of the forbidden. In turns voyeuristic, in turns narrative, his pictures with their disarming explicitness subvert traditional moral codes and force the viewer to reevaluate his or her preconceived notions of sexuality. The photographs assembled in this book, which in another context might have been condemned, instead give a fascinating glimpse behind the scenes of Roy Stuart's magical theatre of transgression and taboo.

In his second book for TASCHEN, a groundbreaking exploration of "authentic human passion," Roy Stuart produced photos that were both finely crafted compositions and highly charged representations of desire, without slipping into the tired stereotypes of pornography and the degrading portrayals that genre normally offers up. In his pictorial world, women are potently sexual figures who know what they want and are going to get it. Exploratory, experimental, they hold all the cards in the consensual power plays and fantasy enactments presented.

This collection of narratives and pictorials does not fail to deliver either, with its refreshingly honest and strikingly explicit take on the more creative areas of the sexual psyche. Playing off dream scenarios against shots caught on the run in the street, and portrait style nudes against group love-ins, it will satisfy both the connoisseur of the erotic as well as the curious newcomer. With his trademark interest in the daily rituals of womankind still apparent, and his richly textured appreciation of the garments of seduction, Stuart's work might take a little acclimatisation. But once you let go and enter in, you will find that, along with the loosening of clothing, a little relaxation of one's inhibitions can go a long way.

Roy Stuart has been at it again, traipsing around Paris from luxury apartments to the streets, capturing men and women defiantly acting out their sexual fantasies. From peek-a-boo panties to same-sex petting to more "indiscreet" activities, Stuart`s titillating mises-en-scene challenge us to break loose from traditional moral codes. Featuring not only young, perky-bodied women but also females of a certain age, these images are more hardcore and more daring than anything Stuart has ever produced. Also included are a rare interview with Stuart and images from his first feature film, giving a taste of what Stuart`s future offerings will bring us, as he plans to add filmmaking to his list of artistic erotic accomplishments.

This book is dedicated to the history of the Royal Oak from 1972 to 2020 from the perspective of collectors and enthusiasts around the globe.

The Royal Oak by Audemars Piguet is one of the watch models most coveted and sought-after by collectors all over the world. Characterized by a steel case, an octagonal bezel, the “Tapisserie” dial, and a steel face, it subverted aesthetic codes when it appeared in 1972. Even though its success wasn’t immediate, it became an icon over the course of several seasons. The Royal Oak came about when the popularity of quartz watches seemed to be heralding the end of the mechanical watch. Audemars Piguet decided to gamble on something completely new, a sporty, elegant watch that would mark a turning point in the market and reconfirm Swiss supremacy in watchmaking.

This monumental tribute features Paolo Gobbi, among others, the most important Italian watch expert and one of the most knowledgeable in the world, and Andrea Mattioli, an antiques dealer and great connoisseur of this model. Royal Oak 39 The Book explores the timeless timepiece, illustrating every facet of over a hundred rare and legendary specimens belonging to prestigious collections, photographed in detail exclusively for this exquisite monograph. It is a must-have for watch enthusiasts and, in particular, lovers of this model, characterized by its 39-millimeter dial.

About the Author:

Paolo Gobbi is an experienced journalist of watchmaking who writes for many prestigious magazines. He is editor in chief of Watch Digest and contributes to Il Messaggero and Il Mattino. Andrea Mattioli has sold precious and high-end watches for many years, becoming over time a refined connoisseur.