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From Tower Bridge to Battersea Power Station, Big Ben to the Old Bailey, embark on a thrilling tour of the hidden interiors of some of London's most iconic buildings. 

Celebrated photographer Peter Dazeley takes you deep into the boiler room of the city's infrastructure, into the changing rooms of our greatest temples of sport, into the heart of the Establishment, and behind the scenes at the most opulent buildings in the Square Mile. Photographs of these extraordinary buildings – some derelict, but many still working – are accompanied by the story of how each of these places was created, how they are used, and what they reveal about the currents of power flowing through the city. 

See a glimpse of London behind closed doors with this unique guide to the city's buildings, revised and updated for 2017 to include the royal palaces of Hampton Court, the Tower of London and the Inigo Jones Banqueting Hall at Palace of Whitehall, and the Royal Courts of Justice, Supreme Court and Bow Street Magistrates Court.

For more than ten years, wildlife photographer Steve Bloom traveled all over the world, roaming through the jungles of Borneo, the African savannahs, and the frozen banks of Antarctica to assemble this dazzling collection of photographs of animals in their natural environments. With an international range that is rare in books of animal photography, the 200 photographs in Untamed (2004) bring to life a vast panorama of animal diversity and the landscapes, climates, and habitats in which these creatures live.

Now this terrific survey of Bloom's animal photography is available in a smaller, giftable format. Once again, the reader is treated to the serene gaze of a gorilla relaxing in the trees, a shark-jumping in midair to catch its prey, a Siberian tiger traipsing through the snow in search of food, and penguins congregating on an ice floe. Bloom's anthropomorphic approach reveals rage, tenderness, and even humor in his subjects, capturing those fleeting moments when the gap between animal and human seems to disappear altogether. These amazing images, augmented by a personal account of Bloom's unforgettable career as a wildlife photographer, make this reissue of Untamed an excellent gift for all animal and photography.

About the author
Steve Bloom is an award-winning wildlife photographer who founded his own wildlife stock photo agency and fine print gallery in the mid-1990s. He was a contributor to Abrams’ One Planet: A Celebration of Biodiversity.

Untitled – це третій том робіт Даян Арбус і єдиний, присвячений виключно одному проекту. Фотографії були зроблені в інтернатах для розумово відсталих між 1969 і 1971 роками, в останні роки життя Арбус. Хоча вона розглядала можливість написання книги на цю тему, переважна більшість цих знімків залишалася неопублікованою до виходу цього тому.

Ці фотографії досягають ліризму, емоційної чистоти, що відрізняє їх від усіх її інших досягнень. «Нарешті те, що я шукала», – писала вона тоді. Результат її незмінно непохитної поваги до реальності, якою вона її знайшла, зображення в цій книзі мають менше спільного з документальним кіно, ніж з міфічним.

Untitled цілком може бути найтрансцендентнішим, найромантичнішим баченням Арбус. Це оспівування унікальності та зв'язку кожного з нас. Для Даян Арбус саме в цьому полягало створення фотографій.

Це перше видання, в якому розділення зображень було створено цифровим способом; Файли були спеціально підготовлені Робертом Дж. Хеннессі з використанням відбитків Ніла Селкірка.

Про автора:

Діана Арбус (1923–1971) зробила революцію в мистецтві, яким вона займалася. П'ять томів її робіт були опубліковані посмертно та постійно передаються: Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph (1972), Diane Arbus: Magazine Work (1984), Untitled: Diane Arbus (1995), Diane Arbus: A Chronology (2011), та Diane Arbus Revelations (2003).

У цьому чудово оформленому томі Дженні Гейдж і Том Беттертон представляють інтимну розповідь про річне дослідження трьох жінок у різному стані оголених і роздягнених. Отримана робота — це тонко провокативний і чуттєвий щоденник, створений із фотографій із багатою текстурою, що викликають враження, усі зроблені в будинку подружжя в Брукліні та навколо нього. Гейдж і Беттертон — митці, яких постійно захоплює тонка грань між документальним і штучним, і тут вони використовують свій фірмовий стиль оповіді, щоб створити болісно чесні та захоплююче інтимні портрети.

Upstairs, Downstairs & Outside — це рідкісна робота, яка відтворює наше інтенсивне та нескінченне захоплення жіночою формою, водночас створюючи глибокий гуманістичний зв’язок і співпрацю між художником і об’єктом.

Про авторів:

Дженні Гейдж і Том Беттертон були парою і співпрацювали з моменту першої зустрічі. Вони створили зображення образотворчого мистецтва та моди, які демонструвалися в музеях, галереях і журналах по всьому світу.

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Погортати книгу  Jenny Gage & Tom Betterton: Upstairs, Downstairs & Outside

African Queens

Simple, sensual portraits of dark-skinned beauties

"Poets have described the beauty of African women with their words,
Uwe Ommer with his camera."Photo Presse, Germany

Uwe Ommer, a sought-after commercial photographer based in New York and Paris, has made a name for himself with his own uncommissioned works, as this book eloquently attests. For the aesthete Uwe Ommer, the bodies of black women represent the epitome of beauty. His photographs are exactly what they show, no more and no less than a homage to female beauty. And of course that homage is paid in the perfect setting, the stunning landscape of Africa.
Calixthe Beyala, born in Cameroon, is one of the leading African francophone poets. The texts in this book were written especially as a commentary on the photography of Uwe Ommer.

The photographer:
Uwe Ommer became fascinated with photography at a young age and in 1962 moved to Paris, where he initially worked as a photographer’s assistant. Within a few years, he opened his own photography studio, primarily shooting fashion and advertising photos. Quickly gaining respect for his work in Paris, Ommer began showing in local galleries and eventually published his first book, Photoedition Uwe Ommer, in 1979, a collection of personal and advertising works. In the following years, he would publish five more books of his photographs. In 2002, Uwe Ommer was awarded an Honorary Fellowship to the Royal Photographic Society for the impact of his lifetime of work. His books for TASCHEN include Black Ladies, Asian Ladies, Transit, and 1000 Families.

Back in 1974, the sexual revolution was in full swing and the adult entertainment business was on the verge of becoming Big Business. Deep Throat had created America’s first porn star in 1972, but by 1974 Linda Lovelace was already retired and the industry was seeking the next big thing. Vanessa del Rio should have been that thing, except in 1974 there were no ethnic sex stars. Undeterred, Vanessa took any role they’d give her, because, amazingly, she was there for the sex more than the money. Fans, awed by her ferocious onscreen sexuality, made her a top box office draw and America’s first Latina star. Retired since 1986, Vanessa del Rio remains a sexual icon who cuts across all ethnic boundaries.

What her fans don’t know is that her real life was, and is, as wild as anything she did on film.

In this sumptuous over-sized volume, TASCHEN celebrates a remarkably candid, confident and exuberantly sexual woman. Presented through Vanessa’s own archive, in her own words, is a life at once shocking, titillating, amusing, and inspiring. And because paper and ink can’t do justice to a personality this big, an original 140 minute DVD documentary is included. If you aren’t already convinced, this book will end all doubt that there could ever be another woman like Vanessa del Rio.

Von Edward Steichen und Cecil Beaton bis Annie Leibovitz und Mario Testino - Vanity Fair Portraits feiert 95 Jahre Photogeschichte, mit Klassikern der Portraitkunst, die von Vanity Fair in Auftrag gegeben und veröffentlicht wurden. Diese Portraits wurden zu Ikonen der bekanntesten Figuren aus Film, Musik, Sport, Wirtschaft und Politik. Vanity Fair Portraits ist eine Kulturgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts und ihrer führenden Persönlichkeiten. Leitfaden sind die Seiten des Magazins, das die Moderne mit eingeleitet hat und zu einer festen Größe des Lebens im 20. Jahrhunderts geworden ist. Dieser Band versammelt über 300 Photographien aus beiden Epochen des Erscheinens von Vanity Fair und bietet ein Feuerwerk an Prominenz, Talent und Glamour. In der ersten Ära - 1913 bis 1936 - dominieren Figuren aus dem Zeitalter des Jazz und Stars wie Pablo Picasso, Amelia Earhart, Cary Grant und Katharine Hepburn. Die zweite Ära - von der Neugründung 1983 bis heute - bringt Hollywood-Stars, Schriftsteller, Sportler, Stilikonen und große Namen aus Wirtschaft und Politik, mit Portraits von Robert de Niro, Arthur Miller, Madonna, Margaret Thatcher, Rupert Murdoch und vielen anderen. Vanity Fair Portraits bündelt wie ein Brennglas die Energie des Magazins, das mit dem Versprechen antrat, »eine Dinner- Party auf fünfzig Meter in Brand zu setzen« und zeigt, warum es zur wichtigsten Plattform für photographische Ikonographie geworden ist.

I bike, therefore I am.

Riding a bike is easy. Once someone can do it, they will never forget how. Riding a bike can be addictive — in the best cases for life. Understanding the subtleties of contemporary bicycle culture can be challenging. Like it or not, choosing to ride a particular bike — whether an old-fashioned city bicycle, a high-tech machine, a mountain bike, a touring bike, a fixie, or a beach cruiser — means being associated with a certain lifestyle.

Velo — 2nd Gear explores these diverse bicycle scenes and reveals their histories, relationships, and insightful details. Alongside its presentation of especially attractive and unusual bicycles, the book documents how riders’ accessories and styles vary just as widely as the bikes’ tires and other equipment. It explains how each scene cultivates its own distinct codes through the choice of certain jerseys, caps, or bags or by visiting specific events or key establishments.

The examples in Velo — 2nd Gear span the globe. Tours in traditional costumes and on historical paths in Belgium or Italy are not only appealing as athletic challenges, but also as adventures for cosmopolitan travelers. In urban centers at night, bicycle messengers hold races on city streets. Specialized bike boutiques focus on details such as customized paint jobs. Frame builders in Oregon, Paris, or southern Germany create highly coveted bikes tailored to individuals or in very limited editions with long waiting lists.

Velo — 2nd Gear makes abundantly clear that contemporary bicycle culture is more alive and well than ever before. The book celebrates its healthy, environmentally-friendly, discerning, and slightly obsessive scenes and their protagonists. It shows why, for a young generation, bicycles have now replaced cars as the vehicles that best express their identity.

These moody, monochrome landscapes speak of an Italy far removed from the familiar, tourist images. Mostly ‘empty’ – without people – they highlight the intrinsic beauty of Venice itself, and capture the timelessness of the city throughout the centuries.

Juxtaposing black and white photographs of traditional, theatrical Venice with images of the city’s industrial area, Marghera, this is a hauntingly beautiful and utterly original take on one of the world’s most photographed cities.

These portraits of New Yorkers are remarkable for their diversity, but also for the common humanity that binds them all. Photographer Horst Hamann asked New Yorkers - an adventurous but generally skeptical bunch - to come off the street and be photographed with their eyes closed. The resulting work is a profile of human characteristics and emotions. We see anxiety in some photographs, and bravura in others. Because their eyes are closed - as if dreaming - we somehow get closer to their true nature, and by extension, to our own.

Horst Hamann has become famous during the last twenty years for his panoramic photography. His internationally
acclaimed and widely exhibited photographs of New York and Paris have been published by teNeues in the best-selling New York Vertical and Paris Vertical. Born in Germany, he is now based in New York.

75 duotone photographs

The entire story of jazz from its earliest days in New Orleans to the 1970s and beyond told through archival material from Verve, the genres most important label.

Verve signed practically every major jazz artist of the 1950s and 1960s and is home to some of the greatest music ever recorded. Charlie Parker, Count Basie, Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, and Ella Fitzgerald all released records through Verve. This superb new volume presents some of the rarest records and unseen ephemera from the label that helped define the world of jazz. Hundreds of the best examples of iconic seven-inch, ten-inch, and twelve-inch records appear, along with publicity reports, news clippings, posters, telegrams, and programmes.

The ultimate music guide, the book includes features on key artists and key albums as well as insightful timelines that connect Verve with wider musical history. Looking beyond the music scene, the book discusses segregation in America, the missions to take jazz to Europe and the world, the clubs, the places, and the people who made Verve great and jazz cool.

Commentary from the biggest names in jazz today, including some of Verves own artists, complements the text. 1,200 illustrations in color and black and white.

City of Dreams. A visual journey through Vienna’s dazzling history

Explore a city of architectural splendor, ubiquitous history, and incomparable heritage of art, design, and music. This collection brings together hundreds of photographs from the last 175 years to trace the history of Vienna; from imperial city to modern metropolis, from major landmarks to tucked-away treasures, and from the flowering of the fin de siècle to the Cold War.

Vienna combines drama and elegance like no other. For centuries the heart of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the stately city on the Danube, has been defined by vast palaces and imperial grandeur—but behind the Baroque opulence, Vienna is also a place of genteel coffee house culture, epicurean tradition, and a heritage of both delicate and daring music, art, and design, from Johann Strauss to Egon Schiele, from Gustav Mahler to Josef Hoffmann.

This volume is a treasure trove of photography from the last 175 years, following the evolution of Vienna from imperial capital to modern metropolis. Like a visual walk through time and cityscape, hundreds of carefully curated pictures trace the developments in Vienna’s built environment and the cultural and historical trends they reflect, whether the urban Gesamtkunstwerk of the 19th-century Ringstrasse or the experiments of “Red Vienna” in the 1920s, when the city had a social democrat government for the first time.

Through these remarkable photographs, we discover not only the great landmarks and lesser-known corners of Vienna, but also the ubiquity and the tumult of its history. We see the cultural blossoming of the fin de siècle, when radical innovators such as Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Adolf Loos, and Sigmund Freud turned Vienna into a “laboratory of modernity”; the clashes of 1934; the ascent of Nazi dictatorship; and the horrors writ by the Holocaust in what was once one of the most populous and multi-ethnic cities on earth. More recently, fascinating postwar photographs explore the Vienna of the Third Man, at once a city in ruins and a hub for spies. The book closes with the most recent pictures, celebrating the emergence of today’s Vienna — one of the most attractive cities in Europe, in which rich history once again coexists with international flair and vibrant contemporary culture.

The authors:

Christian Brandstätter, born 1943, founded Brandstätter Verlag in 1982. He is the author and designer of numerous illustrated books, including groundbreaking publications on Vienna around 1900, including Gustav Klimt und die Frauen (1994), Design der Wiener Werkstätte (2003), and Wien 1900: Kunst Design Architektur Mode (2018), as well as on Austrian photographic history.

Andreas J. Hirsch, born 1961 in Vienna, is an author, curator and artistic photographer. His writings include books on Pablo Picasso, Tina Modotti, Friedensreich Hundertwasser and H.R. Giger. From 2009 to 2014, he was curator at the KunstHausWien and organized exhibitions on Henri Cartier-Bresson, Linda McCartney and H.R. Giger, among others.

Hans-Michael Koetzle, born 1953, is a Munich-based freelance author and journalist, focusing mainly on history and the aesthetics of photography. He has published numerous books on photography, including Die Zeitschrift twen (1995), Photo Icons (2001), Das Lexikon der Fotografen (2002), René Burri (2004), Photographers A-Z (2011) and Dr. Paul Wolff & Tritschler (2019).

Ода красі — найкращі чорно-білі фотографії Вінсента Пітерса вперше представлені в колекційному виданні з елегантним лляним покриттям.

Вінсент Пітерс, який народився в Бремені, Німеччина, у 1969 році, є одним із найактивніших фешн-фотографів сучасності. У віці 20 років він переїхав до Нью-Йорка, де працював фотоасистентом. Після повернення до Європи він працював у низці художніх галерей, перш ніж розпочати власну кар'єру фешн-фотографа в Giovanni Testino. Серед клієнтів Пітерса — Вольфганг Йооп, Bottega Veneta, Louis Vuitton, Hugo Boss, Emporio Armani та Lancôme.

Протягом останньої чверті століття фотографії Вінсента Пітерса прикрашали сторінки Vogue, Glamour та GQ і визначали модні кампанії від Dior до Hugo Boss та Yves Saint Laurent. Вінсент Пітерс, один із найпопулярніших портретних та фешн-фотографів, також має значну кількість шанувальників на ринку образотворчого мистецтва.

Фотографії Вінсента Пітерса вирізняються точністю, любов'ю до деталей та вишуканим освітленням, яке виводить його зображення за межі швидкозмінних трендів, перетворюючи їх на щось позачасове та культове. З естетикою, що нагадує Жанлу Сіффа чи Герба Ріттса, Пітерсу вдається вловити навіть найфотографованіші обличчя — чи то Скарлетт Йоханссон, Моніку Беллуччі, чи Пенелопу Крус — з небаченими раніше нюансами, створюючи нове відчуття близькості з кожним об'єктом.

За участю Шарліз Терон, Летиції Касти, Джона Малковича та Емми Вотсон

Про автора:

Роботи Вінсента Пітерса вже з'являлися в розділах The Light Between Us та Personal. Тепер, паралельно з великою персональною виставкою Вінсента Пітерса у Fotografiska у Стокгольмі, ця компактна та доступна фотокнига Вінсента Пітерса представляє добірку його найкращих чорно-білих знімків, включаючи портрети Шарліз Терон, Джона Малковича, Летиції Касти та Емми Вотсон. Це яскравий огляд фотохудожника, який завжди розвивається, залишаючись вірним своїм принципам.

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Переглянути повноформатне видання Vincent Peters: Selected Works: The Collector's Edition

This book, the timeless vintage portfolio shows Dita von Teese between 1996 to 2004, whose rise to celebrity status was just a heartbeat away. Today, Dita is a style icon and admired by countless women everywhere. She regularly models for the big fashion houses and has a permanent place at the Paris catwalks. It doesn’t matter whether it’s the Oscar Awards Ceremony or the Opera Ball, it’s not the same if Dita isn’t there.

This book reveals a side to Dita that is well known to the public, i.e. her fetish for corsets (she has more than 100 tailor-made ones), her fetish for shoes (“I never leave home without my high heels on”), as well as other fetishes such as bondage and latex. Dita von Teese has created a style of classic proportions, and she is certainly in a class of her own.

Photographer Peter W. Czernich: „A woman in latex is like a sculpture, she should be perfectly lit and her beauty displayed for all to see and enjoy.” Czernich is also editor of leading fetish magazine „Marquis“.