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Sailing the Seas celebrates the nautical way of life from short sailing trips with friends to longer solitary cruises across the oceans

Since the dawn of time, exploring the world by boat has been seen as the pinnacle of freedom. There is no greater adventure than setting sail, at the mercy of the wind, being sprayed by salty water as you voyage from island to island and sea to sea, discovering new landscapes and cultures.

Sailing the Seas will take readers on a series of nautical adventures across the globe, from the coast of the USA down to the Caribbean, through classic Mediterranean voyages and on trips in far-flung locations such as Thailand and French Polynesia. Presenting a fresh, younger side of sailing, this volume reveals the sights, sounds, tastes, and experiences that can be had on board a boat.

With beautiful photos of locations, detailed itineraries, and “Captain’s Notes” filled with useful tips and insights on destinations, Sailing the Seas will inspire novice sailors and “old salts” alike to take to the waves.

.About the Authors:

Text and preface by Dayyan Armstrong and Ross Beane​

Sailing Collective is comprised of an energetic group of captains, culinary artists, and explorers with a shared enthusiasm for adventure. Their passion lies in curating journeys to the world’s most exotic locations, captained and crewed by talented professionals.

Ever wondered why Yayoi Kusama dresses in dots or dreamt of asking Picasso: why the Breton tee?

Enter sARTorial, a fun guide to the signature looks of 60 key artists from the 19th century to today. Short texts unpack the style essentials from icons such as Claude Monet to millennials including Tauba Auerbach, revealing how they construct their looks and why it reflects the works they create.

Featuring fantastic images of the artists in all their splendour, sARTorial is essential reading for anyone looking to decode the ‘drobe, and gain valuable insight into the cult of the artist.

About the Author:

Katerina Pantelides studied Russian ballet and the body at the Courtauld Institute of Art, where she also taught. She has written style-related pieces for several publications.
 

A revised edition of this collection of Saul Leiter’s distinctive work, featuring twelve new photographs.
A new edition of this collection of Saul Leiter's distinctive work, featuring twelve new photographs.

Saul Leiter was one of those photographers who sought neither fame nor commercial success, despite his talent for imagemaking.

Born in Pittsburgh, he spent his entire adult life in New York City's East Village, in an intensely creative environment where ideas from Europe and America came together and intermingled. There he encountered Rothko and the Abstract Expressionists, and discovered street photography and the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson. His mastery of colour is displayed in unconventional cityscapes in which reflections, transparency, complex framing and mirroring effects are married to a very personal printing style, creating a unique kind of urban view.

About the Author:

Max Kozloff is an American art historian, art critic of modern art and photographer. He has been art editor at The Nation and Executive Editor of Artforum.

Глибший огляд усієї творчості однієї з видатних постатей повоєнної фотографії

Сол Лейтер (1923–2013) був піонером живописного підходу до кольорової фотографії в 1940-х роках і створював обкладинки для модних журналів, таких як Esquire та Harper’s Bazaar, перш ніж зник з-під уваги публіки в 1980-х роках. Публікація в 2006 році його першої колекції Early Color надихнула на палке «перевідкриття», яке з того часу призвело до всесвітніх виставок та виходу документального фільму «Без великого поспіху: 13 уроків життя з Солом Лейтером» (2013). Ця колекція розкриває секрети його привабливості, від майстерних кольорів та композицій до ліризму та життєвої філософії.

Понад 200 робіт, включаючи ранні вуличні фотографії, зображення для реклами, оголені тіла та картини, охоплюють кар'єру Лейтера з 1940-х років і далі, супроводжуючись цитатами художника, що виражають його унікальний світогляд.

Зміст:

Галерея • Художник у Сола Лейтера, Маргіт Ерб • The New York Nabi, Полін Вермаре Фотографії, що підкрадаються ззаду та лоскочуть ліве вухо, Мотоюкі Шибата • Джерела цитат Сола Лейтера • Хронологія Сола Лейтера

Про авторів:

Сол Лейтер народився в 1923 році в Піттсбурзі. Він був піонером малярського підходу до кольорової фотографії в 1940-х роках і створював обкладинки для модних журналів, таких як Esquire та Harper’s Bazaar, перш ніж значною мірою зник з-під уваги публіки в 1980-х роках. Публікація в 2006 році його першої колекції Early Color надихнула на палке «перевідкриття», яке з того часу призвело до світових виставок та виходу документального фільму In No Great Hurst: 13 Lessons in Life with Sola Leiter (2013). Він помер у Нью-Йорку у 2013 році.
Маргіт Ерб — засновниця та директорка Фонду Сола Лейтера, який займається збереженням мистецтва та спадщини Лейтера.
Полін Вермаре — директорка з питань культури Magnum Photos.
Мотоюкі Шибата — дослідниця та перекладачка американської літератури.

An homage to Africa's people and wildlife

Sebastião Salgado is one the most respected photojournalists working today, his reputation forged by decades of dedication and powerful black-and-white images of dispossessed and distressed people taken in places where most wouldn’t dare to go. Although he has photographed throughout South America and around the globe, his work most heavily concentrates on Africa, where he has shot more than 40 reportage works over a period of 30 years. From the Dinka tribes in Sudan and the Himba in Namibia to gorillas and volcanoes in the lakes region to displaced peoples throughout the continent, Salgado shows us all facets of African life today. Whether he’s documenting refugees or vast landscapes, Salgado knows exactly how to grab the essence of a moment so that when one sees his images one is involuntarily drawn into them. His images artfully teach us the disastrous effects of war, poverty, disease, and hostile climatic conditions.

This book brings together Salgado’s photos of Africa in three parts. The first concentrates on the southern part of the continent (Mozambique, Malawi, Angola, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Namibia), the second on the Great Lakes region (Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya), and the third on the Sub-Saharan region (Burkina Faso, Mali, Sudan, Somalia, Chad, Mauritania, Senegal, Ethiopia). Texts are provided by renowned Mozambique novelist Mia Couto, who describes how today’s Africa reflects the effects of colonization as well as the consequences of economic, social, and environmental crises.

This stunning book is not only a sweeping document of Africa but an homage to the continent’s history, people, and natural phenomena.

In Serra Pelada with Sebastião Salgado. Haunting black-and-white images of the Brazilian gold rush

For a decade, Serra Pelada evoked the long-promised El Dorado as the world’s largest open-air gold mine, employing some 50,000 diggers in appalling conditions. Today, Brazil’s gold rush is merely the stuff of legend, kept alive by a few happy memories, many pained regrets — and Sebastião Salgado’s photographs. This collection is a major document of modern history and an extraordinary photographic portfolio.

"What is it about a dull yellow metal that drives men to abandon their homes, sell their belongings and cross a continent in order to risk life, limbs and sanity for a dream?" - Sebastiao Salgado When Sebastiao Salgado was finally authorized to visit Serra Pelada in September 1986, having been blocked for six years by Brazil's military authorities, he was ill-prepared to take in the extraordinary spectacle that awaited him on this remote hilltop on the edge of the Amazon rainforest. 

Before him opened a vast hole, some 200 meters wide and deep, teeming with tens of thousands of barely-clothed men. Half of them carried sacks weighing up to 40 kilograms up wooden ladders, the others leaping down muddy slopes back into the cavernous maw. Their bodies and faces were the colour of ochre, stained by the iron ore in the earth they had excavated. After gold was discovered in one of its streams in 1979, Serra Pelada evoked the long-promised El Dorado as the world's largest open-air gold mine, employing some 50,000 diggers in appalling conditions. 

Today, Brazil's wildest gold rush is merely the stuff of legend, kept alive by a few happy memories, many pained regrets-and Sebastiao Salgado's photographs. Colour dominated the glossy pages of magazines when Salgado shot these images. Black and white was a risky path, but the Serra Pelada portfolio would mark a return to the grace of monochrome photography, following a tradition whose masters, from Edward Weston and Brassai to Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, had defined the early and mid-20th century. 

When Salgado's images reached The New York Times Magazine, something extraordinary happened: there was complete silence. "In my entire career at The New York Times," recalled photo editor Peter Howe, "I never saw editors react to any set of pictures as they did to Serra Pelada." 

Today, with photography absorbed by the art world and digital manipulation, Salgado's portfolio holds a biblical quality and projects an immediacy that makes them vividly contemporary. 

The mine at Serra Pelada has been long closed, yet the intense drama of the gold rush leaps out of these images. 

This book gathers Salgado's complete Serra Pelada portfolio in museum-quality reproductions, accompanied by a foreword by the photographer and an essay by Alan Riding
About the Author:

MEGAMUNDEN is a UK-based illustrator who has created illustrations for advertising, fashion, product design and publishing. He is a Senior Designer at design agency ILoveDust.

Diana McMahon-Collis is a tarot consultant and co-founder of the Tarot Association of the British Isles. She has written for numerous magazines and websites.

The photographer:

Sebastião Salgado began his career as a professional photographer in Paris in 1973 and subsequently worked with the photo agencies Sygma, Gamma and Magnum Photos. In 1994 he and his wife Lélia created Amazonas images, which exclusively handles his work. Salgado’s photographic projects have been featured in many exhibitions as well as books, including Other Americas (1986), Sahel, L'Homme en détresse (1986), Workers (1993), Terra (1997), Migrations (2000), The Children (2000) and Africa (2007).

The editor and author:

Lélia Wanick Salgado studied architecture and urban planning in Paris. Her interest in photography started in 1970. In the 1980s she moved on to conceiving and designing photography books and organizing exhibitions, numerous of them on Sebastião Salgado. Since 1994 Lélia Wanick Salgado has been the director of Amazonas images.

An atmospheric photography book capturing Paris's poetic flair, tradition, and modernity. 

Paris... so familiar and yet surprising. In pastel shades and dazzling details like the palette of French Impressionism, Serge Ramelli presents a unique and personal photo homage to the City of Lights. With romance and history in her blood, Paris shows her tender side as never seen before.

Only Paris offers the inimitable stage that can turn every photo into a film still. In its architectural splendor, its wealth of churches, palaces, parks, and grand boulevards, the city is peerless in its beauty and allure. Add to that a long, rich, and influential history, and this coveted capital is art in its purest form.

From the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre, to Montmartre and Saint-Germain-des-Pres, the traces of painters and photographers and echoes of actors and movie directors can be found all over the city. In this exquisite Paris photo book, Serge Ramelli pays tribute to this unique legacy of art and culture, capturing the city's poetic flair. As in vintage postcards, with glowing street lights or only certain details in color in a black and white panorama, Ramelli accentuates particular picture elements to create a modern, 3D effect, while retaining a close connection to Parisian history.

Vivid in one's memory or perhaps imagination, Ramelli collects rapturous moments with his camera — a brilliant firework display in front of the Eiffel Tower or the sight of the Pont Neuf amidst freshly fallen snow. In the beguiling blue hour, or a nuit (the magical light at sunrise and sunset), the photographer shows a kaleidoscope along the Seine that will delight all who have lived and loved in Paris.

About the Author:

The French photographer Serge Ramelli specializes in urban and landscape photography. He is represented by YellowKorner, the leading publisher of art photography, with more than 78 galleries worldwide. Ramelli’s hit photography courses and tutorials have more than 300,000 YouTube subscribers. He has published photo books on Paris, New York, and Venice. Los Angeles is his fourth book with teNeues.

In the days of sailing ships, the waters off Britain’s south-western coast could be some of the most treacherous in the world with tidal currents, submerged rocks, storms and murky depths. Thousands of ships were lost there over the centuries. From the remote Isles of Scilly, four generations of the Gibson family documented these shipwrecks in photographs, creating a unique archive of an era when seafaring could mean risking one’s life.

This magnificent book is the largest ever created on the subject, with over 100 exceptional images presented as never before alongside text by historian and diver Carl Douglas and marine archaeologist Björn Hagberg. The result is a work that conveys mankind’s struggle against the elements.

An astute exploration of the most outrageous shoe designs of the 21st century

This fabulously illustrated book explores western culture’s fascination with extravagant and fashionable shoes. Over the past decade, shoe design has become increasingly central to fashion, with fashion companies paying ever more attention to shoes and other accessories. High-heeled shoes, in particular, have become the fashion accessory of the 21st century.

Co-written by one of the world’s leading historians of fashion and an authority on fashion accessories, the book features approximately 150 pairs of the most extreme and ultra-fashionable styles of the past 12 years, including work by such prominent designers as Manolo Blahnik, Pierre Hardy, Christian Louboutin and Bruno Frisoni for Roger Vivier, as well as shoes by influential design houses such as Azzedine Alaïa, Balenciaga, Alexander McQueen, and Prada. Avant-garde styles by up-and-coming designers such as Japan’s Kei Kagami and Noritaka Tatehana are also highlighted.

Shoe Obsession examines recent extreme and fantastical shoe styles in relation to the history of high heels, the role of shoes as a reflection of their wearers’ personality traits, and the importance of shoes in art and exhibitions. The book is lavishly illustrated with full-colour photographs of spectacular contemporary shoe designs.

About the Authors:

Valerie Steele is director and chief curator of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York. Colleen Hill is curator of costume and accessories at The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York.

Після глобального розпроданого успіху їхньої першої книги Weird and Wonderful Post Mortem Fairy Tales та ще більш успішної подальшої Dark and Dystopian Post Mortem Fairy Tales, артистичний і ексцентричний дует Mothmeister знову розпалює уяву своєю третьою книгою: Sinister and Spiritual Post Mortem Fairy Tales. Цей похмурий і духовний світ мрій натхненний болотними тілами, друїдами, культами вуду, муміфікованими монахами Сокушінбуцу, канібальним племенем Асмат, вікторіанськими фрік-шоу та багатьом іншим.

Як завжди, Mothmeister віддає шану тваринному світу, який завдяки своїй пристрасті до таксидермії оживає в чарівному біотопі, де все співіснує інтуїтивно та без зусиль. Частково знайоме, але переважно сюрреалістичне. І через це надзвичайно інтригуючим.

- Третій том трилогії «Посмертні казки» таємничого дуету Mothmeister
- Інтригуюча суміш таксидермії, мистецтва масок і фотографії
- «Таксидермічні терори: пухнасті історії про нежить – у малюнках». — The Guardian

Про автора:

Антиутопічний світ мрій бельгійського дуету Mothmeister інтригує велику та віддану базу шанувальників у всьому світі. Їх темні казкові фігури, які постійно мутують, віддають данину таксидермії. Музи Мотмейстера? Їхня вражаюча приватна колекція опудал тварин, масок, костюмів, численні міжнародні художники, з якими вони співпрацюють, і їхня нестримна жага подорожей.

The perfect primer on acclaimed French artist Sophie Calle.

Sophie Calle is a French writer, photographer, installation artist and conceptual artist. Her work is distinguished by its use of arbitrary sets of constraints, and frequently depicts human vulnerability, and examines identity and intimacy. She is renowned for her detective-like ability to follow strangers and investigate their private lives, which she has deployed in her acclaimed works Suite Venitienne, The Hotel and Address Book. She has had major exhibitions all over the world, including at the 2007 Venice Biennale, the Whitechapel Gallery in London, and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, and has worked closely with the writer Paul Auster. The Guardian called her ‘the Marcel Duchamp of dirty laundry’, and she was among the names in Blake Gopnik's list 'The 10 Most Important Artists of Today', with Gopnik arguing, 'It is the unartiness of Calle's work ― its refusal to fit any of the standard pigeonholes, or over anyone's sofa ― that makes it deserve space in museums.'

Clément Chéroux introduces this collection of over twenty of Calle’s most renowned projects, which are all accompanied by the artist’s own words.

About the Author:

Clément Chéroux is a French photography historian and curator. He is Chief Curator of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

У 1950-х роках космічні перегони між США та СРСР були в розпалі, і були предметом як гордості, так і пропаганди. Але перш ніж людина вирушила в космос, її чотирилапі друзі проклали шлях для освоєння космосу.

Першим собакою-космонавтом була Лайка, що означає «гавкаюча». Маленька безпритульна собака ніколи не могла уявити, що одного разу вона ширятиме на висоті 200 миль над московськими вулицями. Її канонізують як пролетарську героїню, з'являючись на марках, листівках та сувенірах. Її наступницями стали Білка та Стрілка, перші собаки, які успішно повернулися на Землю, і разом з ними народився культ космічного собаки.

Ця захоплива книга розповідає історію космічних собак, ілюстровану старовинними пам'ятними речами легендарного фотографа Мартіна Парра, присвяченими космічним собакам. За режиму, який уникав святкування індивідуальних досягнень, ці собаки стали радянськими суперзірками, про що йшлося з величезною кількістю товарів, книг та фільмів на їхню честь.

Про автора:

Міжнародно визнаний фотограф Мартін Парр також відомий своїми дивовижними та дотепними колекціями ефемерних фотографій ХХ століття. Попередні публікації включають Boring Postcards, The Last Resort та ретроспективу його робіт Martin Parr. Він також брав участь у кількох телевізійних та кінокоопераціях, а в 2014 році заснував Фонд Мартіна Парра в Брістолі, Велика Британія.

Річард Голлінгем — журналіст з питань науки та космосу, лауреат багатьох нагород, радіоведучий та продюсер BBC. Космічний кореспондент BBC future та ведучий подкасту Space Boffins, Річард також є відеопродюсером та коментатором запусків для Європейського космічного агентства. Він регулярно відвідує Росію та робить репортажі з космічних центрів по всьому світу, включаючи космодром Байконур та центр управління польотами в Москві.

Explore the fascinating past, present, and possible future of Elon Musk’s SpaceX in the first comprehensive photographic history of the company.

The private space industry’s consensus leader, SpaceX, headed by controversial billionaire Elon Musk, was worth an estimated $187 billion in 2023 while taking on more roles — flying cargo, supplies, and astronauts to outer space, and even playing a central role as rocket supplier to NASA’s Artemis moon mission. In SpaceX: Elon Musk and the Final Frontier, science journalist and editor Brad Bergan tells the story of SpaceX with words and 200+ stunning photographs of the spacecraft, key players, and facilities in California, Texas, and Florida.

Bergan examines every detail surrounding SpaceX’s efforts to accelerate humankind’s exploration and understanding of outer space, including:

- The personal and private forces that led Musk to form the company 
- The business of private space exploration, including contracts with other private firms and NASA 
- Chief rivals, including Blue Origin, founded by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos
- SpaceX roles in missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond 

Bergan also covers some of SpaceX's controversial headlines, from space junk to failed test launches and the Starlink satellite constellation. While examining the business, the missions, and the hardware, Bergan looks at the importance of design-forward equipment and, finally, the endgame: what ultimately is “in it” for SpaceX?

Table of Contents:

Preface: Fukuyama’s Diagnosis, and Where Space Goes from Here
1 The Unfair Advantage
2 The Changing Face of Space Travel
3 Enter SpaceX
4 The Space Barons
5 SpaceX Takes Center Stage in Space Race 2.0
6 The Moon, Mars, and Beyond
7 SpaceX After Musk
Acknowledgments
Image Credits
Index

About the Author:

Brad Bergan is a former executive editor at Immutable Holdings and a former senior editor at Interesting Engineering and Futurism, specializing in space, finance, and crypto. His words have appeared in or on VICE, 3:AM Magazine, The World Economic Forum, the National Book Critics Circle, and elsewhere. With investigative journalism cited in Bloomberg, Discover, and NBC News, and several appearances on national radio, he holds degrees in philosophy and English from the University of Iowa, and studied graduate-level creative writing at The New School. He lives in New York.

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Discover Monocle’s favourite places to stay, eat, shop and visit across Spain.

Hot on the heels of Portugal: The Monocle Handbook, Monocle’s latest title turns its focus to sunny Spain in the next of its country-specific books. This practical guide will steer you from the streets of Seville to the mountains of Mallorca, introducing Monocle’s favourite places to stay, eat, shop and visit across the country.

Discover the sleekest beachside boltholes in the Costa Brava, the family-run restaurants plating up the tastiest tapas in Andalucía and the buzziest bars in Barcelona before getting your cultural fix in Valencia, Bilbao or Madrid. You’ll meet the Spaniards making waves in the fashion industry, visit the artisans turning out beautiful contemporary designs and hear from the chefs shaking up the country’s food scene. And of course you’ll find out the finest stretches of sand on which to lay down your towel.

For those looking to put down roots in Spain, the book also profiles the cities, towns and neighbourhoods worth investing in, the architects and designers to commission and even some interior design inspiration for your apartment or holiday home. So, whether you are putting together an itinerary for a sun-soaked weekend or planning to stay a little longer, Spain: The Monocle Handbook makes the perfect companion.

About the Authors:

Tyler Brûlé is Editorial director and chairman of Monocle. Andrew Tuck is the magazine’s editor-in-chief. Joe Pickard is Head of book publishing.

Туризм з низьким впливом на довкілля, який зменшує ваш вуглецевий слід та покращує ваш зв'язок з природою.

Вперше за десятиліття наші світи стали меншими, але для багатьох обмеження подорожей сприяли новому почуттю регіональних канікул. Чи готові ви до цифрової детоксикації? Залиште місто позаду, вимкніться, відновіть зв'язок із собою та природою та знову закохайтеся у світ на сторінках книги Stay Wild.

Слідкуйте за нами вглиб лісу в подорож, яка демонструє нові способи втечі у неосяжний та еклектичний ландшафт Європи. З акцентом на екологічно чисті подорожі, книга Stay Wild проливає світло на місця для допитливих, свідомих мандрівників, де вони можуть відпочити та відновити сили. Від високих будинків на деревах, компактних котеджів, хаусботів, юрт та мобільних будинків, які дозволяють вам готувати їжу просто неба, поки мерехтить багаття, ця книга демонструє вражаючу різноманітність та збагачуючі якості альтернативних подорожей.

Про автора:

Запущена у 2010 році, Canopy & Stars – це онлайн-платформа, де люди можуть бронювати проживання в дивовижних та чудових місцях по всій Європі. Canopy & Stars прагне сприяти змістовним враженням, які позитивно впливають на навколишнє середовище, маючи в основі автентичність, креативність та зв’язок з природою.