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This dynamic introduction to the most important photographers from the inception of photography to today bears witness to the magic of the camera. 

From Félix Nadar’s awe-inspiring aerial photos and Eugene Atget’s images of fin de siècle France to Walker Evans’ stirring photos and Nan Goldin’s poetic scenarios, each of the photographers featured here represents a vital aspect of photography’s evolution. 
The artists are presented in double-page spreads that include reproductions of their most important works, concise biographies, and informative sidebars. 

The result is a fascinating overview of the way photographers continue to push the limits of their genre, offering their audiences new ways of seeing and understanding our world.

Featuring many of the greatest nature photographs of all time, this book charts the development of nature photography, from the first hand-held cameras and the colour film revolution of the 1960s to the increasingly sophisticated photographs of wild animals and unexplored places that are taken today. 

This special collection is a celebration of 50 years of the world-famous Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition and of wildlife photography itself. 

The prize-winning images include ground-breaking portraits, breathtaking aerial shots, underwater photography, close-up imagery and much more. The images are accompanied by captions that put the photographs in context, explaining their importance, and revealing the vision, talent, passion and technique of the world's leading wildlife photographers. 

All those who are passionate about photography and who have followed this compelling competition since its inception over 50 years ago will treasure this magnificent volume.

From two of the world’s leading experts on watch collecting, this supremely elegant and informative selection of one hundred watches traces the timepiece’s evolution as it highlights the most unusual, important, and beautifully crafted watches of the past half a millennium.

For centuries people have been captivated by watches — whether for their technical precision, their unique design, or their historic importance. Each of the one hundred watches profiled in this elegant book stands out for one or more of these qualities. Organized chronologically and divided by century, the watches are presented in spacious, double-page spreads, featuring exquisite photography with engaging, incisive texts. Readers will discover examples of the earliest watch forms; an astonishing Elizabethan-era watch with astrolabic dial; an early 17th century watch encased in a single emerald; two of the earliest watches to incorporate the balance spring — a feature that revolutionized the portable timekeeper; and some of the first repeating and perpetual calendar watches.

These are followed by the first lever watch, invented by Thomas Mudge; important precision watches; early 19th century enamel and automaton watches; highly complex watches by Breguet and Patek Philippe; Sir Winston Churchill’s yellow gold World Time Victory watch; a Rolex wristwatch made to commemorate Indian Republic Day; an Omega Speedmaster that went into space; and a Roger Smith wristwatch completed in 2023. Featuring exquisitely reproduced photographs that are appearing for the first time together in book form, this historic collection will appeal to sophisticated collectors, amateur watch enthusiasts, and anyone with an interest in the art and science of horology.

About the Authors:

Alexander Barter spent more than a decade at Sotheby’s watch division, becoming its Deputy Worldwide Head in 2005. In 2009 he founded his own company, Black Bough. He is a member of the Antiquarian Horological Society and is a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers, the oldest surviving horological institution in the world.

The Chairman of Sotheby’s International Watch Division, Daryn Schnipper is one of the world’s leading experts in the field of watches and has played a pivotal role in the sale of numerous important single-owner watch and clock collections.

A visual exploration of fabled landscapes and historical gems, this magnificent volume celebrates the rich culture of AlUla, through the lens of Gilles Bensimon.

The AlUla valley is a natural, historical, and cultural site in northwestern Arabia, located on the ancient Incense Route. It features grandiose natural landscapes, oases, and ancient settlements dating back 8,000 years. Home to the UNESCO World Heritage Site, Hegra -- where exceptionally preserved tombs of the Nabataean age show elaborate facades cut out of sandstone outcrops -- it's a hidden treasure awaiting to be discovered.

A journey through time and the senses, this oversized tome offers the unique experience of traveling to a mythical land and little-known paradise, bringing alive the Lihyanite, Dadanite, Nabataean, and Pre-Islamic times from AlUla's past through to its present day.

Exclusive images by the acclaimed photographer Gilles Bensimon reveal the poetic aspects and magnificence of age-old desert landscapes and highlight the lives they are home to. From lush green oases to barren expanses; from drifting sand to basalt uplands; from geomorphological wonders to millennia-old inscriptions, these are just some of the unforgettable scenes of AlUla.

About the Author:

Gilles Bensimon is an American photographer and the former International Creative Director of Elle magazine. He is a celebrated fashion photographer, working with models and celebrities including Cindy Crawford, Christy Turlington, Madonna, and Elle Macpherson. Diana W. Picasso is a French art historian specializing in modern art.

A dive into music history, from Joan Baez and Jimi Hendrix to Rihanna and Lady Gaga, exploring the eclectic interpretation of fashion and society.

Frida Giannini’s book travels through time, weaving between music and style from 1969 to today. It is an iconographic journey made up of visual evocations, comparisons and contrasts, testimonies, and anecdotes. The starting point is 1969, the year of Woodstock, David Bowie’s “Space Oddity,” and the first man on the moon. It passes through the stages, concerts, and moments that made the history not only of music, but also of fashion.

The view that tells, approaches, and explores famous figures — paying particular attention to the Thin White Duke — eras, and fashion is that of Frida Giannini, an expert in both worlds, who has made fashion her profession and music her great passion. Music also accompanied her professionally in her creative inspirations and references, and in first-person encounters with the protagonists of the entertainment world in the 2000s.

This book also shines a spotlight on stage clothes, hairstyles, and sets, because the evolution of music accompanies the evolution of fashions, costumes, and changing society and vice versa, in a dialogue of influences, decades, and historical events.

About the Author:

Frida Giannini is an internationally renowned Italian designer who was Creative Director of Gucci for 10 years. From 1994 to 2001 she worked for Fendi, first as a ready-to-wear designer, then as head of accessories. Today she is a creative consultant for luxury brands in various categories, including interior design.

Пол Ньюмен носив свій Rolex Daytona щодня протягом 35 років, аж до своєї смерті у 2008 році. Цей культовий годинник, ймовірно, найпопулярніший годинник у світі, зараз належить його доньці Клеї, яка носить його щодня на його пам'ять. Франклін Рузвельт носив елегантний золотий годинник Tiffany, подарований йому другом на день народження, на знаменитій Ялтинській конференції, де він потиснув руки Йосипу Сталіну та Вінстону Черчиллю. Omega, яку Джон Ф. Кеннеді носив на своїй президентській інавгурації, годинник Ральфа Лорена, придбаний з особистої колекції Енді Воргола, Rolex сера Едмунда Гілларі, який він носив під час першого в історії сходження на Еверест... ці та багато інших складають історії найбажаніших годинників у світі, зафіксовані у книзі A Man and His Watch. Метью Хранек, колекціонер годинників та невід'ємна частина чоловічого стилю Нью-Йорка, подорожував світом, проводячи інтерв'ю з перших вуст та занурюючись у ексклюзивні колекції, щоб зібрати ніколи раніше не розказані історії 76 годинників, доповнені приголомшливими оригінальними фотографіями кожного окремого екземпляра.

Завдяки цим особистим розповідям та розповідям Хранека, годинники стають не просто хронометрами та символами статусу; вони уособлюють історичні моменти, новаторські досягнення, сімейні реліквії, сімейні сувеніри, подарунки любові та дружбу на все життя.

«Я перегорнув купу книг з історії годинників... Але я не зустрічав жодної книги, яка б справді зворушила мене, доки не взяв до рук книгу «Чоловік та його годинник». Цей том сповнений щирих історій».
— T: The New York Times Style Magazine

Про автора:

Метт Хранек – автор книг The Martini, The Negroni, A Man & His Kitchen, та A Man & His Car, а також фотограф, режисер та засновник/редактор чоловічого журналу про стиль життя WM Brown. Він та його родина проводять час між Брукліном та фермою Вільяма Брауна на півночі штату Нью-Йорк, хоча його також досить часто можна побачити в старовинних барах Європи з Негроні в руці. Знайдіть його в Instagram за адресою @wmbrownproject.

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Погортати книгу A Man & His Watch. Iconic Watches and Stories from the Men Who Wore Them на Google Books.

Госсе Боума, який робить собі ім’я у світі художньої фотографії як майстер світла, ділиться своїм унікальним баченням Амстердама у своїй першій книзі. У своїй роботі Госсе працює в природних умовах, проливаючи нове світло на місто, яке він так любить.

У A New Light on Amsterdam Госсе проведе вас містом у різних атмосферах – від туманного старого центру міста до ранкового світла в красивих парках Амстердама. Знакові будівлі, галасливі станції метро та мальовничі міські пейзажі: ця широкоформатна книга дивує кожною фотографією, показуючи спокійний, часом меланхолійний Амстердам.

Про автора:

Ґоссе Боума – відомий фотограф і відеооператор, який черпає натхнення в навколишньому світі: несподівані лінії, що з’єднуються, туман, що спливає в потрібний момент. Це створює мальовничі, іноді потойбічні сцени. Робота Госсеса охопила мільйони людей у ​​всьому світі та отримала міжнародне визнання. Крім того, підбірка його фотографій була виставлена ​​у відомому Grachtenmuseum в Амстердамі.

_Амстердам у зовсім новому світлі.
_Унікальна фотографія, де використання природного світла створює абсолютно оригінальні зображення.
_Госсе Боума швидко робить собі ім’я в (між)національному світі фотографії.
_Книга з’являється якраз перед початком ювілейного року «750 років Амстердаму».

Miguel Flores-Vianna’s childhood in Argentina was marked by two constants that he believes shaped the life he chose to lead: travel and books. Perhaps because the country feels like it is located at the end of the world, most Argentines are born with a good dose of wanderlust, and Flores-Vianna had a higher dose than normal.

Books helped him discover places both literally and figuratively, creating romantic visions of lands he wanted to visit, and he has gone on to document his peripatetic life with his camera, recording places as he feels they should be rather than as they are. In this irresistible volume, Flores-Vianna shares some 250 of his favorite images taken all over Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas – captured only with his smartphone – in the hope that viewers, seeing the world through his eyes, will learn to love these most wondrous of places as much as he does.

One of the great teachers has created this extraordinary celebration of yoga, offering poses in the most iconic and exotic destinations around the world.

There will never be a more beautiful, immersive book on yoga. Hundreds of exquisitely photographed asanas, mudras, affirmations, yantras, mandalas, reflections, intentions, sequences, and techniques—many created for this book—are combined with poses shot on location around the world, from remote beaches to urban enclaves.

Sections are organized by the following areas of yoga benefits: increasing energy, toning and flexibility, stress relief and mindfulness, boosting metabolism, resting and rejuvenating, and inner alignment.

Each chapter has a selection of postures, including some never-before-seen asanas created by Lourdes that encourage muscle mobility, supporting innervation of 600 muscles through mind-body communication. Lourdes shares functional, purposeful, and liberating ways to transition in and out of postures to aid structural integrity.

For committed yogis and teachers alike, this is a portal to encourage deep process work. For those newer to yoga, it is an artfully crafted guidebook to the unique world that exists when yoga practice merges with the universal pulse of heightened physical awareness and philosophical thought. For all practitioners, it is an extraordinarily inspiring demonstration of the myriad places one can create mindfulness and well-being wherever one is in the world.

About the Author:

Having traveled to and taught in more than 80 countries, acclaimed yoga master Leo Lourdes is the founder of Yogasphere. He has been practicing yoga and helping his clients transform their lives for more than 14 years, specializing in hatha yoga, mind-body yoga, and vinyasa flow classes. He is also a singer-songwriter and works on a variety of music projects.

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Пролистать книгу A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being​  на сайте издательства.

Taking readers behind the scenes of one of the world’s most exciting dance companies, this richly illustrated book also tells the incredible back story of its famed creator and his brilliant vision to weave Cuban culture and history into classical and contemporary dance.

As a troubled teenager, Carlos Acosta was whisked off the streets of his native Havana and enrolled in the Cuban national ballet. From that time on he has emerged as one of the most influential dancers of the twenty-first century. Throughout his career, Acosta has striven to shine an international light on his homeland’s rich cultural traditions, while also exposing Cuba to choreographic innovations happening around the globe. With this aim, Acosta established Acosta Danza in 2015.

More than five years later the troupe continues to perform to rapturous accolades, both for the exceptional quality of its Cuban dancers and for its mission to highlight Cuban-influenced music and set design. Filled with more than one hundred photographs, many never-beforepublished, this book gives voice to the astonishingly diverse collection of dancers and choreographers, whose sensuous vitality and technical skill jump off the page — their experiences on and off the stage, their dreams and strategies, their emotions and challenges. In a deeply personal interview, Acosta himself shares a vision for giving young Cuban dancers the opportunities to express themselves creatively, and to give back to a country and community that gave so much to him.

About the Author:

Carlos Acosta has worked with numerous prestigious companies as ballet dancer and choreographer. He was soloist of the Royal Ballet until 2015 when he retired from stage and founded his own dance company, Acosta Danza, in Cuba. Since 2020, Carlos Acosta is also the director of the Birmingham Royal Ballet.

Petra Giloy-Hirtz, former associate professor in medieval German literature, is a curator and author based in Munich; recent exhibitions and publications include Julian Schnabel: Polaroids, Dennis Hopper: The Lost Album and David Lynch: The Factory Photographs.

Ці захоплюючі та поетичні зображення Північної Ірландії, опубліковані вперше як збірка, розкривають рідко досліджуваний аспект творчості відомого військового фотографа двадцятого століття.

Акіхіко Окамура став відомим військовим фотографом у перші роки війни у ​​В’єтнамі та пізніше, коли він документував війни в Біафрі та на Близькому Сході. У 1969 році він переїхав із Південно-Східної Азії до Дубліна. Звідти Окамура часто їздив до Деррі та інших частин Північної Ірландії, щоб задокументувати «проблеми» країни.

У цій чудово створеній книзі вперше зібрані ірландські роботи Окамури, які досі майже повністю не публікувалися. Представлені на повну сторінку без тексту, зображення Окамури просякнуті м’якими, приглушеними кольорами, які контрастують із жорстокістю ситуації, в якій вони були задумані. Сповнені почуття страху, жаху, очікування та смирення, ці образи розкривають людяність і цікавість Окамури, його стурбованість повсякденним існуванням і абсурдністю, невідповідністю та зривами життя під час війни: жінки готують післяобідній чай біля розбомблених будинків; дівчата, одягнені у свій недільний одяг, залишають квіти біля придорожньої святині; колекція порожніх молочних пляшок, яким судилося стати запальними пристроями.

Яскраві нариси відомих істориків фотографії та експертів поміщають цю вражаючу колекцію в контекст великого обсягу робіт Окамури та розміщують ці зображення в історії як медіа, так і країни.

The Beauty of Machines

With the technological and digital revolution, an entire universe of machines and computers has developed alongside the human world. These machines tell the story of what it is to be human: our needs and desires, our hopes and follies, our visions for the future. Alastair Philip Wiper’s photographic eye sweeps across Adidas shoe factories, colossal shipyards, or laboratories such as the Swiss research center CERN, showing us spaces of incomprehensible complexity. Observers can experience through this a kind of visuality that no longer has a consistent point of view, but a diversity that overwhelms the process of seeing. These photos not only possess a unique beauty of their own, as well as a fascinating aesthetic, but also stimulate thought and the search for one’s own position in the world.

About the Autor:

The British photographer Alastair Philip Wiper (Hamburg, 1980) became known for his work for the magazines Wired, The Guardian, Scientific American, Wallpaper, and Vice. His series about Silicon Valley (Silicon Nights) and his book The Art of Impossible about Bang & Olufsen have been greatly admired. Wiper lives in Copenhagen.

From ocean shores to some of the most remote indigenous communities in the world, photographer Cristina Mittermeier explores humanity’s relationship with the planet and possibilities for a mindful, sustainable future.

Cristina Mittermeier knows a thing or two about water. Trained as a marine biologist and a photographer, the Mexico City-born Mittermeier combines her work behind the lens with her passion for environmentalism, taking pictures around the world to explore our relationship to the earth and ocean and to draw attention to the beauty and the plight of our planet. In Amaze, Mittermeier elicits our wonder and awe at the natural world and the labyrinth or “maze” of navigating a sustainable existence. The book combines two series: “Enoughness” and “The Water’s Edge.” The first draws out Mittermeier’s philosophy for a mindful and sustainable way of being in the world. Bringing together photographs from some of the most isolated corners of the earth, the book shows wild animals, remote landscapes, and indigenous peoples — challenging the cult of material wealth and proposing alternatives for a meaningful and sustainable connection to our environment, each other, and ourselves. In “The Water’s Edge,” Mittermeier presents photographs from around the globe that capture the frontier between land and ocean and the special meaning it has for human life. Whether it is fishermen bringing in their daily haul, women washing laundry in the shallows, or surfers frolicking in the spray, the water’s edge is revealed as an integral and universal space in which ephemeral moments reveal not only our common dependency on the planet, but also our common humanity. As much an inspiration for sustainable living as a staggering collection of nature photography, Amaze is a must-have book for all those who care about our planet and those we share it with.

About the author:

Photographer and marine biologist, CRISTINA GOETTSCH MITTERMEIER, was born in Mexico City in 1966. A passionate environmentalist, she founded the International League of Conservation Photographers (ILCP) in 2005 and the non-profit organization SeaLegacy in 2015. Her work has been published in National Geographic and TIME and she has received both the Mission Award from the North American Nature Photography Association and the Smithsonian Conservation Photographer of the Year Award.

Every other breath we take comes from the ocean. What we do or fail to do in the next five years will determine what our oceans and planet look like for the next ten thousand years. That is why I co-founded SeaLegacy, an organization that, with your support, can change how the story ends. — Cristina Mittermeier

 - A pioneering book of nature photography from environmental campaigner and photographer, Cristina Mittermeier
 - Captures some of the most endangered animals, remote communities, and extreme corners on earth
 - An astonishing collection of nature photography and an inspiration for sustainable living with others and our environment

From the originator of the bestselling HIP Hotels® series comes a book that will once again revolutionize our approach to travel. Amazing Places Cost Nothing is a call for a return to the old-fashioned adventure of authentic travel.

In an age in which monolithic global brands dominate, and the world’s leading destinations are all beginning to look very much alike, Herbert 
Ypma offers an inspiring alternative, insisting that the most amazing places in the world intrinsically cost nothing – and the most exciting and authentic places to stay while you see them don’t cost much more.

Drawing on more than twenty years of experience travelling the globe, Ypma presents a handpicked selection of thirty of the most interesting undiscovered hotels, guesthouses and resorts in Europe, Asia, Australia and the Americas. These are places with real personality, free of branding, signposts and tourist hordes – places whose magic has nothing to do with money and everything to do with natural beauty, adventure and romance.

Some offer surprisingly inexpensive and characterful lodging in famous destinations such as Bali, Palm Springs and the south of France, while others provide bases for exploring off-the-beaten-track locations such as Laos, Uruguay and the Australian Outback. En route, Ypma regales the reader with the true stories of how he stumbled upon each of his astonishing hidden gems. Those of a nervous disposition be warned: these include a harrowing ride through a crocodile-infested mangrove swamp and a run-in with the US Border Patrol on a notorious drug-runners’ route from Mexico.

Let this book inspire you to forge your own unforgettable memories in a fascinating collection of hidden paradises around the world.

INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards - 2014 GOLD Winner for Adventure & Recreation. Society of American Travel Writers Eastern Chapter - Gold Award. Society of American Travel Writers Foundation - 2015 Lowell Thomas Travel Award for Best Travel Book

A hiker’s dream bucket list is embodied in this lavishly illustrated celebration of more than 50,000 miles of America’s most iconic trails. Celebrating the forty most important trails in America, this volume takes the reader through forty-nine states and eight national parks. Literally tens of millions of tourists and hikers visit these trails each year, some of which wind through the country’s most scenic natural wonders and virtually every major ecosystem in America. Each featured trail has its own section, complete with a map and photo gallery, and the reader explores what makes it one of the most magnificent hiking experiences anywhere in the world. Trail histories accompany detailed hiker-friendly descriptions that highlight the most scenic spots, with suggestions for shorter weekend and day hikes. The stunning photographs take the reader on a visual adventure conducted by Bart Smith, the first person to hike all eleven National Scenic Trails from end to end. America’s Great Hiking Trails is perfect for anyone interested in outdoor recreation and conservation.

About the Authors:

Karen Berger has hiked more than 17,000 miles all over the world, including thru-hikes of the Appalachian, Pacific Crest, and Continental Divide trails. She is the author of eleven other books on hiking. Bart Smith’s photography has been published in Smithsonian and National Geographic, as well as in five illustrated books. Bill McKibben is an environmentalist and writer who frequently contributes to the New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, and Outside.