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The first train to connect Paris to Constantinople – the gateway to the Orient and epitome of all its associated desires and fantasies – the Orient Express was an immediate success. Quickly nicknamed ‘the king of trains, the train of kings’, it had already become a legend in its own time. This unique train and its celebrated passengers (both real and fictional) have become one of the great cultural icons of our times and have helped to create a limitless source of stories and fantasies to feed our imaginations. It’s a story told here through fabulous new photographs of the restoration workshops where the historic train carriages are being brought back to life, through archive photos of famous and exotic destinations, and portraits of the most famous passengers who were lucky enough to climb aboard.

The seminal volume on body painting and adornment by the world’s preeminent photographers of African culture. Following the international masterpiece Africa Adorned, Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher have focused on the traditions of body painting spanning the vastly unique cultures of the African continent. In a contemporary world so fascinated with tattoos and piercings, Beckwith and Fisher document the origins of these fashionable adornments as passed down through African tribal culture. Featured are portraits of the richly colored, detailed, and exquisite body paintings of the Surma, Karo, Maasai, Himba, and Hamar peoples, among others. Drawing from expeditions in the field and firsthand experiences with African peoples and cultures over the past thirty years and with more than 250 spectacular photographs, this is the definitive work on the expressiveness and imagination of African cultural painting of the human body.

About the Author:

Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher have photographed the peoples and cultures of the Horn of Africa for more than 30 years. Together, they exhibit internationally and lecture widely at prestigious venues such as the American Museum of Natural History, The Explorers Club, The Smithsonian Institution, the National Geographic Society, and the Royal Geographical Society. Their magazine credits include major features in Time, Life, Vogue, Marie Claire, and Elle.

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Combining daring aerial photography with the restricted airspace over Paris provides both breathtaking and unparalleled views.

From sunrise to sunset, Paris is one of the most photographed cities in the world. Shooting with the newest high-resolution medium-format professional cameras while leaning out of helicopters making steep turns with the door off, Milstein captures the highly detailed, iconic, straight-down images that set his work apart.

Milstein's distinctive style--straight down--leads to fresh insights of the urban design of this great city. In a way that is impossible from street level, you can see the old neighborhoods of Montmartre and Montparnasse; iconic historical monuments like the Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe or the Invalides; and modern Paris like La Défense or the new neighborhoods around the Bibliothèque Nationale. As a bonus, there is a portfolio of images of the gardens and buildings of Louis XIV's great palace, Versailles.

Milstein brings his unique and unmatched aerial vistas of Paris to life -- every angle, every moment, every season. This is sure to be treasured by tourists and Parisians alike.

About the Author:

Jeffrey Milstein's work has been published in numerous publications, including CNN Money, the Daily Mail, Elle Décor, Esquire, Fortune, Time, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Wired. His work can be seen at LACMA, the Smithsonian Institution, George Eastman House, and the Akron Art Museum. He lives in Woodstock, New York.

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Historians, art-lovers, and the fashion-conscious will be united in their love of this sumptuous and well-researched history of Mariano Vivanco’s motherland.

Peru by Mariano Vivanco is a once-in-a-lifetime project in which the photographer uses his love of imagery, history, and fashion alike to create a truly remarkable body of work. Vivanco takes readers through a personal journey depicting the history and folklore of his beloved country, Peru, through various photo essays. Vivanco has chosen to tell the story chronologically starting from the first pre-Columbian Inca civilization, Caral. This then passes through Moche, Nazca, where he photographed geo-glyphs from an airplane, to the Chimu civilization leading up to the Inca Empire. The Peruvian jungle served as the inspiration through its mythologies: El Bufeo Colorado, El Chullachaqui, and the Devil of the Red Flora to name a few. Vivanco also explored religious saints, Santa Rosa and San Martin De Porres, as well as rebellion leader Tupac Amaru II and his wife Micaela Bastidas.

About the Author:

Mariano Vivanco travelled the world with his family from a very early age, before eventually settling down in New Zealand at the age of ten. This is where his passion for art and photography began. Inspired by the scenes depicted in the works of Edward Steichen and Horst P. Horst, Vivanco moved to London in the year 2000 to pursue a career in fashion photography, with his first shoot ending up on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar. Jorge Villacorta is a Peruvian art critic and independent curator with a strong interest in contemporary visual arts. He was awarded the medal for Merit as cultural agent, by the Ministry of Culture of Peru, in 2013. His Excellency Ambassador Juan Carlos Gamarra is the Ambassador of Peru in London UK.

Far more interested in charisma and personality than perfection and glamour, Lindbergh played a pivotal role in creating the beauty ideal of the 90s. His 1997 monograph Images of Women, a comprehensive overview of his fashion photos and portraits of celebrities, is now available again in a reduced-size hardcover edition.

From the world's most foremost photographer of women comes the splendid celebrations of female form and mystique--a massive collection that spans 300 pages and covers every aspect of Peter Lindbergh's impressive body of work. Nearly every beautiful woman of the past two decades has posed for Peter Lindbergh, from supermodels to movie stars. This splendid monograph represents the definitive collection of Lindbergh's considerable oeuvre: classic fashion photographs, arresting candids, portraits of female celebrities -- including Madonna, Isabella Rossellini, Sharon Stone, Catherine Deneuve, Charlotte Rampling, Darryl Hannah -- and of course his signature shots of the world's supermodels.

Redefining cool for a new generation, Pharrell Williams is a creative force, using music, fashion, and design to express his distinctive style. 

Originating at the crossroads of art, design, popular culture, and street savvy, Pharrell Williams’s output is unique. By playing off different disciplines — namely music, fashion, street art, and design — and using each as an element in the other, Pharrell has redefined the role of the contemporary recording artist, blazing a trail for other musicians and prominent cultural figures. Illustrated with lavish photography, this book also explores his musical career in depth, charting his many projects from his production team The Neptunes, to the band N.E.R.D., and his collaborations with friends Kanye West, Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg, and other hip-hop royalty. This unprecedented volume documents Pharrell’s prolific body of work and his contribution to contemporary culture. In his own unique graphic language, he details his extensive creative pursuits, including clothing lines, jewelry, and accessories designs for Louis Vuitton, furniture and other product design, limited-edition toys, graphic designs, skate graphics, and collaborations with Moncler, Marc Jacobs, the artist KAWS, and with architects Zaha Hadid and Masamichi Katayama/Wonderwall. 

The book includes contributions from Buzz Aldrin, Toby Feltwell, Zaha Hadid, Shae Haley, Chad Hugo, Jay-Z, Masamichi Katayama, Ambra Medda, Takashi Murakami, NIGO ®, Loïc Villepontoux, Kanye West, Anna Wintour, Hans Zimmer, Ian Luna and Lauren A. Gould.

This book was originally published with three different coloured covers and a year later, reprinted with a new set of three colours.  Customers will be shipped any of the six different colours at random.

About the Author

Pharrell Williams is a designer, recording artist, and producer based in Miami. Jay-Z is a multiplatinum recording artist and producer based in New York. Ambra Medda is the co-founder and director of Design Miami and Design Miami/Basel. Nigo is a Japanese DJ, music producer, and developer of the clothing line A Bathing Ape. Takashi Murakami is an artist based in New York and Tokyo.

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The first monograph to present the diverse photographic work of one of the true icons of American style, Kelly Klein. Kelly Klein’s photography represents a clear and seductive distillation of the talents and interests that have fueled her career in fashion and design. Equal parts artist and stylist, photographer and fashionista, Klein is at once a revered documentarian of the people and tastes that intrigue her and an icon of classic American style herself.   

After twenty-five years in the fashion industry, Klein turned her attention to photography and began a career that has blurred the lines between the worlds of art and fashion, passion and commerce. Collected here are photographs spanning her career to date, ranging from personal shots to intimate portraiture and editorial work commissioned for magazines such as Vogue and Vanity Fair.  

Edited by the artist, this is a stunning catalog of a rich and varied canon of work that juxtaposes the photographer’s contrasting styles to reveal a consistent sensibility — an effortlessness that reflects a natural translation of beauty in the images. From haunting still lifes and profound landscapes to glamorous candid snapshots and sophisticated fashion features, Klein’s unique eye is present throughout — an icon of style lending a touch of her own vision to everything she photographs.

About the Author:

Kelly Klein is among America’s foremost fashion and style photographers. Her iconic images have appeared in numerous magazines, and she is also the author of Pools, Horse, and Pools: Reflections. Aerin Lauder is style and image director for Estée Lauder and owner of the fashion brand AERIN. Bob Colacello is a renowned author and journalist whose writing has appeared regularly in Interview and Vanity Fair magazines.

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The final volume in a series of books that presents a new and comprehensive history of photography through works in MoMA’s collection

Photography at MoMA: 1860–1920 is the final volume in a set of three books that together present a new and comprehensive history of photography through works in MoMA’s collection. Richly illustrated with over 400 reproductions, the book charts the medium from its invention through its participation in international art movements such as Pictorialism and modernism. It offers a fresh lens through which to appreciate works of exceptional significance, surprise, and influence, encouraging creative new readings. Beginning with an in-depth introduction, the book includes eight chapters of full-colour plates, each introduced by a short essay.

Masterworks by photographers such as Julia Margaret Cameron, Roger Fenton, Nadar, Frances Benjamin Johnston, Henry Fox Talbot, August Sander, Edward Steichen and Carleton Watkins appear alongside lesser-known gems and vernacular forms of photography.

The history of photography has been told many times, but never before through the incomparable collection of photographs at The Museum of Modern Art.

As the second volume in a set of three books that together present a new and comprehensive history of photography through works MoMA’s collection, this publication charts the medium during the height of the modernist period, from 1920 to 1960. The Museum’s significant role in the development of photography and its complicity in the construction of a canon that championed photography as an art form (but also eclipsed certain alternative or unfamiliar practices) requires a reconsidered history for the 21st century.

This book offers a fresh lens through which to appreciate works of exceptional significance, surprise and influence, encouraging creative new readings. The book begins with an in-depth introduction followed by seven chapters of full-colour plates, each introduced by a short essay. Masterworks by such photographers as Henri Cartier-Bresson appear alongside lesser-known gems, and diverse notions of modernism enrich classic interpretations so that the beautiful fictions and messy realities of photography are complicated, refreshed, and, above all, enjoyed.

Комплексний та вкрай необхідний огляд останніх 50 років фотографії, що відображає її шлях від методу документування до форми мистецтва.

Цей великий новий огляд сучасної фотографії розглядає роботи понад 80 фотографів через одинадцять тематичних розділів на такі теми, як вулична фотографія, портретна, пейзажна та документальна фотографія. Він простежує розвиток фотографії як форми мистецтва в кожному з цих жанрів окремо, а також розглядає зв'язки та зв'язки між ними. Розкривається складна історія з численними дотичними. Розповідь Марка Дердена, поєднана з багатим ілюстративним контентом та легкодоступним дизайном, чітко прокладає шлях крізь цю історію, демонструючи роботи великих окремих фотографів, а також дозволяючи вписати їх у ширшу розповідь про розвиток цього виду мистецтва.

Марк Дерден — письменник, художник та лектор. Він багато писав про фотографію та сучасне мистецтво. Серед публікацій Dorothea Lange (2001, 2012), Fifty Key Writers on Photography (2012), разом із Девідом Кемпбеллом Variable Capital (2007) та разом із Кеном Грантом Double Take: Portraits from the Keith Medley Archive (2013). Він є членом групи художників «Спільна культура» та наразі є професором фотографії в Університеті Південного Уельсу, Велика Британія.

The fifth edition of this indispensable survey of photography spans the history of the medium, from its early development to the latest advances in technology and social media platforms. Mary Warner Marien discusses photography from around the world and through the lenses of art, science, travel, war, fashion, the mass media and individual photographers.I Professional, amateur and art photographers are all represented, with ‘Portrait’ boxes devoted to highlighting important individuals and ‘Focus’ boxes charting particular cultural debates.

About the Author:

Mary Warner Marien is Professor Emerita in the Department of Fine Arts at Syracuse University, New York. She continues to lecture in the United States and Europe and in 2008 won an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writer award for her continuing work on the history and theory of documentary photography. She is the author of Photography and its Critics (Cambridge University Press, 1997) and 100 Ideas that Changed Photography (Laurence King, 2012) as well as numerous articles on photography.

The 50 years of artistic and mass photography taken into consideration in this volume are unquestionably the most important in the twentieth century. The acceleration of technological progress, the advent of the era of the machine and the metropolis, the epoch-making economic crisis, the dramatic aftermath of the collapse of the old nineteenth-century order in Europe with political upheavals, wars, revolutions and dictatorships, the first appearance of a mass society capable of expressing cultures and systems of communication in line with its needs: these are the most obvious stages of a history that was also recorded as it happened, in various forms and media. Among these, key importance certainly attaches to photography. It is evident that mankind had never before been in possession of an instrument capable of supplying such an enormous number of images of such universal accessibility as regards both visibility and creation. The Kodak camera, a device anyone could use, and the popular illustrated press are the two cornerstones of this aspect of the photographic history of the twentieth century. This richly illustrated book – complete with synoptic tables and a summary glossary – offers a wide-ranging survey of this era that will delight and inform a constantly growing audience.

The definitive photography textbook for the digital age, packed with technical tips, practical exercises, contemporary images and step-by-step guidance for all aspiring photographers

Step-by-step guidance on:
• Choosing the right camera and lenses
• Exposure settings and control
• Digital capture
• File processing and basic image manipulation
• Resolution, compression and file types
• Colour management of digital files
• Digital output for print and screen
• Film photography and processing
• Visualizing and composition
• Studio and location still life
• Landscapes and cityscapes
• Fashion, beauty and portraiture
• Reportage, documentary photography and photojournalism
• Experimental imaging

Свято найкрасивіших, значущих і надихаючих фотографій, які виникли на цьому дуже сучасному носії

Photography: The Whole Story веде вас до найзнаменитіших фотографій світу – тих зображень, які стали ключовими орієнтирами в нашому уявленні про себе та світ навколо нас.

• Упорядкований у хронологічному порядку, він простежує еволюцію фотографії період за періодом, а детальні часові шкали надають історичний і культурний контекст
• Роботи ключових фотографів, таких як Анрі Картьє-Брессон, Рішар Аведон, Енні Лейбовіц та Андреас Гурскі, оцінюються, щоб виявити, що їх мотивувало, хто на кого вплинув і чого кожен прагнув досягти.
• Ілюстровані фокусні точки виділяють такі аспекти, як використання кольору та візуальної метафори, особливості композиції та технічні інновації
• Включає різноманітний і міжнародний список сучасних практиків

Якщо ви любите фотографувати й хочете знати більше, Photography: The Whole Story саме для вас.

Про автора:

Джульєт Хекінг є програмним директором магістра фотографії (сучасної та історичної) в Інституті мистецтв Sotheby’s з 2006 року. Вона також є автором Lives of the Great Photographers (Thames & Hudson, 2015).

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Чому у світі, де щороку робляться мільярди знімків, деякі фотографи та їхні роботи вважаються такими важливими?

Люди завжди намагалися зафіксувати моменти як зображення, і протягом століть завданням художників було вибирати об’єкти та фіксувати їх, але в 1839 році з’явилося нове середовище: фотографія. Спочатку безладна та трудомістка фотографія швидко еволюціонувала та стала засобом зйомки світу «в одну мить ока».

Якщо ви любите фотографію та хочете знати більше, Photography: The Whole Story — це свято найбільш надихаючих фотографій, створених у цьому дуже сучасному середовищі. Ілюстровані, глибокі есе охоплюють усі жанри фотографії, від ранніх портретів і графічних зображень до цифрових монтажів, спортивних зображень за частки секунди та концептуальних фотографій сучасності.

Книга починається з короткого огляду фотографії, поміщаючи її в контекст соціальних і культурних подій, що відбулися з моменту її появи. Потім у книзі хронологічно простежується швидка еволюція фотографічного стилю, період за періодом і рух за рухом.

Ідеї ​​та роботи ключових фотографів оцінюються, щоб виявити, що їх мотивувало та чого кожен прагнув досягти. Детальні культурні та індивідуальні часові рамки художника прояснюють історичний контекст.

Кожне есе супроводжується ретельним аналізом ключових творів, які виділяють характеристики кожного періоду, такі як використання кольору та візуальних метафор, примхи композиції та технічні інновації, що дозволяє нам зрозуміти повне значення кожного твору. Ось крихітні, але промовисті деталі соціальних портретів; яскраві, графічні якості міських пейзажів; еротика, або підтекст оголених етюдів; і гумор, гнів чи пафос концептуальних творів.

In lavish two-page spreads, this book presents nearly one hundred of history’s most memorable photographs — from the Wright Brothers’ first flight to the bombing of Pearl Harbor, from Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech to Nelson Mandela’s release from prison, and from the inauguration of President Barack Obama to the Syrian refugee crisis.

The volume features pictures from photography masters such as Lewis Hine, Dorothea Lange, Yousuf Karsh, Diane Arbus, and James Nachtwey, as well as iconic images from lesser-known and unknown photojournalists.

Photos that Changed the World has been updated to include indelible images of the most significant recent events. Engaging essays accompany each photograph and tell the story behind each image.

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