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Few nations have had such an enduring love affair with the automobile as the United States. American Auto Legends presents more than 50 of the most remarkable American cars ever produced, from the ‘horseless carriages’ of the early 1900s to the sleek and ultra-efficient machines of the early twenty-first century. Following a brief introduction to the history of the US automotive industry, the selected models are arranged chronologically. Concise descriptions highlight the key features of each vehicle, while stunning images by one of America’s leading car photographers provide the reader with an unparalleled visual record. Featuring all the major US manufacturers – including Buick, Chevrolet, Ford, Lincoln and Studebaker – this book is an essential and authoritative guide to the many legends of the American highway.

The latest title in Merrell’s highly successful Auto Legends series
Includes biographies of key figures in the US automobile industry, a full technical glossary and details of where the cars may be seen
A lavishly illustrated book that will appeal to classic car enthusiasts worldwide

More and more Americans today are paying attention to how their cars are designed. Auto designers are now celebrities, and the look of your car has become as important as the clothes you wear. According to the New York Times Magazine, You are what you drive. Your car is a bold statement of individual identity. American Car Design Now is the first book to take a critical look at this phenomenon, with in-depth examinations of the creative process behind more than thirty contemporary models that embody the trends of the future, including the Crossfire, Mondeo, Thunderbird, Continental, Mark 9, Bengal, Vizon, Cien, and CTS.

The product of more than three years of research, this volume collects the author's essays and interviews with the design directors of General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler. The author gained unprecedented access to the notoriously secretive and guarded design studios of these car giants, and the result is an insider's perspective on the making of new American cars, of new American dreams.

American Car Design Now delves deeply into the individual characters behind the industry and shows how their different creative and managerial techniques translate to the finished models. With this unique analytical approach, American Car Design Now is a great addition to the shelves of not only auto industry professionals but designers and car enthusiasts of all types.

About the Author:

C. Edson Armi established himself as the authority on car design with The Art of American Car Design, which was the first book to treat this subject with a critical analysis and which covered the period from 1900 to the present. Armi has been a professor of art history for almost thirty years, previously at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and currently at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

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Centered around one of India’s greatest painters, Amrita Sher-Gil, this book introduces the Sher-Gil family of artists to the European public. An early 20th-century pioneer photographer, a female painter merging European Modernism with native traditions, and today’s leading video artist, “the Kahlos of India” finally receive their due recognition in the Western world.

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 This new edition of New York architecture & design chronicles the most exciting contemporary buildings in this dynamic city. There’s a selection of innovatively designed buildings that includes offices, residences, hotels, restaurants, and retail spaces. Admire singular examples of design such Richard Meier’s residential building Perry West; JFK’s new Terminal 4, the work of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill; or, Yabu Pushelberg’s work at the W Times Square hotel. This is an important volume for both students of design and lovers of New York’s hallmark style.

* Another of teNeues’ authoritative series of and guides to contemporary architecture in cities worldwide
* Includes color photographs and a site map for convenient use by tourists and professionals alike

Café Lehmitz was a beer hall on the Hamburg red-light boulevard Reeperbahn. Anders Petersens pictures of its regulars, first published in 1978, present an undistorted, sympathetic depiction of a world commonly considered antisocial. Now available again in an unaltered reprint. 

Before there was Marilyn, there was Norma Jeane. The photos and secret memoirs of Marilyn Monroe's first photographer and lifelong friend

Fashion photographer Andre de Dienes’s life was changed forever one day in 1945 when he met a lovely young aspiring model named Norma Jeane Dougherty. He instantly fell in love with her innocence and charm and the two were briefly engaged. They took many adventurous road trips together in those early years, de Dienes shooting Norma Jeane in every possible natural setting in his original, inspired style. He soon built up a huge portfolio of stunning photographs of the smiling brunette which helped to launch her model career and, a few years later, a film career that was to make her a legend.

His entire relationship with the star, including many private moments, shared only between the two, is detailed in de Dienes’s secret memoirs, which were discovered when Monroe fans ravaged his home after his death in 1988.

The memoirs tell a beautiful story of love and friendship from the point of view of someone who knew Marilyn intimately; describing the transformation from Norma Jeane to Marilyn Monroe — the evolution of a sensitive, ambitious girl into a deeply troubled megastar — from an inside perspective, they shed light on a little-known side of Marilyn. From their trip to see Norma Jeane’s mother in a mental hospital to Marilyn’s visit to his home a few days before her death, de Dienes recounts all of the emotional moments they shared. The combination of de Dienes’s memoirs and an extensive selection of his Monroe photographs (which numbered in the thousands) makes for an unprecedented, personal exploration into the psychology, history, and iconography of the world’s favourite movie star.

With his very personal images, Hungarian photographer André Kertész (1894–1985) skillfully succeeded in capturing the fleeting, emotional moments in his environment. His works had a pronounced influence on artistic photography in the mid-twentieth century and on artists such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, and Brassaï. Three important periods mark his oeuvre: Budapest, 1914-25; Paris, 1925-36; and New York, 1936-85. While this first retrospective deals with all phases of Kertész’s career, it sheds particular light on his work for magazines, his Distortions - photographs of nude models taken with mirrors from unusual perspectives - and the Polaroids, a series shot from the window of his home that features fascinating images of personal objects against the skyline of New York.

Now regarded as classics in their own right, the photographs of Andreas Feininger are treasured by aficionados of photography and laymen alike. This book presents a diverse selection of his most beautiful works.

The basic principles underlying the photographic art of Andreas Feininger, born in 1906 in Paris, the eldest son of painter Lyonel Feininger, are clarity, simplicity, and organization. Upon completion of training as a cabinet-maker at the Bauhaus in Weimar in the early twenties, he went on to study architecture at the Bauhaus in the state schools of architecture in Weimar and Zerbst. After working as an architectural photographer in Stockholm, he emigrated to New York following the outbreak of World War II. Feininger was hired as a photo-editor by Life magazine. In his own work, he captured images of urban canyons, skyscrapers, bridges, and elevated railways in concentrated, atmospheric photographs that are regarded as classical works today. He applied the same enthusiasm to nature studies. His detail images of insects, flowers, shells, wood, and stones imbue these forms with a sculptural character. The book presents the work of this prominent photographer, who died in 1999.

»Die Monographie gibt mit einer Vielzahl großformatiger Duplexbildern einen Überblick über das grandiose Werk des 1999 verstorbenen Photographen.« DGPh intern

»Eine gelungene Retrospektive auf Feiningers Lebenswerk.« PHOTOGRAPHIE

Die mittlerweile zu Klassikern gewordenen Aufnahmen von Andreas Feininger begeistern sowohl den Fotokenner als auch ein breites Publikum. Eine abwechslungsreiche Auswahl seiner schönsten Arbeiten präsentiert dieser Band.

Die Grundprinzipien der fotografischen Arbeit von Andreas Feininger, 1906 als ältester Sohn des Malers Lyonel Feininger in Paris geboren, sind Klarheit, Einfachheit und Organisation. Am Bauhaus in Weimar zu Beginn der zwanziger Jahre zum Kunsttischler ausgebildet, studierte er anschließend an den staatlichen Bauschulen in Weimar und Zerbst Architektur. Zunächst Architekturfotograf in Stockholm, emigrierte er mit Ausbruch des Zweiten Weltkrieges nach New York. Als Bildredakteur beim Life-Magazin angestellt, hielt er immer wieder Straßenschluchten, Wolkenkratzer, Brücken und Hochbahnen in atmosphärisch dichten, mittlerweile zu Klassikern gewordenen Aufnahmen fest. Mit derselben Begeisterung widmete er sich auch Naturstudien. Seine Detailaufnahmen von Insekten, Blumen, Muscheln, Holz und Steinen verleihen deren Formen einen skulpturalen Charakter.
Die Monografie gibt mit einer Vielzahl hervorragender Duplexbilder einen Überblick über das grandiose Werk des 1999 verstorbenen Fotografen.

Andreas Gursky (*1955 in Leipzig) is one of the most important artists in the world to use large-format photographs as a means of expression. The Düsseldorf-based photographer is especially interested in congregations of people and the sites of their gatherings, ranging from the Tokyo Stock Exchange to mass raves. The realistic appearance of Andreas Gursky’s final images - the elements of which are adeptly reduced and digitally restructured - also allow for conceptual interpretation; they are always based on the interplay between accurate reproduction and abstraction.

This opulent publication focuses on the artist’s most recent creations, which is on display at the Kunstmuseum Basel. Two new groups of works in particular, reflecting on Formula One races and the famous Arirang Festival, a meticulously choreographed mass spectacle in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang, will be shown alongside the landscapes.

This volume concentrates on the classic compositions one associates with photographer Andreas Gursky: views captured at a great distance, from a slightly elevated perspective, the camera positioned as centrally as possible in front of the motif à la Bernd and Hilla Becher. It features all of the famous Gursky icons - such as the 99-cent store, the racetrack at Bahrain, the Tokyo and Chicago stock exchanges, the miners’ locker room, and the racetrack pit stops - as well as his most recent photos, for instance his Ocean series (2010) and pictures of the final parade of a show by fashion designers Viktor & Rolf (2011). These photographs ideally illustrate the artist’s frequently quoted remark that he wants to show us our world from the perspective of an extraterrestrial, an alien. And thus Andreas Gursky’s works reveal the outrageous and the exorbitant as well as the beautiful and sublime, always starting from the relationship between the human being and space.

Andreas Gursky (*1955 in Leipzig ) has ranked for many years among the world’s leading photographic artists. Now, for the first time ever, an attempt is being made to unfurl the artist’s oeuvre in all its encyclopedic glory. Gursky has selected over 150 images from his pool of photographs, reaching back in time to his student days at the Folkwang Hochschule Essen, followed by the period in which he was in the class taught by Bernd and Hilla Becher at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Beginning with the earliest exposures, such as the Desk Attendants and other unpublished photographs, the publication describes an enormous trajectory that takes us to his most recent works, which were conceived especially for this monograph. Every single exposure in Gursky’s encyclopedic morphology is a vital piece in the puzzle, which over some twenty-eight years has opened out into a sweeping view of the world.

Polaroids haben etwas ähnlich Magisches wie alte, verblichene Familienphotos oder Bilder, die nur vage in unserer Erinnerung existieren. Wie aus dem Nichts auftauchend, halten sie doch für den Bruchteil eines Blicks die Zeit an und trotzen einer Vergänglichkeit, der sie selbst früher oder später erliegen werden. Andrej Tarkovskij (1932-1986), einer der charismatischsten Filmemacher des ausgehenden 20. Jahrhunderts, liebte dieses magische Spielzeug, das er sich in den späten 70er Jahren zugelegt hatte, und nutzte es weniger zur Vorbereitung seiner Filme als privat, um seine häusliche Umgebung, Stimmungen, Situationen zu fixieren und dem eigenen Gedächtnis einzuspeichern. Nach Stalker, seinem verstörenden Hauptwerk, das 1979 unter enormen Schwierigkeiten fertig geworden war, beschloß er, die Sowjetunion zu verlassen und zunächst nach Italien ins Exil zu gehen. Mit der Polaroidkamera nahm er, so scheint es, Abschied von seiner vertrauten russischen Welt - und eignete sich, wieder in sehr persönlichen, poetisch-flüchtigen Bildern, die neue Umgebung an, Wohnorte und Landschaften vor allem in der Toskana, wo 1983 sein vorletzter Film entstehen sollte: Nostalghia. Wir freuen uns, dieses visuelle und literarische Kleinod jetzt wieder im Programm zu haben.

Andrey Tarkovsky was the most important Russian filmmaker of the post-war era, and one of the world’s most renowned cinematic geniuses.

Tarkovsky’s films are characterized by metaphysical themes, extended takes, an absence of conventional dramatic structure and plot, and a dream-like, visionary style of cinematography. They achieve a spiritual intensity and transcendent beauty that many consider to be without parallel.

He directed the first five of his seven films – Ivan’s Childhood, Andrei Rublev, Solaris, Mirror and Stalker – in the Soviet Union, but in 1982 defected to Italy, where he made Nostalgia. His final film, The Sacrifice, was produced in Sweden in 1985.

This book presents extended sequences of stills from each of the films alongside synopses and cast and crew listings. It includes reflections on Tarkovsky’s work from fellow artists and writers including Jean-Paul Sartre and Ingmar Bergman, for whom Tarkovsky was ‘the greatest, the one who invented a new language.’

Extracts from Tarkovsky’s own writings and diaries offer a wealth of insights into his poetic and philosophical views on cinematography, which he described as ‘sculpting in time’. The book also reproduces many personal Polaroid photographs that confirm the extraordinary poetic vision of a great artist who died aged only 54, but who remains a potent influence on artists and filmmakers today.