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Adams began to photograph in colour in the mid-1930s. He did significant personal or 'creative' photography in colour and his distinctive visualisation of a scene and technical mastery is immediately evident in these photographs. Overall, he made nearly 3,500 colour images, but only a small fraction have ever been published.

 Ansel Adam thought seriously about publishing his colour images but the task was not accomplished during his lifetime. The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust - with advice and counsel from John Szarkowski, former Director of Photography at New York's Museum of Modern Art; David Travis, Curator of Photographs at the Art Institute of Chicago and James Enyeart, former Director of the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House--asked the distinguished master photographer Harry Callahan to select the best of Adams' colour work for publication in this book.

Revered for his photo portraits of rock and pop stars, Dutch born son of a preacherman and image maker Anton Corbijn has meanwhile become a cult figure himself. In his new book, he carries the ego and idol spiel to an ironic extreme with self-portraits of Anton Corbijn as John Lennon, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, Frank Zappa and more.

Of course, Anton Corbijn’s longtime bestseller is available again: his portrait gallery of the heroes and enfants terribles of film, literature, fashion, pop and rock.

With 25,000 copies sold, Anton Corbijn's blockbuster book documenting his 22-year friendship with the Irish rock group U2 is now available in an inexpensive reduced-size version. It presents a wealth of official and private pictures taken between 1982, when they first met in New Orleans, and their April 2004 Lisbon shooting for U2's How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb album.

The subject is Japanese photographer Araki, a man who talks about life through photographs. His powerful oeuvre, decades' worth of images, has been pared down to 540 pages of photographs which tell the story of Araki and comprise the ultimate retrospective collection of his work.

Known best for his intimate, snapshot-style images of women often tied up with ropes (kinbaku, Japanese rope-tying art) and of colorful, sensual flowers, Araki is an artist who reacts strongly to his emotions and uses photography to experience them more fully. Obsessed with women, Araki seeks to come closer to them through photography, using ropes like an embrace and the click of the shutter like a kiss. His work is at once shocking and mysteriously tender; a deeply personal artist, Araki is not afraid of his emotions nor of showing them to the world.

About the Author:

Nobuyoshi Araki was born in Tokyo in 1940. Given a camera by his father at the ripe age of twelve, Araki has been taking pictures ever since. He studied photography and film at Chiba University and went into commercial photography soon after graduating. In 1970 he created his famous Xeroxed Photo Albums, which he produced in limited editions and sent to friends, art critics, and people selected randomly from the telephone book. Over the years, his bold, unabashed photographs of his private life have been the object of a great deal of controversy and censorship (especially in his native Japan), a fact that has not fazed the artist nor diminished his influence. To date, Araki has published over 400 books of his work.

Red petals and rope binding. The ultimate Araki collection

Decades’ worth of images have been distilled down to 568 pages of photographs in this ultimate retrospective collection of Nobuyoshi Araki's work, selected by the artist himself.

First published as a limited edition and now available as a standard TASCHEN edition, the curation delves deep into Araki's best-known imagery: Tokyo street scenes; faces and foods; colorful, sensual flowers; female genitalia; and the Japanese art of kinbaku, or bondage. As girls lay bound but defiant and glistening petals assume suggestive shapes, Araki plays constantly with patterns of subjugation and emancipation, death and desire and with the slippage between serene image and shock.

Describing his bondage photographs as a'a collaboration between the subject and the photographer’, Araki seeks to come closer to his female subjects through photography, emphasizing the role of spoken conversation between himself and the model. In his native Japan, he has attained cult status for many women who feel liberated by his readiness to photograph the expression of their desire.

About the Author:

Nobuyoshi Araki was born in Tokyo in 1940. Given a camera by his father at the ripe age of twelve, Araki has been taking pictures ever since. He studied photography and film at Chiba University and went into commercial photography soon after graduating. In 1970 he created his famous Xeroxed Photo Albums, which he produced in limited editions and sent to friends, art critics, and people selected randomly from the telephone book. Over the years, his bold, unabashed photographs of his private life have been the object of a great deal of controversy and censorship (especially in his native Japan), a fact that has not fazed the artist nor diminished his influence. To date, Araki has published over 400 books of his work.

Welcome to the era of the no-panties coffee shop. Tokyo "entertainment centers" in the early 1980s photographed by Araki

It started in 1978 with an ordinary coffee shop near Kyoto whose waitresses famously wore no panties under their miniskirts and see-through pantyhose. As word began to spread, similar establishments popped up across the country. Men lined up outside these cafés waiting to pay three times the usual price for coffee served by a panty-free young woman, hoping to catch a fortuitous glimpse. Within a few years, a new craze took hold: the no-panties "massage" parlor. Competition for customers led these new types of businesses to offer an increasingly bizarre range of services: fondling clients through holes in coffins whilst they lie naked inside playing dead, interiors catering to commuter-train fetishists, young virgin role-playing, etc. Amongst these many destinations was a Tokyo club called Lucky Hole. Here, the premise was ridiculously simple: clients stood on one side of a plywood partition, a hostess on the other; in between, them was simply a hole big enough for a certain part of the male anatomy to pass through.

About the Author:

Nobuyoshi Araki was a frequent visitor to the sex clubs of Tokyo’s Shinjuku neighbourhood, and he photographed them profusely until the golden age of Japan’s sex industry came to a screeching halt in February 1985, with the enactment of the New Amusement Business Control and Improvement Act. In over 800 photos, Tokyo Lucky Hole documents the free-for-all spirit of those clubs via Araki’s lens.

About the series:

Bibliotheca Universalis — Compact cultural companions celebrating the eclectic TASCHEN universe at an unbeatable, democratic price!

Since we started our work as cultural archaeologists in 1980, TASCHEN has become synonymous with accessible, open-minded publishing. Bibliotheca Universalis brings together more than 100 of our all-time favourite titles in a neat new format so you can curate your own affordable library of art, anthropology, and aphrodisia.

Bookworm’s delight — never bore, always excite!

For this project, Middleton and Liittschwager gained unprecedented access to photograph on and around these protected islands that are otherwise completely off-limits to people. Home to nearly seventy percent of our nation's coral reefs, known as the "rainforests of the sea," the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands is a remarkable ecosystem that supports a vast array of interdependent native plants and animals that have evolved in this habitat over millions of years, many existing nowhere else on the planet.

The result is Archipelago. With its more than 300 stunning images, the book illustrates the spectacular diversity of these ocean and island creatures, as well as profiles many of the people dedicated to the preservation of this habitat. The inaccessibility of these islands and the need to protect them means that few people will ever be able to visit them in person, though now, for the first time, the area's inhabitants are available for all the world to see through this important body of work. In conjunction with the publication of Archipelago, exhibitions of these photographs will be mounted in Honolulu and Washington, and will then travel to venues around the country throughout 2006.

For the past several years ― and with seemingly limitless access ― Richard Ross has been making unsettling and thought-provoking pictures of architectural spaces that exert power over the individuals within them. From a Montessori preschool to churches, mosques, and diverse civic spaces ― a Swedish courtroom, the Iraqi National Assembly hall, the United Nations―the images in Architecture of Authority build to ever harsher manifestations of authority: an interrogation room at Guantánamo, segregation cells at Abu Ghraib, and finally, a capital-punishment death chamber.

About the Author:

Richard Ross has taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara, since 1977. He has photographed for the New York Times Magazine, Discover, Vogue, and Frankfurter Allgemeine and is represented by ACME Gallery in Los Angeles. His work is in the collections of the Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; British Museum, London; Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; and Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal.

More tham 450 stunning photographes taken on expeditions to the South and North Poles with descriptions of the explorations and biographies of the men taking part.

Colour and texture radically influence how we perceive shapes. While looking for an innovative approach on a 1995 Miami photo shoot, photographic master Guido Argentini was moved to coat a model in silver makeup.

The result was as beautiful as it was intriguing - the subtle grayish tones highlighted angles and surfaces in a way that was other-worldly. Inspired by the results, Argentini created a whole series of silver-hued models. In so doing, he uncovered a fresh perspective for nude photography.

Evoking the luminous polished planes of Brancusi and the verve of Degas' ballet sketches, these photographs endow the human body with both the solidity of sculpture and the vivid energy of dance.

Guido Argentini «Argentum»

Книга Guido Argentini «Argentum» – расскажет о том, как цвет и текстура могут радикально влиять на восприятие формы человеком. В поисках инновационного и нестандартного подхода к фотографии, во время фотосессии в Майами 1995 гада, Фотограф Гвидо Аргентини нанес на тело своей модели серебряную краску. Результат получился настолько красивым и интригующим, что Argentini создал целую серию фотографий моделей серебристого цвета. Тонкие серые тона делали все углы более четкими и графичными, а поверхность казалась какой-то иной. При этом фотограф открыл новый, необычный подход для обнаженный фотографии.

Guido Argentini «Argentum»– содержит в себе большое количество фотографий, напоминающих блестящие, отполированные скульптуры Бранкузи, и воодушевленные балетными зарисовками Дега, которые наделяют человеческое тело не только прочностью скульптуры, но и энергией танца.

Arms Against Fury досліджує драматичну боротьбу афганського народу крізь призму фотографів Magnum, починаючи з документальних фільмів співзасновника Джорджа Роджера про роль країни у Другій світовій війні. Відтоді безстрашні фотографи Magnum досліджували приголомшливі ландшафти країни, від степів Центральної Азії до виснаженої південної пустелі, через гори Гіндукуш, що оточують Кабул, та прилеглу долину Панджшер.

Ще в 1950-х роках Ів Арнольд та Марк Рібу створили безпрецедентні історії з легендарної Шангрі-Ла, показуючи невелике королівство, яке бореться за державність проти сил відсталого розвитку та географії під час Холодної війни. Зрештою, повалення монархії та жорстоке знищення конституційного уряду Афганістану в 1978 році ознаменувало прихід комунізму радянського зразка. Селяни Нурістану негайно повстали та розпочали джихад, про що спочатку писав Реймонд Депардон, потім Стів МакКаррі, а пізніше відомий фотожурналіст Аббас, який також висвітлював успіхи моджахедів, які зрештою зіткнулися з масованим вторгненням Червоної Армії та жорстокими повітряними бомбардуваннями.

Перемога над Радянським Союзом також ознаменувала початок громадянської війни, що розпочалася в 1992 році. Задокументовані Люком Делахаєм, Крістофером Стіл-Перкінсом, Аббасом та Стівом МакКаррі, афганські ополченці знищили великі райони Кабула. Ополчення Талібану розгромило ворогуючі угруповання в 1996 році та проголосило Ісламський Емірат. Стіл-Перкінс був одним з небагатьох журналістів, які висвітлювали події в Афганістані в цей період теократичної тиранії. Після терактів 11 вересня у Сполучених Штатах ненависний Талібан був усунений від влади хитким союзом моджахедів, підтримуваним американськими військами. Але ніщо не могло пом'якшити жалюгідного вигляду країни в руїнах, всіяної десятками мільйонів мін та тисячами невинних жертв високотехнологічної війни з тероризмом.

Майбутнє Афганістану, як його зображують Аббас, Ів Арнольд, Люк Делахей, Томас Дворак, Алекс Майолі, Стів МакКаррі та Франческо Цізола, залишається в кращому випадку невизначеним.

Завдяки додатковим фотографіям Ієна Беррі, Елліотта Ервітта, Стюарта Франкліна, Філіпа Джонса Гріффітса, Сьюзен Мейзелас та Вейна Міллера, коментарям фотографів та кільком ілюстрованим есе, книга стане незамінним джерелом для документальних досліджень, соціальної історії та критичної фотографії.

Piet Mondrian behind his easel, Igor Stravinsky at his piano, Max Ernst sitting smoking on his throne-like chair: the photographs of Arnold Newman (1918-2006) are classics of portraiture. His subtle arrangements constituted the foundations of “environmental portraiture.” His photographs integrate the respective artist’s characteristic equipment and surroundings, thus indicating his or her field of activity. The enormous fame of Newman’s portraits can be ascribed to their daring compositions and sometimes astounding spatial structures. The photographer’s beginnings, however, were none too promising. During the Great Depression, Newman had to abandon his art studies for financial reasons. Between 1938 and 1942 he concentrated on socio-documentary photography in the ghettos of West Palm Beach, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. One might think that being forced to earn his living in a photography studio would have stifled his artistic potential: Newman portrayed up to 70 clients a day. Yet he still succeeded in developing a very personal touch and establishing himself in the New York art scene of the early 1940s. His subjects included Marcel Duchamp, Marc Chagall, Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Alexander Calder among many others. With his unmistakable style, Newman became the star photographer of artists, writers, and musicians. This new edition, which includes recent work and an updated biography, provides a sweeping overview of Newman’s illustrious career.

Art & Makeup – це приголомшлива виставка робіт візажиста, що отримав нагороди, Лан Нгуєн-Гріаліс. Образи, створені спеціально для книги, натхненні світом мистецтва, скульптури, кіно та перформансу – серед посилань – Пікассо, Ворхол, Марія-Антуанетта, Клеопатра, «Божевільні» та «Великий Гетсбі».

Книга містить БІЛЬШЕ 200 чудових зображень, включаючи фотографії Ранкіна. Макіяж – це вид мистецтва, і, як і всі види мистецтва, він ґрунтується на техніці.

На доповнення до натхненних зображень основної частини книги, друга частина містить покрокові розбори технік, що використовуються для створення деяких образів. Також є посібник з індустрії, який містить поради та цитати професіоналів, від відомих візажистів та модельєрів до фотографів та стилістів знаменитостей.

Про автора:

Сміливий стиль Лан та її захопливі технічні здібності призвели до її співпраці з легендарними іменами, включаючи Девіда Бейлі, Ранкіна та незліченну кількість знаменитостей першого класу. Наразі вона є наймолодшою ​​володаркою премії «Золота маска» 2013 року за мистецтво макіяжу та володаркою премії National Professional Makeup Awards 2011 року за найкращий студійний макіяж і переможницею в загальному заліку.

Art ablaze. Pyrotechnics and pure self-expression in the parched Black Rock Desert

“You voluntarily assume the risk of serious injury or death by attending.” 

100 miles from the gambling town of Reno, in the wilderness of northern Nevada, lies a vast, hostile plain known as the Black Rock Desert. The region has been an empty and windswept dry lake bed for most of the past 10,000 years. Except, that is, for one brief week at the end of each summer, when a temporary city rises out of the barren clay.

This is the surreal and amazing site of Burning Man. Baked by the sun, and blinded by dust, the gathering acquires different meanings for different people: Temporary community, spiritual adventure, performance stage, desert rave, social experiment. It’s also the incubator of some of the most remarkable site-specific outdoor art ever made: a mechanized fire-breathing octopus, a towering wooden temple 15 meters tall, and the eponymous Man himself—a skeletal sculpture set ablaze at the event’s conclusion.

Here, writer and photographer NK Guy presents 16 years of Burning Man art. His dazzling images record these participatory, collective, intrinsically ephemeral installations and happenings in the desert, which exist for no clearer purpose than because someone wanted to express something. The result is testimony to a realm far beyond the ego, commerce, and power play of mainstream cultural output: It is one of the purest, uninhibited, expressive centers of our time.

With a foreword by temple designer and artist David Best and a futureword by Founding Board Member Marian Goodell.