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73 color and 52 duotone photographs

GABO has succeeded like no other female photographer in using her camera to plough through the field of German celebrities in politics, culture and society and also to earn commissions from international stars as "the favourite German people photographer".

Big Shots is a collection of her best work over the last two decades, grand stagings, respectful portraits and sensitive shots of the human body.

This collection displays not only GABO's undeniable talent, but also her lust for life and constant quest for originality.

GABO was born in Hamburg. After completing her education, she worked as a model, studied graphic design, and directed music videos. Since her first photography assignment for Stern magazine in 1986, her photographs have been published in magazines such as GQ, Cosmopolitan, Playboy, and Max. She has won the Kodak prize and the Italian "Internazionale Venere d'Argento."

Bimbos and machos: a match made in heaven. Both are twentieth century cultural phenomena that are unrivalled in their vulgarity. And they are everywhere! With examples from TV, film, comics, games, literature, music and real celebrity life, this book attempts to explore the bimbo and macho universe and pay tribute to the greatest bimbos and machos of all time, both fictional and real - Jordan, Anna-Nicole Smith, Pamela Anderson, Lolo Ferrari, Britney Spears, Sabrina; David Hasselhof, Julio Iglesias, Tubbs & Crockett, Bruno - get ready to meet them as you have never seen them before!

Bring the diversity and drama of the bird world to life with this encyclopedic new edition.

A must-have for every avian enthusiast, this catalogue showcases thousands of bird species pictured in their native environment.

Shot by photographers around the globe, the vivid images are accompanied by in-depth introductions to all 40 of the world's newly reclassified bird orders. Compiled by a team of experts and revised by BirdLife International, Bird provides the most up to date and comprehensive photographic tour of the wondrous world of birds. Dive in and you will find:

- A bird by bird catalogue of more than 1,280 species, each with a description, data file, and distribution map
- An introduction describing bird biology in beautiful visual detail.
- Feature spreads showcasing the planet's most impressive sites for birdwatching
- Photographic essays that display the best in bird photography

Discover the world of the skies!

Unrivaled in scope for a single-volume reference work, Bird's photographic catalogue features species from hummingbirds to monkey-eating eagles, organised in taxonomic order.

Immerse yourself in the life of birds; read about their migrations, anatomy, feeding and breeding. All this, and special features on the world's most sought after bird watching locations, make this "A must-have reference for every bird enthusiast" - BBC Wildlife Magazine.

Whether you're an avian expert who knows your Accipitriformes (birds of prey) from your Falconiformes (falcons and caracaras), or are simply a nature lover wanting to learn more, you won't find a more detailed or comprehensive photographic bird book than this.

What's new?

After a major reclassification of all birds, this new edition is the only guide currently in print covering the new system of 40 bird orders and 140+ families, including an updated catalogue with newly discovered species. Reviewed by the experts at BirdLife International, you can be sure that you are getting the latest knowledge of bird biology and classification.

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Birds of the World: 365 Days дає цю незмінно популярну тему 365 обробку: орнітолог і природоохоронець Філіп Дж. Дюбуа представляє «день із життя» річних видів із п’яти континентів. Приголомшливі зображення птахів у дії, зроблені одними з найкращих фотографів птахів у світі, чудово ілюструють текст.

Птахи, представлені тут, є справді глобальною групою, включаючи горобиних, водоплавних птахів, хижих птахів і все, що між ними. Окрім наукової інформації, Дюбуа дає уявлення про культурне значення птаха, незалежно від того, чи вважають його сусіди люди шкідником чи благословенням.

Про автора:

Інженер, еколог і орнітолог Філіп Ж. Дюбуа відповідає за Французьку лігу захисту птахів (LPO), а також вивчає наслідки зміни клімату для птахів. Живе у Франції.

Blabac Photo: The Art of Skateboarding Photography is a stunning chronicle of a youth movement as seen through the lens of Mike Blabac, a man who is as dedicated to his craft as he is to the skateboarding lifestyle that inspired it. For millions of people around the world, skateboarding is more than a mere hobby or a sport - it’s a way of life that has shaped everything from fashion and music, to video games and art.

Blabac Photo proves that point with 300 awe-inspiring images that communicate the stories and exploits of some of the most creative athletes to ever step on a skateboard including Eric Koston, Stevie Williams, Colin McKay, Rob Dyrdek, and Danny Way.

As skateboarding evolved over time, from a hobby for kids on the Venice boardwalk into a global culture, skate legends were born, records were broken, titans of industry materialized - and Mike Blabac was there to document the history of the movement as it developed before his eyes.

Black and white occupies a special place in the development of photography, and the sharp revival of interest in it testifies to its enduring appeal. The simplicity of a monochrome image, recorded just in the modulation of tones, makes it an elegant visual medium in which to work. The economy of the palette focuses the attention on certain essentials, such as shape, form and quality of light, as well as texture and subtle tonal graduations. Now, with digital photography and all its tools and possibilities for editing images, there is a new era of the hand-crafted print. Black & White is an essential guide that will teach both enthusiasts and professionals how the digital workflow can create stunning monochrome images.

Michael Freeman is an acclaimed international photographer and writer who has published a number of titles on photography, with more than a million copies sold. He has worked on commissions for many well-known publishing clients, including Time-Life, Reader’s Digest, Condé Nast Traveler and GEO.

An expansive collection that introduces the short-lived and ruthlessly creative phenomenon that was Blacklips.

From June 1992 to March 1995, in the midst of the AIDS crisis in NYC, an extraordinary theatrical collective emerged from the queer underground. Blacklips Performance Cult, initiated by ANOHNI and joined by a cabal of fellow artists, drag queens, punks, nightlife veterans and students, performed a new play every Monday night at 1:00 a.m. at the Pyramid Club on 101 Avenue A. Blacklips never courted mainstream attention. However, the group left a sustaining impression within New York's late night subculture by melding hysterical drag, surreal horror, and disconcerting tenderness.

In Blacklips: Her Life and Her Many, Many Deaths, ANOHNI and coeditor Marti Wilkerson lay bare the collective's archives in photographs, scripts, and the assembled ephemera from more than one hundred and twenty original "plays." Featuring images from newly digitized film and video recordings, texts from participants and audience members, and an introduction by Lia Gangitano, this expansive collection introduces to the twenty-first century the short-lived and ruthlessly creative phenomenon that was Blacklips.

About the Author:

ANOHNI is a visual artist, musician, and playwright who spent her twenties performing music and staging plays in late-night clubs and experimental theatres in New York City. She formed her music group Antony and the Johnsons - named in memory of trans activist Marsha P. Johnson - in 1998. After releasing the group’s self-titled first record in 2000 and touring around the world with Lou Reed as a backup singer, her second album, I Am a Bird Now (2005), was awarded the Mercury Prize in the UK. ANOHNI has since released The Crying Light (2008), Swanlights (2009), the live album Cut the World (2012), and HOPELESSNESS (2016), a collaboration with Hudson Mohawke and Daniel Lopatin. She curated the 2012 Meltdown Festival at the Southbank in London, and has performed her music with symphonies in venues including the Royal Opera House in London, Teatro Royale in Madrid, Sydney Opera House, the Olympia in Paris and Radio City Music Hall. ANOHNI’s visual installations, performances, and plays have been presented by institutions including Kunsthal Nikolaj in Copenhagen, Bielefeld Kunsthalle in Germany, MoMA, the Whitney Museum, The Kitchen NYC, Aarhus 2017 Capital of Culture, and the Barbican. She scored Valentino’s Spring collection presentation “Anatomy of Couture” in Milan in February

Photography is a dominant force in the blogosphere, and the potential reach and influence of a successful blog is something photographers of all levels can hardly ignore but where to begin? Veteran blogger Jolie O’Dell shares the secrets of finding success online with reliable and inspirational methods for building, maintaining, and promoting your own personal photo blog. Your images will find new audiences, your voice will be heard across the web, and your business will grow by leaps and bounds!

• Dozens of inspirational blogs featured throughout show off some of the very best work done today.
• Loaded with tips on how to consistently create content that’s fun for you and your readers.
• Learn how to engage your readership and interact with the global community.

107 color photographs, 216 b/w photographs, 21 toned photographs

At first I thought strictly about a book of photographs on fashion. As I worked on it, I thought more and more about something my friend the late, great fashion designer Gianni Versace once said, in giving me advice before an assignment, "Call me des mode, but give me beauty."

And with these inspired words I wanted to make a record of how I journeyed out into the world and recorded what most people call fashion. These photographs were not just about the shape of clothes, but also how one sees fashion in nature, architecture, and in the human spirit.

When I began photographing, I was at Life Magazine borrowing some equipment. I ran into a bunch of other photographers in the camera department. One photographer asked, "what kind of photos are you doing for the magazine?" I replied, "I am going to do some pictures of girls in bathing suits." They all burst out laughing at me, and said, "that doesn't sound too serious." That's when I knew that as a photographer I didn't want people to stop laughing with me.

That laughter can be found in a picture of a girl wearing a dress by Yohji Yamamoto that's so big she can't even walk in it or a boy wearing twigs as a tunic at Karl Lagerfeld's chateau in Brittany or the Duchess of Devonshire feeding her pet chickens in a Jean Patou couture evening dress from the 1940s. In this crazy world of ours, most things don't make sense any more, but the wonderful thing about taking pictures of people wearing or not wearing clothes is that maybe you won't solve all the world's problems but you'll at least be giving back a seed of imagination to our garden of lost innocence. And it's fashion that can create a big fantasy life for all those who enter.

Blue Note Records ― co-founded in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff ― celebrates seventy-five years dedicated to recording the greatest musicians in jazz history.

One hundred of the musicians who defined the premier jazz label are celebrated in photographs by Wolff. These photographs, taken from 1948–1969, catch the stars in action: performing onstage, in recording sessions, or cutting stylish silhouettes around town. The powerful images were used to illustrate the label’s iconic album covers, and this curated selection features jazz greats Louis Armstrong, Art Blakey, Ornette Coleman, Chick Corea, John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Dexter Gordon, Herbie Hancock, Joe Henderson, and many more.

Lion and Wolff shared a lifelong passion for music and an unwavering commitment to record quality albums by innovative musicians, even in the face of economic crises and changing musical trends. They witnessed the greatest jazz acts of all time and Wolff’s photographs bring to life their most intimate and exciting performances. Each photograph is identified by subject, session or album being cut, and date; and the featured artists are indexed for easy reference.

This volume ― enriched with one hundred intimate and candid photographs ― recounts the label’s dazzling saga.

Following the success of Rizzoli's The Blue Note Years, the treasured archive of Francis Wolff photographs has been opened once again to present a previously unseen collection of dynamic images. Included are never-before-published colour images from Wolff's later years of photography. This volume is a collection of the jazz photographs taken from 1941 to 1968 by Francis Wolff, co-founder of Blue Note Records, to document the world's most famous jazz label.

Vignettes tell the story of Blue Note Records; its founders, Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff; recording master, Rudy Van Gelder; and many of the labels' great artists -- Jimmy Smith, Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Grant Green, John Coltrane, Lee Morgan, Hank Mobley, Joe Henderson, and Art Blakey, among others.

The official illustrated history of Blue Note, the most influential and important brand in jazz

Blue Note is not only known as the purveyor of extraordinary jazz but is also famous as an arbiter of cool. The superb photography of co-founder Francis Wolff and the cover designs of Reid Miles were integral to the label’s success and this highly illustrated publication – featuring the very best photographs, covers and ephemera from the archives, including never-before-published material – commemorates Blue Note’s momentous contribution to jazz, to art and design, and to the music business.

Tracing the evolution of jazz from the boogie-woogie and swing of the 1930s, through bebop, funk and fusion, to the eclectic mix Blue Note releases today, the book also narrates a complex social history from the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany to the developments in music and technology in the late 20th century. Celebrating over eight decades of extraordinary music, this book demonstrates how Blue Note has stayed true to its founders’ commitment to ‘Uncompromising Expression’.

About the Author:

Richard Havers was a British music author, journalist, consultant and broadcaster. He was the author of over fifty books, including Rolling Stones 50 and Verve: The Sound of America, both published by Thames & Hudson.

For 100 years, BMW’s blue and white propeller logo has been associated with top technology, sophisticated design, comfort and reliability. Its reputation of constant innovation and timeless elegance has conquered generations of drivers around the globe.

In this jubilee edition, car photographer Rainer W. Schlegelmich pays tribute to the tradition of excellence that made BMW’s brand stand out among the world’s great carmakers. All car models, presented in chronological order, are beautifully photographed and described, from the early and legendary models through to the brand-new releases and prototypes.

This book invites for a fascinating tour of BMW’s unique car style. It will ravish car collectors and BMW fans alike.

About the Author:

Rainer W. Schlegelmilch studied photography design in Munich. The highly acclaimed expert on Formula 1 and sports car photography works as a photographer for more than 50 years. To this day his works are centered on his genuine passion for motorsports and fast cars.

Перукар Боб Ресін підходить до голови як до арматури для скульптури.

Людина, яка створила деякі з найбільш авангардних зачісок і головних уборів, які носила Леді Ґаґа, Ресіне підняв зачіски на неймовірно творчі висоти — часто буквально, коли він приводить коси та пасма своїх об’єктів у контури, що не піддають впливу гравітації, доповнюючи їх скульптурними жестами, такими як купи навушників чи сонцезахисних окулярів, вусики Play-Doh. і складні сітки з дроту або целофану. Починаючи як художник, Ресін забезпечив проект створення зачісок і прикрас для голови Анрі Бенделя.

Його дизайни привернули увагу всесвітньо відомого перукаря Жана Луї Давида, який запропонував йому можливість поїхати до Парижа та відточити свою майстерність; Через чотири роки Recine повернувся до Нью-Йорка, озброївшись портфоліо інноваційних стилів для найкращих фотографів і журналів. Сьогодні Ресін є легендою серед знаменитостей, які працювали з Гвінет Пелтроу, Шарліз Терон, Наомі Воттс, Анджеліною Джолі, Кетрін Зета-Джонс, Кейт Хадсон, Рене Зеллвегер, Умою Турман, Ніколь Кідман і Тільдою Суінтон. Його таланти навіть повернули його у світ образотворчого мистецтва завдяки його широкій співпраці з Ванессою Бікрофт.

Alchemy of Beauty збирає оригінальні твори мистецтва Речіна, від фотографій, ескізів, колажів і картин до раніше опублікованих і неопублікованих редакційних зображень його незвичайних скульптур і головних уборів. Художнє керівництво томом — Фаб’єн Барон.