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Picture Perfect. The photo duo behind some of fashion’s glossiest shots

Mert Alas, born in Turkey, and Marcus Piggott, born in Wales, met in 1994, at a party on a pier in Hastings, England. Piggott asked Alas for a light, the pair got talking, and rapidly discovered they had plenty in common, not least a love of fashion. Three years later, the duo now known as Mert and Marcus had moved into a derelict loft in East London, converted it into a studio, and had their first collaborative photographic work published in Dazed & Confused.

These days, Mert and Marcus shape the global image of such renowned brands as Giorgio Armani, Roberto Cavalli, Fendi, Miu Miu, Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent, Givenchy, and Lancôme, and public figures including Lady Gaga, Madonna, Jennifer Lopez, Linda Evangelista, Gisele Bündchen, Björk, Angelina Jolie, and Rihanna. Their photographs encompass a wide range of styles and influences but are renowned particularly for their use of digitized augmentation of images, and a fascination for strong, sexually charged, confident female subjects: “powerful women, women with a meaning, a you-don’t-have-to-talk-or-move-too-much-to-tell-who-you-are kind of woman.”

Bringing our best-selling Collector’s Edition to an affordable, compact format, this collection explores the unique vision of a creative partnership that has defined and redefined standards for glamour, fashion, and luxury. Approximately 300 images from the megawatt Mert and Marcus portfolio are accompanied by an introduction by Charlotte Cotton.

First published as a TASCHEN Collector’s Edition, now available as an affordable, compact edition

The author:

Charlotte Cotton is a curator and writer. She was head of the Wallis Annenberg Department of Photography at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2007–2009), curator of photographs at the Victoria and Albert Museum (1992–2004) and the head of programming at the Photographers Gallery (2004–2005) in London. She is also the founding editor of wordswithoutpictures.org.

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Jump into the megawatt world of Mert and Marcus, the creative tour de force who have styled and shot some of the most powerful brands and personalities of our time, from Miu Miu to Angelina Jolie, Givenchy to Gisele Bündchen. Sourced from our best-selling Collector’s Edition, some 300 pictures illuminate the hyper-glamorous, hyper-glossy repertoire of a creative partnership that has defined and redefined standards for fashion.

• Serge Normant, born in France and based in New York, is the ultimate hairstylist of the international movie and fashion scene, working with the worlds best photographers, make-up artists, and designers. His first book, with essays by Julia Roberts, Isabella Rossellini, and Verushka, is a visual hymn to hair.

• Unter seinen begnadeten Händen werden die schönsten Frauen der Welt noch schöner - zu Ikonen ihrer selbst oder auch völlig neu, anders, verwandelt. Serge Normant, gebürtiger Franzose und seit 20 Jahren in New York ansässig, ist der Haar-Stylist der internationalen Film- und Fashion-Szene.

This is the first monograph to be published in the West on the work of Mika Ninagawa, one of Japan’s most celebrated photographers.

The appeal of Mika Ninagawa’s photography can best be summed up by a signature approach that is bathed in vivid colours and is dreamlike in its manipulation of depth of field. Whether it is portraiture, landscape, or still life, at the heart of her work are themed looks that rotate between flora, fauna, landscapes, and glamorous young women to create Ninagawa’s lush fashion tableaux. A cultural superstar in Japan, where celebrities seek her portraiture, she is now breaking out in the West. Ninagawa shoots her ornately clad human subjects against baroque stylings that suggest a firm grasp of practical scenography, and the work achieves a calm, pictorial mastery.

Portraits of local and international personalities, from Chiaki Kuriyama to Beyoncé, pepper her portfolio, and her distinct and vibrant aesthetic has been very influential in the fashion world.

Lauded in Japan as an art and fashion photographer, the assertion on Mika Ninagawa’s official website of being "Japan’s most popular photographer" is no idle boast. She is certainly the most prolific. Formally represented by Tomio Koyama’s influential gallery, Ninagawa’s images are widely exhibited in Japan and abroad. She has had key installations at Colette in Paris and Arndt and Partner in Berlin and is a frequent participant at Art Basel Miami. She received the prestigious Kimura Ihei Award in 2001.

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Потрясающая коллекция работ известнейшего японского фотографа Микки Нинагавы. Неповторимый стиль, пропитанный загадочной культурой Востока. Оригинальные снимки способны вызвать неподдельное восхищение у любого ценителя искусства.

This latest title in the Mini Bible series celebrates the people who have left an indelible mark on the last sixty years. From popular and music culture, through movies, politics, science, art, literature, fashion and the news - the whole of stardom is covered. Over 350 amazing photographs of celebrities of today and yesterday are reproduced in full colour and vintage black and white. The stunning pictures speak for themselves; there is no text other than the captions.

Minimalism and Fashion — перша книга, яка розглядає мінімалістичний рух у моді, розглядаючи його взаємозв’язок із подібними течіями в мистецтві, архітектурі та дизайні та відмінності від них. Текст, упорядкований за десятиліттями, досліджує еволюцію взаємозв’язків і впливів між образотворчим мистецтвом і мистецтвом мінімалізму одягу та супроводжується понад 150 захоплюючими зображеннями.

Цей розкішний том розглядає роботи найважливіших світових дизайнерів і художників у захоплюючому співставленні. Він містить твори відомих дизайнерів, зокрема Мадлен Віонне, Андре Куррежа, Хелстона, Карла Лагерфельда, Рей Кавакубо, Міуччі Прада, Йоджі Ямамото, Гельмута Ланга та багатьох інших. Є основні роботи таких ключових художників-мінімалістів, як Френк Стелла, Сол Левітт, Дональд Джадд, Ден Флавін, Рейчел Вайтрід, Пітер Галлі та Джефф Кунс. Фотографії тому включають редакційні знімки найкращих іміджмейкерів цього та минулого століть, зокрема Річарда Аведона, Хіро, Франческо Скавулло, Гая Бурдена, Девіда Бейлі, Вільяма Кляйна, Корін Дей та Юргена Теллера.

Діалог між образотворчим мистецтвом, фотографією та модою досліджується в блискучому тексті, який пояснює, як кожна форма вплинула на іншу. Завдяки своєму надзвичайному мистецтву та проникливості ця книга є обов’язковою для любителів моди, а також книг про образотворче мистецтво та фотографію.

By the second half of the 20th century, the motorcycle had been transformed from a cheap and basic form of motoring to a symbol of liberty and the desire to rebel against social conventions. This pictorial book offers and intriguing and unusual foray into celebrities' close relationships with their bikes. More than 120 fabulous images, unpublished photographs, movie stills and paparazzi shots reveal the stars' ongoing love affair with the bike from the 1950s to today. Featured A-list bike owners include pop and rock stars, cinema idols, and divas and celebrities from all the media, including Marlon Brando, Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper, Steve McQueen, Meatloaf and the Jackson Five.

Today classic English style and tailoring enjoy worldwide adulation. And when it comes to top-drawer tailoring, there is nobody quite like Jeremy Hackett.

Hackett takes us on a Grand Tour of an appealing world of Bentleys and polo, bicycles and picnics, bow ties and Sussex Spaniels, top hats and bespoke luggage. Along the way, he muses on sartorial codes: why plus twos beat plus fours, the ideal length of sock, the pros and cons of cufflinks and the art of monogramming.

Brimming with anecdotes and observations as sharp as his suits – as well as more than a glancing nostalgia for an age when a chap knew how to dress for an occasion – this is a book for those who appreciate the finer things in life.

Jeremy Hackett left school aged 17 and worked his way up from the shop floor until finally starting his own label, Hackett, in 1983. He remains Chairman of Hackett to this day. Jeremy discovered an aptitude for writing when he was commissioned to write for The Independent on Sunday. The Mr Classic column ensued, gathering a loyal following, and ran for three years.

Лондонська дівчина. Найкраще з Наомі Кемпбелл в оновленому двотомному портфоліо

Супермодель, підприємець, активіст, провокатор. З тих пір, як у підлітковому віці стала зіркою, Наомі Кемпбелл вразила світ своєю зовнішністю, силою та нестримним духом. Перша темношкіра модель, яка прикрасила обкладинку французького Vogue та журналу TIME, вона була обличчям сотень обкладинок журналів, незліченних редакційних статей і рекламних кампаній, а також улюбленою темою для деяких із найкращих фотографів 80-х, 90-х і сьогодні.

Спочатку опублікована як підписане колекційне видання лише в 1000 примірників, ця книга зібрала найкраще з портфоліо Кемпбелла в оновленому необмеженому виданні XL. Тут представлені фотографії Мерта Аласа та Маркуса Пігготта, Річарда Аведона, Антона Корбійна, Стівена Мейзеля, Гельмута Ньютона, Герба Ріттса, Паоло Роверсі, Еллен фон Унверт та Брюса Вебера, а також такі незабутні знімки, як послідовність Пітера Ліндберга, у якій Наомі танцює як Джозефін Бейкер на пляжі для Італійський Vogue і приголомшлива композиція Жана-Поля Гуда про те, як модель змагається з гепардом для американського Harper’s Bazaar.

У колекції також є тексти, написані Наомі ексклюзивно для цього видання, а також обкладинки журналів, реклама, кадри з відео тощо. Наомі згадує своє дитинство; початок її модельної кар'єри; робота з найкращими дизайнерами моди, зокрема Азздіном Алайя, Джоном Гальяно, Марком Джейкобсом, Карлом Лагерфельдом, Джанні Версаче; і її стрімкий підйом до суперзірки. Також включено біографії фотографів та ілюстрований додаток.

Спочатку опубліковано як підписане колекційне видання, тепер доступне в необмеженому та оновленому виданні XL

Редактор:

Графічний дизайнер Джош Бейкер редагує та оформляє книги для TASCHEN з 2005 року. Він співпрацює з підписаними обмеженими виданнями Девіда Боуї, Наомі Кемпбелл, Денніса Хоппера, Нормана Мейлера та Тома Вулфа, а також бестселерів поп-культури, таких як Matthew Weiner. Mad Men та лауреат премії Айснера 75 Years of DC Comics.

Find out who’s making their mark in a new century - and era - of fashion photography.

The 21st century has brought about seismic changes in photography, technology, fashion, and art. At the nexus of these exciting movements is a group of fashion photographers who are breaking ground in a variety of ways, including cultural referencing, digital imaging, photo manipulation, and the use of new media. This stunningly illustrated book profiles more than 30 young artists from around the world through exclusive interviews, commentary, and beautiful images. From Nick Knight’s paint-soaked portrait of Lady Gaga to Miles Aldridge’s dark surrealism to Alice Hawkins’s explorations of body image through satire, new fashion portraiture is challenging conventional ideas of beauty by confronting us with the unexpected. Throughout the book, these photographers explore new avenues previously off-limits, opening the art of fashion photography to thrilling possibilities.

Including:

Nick Knight, Miles Aldridge, Rankin, Markus + Indrani, René Habermacher, Ruven Afanador, Chadwick Tyler, Yelena Yemchuk, Paola Kudacki, Aram Bedrossian, Daniel Sannwald, Sofia Sanchez and Mauro Mongiello, Sean + Seng, LaRoache Brothers, Alice Hawkins, Kourtney Roy, Eugenio Recuenco, Wing Shya, Bruno Dayan, Paco Peregrín, Takahiro Ogawa, Pierre Debusschere, Catherine Servel, Serge Leblon, Daniel Jackson, Sean Ellis, Daniele & Iango, Yasunari Kikuma.

Noovo is an aesthetic arbiter and a cultural mediator in the fields of fashion, photography and jewellery: a platform to show the highest level of creativity from around the world.

Contemporary Portraits of Fashion, Photography & Jewellery is a collection of designers and photographers profiles and their work. Contemporary fashion, photography and jewellery are brought together in this special edition, and each discipline is represented by emerging talents and established names who share a commitment to artistic integrity and an absolute devotion to their art. The profiles give us an insight into the work, thoughts and processes of some of the most celebrated artists and designers in their fields. Each of them speaks to us in his or her own highly distinctive voice.

150 colour images

Outdoor Lighting: Fashion and Glamour explores the skills required to get the very best results from daylight – the most versatile and challenging resource at the photographer’s disposal.

During recent years, fashion and glamour photography has increasingly shifted away from the false and formal setting of the studio towards greater use of real-life locations and outdoor lighting. Using high quality images from around the world, it looks at the whole process of conducting a fashion shoot, from the client’s brief to the choice of location, the time of day and techniques employed. With tips and explanations from the photographers and clear diagrams of the set-up, it shows a wealth of different ways in which natural light can be controlled, manipulated and artificially enhanced to create a mood, flatter the subject and catch the eye.
Key features

* International collection of outdoor fashion and glamour photography.
* Shows both the physical steps and the thought processes involved from brief to finished image.

Readership

* Aspiring and Professional Photographers.

This comprehensive volume examines Tinseltowns fascination with the City of Light, from silent movies through to modern blockbusters.

Romantic, elegant, and enticing, Paris has fascinated American filmmakers for over a century. As habile in accommodating a romantic comedy or mystery as it is in hosting an action-packed thriller, it is by far the foreign city that appears most frequently in Hollywood movies.

In Paris by Hollywood, essays by eminent film experts and commentators uncover Hollywoods role in the cultivation of now timeless Parisian clichés, examining seminal films such as An American in Paris, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Sabrina. Chapters on Audrey Hepburns Parisian persona; Disneys and Woody Allens personifications of Paris; Hollywoods depictions of the French Revolution; and the American fascination with the enigmatic, glamorous Parisienne explore a cultural relationship that owes as much to the allure of Paris itself as to Hollywoods desire to paint a picture of European exoticism.

Interviews with eminent filmmakers and actors including Martin Scorsese, Julie Delpy, and Leslie Caron bring us behind the scenes and provide intimate insiders perspective. Insightful analysis explores the reasons why Hollywood has invested and continues to invest so much in depicting the French capital; an often mutually-beneficial economic and cultural relationship.

Covering over 100 years of movie-making, from silent films to the animated world of Disney, via Cancan films and action-packed blockbusters, Paris by Hollywood is the perfect companion for lovers of American cinema and those captivated by the magic of the French capital.

This monograph is the definitive guide to the photographic career of one of the most prodigious fashion photographers of our time.

From his earliest work at Harpers Bazaar to his now mythic collaboration with Vogue, Demarchelier has single-handedly redefined the fashion photograph and the fashion industry along with it. His celebrity portraits have shaped the public personae of figures ranging from Princess Diana to Madonna.

Demarchelier is everywhere at once, with a photographic sensibility that is iconic, incisive and as varied as his subject matter.

This monograph provides an invaluable fashion reference point, all the while charting the course of our own cultural obsession with celebrity and beauty.

Born outside Paris in 1943, Patrick Demarchelier relocated to New York in 1975, where he began his editorial career with Harper's Bazaar and Hearst Publications. His photographs appear regularly on the covers and in the pages of publications such as Vogue and Vanity Fair, among many others. He was the 2007 recipient of the Eleanor Lambert Award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America. He continues to live and work in New York.

Photographer, collector, diarist, and writer of books Peter Beard has fashioned his life into a work of art; the illustrated diaries he kept from a young age evolved into a serious career as an artist and earned him a central position in the international art world. He was painted by Francis Bacon, painted on by Salvador Dalí, and made diaries with Andy Warhol; he toured with Truman Capote and the Rolling Stones, created books with Jacqueline Onassis and Mick Jagger - all of whom are brought to life, literally and figuratively, in his work. As a fashion photographer, he took Vogue stars like Veruschka to Africa and brought new ones - most notably Iman - back to the U.S. with him.

His love affair with natural history and wildlife, which informs most of his work, began when he was a teenager. He had read the books of Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) and after spending time in Kenya and befriending the author, bought a piece of land near hers. It was the early 1960s and the big game hunters led safaris, with all the colonial elements Beard had read about in Out of Africa characterizing the open life and landscape, but the times were changing. Beard witnessed the dawn of Kenya's population explosion, which challenged finite resources and stressed animal populations - including the starving elephants of Tsavo, dying by the tens of thousands in a wasteland of eaten trees. So he documented what he saw - with diaries, photographs, and collages. He went against the wind in publishing unique and sometimes shocking books of these works. The corpses were laid bare; the facts were carefully written down, sometimes in type, often by hand, occasionally with blood.

Peter Beard's most important collages are included, along with hundreds of smaller-scale works and diaries, magnified to show every detail - from Beard's meticulous handwriting and old-masters-inspired drawings to stones and bones and bits of animals pasted to the page.

Special features:

* Two volumes in a cloth slipcase
* Volume 1: 200 pages of diaries and 294 pages of collages + five fold-outs; introduction by photo critic Owen Edwards. Nearly all the diaries and collages from the original book are included, plus two new collages finished in 2007.
* Volume 2: Image index with captions for all images from Volume 1; personal photos and early work of the artist; interview with the artist by Steven M. L. Aronson; a facsimile reprint of Beard's 1993 handwritten essay from the sold-out debut issue of Blind Spot magazine; extensive bibliography, filmography, and list of exhibitions.

The Love of Black. The powerful collaborations between Peter Lindbergh and Azzedine Alaïa

Peter Lindbergh and Azzedine Alaïa, the photographer and the couturier, were united by their love of black, a love that they would cultivate alike in silver print and solid color garments. Lindbergh ceaselessly turned to black and white to signify his search for authenticity in the faces he brought to light. Alaïa drew on the monochrome of timeless clothes to create veritable sculptures for the body.

In this book, the unique dialogue between the two artists is immortalized in print. Illustrating their community of spirit, its images are a celebration of their artistic partnership and testament to their history-making achievements in photography and fashion.

Despite their geographically opposed origins, Lindbergh and Alaïa pursued similar horizons. At the same time as Lindbergh’s reputation in Germany was growing thanks to his work in Stern magazine, and he set up his studio in Paris in 1978, Alaïa was the couturier shrouded in discretion whose sophisticated techniques were a treasured secret amongst the most important clients of Haute Couture.

Alaïa became the architect of bodies, revealing and unveiling them, while Lindbergh distinguished them by shining a light on their soul and personality. Step by step, they became the creators that dominated their respective disciplines. Both rejected any artifice that distracted from their true subject, and it is with great ease that they came together for a number of powerful collaborations.

Shared inspirations and aesthetic values are visible throughout their work. A beach in Le Touquet and the streets of old Paris reference a mutual love of black and white cinema and vast panoramas. The backdrop of an engine room illustrates the memory of an industrial German landscape for one and references the inordinate passion for functional design and architecture held by the other. Alaïa’s clothes act as pedestals for the smiles and eyes of the women who wear them: Nadja Auermann, Mariacarla Boscono, Naomi Campbell, Anna Cleveland, Dilone, Lucy Dixon, Vanessa Duve, Helene Fischer, Pia Frithiof, Jade Jagger, Maria Johnson, Milla Jovovich, Lynne Koester, Ariane Koizumi, Yasmin Le Bon, Madonna, Kristen McMenamy, Tatjana Patitz, Linda Spierings, Tina Turner, Marie-Sophie Wilson, Lindsey Wixson. For Lindbergh, who built his notoriety on the images of these supermodels, the authenticity of their traits is all that matters. The result is a potent black and white catalogue that reverberates with truthfulness and beauty.

The book accompanies the exhibition Azzedine Alaïa, Peter Lindbergh at the Fondation Azzedine Alaïa, 18 rue de la verrerie, Paris, France.

With contritutions by Fabrice Hergott, director of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paolo Roversi, photographer, and Olivier Saillard, fashion historian and director of the Fondation Azzedine Alaïa, Paris.

The photographer:

Peter Lindbergh (1944–2019) was a master of his craft who made his mark in the halls of photography history, with such credits as shooting the first American Vogue cover under Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour, bringing together for the first time a group of young women who would become the ’90s supermodels, and numerous exhibitions at renowned institutions including Victoria & Albert Museum in London and Centre Pompidou in Paris, as well as in solo exhibitions at Hamburger Bahnhof, the Berlin Museum for Contemporary Art, Bunkamura Museum of Art in Tokyo, the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow, and Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf.