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Inside the circle: Behind-the-scenes photos of celebrities by the fashion world's favorite photographer

As one of the 21st century`s most travelled, acclaimed, and influential fashion photographers, Mario Testino has unsurpassed access to the most magnetic stars of popular culture. For some time now he has been collecting a personal archive of off-screen moments, often snatched spontaneously before, during, and after more official sittings for Vanity Fair, Vogue, and Testino`s many clients in the world of fashion. The result is a portrait not just of a generation of the most wanted and talked-about, but an invitation to be part of the backstage parties and unstaged moments of Testino`s life. Sometimes offbeat, but always on the pulse, Let me in!, with Testino`s eye for a modern kind of elegance liberated from conventional polish, is a new chapter from the photographer who has already made his mark with the books Any Objections, Front Row Backstage, Alive, Portraits, Kids, Diana Princess of Wales, and numerous exhibitions and publications worldwide.

Features include:
• Introduction by Michael Roberts, fashion director of Vanity Fair
• Foreword by Nicole Kidman
• 300 pages in color and black and white featuring more than 100 contemporary stars

About the Author:

With a four decades career as a leader in the fields of fashion, culture and lifestyle, Peruvian-born Mario Testino OBE has many facets that take him beyond the surface of a photographer and artist placing him as a cultural visionary. Testino’s universe is broad, his impact is uniquely powerful and his lifestyle is completely authentic. Testino’s has seen his works published and exhibited in hundreds of cities around the world. Throughout his career he built unprecedent relationships with editorial and commercial partners such as Vogue, Burberry, and Gucci to name a few. His past and present muses include HRH Princess Diana, Madonna, Donatella Versace, Kendall Jenner and Mariacarla Boscono. His solo exhibitions have shown in museums and galleries worldwide, including the National Portrait Gallery, London; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Arthur Miller schwärmte, »neben Marilyn verblaßt immer noch die Sonne«, und wir liefern, einmal mehr, den Beweis: die schönsten Photos von Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962). Unser Klassiker!

- A tour de force that provides a photographic master with a new scope to display his genius
- This ample volume features previously unpublished photographs from commissions for The New Yorker, TIME, and GQ, among others
- Pushes the boundaries of photographic styling and composition in novel and audacious ways
- Portraits German Photo Book Award 2015 in SILVER

Building on the success of his previous titles, Close Up and Identical, Martin Schoeller’s Portraits is cause for celebration.

The illustrious photographer’s full range of expression is on display in this unprecedented gathering of editorial images. With an impressive amount of variety and scale, Schoeller shares his signature compositional imagination alongside the wry wit that animates his work. Whether portraits of political leaders, Hollywood stars, business entrepreneurs, or contemporary music royalty, these images are as daring as they are exacting, playful, and precise.

Regardless of the subject and setting, Schoeller’s photographs seemingly come to life. While Portraits will surely thrill devoted fans, it will also attract new admirers with images they’ve noted in top magazines.

Every frame in this expansive volume is touched with Schoeller’s distinctive flare for creating meticulously realized worlds — and confirm that he’s a talent that consistently resets the limits of photographic portraiture.

"The surprising thing about this film was that I succeeded in not going crazy," said director Leo McCarey about working with the manic Marx Brothers on Duck Soup. The madcap antics of Groucho, Chico, Harpo, and (sometimes) Zeppo have driven audiences wild with laughter in such unforgettable films as A Night at the Opera and A Day at the Races. Whether it's wise-cracking Groucho with his big cigar and bushy eyebrows, street-smart Chico with his fake Italian accent, or skirt-chasing Harpo honking his horn, the Marx Brothers' inimitable and irrepressible humor continues to inspire us today.

The Movie Icon series: People talk about Hollywood glamour, about studios that had more stars than there are in heaven, about actors who weren't actors but were icons. Other people talk about these things, TASCHEN shows you. Movie Icons is a series of photo books that feature the most famous personalities in the history of cinema. These 192-page books are visual biographies of the stars. For each title, series editor Paul Duncan has painstaking selected approximately 150 high quality enigmatic and sumptuous portraits, colorful posters and lobby cards, rare film stills, and previously unpublished candid photos showing the stars as they really are. These images are accompanied by concise introductory essays by leading film writers; each book also includes a chronology, a filmography, and a bibliography, and is peppered with apposite quotes from the movies and from life.

243 color and b/w photographs

This collection gives us a close look at the German Chancellor and an engaging insight into politics. Dieter Blum is an internationally acclaimed photographer, whose prize-winning work has appeared in publications such as Stern, Time and Vanity Fair. Konrad R. Mьller is one of the best and most distinctive German portrait photographers. His award-winning work, evocative of classical portraiture, has appeared in all the top magazines.

* A fascinating insight into a man on the center-stage of national and international power
* An important historical record of German and international significance 

• 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.

Arguably the greatest all-round entertainer of his era, Michael Jackson embodied the paradox of extreme fame: a uniquely gifted singer, dancer and songwriter, his extraordinary talents were matched only by the loneliness, eccentricity and ego-mania of his isolated position atop popular culture. This book charts the rise and demise of the self-proclaimed King of Pop.

A star from the age of 11, Michael Jackson's unrivalled success spanned five decades beginning with the Jackson 5 in 1968, through a solo Motown career as a teen-idol in the early '70s (while still fronting the Jacksons), and as a remarketed pop genius from the 1980s. While the success of Thriller, the best-selling album in history, owed much to production maestro Quincy Jones, Jackson's abilities as a supreme vocalist, dance provocateur, music video pioneer, songwriter and live performer simply know no equal. As an entertainer he was a perfectionist. Yet his music transcended race, geography, sex, genre, age and color—a remarkable achievement for a shy, troubled boy who never grew up. While his untimely death in June 2009 shook the world, it is Jackson's musical legacy that will endure for generations to come. In this book, the triumph and tragedy of his extraordinary journey is revealed through a unique visual and narrative chronology.

The Music Icons series:
Each title contains a painstaking selection of approximately 150 portraits, colorful posters and record covers, rare concert photos, and previously unpublished candid photos. These images—each matching an important biographical event—are accompanied by text tracing the progression of each subject’s life and career and are complemented by a section containing lists of essential recordings and selected chart rankings.

Getty Images have a fantastic and extensive collection of photographs of Michael Jackson from sources all over the world and from his earliest days. In addition they have been following Jackson s career with their own dedicated staff and third party photographers, one of whom, Jonathan Exley, spent 8 years with the Jackson family as personal family photographer. Michael Jackson; A life in the Spotlight is the fourth book in Endeavour s Rock and Film Idol series. Here we have pictures of the young Michael, the happy performer, his beautiful children and the unhappy road he found himself on in the latter part of his career. It s all covered and it s all here, the beautiful, the wonderful and the very rare moments of one of the world s greatest performers and his extraordinary life.

Photographer Todd Gray worked with Michael Jackson for several years before Jackson requested that he become his personal photographer, a relationship that would encompass the singer's performances with the Jacksons through the release of his smash solo albums Off the Wall and Thriller. This collection of unseen, intimate, and joyful pictures of Michael taken over a span of 10 years reveal him at home, with his family and fans, in career-making live performances, and the on the "Beat It" video shoot. A young black man not much older than Jackson at the time they met, Gray brings unique insights to his time with the singer, contributing stories and context to the images, presenting a rare, intimate portrait of Jackson at a creative peak as he grew from a brilliantly talented young man into a pop icon.

Todd Gray photographed Michael Jackson over a period of 10 years, often as Jackson's chosen photographer. He has shot numerous album covers and directed music videos, and his photo-based artwork is in the permanent collections of museums in the U.S. and abroad. He is currently a professor of art and photography at Cal State University, Long Beach, and lives in Los Angeles.

Poses of peace. Michael O’Neill’s meditation on the essence of yoga

It’s taken yoga several thousand years to journey from a handful of monasteries dotting the Himalayas to the myriad studios of London, Lower Manhattan, and beyond. Whether bathing with holy men in the Ganges or joining the chorus of a thousand voices chanting “om,” photographer Michael O’Neill decided to devote himself to experiencing and recording the world of yoga at this critical juncture in its history. The result is a powerful photographic tribute to the age-old discipline turned global phenomenon, with over 250 million practitioners united in physical, spiritual, and mindful practice worldwide.

Famous for his photographs of the famous, O’Neill first set out to make portraits of the most influential yogis of our time — B. K. S. Iyengar, Shri K. Pattabhi Jois, T. K. V. Desikachar, Rodney Yee, Colleen Saidman, Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa — as well as those famed for integrating yoga into their high-profile lives, such as Donna Karan, Sting, and Trudie Styler. It was a chance to honor the masters and unite his lifelong passion for photography with a newfound love for yoga and meditation. But as his practice deepened, so did his drive to look past the personalities and the poses to document the roots of yoga. Over ten years O’Neill trekked beyond the traditional epicenters to meditate with monks in the Tibetan Plateau, live with sadhus in their tents at the Kumbh Mela, and marvel at the boys who practice the little known discipline of Mallakhamba at the wrestling grounds in Kochi. Says O’Neill: “All I wanted to do was to pay homage to yoga’s classical lineage and understand this unique moment before it slips away.”

Now brought together for the first time, this extraordinary body of work tells the story of yoga as it’s never been told before, with nearly 200 photographs, most of which have never been seen. Two of O’Neill’s most important subjects, meditation master His Holiness Swami Chidanand Saraswatiji and Ashtanga guru Eddie Stern, join the conversation with their essays on the role of yoga in contemporary culture, the history of the practice from the time of Patanjali, and the healing power of what Michael O’Neill calls “the architecture of peace... a series of postures that bring the practitioner closer to touching the infinite.”

The photographer:

In his five-decade career, Michael O’Neill has photographed the cultural icons of his time, from Andy Warhol to the Dalai Lama, for publications including the New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, and Vanity Fair. He has had solo shows of his work at Visa pour l’image (Perpignan, France); at II Mes Internacional da Fotografia (São Paulo, Brazil); and Houk Friedman (New York). His photographs reside in the collections of the Walker Art Center, among other museums. He is the subject of the 2017 documentary On Yoga: The Architecture of Peace.

The contributing authors:

Eddie Stern is a yoga teacher, author, app creator, and lecturer from New York City. His practical approach to teaching and practicing yoga is a mix of science, religion, philosophy, and social service.

H.H. Swami Chidanand Saraswatiji is one of India’s most revered and beloved spiritual leaders. He is President of Parmarth Niketan Ashram in Rishikesh (home of the annual International Yoga Festival) and founder of Global Interfaith WASH Alliance, Divine Shakti Foundation, and Ganga Action Parivar, and India Heritage Research Foundation.

Sein unverwechselbares Gesicht hat Mick Jagger (geb. 1943) zum archetypischen Rockstar gemacht, seine Physis und seine Art, sich zu bewegen, haben den Mythos des männlichen Sexidols mitgeprägt, und sein Mund wurde zum Emblem seiner Band, der Rolling Stones. Fünfzig Jahre behauptet sich das Phänomen Mick Jagger nun schon, und seine Vitalität scheint ungebrochen. Seit fünfzig Jahren folgen ihm nicht nur Paparazzi auf Schritt und Tritt, auch „seriöse“ Photographen haben immer wieder versucht, dem Geheimnis seines Charismas auf die Spur zu kommen. Unser Mick Jagger-Photobuch zieht erstmals Bilanz: Portraits von den Anfängen in den 60er Jahren bis heute erzählen am Beispiel eines einzigen, allerdings weltbekannten Gesichts, wie sich die Portraitphotographie und unser Verhältnis zu Stars, wie sich Mode und Frisuren in den vergangenen fünfzig Jahren entwickelt haben, und wie die Rockästhetik entstanden ist. Eine Reise durch die Zeiten, bei der die Musik in unseren Ohren mitklingt. Mit Photographien von Cecil Beaton, William Christie, Baron Wolman, Robert Whitaker, Francesco Scavullo, Annie Leibovitz, Guy Peellaert, Andy Warhol, Herb Ritts, Deborah Feingold, Anton Corbijn, Sante d'Orazio, Albert Watson, Peter Lindbergh, Karl Lagerfeld und vielen anderen.

The first photo album of Mick Jagger, built along his 50-year career. His extremely distinctive face, his physique and the way he moves helped fashion fifty years of portrait photography practice, of our relationship with celebrities, of evolving dress and hair codes, and the creation of the rock aesthetic.

Mick Rock's photo career began with him sneaking his camera into rock shows; it ignited when he started shooting a practically unknown David Bowie in 1972 and then went on to document the rise and fall of Ziggy Stardust. Since then Mick's become a legend himself, shooting a who's who of rock, punk, and pop icons and capturing the images of stars right as they became part of the pop firmament. Exposed collects 200 of his best photos across nearly 40 years, including unforgettable images of Syd Barrett, Lou Reed, Blondie, Queen, Iggy Pop, the Sex Pistols, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the Killers, Lady Gaga, U2, and many more. Featuring a revealing introduction, narrative captions, and an illuminating foreword by playwright Tom Stoppard, Exposed is a gorgeous visual celebration for music fans.

Mick Rock's photographs have helped define the image of rock 'n' roll, and have been featured on numerous album covers and in solo exhibitions around the world. He lives in New York City.

Andrew Loog Oldham is an author and producer who co-managed and produced the Rolling Stones during the 1960s and is responsible for early recordings by Rod Stewart, Fleetwood Mac, Eric Clapton, and many others. He lives in Bogota, Columbia.

Tom Stoppard is a playwright, author, and screenwriter whose work includes Rock 'n' Roll and The Coast of Utopia. He lives London.

Remembering Starman. Mick Rock’s legendary photos of the late artist

A tribute to David Bowie from the artist’s official photographer and creative partner, Mick Rock. Compiled in 2015 with Bowie’s blessing, this electrifying collection includes stage shots, backstage photographs, album images, and more, to chart the musical, theatrical, and sexual revolution of the groundbreaking 1972–73 Ziggy Stardust world tour, and to celebrate the eternal inspiration of a fearless, outstanding artist.

“Such a privilege to have known and worked with him. A remarkable man and artist. I loved him.”
— Mick Rock, 2016

A unique tribute from David Bowie’s official photographer and creative partner, Mick Rock, compiled in 2015, with Bowie’s blessing.

In 1972, David Bowie released his groundbreaking album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. With it landed Bowie’s Stardust alter ego: a glitter-clad, mascara-eyed, sexually ambiguous persona who kicked down the boundaries between male and female, straight and gay, fact and fiction into one shifting and sparkling phenomenon of ’70s self-expression. Together, Ziggy the album and Ziggy the stage spectacular propelled the softly spoken Londoner into one of the world’s biggest stars.

A key passenger on this glam trip into the stratosphere was fellow Londoner and photographer Mick Rock. Rock bonded with Bowie artistically and personally, immersed himself in the singer’s inner circle, and, between 1972 and 1973, worked as the singer’s photographer and videographer.

This collection, featuring around 50 percent previously unpublished images, brings together spectacular stage shots, iconic photo shoots, as well as intimate backstage portraits. With a lenticular cover of different headshots, it celebrates Bowie’s fearless experimentation and reinvention, while offering privileged access to the many facets of his personality and fame. Through the aloof and approachable, the playful and serious, the candid and the contrived, the result is a passionate tribute to a brilliant and inspirational artist whose creative vision will never be forgotten.

Ruven Afanador - one of today’s most respected and in-demand editorial and fashion photographers - presents Mil Besos, a unique and arresting vision of the flamenco women of Spain. Often photographed wearing haute couture creations that were inspired by their dancing, the women’s vibrant and dramatic personalities come alive in Afanador’s portraits. This instant classic is an homage to the passions and traditions of the soon-to-be-lost culture of flamenco, a singular art form that has influenced the work of filmmaker Pedro Almodovar, as well as fashion designers John Galliano and Diane von Furstenberg, who have contributed insightful texts to this luxuriously produced monograph. Mil Besos will appeal to classic photography lovers, dance enthusiasts, and fashionistas alike.

About the Author:

Ruven Afanador is the author of two photographic monographs, including the highly collectable Torero. He is a longtime contributor to Vogue, Vanity Fair, and Elle, as well as The New York Times. John Galliano is the head of Dior and one of the most innovative fashion designers working today.