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The recently retired 3-time Olympic gold medalist shares his favorite action-sports photographs and family albums in this personally curated illustrated autobiography.

White chronicles his evolution from his childhood in California into becoming the world’s best snowboarder and skateboarder, his travels to train and compete around the world, his appearances in fashion editorials and advertising, and his interest in music. Some of the world’s best action-sports photographers capture White performing his extreme snowboarding and skating tricks around the world -- from his groundbreaking aerial maneuvers such as his Double McTwist 1260 on Olympic half pipes, to his radical skating tricks such ashis Frontside 540 Sky Hook at the X Games. White exceeded the imaginable limits of snowboarding and raised the bar for other snowboarding competitors to try to keep up with him.  Narrated by White with detailed commentary throughout, this book is an autobiography in images and an intimate glimpse into the life of a celebrity athlete:  training, competing, on the road and in the spotlight.

About the Author:

Shaun White is one of the word’s top snowboarders, as well as an award winning skateboarder and a musician. He is a three-time Olympic gold medalist, holds the record for the most X-Game gold medals and most Olympic gold medals by a snowboarder, and has won 10 ESPY Awards. He is also a professional skateboarder and has won many titles including the overall title of Action Sports Tour Champion, and was the first person to compete in and win both the Summer and Winter X Games in two different sports.

SHOEBOX. These aspiring models have flown in from all over the world to Paris, the ogre city, where the quest for beauty feeds on new faces. Soon, these uprooted girls will be transformed into sophisticated creatures of universal glamour. Stéphane Coutelle, the renowned beauty photographer, will be one of the architects of this transformation. But by receiving them in the Shoebox Studio during the first days of their Parisian stay for a brief session, unencumbered by any strict production objectives, Coutelle pays tribute to their identity and their peculiarity, both perhaps even more short-lived than their youth. This first meeting aims to capture psychology, a past before professional reflexes can take hold before any complicity is established. The artist acts here without preconceived ideas, open to everything. The situation is not the conventional one of the artist and his model. The girls’ looks carry questioning and expectations, but determination as well. They know their fate will unwind behind the closed doors of shooting sessions, and that there will be little time to learn the rules of the game …Coutelle’s portraits sometimes trouble us. We could attribute this disconcertment to a kind of harshness or voyeurism on behalf of the photographer. But in reality, these images express certain solidarity; it is not Coutelle himself who is unrelenting, but the world in which both the artist and his model evolve. Shoebox Studio is a major project because the portraits lead us from private, individual psychology to the contemporary human condition in which the need to be seen and recognized has become a global quest, a social phenomenon.

This exquisite volume showcases a collection of raw, provocative portraits, nudes, and snapshots of quotidian life shot over the past seventy years by one of photography's greatest image makers -- Victor Skrebneski.

Skrebneski Documented is an intimate compendium of photographs shot over the past seven decades by the illustrious Chicago-based photographer Victor Skrebneski. Edited by the photographer himself, this evocative collection features his best-known images, including his series of "black-turtleneck-sweater portraits" -- dramatic black-and-white portraits of iconic stars including Liza Minnelli, Bette Davis, and Orson Welles; dynamic, blurry motion studies; provocative nude photographs of flawless, sculpted bodies; and Dadaist collages comprised of body parts. Capturing the experimental, boundary-pushing spirit and unceasing wit of Skrebneski's images, this volume documents a who's who of famous faces, including portraits of Andy Warhol, Audrey Hepburn, Vanessa Redgrave, David Bowie, Iman, John Malkovich, Dennis Hopper, Fred Astaire, and Diana Ross. For photography, art, and fashion lovers alike, this is a true collector's item that celebrates the exhilarating work by one of America's greatest photographic artists.

About the Author:

Victor Skrebneski is an American photographer distinguished for his fashion and portrait work.

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Пролистать книгу Skrebneski Documented: 1948-2018

This lavish fourth volume in Abrams’ Slim Aarons collection revels in this photographer’s decades-long love affair with Italy. From breathtaking aerials of the Sicilian countryside to intimate portraits of celebrities and high society taken in magnificent villas, Slim Aarons: La Dolce Vita captures the essence of “the good life.” Slim Aarons first visited Italy as a combat photographer during World War II and later moved to Rome to shoot for Life magazine, yet even after relocating to New York, he would return to Italy almost every year for the rest of his life.

The images collected here document the aristocracy, cultural elite, and beautiful people, such as Marcello Mastroianni, Ursula Andress, Joan Fontaine, and Tyrone Power, who lived la dolce vita in Italy’s most fabulous places during the last 50 years. The introduction by Christopher Sweet shares stories from Aarons’s years in Italy and new insights about his life and career.

A collection of stunning portraits of Hollywood stars, including Jennifer Lopez, Kim Kardashian, Charlize Theron, Samuel L. Jackson, and Angelina Jolie, captured by Davis Factor, the great-grandson of legendary cosmetics pioneer Max Factor.

Founded in 1990 by Davis and Dean Factor, the great-grandsons of Max Factor, Smashbox Studios and the Smashbox brand have become legendary in the world of glamour and makeup.

Born in a Los Angeles studio and put to the test by professional makeup artists and photographers, Smashbox is the heir to the most storied brand in American cosmetics. Known for makeup on and off the set, Smashbox draws from a legacy of over a century of Hollywood glamour, creating for today’s celebrities what the house of Factor had done for the likes of Clara Bow, Joan Crawford, Jean Harlow, Bette Davis, Judy Garland, and many other icons of the golden age of cinema.

Collected together for the very first time are more than three decades of portraits of women — and quite a few men — taken by Davis Factor at Smashbox Studios. Capturing some of the most important actors and celebrities of the era, the book is a snapshot of Hollywood glamour today, in the tradition of George Hurrell and other legends of the golden age of film.

About the Author:

Davis Factor is an American photographer and the cofounder of Smashbox with his brother, Dean. Robert Downey Jr. is an American actor.

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Пролистать книгу Smashbox: Make S#!+ Happen

The biggest and most comprehensive volume on Steve McCurry published to date and the final word on forty years of McCurry’s incredible work. Written and compiled by Bonnie McCurry, Steve’s sister and President of the McCurry Foundation, Steve McCurry: A Life in Pictures is the ultimate book of McCurry’s images and his approach to photography.

The book brings together all of McCurry’s key adventures and influences, from his very first journalistic images taken in the aftermath of the 1977 Johnstown floods, to his breakthrough journey into Afghanistan hidden among the mujahideen, his many travels across India and Pakistan, his coverage of the destruction of the 1991 Gulf War and the September 11th terrorist attacks in New York, up to his most-recent work. Totalling over 350 images, the selection of photographs includes his best-known shots as well as over 100 previously unpublished images. Also included are personal notes, telegrams and visual ephemera from his travels and assignments, all accompanied by Bonnie McCurry’s authoritative text – drawn from her unique relationship with Steve – as well as reflections from many of Steve’s friends and colleagues.

Steve McCurry: A Life in Pictures is the complete, definitive volume on McCurry.

About the authors:

In an incredibly successful career spanning over 40 years Steve McCurry has created some of the most evocative and best-known images in photography. He has been awarded the Robert Capa Gold Medal, the National Press Photographers Award, and four first prize recognitions at the World Press Photo Contest.

Bonnie McCurry is Steve McCurry’s sister and is president of Steve McCurry Studios and director of ImagineAsia, a non-profit organization primarily working in Afghanistan. During her trips to Afghanistan she has taught English to high school girls, supported numerous educational initiatives, and founded the Young Women’s Photographic Initiative.

Ніколи не було – і ніколи не буде – іншого нічного клубу, який міг би зрівнятися з чистим гламуром, енергією та дикою креативністю, якою була Studio 54. Цей каталог супроводжує виставку в Бруклінському музеї, присвячену тому, як Studio 54 була унікальним духом часу епохи.

З моменту свого відкриття в 1977 році Studio 54 святкувала видовище та обіцяла нескінченний парад усього, що йде. Хоча він існував лише три роки, він послужив каталізатором, який об’єднав деяких із найвідоміших, творчих і найдивніших людей у ​​світі. Він швидко став відомим своїм списком гостей зі знаменитостями різного віку та унікальною шикарною клієнтурою суперзірок і фриків усіх рас і сексуальних уподобань, які часто з’являлися напіводягненими або в костюмах. Від ультрасучасних освітлювальних дисплеїв і звукової системи до складних декорацій, які змінювалися за примхою, змінюючи оточення й атмосферу, це був початок нічного клубу як перформансу.

Зараз Бруклінський музей організовує першу виставку, на якій нічний клуб представлений як дзвіночок культурного життя Нью-Йорка. Понад 650 об’єктів, включаючи моду, фотографію, малюнки, фільми та музику, а також відео, фільми та звуковий супровід, створюють захоплюючий досвід завдяки дизайну виставки, натхненному оригінальним освітленням та атмосферою клубу. Основні моменти включають ніколи раніше не публіковані ескізи костюмів від художника Антоніо Лопеса та нещодавно виявлені дизайни декорацій, а також ефемери, врятовані оригінальним персоналом клубу, та інтерв’ю зі світилами культури, які були там.

Розповідаючи історію цього легендарного клубу, а також супроводжуючи виставку, Studio 54: Night Magic слугує документом епохи, зображуючи дику енергію та провокаційну креативність цього визначального культурного моменту.

Про автора:

Метью Йокобоскі – старший куратор відділу моди та матеріальної культури Бруклінського музею.

The Art of Movement  — це книга з вишуканим дизайном, чудово написана, яка фіксує рухи, потік, енергію та грацію багатьох найуспішніших танцюристів світу. Це артисти з усіх верств суспільства, які визначають сьогоднішній танець. Тут вони завмерли в часі в найвишуканіших позах, і все ж у кожній фотографії є ​​відчуття руху, що створює враження, що вона танцює по сторінках. Фотографії супроводжуються інтимними та надихаючими словами танцюристів, а також хореографів і художніх керівників про те, що для них означає танець.

Танець переживає безпрецедентний момент у масовій культурі.The Art of Movement  – ідеальна книга для нових завзятих шанувальників, а також для давніх любителів танцю.

Про авторів:

Кен Бровар — відомий фотограф моди та краси. Його пристрасть до танцю почалася, коли він жив у Парижі та фотографував танцюристів балету Паризької опери.

Дебора Орі розпочала свою фотокар’єру, отримавши травму як танцівниця, знімаючи репетиції. Вона працювала фоторедактором у House & Garden і Mirabella, а також працювала фотографом. Брауар та Орі разом є творчою командою, що стоїть за проектом NYC Dance Project. Їхні роботи були представлені в журналах по всьому світу, включаючи Harper's Bazaar, Dior Magazine, L'Uomo Vogue та багато інших. Їхні фотографії виставлялися в багатьох галереях.

The electric spirit of Saturday Night Live as captured by longtime resident photographer Mary Ellen Matthews

Andy Samberg in a giant martini glass. Billie Eilish peeking out of a pile of snow. Kevin Hart writing his own cue cards. Paul Rudd as Paul McCartney. Sarah Silverman dusting the NBC marquee. Alec Baldwin as the Godfather.

These are just a few examples of Matthews's bold, dynamic, and playful celebrity portraits that for over two decades have artfully highlighted the hosts and musical guests who help bring the show to life.

Week after week, photographer Mary Ellen Matthews makes magic happen on Saturday Night Live with her inventive, irreverent, and truly original photography for the “bumpers”—portraits of the host or musical guest that transition the show to and from commercial breaks.

Published on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of SNL and exquisitely designed by Pentagram, this book is the first collection of Mary Ellen’s remarkable body of work as well as a celebration of America’s longest-running comedy TV show.

Includes:
* More than 200 color portraits and behind-the-scenes photographs
* A foreword by SNL founder and executive producer Lorne Michaels
* Mary Ellen Matthews in conversation
* A thumbnail index of all the images with captions by the photographer

About the Authors:

A New York Native, Mary Ellen Matthews has been a top entertainment portrait photographer for over two decades. She has created colorful, iconic images of every well-known personality of the age. Since 1999, she has been the photographer for Saturday Night Live, where she has been responsible for creating (and re-creating each season) the distinctive look of the show’s still images.

Alison Castle is the editor of numerous books on photography, film, and design, including The Stanley Kubrick Archives, Linda McCartney: Life in Photographs, Saturday Night Live: The Book, and Jacques Tati: The Complete Works.

Emily Oberman is an award-winning multidisciplinary designer whose work encompasses brand identity, motion graphics, publications, packaging, advertising, and digital. She is a partner in the New York office of Pentagram, the acclaimed international design studio, where her clients have included Saturday Night Live, Warner Bros., Netflix, Amazon, and many more.

Exclusive celebrity portraits by photographer Nikolai von Bismarck capture the new course of Dior menswear under the direction of contemporary fashion innovator Kim Jones.

Known for slim silhouettes and precise tailoring, Dior Homme has long been a leader in menswear. In this new volume of exquisite portraits of celebrities and style influencers, photographer Nikolai von Bismarck celebrates the thoroughly contemporary style of the revered French fashion house.

In the world of contemporary men's fashion, Christian Dior's sophisticated legacy has been upheld by innovative designers, especially current creative director Kim Jones, who's received praise for incorporating both couture values and streetwear elements into his work. With his years of experience at the heart of the fashion world and working on photographic reportages all around the globe, von Bismarck captures striking images of Kim's designs, which fuse exquisite detail, romantic patterns, and soft colors with traditionally masculine silhouettes while retaining the modern edge of streetwear through sports shoes and chunky industrial jewelry. Jones's reverence for Dior's heritage is evident in the photographs - even in his most daring innovations he nods to Christian Dior's favorite patterns and floral motifs, as well as tailoring inspired by the signature couture designs of vintage Dior. A rare look inside an iconic menswear brand consistently at the foreground of celebrity style, The Dior Sessions is a must-have for Dior fans, fashion aficionados, and stylish men everywhere.

About the Author:

Nikolai von Bismarck is a photographer specializing in portraiture, reportage, and fashion photography. Born in London in 1986, Nikolai first began working for Mario Testino and became the youngest photographer to shoot for a Condé Nast publication, before attending Parsons School of Design and training under Annie Leibovitz for two years. Vying to explore his own photographic projects, Nikolai travelled widely around Africa, Eastern Europe and Asia; his reportage projects have been featured in The Times and The Daily Mirror. Nikolai's fashion and portraiture work has also appeared in numerous publications, including Vogue and Harper's Bazaar.

Одрі Хепберн, Гемфрі Богарт, Грегорі Пек, Ріта Хейворт, Мерилін Монро — найяскравіші зірки кіноекрану не втрималися, щоб не згорнутися калачиком з гарною книгою. Ця унікальна колекція рідкісних фотографій відзначає радість читання в класичному стилі кіно.

The Hollywood Book Club знімає світил екрану на знімальному майданчику, у фільмах, на грайливих рекламних фотографіях або в їхніх власних домівках і бібліотеках із книгами від класики літератури до трилерів, від біографій до дитячих книжок, читання з дітьми тощо.

Майже 60 чарівних зображень, яскраві підписи про зірок і те, що вони читають від голлівудського фотоархівіста Стівена Рі, а також гламурний дизайн футляра з штампами — це справжній перегортач сторінок для книголюбів і кіноманів.

Amateurs, wedding photographers and portrait photographers of all kinds learn how to maximise the beauty of natural light in this first-ever technique book from acclaimed photographer Elizabeth Messina.

Natural light is by far the favourite choice of most amateur, wedding and portrait photographers, but many stick to conventional approaches, leaving the myriad, gorgeous possibilities of natural light unexplored.

This first-ever book by popular wedding, lifestyle and portrait photographer Elizabeth Messina shares her secrets on capturing flattering natural light in any lighting scenario, to create luminous portraits that appear lit from within.

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Пролистать книгу The Luminous Portrait: Capture the Beauty of Natural Light for Glowing, Flattering Photographs

The definitive monograph on the pioneering photographer Marcel Sternberger, whose psychological portraits have defined the way we see the icons of recent history. Photographer Marcel Sternberger pioneered the technique of the "psychological portrait," and redefined the boundaries of portrait iconography in the twentieth century. Combining an interest in contemporary art and science with the desire to break free from the constraints of conventional portraiture, Sternberger’s pictures reveal as much about their author and their time as they do about their subjects. He photographed many of the most influential figures in art, science, and politics, ranging from Franklin Roosevelt and Albert Einstein to Frida Kahlo and George Bernard Shaw. Engaging his subjects — encouraging conversation, play, and gesture during photography — he elicited expressions of their characters that transformed his portraits into living works of art, and defined the public perception of his subjects’ personas. With an introduction describing Sternberger’s remarkable career and hundreds of unseen photographs, sketches, notes, and contact sheets, this is the first book to celebrate the work of one of the twentieth century’s most important image-makers.

About the Authors:

Jacob Loewentheil is a photography historian and an expert on the portraiture of Marcel Sternberger. Phillip Prodger is head of photographs at the National Portrait Gallery in London.

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Пролистать книгу The Psychological Portrait: Marcel Sternberger's Revelations in Photography

Sir Paul Smith, with a wry grin in front of a bookshelf. Javier Bardem, utterly relaxed, in sneakers in a sunny field. Rasmus Kofoed, chef at Geranium in Copenhagen, one of the best restaurants in the world, atop an ivy-covered wall. What all these portraits have in common- along with a sense of closeness and privacy-is a glass. For this is how Gérard-Philippe Mabillard photographs his friends and acquaintances, all celebrities from the world of film, art, fashion, design, and culture.

Mabillard himself worked as a creative professional before taking the position of director of the Vin du Valais non-profit association. For him, the glass, filled with wine or water, is the link between the people he portrays: a symbol of friendship and community. Through his photography project, Mabillard is supporting the NGO Fondation Moi pour Toit in Colombia.

About the Author:

Gérard-Philippe Mabillard worked in watchmaking at the Swatch Group for the Calvin Klein brand before becoming director of the association Interprofession de la Vigne et du Vin du Valais in 2010. He also ran both a thermal bath centre and a tourism region in his native canton of Valais, Switzerland. An economist with a specialisation in marketing, he also has a passionate interest in cinema and photography. Through friends and acquaintances, he has maintained close contact with internationally renowned figures from the artistic world for several years now.

Стиль зустрічається з рухом: нова фотокнига, у якій представлені понад вісімдесят найвідоміших танцюристів сучасності, зафіксовані в русі та оформлені в одязі, розробленому деякими з найвідоміших імен моди.

Відомі фотографи Кен Бровар і Дебора Орі, команда чоловіка та дружини, що створили NYC Dance Project і книгу-бестселер з фотографій The Art of Movement, випускають свою наступну книгу для шанувальників танцю, моди та фотографії. Цей приголомшливий збірник висвітлює найвидатніших танцюристів сучасності — від балету до модерну — в одязі найвідоміших дизайнерів сьогодення та вчорашнього дня. Темою цього приголомшливого видання є зв’язок між стилем, модою та танцем. Танцівниці оживляють сторінки своєю грацією та рухами, стаючи єдиним цілим із тим, що вони одягнені. У модних сукнях від Dior, Valentino, Oscar de la Renta, вінтажних Halston, Moschino та Bill Blass чи в костюмах, розроблених самою Мартою Грем, всесвітньо відомі танцюристи, представлені на цих сторінках, зокрема Тайлер Пек, Даніїл Сімкін, Місті Коупленд, Крістін Шевченко, Ксандер Періш та Ольга Смірнова, привносять рух у стиль.

Про авторів:

Кен Бровар — відомий фотограф моди та краси. Його пристрасть до танцю почалася, коли він жив у Парижі та фотографував танцюристів балету Паризької опери.

Дебора Орі розпочала свою фотокар’єру, отримавши травму як танцівниця, знімаючи репетиції. Вона працювала фоторедактором у House & Garden і Mirabella, а також працювала фотографом. Брауар та Орі разом є творчою командою, що стоїть за проектом NYC Dance Project. Їхні роботи були представлені в журналах по всьому світу, включаючи Harper's Bazaar, Dior Magazine, L'Uomo Vogue та багато інших. Їхні фотографії виставлялися в багатьох галереях.