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For the follow-up to his massive ultimate fighting opus Octagon (powerHouse Books, 2007), photographer Kevin Lynch turned his focus away from the bright lights and brutality of the mixed martial arts world, and toward a far more personal subject. Watercolours is a collaboration between Lynch and his wife Hillary, a series of abstracted nudes taken in the swimming pool of their California home that transform the human figure into twisting ribbons of color and brilliant bursts of light.

In creating these images, Lynch decided to forgo his usual high-resolution digital camera and elaborate lighting setup in favor of tools more classic and familiar: a 35 mm camera, low shutter speeds, and the pool light as the only source of illumination. As a result, the stark, unsparing detail that defined Octagon gives way to a fluid softness and a palpable air of tenderness and love. Watercolours trades the gritty realism of the artist’s past work for an impressionistic gaze that betrays passionate emotion and a painter’s eye.

Bernadу creates projects to express his keen eye and spirit. Despite his having explored American spaces and cities in Japan and Europe, Bernadу has always maintained his focus on Spain, attentive to the evolution of its landscape and the dйcor of its interiors that is linked to very different worlds. He casts an amusing look at the details that only he is able to see and makes them distinct. His images turn reality into a theatre set. The boundaries between the real and the unlikely become blurred. Beyond Bernadу's vision of the superficial world and his form of satire, one is given a glimpse of his inspired personality on this guided tour of the 20th-century playwrights who have brought the senseless and the ridiculous to the stage, even the grotesque, as embodied in the writings of Cervantes and the paintings of Goya. And behind this cumulus of symbols, there is the depiction of absurdity.

Wer verbirgt sich hinter den legendären Initialen HCB, wer genau ist Henri Cartier-Bresson - dieser Mann, der gegen seinen Willen zum Mythos geworden ist, der die Photographie, und nicht nur den Bildjournalismus des 20. Jahrhunderts mit seinem ganz persönlichen Stil und Ethos geprägt hat, der Form und Inhalt in einer Art und Weise zu verbinden wußte, dass es heute undenkbar scheint, die Welt der Fakten und des Sichtbaren, ob alltäglich oder spektakulär, anders wiederzugeben, als er es ein halbes Jahrhundert lang tat? Die Frage ist so komplex und vielschichtig wie die Persönlichkeit und das Werk Henri Cartier-Bressons, dessen 95. Geburtstag in diesem Jahr mit zwei außergewöhnlichen Ereignissen gefeiert wird: im Frühjahr mit einer großen Retrospektive in der Biblioth que nationale de France, Paris, und mit der die Ausstellung begleitenden großen Monographie, die wir hier in der deutschen Übersetzung anbieten.

Auf über 400 Seiten, in acht Textbeiträgen von namhaften Autoren - darunter Je an Clair, Peter Galassi und Robert Delpire - und mit mehr als 600 Abbildungen gibt dieses opulente Buch die endgültigen Antworten auf die Frage, um wen es sich bei dem Photographen und Filmemacher, dem Künstler, dem Kosmopoliten und dem Menschen Henri Cartier-Bresson handelt.

The Kids Are Alright der Titel von Ryan McGinleys erstem, noch handgemachtem Buch, das 2000 seine erste Photoausstellung in einer leerstehenden Galerie in SoHo begleitete, könnte für sein gesamtes bisheriges Werk stehen. Der 1977 geborene Shooting Star der New Yorker Photoszene hat sich seit seinen Anfängen unter seinesgleichen bewegt, den Kids in downtown New York, Jugendlichen bei Ausflügen aufs Land seine inzwischen legendären Roadtrips , und auch im Studio arbeitet er mit nicht-professionellen, jungen Modellen. Es geht um das Lebensgefühl von Jugendlichen seiner Generation, die Spaß haben, sich treiben lassen, die ganz hedonistisch den Sommer genießen und nackt herumtollen. Dunkle Seiten bleiben ausgespart, sieht man von den Kratzern und Schürfwunden ab, die beim Springen von Felsen oder durch Baumwipfel kaum zu vermeiden sind. Das Whitney Museum of American Art zeigte McGinleys Photographien bereits 2003; er war damit der jüngste Künstler, der in diesem ehrwürdigen Haus jemals eine Einzelausstellung hatte. Seitdem ist er international gefragt und stellt weltweit in Galerien und Museen aus. In dieser ersten umfassenden Monographie setzen sich drei prominente Autoren mit dem Phänomen McGinley auseinander: die Schriftstellerin Chris Kraus, der Künstler und Autor John Kelsey und der Independent-Filmemacher Gus Van Sant, Regisseur u.a. von Drugstore Cowboy und My Private Idaho.

Capturing the hedonistic adventures of New York City downtown habituées, groups of twentysomethings in various American landscapes, or the human body in the pared-down atmosphere of his studio: Ryan McGinley understands and chronicles his own generation as no artist has before him. This first major monograph presents a survey of his career to the present day.

The ultimate intimacy. If orgasm is the little-death, is masturbation the little suicide?

The title means "the little death," a euphemism for orgasm, but the women who exuberantly masturbate for Toronto photographer Will Santillo in this book are as lively a bunch as you’ll ever meet. Santillo conceived the project eight years ago to include a thorough cross-section of women: young to old, slim to thick, perfect beauties to those not considered beautiful until seen through his lens. The one constant would be that each would decide and direct how she masturbated to climax while he captured the moment. From previous projects with amateur subjects, Santillo had come to believe that masturbation is a far more personal act than most sex play because it is conducted almost exclusively in private. He set out to reveal the diversity and creativity with which women approach self-stimulation, and to portray the beauty of ordinary women in the throes of orgasm - a beauty far richer than the male-oriented depictions seen in pornography. Santillo says he seeks to uncover the hidden face of his subjects, and indeed, it’s the faces that best show the intensity of response in these artfully explicit photos.

Dian Hanson interviewed 37 of the women, and their candid insights on overcoming inhibition, giving in to exhibitionism, and achieving orgasm in front of a stranger with a camera provide a framework for the lush, sepia-toned photos. For all who are curious about just what the woman next door - or one’s own wife - gets up to in her private moments, La petite Mort is a breath of life.

The photographer:

Will Santillo studied photography at M.I.T. under Minor White and has worked in the fields of fashion, corporate, architectural, and intimate photography. His photos appear in the Mammoth Book of Erotic Photography, TASCHEN’s New Erotic Photography, and in the monograph Flagrante Delicto. He lives in Toronto.

The editor and author:

Dian Hanson was born in Seattle in 1951. For 25 years she produced various men’s magazines, including Puritan, Juggs and Leg Show, before becoming TASCHEN's sexy book editor in 2001. Her many books for TASCHEN include Vanessa del Rio: Fifty Years of Slightly Slutty Behavior, Tom of Finland XXL, and The Big Butt Book. She lives in Los Angeles

This gorgeous gift book reveals nearly 50 years of photography by seasoned National Geographic photographer Bill Allard. Allard was a pioneer of color photography with a style that called for entering people's homes and hearts; by winning their confidence he was able to capture "off guard" moments, and reveal the depth of human nature as never before seen in the pages of National Geographic. Always in search of "what is happening at the edges," his work reveals beauty, mystery, and a sense of adventure. Part photography retrospective and part personal memoir, this book paints a full picture - through images and narrative - of the life of a globe-trekking photographer over the past half century. This gorgeous gift book reveals nearly 50 years of photography by seasoned National Geographic photographer Bill Allard. Allard was a pioneer of color photography with a style that called for entering people's homes and hearts; by winning their confidence he was able to capture "off guard" moments, and reveal the depth of human nature as never before seen in the pages of National Geographic. Always in search of "what is happening at the edges," his work reveals beauty, mystery, and a sense of adventure. Part photography retrospective and part personal memoir, this book paints a full picture - through images and narrative - of the life of a globe-trekking photographer over the past half century.

Les petits miracles de la vie

One of the great chroniclers of Parisian life in the 20th century

Produced in close cooperation with Willy Ronis and featuring images from his archives, this book traces the career of one of France’s most remarkable photographers, to whom, along with Doisneau, Cartier-Bresson, and Brassaï, we owe our romantic vision of France. In Ronis’s photos of Paris, the city is inseparable from the working class men, women, and children who inhabit its streets and cafes. He once described his approach to photography in five words: "patience, thinking, chance, form, and time." Working with available light, Ronis sought to capture the fleeting moments of everyday life, and his body of work documents, with timeless beauty and grace, the feel of French life in the 20th century.

The author:
Jean Claude Gautrand, born in 1932, is one of France’s most distinguished experts on photography. An active photographer since 1960, he has also made a name for himself as a historian, journalist and critic, with numerous publications. He is the author of the TASCHEN books Paris mon amour (1999), Doisneau (2003), Brassaï (2004) and Ronis (2005).

Pictures and Stories. Reprint

Travel diary and photoalbum in one, Wenders’ picture stories reveal the views and sentiments of a movie maker inspired by the poetry of the eye and the melody of speech.

The panorama views of infinite landscapes, endless horizons, deserts, and mountain ranges, of street fronts in Havana, Houston, Berlin, Jerusalem, and New York right after 9/11, photographed by globetrotter and filmmaker Wim Wenders, are now available in a smaller-size version.

In his third TASCHEN book, celebrated artist photographer and winner of the 2000 Turner Prize Wolfgang Tillmans takes his exploration of the visible world to a new level. The title truth study center is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the paradox of our desire to find a universal truth and the impossibility of doing so. From evocative nude studies and candid personal portraits of Tony Blair to astronomical views of planet Venus passing over the disc of the sun, for the first time the full width of Tillmans's world is brought together in one book. Also included is an extensive selection of striking new abstract works, which through their vivid colors and compositions evoke bodily as well as atmospheric sensations. From nightlife to still life, Tillmans shows us another side of the world we live in today.

Eyes of Our Time. Wolfgang Tillmans compiles 30 years of his work to draw a picture of where we are today

Wolfgang Tillmans has explored the medium of photo-imaging with greater range than any other artist of his generation. From early portraits of his friends to abstract images made in a darkroom without a camera or works made with a photocopier, he has pushed the photographic process to its outer limits in myriad ways. For this collection of photos, his fifth book with TASCHEN, Tillmans edited his previous four books into one stream of intersecting perspectives on life around the turn of the millenium. Keeping his original layouts intact, he added some new works, bringing the scope of the publication to the present day.

Like hardly any other artist of his generation, Wolfgang Tillmans has shaped our perception of the world. From early portraits of his friends to still lifes, travel shots, nudes, landscape and sky photographs, to his abstract work, Tillmans has created a multitude of iconic works in his unmistakable visual language, opening up new paths and possibilities for both photography and contemporary art. In 2000 he was the first photographer and the first non-British person to receive the renowned Turner Prize.

His first volume for TASCHEN (1995) shows the young generation of the 1990s, of which Tillmans himself was a member, in clubs, at Gay Pride, at fashion events, and in everyday life. His dense, realistic photographs conjure up tangible utopias of community and society and are important documents of their time as well. With the follow-up volume Burg (1998), Tillmans enriches his subject matter with another array of beautiful, now-iconic photographs. In truth study center (2005), his images condense into even more subtle compositions and now stand alongside completely abstract works. Finally, Neue Welt (2012) documents Wolfgang Tillmans’ travels around the globe: from London to Tierra del Fuego, India, Papua New Guinea, Saudi Arabia, and Central Africa, we follow his ever-inquisitive eye for the realities of our planet, for social situations with people and markets, technology and architecture, and last but not least, nature and astronomy. For this volume, the artist for the first time made use of the new possibilities of digital photography. This enabled a density of information and incisiveness hardly seen in photographs until then.

This 40th-anniversary publication from TASCHEN combines the best of the four books in one volume. Wolfgang Tillmans himself has compiled this edition, partly redesigned it, added some recent works, and written a new foreword.

Paging through this collection of images, which spans three decades, there are countless moments to delight in, moments that are held not only in our collective memory but in our individual ones too.

The photographer:

Wolfgang Tillmans was born in Remscheid, Germany, in 1968 and studied at Bournemouth & Poole College of Art and Design. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential artists of his generation. His work, whilst appearing to capture the immediacy of the moment and character of the subject, also examines the dynamics of photographic representation. From the outset he ignored the traditional separation of art exhibited in a gallery from images and ideas conveyed through other forms of publication, giving equal weight to both. His expansive floor to ceiling installations feature images of subcultures and political movements, as well as portraits, landscapes, still lifes and abstract imagery varying in scale from postcard- to wall-sized prints. His work is in the collections of numerous international museums including The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Centre Pompidou, Paris, the National Museum of Modern Art, Osaka, Nationalgalerie, Berlin, and Tate, London, and was included in the Venice Biennale 2009. He was awarded the Turner Prize in 2000, the Hasselblad Award in 2014 and the Kaiserring der Stadt Goslar in 2018.

About the series:

TASCHEN is 40! Since we started our work as cultural archaeologists in 1980, TASCHEN has become synonymous with accessible publishing, helping bookworms around the world curate their own library of art, anthropology, and aphrodisia at an unbeatable price. Today we celebrate 40 years of incredible books by staying true to our company credo. The 40 series presents new editions of some of the stars of our program — now more compact, friendly in price, and still realized with the same commitment to impeccable production.

The photographs by Annie Leibovitz in Women, taken especially for the book, encompass a broad spectrum of subjects: a rap artist, an astronaut, two Supreme Court justices, farmers, coal miners, movie stars, showgirls, rodeo riders, socialites, reporters, dancers, a maid, a general, a surgeon, the First Lady of the United States, the secretary of state, a senator, rock stars, prostitutes, teachers, singers, athletes, poets, writers, painters, musicians, theater directors, political activists, performance artists, and businesswomen. "Each of these pictures must stand on its own," Susan Sontag writes in the essay that accompanies the portraits. "But the ensemble says, So this what women are now -- as different, as varied, as heroic, as forlorn, as conventional, as unconventional as this."

About the Author:

Annie Leibovitz is one of the most influential photographers of our time. In 1970, she began creating what became her legendary work for Rolling Stone. Since the early 1980s, she has expanded her repertoire at Vanity Fair and Vogue and in independent projects. She is the recipient of many honors, including the International Center of Photography’s Lifetime Achievement Award and the Centenary Medal of the Royal Photographic Society.