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This title is a celebration of the nature and beauty of penguins as expressed through the exquisite images and unique personal stories of master photographer and naturalist Frans Lanting. In a remarkable portfolio of photographs made during three exp...

"This book is a personal interpretation of the penguins I met, rather than a natural history of all penguins," Frans Lanting writes. "I wanted to create an impression of who these penguins are and what they go through. I hope my work w...

At the end of the world - on ice with Frans Lanting. Intense, intimate encounters with penguins Penguin is a celebration of the nature and beauty of penguins as expressed through the exquisite images and unique personal stories of master photograp...

Journey into the World of Peter Beard. An artist’s life magnified Pioneering contemporary artist Peter Beard turned his life in New York and on the African continent into a Gesamtkunstwerk; a collage of photography, ecology, and diary writin...

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 internat...

“The deeper the white man went into Africa, the faster the life flowed out of it, off the plains and out of the bush...vanishing in acres of trophies and hides and carcasses.” — Peter Beard A landmark publication on Africa, The E...

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 a...

The Lindbergh Lens. The photographer who altered the landscape of fashion photography Peter Lindbergh’s seminal compendium, now published in a special anniversary edition. Through collaborations with the most venerated names in fashion, Lind...

The Lindbergh Touch. Intimate images of some of the world’s most fascinating actresses, by a master of his craft “What is merely beautiful has always bored me. I’m interested in what is powerful and real.” — Peter Lin...

Photographs have a strange and powerful way of shaping the way we see the world and influencing our perceptions of reality. To demonstrate the unique and profound influence on culture and society that photographs have, Photo Icons puts the most impor...

Photographs have a strange and powerful way of shaping the way we see the world and influencing our perceptions of reality. To demonstrate the unique and profound influence on culture and society that photographs have, Photo Icons puts the most impor...

Each chapter of the two Photo Icons volumes focuses on a single image which is described and analyzed in detail, in aesthetic, historical, and artistic contexts. Volume I begins with the very first permanent images (Nicéphore Niépce&...

Each chapter of the two Photo Icons volumes focuses on a single image which is described and analyzed in detail, in aesthetic, historical, and artistic contexts. Volume I begins with the very first permanent images (Nicéphore Niépce&...

The Shot. The stories behind history’s most extraordinary photographs From Nicéphore Niépce’s 1827 eight-hour-exposure rooftop pictures to the horror of Nick Ut’s “napalm girl,” the 50 photographs in thi...

Masters and monographs. An encyclopedia of 20th-century photographers and their finest publications A comprehensive overview of the most influential photographers of the last century and their finest monographs: Arranged alphabetically, this biogr...