Книги видавництва Prestel

As beautiful as it is instructive, this award-winning book on all aspects of theatrical lighting design has become the standard resource in the field. Light Fantastic has received accolades from the theater community, including the Golden Pen Awar...

These electrifying portraits by acclaimed photographer Alex MacNaughton prove in the most eloquent way that tattoos are more than skin deep. The centuries-old art of tattooing has become one of the modern world’s most exciting modes of self-expres...

Drawing on five centuries of artistic expression, this lushly illustrated and beautifully designed celebration of romance is the perfect keepsake for lovers young and old. How many ways can you paint a kiss? Ask Picasso, Lichtenstein, Toulouse-Lau...

Featuring new and iconic images, this follow-up to Prestel’s highly successful A Year in Photography: Magnum Archive includes some of the most striking photography ever collected in one volume.  As readers flip the pages they will find ...

Culled from the archives of the prestigious 65-year-old photo agency Magnum founded by Henri Cartier Bresson, this collection of images from internationally renowned photographers is a compelling record of the recent decades of worldwide revolut...

On the 50th anniversary of Marilyn’s death, this beautiful book is an elegant pictorial celebration of the beloved star by the Magnum photographers who immortalized her. It’s been half a century since we lost Marilyn Monroe, but her pr...

This story of modern art unfolds like a timeline of watershed events that decisively influenced popular opinion and paved the way for further artistic achievement. Chronologically arranged, each chapter focuses on a particular work or idea that ch...

From Stalin’s demise to Gorbachev’s glasnost, this is the definitive survey of underground Soviet art in the post-war era. Published in association with the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. The Nor...

In this book, the world’s most exciting new museums are shown to be as inspiring as the works they display. The twenty-first century has seen a boom in museum construction, both in new buildings and renovations or additions to existing ones....

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 fas...

Now in an updated and expanded edition, an invaluable guide to the work of one of the world's leading architects. Highlighting recent projects, Norman Foster: Catalogue traces the development of the Foster studio from its formation in the 1960s t...

In this book, the photographer of I’m One: 21st Century Mods turns his probing lens to the world of Rockers. With their tattoos, leather jackets, slicked-back hair, and beloved British motorbikes - BSAs, Triumphs, Nortons, and Royal Enfields...

As an avant-garde artist of the twentieth century, painter Paul Klee's work defies classification. What is indisputable, however, is its originality and brilliance. Taken from the artist's most prolific years,1917-1933, this book presents wor...

From the invention of the camera obscura to the birth of digital photography, this history of photography’s greatest advances focuses on individual artists, works, and moments that decisively shaped the evolution of a genre. Chronologically arrang...

This publication explores Pablo Picasso’s use of a black-and-white palette throughout his entire career. Picasso Black and White examines the artist’s lifelong exploration of a black-and-white leitmotif through paintings and a selectio...