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All the way to her toes. The grandmaster of beauty below the knee Elmer Batters (1919-1997) was the grandmaster of leg and foot art. While others preferred the thrill of an inviting cleavage, the maestro’s eye was on lower things —trim...

The prince of prints. Pucci's vision and legacy Emilio Pucci (1914-1992) had a passion for women, a visionary sense of style, and an eye for color and design. With these talents, he created a fashion house unlike any other. By the early &rsquo...

The prince of prints Pucci's vision and legacy Limited edition of 10.000 copies; each unique copy is bound with one of a selection of recent print fabrics from the Pucci collection. Emilio Pucci (1914-1992) had a passion for women, a vis...

TASCHEN's 25th anniversary - Special edition! Let’s get physical: ultra-realistic wax anatomies From the eccentric Museo La Specola in Florence comes this amazing collection of waxworks depicting the human anatomy in all its dazzling complexity. A se...

Know Thyself. The complex universe beneath your skin This book will literally get under your skin. From La Specola museum in Florence, this fantastic exploration of what lies inside us all reveals the inner workings of the body in meticulous anato...

An Expressionist before the term was coined, James Ensor (1860–1949) was the classic insider-outsider enigma. He knew all the right art-world figures but loathed most of them. His style lurched from the Gothic fantastical to the Christian visio...

Bella Figura. Milan’s sumptuous modernist hallways First impressions count, especially in Milano. In this unprecedented photographic journey, editor Karl Kolbitz curates 144 of the finest Milanese entrance halls from 1920 to 1970. Sumptuous ...

“Fetish Girls came out in 1994 and I immediately moved with my family from New York City to San Francisco. I wanted a different light to shoot by. I went from a studio to shooting in a classic Victorian mansion. I’m still a fetishist. I live with my ...

Taschen 25th Anniversary Series "I draw better than most of your artists," Eric Stanton is supposed to have told Irving Klaw by way of introduction. Klaw, the entrepreneur famous for his photographs of Bettie Page, was always on the lookout for new ...

Microbial Marvels. Ernst Haeckel, the 19th-century pioneer who captured the artistic beauty of the natural world Discover Ernst Haeckel, the 19th-century artist-biologist who found beauty in even the most unlikely of creatures. This collection fea...

Since the first kiss recorded on film in 1896, erotic moving images have stimulated viewers and outraged public bodies. This book explores the meaning of eroticism and gives an overview of sex on the big screen by exploring different forms of sexual ...

The art of pleasure. An erotic history of humanity From the dawn of time, ever since Adam and Eve, all artists of every age — whether the Egyptian, Greek, or Roman artists of Antiquity, or more recent famous names as Rembrandt, Courbet, Dega...

Taschen 25th Anniversary Series From the dawn of time, ever since Adam and Eve, all artists of every age - whether the Egyptian, Greek and Roman artists of Antiquity, or more recent famous names as Rembrandt, Courbet, Degas or Picasso - have succumb...

M.C. Escher was born in 1898 in Leeuwarden (Netherlands). He received his first drawing lessons during secondary school from F.W. van der Haagen, who also taught him the block printing, thus fostering Escher's innate graphic talents. From 1912...

Special bestseller price "All I can say: get collecting. These books are an incredible value." - Image, London, on the photography book series Eugène Atget roamed the streets with his bulky large format camera, systematically cataloguing turn-of-...