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In this exquisitely executed paean to the horse, celebrated photographer Bob Tabor celebrates the magnificence of the equine physique and the beauty of the horse's nature. His images are evocative and intimate, so perfectly presented that we seem to feel the sinewy tension of the animals muscles and the sleek satin of their hair. Each photograph is a marvel in itself, arousing awe, tenderness, and sometimes amusement; and every viewing brings us closer to understanding the emotional bond and powerful connection between horse and human.

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Steve Miller made his book publishing debut in 2017 with his outside-the-box fine art photography in Radiographic: X-Ray Photo Inventions, where he high-tech x-rayed everything from pocketbooks to fish in order to produce gorgeous colour images. In Surf/Skate, he has expanded the concept: his original artworks are printed onto skate- and surfboards, creating a hip confluence of lifestyle and art. The results are gorgeous moving objects, festooned in the main with art and x-rays, presenting a compelling juxtaposition of nature and the material world.

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First merging and examination of the subject of photography and in-depth psychological study. Contains 18 profiles of photographers exploring their lives as filters between conflict and the general population and the effect they have on us and themselves in this endeavour. Includes such luminaries as Don McCullin, Tim Page, Ron Haviv - each one the recipient of a major prize or prizes, including the Pulitzer and British Press Awards, among others. Conflict photographers are visual historians, bearing witness to stories that must be told. The images they produce seize attention, and moved by what we see, troubling questions come to mind. Shooting War harnesses these questions and shifts them in a different direction, by asking a new set of questions - some that may not have come to mind when first confronted by the image. What of the person taking the photograph? What might they have experienced? Neuropsychologist Anthony Feinstein attempts to answer this seminal question through analysis of the iconic photographs and interviews of 18 of the world's pre-eminent conflict photographers. He has personally communicated with each of them - or an amanuensis if the photographer is no longer living - to try to give us an understanding of why these talents are drawn to conflict in the first place, how they experience it personally when they are in the middle of it, and how they deal with the aftermath. This is a book of understanding the PTSD that is commonly suffered but has never been analysed for a larger reading public. This is a breakthrough exploration that is destined to open a new line of investigation into photographers and conflict. With an important Foreword by Sir Harold Evans, himself a world-renowned commentator on conflict and photography as well, this book will stir important conversation and interest.

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Front cover image Santa Fe Michael Clinton, Foreword by Mayor Javier Gonzales Not yet printed due - 01/19 9781943876556 Hardback Glitterati Editions Territory: World Size: 190 mm x 150 mm Pages: 256 Illustrations: 269 colour Name of series: Snaps RRP GBP19.95 Clinton is the president and marketing + publishing director for Hearst magazines Two million people visit Santa Fe annually Traveller extraordinaire Michael Clinton is back with the second instalment in his Snaps series that defines sense of place in some of the world's most beautiful yet essentially unexplored locations. Following his glimpse into New York's pre-eminent summer destination - the Hamptons - Clinton travels to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and captures the essence of what makes this city one of the most prominent and largest centres for arts and culture in the world. Here Clinton, the accomplished photographer, uses his unique eye to transform ordinary, everyday moments into insightful and inspiring images. From the bronze sculptures that depict the diverse blend of Spanish, Native American, and Anglo cultures, and the earth tones of weathered sixteenth-century adobe architecture, to horses grazing on secluded pastures under brilliant blue skies and serene views of the freshly changed yellow leaves of the aspens in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, these illustrious images invite viewers to contemplate and focus on the small, yet telling moments that create a larger sense of beauty and wonder. This book will appeal to anyone who loves Santa Fe, art, or photography, and is popularly priced and conveniently sized for quick purchase and carry.

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To this day, mention the name “Andy Warhol” to almost anyone and you’ll hear about his famous images of soup cans and Marilyn Monroe. But although Pop Art became synonymous with Warhol’s name and dominated the public’s image of him, his life and work and worldwide influences are infinitely more complex and multi-faceted than that. And Phillip Romero, MD is just the person to explain exactly what that impact was and is and from whence it derives.In Andy Warhol’s Brain, esteemed psychiatrist Phillip Romero takes on Andy Warhol in all his depth and dimensions. The book is essentially a return to renowned psychiatrist Phillip Romero’s scheduled interview with his friend Warhol that never happened, as it was scheduled for the day after Andy’s untimely death. The book is both homage to Warhol for his inspiring friendship with the author and a platform for Romero to explore his thesis, “Art for Survival.” Romero here presents the extraordinary results of an agreement between the approaches to a topic of different academic subjects: in this case science and the humanities. It offers a unique and exceptional advance in thinking about artistry and intellect.Doctor Romero’s work as a family/child psychiatrist led him to formulate the concept of “Creative Intelligence,” which he defines as the effortful attention of the individual “mind” to recruit both these attributes to change oneself, to evolve social systems, and to sustain the environment to improve the quality and duration of human life. Romero found himself deep into researching the brain-mind/art-culture continuum of Creative Intelligence, and in doing so, his friend Andy Warhol presented a perfect example of the concept. This book is an effort to integrate the life and art of Andy Warhol with the brain-mind/art-culture system that informs the evolution of human civilization. The struggle between Creative Intelligence and adversity exists within each human being. Romero uses Warhol’s life as a mirror to inspire the reader’s Creative Intelligence in reinventing themselves through the complex and challenging times we live in. In this groundbreaking work that comes from the unique perspective of a world-class psychiatrist and practicing artist himself, Romero explains that for individuals, creativity protects us from our painful pasts and inspires us to create a better present for a more secure future. Creative Intelligence harnesses our inborn resilience and creativity. It is an ongoing mind-body process of effortful attention: remembering, reflecting, reframing, reimagining, reinventing, and reconnecting with oneself and the world.

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A necessary reference for any library on modernism in 20th-Century Europe. Personal reminiscences along with historical anecdotes never before published. Exhibition and conference schedule includes Texas Tech in April and New York. Ezio Gribaudo is an Italian artist, art collector, and art publisher whose life and work took him to the very centre of European modern art in the 20th century. His work has been shown internationally and is included in the permanent collections of many museums such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy, among others. This volume is a visual biography that presents the life of this celebrated art-lover through a collection of texts and pictures that include rarely seen images of Gribaudo's partners in art, including Marc Chagall, Pablo Picasso, Francis Bacon, Joan Miró, and Henry Moore. Documents, letters, and photographs round out this portrait of a man who was at once central to modernism and yet not a "known name" to the mainstream. A must-have for art historians and collectors of 20th-century modern art, this book gives an account of the cultural history around one of the few contemporary artists who had personal contact with the great names of art history as art publisher, collector, and friend.

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Photographer Christophe von Hohenberg's photographs give the impression of squinting against the glaring summer sun-bleached out details blur and feint gestures carve out the presence of figures against the vast oceanic expanse. Allowing himself to be "blinded by the light" von Hohenberg has found harmony on the beaches of the Hamptons, a place that cleanses, renews, and soothes. As delicate smears and ghostly shapes flesh out the familiar yet distant dreamscape of the beaches, von Hohenberg's photographs intimate an ineffable feeling-haunting, serene, and sublime. The White Album of the Hamptons provides a visual record of von Hohenberg's experiment in capturing the soul of the Hamptons and its unseen world of transcendent illumination through black-and-white photographs.

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Holly Martyn has been dumped. Twice-divorced and a single parent, she is sitting in a spa feeling sorry for herself when she picks up a magazine and reads the advice Joan Rivers gives to console a friend in the same position: "Would it kill you to put on some lipstick? Get an on-line dating account, go on 100 dates and you'll meet somebody." There you go, Holly decides, 100 dates. Problem solved. The 100 dates quest throws Holly in the path of an eclectic cast of characters, including a thirty-three year old African American fireman and a sixty-two year old CEO with whom she falls in love, the man who challenges her to find her father. The story concludes with hard-won insights about the path to partnership, forgiveness, and finding happiness in midlife.

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North Dakotan Shane Balkowitsch's first personal camera was not an Instamatic Kodak or a point-and- shoot Nikon, but rather a large format wet plate camera. As a self-taught 'image-maker' and one of the fewer than 1,000 wet plate collodion artists practicing around the world, Balkowitsch has fully devoted himself to mastering the obsolete photographic technology since 2012. Approaching the historically embedded technique from a contemporary perspective, Balkowitsch's process transforms the limitations of the medium - its labour and time sensitive nature - into opportunities for creative explorations. Northern Plains Native Americans: A Modern Wet Plate Perspective presents a selection from Balkowitsch's photographic project which aims to capture 1000 wet plate portraits of Native Americans. His photographs highlight the dignity of his subjects, depicting them not as archetypes, but individuals of contemporary identities and historical legacies.

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Craig Bagno isn't a tourist, yet he hasn't left his apartment without his camera in over a decade. From 2008 to 2018, he's focused his lens to capture the lights and shadows that delineate the shapes of quietude and solitude in New York City. In his signature style, Bagno assumes the perspective of a passerby, a shadowy apparition - positioned between, beside, behind - often depicting others as they turn away, hurry past, and wander off. For him, they are forms without identity - abstractions of fleeting encounters. With a sense of pathos for the mundane and sensitivity for the minutiae, he provides a nuanced glimpse into the city beyond myths. In his publishing debut, New York City Anonymous, Bagno reveals the poetics of anonymity, ephemerality, and the beauty in melancholy.

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Over the past three decades, artist Christian Peltenburg-Brechneff has travelled around the world to visit some of the most glorious private gardens to paint en plein air. He has created a luscious visual record of 28 of them in this charming gift-sized book of watercolours and gouaches. With contacts among the international elite, the author has gained permission to enter some of the most exquisite and heretofore unrecorded gardens from Sri Lanka to Italy. With introductory texts by the distinguished art critic Donald Kuspit and the ever-influential interior architecture and garden designer Bunny Williams, Into the Garden chronicles this long-term pilgrimage of a visionary painter, opening the exquisite private gardens to the public for the very first time.

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This luscious book marks the first appearance of Marc Tetro's wonderfully expressive canines in art-book form, documenting his incredible style that appeals to so many in a gorgeous oversized format. Marc Tetro's signature artwork depicting personality-plus dogs has been printed on everything from key rings to mugs to handbags, which are sold in stores from New York to Dubai. This luscious book is his first appearance in art-book form, documenting his incredible style that appeals to so many, in a gorgeous oversized format. Loosely organised by breed, this romp through dogs in portrait, dogs in activities, dogs celebrating holidays is sure to appeal to every dog-lover and casual observer alike, as Tetro's style brings each and every rendition of any dog to life with charm and wit. Tetro is a modern-day Charles Schulz, taking a thick black line that, with a tiny movement of his wrist, gives character and personality to every dog he draws. With the addition of an array of lively colours, he has initiated a distinctive style that is recognised as art and product throughout the world. Designed by the artist, this book presents an opportunity for art lovers to discover his work, and for devoted fans to find a new way of enjoying his singular talent and unique vision.

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In Michael Clinton's earlier books - all travel photography - he has shown us the world in context, in long shots that describe people, places and things/architecture and design objects. In Closer he looks at the world through a telescopic lens, honing in on specifics to people, their cultures and their environments. An impulse item for the photographic and travel aficionado, this book is just a fun read.

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A comprehensive look at the inner workings of the twelve zodiac signs - their respective idiosyncrasies and relationships to one another - by noted astrologer Katharine Merlin. Katharine Merlin has been writing the monthly horoscope column for Town&Country for over twenty years, one of the magazine's most popular columns. This book differs from others on this topic in that it is full of real-life people, experiences, and events. Merlin draws upon decades of personal experience to bring each sign to life, sprinkling her discriptions with anecdotes from people she has come to know over the years. Foreword by luminary magazine editor and author herself, Pamela Fiori, supports this book as a serious read for the sophisticated lover of astrology. Astrology is a very popular topic with a general audience. The About.com Astrology website receives over 34 million visitors per month! For more than twenty years, astrologer Katharine Merlin has penned monthly horoscopes for Town&Country magazine, producing one of the magazine's most widely-read and beloved columns and now the most visited site on the Hearst corporate website for each of its 16 magazines. In The Private Lives of the Sun Signs, Merlin presents in-depth analyses of each of the twelve zodiac signs - from Aries to Pisces - illustrating their unique characteristics with astonishing accuracy. Drawing upon wisdom gleaned over the course of her forty-year career in astrology, Merlin provides invaluable insight into the idiosyncrasies of each sign - the way they process emotions, communicate, find motivation, relate to others, and more. Through Merlin's illuminating descriptions, we come to understand our inner selves more deeply - the way we think, work, love, what makes us tick - and learn to harness the potential of our own unique gifts. And, by familiarising ourselves with the signs of friends and partners, we develop tolerance and appreciation for their distinctive qualities, finding ways that different signs can complement each other and allowing our relationships to blossom. Full of illuminating anecdotes, The Private Lives of the Sun Signs offers a fascinating and comprehensive look into the inner workings of the zodiac signs, proving that this ancient science continues to offer invaluable guidance to a contemporary audience.

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Represents a true photographic pioneer; Birk's medium is inventive and predates the contrived nostalgia of contemporary apps and filters. This innovative collection of images is a standout in the travel photography genre Upon relocating to Beijing, photographer Lukas Birk attempts to escape the sense of stagnation that plagued him in his central European home. He encounters a group of like-minded young creatives who share his sentiment of "nostalgia teetering on the edge of melancholy." Hoping to express that feeling, Birk discovers his father's collection of expired Polaroid film. With Birk's medium acting as a metaphor for the transformation of modern China - its rapid development and the void of nostalgia left behind - this book presents a sense of something from the past interrupted by modern motives, a collision of old and new world visions. In her insightful foreword, art advisor Katherine Don details Birk's contribution to contemporary art in China and comments on his pioneering innovation. Birk's stunning collection of inventive imagery captures the vibrancy of contemporary life, inspired by the filter of his own nostalgia and longing.

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Douglas Kirkland has amassed an impressive body of work throughout his 50-year photography career, his images running the gamut from stars and film-makers, to classics and collectables, to love and nudes. Here, the photographer presents a collection of his images accompanied by a story of his career's development told from his perspective.

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The first monograph by a celebrated photographer with an extensive professional network is in high demand. An Embarrassment of Riches will appeal to fashionistas, photography collectors, and performing arts aficionados. In his debut book of photography, with a foreword by one of the luminaries of NYC culture and entertainment, Adrian Buckmaster's monograph presents a staggeringly beautiful collection of portraits - a cross-section of humanity in all of its glorious diversity, from the ordinary to the extraordinary and everything in-between. Having spent his early years shooting commercial beauty and fashion, Buckmaster soon shifted focus to more personal projects, challenging conventional notions of beauty and celebrating the eccentricities of those whom society might classify as "misfits." Echoes of Buckmaster's early career remain, in the form of exquisite costuming, make-up, and scenic design. Despite an element of performance, there is an undeniable rawness to these portraits, in which subjects are both aware of the camera's gaze and sympathetically self-conscious, robing and disrobing, revealing and concealing. Buckmaster's photographic genius is encapsulated in his uncanny ability to fastidiously art direct while simultaneously stripping away layers of formality and convention. Arranged in three movements: Imposing, Revealing, and Inventing, this collection progresses from traditional portraiture to increasingly intimate portrayals, as subjects expose, create, and invent themselves. Included in this endlessly varied spectrum of characters are Burlesque performers, families, brides, lovers, and all manner of tattoos and body piercings. There are classical reclining nudes, reminiscent of Édouard Manet's Olympia or Titian's Sleeping Venus, dancers with incredible physical strength and dexterity, women costumed as peacocks and geishas, a contortionist inside a trunk, even a green-skinned man, bejewelled like an Indian deity. All of this and much more, An Embarrassment of Riches is a joyful celebration of individuality that will leave the reader mesmerised.

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A unique collection of photographic images; an innovative study in visual abstraction. Take photographers David Weinberg's incredible tour of three American cities, and you'll find some familiar skyscrapers presented in very unexpected ways. In this remarkable collection of original photography, David Weinberg captures the creations of some of America's celebrated architects-from individuals like Helmut Jahn and Tom Beeby to illustrious firms like holabird & Roche and Kohn Pederson Fox - revealing how intriguing their towers of glass and steel truly are. The buildings featured here are reflective of our society; their modern design represent the accelerated pace of civilisation, while their glass facades act as literal mirrors, reflecting the scenes of urban life in a dazzling display of colour and movement. Weinberg takes us from the magnificent structures of Chicago to the creative designs of Dallas, Texas, and then further east to make the most of the extreme light in Sarasota, Florida. But Towering Mirrors, Mirroring Towers is more than exposition of modern buildings. It is a unique collection of photographic images; an innovative study in visual abstraction. Weinberg captures familiar skyscrapers in surprising ways, so that many of these photographs-shots of mercurial colors and shapes, reflected and warped into shimmering patterns of light - are no longer recognisable as building. His work is a reminder that our everyday surroundings are full of amazing and unexpected displays. We need only to look around, and we'll find them reflected back at us from every angle.

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Ranging from brilliantly crisp black-and-whites to luminescent colours and softly muted sepia-tones, bestselling author Christopher Makos has created an intimate yet wide-ranging volume detailing his encounter with one of nature's most majestic creatures.

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Features a preface by Isabella Rossellini. Fantastically colourful illustrations. Extremely entertaining. "I want to go on Puut and Dali's next adventure!" Jennifer Garner "It's such an originale book! Bellissimo e Fun...no... more than fun, funissimo!" Isabella Rossellini Princess Puut - a Glamour Gal who's lost her grip - is the fantastically wicked, witty, and fun-loving brainchild of Emmy Award-winning production designer, Scott Chambliss. Reeling from the stunning blow that she's been thrown off the television cablewaves, ultra-glamorous Princess Puut - the former Maahvelous Infomercial Superstar and current Wandering Has-Been - one night has a peculiar dream. As a result, she enlists the company and comfort of Dali, her smart, sexy confidant, on a journey of scandal, style, and self-discovery that plops them in the heart of romantic, implausible Venice, Italy - minus the smell.

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This captivating book, the second in a series christened A 21st Century Palace, offers readers a transporting virtual tour through one exceptionally dazzling palace. In this volume, we find ourselves in Jerusalem. Few places on Earth have exuded more mystery and power than this deified ancient city. And even fewer designers possess the worldliness and talent to bring that mystery and power into the third dimension in ways that both consider its many millennia of astonishing history and also telegraph a modernity as thoroughly fresh and modern as the current moment. "That Bradfield takes breathtaking, albeit educated, risks that would daunt another designer is a testament to his confidence and maturity," says the Parisian gallerist Jean-Gabriel Mitterand. "It is unbelievably audacious to pair a precious, yet decorative, Claude Lalanne chandelier with a Peter Kogler table that utilises computer technology to create what is really state-of-the-art functional sculpture," notes Mitterand of one such daring juxtaposition. "They were not created in the same spirit, but in the end Geoffrey intuitively understood there was something essentially baroque about both of them. After decades of observing Bradfield championing artists such as the Lalannes prior to their becoming voraciously collected by wealthy purveyors of taste," says Mitterand, "His roster of clients has become more and more international, and he commands more and more authority." Which is why Bradfield finds himself now at the apex of his career. In his Foreword to this book, the Honorable John L. Loeb, former American Ambassador to Denmark, declares "Bradfield's rare talent has propelled him into the upper echelon of design - and places him amongst the few designers working in the world today who are truly global."

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The massacres of the Sierra Leone Civil War, the bloody struggle for liberation during the Arab Spring, the plight of the Kurdish refugees in the Gulf War and the ongoing devastation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - in the midst of the upheavals that have shattered and re-shaped the late-20th and 21st centuries, there was Yannis Behrakis - just Yannis, just a man with a camera and a mission to capture history unfolding. As a Reuters photojournalist for over three decades, Behrakis put his life on the line, braving riots, sniper fire and air raids to seek out the best of humanity in the worst of circumstances. Just Yannis looks back at the iconic photographs that have shaped our understanding of the world - its sorrows, pain, despair, courage, and hope - and pays homage to the legacy and enduring impact of the man behind the viewfinder.

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Filled with witty observations and drenched in dry humor, this collection of musings, paintings, menus, wine labels, ticket stubs, and other memorabilia explores over three decades of travel. Culled from twenty-five of author William P. Rayner''s personal notebooks, these tales follow a young Rayner as he drinks and dines through remote places. Rayner recounts his wily escape from an overbearing bodyguard nicknamed The Bear, early morning paint sessions of local ruins by the light of dawn, negotiations with Libyan hotel managers over illegally smuggled scotch, and cockpit adventures with a young pilot learning how to blind landall while making notes and sketches in his diaries. In this increasingly digital age, this two-volume set in luxurious slipcasesone book of Rayner''s adventures in Africa, the other in Indiais a tactile collector's piece that evokes the fun and nostalgia of adventure.

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Using over 100 multiple-choice questions that gauge each partner's personality and his or her typical responses to everyday dilemmas, relationship expert Mary Carty tackles the issues that plague every marriage and provides insightful wisdom and advice on how to successfully navigate tricky situations. While society provides training programs, degree majors, and a variety of standardised tests, like the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), the Graduation Record Exam (GRE), and the Medical College Admission test (MCAT), to prepare people for their career paths, there are no degree programs, internships, or required training for marriage. PMAT: The Perfect Marriage Aptitude Test contains two hundred multiple-choice questions, designed to prepare brides, grooms, and civil-union couples in their quest to building healthy marriages and partnerships. Part communication tool kit and part reference book, PMAT has everything you need to test your aptitude for a compatible relationship. Delving into everything from common pet peeves, like leaving clothes on the floor, to weightier issues, like money management, The Perfect Marriage Aptitude Test is a self-guided counselling course designed to get every couple past the small stuff to the truly enriching life of happily-ever after. The two sections of the book provide first, tests and answer sheets on subjects that range from home to fitness to finance; and the second section, 'Making Sense of Your Answers' offers analysis and means for every couple to productively collaborate to work out any issues of concern or conflict and enhance the areas in which they are already in harmony.

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For the first time ever, photographers/authors Fredric Winkowski and Frank D. Sullivan reveal their most personal and awe-inspiring body of work ever: five hundred detailed, riotously coloured photographs of the world's most beloved and iconic automobiles. From the 1933 Model A Ford to the 1960s Studebaker to today's Mustang, Carchitecture: 500 Photographs is a unique look at the machines that drive our collective obsession with all-things automotive. Featuring over three hundred models of cars and text that reveals key components of the evolution of industrial 'architectural design,' Carchitecture is the culmination of twenty years' worth of work spent documenting the best of the best of the automotive world. Winkowski and Sullivan present handsome and voluminous automotive details with great clarity and precision, making this comprehensive volume every bit as collectible as the cars it celebrates.

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Running: it's as simple as striding forward just one foot after another, but as author Michael Clinton has learned over more than 40 years as a runner, it s so much more than just exercise. It s a test of physical and mental endurance and a way to connect with the environment, the global community of runners, and, ultimately, yourself. From the streets of Paris, Buenos Aires, all the way to Sydney, Clinton has gone the distance, never forgetting his running shoes in all of his globetrotting adventures to over 120 countries. In Tales from the Trails, Clinton along with numerous contributors, including George A. Hirsch, chairman of the New York Road Runners and founder of the New York City five-borough marathon, detail inspirational stories of trial, tribulation, and triumph, revealing how running has helped one find love, strengthened a relationship with God, and assisted in overcoming fear and disappointment. Tales from the Trails is a reminder to lace up and hit the trails to run for your life, love, and happiness.

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Since 2000, the husband-and-wife duo, Carmel and Terrell Swan of catstudio have woven together their spirit of wanderlust and mutual appreciation for art, design, and craftsmanship into decorative textile-works inspired by vintage souvenir pillows of the 30s and 40s. Hand embroidered by skilled artisans in a process spanning months, the meticulously crafted pillows in the Geography Collection capture the whimsical essence of all 50 states across the United States, plus many cities, regions, resorts, and national parks. Pillow Geography invites readers on a leisurely magic pillow ride from the rolling folds of the misty Appalachian Mountains all the way to sunny San Francisco through the Golden Gate Bridge, and everywhere in between. So settle in, get comfortable, and come dream across America . . . one catstudio pillow at a time.

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This book has feminist, vintage photography, and American social themes. Photographs herein pre-date the famed vintage bordello photographs of E.J. Bellocq's Storyville discovered and made famous by Lee Friedlander. The book includes essays by notable writers on a variety of topicsAfter becoming captivated by the beauty and originality of a group of nineteenth-century photographs, Robert Flynn Johnson has uncovered more than two hundred vintage images of women who lived and worked at a brothel in Reading, Pennsylvania, circa 1892, and showcases them here for the first time for a wider public. Working Girls details the private, creative archive of commercial photographer William Goldman, whose imagery paints a complete picture of the environments that these women inhabited - from inside the brothel, posing artistically for the camera, to their off-duty routines, such as reading, smoking, and bathing. Taken two decades before the famous E. J. Bellocq photographs of prostitutes in Storyville, New Orleans, circa 1913, Johnson chronicles the aesthetic, historical, and sociological importance of Goldman's artwork in the history of photography, referencing them alongside paintings and photographs by such artists as Degas, Eakins, and Monsieur X. With essays that provide an insightful historical overview of Goldman's work in context of the period in which they were taken, by feminist and cultural luminaries including Dita Von Teese, Ruth Rosen and Dennita Sewell, this extraordinary collection provides a personal visual record of lives of these women while also offering a deeper understanding of the 'working girls' that existed more than 120 years ago.

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A large part of photographer/artist/printmaker Steve Miller's work has been devoted to walking the line to the intersection of art and science. In Radiographic we get to see the first collision of these incredible experiments in book form. Working with scientific equipment including electron microscopes, X-rays, MRI machines, and even Rorschach blots, Miller examines natural subjects (and sometimes man-made ones) through an x-ray technology that results in the creation of surprisingly beautiful representational and abstract imagery. Admired equally by scientists with whom he has worked at places like New York's Brookhaven National Laboratory; art curators who have exhibited and/or written about his work, like The National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC and essayist Peter Schjeldahl; as well as consumers who eagerly snatch up his wall-sized prints at places like Artspace, Miller's totally breakthrough and exciting explorations have created the unique profile of an artist who thinks conceptually while engaging universally, making exquisite artworks based on such diverse elements as blood cells, x-rays of plants and animals from the Amazon rainforest, the folding of proteins, and the movement of ions. Impossible to describe without sounding ridiculously arcane, but impossible to resist once the artworks are viewed, this book offers an opportunity to see the work of a creative talent described by The New Yorker magazine as "qualifying as a Prophet". Here is a man who has expanded the boundaries of what we know as 'art'.

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This concise, handsomely illustrated, boots-on-the ground guide provides a unique introduction to life on the Western Front during World War I. Readers will learn about the drastic living circumstances of characters Tommy Atkins, Poilu, and Doughboy, respectively the foot soldiers of Britain, France, and the United States. We all know something of how these men existed in muddy trenches, subject to shelling, snipers and waiting for the next Big Push; but it is through the unique vocabulary of those troops, with their newly coined words, slang, and euphemisms that we can most easily enter their world. Readers will learn the meaning behind the long lost wartime language of these soldiers, with such words and phrases as: Black Hand Gang, Ace, Crummy, Barker, Dud, Come-alongs, Hush-hush, and Over the top. Based on extensive research, Trench Talk Trench Life is a wide-ranging and sympathetic look at the lives of initially patriotic, but ultimately tenacious front line soldiers of the Western Front.

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Wide-ranging appeal across the realm of Judaic interest, from fans of artists such as Ben Shahn to illustrators like David Levine. A must-have for collectors of Judaica, both art and written works. Also of interest to anyone interested in the conjunction of fine art and historical and religious art. A magnificent gift published in time for high holidays. Mark Podwal is today's premiere artist of the Jewish experience, with a prolific portfolio of work lauded by visionaries ranging from Elie Weisel to Harold Bloom. His paintings and ink-on-paper drawings are not only beautiful but also offer profound and nuanced commentary on Jewish tradition, history, and politics. This unprecedented collection brings together the widest selection of Podwal's work ever published in a single volume in a stunning, lavishly produced, oversized hardcover. With more than 350 works, each beautifully reproduced, Reimagined is a must-have for every Jewish home.

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An unconventional chronicle, Conventional Wisdom is author-photographer ArthurDrooker's quirky look at conventions held by some unusual interest groups, including Lincolnpresenters, furries, and mermaids. Dropper documents these events as unique expressions ofcommunity, culture, and connection. The humorous and insightful text,including intimate interviews conducted with attendees, complements the stunning photographsDrooker shot during his visits to each convention over a three-year period. From theballrooms to the vendor rooms to the guest rooms, Drooker's ubiquitous camera capturesthe essence and exuberance of these annual gatherings.Conventional Wisdom shows that regardless of what they'reabout, where they're held or who attends them, all conventions satisfy a basichuman urge: a longing to belong. The bookreveals that at conventions people who share similar interests, evenobsessions, come together to bond and to be themselves. The outside world doesn'tmatter. In fact, for the weekend duration of most conventions, the outsideworld doesn't even exist. An attendee Drooker met at the taxidermist conventionexpressed it best. “This isn't a convention,” he said. “It's a family reunion.”

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Take a trip down memory lane to witness 22 years (1976-1998) of Mortimer’s, one of the most notable restaurant hotspots that ever existed for an international celebrity clientele. Found in these pages is a feast of ephemera, including menus, recipes, invitations, proprietor Glenn Birnbaum’s personal letters, and publicity clips. Overall, the book provides a glimpse into the culture, food, entertainment, fashion, and basic social intercourse during the heyday of the New York social scene.

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When Sally Wallace--an accomplished miniaturist for more than forty years--visited Moscow with her husband, she fell in love with the onion domes and architecture of St. Basil’s Cathedral and traveled home with the idea to recreate it in miniature. Now, in her new book A Russian Fantasy, Wallace takes readers on a tour of the miniature inspired by St. Basil’s, her most ambitious to date. Within these pages, photos show the detailed exterior which replicates the cathedral, a Russian Orthodox church in Red Square built in the sixteenth century, while the interior reveals an entirely original design, complete with a museum, a workshop, an astronomical observatory, and living quarters. A tribute to all of the artisans who contributed their work, this photo journal documents the elaborate craftsmanship that brings the miniature to life.

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A photography book perfect for fans of Cindy Sherman or buyers of Sally Mann's Hold Still. This is also a humorous book that will appeal to readers of Caitlin Moran, Roxane Gay, Amy Schumer and Tina Fey. A very strong women's interest title. HER is a collection of photographic portrayals of women that explores, in the tradition of Cindy Sherman, the roles of women in the modern world. Photographer Marjorie Salvaterra, inspired in part by her own experiences as artist, wife, and mother, and by her travels, creates strikingly beautiful images that make us rethink our expectations of women and our notions of femininity, particularly in light of the drive to achieve "perfection," both physically and in terms of accomplishments. Playing with the conventions of fashion photography, art cinema, pop culture, and advertising imagery, Salvaterra has created photographs that are provocative (and often humorous) explorations of the female image. They make us look twice and then think again about female identity, women's lives, and how we represent them. Exploring the beauty and struggle of being a woman today, this is a book that is by turns, surprising, inspiring, and amusing, and one that women of every age will find resonant.

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From the author of Photographer's Paradise, which won the 2014 Lucie award for Publisher of the Year for Glitterati Incorporated. Internationally-renowned photojournalist's intimate look at the city he loves most, through decades of social, political, and physical change. Presentation is arranged to highlight cultural elements, rather than the typical decade-by-decade reportage of comparable books. New York City Up and Down is an elegant, incisive, and unexpected review of forty years of exploration by renowned documentary photographer Jean-Pierre Laffont. With 172 black and white images, along with 99 colour photos, Laffont presents a commentary on the ups and downs socially, politically, and visually that have taken place in his favourite city. Organised into three parts, titled 'The City Never Sleeps', 'The Movers and the Shakers' and 'The Mean Streets', this is a book not to be missed by anyone who has ever had any curiosity at all about the 'real' New York City, as seen through the eyes of a true visionary.

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From one of the great bon vivants of our age comes this witty memoir of an extraordinary life lived among a glittering social set. Acclaimed designer and founder of Pret-a-Porter Marc Rosen shares in this delightful reminiscence the stories of his encounters with the great beauties, talents, and personalities of the last 50 years. Marc has rubbed shoulders with everyone - from Hollywood royalty (including Helen Hayes, Bette Davis, and his own wife, Arlene Dahl, the girl for whomTechnicolor was invented) to actual royalty (Princess Grace of Monaco, the Romanovs) to the moguls of the beauty and fashion worlds (Charles Revson, Karl Lagerfeld) over the course of his brilliant career.

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When Justin O'Neill and his wife separated after thirteen years of marriage, he was unsure how he would ever recover. From the vantage point of professional photographer and photo editor, and with camera in hand, he decided to channel his feelings into imagery, and turned his lens to the most important subject in his life - his daughter Stella. With just one click of the shutter release, he had sparked the creative collaboration between a father and daughter trying to navigate their new normal. On Stellar Rays is the personal exploration and interaction of Justin and Stella as they forged a path to a newly dynamic relationship. Through fifty stunning black-and-white photographs, this narrative is a visual representation of the many stages a parent and a child encounter when faced with divorce and their journey through it together - from mourning and loss to prospect and new beginnings. The profound emotional impact of these extraordinary photographs makes On Stellar Rays indispensable for those examining the effects of a family in crisis, including potential positive outcomes of a painful situation.

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Fans and admirers of superstar Lucille Ball are invited into an insider's album of a time as meaningful to the beloved actress as it was to the people of Jamestown, New York. Lucy Comes Home uncovers the local media extravaganza surrounding Lucy's homecoming celebration, her historic first return since her meteoric rise to fame, accompanied by husband Desi Arnaz. Organised around the premiere of their MGM movie, Forever, Darling, Lucy and Desi attended a host of media events in this whirlwind homecoming tour, and OIsen has carefully collected and curated the photographs and narratives surrounding this momentous occasion. Featuring more than 100 archival photographs, this sensational visit of the hometown girl offers a previously unpublished view of an intimate yet very public episode of Lucy's life, which she considered "one of the best days of [her] life." Olsen's connection to all things Lucy has its origins with his mother, then Janice Swanson, who was Lucy's 'Homecoming Queen' during the visit. He calls the book a love letter to both his mother and Lucy.

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In this extravagantly designed, illustrated autobiography, renowned designer Geoffrey Bradfield explores 50 years of creativity and innovation. In Stage Set, his most personal book to date, he identifies his various stages as a designer and showcases his own homes in different parts of the world, fashioning them as a kind of litmus test to explore how lifestyle and design converge. The narrative follows him from his early years in South Africa, to his time in London during the wild and wonderful Carnaby Street years, and on to New York City in the 1970s. There he partnered with Jay Spectre and eventually took over his business, which continues to thrive today. Over the course of his long and well-regarded career, he has accrued numerous awards, including recognition as a "Dean of American Design" by Architectural Digest and the New York School of Interior Design's Albert Hadley Lifetime Achievement Award.

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A photographic and narrative investigation of female identity, a la Joyce, Tenneson, Cindy Sherman, and Annie Leibovitz. Includes homages to both fictional and historical women. Includes technical notes of the photographer's equipment and process From the author/photographer of an acclaimed photographic essay of September 11, 2001. One Woman is an inspired collaboration between photographer and muse. Through John Botte's masterful eye, Elicia Ho, a former ballerina, has realised a lyrical, visual diary of her becoming. The result is a stunning, dual meditation on a photographer's relationship to subject and craft, and a woman's intimate, empowering exploration of her sense of self and multifaceted identity. Revealing multiple aspects of character and personality, these photographic depictions are odes to real, fictional, or historical individuals and archetypes who have inspired, formed, or shaped the life of one woman. An invitation to celebrate the many layers of one's own being, Botte's captivating photographs are accompanied by Ho's insightful capsule texts about each persona portrayed in this homage to the many and varied people who, together, form the myriad facets of one woman. Also included are technical notes by Botte detailing his exclusive choice of Leica's M Monochrom camera for this body of work, as well as his use of vintage optics for the differing moods and eras evoked in these images.

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Designs from private homes to world-class spas and resorts, from a leading voice of mindful interior design. Clodagh is the pioneer of the 'life-enhancing minimalism' style. Highlights key projects throughout a successful career at the top of the industry Includes both aspirational photography and practical guidance, along with personal anecdotes and life experience. Entering a Clodagh-designed space is an experience of both serenity and indulgence. Clodagh believes that clutter undermines serenity but minimalism should not be self denying. She balances these principles with her signature style, described as life-enhancing minimalism. A believer in the tenets of integrative medicine, Clodagh embraces both ancient and cutting-edge methods in an effort to comfort not only the body but also the soul. Among the earliest western adopters of feng shui in her design practice, Clodagh is once again ahead-of-the-curve by incorporating such modalities as chromatherapy and biophilia into her distinctive projects. She passionately believes that good design supports well-being and transforms people's lives. Clodagh Design projects and products have been recognised with international accolades and awards, catapulting her to the top of the industry. Step inside her world with Clodagh: Life-Enhancing Design, an intimate invitation to the projects, moments, and ideals that have shaped her life and inspirational career.

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Surfing the Cosmos is an original book of photographs and text that visually explores the high/low of energy in the slums of Rio de Janeiro as compared with the high-tech physics of CERN, where discovering the origins of the universe and the elementary particles from which it is made are examined. Within this visual story are the unplanned beautiful drawings that humans make in space with electrical wires, whether from the favela or CERN. These "drawings" inspired a series of artworks/photographs that are pictured in this book, often along with their photographic source or the spirit of the community from which they are derived (either favela or CERN). The human energy of the favela is also mirrored in CERN with one specific comparison of the graffiti from Rio and the chalkboards of CERN, both viewed as works of art and sources that motivated the author’s response as demonstrated in his previous works through examples including paintings, fashion scarves, handmade rugs from Nepal, bamboo cotton face masks along with surfboards (chalkboards) and skatedecks.

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In The Way We Wore: Black Style Then, Michael McCollom chronicles African-Americans fashion from the 1940s through today. Featuring snapshots of over 150 black men and women's most unforgettable "style moments", the book includes personal photographs taken from the author's own family and circle of friends including Oprah Winfrey, James Baldwin, Iman, Naomi Campbell, Tyra Banks, Tracy Reese, Patrick Kelly, Kimora Lee, Bobby Short, Bethann Hardison, and Portia LaBeija, among countless others. From brides glowing in white dresses to bachelors in bell-bottoms, these photographs encompass the tremendous variety of fashions begun by the African-American community and guided international fashion culture. Some outfits are dynamic and outrageous—elaborate hairstyles and chunky shoes, enormous earrings and funky glasses—yet their wearers' vitality and pride leap from the page. Other styles are striking in their elegance and composure. World War II servicemen in their uniforms, women in haute couture gowns, children dressed for Sunday morning church service; gorgeous shots like these transcend fads, engendering the book with a sense of heritage and history befitting the legacy of African-American style and culture. The Way We Wore is both a marvelous journey from Harlem Renaissance to Hip-Hop, the celebration of the innovative and captivating history of African-American fashion over the past century.

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“There are photographs in this book that will stay in the hearts and minds of the people who view them, and who, like Corinne Dufka, will resolve to make it their life’s purpose to do what they can to help stop war.” — Jon Lee Anderson, staff writer, The New Yorker This is War presents a tour de force of one of most celebrated women war photographers of her generation. From 1988 to 1999, Capa Gold Medal winner and Pulitzer Prize–nominated photographer Corinne Dufka covered some of the bloodiest conflicts of the late twentieth century. The devastatingly powerful and intimate images in this book chart revolutions and coups, separatist movements, and mass atrocities across nine different countries on three continents. Starting in El Salvador during the Cold War, This Is War moves onto Bosnia, and then Africa, where Dufka reported on the Rwandan genocide and conflicts in South Sudan, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Burundi, Ethiopia, and the Congo. Her photographs are as brutal as they are tender, as mournful as they are meaningful, and are, above all, a testament to the profound toll conflict leaves in its wake. Her images interrogate abuse of power, celebrate defiance, and seek out the humanity of civilians and combatants who lives were torn apart by war. More than just a documentary, This is War is an extraordinary photographic record of war and personal enlightenment. It adds to the historical record of many under-covered conflicts and of the role of women in photojournalism, and urges the viewer to interrogate why conflict in many countries covered in the book, persist to this day. After leaving photojournalism, Dufka went on to a career as a war crimes investigator, for which she was, in 2003, awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. In her introduction to This is War, she notes: “These images beseech us to work harder to honor those who have perished and protect the rest of us from humanity’s worst, most abject failure: its capacity for war.”

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Part of a delightful series of children's books following the adventurous escapades of Henley, a Japanese chin. Henley took New York by storm in Henley: A New York Tail - becoming famous and learning the important lesson that loyalty in friendship trumps fame. This is the second book in the original children's storybook series about the dog Henley, a pampered Japanese Chin who has already had one escapade in New York City at the heels of his elegant owner Ms. Lulu Ziminski. He's been discovered at Bergdorf Goodman, conferred with Balto in Central Park, and lived the elegant life on Park Avenue. In this book Henley yearns to roar like a lion and learns a lesson of courage (and roaring) through his travel to exotic Africa and encounters with the wildlife there. Julie Muszynski's delightful character, Henley, is in the mode of classic children's characters - lively, adorable, and full of adventure and learning topics. Both illustrated and written by this talented author, Henley is sure to have many more exciting adventures in seasons to come - but so far he's conquered two of the most challenging locations: New York City and the continent of Africa! Join him in his travels with his companion Ms. Lulu Ziminski, fashion maven extraordinaire, in a book that is fit for children and adults alike.

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Organised into three parts, replete with four 32-page photo inserts that illustrate the past to the present. A memoir spanning eight decades. The memoir bumps into people of distinction and interest - Queen Elizabeth, Jacqueline Kennedy, Eddie Fisher, Ava Gardner, Richard Burton, Joseph Heller, and Dirk Bogarde, to name a few. When Giovanna Govoni, age seventeen, welcomed the allied troops into Rome on June 5, 1944, never did she imagine that on this day, she was opening a door that was to become an illustrious adventure filled with glamour and excitement that rubbed shoulders with luminaries ranging from American army generals to international movie stars to corporate magnates. But such was her luck that she happened to be on Rome's via Flaminia as the American liberation troops entered the city and when overheard in the crowd speaking in perfect English to her mother by "Stan the Donut Man" at the head of the column led by General Mark Clark and the Fifth Army, Giovanna's life changed. Salvadore was born in France, educated until age six in England, and returned to her native Italy during World War II. She was cosmopolitan before the word had any meaning. An incredible chronicler of both fact and intuition, Salvadore has always kept copious appointment agendas from the age of ten. In My Dolce Vita, Salvadore describes her teenage school days and the horrors of World War II, her exciting years as the first female public relations executive in Italy for TWA and Howard Hughes, and her more than four glamorous decades as the PR legend of Villa d'Este on Lake Como.

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Explores the 'lost kingdoms' with brush, ink and colour. A breathtakingly beautiful quest. In the age of mechanical reproduction, many fail to appreciate intricate drawings made by hand, hands having become mere obsolete instruments these days, compared to the fast precision of the digital camera. Christian Peltenburg-Brechneff's drawings capture what the camera can never capture: the spirit of the places he has rendered. Brechneff takes on the challenge of exploring and translating the architectural and spiritual wonders of the 'lost' kingdoms of the Himalayas with brush and ink and colour washes: Laddakh, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, India, Burma, Cambodia and Laos. Brought to life through imaginative investment, Brechneff's subjects become more mysterious, and preciously exciting than ever. They sparkle with subjective life and become rapturously alive in a way that a photograph could never be. The ancient architecture of India - many old palaces and temples - and ageless mountains are already inspired creations, with archetypal import, emphasising that Brechneffs's journey to them is a spiritual journey. The intricate drawings form a visual diary of his travels. Each drawing is dated, and the place depicted named, indicating that the drawing is a documentary as well as personal journal. Peltenburg-Brechneff decodes and maps India's architecture and mountains with the hope of grasping the secret of their creative dynamic, rather than only preserving their dramatic appearance for posterity. Homage is a breathtakingly beautiful spiritual quest.

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