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End of the Game: The Last Word from Paradise ENResearched, photographed, and compiled over 20 years, Peter Beard's End of the Game tells the tale of the enterprisers, explorers, missionaries, and big-game hunters whose quests for adventure and progress were to change the face of Africa in the 20th century. This landmark volume is assembled from hundreds of historical photographs and writings, starting with the building of the Mombasa Railroad (The Lunatic Line)…
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Ulrike Becks-Malorny Ensor ENJames Ensor bol neobyčajným maliarom, ktorý zaujímavým spôsobom reflektoval skutočnosť cez svoje vnútro. Napriek tomu, že pochádzal z Belgicka (väčšinu času prežil v Ostende), bol kozmopolitný človek, ktorý veľa cestoval. Neskôr bol vylúčený zo skupiny Les XX , pre svoj obraz Kristov príchod do Brusselu, ktorý namaľoval v r 1889. Bol predstaviteľom expresionizmu. Ešte predtým ako bol tento pojem zavedený,…
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Entryways of Milan ENBella Figura Milan's sumptuous modernist hallways First impressions count, especially in Milano. In this unprecedented photographic journey, editor Karl Kolbitz opens the door to 140 of the city's most sumptuous entrance halls, captivating in their diversity and splendor. These vibrant Milanese entryways, until now hidden away behind often restrained facades, are revealed as dazzling examples of Italian modernism,…
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Eric Kroll Eric Kroll's Fetish Girls ENNové vydanie kultovej knihy Erica Krolla, ktorá prvý krát vyšla v roku 1994... “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 muse, Gwen, and my children. I made about a dozen more videos and two books of photo…
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Dian Hanson Eric Stanton ENI 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 talent and that meeting marked the start of a dazzling career for the man who now stands beside John Willie as one of the supreme masters of erotic and comic art. Stanton drew his first dozen comic…
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Erotic Cinema ENSince 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 behavior or taboo-breaking in film. Included are intimate looks at ten of the most erotic movies ever made: including Last Tango in Paris, Betty Blue, In the Realm of…
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Gilles Néret Erotica 20th Century. Volume I. ENErotika v dielach výtvarných umelcov odRodina po Picassa... This is a collection of the best early 20th-century images from Erotica Universalis Volumes I and II. From Rodin to Picasso and lots of others in between (known, unknown, and anonymous)!
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Gilles Néret Erotica 20th Century. Volume II ENErotika v dielach výtvarných umelcov od Dalího po Crumba... This is a collection of the best latter 20th century images from Erotica Universalis, Volumes I and II. From Dalí to Crumb and lots of others in between (known, unknown, and anonymous)!
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Erotica Universalis ENFrom 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 succumbed to their fantasies, obsessions and libido, and produced erotic works that the censors have taken good care to keep from the public. For Erotica, we surface from the subterranean realms of the museums to…
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Jean Claude Gautrand Eugène Atget ENA flaneur and photographer at once, Eugène Atget (1857–1927) was obsessed with walking the streets. After trying his hand at painting and acting, the native of Libourne turned to photography and moved to Paris. He supplied studies for painters, architects, and stage designers, but became enraptured by what he called “documents” of the city and its environs. His scenes rarely included people, but rather the…
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Andreas Krase Eugène Atget - Paris ENEugène Atget roamed the streets with his bulky large format camera, systematically cataloguing turn-of-the-century Old Paris down to the very smallest details. His skilled, wonderfully atmospheric photos of Paris's parks, buildings, streets, store windows, prostitutes, workers, and even door handles are a joy to behold.
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Sebastião Salgado Exodus ENHumanity on the move: Sebastião Salgado’s searing reportage of exiles, migrants, and refugees. It has been almost a generation since Sebastião Salgado first published Exodus but the story it tells, of fraught human movement around the globe, has changed little in 16 years. The push and pull factors may shift, the nexus of conflict relocates from Rwanda to Syria, but the people who leave their homes tell the same…
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Gian Paolo Barbieri Exotic Nudes ENZaujímavé portréty z exotického sveta... This updated publication brings together Gian Paolo Barbieri's Equator and Tahiti tattoo photographs in a new format, providing a stunning, one-stop visual journey through a tropical realm of otherness and beauty, where we encounter breathtaking visions of people, animals, and landscapes. Shot in the Seychelles in both immaculate monochrome and vivid color, the Equator…
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Expressionism ENIn six chapters — The Brücke Group of Artists, Northern German Expressionism, The Blaue Reiter, Rhenish Expressionism, The City and Expressionism in Vienna — this publication deals with a specifically German artistic revolution, a phenomenon that has quite accurately been described as the most significant German contribution to 20th century European art. Beside a number of famous names, including Beckmann, Heckel,…
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Dietmar Elger ExpressionismGerman Expressionists were uneasy and angry. Emerging at the dawn of the 20th century, they railed against Christian and bourgeois values as much as rampant urban industrialization. Anti-imperialist, they were dispersed, shattered, ...
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Giorgio Moroder, Alessandro Benedetti Extraordinary Records ENThis original collection features the most remarkable vinyl artifacts ever produced: a connoisseur's selection of records in a plethora of colors, shapes, and forms, imprinted with extraordinary effects and images. Produced in collaboration with Colors magazine, this book showcases over 500 of the most exceptional records owned by leading collectors Alessandro Benedetti and Peter Bastine. Featuring the recordings of…
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Giorgio Moroder Extraordinary RecordsNow available as part of TASCHEN’s Bibliotheca Universalis series, this dazzling catalog of vinyl brings new meaning to the “album art.” Produced in collaboration with Colors magazine, it brings together over 500 remarkable records from the collection of Alessandro Benedetti and Peter Bastine. The book forms a junction between photography, music, and design, celebrating vinyl not only for the integrity of sound…
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Moss Lipow Eyewear ENFor over two decades eyewear designer Moss Lipow trawled eBay, auction houses, garage sales, and flea markets worldwide, amassing glasses and photographs for his renowned collection. This book traces eyewear’s journey over the past 500 years, and features the finest examples from Lipow’s collection as well aspieces from preeminent collections around the world. There is a wealth of examples included herein—from a…
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Rose-Marie Hagen Faces of PowerBehind the Mask. The intrigue, drama, and covert messages hidden in the faces of powerful men and women, Byzantine empresses, French revolutionaries, and Spanish generals: history's most impressive figures stare boldly out of the canvases in this collection of formidable paintings. Each individual represented in these images radiates with strength and splendor; be they an aristocratic widow in mourning, a murdered…
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Family Houses ENFamily Houses presents a compilation of examples of the emerging residential architecture, which are linked by the manner in which they propose innovative and experimental solutions. Refinement in the selection of finishes, restraint in the distribution of rooms, and pains taken in integrating these spaces into their surroundings represent just some of the skills exercised by their designers.
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Fantastic Art ENThis book brings together a colorful mixture of various works focusing on themes of the fantastic and surreal, starting with Böcklin's Toteninsel and including Dorothea Tanning, Max Ernst, Hans Bellmer’s dolls, the Australian painter Sidney Nolan, Giger's monsters, Cattelan's pope, and the Chapman brothers’ hybrids, as well as surreal painting from Magritte and Delvaux, the mystical and sensual work of Gustav Klimt,…
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Angelika Taschen, John Maizels Fantasy Worlds ENOne day, Ferdinand Cheval, a French postman, came across a stone at Hauterives near Lyon, and was fascinated by its strange, evocative shape. He spent the next three decades collecting stones, shells, and fossils, and used them to build the Palais idéal. Cheval’s palace is one of many works of architectural fantasy in this book, the result of over 20 years’ research by celebrated architectural photographer Deidi von…
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Fashion ENClothes define people. A person’s attire, whether it’s a sari, kimono, or business suit, is an essential code to his or her culture, class, personality, even faith. Founded in 1978, the Kyoto Costume Institute recognizes the importance of understanding clothes from sociological, historical, and artistic perspectives. With one of the world’s most extensive clothing collections, the KCI has amassed a wide range of…
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