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Sebastião Salgado Kuwait ENIn January and February 1991, as the United States-led coalition drove Iraqi forces out of Kuwait, Saddam Hussein’s troops retaliated with an inferno. At some 700 oil wells and an unspecified number of oil-filled low-lying areas they ignited vast, raging fires, sending billowing black clouds over the region and thousands of tons of nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. As the desperate efforts to…
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David LaChapelle LaChapelle, Heaven to Hell ENLaChapelle Heaven to Hell is the long-awaited third volume in an exhilarating trilogy that began with LaChapelle Land (1996) and continued with the infamous Hotel LaChapelle (1999). Packed with astonishing, color-saturated, and provocative images, those titles both became instant collector’s items and have since gone through multiple printings. Featuring almost twice as many images as its predecessors, LaChapelle…
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Latin American Graphic Design ENComprised of 20 countries located in North, South, and Central America as well as the Caribbean Islands, Latin America is populated by over 500 million people. From Argentina to Mexico, all Latin American countries are Spanish-speaking with the exception of Portuguese-speaking Brazil. Latin America has been producing a very unique form of graphic expression for decades and this historical publication brings together…
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Dian Hanson Laurent BenaimHis models, he insists, run the show, bringing their uncommon interests to his studio; he acts only as witness and documentarian, offering his creative encouragement and nonjudgmental camera. He shoots only amateurs, people whose lives range ...
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Lautner ENAmerican architect John Lautner (1911-1994) is responsible for some of the most original buildings of the space age and, indeed, the 20th century. The residences he designed in the Los Angeles area, including the Chemosphere House and the Silvertop, are synonymous with the hopes and dreams of an entire era. Characterized by sweeping rooflines, glass-paneled walls, and steel beams, his buildings displayed a…
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Jean-Louis Cohen Le Corbusier CZLen málo architektov vyjadrilo svoje nádeje a sklamania z industriálneho veku tak výstižne ako Le Corbusier. A iba málo súčasníkov dokázalo tak šokovať. Le Corbusier postavil 75 jednotlivých stavieb v dvanástich krajinách sveta a vypracoval 42 významných plánov mestskej výstavby. Táto kniha predstavuje prostredníctvom fotografií a nákresov prácu umelca, ktorého posmrtná sláva narástla do obrovských rozmerov.
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Jean-Louis Cohen Le Corbusier ENArchitectural poetry in the machine ageArchitecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of volumes brought together in light. — Le Corbusier Born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, Le Corbusier (1887-1965) adopted his famous pseudonym after publishing his ideas in the review L'Esprit Nouveau in 1920. The few buildings he was able to design during the 1920s, when he also spent much of his time painting and…
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Gilles Néret Lempicka ENTamara de Lempicka (1898-1980) študovala v centre sofistikovaného parížskeho umeleckého sveta 20. a 30. rokov 20. storočia. Jej láska ku kráse ženy, elegancii automobilov a modernosti veľkomesta neovplyvňujú len motívy jej obrazov, ale celý umelecký štýl. Zároveň s kariérou umelkyne je Tamara de Lempicka považovaná za pionierku novej podoby života na plátne, úplne nového subjektívne ženského, v ktorom sa…
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Angelika Taschen Leni Riefenstahl - Africa ENWhen she was in her early sixties, Leni Riefenstahl began traveling frequently to the African continent, where she has worked on various film and photography projects over the last half century. Her favorite destination was in Sudan, where she lived with and photographed the Nuba tribespeople, learning their language and becoming their friend. The Nuba were a loving and peaceful people who welcomed Riefenstahl as…
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Frank Zöllner Leonardo CZLeonardo da Vinci maliar, vynálezca, vedec a spisovateľ, ktorý je považovaný za génia renesančnej doby. Vytvoril množstvo zaujímavých kompozícií, experimentoval s maliarskymi technikami, s výrazovými prostriedkami a dámam na obrazoch dával záhadný úsmev, ktorý fascinuje dodnes. Medzi jeho najznámejšie diela patrí freska Posledného súdu v Miláne, obrazy Mony Lisy, Dámy s hranostajom a ilustrácie k príbehom Nového…
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Frank Zöllner Leonardo ENLeonardo da Vinci maliar, vynálezca, vedec a spisovateľ, ktorý je považovaný za génia renesančnej doby. Vytvoril množstvo zaujímavých kompozícií, experimentoval s maliarskymi technikami, s výrazovými prostriedkami a dámam na obrazoch dával záhadný úsmev, ktorý fascinuje dodnes. Medzi jeho najznámejšie diela patrí freska Posledného súdu v Miláne, obrazy Mony Lisy, Dámy s hranostajom a ilustrácie k príbehom Nového…
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Frank Zöllner LeonardoFor the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci, this updated edition of our XL title provides the most comprehensive survey of the life and work of the master painter, sculptor, architect, and inventor...
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Frank Zöllner Leonardo da Vinci CZVýznam Leonarda daVinciho je pre celé nasledujúce generácie umelcov, architektov a vedcov rôznych odborov neoceniteľný. Rozsah jeho záujmov, mnohostranný umelecký talent a schopnosť preniknúť do hĺbky skúmaného vedeckého alebo technického problému udivuje dodnes. Kniha Leonardo da Vinci prináša úplné dielo tohto talianskeho maliara, sochára, architekta, inžiniera a vedca. Uspokojí aj tých, ktorí obdivujú…
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Frank Zöllner Leonardo da Vinci ENLeonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) possessed one of the greatest minds of all time; his importance and influence are inestimable. This XXL-format comprehensive survey is the most complete book ever made on the subject of this Italian painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, scientist and all-around genius. With huge, full-bleed details of Leonardo's masterworks, this highly original publication allows the reader to…
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Frank Zöllner Leonardo da VinciThe paintings of a renaissance master Inventor, painter, sculptor, scientist, architect, and engineer Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) was nothing short of a quintessential Renaissance genius. No other artist of his generation ...
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Frank Zöllner, Johannes Nathan Leonardo da Vinci – The Complete Paintings and Drawings ENKvalitne spracovaná monografia Leonarda da Vinciho v neobvykle velkom formate, ktorý dá vyniknúť všetkým detailom jeho diela. Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) possessed one of the greatest minds of all time; his importance and influence are inestimable. This XXL-format comprehensive survey is the most complete book ever made on the subject of this Italian painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, scientist and all…
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Lesbians for Men ENMen love girls who love girls: 125 years of faux lesbian fantasy photography. Straight men have always had a thing for lesbians, or more correctly, for essentially straight women willing to do other women for their viewing pleasure. When a man sees two women together there’s no jealousy that another man’s getting the woman he can’t, as with heterosexual porn, just the joy of everything he likes times two, and the…
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Joep Pohlen Letter Fountain ENLooking back as far as man’s first efforts to communicate with visual signs and drawings, Letter Fountain is a completely unique typeface handbook, now available at a bargain student price. In addition to examining the form and anatomy of every letter in the alphabet, punctuation marks and special characters, the book examines over 150 typefaces, their origins, and font characteristics, visually explained by full…
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Elisabeth Sladek, Georg Ruppelt LibrariesFrom the mighty halls of ancient Alexandria to a camel bookmobile on the Kenyan-Somali border, human beings have had a long, enraptured relationship with libraries. Like no other concept and like no other space, the collection of knowledge, learning, and
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Frans Lanting LIFE - A Journey Through Time ENIn the year 2000, world-renowned wildlife photographer Frans Lanting set out on a personal journey to photograph the evolution of life on earth. He made pilgrimages to true time capsules like a remote lagoon in Western Australia, spent time in research collections photographing forms of microscopic life, and even found ways to create visual parallels between the growth of organs in the human body and the patterns…
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Linda McCartney, Annie Leibovitz, Martin Harrison, Alison Castle Life in Photographs DEIn 1966, during a brief stint as a receptionist for Town and Country magazine, Linda Eastman snagged a press pass to a very exclusive promotional event for the Rolling Stones aboard a yacht on the Hudson River., With her fresh, candid photographs of the band, far superior to the formal shots made by the band’s official photographer, Linda secured her name as a rock ’n’ roll photographer. Two years later, in May 1968…
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Linda McCartney Linda Mccartney ENIn 1966, during a brief stint as a receptionist for Town and Country magazine, Linda Eastman snagged a press pass to a very exclusive promotional event for the Rolling Stones aboard a yacht on the Hudson River; her fresh, candid photographs of the band were far superior to the formal shots made by the band’s official photographer, and she was instantly on the way to making a name for herself as a top rock ’n’ roll…