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Frans Lanting Penguin ENThis title lets you come eye to eye with the survival artists of the icy wilderness. Penguin is a celebration of the nature and beauty of penguins as expressed through the exquisite images and unique personal stories of master photographer and naturalist Frans Lanting. In a remarkable portfolio of photographs made during three expeditions to the icy kingdoms of penguins, he reveals both the amazing natural history…
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Steven M.L. Aronson, Owen Edwards, Nejma Beard Peter Beard ENGuts and glory. This is a stunning journey into the world of Peter Beard. Photographer, collector, diarist, and writer of books Peter Beard has fashioned his life into a work of art; the illustrated diaries he kept from a young age evolved into a serious career as an artist and earned him a central position in the international art world. He was painted by Francis Bacon, painted on by Salvador Dali, and made diaries…
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Hans-Michael Koetzle Photo Icons ENPhotographs have a strange and powerful way of shaping the way we see the world and influencing our perceptions of reality. To demonstrate the unique and profound influence on culture and society that photographs have, Photo Icons puts the most important landmarks in the history of photography under the microscope.
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David Hockney Photo, Blossfeldt ENA Bigger Book, TASCHEN’s SUMO-sized David Hockney monograph, is as spectacular in format as it is in scope. In it, the artist takes stock of more than 60 years of work, from his teenage days at the Bradford School of Art, through his breakthrough in 1960s Swinging London, life by Los Angeles pools in the 1970s, up to his recent extensive series of portraits, iPad drawings, and Yorkshire landscapes. Never before has…
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Hans-Michael Koetzle Photographers A - Z ENArranged alphabetically, this biographical encyclopedia features every major photographer of the 20th century alongside her or his most significant monographs. From the earliest representatives of classical Modernism right up to the present day, Photographers A–Z celebrates those photographers who have distinguished themselves with important publications or exhibitions, and who have made a significant contribution…
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Dennis Hopper, Tony Shafrazi Photographs 1961-1967A reluctant icon captures a decade of cultural transformation. During the 1960s, Dennis Hopper carried a camera everywhere―on film sets and locations, at parties, in diners, bars and galleries, driving on freeways and walking on political marches...
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Philip Jodidio Piano ENThe array of buildings by Renzo Piano is staggering in scope and comprehensive in the diversity of scale, material, and form. He is truly an architect whose sensibilities represent the widest range of this and earlier centuries. Such was the description of Renzo Piano given by the Pritzker Prize jury citation as they bestowed the prestigious award on him in 1998. Whereas some architects have a signature style, what…
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Philip Jodidio Piano - Renzo Building Workshop 1966 to today ENThe array of buildings by Renzo Piano is staggering in scope and comprehensive in the diversity of scale, material, and form. He is truly an architect whose sensibilities represent the widest range of this and earlier centuries. Such was the description of Renzo Piano given by the Pritzker Prize jury citation as they bestowed the prestigious award on him in 1998.Whereas some architects have a signature style, what…
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Picasso ENI wanted to be a painter, and I became Picasso, declared Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) in an apt survey of a triumphant career. He had good grounds for the confidence palpable in his statement, for in the history of 20th century art, his name stands out over all the others. In Picasso’s paintings, drawings, lithographs, ceramics, and sculptures, he was tirelessly inventive and innovative, exhibiting an aesthetic bravado…
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Pierre et Gilles ENAs sweet as raspberry ripple, as tempting as popcorn: welcome to the seductive photographs of Pierre et Gilles. Bizarre and full of obscure significance, full of glitter, flowers, and hearts, the portraits are reminiscent of stills from film melodramas. This saccharine collection of kitsch encompasses selections of Pierre et Gilles’s best work.
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Dionýz Dugas Pierre KoenigThere are few images of 20th-century architecture more iconic than the nighttime view of Case Study House #22. At its eagle’s nest promontory above Los Angeles, the building is a vision of streamlined glass and steel, its slick lines echoing the twinkling city boulevards below. With this and his other equally innovative build for the famous project of the Arts & Architecture magazine, American architect Pierre…
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Gilles Néret Pierre-Auguste Renoir 1841-1919. Painter of Happiness ENNajkompletnejšia monografia diela Augusta Renoira... Auguste Renoir's timelessly charming paintings are the embodiment of happiness, love, and beauty. TASCHEN's Renoir, the most complete retrospective book of this painter's work, examines in detail the history and motivation behind the legend. Though he began his career painting landscapes in the impressionist style, Renoir (1841-1919) found his true affinity…
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Gil Elvgren Pin-UpsCurate your home. Print Set Gil Elvgren, Pin-Ups. This inspiring print set offers sixteen designs to transform a blank wall into a personalized display. Each set of sixteen images has been specially selected from the TASCHEN ...
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Mark Ryden Pinxit ENMark Ryden s carnival of curiosities: Fuzzy bunnies, big-eyed girls, meat, magic, and mystery. Blending themes of pop culture with techniques reminiscent of the old masters, Mark Ryden has created a singular style that blurs the traditional boundaries between high and low art. His work first garnered attention in the 1990s when he ushered in a new genre of painting, Pop Surrealism, dragging a host of followers in…
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Piranesi ENOne the greatest architectural artists of all time, and certainly the most famous copper engraver of the 18th century, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) is most known for his terrifyingly original series of etchings of labyrinthine and megalomaniac prisons, Carceri d'Invenzione. In his own day, he was most celebrated for his Vedute, 137 etchings of ancient and modern Rome; so renowned were these startling and…
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Pirelli ENThe notoriously exclusive Pirelli Calendar, featuring glamorous shots of beautiful women, was first published in 1964. Reserved for important clients and VIPs, the calendar has since grown into a legend of its own, showcasing the beauty of models such as Alessandra Ambrosio, Gisele Bundchen, Naomi Campbell, Laetitia Casta, Cindy Crawford. Penelope Cruz, Milla Jovovich, Heidi Klum, Angela Lindvall, Sophia Loren, and…
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Playboy Book - 50 Years ENRelive Playboy's fifty-year history with this sweeping retrospective of the groundbreaking magazine that grew from Hugh Hefner's pet project into an icon as recognizable as Disney and Coca-Cola. Visit Hef's Playboy Mansion, canoodle with his delectable Bunnies, tour the DC-9 Big Bunny jet, experience the sizzling atmosphere of the Playboy Clubs, read the best Playboy interviews, original fiction, and humor, cackle…
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Polaroid Book ENIn existence for over 50 years, the Polaroid Corporation's photography collection is the greatest collection of Polaroid images in the world. Begun by Polaroid founder Edwin Land and photographer Ansel Adams, the collection now includes images by hundreds of photographers throughout the world and contains important pieces by artists such as David Hockney, Helmut Newton, Jeanloup Sieff, and Robert Rauschenberg. The…
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Helmut Newton Polaroids ENPolaroids occupy a special place in the hearts of many photo enthusiasts who remember a time when instant photography meant one-of-a-kind prints that developed within minutes of clicking the shutter. What was once a crucial tool for photographers to test their shots before shooting on film has now become obsolete in the face of digital photography. Luckily for us, legendary photographer Helmut Newton saved his test…
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Leonhard Emmerling Pollock ENA tragic icon of Abstract Expressionism, Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) took influences from Picasso and Mexican surrealism and developed his own way of seeing, interpreting, and expressing. Though his name inevitably conjures up images of the drip paintings for which he is most famous, this technique was only developed midway through his career. The progression from his earlier work to his final action paintings —a…
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Graziella Roccella Ponti ENItalian architect and designer Gio Ponti (1891–1979) was the creator of a multifaceted oeuvre. Starting off with ceramics and majolika works at the First International Exhibition of Decorative Arts in Monza, he moved on to furniture and interior design and built structures of all kinds, from small residential dwellings to high rise buildings, schools, and office blocks. One of his great interests was the theme of…
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Tilman Osterwold Pop Art ENEverything is beautiful, raved Andy Warhol, in raptures at the glamour of modern life, consumer society, and the world of the media and its stars; his proclamation can be considered the maxim of the pop generation, which included artists Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenberg, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Tom Wesselmann, and Richard Hamilton, among others. The pop artists of the 1960s had a…
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Klaus Honnef Pop-art CZĎalšia z knižiek z obľúbenej edície o umelcoch a umení prináša pohľad na najznámejšie osobnosti smeru pop-art, ktorýsa inšpiroval súčasnoumestskoucivilizáciou, najmä reklamou,populárnymi obrázkovýmičasopismi a pod. Všednosťnahrádzanádherou, predmety hromadnej výroby nadobúdajú rovnakú dôležitosť ako individuálne kusy, stráca sa rozdiel medzi vysokou a ľudovou kultúrou. Pop-art svojím vlastným vtipným…