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Andrey Tarkovsky (1932-1986) is one of the eminent film makers of the 20th century. The five feature films he directed in the Soviet Union-among them Andrei Rublev, Solaris, and Stalker-brought him international fame. Evading censorship and mounting pressure by Soviet authorities, he did not return to the Soviet Union after completing Nostalghia in Tuscany in 1983. His final film, The Sacrifice, was shot in Sweden in 1985. Compiled and edited by Tarkovsky's son Andrey Jr., film historian and critic Hans-Joachim Schlegel, and Lothar Schirmer, our book pays homage to a great visionary who though in poetic and, at times, disturbing images of near-biblical intensity. It features stills and documentary photos from each of his films, a rich selection of Tarkovsky's own writings, private photographs from the family album, as well as Polaroids from Russia and Italy. A compilation of prominent voices who have commented on Tarkovsky's work and personality-including Jean-Paul Sartre, Ingmar Bergman, and Aleksandr Sokurov-rounds out the volume. |
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Globetrotting filmmaker Wim Wenders always takes his old panorama camera with him, using it whenever the sheer wealth of what he sees and the impression it leaves on him breaks the normal scale of things. Infinite landscapes, endless horizons, deserts, and mountain ranges overwhelm by their emptiness and silence, street fronts in Havana, Houston, Berlin, or Jerusalem offer deep insights into the shallows of civilization. Wenders' photographs are pictures of a world almost devoid of humans, a natural or man-made world viewed from a distance. They shed light on the many guises the surface of the earth dons and attest to Wenders' contemplative and amazed gaze. This gaze, of course, didn't stop at September 11 and delivered haunting photos of Ground Zero taken shortly after the attack. With poetic comments by the artist on all the pictures, the book is both a portrait of the world as encountered by the photographer and a portrait of the photographer as reflected in his vision of the world. |
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L.A. Style traces the life and career of the iconic Californian photographer through a compelling selection of renowned, as well as previously unpublished, photographs and two insightful essays. |
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The first joint project of photographer Bettina Rheims and writer/art critic Serge Bramly. The cultivated literary confessions of Monsieur X, a perfectly discreet voyeur with an obsessive curiosity about the female body, are set against photographs speaking a far clearer language that tells of female eroticism and exhibitionism as no one else does. |
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When 24-year old Henri Cartier-Bresson acquired a Leica camera in 1932, his casual interest in photography turned into passion. This volume explores the photographer’s early work documenting the poor and disenfranchised in Italy, Spain, Eastern Europe, and Mexico. Marked by tangible empathy and solidarity with the models, it is an original body of work to be rediscovered. |
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Rarely published and virtually inaccessible until the collapse of the Sovjet regime, some of the most radical modernist buildings of the 20th century were completed in the decade following the revolution and civil war, to serve new social goals of communal life. Richard Pare’s photographs retrieve these architectural gems, some still in use but many now abandoned and decayed. |
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Photographer Eve Arnold, grande dame of Magnum agency, was one of Marilyn’s few confidantes, watching (over) her for long periods of time and from close distance. Arnold’s pictures present Marilyn at her most relaxed, natural and unstyled, her written memories provide a private look behind the scenes. Together they convey the special trust and friendship between both women. German text. |
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42 selected master works by legendary Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. A special bargain in first-class Schirmer/Mosel quality. |
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Recently sold at Christie’s, Holly Golightly’s black Givenchy dress (and its enchanting wearer) remain available for admiration in this volume presenting movie shots from Breakfast at Tiffany’s and fashion shots with Audrey Hepburn taken by Howell Conant, a long-time friend of Grace Kelly’s and the official court photographer to the Grimaldis. |
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«A Best of… survey of the most soughtafter French nude and portrait photographer who makes the female body the central focus of her work. Featuring highly praised and fiercely disputed series such as «Chambre close» (women posing for an imaginary voyeur); KIM (a documentary on a transsexual); I.N.R.I. (a sequence on the life of Christ); women in modern Shanghai, and, most recently, «Heroines».» |
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Our Marilyn Monroe classic, now available in a low-price special hardcover edition. Marilyn posing for nearly every major photographer: Avedon, Beaton, Erwitt, Cartier-Bresson and others; Marilyn in all her moods: young and carefree, sexy and serious; glamorous and girl-next-door; and Marilyn in her own words in a 1960 interview conducted by Georges Belmont. |
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The 50 most famous iconic photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson, doyen of picture journalism. |
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Through their inimitable mixture of eroticism, subdued elegance and decadent luxury, Newton's pictures reflect in the highest aesthetic quality an obsession with human vanity — from female exhibitionism to male voyeurism. With technical perfection, an extremely detailed style and a relentless directness, Newton staged the neverending psychodrama that contrasts glamour with the need for admiration, self-confidence with the desire for self-presentation, and Eros with Thanatos. Private Property was originally a three-part portfolio containing 45 black-and-white photographs. It includes Newton's best work from the period 1972-1983 — an exquisite assortment of fashion shots, portraits, and erotic motifs which are all based on real locations and luxurious life styles. The entire sequence of picture from the Private Property portfolio is included in our book which first appeared in 1989. |
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Famous for her unusual portraits of women and female nudes, French photographer Bettina Rheims focus is the visualization of female eroticism. She will be celebrated in a major travelling retrospective starting in Helsinki in February 2004. This accompanying book provides a representative overview of her work created between 1979 and 2002. |
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With a characteristic mix of humor, vitality, and eroticism, German photographer Roswitha Hecke has created a body of sensitive portraits and reports spanning forty years, four continents and all aspects of human life: German theater, French cinema, Zurich prostitutes, Paris transvestites, a Bronx private eye or the homeless on the Bowery. This volume accompanies a major retrospective in Berlin. German text. |
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The most recent volume of this popular series on “Human History in Aerial Photographs” features 20th-century wonders of technology, from Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia to skycrapers in New York and the Golden Gate Bridge, the Sydney Opera, the London Swiss Re Tower, and the Viaduct de Millau in Southern France. |
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