(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

Nudes, portraits, still lives, narratives: loyal to his Leica, Ralph Gibson ranges between genres and creates new categories of vision. The most comprehensive collection of this highly acclaimed and prolific American photographer, this book offers the fruit of six decades of image-making.

(Hardback)

The Dutch Golden Age spawned some of history's greatest artists and artisans, but few can boast the genius of Rembrandt. This XL-sized monograph gathers the artist's 330 paintings in exquisite reproductions and details that reveal how Rembrandt's painted works are built of intricacies-the totality of each subtle wrinkle, gaze, or figure.

(Hardback)

An album cover collection exploring 70 years of surprising, shocking and frankly hilarious nude and provocative art. Sexy covers sold all musical genres, from funk to punk, and the silly German schlager. Comedy albums range from mid-century "stag party" pin-ups to the undeniably raunchy '70s sensation, Blowfly. Steamy, seamy and adults only.

(Hardback)

Featuring essays, interviews and over 400 images, from cave paintings to contemporary works of channeled art, Spirit Worlds steps through darkened doorways and into the labyrinths that lead to the mysterious, to kingdoms of the afterlife and to communion with denizens of dimensions, just beyond our own.

(Hardback)

Trace the hidden history of Tarot in this pocket-sized volume from TASCHEN's Library of Esoterica. Artfully arranged according to the sequencing of the Major and Minor Arcana, this visual compendium gathers hundreds of cards and works of original art from around the world in the ultimate exploration of a centuries-old art form.

(Hardback)

Trace the hidden history of Tarot in this pocket-sized volume from TASCHEN's Library of Esoterica. Artfully arranged according to the sequencing of the Major and Minor Arcana, this visual compendium gathers hundreds of cards and works of original art from around the world in the ultimate exploration of a centuries-old art form.

(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

From the 17th century to the advent of the digital age, color theories have been illustrated with opulent wheels, polychrome charts, and meticulous diagrams. Gathering over 40 works from around the world, with more than 350 images, this edition traces the many hues of a subject that inspired Newton, Goethe, Sanzo Wada, the Bauhaus, and many more.

(Hardback)

Exemplary packaging blends creativity and sustainability with great brand storytelling. The eighth edition of The Package Design Book showcases the winners of the 2023/24 Pentawards competition, the industry's biggest accolades. All groundbreaking designs, many explore new materials, greener "no-trace" solutions, and smart and connected packaging.

(Hardback)

An unparalleled account of the life and times of Stan Lee, written and edited with the Godfather of comics himself. His tale is told by Roy Thomas, who brings "you are there" insights to Lee's journey alongside never-before-seen photographs, original comic art, and rare comicbook facsimiles-a tribute worthy of the Man.

(Hardback)

The space battles, the lightsaber duels, and the startling delineation of alien cultures and environments in Star Wars have fascinated generations of viewers, but it is the psychological richness of the characters that give the movies an emotional resonance. This book features script pages, concept art, storyboards, on-set photography, and more.

(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

With her music and boundless passion for life, Tina Turner enchanted millions of fans around the world and inspired the stars of tomorrow. Peter Lindbergh was a lifelong friend of the Queen of Rock 'n' Roll and shot intimate portraits of her over many years.

(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

The complete adventures of Kake, Tom of Finland's ultimate leatherman, who travelled the world on his motorcycle spreading the gift of ecstatically explicit gay sex. See Tom's own personal fantasies lived out in these 26 episodes of mustaches, muscles and liberated libido, now some of the most famous cartoons in the history of gay art.

(Hardback)

Think Valentino: think luxury. Think elegance. This book traces the illustrious career of fashion's most exciting couturier through copious images from his archives, including drawings, magazine editorial shoots, advertisements, portraits, and documentary photographs to provide an in-depth look at the man, his lifestyle, and his genius.

(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

Open the door into 100 of the most beautiful and pioneering houses of the past two decades. With featured architects including Daniel Libeskind, Herzog & de Meuron, and Zaha Hadid, this is a dependable global digest of the nuances, challenges, and opportunities of turning all the emotional and practical requirements of "home" into a constructed actuality.

(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

Wood is having a great renaissance in global architecture. How has this elemental material become so popular, from luxury hot spring buildings to modern urban renewal plans With 100 projects from Chile to China, this global survey explores the technical, environmental, and sensory elements that have inspired a return to timber.

(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

Drawn from our Illustration Now! series, this book surveys 100 of the makers and shapers of the illustration scene. With featured artists including Istvan Banyai, Mirko Ilic, Anita Kunz, and Christoph Niemann, the international overview provides an invigorating record of the dynamism and diversity of the genre with a self-portrait, portfolio samples, and description for each illustrator.

(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

In this illustrated fashion story, 400 fashion advertisements from the Jim Heimann Collection trace not only the changing trends and silhouettes of the 20th century but also the evolution in their marketing, as fashion developed from an exclusive Parisian salon business into today's global mega-industry.

(Hardback)

A Hulk-sized tome spanning eight decades of the heroic rise of Marvel as it magically mutated from 1939s four-color upstart to a 1960s pop-culture dynamo to current Hollywood heavy hitter. With essays by comics historian Roy Thomas and a huge fold-out timeline that chronicles the entire Marvel history

(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

Art meets science in this far-reaching catalogue of botanical illustration. Drawn from the vaults of the National Library of Vienna, these exquisite color reproductions range from 6th-century manuscripts to 19th-century masterpieces and celebrate both the skill of botanical artists and the abundance of natural flora.

(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

Meet the full range of Albert Oehlen's artistic approaches from his early work to the present day. Whether paintings with mirrors, in primary colors or only in gray, heavily pixelated computer paintings or garish poster ads on canvases: more than 400 featured works attest to the audacious and innovative strategies that have secured Oehlen's place as the "most resourceful abstract painter alive."

(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

American pioneer Alfred Stieglitz defined early 20th-century photography, creating the school of "Photo Secessionism" and founding cult art, literature, and avant-garde photo journal Camera Work. This beautiful book reproduces the entire 50-issue run, originally published between 1903 and 1917-a benchmark of photography as art form.

(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

Find yourself up close and personal with the King. This collection brings together over 300 photographs of Elvis from the legendary portfolio of Alfred Wertheimer. Extraordinary in their intimacy and unparalleled in scope, these pictures immortalize a young man in the very process of making history.

(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

Produced by the Detroit Photographic Company between 1888 and 1924, these rediscovered Photochrom and Photostint postcard images are the very first color pictures of North America. An unparalleled voyage across peoples, places, and time unfolds in this sweeping panorama that ranges from Native American settlements to New York's Chinatown, from the Grand Canyon to Atlantic City.

(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

Discover the master of Modernist simplicity in this overview of Tadao Ando's entire career. Following the architect from his beginnings in 1975 to today, this updated tribute profiles each structure through fresh photographs and drawings, and includes such new projects as the He Art Museum in Foshan, China, and the Bourse de Commerce in Paris.