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Flower power. Master photographer Ron van Dongen gives the most beautiful and intimate view of the tulip that I've seen.
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The first time I saw images by photography pioneer Karl Blossfeldt Karl Blossfeldt I instantly felt as if I understood some deep secret about the private world of plants.
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I alway take a book with me to the beach. I've been lusting after this one for a while. Need it in my collection.
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so sweetly sentimental...
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Photographer and Fulbright Scholar Don Farber has been chronicling Buddhist life since 1977. This inspirational documentary celebrates the life of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and his extraordinary impact on the modern world.
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One of the world's most respected fashion photographers, Bruce Weber's work has featured in a number of international magazines, such as Vogue, GQ, and Vanity Fair.
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Travel photographer Tom Carter spent 2 years backpacking across the 33 provinces in China, one of the only foreigners in the history of China to do so. This massive book of photographs captures life and humanity in modern China.
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Britain and Ireland through the National Geographic lens. Goes perfectly with Irish Coffee.
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Great screen, nice keyboard, fast processor, not plastic, great battery life, can run Windows if you need to do so, GREAT customer service. No Blu-Ray. Lets face it, you do not need it and it is buggy and a dying technology.
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We watched the It Twins evolve into adults, choosing projects and pursuing passions both together and apart. That they devote one of the four chapters of this book to "Giving Back" says more about them than the paparazzi ever hav... We watched the It Twins evolve into adults, choosing projects and pursuing passions both together and apart. That they devote one of the four chapters of this book to "Giving Back" says more about them than the paparazzi ever have.
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A must read and I have been meaning to tell you about it for 4 months. Marcel Wanders is a most influential, prolific and celebrated international designer. He is a bit quirky and evokes imagination.
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A look back at what has been lost on the road to modernity.
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.. if you remotely like dogs.. I'll love this book!! A-ma-zing. (oh, he has one on horses too.)
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everyone can learn something new sometime
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The definitive book on the life of the legendary photographer Herb Ritts, with never-before-seen images and interviews with his closest confidants. At the time of his death in 2002, Herb Ritts was among the most celebrated photogr... The definitive book on the life of the legendary photographer Herb Ritts, with never-before-seen images and interviews with his closest confidants. At the time of his death in 2002, Herb Ritts was among the most celebrated photographers in celebrity portraiture, fashion, and music videos. During a career that spanned nearly thirty years, he was virtually in a league of his own in terms of style and productivity. Ritts was Hollywood royalty, as were his closest friends and the subjects he photographed. The Golden Hour reveals for the first time the personal aspects of Ritts’s world, work, and legacy. The book includes many never-before-seen photographs and scores of interviews from business associates, curators, staff, lovers, and family, such as Cindy Crawford, Elton John, Anna Wintour, Madonna, Calvin Klein, and Christopher Buckley (Ritts’s college roommate). The book includes images from Ritts’s personal archive—behind the scenes at photo shoots, parties, travels, intimate portraits, and moments with friends—along with notes and contact sheets that show how ideas became his best-known iconic images. $40.95
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The clothes we wear invariably telegraph information about our identity, our place in society and the stories we wish to convey about ourselves. The fantastically colorful costumes specific to African and Caribbean rituals and cel... The clothes we wear invariably telegraph information about our identity, our place in society and the stories we wish to convey about ourselves. The fantastically colorful costumes specific to African and Caribbean rituals and celebrations go several steps further, transforming ordinary people into mythic figures and magicians, tricksters and gods, and symbolizing the roles their wearers play in the ancient dramas that form the cornerstones of their cultural heritage. Phyllis Galembo began photographing the characters and costumes of African masquerade in Nigeria in 1985, and since then she has continued developing her theme throughout Africa and the Caribbean. This volume collects 108 thrilling carnival photographs from Nigeria, Benin, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, Zambia and Haiti. In magnificent color shots, Galembo's subjects pose in striped bodysuits that cover the entire body, including the face; or outfits made entirely of bunched greenery; or a lacquered wooden mask topped with a headdress featuring full-body models of other characters; or an oversize misshapen animal head and plywood wings. The carnival characters, rooted in African religion and spirituality, are presented in chapters organized by tribal or carnival tradition and are accompanied by Galembo's personal commentary, shedding light on the characters and costumes portrayed, and on the events in which they play a pivotal role. Maske is a serious contribution to ethnographic study, a photo-essay about fashion and an assembly of superb images.
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In her celebration of Halloween revelry, photographer Phyllis Galembo never settles for the ordinary; here instead are evocative scenes of dressed-to-scare young trick-or-treaters "modeling" their disguises, of undead spirits haun... In her celebration of Halloween revelry, photographer Phyllis Galembo never settles for the ordinary; here instead are evocative scenes of dressed-to-scare young trick-or-treaters "modeling" their disguises, of undead spirits haunting their surroundings, and of costumes spanning over a century that take on an eerie new creepiness thanks to special lighting effects. Accompanying the costume shots is a history of this always-popular holiday and an essay placing the work in the wider context of fashion and costume. Of interest to enthusiasts, designers, and students alike, this devilishly diverting book is the perfect gift for all Halloween aficionados.
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nice work if you can get it,
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This major, long out-of-print survey, widely regarded as the definitive overview of Mapplethorpe's black-and-white photography. It presents a comprehensive selection of Mapplethorpe's nudes, portraits, self-portraits, floral still... This major, long out-of-print survey, widely regarded as the definitive overview of Mapplethorpe's black-and-white photography. It presents a comprehensive selection of Mapplethorpe's nudes, portraits, self-portraits, floral still lifes and other works, including his best known and most controversial images.
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There's more than one of everything, even when we are trying hard to be individuals, mavericks, outsiders or rebels there will always be a group that we fit into. In Exactitudes Arie Versluis and stylist Elly Yttenbroek illustrate... There's more than one of everything, even when we are trying hard to be individuals, mavericks, outsiders or rebels there will always be a group that we fit into. In Exactitudes Arie Versluis and stylist Elly Yttenbroek illustrates this with a wide-range of different groups of people.
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Mary Ellen Mark has worked on over a hundred film sets since 1968, including such legendary productions as Apocalypse Now, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Gandhi, Moulin Rouge, Babel and Sweeney Todd.
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One of the most dashing figures of mid-century Italy, Mollino was renowned both for his sleek, ultramodern furniture design and architecture and for his refined hedonism; he was a drug addict who raced cars and flew his own plane.... One of the most dashing figures of mid-century Italy, Mollino was renowned both for his sleek, ultramodern furniture design and architecture and for his refined hedonism; he was a drug addict who raced cars and flew his own plane. Sometime around 1960, Mollino began to seek out women, mostly prostitutes, in his native Turin, bringing them to his villa for late-night modeling sessions, where they posed for Polaroid photographs, against backgrounds that he designed. The pictures remained a secret between Mollino and his subjects until after his death, in 1973, when some two thousand were found. This lavish selection of several hundred Polaroids preserves the essential mystery of a project both decadent and hermetic. Though clearly the product of a deep obsession, the photographs are deliberately impersonal, each baroque detail an invitation for the viewer to imagine Mollino's encounters with the women.
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I never understood what the big stink was about The Sartorialist website. A bunch of pictures of real people on a blog. Anyone can do that, right? Wrong, apparently. You gotta give this guy props. Whatever he's doing, it's working... I never understood what the big stink was about The Sartorialist website. A bunch of pictures of real people on a blog. Anyone can do that, right? Wrong, apparently. You gotta give this guy props. Whatever he's doing, it's working.
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Brilliant!
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This would be an interesting photography book to check out.
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Rolling Stone journalists, with a little help from industry insiders such as Stevie Wonder and Sheryl Crow, tell the full story of the man, the music and his unique magic. An up-to-the-last-minute tribute that does justice to the... Rolling Stone journalists, with a little help from industry insiders such as Stevie Wonder and Sheryl Crow, tell the full story of the man, the music and his unique magic. An up-to-the-last-minute tribute that does justice to the artist we knew as Michael Jackson . . . and leaves his fans breathless once and forever.
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Le sigh. Glen Luchford is one of my favorite photographers so I can't wait to see this book (ahem, wrapped up in birthday paper, yes?)
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Bridget Fonda is the chick who truly turned me on to grunge through her role as the lovelorn groupie in "Singles" (along with a little help from Matt Dillon, Kyra Sedgwick and Campbell Scott.) So, I am thrilled to see the renegad... Bridget Fonda is the chick who truly turned me on to grunge through her role as the lovelorn groupie in "Singles" (along with a little help from Matt Dillon, Kyra Sedgwick and Campbell Scott.) So, I am thrilled to see the renegade rock format get its very own tribute tome (penned, no less, by a member of Sonic Youth.) And it is being published just in time for gifting to those in your life with garage band aspirations. Sweetness.
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a collection of collaborations that the LV house has had with artists, architects, designers, and photographers
Tags: fashion, art, books, artists, photography, designer, coffee table books, architecture, Louis VuittonAdded 4 Years Ago from Amazon.com
