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Magic - 2011

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Rise and sprawl: A pictorial history of the City of Angels From the first known photograph taken in Los Angeles to its most recent sweeping vistas, this photographic tribute to the City of Angels provides a fascinating journey through the city's cultural, political, industrial, and sociological history. Now available in a popular Reader's Edition, the book traces the city's development from the 1880s' real estate boom, through the early days of Hollywood and the urban sprawl of the late 20th century, right up to the present day. The city's pop cultural movements, its music, surfing, health food fads, gangs, and hot rods are included, as are itsnotorious crimes and criminals. Events that made world news--including two Olympics, Bobby Kennedy's assassination, and the Rodney King riots--reveal a city of many dimensions. Hollywood and its celebrities are showcased along with many other notable residents, personalities, architects, artists, and musicians. Featuring hundreds of recently discovered images including those of Julius Shulman, Garry Winogrand, William Claxton as well as essays by renowned California historian Kevin Starr and Los Angeles literature expert David L. Ulin, this is an unparalleled tribute to LA, in all its glory and its grit. About the Series: Bibliotheca Universalis -- Compact cultural companions celebrating the eclectic TASCHEN universe at an unbeatable, democratic price! Since we started our work as cultural archaeologists in 1980, the name TASCHEN has become synonymous with accessible, open-minded publishing. Bibliotheca Universalis brings together nearly 100 of our all-time favorite titles in a neat new format so you can curate your own affordable library of art, anthropology, and aphrodisia. Bookworm's delight -- never bore, always excite! Text in English, French, and German

Portrait of a City

Los Angeles

A must-have for any art buff, this definitive who's who of Impressionism gathers 10 monographs from the Basic Art series for the price of three. Precise texts and impeccable reproductions guide us through the life and works of Cézanne, Degas, Gauguin, Manet, Monet, Renoir, Rousseau, Seurat, Toulouse-Lautrec, and van Gogh.

Basic Art Series: Ten in One. Impressionism

TASCHEN Diary Van Gogh 2014 About the Series: TASCHEN's Spiral Diaries are beautiful to look at and a joy to use. Every week brings a new picture and a fresh page to fill with your life's events. Useful features include national holidays, year planners, and a lay-flat spiral binding.

Van Gogh Diary 2014

TASCHEN's perpetual calendars For those of you whose datebooks have been replaced by smartphones, TASCHEN has created the new 365 Day-By-Day series so that you can still enjoy the warm analog feeling of marking every day with the turn of a page. Each day you'll discover a different work by Gustav Klimt—including never before seen up-close details—ensuring a constant source of inspiration right on your desktop. At the end of the year, just turn back to the beginning and start again!

365 day-by-day. Gustav Klimt. Ediz. tedesca, inglese e francese

Klimt

Monet

Giovanni Bianco

Née dans une famille modeste d'une bourgade rurale du Brésil, la jeune Gisele Bündchen, qui mesurait près d'un mètre quatre-vingts à l'âge de 14 ans, est devenue le mannequin le mieux payé du monde. Ce livre célèbre le 20e anniversaire de sa carrière au travers d'un recueil unique et spectaculaire de témoignages personnels, intimistes et ébouriffants. Gisele était tout juste âgée de 18 ans lorsqu'elle connut ses premières heures de gloire sur l'estrade du défilé de prêt-à-porter "Rain" d'Alexander McQueen pour la saison printemps/été 1998. Le couturier avait repéré l'aptitude de celle qui sera surnommée "The Body" à arpenter les podiums glissants en talons aiguilles. La même année, Gisele décrocha la une du Vogue britannique avant de devenir la cover-girl la plus convoitée de sa génération. L'année suivante, la beauté athlétique au teint hâlé était choisie pour la couverture du Vogue américain sous l'objectif de Steven Meisel et saluée comme incarnant le "retour du mannequin sexy" en guise de pied de nez au style grunge de la fin des années 1990. Depuis, la plastique de Gisele Bündchen a été immortalisée sur plus de 1000 couvertures aux quatre coins de la planète, que ce soit pour les défilés de mode - 450 au total ! - ou pour des campagnes internationales des plus grandes marques de mode et de beauté. Riche de plus de 300 clichés, ce livre a été organisé et conçu par Giovanni Bianco. Depuis son légendaire portrait nue par Irving Penn (que l'on retrouve en couverture de l'ouvrage) jusqu'aux célèbres clichés signés par les plus grands, comme Steven Meisel, Mario Testino, Peter Lindbergh, David LaChapelle, Juergen Teller, Inez & Vinoodh, Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott et Corinne Day, le livre brosse un portrait artistique sans équivalent de la plus célèbre Brésilienne de renommée mondiale à côté de Pelé et de Senna - et du mannequin le mieux payé au monde. Ce fascinant album de photos contient une introduction de Steven Meisel, ainsi que de nombreux hommages des amis intimes de Gisele, de sa famille et des acteurs de la mode qui l'ont côtoyée, tous apportant un éclairage sur les secrets de l'ascension d'un des plus grands top models de tous les temps. Après une première parution en édition limitée, le livre sortira bientôt en édition courante TASCHEN !Gisele Bündchen reversera l'intégralité de ses droits d'auteur à des oeuvres caritatives.

Gisele Bündchen

Peter Lindbergh and Azzedine Alaïa, the photographer and the couturier, were united by their love of black, a love that they would cultivate alike in silver print and solid color garments. Accompanying the exhibition Azzedine Alaïa, Peter Lindbergh at the Fondation Azzedine Alaïa in Paris, this book celebrates their artistic partnership.

Azzedine Alaïa Peter Lindbergh. Ediz. Inglese, Grancese E Tedesca

Explore the A to Z of modern space. From Gio Ponti's colored geometries to Zaha Hadid's free-flowing futurism, this comprehensive overview features almost 300 profiles of architects, styles, movements, and trends that have shaped structures from the 19th to the 21st century.

Modern Architecture A-Z

Shares photographs of motion picture actors and actresses, includes birthdays of over seven hundred actors and directors listed within the perpetual calendar.

Movie Icons

Christo and Jeanne-Claude

Rick Sutherland

Barb Karg

The Angel Companion

Reuel Golden

A photographic journey through the history of this epic city Samuel Johnson famously said that: “When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.” London’s remarkable history, architecture, landmarks, streets, style, cool, swagger, and stalwart residents are pictured in hundreds of compelling photographs sourced from a wide array of archives around the world. London is a vast sprawling metropolis, constantly evolving and growing, yet throughout its complex past and shifting present, the humor, unique character, and bulldog spirit of the people have stayed constant. This book salutes all those Londoners, their city, and its history. In addition to the wealth of images included in this book, many previously unpublished, London’s history is told through hundreds of quotations, lively essays, and references from key movies, books, and records. From Victorian London to the Swinging 60s; from the Battle of Britain to Punk; from the Festival of Britain to the 2012 Olympics; from the foggy cobbled streets to the architectural masterpieces of the millennium; from rough pubs to private drinking clubs; from Royal Weddings to raves, from the charm of the East End to the wonders of the Westminster; from Chelsea girls to Hoxton hipsters; from the power to glory: in page after page of stunning photographs, reproduced big and bold like the city itself, London at last gets the photographic tribute it deserves. Photographs by: Slim Aarons, Eve Arnold, David Bailey, Cecil Beaton, Bill Brandt, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Anton Corbijn, Terence Donovan, Roger Fenton, Bert Hardy, Evelyn Hofer, Frank Horvat, Tony Ray-Jones, Nadav Kander, Roger Mayne, Linda McCartney, Don McCullin, Norman Parkinson, Martin Parr, Rankin, Lord Snowdon, William Henry Fox Talbot, Juergen Teller, Mario Testino, Wolfgang Tillmans, and many, many others. For die-hard lovers of Paris, Berlin, London, Los Angeles, and New York, TASCHEN introduces the Portrait of a City Art Edition series. For each edition, limited to only 500 copies, a legendary local fashion designer is invited to design a bespoke fabric to line the cover, and a large signed and numbered print of one of the images from the book is included. Paul Smith has designed the fabric cover for the Art Editions of London: Portrait of a City, and the print Traffic Policeman was taken by photographer Elmar Ludwig. Art Edition B - No. 501-1,000 Traffic Policeman, 1960s Fine art print on archival paper 52 x 68 cm (20.5 x 26.8 in.) (Frame not included) Also available in another Art Edition (No. 1-500)

Art Edition by Paul Smith

London: Portrait of a City (Policeman)

The Star Wars Archives. 1999-2005

Peter Gössel

Gabriele Leuthäuser

After several pages of prologue summing up 18th century highlights--especially the rise in importance of geometry--some forty pages cover 1784-1916, focusing on the heavily fenestrated high-rises of the Chicago School and the iron and glass pavilions of Europe. The chapter spanning 1892-1925 concentrates on the many disputes over the trajectory of modernism: Nieuwe Kunst, Stile Liberty, Jugendstil, and Art Nouveau, all arguing the direction that the boom of prisons, hospitals, schools, town halls, and other institutional buildings would take. Three more time divisions follow and a concise compendium of architect biographies ends the volume. Along with an array of great pictures (par for Taschen), Gossel and Leuthauser--both active in the private sector--add a strong prose style attentive to debates among architects and the socioeconomic stage on which architects act. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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