Take a truly magical mystery tour with this sparkling compendium of magic and trickeryfrom medieval thaumaturgies to 20th-century showmen. Featuring hundreds of rarely seen vintage posters, photographs, handbills, and engravings, The Magic Book follows this special performing art from the 1400s to the 1950s.
In search of a lost time: The complete portfolios by Edward S. Curtis on Native Americans At the turn of the 20th century, the American photographerEdward Sheriff Curtis(1868 1952) started on his 30-year project to produce a monumental study of North American Indians.
All the grief, grit, and unassailable dignity of the civil rights movement are evoked in this centennial edition of James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time, with photographs by Steve Schapiro. Together, Baldwin’s frank account of the black experience and Schapiro’s vital images offer testimony to one of the most important struggles of American society.
This fresh overview of Tadao Ando's oeuvre spans the breadth of his career, from his beginnings in 1975 to today. Based on the massive XXL edition, this accessible volume sheds light on the Modernist master through photographs and architectural drawings,
In this fourth installment of her best-selling pictogram series, award-winning graphic designer Yang Liu distills all the little joys and aches of childhood and parenting. Big meets Little takes on the daily happenings of family life through tongue-in-che
Ambitious and engaged, Arts & Architecture magazine celebrated change and innovation across politics, society and especially culture. This selection from the magazine's first five years features the complete covers and has a special focus on the groundbre
This volume documents the first exhibition curated by Peter Lindbergh himself shortly before his death. More than 100 photographs offer new and unexpected insights into the work of the legendary photographer. The selection is complemented by an interview on the exhibition’s origins and a tribute by Wim Wenders, a close friend of Lindbergh’s.
Travel back in time to witness the creation of the world’s favorite web-slinger as dreamed up by comic book legends Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, who redefined what it meant to be a hero.
How do people respond to “how are you” on opposite sides of the pond? Do lunch breaks change over distant longitudes? Is the boss bigger in Paris or L.A.? With the latest book in her best-selling series, Yang Liu distills the obvious and not-so-obvious contrasts between the European and U.S. experience into clever, crisp pictograms.
From the desert mountains of New Mexico to the coast of Maine: a journey across the USA will take you to legendary landscapes with plenty of wonderful hotels. Angelika Taschen presents her favorite destinations: beach houses and desert camps, motels and ranches, mobile homes and tents, resorts, and inns.
The unique tones and spontaneity of Polaroids have made them a beloved photographic format for decades. Brimming with all the warmth and nostalgia of a family album, this ode to the instant camera presents hundreds of images from thePolaroid Corporation’s own collection. A chronicle of the experimental and innovative ways Polaroids have defied the digital age.
After an epic Amazonian journey through Brazil and Peru from 1817 to 1820, German botanist Carl von Martiuscompiled a catalogue of all known genera of palm trees. This encyclopedic work, reproduced in our volume, is a jewel of 19th-century botany and is celebrated for its detailed classifications, maps, color landscapes and diagrams.
In this second volume, Jens Muller rounds off the most comprehensive exploration of graphic design to date. With around 3,500 seminal pieces and 78 landmark projects, year-by-year spreads, and profiles of industry leaders, discover how graphic design shap
In a time before air travel or radio, Burton Holmes set out across the globe. The "world's greatest traveler" visited nearly every country on the planet, bringing home more than 30,000 photographs, 500,000 feet of film, and unbelievable travel stories tha