May 2013
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Photo of the Day: Pierre Carreau
Gouverneur Beach, St Barth. By Pierre Carreau
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Book of the Day: Waits/Corbijn 77- 11
WAITS/CORBIJN ‘77-‘11 is the chronicle of an artistic collaboration that reaches back more than 35 years, to those first black-and-white photographs of Tom Waits taken by a young Anton Corbijn in Holland in 1977. Corbijn would go on to acclaim for his iconic enigmatic portraits of musicians and other artists from U2 and Miles Davis to Robert De Niro and Clint Eastwood to Damien Hirst...
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Photo of the Day: Patrick Cariou
From Gypsies by Patrick Cariou
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Book of the Day: Telex Iran by Gilles Peress
Here is truly one of the greatest photography books of the 20th century. “A stupendous production by Gilles Peress and Claude Nori. Peress’ telexes are brilliantly reproduced at the bottom of the images and give an urgency not only to the photographs but to the life of one restless photojournalist living in a foreign land from day to day.” Essay by Gholam-Hossein...
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Photo of the Day: Iain McKell
Iain McKell explores the world with an intense eye for detail and composition. He is a keen observer of people often seeming to notice the overlooked or subject matter that is under the radar. Weather working with an unknown sitter or an iconic celebrity he brings a democratic eye to the subject. He manages to create an air of incredible atmosphere to his distinct narrative locations, often...
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Book of the Day: Studio by Paolo Roversi
Studio features nearly two decades of Paolo Roversi’s hugely influential studio portraiture. Within the confines of his Paris studio, Roversi photographs using a 8 x 10 Polaroid format, often allowing the images to fade before fixing them to their substrate. His long exposures at close range harness an aesthetic from the earliest days of studio photography, but with a renewed urgency that...
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Book of the Day: Brooklyn Gang by Bruce Davidson...
In 1959 Davidson read about the teenage gangs of New York City. Connecting with a social worker to make initial contact with a gang called the Jokers, Davidson became a daily observer and photographer of this alienated youth culture. The Fifties are often considered passive and pale by our standards of urban reality, but Davidson’s photographs prove otherwise. In a recent New York Times...
April 2013
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Photo of the Day: Jordan Sullivan
Photography by Jordan Sullivan
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Book of the Day: Fun Gallery… the True Story by...
Fun Gallery… The True Story focuses on the ‘80’s in New York’s legendary East Village as told by Patti Astor “Queen of the Downtown Scene”. Get down with the FUN Gallery Crew Keith Haring, Fab 5 Freddy, Jean Michel Basquiat, DONDI, LEE, Kenny Scharf and Zephyr hanging with Rock Steady Crew, Clash, Leo Castelli, Johnny Rotten, Julian Schnabel, Andy Warhol,...
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Photo of the Day: Kevin Hatt
Photograph by Kevin Hatt
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Photo of the Day: Juliette Charvet
Lido Beach by Juliette Charvet
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Book of the Day: Surfers by Patrick Cariou
A stunning collection by up-and-coming fashion photographer Patrick Cariou of surfers the world over, from the North Shore to Peru, from Tahiti to Brittany, from Long Island to Easter Island. Cariou captures the world’s most famous surfing spots and masters like no other photographer has done before. This luxurious, highly authentic insider’s look into the surfer’s zeitgeist...
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Book of the Day: Horst - Sixty Years of...
Horst P. Horst, born in Germany in 1906, became one of the world’s most influential fashion photographers. Putting his stamp on the international “Vogue” magazine of the 1930s and 1940s, he became known not only for his extravagant fashion plates, but also for his still lifes and nudes, and his renowned portraits of Gertrude Stein, Katharine Hepburn, Jean Cocteau and Coco...
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Book of the Day: Pictures by Herb Ritts
Herb Ritts’ photographs have quickly become the quintessential distillation of American pop culture in the eighties. Ritts’ portraits of celebrities are at once monumental, recognizable, and often sexually charged. His pictures of rock star Madonna have given cachet to all she hopes to sell the world; glamour, sex and song. Sylvester Stallone, another pop icon, seems to parody...
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Photo of the Day: Beau Dunn
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Photo of the Day: Vincent Fournier
Mars Desert Research Station #4, Mars Society, San Rafael Swell, Utah, U.S.A., 2008.
From Space Project by Vincent Fournier
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Book of the Day: X-Static Process Madonna | Steven...
LIMITED EDITION of 1,000 copies. This extremely rare title originates from a lengthy photo-shoot by Steven Klein of Madonna for the production of a video/pictorial collaboration. This hand bound production is printed on extremely thin paper (onion skin), with a brushed cotton paper sealed slipcase. Photography by Steven Klein.
Rather than the packaged glamour that one might expect from the...
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Photo of the Day: Pierre Houles
Basquiat by Pierre Houles
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Book of the Day: Vintage Menswear – A Collection...
Curated by connoisseurs of vintage clothing, The Vintage Showroom is a vast collection of rare 20th-century pieces that fashion designers and stylists pay to view, using the cut and detailing of individual garments as inspiration for their own work. Offering one-of-a-kind access, Vintage Menswear now makes this unique resource available in book form.
Featuring 130 of the most...
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Book of the day: Sumo by Helmut Newton - Limited...
Limited edition of 10,000 copies worldwide, signed and numbered by Helmut Newton! The biggest and most expensive book production in the 20th century. SUMO is a titanic book in every respect: it is a tribute to the twentieth century’s most influential, intriguing and controversial photographer. Measuring 50 x 70 cm (20 x 27.5 inches) and weighing approx. 30 kg...
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Photo of the Day: Antoine Verglas
Tatjane Patitz by Antoine Verglas
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Photo of the Day: Gian Paolo Barbieri
Photo of the Day: Gian Paolo Barbieri
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Book(s) of the day: Marseille & Brasilia |...
- Brasilia by Vincent Fournier (purchase here)
- Marseille by Olivier Amsellem (purchase here)
Portraits de Villes is a collection of photography books published by Paris and New-York based design studio, Be-Pôles. Each of the carefully selected artists behind the collection was given carte blanche to wander through a city of his/her choice, camera in hand, and document the faces and places...
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Wayne Levin photographs in the new publication by Citizens of Humanity.
March 2013
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Book of the Day: 10 Women by Peter Lindbergh
Buy the book here.
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Book of the Day: Why Knot by Philippe Petit
$19.95 Purchase
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Book of the Day: Northern Women In Chanel
Chanel’s book, Northern Women in Chanel is an ode to the Baltic and Scandinavian beauties that so often inspired Karl Lagerfeld’s eye. Swedish couple, Ingela Klemetz-Farago and Peter Farago drew from Chanel’s complete archives to create all 384 pages of the photo portfolio. The book is a coffee table’s dream. Beauties like Carmen Kass, Helena Christensen, and Freja Beha Erichsen don original...
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Photo of the Day: Wayne Levin
Oceanic Whitetip Shark with Pilot Fish by Wayne Levin
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Photo of the Day: Anne Menke
Anne Menke has traveled the world on assignment for the likes of Vogue, Elle, Marie Claire, Conde Nast Traveller, usually in search of the perfect environment to shoot a fashion spread. She has discovered that these environments themselves are the origins of much of the fashion we see on the runways today and has compiled an incredible record of people and places with that in mind.
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