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20 years of Dolce & Gabbana for men
List Price: HK$ 3220.00
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Publisher: Mondadori Electa
ISBN: 9788837077037
Hardcover, 432 pages, Language: English, 14.5 x 11.7 x 1.9 inches
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2010 marks two decades of Dolce & Gabbana for men; this book celebrates that achievement.
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50 Photo Icons (25)
List Price: HK$ 300.00
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Publisher: Taschen
ISBN: 9783836526937
Hardcover, 306 pages, Language: English, 12.3 x 9.9 x 1.4 inches
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The most important landmarks in the history of photography under the microscope
Photographs have a strange and powerful way of shaping the way we see the world and influencing our perceptions of reality. To demonstrate the unique and profound influence on culture and society that photographs have, Photo Icons puts the most important landmarks in the history of photography under the microscope.
Each chapter of this special edition focuses on a single image which is described and analyzed in detail, in aesthetic, historical, and artistic contexts. The book begins with the very first permanent images (Nicéphore Niépce's 1827 eight-hour-exposure rooftop picture and Louis Daguerre's famous 1839 street scene) and takes the reader up through the present day, via the avant-garde photography of the 1920s and works such as Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother (1936), Robert Doisneau's Kiss in Front of City Hall (1950), and Martin Parr's 'New European photography.'
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A Twenty Year Retrospective
List Price: HK$ 550.00
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Publisher: Nazraeli Press
ISBN: 978-1590050194
Hardcover, Photographs by Michael Kenna. 172 pp., 130 duotone illustrations, 12x12
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Publisher's Description
Kenna's work has successfully explored the realm of twilight in a way that no other photographer has. His images--filled with deep shadows and graphic forms--evoke mystery and realms just beyond perception. His subject matter ranges from gardens and forests to industrial sites and statues, often photographed at night. The first edition of Kenna's classic "Twenty Year Retrospective" was published in 1994 and subsequently underwent three separate printings before going out-of-print. This new edition is slightly larger in format and now has 1:1 reproductions.
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A Twenty Year Retrospective. The Nazraeli Press edition features a larger format than previous editions, with high fidelity tritones printed 1:1 from original prints. It will serve as a companion book to Kenna’s Volume Two, to be published by Nazraeli Press in 2004. Born in the industrial north of England, Michael Kenna has lived in San Francisco since 1980. His mysterious photographs, often made at dawn or in the dark hours of night, concentrate on the interaction between natural landscape and man-made structures.
His work has been shown throughout the United States, Europe, Australia and Japan, and is in such permanent collections as The Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; The Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague; The National Gallery of Art, Washington; and The Victoria and Albert Museum, London. In her foreword, Ruth Bernhard describes Kenna’s prints as “exquisitely seductive, spiritual experiences, akin to poetry and music.” An essay by Peter C. Bunnell considers Kenna’s background and development, providing a thoughtful introduction to the 130 images that represent the twenty-year period from 1974 to 1994.
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Bird
List Price: HK$ 540.00
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Publisher: Chronicle Book
ISBN: 9780811870986
300 pages, 12.2 x 12.1 x 1.3 inches
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Starred Review. Animal lovers will be just as entranced by the newest from photographer Zuckerman as they were by 2007's Creature. Once again, Zuckerman works with the cooperation of zoos, wildlife preserves and aviaries to photograph his living subjects in bright white light against a flat white background, a setting that nature purists might find off-putting at first, but which reveals each animal as a self-contained, emotionally responsive being-the photo of a Great Horned Owl is less a documentary nature photo than a portrait of an individual who just happens to belong to another species. Thus, observers see and identify with the curiosity of a red-and-green Macaw, the haughty pride of a Snowy Owl, and the coy flirtation of a Palm Cockatoo. The quality of the images is astounding, bringing out color variation, feather patterning, facial markings, leg scales, and winged flight in detail that's simply unprecedented; the complexity of color and structure should inspire textile designers and architects for years. In the epilogue, Zuckerman's creative partner Alex Vlack describes Zuckerman's photography and editing techniques (Zuckerman's ideal shutter speed is 1/8000th of a second, impossibly short without digital photography). Zuckerman makes brilliant use of new technology to showcase nature, giving us access to astounding surface detail as well as revelatory emotional depth.
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Bloody Moon (Signed)
List Price: HK$ 550.00
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Publisher: NIPPON IPS CO., LTD.
ISBN: 9784887730526
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Claude Montana: Fashion Radical
List Price: HK$ 520.00
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Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 9780500515396
Hardcover, 200 pages, Publication date: April 1, 2011, 11.4 x 9.6 x 0.9 inches
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Displays and revels in the rich inventiveness of a designer who played a key role in the fashions of the 1980s and 1990s, and who has become an inspiration for many contemporary designers.
The Montana woman embodied an extraordinary new image: razor- sharp tailoring and strong silhouettes with dramatic proportions and masculine lines, enlivened by an astonishing mix of detail and bold hues. Materials, colors, and cut were all vehicles for Claude Montana’s effervescent genius, and it was the Lanvin period in the early 1990s that marked the absolute high point of his creativity.
This book looks at the principles and practices that underpin Montana’s work. It records numerous conversations with Montana himself that help us to understand the essential forces that have shaped his work, while scores of catwalk images and reproductions of his sketches reveal the energy and singularity of his vision. It is a journey punctuated with intimate comments and observations by those who have accompanied the designer at different points along the way—among others, the photographers Dominique Issermann, Tyen, and Paolo Roversi; the embroiderer François Lesage; the designer Alain Mikli; and the makeup artist Olivier Echaudemaison. Their moving testimonies are scattered throughout these pages. 124 color and 22 black-and-white illustrations.
About the Author
From 1990 to 1992 Claude Montana designed haute couture collections for the House of Lanvin, for which he received two consecutive Golden Thimble awards.
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Dan Winters : Periodical Photographs
List Price: HK$ 550.00
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Publisher: Aperture
ISBN: 9781597110921
PUBLICATION DATE : May 2009, 241mm X 286mm X 20mm, PAGES : 156, Hard cover
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Periodical Photographs", the long-awaited first monograph from top editorial photographer Dan Winters, provides an overview of his assignment work as a contributor to some of America's most prestigious magazines, including "New York", "Esquire", "Rolling Stone", and the "New York Times Magazine". With an emphasis on his iconic portraiture, this volume considers the body of work of a photographer whose unique sensibility is both adaptable and instantly recognizable. Winters is responsible for the definitive portraits of some of Hollywood's most photographed A-listers (Gwyneth Paltrow, Denzel Washington, Leonardo DiCaprio) and music superstars (Bono, Eminem, Willie Nelson). His voracious passion for the quirky and the creative also draws him to visual artists, scientists, architects, and everyday, extraordinary Americans. Designed by Scott Dadich, the award-winning creative director of "Wired" magazine, "Periodical Photographs" showcases a photographer at the top of his game.
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Dennis Hopper: Photographs 1961-1967
List Price: HK$ 620.00
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Publisher: Taschen
ISBN: 9783836527262
Hardcover, 544 pages
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Product Description
A reluctant icon captures a decade of cultural transformation. During the 1960s, Dennis Hopper carried a camera everywhere—on film sets and locations, at parties, in diners, bars and galleries, driving on freeways and walking on political marches. He photographed movie idols, pop stars, writers, artists, girlfriends, and complete strangers. Along the way he captured some of the most intriguing moments of his generation with a keen and intuitive eye. A reluctant icon at the epicenter of that decade’s cultural upheaval, Hopper documented the likes of Tina Turner in the studio, Andy Warhol at his first West Coast show, Paul Newman on set, and Martin Luther King during the Civil Rights March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
From a selection of photographs compiled by Hopper and gallerist Tony Shafrazi—more than a third of them previously unpublished—this extensive volume distills the essence of Hopper's brilliantly prodigious photographic career. Also included are introductory essays by Tony Shafrazi and legendary West Coast art pioneer Walter Hopps, and an extensive biography by journalist Jessica Hundley. With excerpts from Victor Bockris's interviews of Hopper's famous subjects, friends, and family, this volume is an unprecedented exploration of the life and mind of one of America’s most fascinating personalities.
After our limited and art editions, this book is now available in an unlimited trade edition.
About the Photographer:
Dennis Hopper (1936-2010) was an acclaimed artist, actor, screenwriter, and director who first impressed audiences with his performances in Rebel Without A Cause (1955) and Giant (1956). He changed the face of American cinema with Easy Rider (1969), which he co-wrote, directed, and starred in. Hopper went on to act in hundreds of memorable films and television shows, including Apocalypse Now (1979), Blue Velvet (1986), Hoosiers (1986), True Romance (1993), Basquiat (1997), Elegy (2008), and the TV series Crash (2008). Hopper began painting as a child and started taking photos in 1961, after his then wife Brooke Hayward gave him a 35mm Nikon camera for his birthday. His paintings and photography have been exhibited all over the world, including the recent retrospective, "Dennis Hopper and the New Hollywood" in Paris. Dennis Hopper passed away May 29, 2010 in Venice, CA.
Walter Hopps (1933-2005) was one of the premier curators of 20th century art. Co-founder of Los Angeles’s Ferus Gallery and director of the Pasadena Museum of Art, he was responsible for the first retrospectives of Kurt Schwitters, Joseph Cornell, and Marcel Duchamp. A key advocate of American Pop art, his 1962 survey "New Painting of Common Objects" was the first of its kind. After directing the Washington Gallery of Modern Art, he went on to build the Menil Collection museum in Houston and became its founding director in 1987.
A filmmaker and frequently published art, music and film journalist, Jessica Hundley has directed several documentaries and recently completed her second book, a biography of country-rock legend Gram Parsons.
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Born in Abadan, Iran, to Armenian parents, Tony Shafrazi was educated in England from age 13, graduating from the Royal College of Art in 1967. Moving to New York in 1969, he exhibited as a conceptual artist throughout Europe and New York. From 1974–78, he advised and helped build an outstanding collection for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tehran. In 1979, he opened his New York gallery, introducing groundbreaking American artists of the ’80s including Haring, Basquiat, Scharf, Brown, and Baechler, while exhibiting masters of the ’60s: Warhol, Ruscha, and Hopper. From 1990, he exhibited the work of Brian Clarke, Patrick Demarchelier, Robert Williams, Michael Ray Charles, and David LaChapelle. Since 1997 he has represented the Estate of Francis Bacon, and continues to mount museum-quality exhibitions, most recently the critically acclaimed "Who’s Afraid of Jasper Johns?"
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Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph
List Price: HK$ 780.00
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Publisher: Aperture
ISBN: 978-0893816940
Paperback, 184 pp, 80 duotone illustrations, 9¼x11
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Publisher's Description
To mark the anniversary of Diane Arbus' haunting monograph, Aperture has rereleased it utilizing the most exceptional printing technology available. Still provocative and tragic.
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Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Artless Art
List Price: HK$ 1100.00
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Publisher: Little Brown and Company
ISBN: 9780500542040
Hardcover
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