An immersive look at all manner of verdant dreamscapes.’ – Vanity Fair

Celebrate the beauty and creativity of the world’s greatest contemporary gardens through this stunning survey highlighting the leading designers of today

The Contemporary Garden showcases 300 outstanding gardens in more than forty countries across the globe. Curated in collaboration with an international team of horticultural experts, this wide-ranging collection includes iconic public gardens such as the High Line and Changi Airport Garden, as well as private gems, such as a dreamy hillside garden in Morocco by Umberto Pasti and Anna Wintour’s elegant garden in upstate New York by Miranda Brooks.

Beautifully designed and illustrated, The Contemporary Garden celebrates each garden with a gorgeous large-format image and insightful description. Readers will discover the work of renowned garden designers and landscape architects, such as Fiona Brockhoff, Dan Pearson, Sarah Price, and Bernard Trainor, alongside projects by rising stars and owner-makers.

Organized alphabetically by designer or studio name, the book’s pages reveal a striking range of contemporary garden styles – naturalistic, community, wild, urban, botanical, dry, topiary, minimalist, edible, flower, and more – demonstrating how our evolving stylistic and horticultural aesthetic fosters an increasingly strong connection with the natural world.

Both an inspirational resource and an authoritative reference, The Contemporary Garden will delight professional, recreational, and armchair gardeners of all ages.

Garden designers featured include: Marian Boswell, Sam Cox, Erik Dhont, Isabel Duprat, Luciano Giubbilei, Olin, Piet Oudolf, Reed Hilderbrand, Amalia Robredo, and Tom Stuart-Smith

Gardens featured include: African Ancestors Memorial Garden, Chihuly Garden & Glass, Gardens by the Bay, High Line, Hunting Brook Gardens, Jardins d’Étretat, The Native Plant Garden at New York Botanical Garden, The Opera Park, and numerous private gardens

Advisors and contributors include: Richard Aitken, Matthew Biggs, Matt Collins, Sorrel Everton, Joanna Fortnum, Clare Foster, Noel Kingsbury, Stephanie Mahon, Tovah Martin, Michael McCoy, Colleen Morris, Paul Redman, and Tony Spencer

Mere clothing is transformed into desirable fashion by the way it is represented in imagery. Fashion's Double examines how meanings are projected onto garments through their representation, whether in painting, photography, cinema or online fashion film, conveying identity and status, eliciting fascination and desire. With in-depth case studies including the work of Nick Knight and Helmut Newton, film examples such as The Hunger Games, music video Girl Panic by Duran Duran, and much more, this book analyses the interrelationship between clothing, identity, embodiment, representation and self-representation. Written for students and scholars alike, Fashion's Double will appeal to anyone studying fashion, cultural studies, art theory and history, photography, sociology, and film.

Instruction and inspiration combine in this visually stunning how-to guide on creative collage through a comprehensive explanation of techniques, project ideas, and an abundance of artistic examples by Italian artist Naomi Vona.

Creative Collage features both step-by-step advice and over 200 full-color examples. Vona provides detailed storyboards through photographs and captions across a range of projects in mixed media on paper and wood. Each project includes the following: Storyboard-like photos of each process with captions offering detailed and easy-to-follow explanations on how to create mixed media collages on paper and wood. Materials, techniques, and tools, from what types of acrylic paint pens she uses to the specific Washi tape she favors to how to explore pattern and color palettes through layering and hand-lettering. Individual sections include building your own art kit; working with fashion magazine images, mixed media, vintage photos, and ephemera; and creating your own abstract art pieces.

Vona is widely known for her inspiring collages that transform fashion magazine ads into feminist art pieces, questioning conventional notions of beauty and the overwhelming consumerism that supports them. Through paint, collage, and hand-lettered text, Vona creates her own artistic beauty that is subversive, detailed, colorful, patterned, layered, and visually bold.

In the fashion magazine section, Vona shares over 200 full-color, full-page illustrations from her Selling Lies series, which reinterprets images from the pages of Vogue. Her visually dense style includes integrated, handwritten text in response to the images she builds upon. The alternately hidden and legible commentary questions notions of physical perfection and the pervasiveness of advertising within the beauty industry.

This stunning guide and comprehensive collection of visually layered collage examples makes an excellent gift or collectible for artists, journalers, creative professionals, educators, and students of art history, contemporary art, and feminist studies.

In Mont Blanc Lines, photographer and alpinist Alex Buisse has travelled the Mont Blanc massif to capture images of all the major mountain faces and to trace the classic climbing and skiing lines. As well as Mont Blanc itself, also featured are other Alpine icons, including the north faces of the Grandes Jorasses and the Droites, the Aiguille du Midi, and the Grand Capucin. Whether on the ground in crampons or on skis, or in the air by ultralight or paraglider, he has captured the majesty of the range so that he can tell the story of these classic lines and present them to us in the most stunning way possible. Mont Blanc Lines features images taken during over a decade of mountaineering while Alex worked as a professional photographer based in Chamonix. Alex Buisse's story of these iconic mountain faces is mixed with the stories of climbers who have experienced great moments there. As a bonus feature, also included are the legendary faces of the Matterhorn and the Eiger North Face in Switzerland.

COMPLETED INTRODUCTION TO PHOTOGRAPHY By J. HARRIS GABLE. Originaly published in 1940. Contents include: PREFACE xiii PART I. THEORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY I. PICTURES AND PICTURETAKERS 3 II. THE LENS 7 III. THE CAMERA 18 IV. TYPES OF CAMERAS 2.9 V. FILM 38 VI. OTHER PHOTOGRAPHIC TOOLS 48 PART II. PICTURETAKING VII. OUTDOOR PICTURES 63 VIII. INDOOR PICTURES 76 IX. PORTRAITS AND POSED PICTURES 84 X. SPECIAL SUBJECTS 92. XI. SPECIAL METHODS OF PICTURETAKING 107 XII. MOVIES 134 PART III. DARKROOM WORK XIII. DEVELOPING 153 XIV. PRINTING AND FINISHING 167 XV. ENLARGING 180 XVI, THE DARKROOM 191 vu viii CONTENTS XVIL SPECIAL DARKROOM WORK: 2.01 XVIII. COLOR PRINTS 2.14 XIX. EXHIBITIONS AND SALONS 2.2.4 PART IV. LABORATORY MANUAL X4i INDEX 2.65 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS MITZI Frontispiece Facing t a ff i. LANDSCAPE Photograph by Claude Pilger 78 z. PUMP AND STONE BARN Photograph by D wight Kirsch 78 3. INFORMAL PORTRAIT BY DAYLIGHT 79 4. PORTRAIT BY STANDARD LIGHTING 79 5. PROFILE PORTRAIT 79 6. MARIHUANA: POSED PICTURE 79 7-J-94 8. THREE WISE FOOLS Photograph by George Holmes 94 9. NEBRASKA CAPITOL Photograph by Claude Pilger 94 10. JANICE 94 11. CLOUDS Photograph by Claude Pilger 95 iz. FLOWERS Photograph by Claude Pilger 95 13. LIGHTNING Photograph by Claude Pilger loz 14. DREAM LAKE ioz 15. KITTENS Photograph by Claude Pilger 101 1 6. BASEBALL: ACTION PICTURE Photograph by H. A. Coleman 103 17. DEFIANCE Photograph by Claude Pilger 103 18. COPY OF COLORED BIBLE COVER Photograph by Claude Pilger H4 19. PHOTOMACROGRAPH Photograph by Claude Pilger 114 zo. INFRARED PICTURE Photograph by Claude Pilger 114 zi. PHOTOMICROGRAPH OF TOOTH SECTION 115 zz. SAND: TEXTURE PICTURE Photograph by Claude Pilger 115 Z3.OVEREXPOSED, NORMALLY EXPOSED, AND UNDEREXPOSED NEGATIVE I 7 Z4-NEGATIVE AND POSITIVE I 7 zj. UNDEREXPOSED, NORMALLY EXPOSED, AND OVEREXPOSED PRINT I 7 I ix x ILLUSTRATIONS 2.6. NORMAL NEGATIVE PRINTED ON THREE CONTRASTS 171 2.7, PRINTS FROM FLAT AND HARD SUCTIONS OF NEGATIVE SHOWN IN ILLUSTRATION 2.) 171 z8. TEXTURE PRINT 182. 2.9. SNOW EFFECT PRINT 382. 30. SEVEN DIAMETER ENLARGEMENT 182. 31. PRINTING-IN CLOUDS 183 32.. PATTERN xio 33. NEGATIVE AND POSITIVE PHOTOGRAMS 2.10 34. PHOTOMONTAGE Photograph by Claud* Ptl r 2.11 35. RELIEF PRINT zii 36. BACK OF A MUCH-EXHIBITED PRINT 2.2.8 37. PAPER NEGATIVE PROCESS LIST OF FIGURES i. FOCAL LENGTH OF LENS 8 z. FOCAL LENGTH GOVERNS SIZE OF IMAGE 9 3. Focus FOR FAR AND NEAR OBJECTS, SHOWING CIRCLES OF CONFUSION u 4. STOPPING DOWN REDUCES CIRCLES OF CONFUSION iz 5. F: STOP RATIOS 13 6. COMPARATIVE SPEEDS OF LENSES 14 7. MENISCUS LENS 15 8. Focus OF COLORS 15 9. ACHROMATIC LENS 15 10. THEORY OF RECTILINEAR LENS 16 11. LENS ELEMENTS AND RESPECTIVE SPEEDS 17 n. COUPLED RANGE FINDER DIAGRAM 19 13. WESTON EXPOSURE METER zz 14. THE SHUTTER 15 15. VIEW FINDER z6 16. CAMERA OBSCURA zg 17. ACTION OF REFLEX CAMERA 34 18. PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE iSSo's 41 19. INGREDIENTS IN MAKING FILM 41 zo. FILM NOTCHES 46 zi. ACTION OF FILTERS 49 zz. TRIPOD 54 Z3. TILT-PAN HEAD 55 Z4. FILM PACK 57 ZJ. KODAFLECTOR 5 z6. COMPOSITION DIAGRAM FOR ILLUSTRATION i 74 17. DIAGRAM FOR ILLUSTRATION 3 76 z8. INTERIOR GROUP LIGHTING DIAGRAMS 80 zg. PORTRAIT LIGHTING DIAGRAMS 87 30. KODACHROME DIAGRAM Io8

Shortlisted for the 2017 AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship Ordinary Matters is the first major interdisciplinary study of the ordinary in modernist women's literature and photography. It examines how women photographers and writers including Helen Levitt, Lee Miller, Virginia Woolf and Dorothy Richardson envision the sphere of ordinary life in light of the social and cultural transformations of the period that shaped and often radically re-shaped it: for example, urbanism, instrumentalism, the Great Depression and war. Through a series of case studies that explore such topics as the street, domestic things, gesture and the face, Sim contends that the paradigmatic shifts that define early twentieth-century modernity not only inform modernist women's aesthetics of the everyday, but their artistic and ethical investments in that sphere. The everyday has been noted as a "keynote of the New Modernist Studies" (Todd Avery). Ordinary Matters comprises a vital contribution to recent scholarship on the topic and will be of value to scholars working in British and American modernism, multimedia modernisms, photography, twentieth-century literature, and critical and cultural histories of the everyday.

The fourth volume in a history of photography, this is a bibliography of books on the subject.

It was on a Malibu beach in 1988 that Peter Lindbergh shot the White Shirts series, images now known the world over. Simple yet seminal, the photographs introduced us to Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington, Rachel Williams, Karen Alexander, Tatjana Patitz, and Estelle Lefebure. This marked the beginning of an era that redefined beauty, and Lindbergh would go on to alter the landscape of fashion photography for the decades that followed. This edition gathers more than 300 images from forty years of Lindbergh's career. It traces the German photographer's cinematic inflections and humanist approach, which produced images at once seductive and introspective. In 1980 Rei Kawakubo asked Lindbergh to shoot a Commes des Garcons campaign, one of his earlier forays into commercial photography. Kawakubo gave him carte blanche. The following years brought forth collaborations with the most venerated names in fashion and resulted in a relationship of mutual reverence; Lindbergh's respect for some of the greatest designers of our time is palpable in his portraits. Among those photographed are Azzedine Alaia, Giorgio Armani, Alber Elbaz, John Galliano, Jean Paul Gaultier, Karl Lagerfeld, Thierry Mugler, Yves Saint Laurent, Jil Sander, and Yohji Yamamoto. Widely considered a pioneer in his field, Lindbergh shirked the industry standards of beauty and instead celebrated the essence and individuality of his subjects. He was pivotal to the rise of models such as Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Cindy Crawford, Mariacarla Boscono, Lara Stone, Claudia Schiffer, Amber Valletta, Nadja Auermann, and Kristen McMenamy. Lindbergh's reach also extended across Hollywood and beyond: Cate Blanchett, Charlotte Rampling, Richard Gere, Isabelle Huppert, Nicole Kidman, Madonna, Brad Pitt, Catherine Deneuve, and Jeanne Moreau all appear in his works. From the picture chosen by Anna Wintour as the cover of her first Vogue issue to the legendary shot of Tina Turner on the Eiffel Tower, it is never the clothes, celebrity, or glamour that takes center stage in a Lindbergh photograph. Each picture conveys the humanity of its subject with a serene melancholy that is uniquely and unmistakably Lindbergh. From the outset of his career, Lindbergh was well-known in the contemporary art world, where his photographs were exhibited in galleries long before they appeared in magazines. This edition features an updated introduction adapted from an interview in 2016, allowing a glimpse behind Lindbergh's lens, where the photographer recounts his early collaborations, the tenuous relationship between commercial and fine art, and the power of storytelling. About the series TASCHEN is 40! Since we started our work as cultural archaeologists in 1980, TASCHEN has become synonymous with accessible publishing, helping bookworms around the world curate their own library of art, anthropology, and aphrodisia at an unbeatable price. Today we celebrate 40 years of incredible books by staying true to our company credo. The 40 series presents new editions of some of the stars of our program-now more compact, friendly in price, and still realized with the same commitment to impeccable production.

This book is a bold and exciting exploration of the relationship and interactions between humans, the human landscape and the earth, looking at a diverse range of case studies from the nineteenth-century city to the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina.

Get away from it all and reignite your wanderlust with this unique collection of epic landscape photography from some of the remotest and most spectacular locations around the globe. Curated by award-winning travel and lifestyle photographer Finn Beales, Let's Get Lost offers pure visual escapism with over 200 spectacular shots of remote and beautiful places which will inspire you to get back out into the world after months and years of lockdowns and travel restrictions. For the adventurous amongst us, this book dares you to get off the beaten track andgo in search of the most remarkable natural environments on the planet. Chapters capturing off-grid coastal views, rugged mountain landscapes, majestic forests and expansive wildernesses are all featured, stirring within you a sense of adventure. From the Pacific Northwest to Southeast Asia, New Zealand to Scandinavia, these are the places where amazing photos are taken, now you need to experience them. For the armchair traveller, this book represents a breathtaking visual compendium of how beautiful the world can be, with truly awe-inspiring full page reproductions of some of instagram's most talented landscape photographers. Each of the photographers profiled reveal their unique stories and the little-known locations they have discovered that allow them to capture such breathtaking images, from Chris Burkard's perilous tour of Russia's extremities, and Emilie Ristevski's wanderlust-filled journey through Namibia's wild heart, to Timothy Allen's airborne search for a long-lost Bulgarian monument. Photographers featured: Finn Beales (finn) Alex Strohl (alexstrohl) Jonathan Gregson (jonathangregsonphotography) Richard Gaston (richardgaston) Cath Simard (cathsimard) Emilie Ristevski (helloemilie) Reuben Wu (itsreuben) Laura Pritchett (bythebrush) Lucy Laucht (lucylaucht) Chris Burkard (chrisburkard) Molly Steele (moristeele) Benjamin Hardman (benjaminhardman) Greg Lecoeur (greg.lecoeur) Charly Savely (charlysavely) Timothy Allen (timothy_allen) Hannes Becker (hannes_becker) Tobias Hagg (airpixels) Callum Snape (calsnape) Nicolee Drake (cucinadigitale) Holly-Marie Cato (h_cato) Mads Peter Iversen (madspeteriversen_photography)

The highly anticipated second volume to the widely acclaimed and celebrated self-portrait series, Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness

In Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness, Volume II, Zanele Muholi explores and expands upon new personas and poetic interpretations of personhood, queerness, Blackness, and the possibilities of self. Since the publication of the first volume in 2018, Muholi has continued to photograph themself in a range of new international locations. Drawing on material props found in each environment, Muholi boldly explores their own image and innate possibilities as a Black individual in today’s global society, and—most important—speaks emphatically in response to contemporary and historical racisms. Renée Mussai, curator and historian, brings together written contributions from more than ten curators, poets, and authors, building a poetic and experimental framework that extends the idea of speculative futures and the potentiality of multivalent selves. Powerfully arresting, this collection further amplifies Muholi’s expressive and radical manifesto. As they state in the first volume, “My practice as a visual activist looks at Black resistance—existence as well as insistence.”

Venture into Sicily’s stunning homes, a mix of centuries-old Baroque palazzos, generous farmhouses, and modernvillas owned by the Italian island’s most interesting residents

Ancient Sicily, the Mediterranean’s largest island, has been a land of fascination from antiquity to 'The White Lotus'. So it is no wonder that today’s Sicily boasts homes of every variety, and some of the most exceptional have been selected for this new book by writer Christopher Garis and beautifully photographed by Guido Taroni. While Sicily is well known for its dazzling beaches, beautiful countryside, archaeological treasures, and of course Etna, its active volcano, Inside Sicily offers an exclusive look at the private side of the island: gorgeous palaces, baroque castles and generous farmhouses where Sicilians live and entertain with flair and elegance. Here is Casa Cuseni in Taormina, the historic house of English painter Robert Kitson, where other artists and writers - Giacomo Balla and D. H. Lawrence among them - contributed to the décor. Whether sophisticated in muted tones and clean lines, bursting with art or a riot of color, these apartments, houses, and palaces represent the diversity of design found in this enigmatic region.