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"Sinatra with a cold is Picasso without paint, Ferrari without
fuel-only worse. For the common cold robs Sinatra of that
uninsurable jewel, his voice, cutting into the core of his
confidence." - Gay Talese In the winter of 1965, writer Gay Talese
set out for Los Angeles with an assignment from Esquire to write a
major profile on Frank Sinatra. When he arrived, he found the
singer and his vigilant entourage on the defensive: Sinatra was
under the weather, not available, and not willing to be
interviewed. Undeterred, Talese stayed, believing Sinatra might
recover and reconsider, and used the meantime to observe the star
and to interview his friends, associates, family members, and
hangers-on. Sinatra never did grant the one-on-one, but Talese's
tenacity paid off: his profile Frank Sinatra Has a Cold went down
in history as a tour de force of literary nonfiction and the advent
of the New Journalism. In this illustrated edition, Frank Sinatra
Has a Cold is published with an introduction by Talese,
reproductions of his manuscript pages, and correspondence.
Interwoven are photographs from the legendary lens of Phil Stern,
the only photographer granted access to Sinatra over four decades,
as well as from top photojournalists of the '60s, including John
Bryson, John Dominis, and Terry O'Neill. The photographs complement
Talese's character study, painting an incisive portrait of Sinatra
in the recording studio, on location, out on the town, and with the
eponymous cold, which reveals as much about a singular star persona
as it does about the Hollywood machine.
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Schindler
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James Steele; Edited by Peter Gossel
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Hailing from Vienna, Rudolph Michael Schindler (1887-1953)
emigrated to Chicago in 1914, like his lifelong friend and rival
Richard Neutra. Eventually hired by Frank Lloyd Wright to work in
Los Angeles, Schindler took cues from notions found in Cubism and
the International Style to shape his unique vision: a style he
called "space architecture," combining geometrical shapes, bold
lines, and materials such as wood and concrete, with space as a
medium in its own right, one to be controlled just like color or
mass. This radical approach earned Schindler little recognition in
his lifetime-but today, he is hailed as one of America's most
important Modernist pioneers. Discover such key projects as the
Wolfe House, nestled in a steep hillside; the tree house-like Falk
Apartment Building; the Lovell Beach House, recognized as one of
the foremost examples of the Modernist canon in America; the
Schindler/Chace House, Schindler's most crucial work and his
personal practice and home, which he shared with his family and
that of Neutra. From private homes to small commercial buildings,
Schindler's groundbreaking designs heralded a new era of
contemporary construction. This collection is complete with a map
locating all of the architect's most renowned projects, detailed
entries, floor plans, as well as crisp photography of each
structure and its interiors. About the series Born back in 1985,
the Basic Art Series has evolved into the best-selling art book
collection ever published. Each book in TASCHEN's Basic
Architecture series features: an introduction to the life and work
of the architect the major works in chronological order information
about the clients, architectural preconditions as well as
construction problems and resolutions a list of all the selected
works and a map indicating the locations of the best and most
famous buildings approximately 120 illustrations (photographs,
sketches, drafts, and plans)
Whether in his sumptuous images for advertising or his soft-hued
nudes, Paul Outerbridge (1896-1958) was an alchemist of desire.
Color was integral to his aesthetic allure, embracing the complex
tri-color-carbro process to create a seductive surface of texture
and tone. His quest was for "artificial paradises"-a perfection of
form, with a surreal edge. This concise monograph introduces
Outerbridge's unique aesthetic and its commercial and artistic
trajectory, from his professional peak as New York's highest-paid
commercial photographer through to his retreat to Hollywood in the
1940s after a scandal over his erotic photography. With key
examples from his oeuvre, the book explores Outerbridge's
innovative style through Cubist still life images, magazine
photographs, and his controversial nudes, as well as his
interaction with other avant-garde photographers, such as Alfred
Stieglitz, Paul Strand, and Man Ray. Along the way, we recognize
Outerbridge's particular ability to transform everyday objects into
a quasi-abstract composition and his pioneering role in championing
the expressionistic, as much as commercial, potential of color
photographs.
For Sebastiao Salgado, Genesis is a "love letter to the planet."
TASCHEN's postcard set allows you to send on that wonder with 25
individual images from the complete Genesis portfolio, now the
world's most-visited photography show of all time. The boxed set
spans the breadth of Salgado's project across five focal
territories: Planet South, Sanctuaries, Africa, Northern Spaces,
and Amazonia and Pantanal. In exquisite black and white textures,
each image celebrates the pristine splendor of nature, animals, and
indigenous peoples that have, so far, escaped the imprint of modern
society, from a Nomadic Nenet girl in Siberia to sunlit Buffalo
herds in Botswana's Okavango Delta. "Genesis is a quest for the
world as it was, as it was formed, as it evolved, as it existed for
millennia before modern life accelerated and began distancing us
from the very essence of our being" - Lelia Wanick Salgado
From the end of World War II until the mid-1960s, exciting things
were happening in American architecture. Emerging talents were
focusing on innovative projects that integrated at once modern
design and low-cost materials. The trend was most notably embodied
in the famous Case Study House Program, a blueprint for modern
habitation championed by the era's leading American journal, Arts
& Architecture. The complete facsimile of the ambitious and
groundbreaking Arts & Architecture was published by TASCHEN in
2008 as a limited edition. This new curation-directed and produced
by Benedikt Taschen-brings together all the covers and the
highlights from the first five years of the legendary magazine,
with a special focus on the Case Study House Program and its
luminary pioneers including Neutra, Schindler, Saarinen, Ellwood,
Lautner, Eames, and Koenig. A celebration of the first brave years
of a politically, socially and culturally engaged publication, this
special selection is also a testimony to one of the most unique and
influential events in the history of American architecture.
A pictorial history of the world's most enigmatic city
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. It 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. With over 500 images, L.A. is
shown emerging from a desert wasteland to become a vast
palm-studded urban metropolis.
Events that made world news-including two Olympics, Bobby
Kennedy's assassination, and the Rodney King riots-reveal a city of
many dimensions. The entertainment capital of the world, Hollywood,
and its celebrities are showcased along with many other notable
residents, personalities, architects, artists, and musicians. The
city's pop cultural movements, its music, surfing, health food
fads, gangs, and hot rods are included, as are its notorious crimes
and criminals. This book depicts Los Angeles in all its glory and
grit, via hundreds of freshly discovered images including those of
Julius Shulman, Garry Winogrand, William Claxton and many other
superb photographers, culled from major historical archives,
museums, private collectors, and universities. These are given
context and resonance through essays by renowned California
historian Kevin Starr and Los Angeles literature expert David
Ulin.
Zaha Hadid was a revolutionary architect. For years, she was widely
acclaimed and won numerous prizes despite building practically
nothing. Some even said her work was simply impossible to build.
Yet, during the latter years of her life, Hadid's daring visions
became a reality, bringing a new and unique architectural language
to cities and structures such as the Port House in Antwerp, the Al
Janoub Stadium near Doha, Qatar, and the spectacular new airport
terminal in Beijing. By her untimely death in 2016, Hadid was
firmly established among architecture's finest elite, working on
projects in Europe, China, the Middle East, and the United States.
She was the first female architect to win both the Pritzker Prize
for architecture and the prestigious RIBA Royal Gold Medal, with
her long-time Partner Patrik Schumacher now the leader of Zaha
Hadid Architects and in charge of many new projects. Based on the
massive TASCHEN monograph, this book is now available in an
accessible edition covering Hadid's complete works, including
ongoing projects. With abundant photographs, in-depth sketches, and
Hadid's own drawings, the volume traces the evolution of her
career, spanning not only her most pioneering buildings but also
the furniture and interior designs that were integrated into her
unique, and distinctly 21st-century, universe. "A celebration of
all that is brave and audacious in her work." -- Australian
Financial Review
On a winter’s night in 1949 in New York City, young marketing
student and budding photographer Walter Chandoha spotted a stray
kitten in the snow, bundled it into his coat, and brought it home.
Little did he know he had just met the muse that would determine
the course of his life. Chandoha turned his lens on his new feline
friend—which he named Loco—and was so inspired by the results
that he started photographing kittens from a local shelter. These
images marked the start of an extraordinary career that would span
seven decades. Long before the Internet and #catsofinstagram,
Chandoha was enrapturing the public with his fuzzy subjects. From
advertisements to greetings cards, jigsaw puzzles to pet-food
packaging, his images combined a genuine affection for the
creatures, a strong work ethic, and flawless technique.
Chandoha’s trademark glamorous lighting, which made each cat’s
fur stand out in sharp relief, would define the visual vocabulary
of animal portraiture for generations and inspire such masters as
Andy Warhol, who took cues from Chandoha’s charming portraits in
his illustrated cat book. Cats leaps into the archives of this
genre-defining artist, spanning color studio and environmental
portraits, black-and-white street photography, images from vintage
cat shows, tender pictures that combine his children with cats and
more. This is a fitting tribute not just to these beguiling
creatures but also to a remarkable photographer who passed away in
2019 at the age of 98; and whose compassion can be felt in each and
every frame.
Oscar-winning French director/performer Jacques Tati (1907-1982)
was a fiercely innovative and original filmmaker who found
inspiration in the observation of life around him. By creating and
playing unassuming characters thrown into the bustle of society-the
hapless postman Francois and the maladroit Monsieur Hulot-Tati
brilliantly exposed the ways in which class distinctions, social
mores, architecture, and technology affect the basic ways that
humans relate to one another. Unlike Buster Keaton and Charlie
Chaplin, to whom he has frequently been compared, Tati took the
everyday and recreated it, layered organically with visual and
audio gags, for the audience to actively observe. His early work as
a mime taught him how to generate laughter without words; in his
films he used gestures, facial expressions, costumes, props, sets,
sounds, music-everything but dialogue-to do the talking. Tati's
films are truly universal and accessible to anyone, anywhere, who
can appreciate the comedy of modern life. Tati once said "I want
the film to begin when you leave the theater." His greatest
achievement was to show us that together, as the whole of humanity,
we are characters starring in the greatest spectacle of all: life
itself. In 2000, Macha Makeieff and Jerome Deschamps founded Les
Films de Mon Oncle with the late Sophie Tatisheff, daughter of
Tati, to preserve and promote Tati's archives and legacy. This
definitive exploration of Tati's life and work, made possible by
the complete and unprecedented access to the archives that they
provided TASCHEN, features hundreds of photographs and film stills,
the complete screenplays, interviews, original essays, and a vast
selection of documents, letters, sketches, and notes spanning five
volumes. Designed by M/M (Paris), the set includes: Volume I, 'Tati
Films': stills from all six feature films Volume II, 'Tati Writes':
the complete screenplays, plus those of the unmade films The
Illusionist and Confusion, illustrated by pages from Tati's
original drafts Volume III, 'Tati Works': a comprehensive survey of
his life and work Volume IV, 'Tati Explores': essays on important
themes in his films Volume V, 'Tati Speaks': quotations,
interviews, and a previously unpublished memoir by Tati Also
available in a Collector's Edition limited to 112 copies
After flirtations with Realism, Impressionism, and Symbolism,
Kiev-born Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935) found his metier in
dissolving literal, representational figures and landscapes into
pure emotionally-charged abstraction. In 1915, he created what is
widely lauded as the first and ultimate abstract artwork: Black
Square, a black rectangle on a white background, hailed as the
"zero point of painting," a seminal moment for modern and abstract
practice. In this book, we follow Malevich's key innovations and
ideas and place his groundbreaking achievements within the context
of both the Russian and global avant-garde. Through rich
illustrations of his work, we explore the artist's theory of
Suprematism, based on severe geometric abstraction and "the
supremacy of pure feeling in creative art"; his leading role in the
development of Constructivism; as well as his interests in
philosophy, literature, Russian folk art, and the fourth dimension.
By early 1963 the foundations of the Marvel Universe had been laid.
Following the introduction of the Fantastic Four in 1961 came the
amazing (Spider-Man), the astonishing (Ant-Man), the strange
(Doctor, that is), the incredible (Hulk), the invincible (Iron Man)
and the mighty (Thor). Still, Marvel editor in chief Stan Lee
realized something was missing. "I was writing these characters and
I thought it would fun to put them together in a team," he
recalled. So Lee and artist Jack Kirby assembled Iron Man, Ant-Man
and the Wasp, Thor, and the Hulk to create the Avengers. Right away
it was clear this team was different. If the Fantastic Four were
family, then the Avengers were the co-workers you didn't choose.
Not everyone got along-the Hulk fought with everyone-but working
together they could defeat the baddest of Marvel's bad guys, like
Loki, Kang the Conqueror, the Masters of Evil, and Immortus. The
lineup was ever changing: The Hulk departed, Captain America
joined, and Ant-Man grew up to become Giant-Man. Then, remarkably,
villains Hawkeye, Quicksilver, and the Scarlet Witch became
heroes-and Avengers-and the group's founding members shockingly
departed, leaving Captain America to lead the newly-minted heroes.
Relive the classic early adventures of Avengers Nos. 1-20 in an
XXL-sized edition that's bigger than the Hulk's fist, weightier
than Thor's hammer, and with more extras than Iron Man's armor.
TASCHEN has attempted to create an ideal representation of these
books as they were produced at the time of publication. The most
pristine pedigreed comics have been cracked open and photographed
for reproduction in close collaboration with Marvel and the
Certified Guaranty Company. Each page has then been digitally
remastered using modern retouching techniques to correct problems
with the era's inexpensive, imperfect printing-as if hot off of a
world-class 1960s printing press. Accompanying the stories are an
original foreword by Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige and an
in-depth history by the Eisner Award-winning writer Kurt Busiek
that's illustrated with original art, little-seen photographs, and
rare documents. This mighty collection about Earth's Mightiest
Heroes is worthy of Tony Stark's library-or yours. Also available
in a Collector's Edition of 1,000 numbered copies. (c) 2022 MARVEL
About the series MARVEL COMICS LIBRARY is an exclusive, long-term
collaboration between TASCHEN and Marvel. The rarest classic
comics, including Spider-Man, Avengers, and Captain America are
meticulously reproduced in their original glory, in extra-large
format. The library offers collectors a once-in-a-lifetime
opportunity to lay their hands on the world's most desirable
comics. Each volume includes an essay by a comic book historian
along with hundreds of photos and artifacts, including rare
original comic book artwork.
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Wiener Werkstatte
(Hardcover)
Gabriele Fahr-Becker; Edited by Angelika Taschen
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The Wiener Werkstatte ("Vienna Workshop") bears many hallmarks of a
modern creative movement. Founded in 1903 by Josef Hoffmann,
Koloman Moser, and Fritz Waerndorfer, this progressive alliance of
artists and designers was particularly interested in challenging
industrialised society with individual handcraftsmanship, and in
bringing different facets of life into one unified, elegant
artwork. The workshop began life in three small rooms, but soon
expanded to fill a three storey building with special departments
for metalwork, leatherwork, and woodwork, as well as a book binder
and a paint shop. Artists experimented with various materials such
as gold, precious stones, and papier mache and applied their
simple, often geometric, designs across ceramics, textiles,
typography, interior design, furniture, and fashion. In
architectural commissions such as the Purkersdorf Sanatorium and
the Palais Stoclet in Brussels, the group was able to realize its
ideal of the Gesamtkunstwerk ("total artwork"), in which every
detail of an environment was designed as an integral part of a
coordinated whole. Though the workshop lasted only 30 years, it
enjoyed major commercial success, with outlets in Karlsbad,
Marienbad, Zurich, New York, and Berlin. It also garnered designs
from many of the leading artists of the epoch, including Gustav
Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka,and Egon Schiele. Today, the Vienna Workshop
is recognized for its comprehensive approach to artistic practice
and its stylistic influence on Art Deco and Bauhaus.
Nel vorticoso passare del tempo, il graphic design - con la sua
vivida e nitida sintesi di immagini e idee - ha catturato lo
spirito di ogni epoca. Ogni singolo istante di ogni giorno siamo
circondati da packaging minimalisti, pubblicita pittoresche,
brillanti infografiche ambientali e agili interfacce: ecco dunque
che il graphic design serve tanto a trasmettere informazioni quanto
a riflettere le aspirazioni culturali e i valori di una societa.
Grazie alla sua vasta conoscenza della materia, l'autore Jens
Muller passa in rassegna i progetti piu straordinari di ogni anno,
che rappresentano altrettante pietre miliari nella storia del
design. Questa raccolta di importanti lavori grafici rappresenta
una riflessione ormai imprescindibile sull'evoluzione di un campo
creativo soggetto a continui cambiamenti e sfide. Aiutandoci a
riconoscere l'impatto decisivo del graphic design sulla nostra vita
quotidiana, questi progetti fondamentali fungono da coordinate per
orientarsi nella storia contemporanea. 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.
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