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101 duotone photographs

This powerful collection of black and white male nudes is a stunning testament to Peter Arnold’s talents as a fine art photographer and artist. Arnold’s unique vision is exemplified by his attention to detail, meticulously sculpting these powerful bodies with his original posing and languid lighting. The exact composition of each model’s masterful body allows a graphic display of muscle and skin textures to take form. As a result, each image pulses with a heightened sexual energy. This is a collection with an otherworldly quality, sure to provoke comment for many years to come.

Peter Arnold's work as a fine art photographer and pictorial artist is known internationally. His best-selling books, Orchids, Tulips, and Bulbs in Bloom have become classics of flower photography.

* Sensuous and strikingly original, a dramatic portrayal of man in all his facets
* The power and beauty of the male nude is brought to new heights

Picture Perfect. The photo duo behind some of fashion’s glossiest shots

Mert Alas, born in Turkey, and Marcus Piggott, born in Wales, met in 1994, at a party on a pier in Hastings, England. Piggott asked Alas for a light, the pair got talking, and rapidly discovered they had plenty in common, not least a love of fashion. Three years later, the duo now known as Mert and Marcus had moved into a derelict loft in East London, converted it into a studio, and had their first collaborative photographic work published in Dazed & Confused.

These days, Mert and Marcus shape the global image of such renowned brands as Giorgio Armani, Roberto Cavalli, Fendi, Miu Miu, Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent, Givenchy, and Lancôme, and public figures including Lady Gaga, Madonna, Jennifer Lopez, Linda Evangelista, Gisele Bündchen, Björk, Angelina Jolie, and Rihanna. Their photographs encompass a wide range of styles and influences but are renowned particularly for their use of digitized augmentation of images, and a fascination for strong, sexually charged, confident female subjects: “powerful women, women with a meaning, a you-don’t-have-to-talk-or-move-too-much-to-tell-who-you-are kind of woman.”

Bringing our best-selling Collector’s Edition to an affordable, compact format, this collection explores the unique vision of a creative partnership that has defined and redefined standards for glamour, fashion, and luxury. Approximately 300 images from the megawatt Mert and Marcus portfolio are accompanied by an introduction by Charlotte Cotton.

First published as a TASCHEN Collector’s Edition, now available as an affordable, compact edition

The author:

Charlotte Cotton is a curator and writer. She was head of the Wallis Annenberg Department of Photography at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2007–2009), curator of photographs at the Victoria and Albert Museum (1992–2004) and the head of programming at the Photographers Gallery (2004–2005) in London. She is also the founding editor of wordswithoutpictures.org.

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Jump into the megawatt world of Mert and Marcus, the creative tour de force who have styled and shot some of the most powerful brands and personalities of our time, from Miu Miu to Angelina Jolie, Givenchy to Gisele Bündchen. Sourced from our best-selling Collector’s Edition, some 300 pictures illuminate the hyper-glamorous, hyper-glossy repertoire of a creative partnership that has defined and redefined standards for fashion.

In this work nude photographers from all over the world pay tribute to the beauty of the human body. Not vulgar and coarse, but artistic and erotic, this large format photographic book will appeal to a broad public, both male and female. Over 400 pages filled with stunning photographs of the human body.

This book celebrates Italian film diva Monica Bellucci in 150 pictures by glamour photographers such as Helmut Newton, Peter Lindbergh, Richard Avedon, Jean Baptiste Mondino, Bettina Rheims and Ellen von Unwerth.

Monica Bellucci, italienischer Superstar des Films und weltberühmtes Model, kam in Città di Castello in Umbrien zur Welt und begann ihre Karriere mit 16 Jahren als Photomodel. Monica Belluccis Filmkarriere begann Anfang der 1990er Jahre. 1992 wirkte sie als eine von Draculas Bräuten in ihrem ersten großen, englischsprachigen Film mit, Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Mit ihren Rollen in Der Zauber von Malèna, Pakt der Wölfe und Irreversibel machte sie sich beim internationalen Kinopublikum einen Namen, am bekanntesten wurde sie jedoch als Persephone in Matrix Reloaded und Matrix Revolutions und als Maria Magdalena in Passion Christi, Regie Mel Gibson. 2005 spielte Bellucci in dem Fantasyfilm Brothers Grimm die schöne, böse Spiegel-Königin. Sie erhielt den Nastro d’Argento-Preis als beste Nebendarstellerin (2003) und war für mehrere andere Preis nominiert, so 1996 für den César als beste Nebendarstellerin in Lügen der Liebe – L’Appartement. Das Buch versammelt die 150 schönsten Photos der italienischen Diva, aufgenommen von den bedeutendsten Glamourphotographen der Welt wie Peter Lindbergh, Helmut Newton, Fabrizio Ferri, Richard Avedon, Ellen von Unwerth und vielen anderen. Monica Bellucci freut sich sehr auf ihr Buch und wird es mit Auftritten in den Medien aktiv unterstützen. Sie lebt mit ihrem Mann, dem Schauspieler Vincent Cassel, und zwei Töchtern in Paris.

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Это великолепное издание содержит 150 самых изящных и чувственных фотографий Моники Беллуччи, сделанных в течение ее двадцатилетней карьеры известнейшими мировыми фотографами, включая Питера Линдберга, Хельмута Ньютона, Фабрицио Ферри, Ричарда Аведона и Эллен фон Унверт.

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An exquisite tribute to Italy’s most important contemporary model and actress.

As a model, Monica Bellucci graced the covers of magazines such as Elle and Esquire before achieving success as an actress whose notable appearances include roles in Bram Stoker’s Dracula, The Matrix Reloaded, The Passion of the Christ, and The Matrix Revolutions. This glamorous volume features 150 of the most exquisite, sensual photographs of Bellucci throughout her twenty-year career taken by the world’s most important photographers, including Peter Lindbergh, Helmut Newton, Fabrizio Ferri, Richard Avedon, and Ellen von Unwerth. Monica Bellucci will appear in the 2010 Disney film The Sorcerer’s Apprentice with Nicolas Cage.

This book celebrates Italian film diva Monica Bellucci in 150 pictures by glamour photographers such as Helmut Newton, Peter Lindbergh, Richard Avedon, Jean Baptiste Mondino, Bettina Rheims and Ellen von Unwerth.

About the Authors:

Monica Bellucci achieved early stardom as the cover girl for the 1991 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. Since then, she has appeared in countless fashion campaigns as well as in many acclaimed films. Currently, she is the face of Dior Cosmetics. 

Giuseppe Tornatore is one of Italy’s most important contemporary film directors best known for Cinema Paradiso, which won the 1989 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. His latest film, Baarìa, has been critically acclaimed and is a 2010 Academy Award nominee.

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Это великолепное издание содержит 150 самых изящных и чувственных фотографий Моники Беллуччи, сделанных в течение ее двадцатилетней карьеры известнейшими мировыми фотографами, включая Питера Линдберга, Хельмута Ньютона, Фабрицио Ферри, Ричарда Аведона и Эллен вон Унверт.

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108 color and 30 duotone photographs

Bettina Rheims came to fame in the 80s with sensational nudes and portraits and her legendary book ‘Female Trouble’. The sequel, ‘More Trouble’ presents her latest photographic visions of female glamour, beauty, fashion, fame, sex, and seduction. Once again, Rheims gives proof of her extraordinary originality and her sensitivity for both the manifold facets of femininity and pictorial eroticism.

Behind closed doors. Lustful places, luscious women

"A number of years ago I began to see distinctive layouts in Hustler’s Leg World that got me nervous. The photographs were that good. Whoever it was had style and made the women his women. Krider women. Women I began to desire on a monthly basis. In the world of professional golf there is an expression ’the world’s greatest golfer not to win a major tournament.’ Chas Ray Krider was the world’s greatest erotic photographer not to have a book.

Thanks to TASCHEN we now have over 160 Krider images to pore over. To salivate over. Like a good film noir, he takes us to lustful places. Is it a crime scene or a sea of lust? These beautiful, languid women wait for whom? For me. For you. They play the ’waiting game’ beautifully. An ass in the air, a pair of crossed legs in nylons, all bathed in warm tones. A still life unstuck in time. So this is what goes on behind closed doors?

Oh, I almost forgot. Alongside these many Midwest femmes fatales is Dita, raven-haired icon. Not since Betty Page has a woman fleshed out so correctly a vintage girdle and bra ensemble. Enjoy. He takes you places where you only vaguely think you have been."
- Eric Kroll, editor and pupil

28 color and 59 duotone photographs

VIEW—the monthly general interest magazine from the publishers of Stern—recently held an online competition for the best nude photographs. This title presents the ten winning images chosen by Internet users as well as a "Best-Of" of the nude photography from the VIEW photo community. These pictures constitute the crиme de la crиme of amateur erotica. They convey a freshness and candor rarely seen in so-called professional work. With approaches ranging from everyday openness to stylized scenarios, these works resonate with vigor and originality. We, the readers, can share in these dreams and illusions, gazing directly at other's desires. This is a remarkable document and its photos will suprise and impress for sure.

* A unique opportunity to view original erotica by photographic enthusiasts
* An intriguing and intimate collection in a smaller, more convenient format

A resplendent presentation of the nude in American art, photography, and popular culture, from the eighteenth century to the present.

With more than four hundred color illustrations, this is the most thorough and wide-reaching survey of the representation of the male and female nude in American visual culture yet published. Bram Dijkstra explores the history of the subject from its earliest manifestations in the paintings of John Singleton Copley and Benjamin West to the taboo-shredding imagery of late-twentieth-century artists such as Alice Neel, Robert Mapplethorpe, Eric Fischl, and John Currin.

Dijkstra is a cultural historian who refuses to separate "high" and "low" art, charting instead such momentous historical events as the discovery of pubic hair, the invasion of the pin-up queens, "the inexorable rise of the breast," and the puzzling fluctuations of American prudery.

Naked also examines the effects of the early twentieth century’s infatuation with Freudian psychoanalysis and the more recent fascination of comic book art with the legacy of Bettie Page and her seemingly ever more muscular daughters.

In chronological and thematic order, the book demonstrates the links between the work of some of the most famous names in the history of American painting (Chase, Cassatt, Hopper), sculpture (French, Powers), and photography (Cunningham, Weston), and that of the outlaw hordes of cartoonists, book-cover illustrators, and visual extremists who, particularly during the last half-century, were able to turn the United States into the world’s principal purveyor of erotic fantasies.

Born in 1940, Nobuyoshi Araki is arguably Japan’s greatest living photographer, and certainly its most controversial. His inexhaustible creative energy is attested to by the more than 300 books he has published in the last four decades, while his work, which often challenges social taboos surrounding sex and death, has drawn critical attention both at home and abroad. In 1971 Araki privately published Sentimental Journey, an intimate account of his honeymoon with his wife Yoko. In the Preface to this book, Araki declared that his ‘point of departure as a photographer was love ... and the idea of an I-novel [a form of Japanese fiction written autobiographically and in the first person]’. With this statement, Araki established the genre of ‘I-photography’, in which his own life and feelings became the central subject of his work. The idea was to have a great impact on a new generation of Japanese photographers, especially in the 1990s. By 1990, the year of Yoko’s death, Araki had produced an immense body of work. Through his photographs he has created his own universe, where the themes of sex, life and death are closely intertwined. Tokyo, Araki’s home city, often plays a leitmotif in his work, while his rich visual vocabulary is drawn from the erotic Shunga of the Eda period (1600–1867) as well as the glossy imagery of the new commercial culture.

Through his innovative approach to his medium – sometimes combining painting, drawing and film – Araki has become an influential figure in contemporary art, beyond the field of photography. This major publication provides the most comprehensive overview yet of Araki’s prolific 40-year career. Araki’s key series of works are included alongside many rare and previously unpublished photographs. Featuring an interview and essays by writers from Japan and Europe, this book examines Araki from a broad range of perspectives and gives a cultural context to his work. Also included are a large selection of Araki’s writings, translated into English for the first time, as well as complete illustrated and annotated bibliography of his own books. Reflecting Araki’s principle of ‘I-photography’, the book is divided into three sections that follow the main recurring themes in his work: Self, Life and Death.