Covering the 1920s to the 1960s, the Taschen Vintage Surfing (25th Anniversary) Hardcover brings together vintage ads, postcards, brochures, and photographs as well as period Top 10 lists covering surf superstars, songs, and surfing spots. If you've ever found yourself w...
London is a vast sprawling metropolis, constantly evolving and growing, yet throughout its complex past and shifting present, the humor, unique character, and bulldog spirit of the people have stayed constant. This book Taschen London, Portrait of a City salutes all those L...
A photographic journey into the city's history Berlin has survived two world wars, was divided by a wall during the Cold War, and after the fall of the Wall was re-united. The city emerged as a center of European power and culture. From 1860 to the present day, this book Taschen Ber...
From the first known photograph taken in Los Angeles to its most recent sweeping vistas, this photographic tribute to the City of Angelsprovides a fascinating journey through the city's cultural, political, industrial, and sociological history. It traces the city's develop...
This book the Taschen New York, Portrait of a City presents the epic story of New York on nearly 600 pages of emotional, atmospheric photographs, from the mid-19th century to the present day. Supplementing this treasure trove of images are over a hundred quotations and refe...
The Kama Sutra gives detailed instructions on how to spank it. Contemporary Italians touch it for luck before placing a bet. Americans are having it cosmetically enhanced at rates approaching breast enlargement surgery.The female butt, tush, culo, or derrière has always inspired awe, fantas...
Many loved The Taschen Little Book of Legs but some found it just too darn big, weighing in at nearly seven pounds. True, it was packed with shapely legs spanning six decades, from the first shy emergence of the ankle in the 1910s, through the rolled stockings and rouged kn...
Few artists can lay claim to representing an entire music genre: singer-songwriter, guitarist Bob Marley is one. His name is synonymous with the indigenous Jamaican off-beat music of reggae, a local genre he took from his beloved island homeland to the world. The first reggae superstar, the...
A city built on two millennia of history, Paris is entering the third century of its love story with photography. It was on the banks of the Seine that Niépce and Daguerre officially gave birth to this new art that has flourished ever since, developing a distinctive language and becoming a ...
The Taschen Symbolism (Basic Genre)is well known book of symbolism spirituality that contains the artistic work of beauty. In the year 1884 Novel appeared in Paris of a fin de sicle cult that was welcomed as an altogether perverse sensation on the European cultural scene. I...
Jean Nouvel, winner of the 2008 Pritzker Prize, is widely regarded as France's most original and important contemporary architect. From 1967 to 1970 he assisted influential architects Claude Parent and Paul Virilio, before creating his own practice in Paris. His first widel...
"The array of buildings by Renzo Piano is staggering in scope and comprehensive in the diversity of scale, material, and form. He is truly an architect whose sensibilities represent the widest range of this and earlier centuries." Such was the description of Renzo Piano giv...
As one of the most important contemporary architects, Richard Meier (b. 1934) is a key figure in TASCHEN's Basic Architecture Series. His brilliant career ranges from elegant family homes to dazzling institutional buildings like the Barcelona Museum of Cont...
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Robert Doisneau (1912-1994) is best known for his magical, timeless 35mm street portraits taken in Paris and its suburbs. Fresh, unstaged, and full of poetry and humor, his photographs portray everyday people (in everyday places, doing everyday things) frozen in time, unwittingly revea...
The Taschen Eames by Gloria Koenig in this book nothing says modernist perfection like an Eames design. Though they are best known to the general public for their furniture, the husband and wife duo of Charles and Ray Eames (1907-78 and 1912-88, respectively) were...
The Taschen Bauhaus; was founded in Weimar in 1919, the Bauhaus school developed a revolutionary approach that fused fine art with craftsmanship and engineering in everything from architecture to furniture, typography, and even theater. Original...
The book Taschen Wright by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer writes that widely thought to be the greatest American architect, Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) was a true pioneer, both artistically and technically. At a time when reinforced concrete and steel...
Mystery is mystifying; it is an intellectual thing. Suspense is an emotional thing. -Alfred Hitchcock Hitchcock's name is synonymous with suspense-that is to say, masterful, spine-tingling, thrilling, shocking, excruciating, eye-boggling suspense. With masterpieces such as More... Rebecca, ...
One of the most esteemed filmmakers of all time, Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) was also one of the most enigmatic. He broke into the film scene at the age of 26 with the ambitious, independently produced Killer's Kiss and within a few years was working with the likes of Kirk Douglas, Laurence...
The Taschen Men's Adventure Magazines is comprehensive guide packed with full of colorful cover art, sumptuous sample spreads, and enlightening essays. Paying homage to the American periodicals of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s that documented outrageous exploits the imaging s...
The Taschen Photo Icons The Story Behind the Pictures are stories behind history's most extraordinary photographs. To demonstrate the unique and profound influence on culture and society that photographs have. Each chapter of this special edition focuses on a single image w...
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