Feminista Helmut Newton

Born into a working-class family in London's East End in 1938, David Bailey became the best-known photographer of his generation and has led a life that most people can only dream of. Drawing on numerous interviews, some previously unpublished, and illustrated with many iconic photographs as well as previously unpublished images from Bailey's private archive, this book explores the man behind the camera. His outspoken and irreverent observations on life, death, women, style, fashion, sex, class, the movies, the 1960s, photography and Hitler are as thought-provoking as they are revealing. The book also contains the reflections of some of the illustrious figures Bailey has worked with, among them Angelica Huston, Paul Smith, Jerry Hall, Catherine Deneuve, Mary Quant, Kenneth Williams, Jean Shrimpton, Penelope Tree, Damien Hirst and Diana Vreeland, as well as fellow photographers Cecil Beaton, Terence Donovan and Brian Duffy. In their interviews and writings over the years, these figures have provided some fascinating insights into the experience of being the focus of Bailey's lens.

The Many Worlds of Dennis Hopper
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, this extensive volume, finally back in print in a new edition, distills the essence of Hopper’s prodigious photographic career. Also included are introductory essays by Shafrazi and legendary West Coast art pioneer Walter Hopps, as well as an extensive biography and new afterword by journalist Jessica Hundley. With excerpts from Victor Bockris’s interviews of Hopper’s famous subjects, friends, and family, this volume revives an unprecedented exploration of the life and mind of one of America’s most fascinating personalities.

Trzymacie Państwo w swoich rękach drugą część historii gdańskich zakładów fotograficznych, w której opisano życie i twórczość pionierów fotografii pracujących w Gdańsku w latach 1863-1867. Zgromadzone informacje są owocem szczegółowych badań naukowych prowadzonych przez Autora od ponad dziesięciu lat i dotychczas nie były publikowane. Podobnie jak w pierwszej części książki, zostały przedstawione w sposób chronologiczny, rok po roku i miesiąc po miesiącu, a całość została osadzona na tle historii polskiej i światowej fotografii, dzięki czemu mogą Państwo poznać najważniejsze wydarzenia epoki mokrego kolodionu. Nie będzie przesadą stwierdzenie, że było to pięć najważniejszych lat w rozwoju fotografii, ponieważ w tym okresie dokonano kolejnych ważnych odkryć chemicznych i opracowano nowe wynalazki, które zapoczątkowały nowy etap jej historii. Na rynku pojawiły się jasne obiektywy do portretów i zdjęć architektury oraz miniaturowe aparaty podróżne. Skrócono czas naświetlania i wprowadzono pierwsze migawki, dzięki czemu możliwe było wykonywanie zdjęć sekundowych. Wszystkie nowości bardzo szybko pojawiły się w gdańskich zakładach, a wśród licznych aktywnych fotografów rozpoczęła się ekscytująca rywalizacja o tytuł najlepszego fotografa w Gdańsku. Prace drugiego pokolenia gdańskich fotografów są zjawiskowe i nie wymagają żadnego komentarza. To prawdziwe dzieła sztuki fotograficznej, które można i należy podziwiać godzinami. W książce mogą Państwo zobaczyć ponad 80 zdjęć wykonanych na gdańskich ulicach, a prawdziwymi unikatami są pierwsze zdjęcia sekundowe wykonane latem 1865 roku przez Rudolfa Kuhna. Dodatkową wartością jest zbiór niemal 50 portretów dawnych mieszkańców Gdańska, a wśród najcenniejszych należy wymienić fotografie przedstawicieli rodziny Klawitter. Ozdobą tego tomu jest blisko metrowa fotografia 900 mieszkańców Gdańska wykonana 18 maja 1865 roku.

From Elvis to Nirvana: the most important record covers in rock history
Album art is indelibly linked to our collective musical memories; when you think of your favorite albums, you picture the covers. Many photographers, illustrators, and art directors have become celebrities from their album artworks—the best examples of which will go down in history as permanent fixtures in popular culture.

Paying tribute to this art form, Rock Covers brings you a compilation of more than 750 remarkable album covers, from legendary to rare record releases. Artists as varied as Elvis Presley, The Beatles, The Sex Pistols, Pink Floyd, The Cure, Iron Maiden, and Sonic Youth are gathered together in celebration of the cover art that defined their albums and their cult status. Each cover is accompanied by a fact sheet listing the art director, photographer or illustrator, year, label, and more, while nearly 250 records that marked particular turning points for a band, an artist, or the music genre, are highlighted with short descriptions.

This far-reaching catalog of visualized rock is contextualized with insider interviews with five professionals who shaped the history of rock, and by top-10 record lists from ten leading rock collectors.

The Colors of Life transports readers through the lens of autochromes and paget plates – from the infancy of early color photographic processes – and enhances detail and definition and dynamic range to create a startlingly new way to connect to the past.

This compilation showcases over 200 photographs enhanced by Stuart Humphryes, capturing people from various backgrounds and their everyday lives, at leisure, and at work. With the use of cutting edge enhancements, these early colour photographs and their stories come to life in a way they preciously never could. The book a reminds us the the past was as real as the present and has the power to evoke personal and shared emotions that resonate across time.

The Colors of Life is a captivating journey into the past, using the technology of the present to allow readers to see and experience history in a new and vibrant light.

When one of the most visually exciting photographers of our times turns fashion stories into fairy tales, the results are unmistakable and inimitable. Though they may soar in scale and ambition to satisfy in meticulous detail one of fashion photography’s most original eyes, they are painstakingly realized – and with no concession to artificial enhancement. In this collection of Tim Walker’s dazzling images, everything you see was specially constructed; the make-believe really happened. In Walker’s pursuit of the perfect picture no demand appears too unreasonable, no scenario too outlandish, no objective unattainable. The half-forgotten, slow-paced world he conjures up is one of grandeur mixed with eccentricity, of opulence with romanticism and of time stilled entirely. For the most part it is, to say the least, at odds with the pace of 21st-century life. Some of the biggest names in fashion and contemporary culture are here: Alber Elbaz sporting a pair of rabbit ears; Agyness Deyn in the sand dunes of Namibia; Alexander McQueen and a memento mori of skull and cigarettes; Helena Bonham Carter poised with Ray-Bans and a Diet Coke; Stella Tennant in a pink cloud among the rhododendrons of an English country garden… The singer and musician Kate Bush contributes a foreword and Walker himself an afterword, as well as illuminating his pictures throughout with personal observations. This exceptional and beautifully designed overview of a career caught in mid-flow reveals just how much one man’s singular vision has influenced contemporary tastes in fashion, beauty, glamour and portraiture. So, if ever you have yearned to crash-land a Spitfire in your drawing room, to paint a village yellow, to cut a car in two, to meet a real witch, to swing from several chandeliers, to ride with a pack of foxhounds led by a flying saucer, to pilot a biplane made of French loaves, Tim Walker shows you it is entirely possible. You just have to believe.