The Origins of a Legendary PhotographerAnnie Leibovitz's photographic breakthrough and Rolling Stone reportageFor more than half a century, Annie Leibovitz has been taking culture-defining photographs
French flower painter Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840) devoted himself exclusively to capturing the diversity of flowering plants in watercolor paintings which were then published as copper engraving
An exciting new compilation of Hans Christian Andersen’s world-famous fairy tales The Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen presents the most famous Andersen stories, including classics such as The
The humanized super hero “[What] began as a historical project . . . now may qualify as a history-making one.” —Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, on 75 Years of DC Comics On December 15, 1978,
This highly original collection, made in collaboration with Colors magazine, brings new meaning to the term album art, whats featured is not record covers but records themselves, in a plethora of colo
Night visionsA fine art portfolio of Kay Nielsen’s sumptuous A Thousand and One NightsIn the late 1910s, in a Europe ravaged by World War I, Danish illustrator Kay Nielsen put the finishing touc
The Must-Have Architectural ManualA century of great buildings and their creators From Frank Lloyd Wright to Antoni Gaudí, Frank O. Gehry to Shigeru Ban and all the best stuff in between, it’s all he
Anatomy of ideasThe life’s work of an infographics pioneerFritz Kahn (1888–1968) was a German doctor, educator, popular science writer, and information graphics pioneer. Chased out of Germ
For The Love of LettersA history of fonts and graphic styles from 1628 to 1938This comprehensive book offers a thorough overview of typeface design from 1628 to the mid-20th century. Derived from a di
Dinosaurs Are ForeverA pictorial history of paleoartIt was 1830 when an English scientist named Henry De la Beche painted the first piece of paleoart, a dazzling, deliciously macabre vision of prehist
Perfect PanicUp close and suspenseful with Alfred Hitchcock The name Alfred Hitchcock is synonymous with suspense—that is to say, masterful, spine-tingling, thrilling, shocking, excruciating, eye-bogg
Crumb, Crumb, and More CrumbVolume 4 of the celebrated sketchbook series from the incomparable R. Crumb The first three volumes of this series were met with fervent acclaim from our readers, most of w
To Infinity and BeyondJourney through the U.S. space program’s fascinating pictorial history On October 1, 1958, the world’s first civilian space agency opened for business as an emergency response to
Visual RevolutionariesDesign game changers, from the 1960s until todayThrough the turbulent passage of time, graphic design—with its vivid, neat synthesis of image and idea—has distilled the spirit of
ZeitgeistThe Roaring Twenties in BerlinIt was the decade of daring Expressionist canvases, of brilliant book design, of the Bauhaus total work of art, of pioneering psychology, of drag balls, cabaret,
On the Verge of HistoryAn inside look into John F. Kennedy’s 1960 campaign for AmericaWith his Hollywood good looks, boundless enthusiasm, and mesmeric media presence, John F. Kennedy was destined to
Me, myself, and IIs a self-portrait of an artist a medium of reflection—or is it merely a black void, the ‘false mirror,’ as the surrealist René Magritte entitled his 1928 painting of an eye? Do self-
Florence’s golden child: The Early Renaissance masterDuring Sandro Botticelli’s lifetime (1444/45-1510), the influence of his art scarcely reached beyond his native Florence, and following his death h
