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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

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

Lustful places, luscious women"Taschen is this art vampire. He's going to bite me on the neck and my art is going to have immortality." —Chas Ray Krider (from an interview with Eric Kroll)"A number of

After Tadao Ando, Toyo Ito, and Fumihiko Maki, Kengo Kuma has breathed renewed vigor and lightness into Japanese architecture. Departing from the modernist skyscraper of the 20th century, Kuma traveled through his native Japan to develop a truly sustainable approach, translating local craftsmanship and resources into site-specific, timely buildings. Informed by tradition, and with both feet firmly planted in the present, this “materialist” heralds a new tactile architecture marked by its engaging surfaces, innovative structures, and fluid forms, reconnecting people with the physicality of a house.Kuma’s objective, above all else, is “just to respect the culture and environment of the place where I am working.” To this end, Kuma shaped the China Academy of Art’s Folk Art Museum partially from discarded roof tiles; created a Chapel out of birch and moss in Nagano; and worked with local craftsmen to sculpt the V&A Dundee into a twisted, layered reflection of the Scottish coastal cliff

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

The Complete PackageA fresh batch of winning designs from the 2017 and 2018 PentawardsAttract, protect, inform, collect—good packaging is synonymous with multitasking. Creating these ultimate all-roun

Drawing with ScissorsMatisse’s revolutionary late-period workToward the end of his monumental career as a painter, sculptor, and lithographer, an elderly, sickly Matisse was unable to stand and use a

Updated with more than 200 new pages, this XXL-sized monograph is jam-packed with photographs, sketches, and plans that span the architect's entire career to date. It includes ongoing works like the A

Produced in collaboration with The Andy Warhol Foundation and Jean-Michel Basquiat’s estate, this book explores the artists’ complex personal and professional relationship through hundreds of photogra

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

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

Kings, Heroes, and the StreetsThe art of Jean-Michel Basquiat The legend of Jean-Michel Basquiat is as strong as ever. Synonymous with New York in the 1980s, his work represents a seminal period of tr

In a World Without WallsBalinese homes in harmony with natureLoved by travelers for its lush tropical scenery and charming people, Bali is one of the most magnificent places on Earth. Spirituality and

A Century’s Worth of Pleasure and Pause Selling the most delicious vicesVices or virtues: drinking and smoking provided marketers with products to be forged into visual feasts. In this lush

Spider-Sense…Tingling!The Marvel Universe’s friendly neighborhood web-slingerSince his debut in Amazing Fantasy No. 15 in August 1962, Spider-Man has been a hero to millions. Peter Parker was an ordinary teen who received powers from a radioactive spider, and failed to stop the man who would murder his uncle. This led him on a singular quest to take on the mantle of Spider-Man and rid New York City of the bad guys, and we’ve been rooting for him ever since. For more than 50 years he’s been a star of comic books, television, movies, and Broadway, and now, with 192 pages of images with text by Roy Thomas, The Little Book of Spider-Man is your authoritative guide to the everyman super hero!

From Iceland to Italy Europe photographed by the best For over five generations, National Geographic magazine has dazzled and educated people with incredible photography and gripping storie

Out on a LimbThe sky’s the limit with 50 ingenious tree houses around the worldThe idea of climbing a tree for shelter, or just to see the earth from another perspective, is as old as humanity. In this neat TASCHEN edition, take a tour of some of our finest arboreal adventures with 50 of the most beautiful, inventive, and enchanting tree houses around the world.From romantic to contemporary, from famed architects to little-known craftsmen, you’ll scale the heights to visit all manner of treetop structures, from a teahouse, restaurant, hotel, and children’s playhouse to simple perches from which to contemplate life, enjoy the view, and discover that tree houses take as many forms as the imagination can offer. With an abundance of gorgeous photographs and illustrations, this is an ode to alternate living, where playful imagination meets eco-sensitive finesse.About the series:Bibliotheca Universalis— Compact cultural companions celebrating the eclectic TASCHEN universe at an unbeatable, d

Fine lines100 illustrators to rememberDrawn from TASCHEN’s Illustration Now! series, this go-to catalog brings together 100 of the most successful and important illustrators around the globe. With fea

Painting with scissorsHow Matisse bowed out in a riot of colorful shapes and patternsHenri Matisse (1869–1954) was a fighting spirit. Despite a cancer diagnosis in 1941, increasing frailty and the con

Paris promenadeEugène Atget’s unique city portraitA flaneur and photographer at once, Eugène Atget (1857–1927) was obsessed with walking the streets. After trying his hand at painting and acting, the

The face of Spain: The undeniable pinnacle of the golden age of Spanish paintingAcclaimed for its blending of realism with atmosphere, and for its deeply sensitive appreciation of character, the work

Color and clash: The height of German ExpressionismThe Brücke (established in Dresden in 1905) is, together with the Blauer Reiter in Munich, the most important movement in German Expressionism. Meani

Flowers in the desert: Sensuality and color fuse with natureThe paintings by the American artist Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986) enthrall us with their expressive color and latent sensuality. Famous for her iconic paintings of calla lilies and irises seen in magnified close-up, O’Keeffe painted not only flowers but also atmospheric images of Manhattan skyscrapers, sweeping desert landscapes and poetic, semi-abstract compositions akin to the color field painting of the 1950s and ’60s. O’Keeffe’s great popularity and her outstanding position in American art are rooted not just in her pictures, but equally in her remarkable personality.The present volume traces the idiosyncratic path of O’Keeffe’s career, which took her from the circle of modernist artists and photographers around Alfred Stieglitz—with whom she had a turbulent marriage—in 1920s New York to an independent and legendary life in the wilds of New Mexico. Tenaciously overcoming serious illness and the obstacles presented by a mal

Light, water, and wonder: Conversations with Olafur EliassonFamed for such show-stopping works as The Weather Project at the Tate Modern and The New York City Waterfalls, Olafur Eliasson is celebrated

Rebel. Rebel.The eye of the Bowie stormIn 1972, David Bowie released his groundbreaking album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. With it landed Bowie’s Stardust alter-ego:

Dreamlike, fantastic imagery With Salvador Dali as its figurehead, the great ship of Surrealism traversed the wild and turbulent sea of the Roaring Twenties, its sa

Deconstructing perspective with Picasso and peers Pioneered by Picasso and Braque,Cubism was the first avant-garde art movement of the 20th century. Heavi

Abstract pioneer: Seeking harmony with red, yellow and blueA key figure in the international avant-garde,Piet Mondrian (1872–1944) was at once an extraordinary painter and art theoretician whose influ

Female warriors: When America's pop-sport met staged pornographyGet up close, personal, and sweatywith some of the most famous wrestlers of the 60s and 70s, as well as with the sport's feisty sub-phen

Rebel with a cause: A revolutionary spirit in modern artDiego Rivera (1886–1957) is a loud presence on the art historical stage. With devout political principles and a turbulent romantic history, he w

Renaissance Man: The unstoppable curiosity and invention of the da Vinci geniusFilling notebook after notebook with sketches, inventions, and theories,Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) not only stands as

Pain and passion: The original and intimate art of Mexico’s most famous female painterThe arresting pictures of Frida Kahlo (1907–54) were in many ways expressions of trauma. Through a near-fatal road accident at the age of 18, failing health, a turbulent marriage, miscarriage and childlessness, shetransformed the afflictions into revolutionary art.In literal or metaphorical self-portraiture, Kahlo looks out at the viewer with an audacious glare, rejecting her destiny as a passive victim and rather intertwining expressions of her experience into ahybrid surreal-real language of living: hair, roots, veins, vines, tendrils and fallopian tubes. Many of her works also explore theCommunist political idealswhich Kahlo shared with Rivera. The artist described her paintings as“the most sincere and real thing that I could do in order to express what I felt inside and outside of myself.”This book introduces a rich body of Kahlo’s work to explore her unremitting determination as an artist, and he

The Pritzker prize winning "paper architect"This monograph, compiled with the architect’s collaboration, traces his career and features every built work of Shigeru Ban, showing clear

The look of books: The very finest in German publishing 1919-1933The period between the First and Second World Wars is well known forthe flowering of German culture. With Berlin as its epicenter, the

The anatomy of letters: Everything you could ever want to know about printing letters and numbers Looking back as far as man’s first efforts to communicate with visual signs and drawings, Letter Fou

The mythical Med: Where to get lost, in style and comfortFlanked by three continents and offering coastline to 21 countries, the Mediterranean is a mythical place, blessed with itsfine climate, luxuri

Mustaches and muscles: Back to the days when men were men and sex was carefree In 1965, Tom of Finland began flirting with the idea of an ongoing character for his panel stories, the ultimate

A fantastic journey through the history of esoteric loreThe Hermetic Museum takes its readers on a magical mystery tour spanning an arc from the mediaeval cosmogram and images of Christian mysticism, through the fascinating world of alchemy to the art of the Romantic era. The enigmatic hieroglyphs of cabbalists, Rosicrucians and freemasons are shown to be closely linked with the early scientific illustrations in the fields of medicine, chemistry, optics and colour theory.

Exploring the globe since 1888. A journey through time with the world’s favorite magazine “TASCHEN has taken these photos out of our archives and elevated them into the realm of fine art.” —D

It’s the Roaring Twenties, and New York is exploding with jazz fever. Crowds flock to the nightclubs and dance halls in Harlem to see the likes of Louis Armstrong with the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra