The ultimate companion to all things 007, covering the making of every movie in the James Bond franchise, from Dr. No to the 25th film, No Time To Die. With more than 1,000 images and an oral history featuring 150 cast and crew members, this updated edition will delight fans of the most successful film franchise in cinema history. View Rating and Reviews Hardcover, 33.7 x 24.6 cm (13.3 x 9.7 in.), 648 pages, English edition with German, French, and Spanish translation as download
Peter Lindbergh is wary of society’s fixation on outlandishly retouched women. Shadows on the Wall offers a stunning curation of truly individual, intimate images, with hardly any retouching or makeup. Lindbergh shows profound compassion for the talented women whom he loves and has worked with for many years: Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, Alicia Vikander, Charlotte Rampling, Dame Helen Mirren, Jessica Chastain, Kate Winslet, Léa Seydoux, Lupita Nyong’o, Penélope Cruz, Robin Wright, Rooney Mara, Uma Thurman, and Zhang Ziyi. View Rating and Reviews Hardcover, 36 x 26 cm, 2.50 kg, 288 pages
Since the mid-1800s, San Francisco has attracted artists, free spirits, dreamers and entrepreneurs. With nearly 500 pages of stunning images sourced from dozens of archives and collections, this volume depicts the city from its earliest history to the present day. View Rating and Reviews Hardcover, 25 x 34 cm, 3.98 kg, 480 pages
Sir William Hamilton, vulcanologist and envoy to the British Embassy in Naples, amassed an invaluable collection of ancient Greek vases, which he sold to the British Museum in 1772. He commissioned Pierre-François Hugues d’Hancarville to document the pieces before they were shipped to London: the result was a neoclassical masterpiece, reproduced here by TASCHEN in pristine detail. View Rating and Reviews Hardcover, 25 x 34 cm, 3.29 kg, 514 pages
Bert Stern’s “Last Sitting” photos of Marilyn Monroe – taken just weeks before her death – merge with Norman Mailer’s controversial 1973 biography of Monroe into this intimate portrait of an enigmatic woman – a global celebrity with a tragic end. With their work combined in one book, Mailer and Stern lift the veil on a film icon. View Rating and Reviews Hardcover, 28 x 33.8 cm, 2.53 kg, 276 pages
This dazzling tribute to Muhammad Ali and George Foreman’s 1974 boxing match in Kinshasa, Zaire, brings together the best of Norman Mailer’s classic commentary The Fight with color and black-and-white photographs from the two men who captured Ali like no one else: Neil Leifer and Howard L. Bingham. First published as a signed Collector’s Edition, now available in an unlimited edition View Rating and Reviews Hardcover, 28 x 33.8 cm, 2.72 kg, 260 pages
Take a truly magical mystery tour with this sparkling compendium of magic and trickery from medieval thaumaturgies to 20th-century showmen. Featuring hundreds of rarely seen vintage posters, photographs, handbills, and engravings, Magic follows this special performing art from the 1400s to the 1950s. View Rating and Reviews Hardcover, 24.7 x 37.5 cm, 4.30 kg, 544 pages
Superlatives flounder in the face of Joan Blaeu’s Atlas Maior, one of the most extravagant feats in the history of mapmaking. This stunning edition is based on the Austrian National Library’s complete colored and gold-heightened copy and reprints its 594 maps covering all then-known continents to the highest reproduction standard, rendering full justice to this luxurious Baroque wonder. View Rating and Reviews Hardcover, 24.7 x 37.5 cm, 4.13 kg, 512 pages
This stunning edition of Kay Nielsen’s illustrations for a world heritage classic, A Thousand and One Nights, highlights his unique, vivid imagery and features history, description, and essays on the making of this series. It also offers rarely-seen colorful artworks by Nielsen and the drawings he created for his original publication. First published as a limited Collector’s Edition, now available in an unlimited edition View Rating and Reviews Hardcover, 31.2 x 31.2 cm, 1.35 kg, 144 pages
In 1947, Bill Gaines inherited his father’s publishing company, EC Comics. Over the next eight years, Gaines and his writers and artists reinvented the comic book, introducing mature themes and legendary titles like Tales from the Crypt, Weird Science, and MAD. With more than 1,000 images, EC fans are sure to find something new. View Rating and Reviews Hardcover, 29 x 39.5 cm, 6.02 kg, 592 pages
Indoor-outdoor flow meets clean, crisp modernism in the structures of Austrian-American Richard Neutra, master of postwar architecture whose cool, sleek style synthesized technology with nature. This monograph compiles his complete works—nearly 300 private homes, schools, and public buildings—illustrated by over 1,000 photographs, including those of Julius Shulman. View Rating and Reviews Hardcover, 33.2 x 25.7 cm, 3.57 kg, 464 pages
Europe’s reputation as the center of the culinary world is confirmed with this expansive array of restaurant menus from across the continent. From extravagant bills of fare for royal feasts to delectable mid-century minimalist graphics, the gustatory customs of dozens of European countries are revealed in this encyclopedic design compendium. View Rating and Reviews Hardcover, 25 x 31.5 cm, 3.43 kg, 448 pages
Walter Chandoha’s remarkable legacy as the 20th century’s greatest pet photographer lives on in this sequel to his critically acclaimed Cats. Featuring over 60 breeds, photographed in a variety of styles and locations, the book includes color studio and environmental portraits, black-and-white street scenes, dogs roaming free in the countryside, and vintage dog shows. Each image brims with Chandoha’s tenderness and empathy for these charming canines. View Rating and Reviews Hardcover, 23.7 x 31.6 cm, 2.32 kg, 296 pages
Psychedelia meets Black Power, sexual liberation meets social conscience, and street portraiture meets fantastical comic art in this epic volume of groove. Complete with cultural context, design analysis and interviews with key industry figures, the collection gathers more than 500 legendary record covers from a golden era of Black music. View Rating and Reviews Hardcover, 15.6 x 21.7 cm, 1.24 kg, 512 pages
Exotic plants, corals and crocodiles, birds and butterflies. Albertus Seba’s extraordinary catalog of natural specimens is not only one of the 18th century’s greatest natural history achievements but also one of the most prized natural history books of all time. It is a beautiful tribute to the abundance and diversity of Earth's creatures, great and small, as well as a fascinating record of some now-extinct animals. View Rating and Reviews Hardcover, 15.6 x 21.7 cm, 1.41 kg, 512 pages
Discover one of the oddest and most beautiful books of the 19th century: Oliver Byrne’s edition of Euclid’s Elements. This work of art and science combines primary colors and mathematical precision in a display of geometric form. Elements anticipates Bauhaus design and even modern info graphics used by news organizations. View Rating and Reviews Hardcover, 20.5 x 25.6 cm, 1.66 kg, 396 pages
Meet desert modernist Albert Frey, the Zurich-born architect who brought notes of Bauhaus, De Stijl, and Le Corbusier to the West Coast. From his European beginnings, Frey developed a unique architectural brand, one that would redefine midcentury California through sleek, leisurely structures nestled among the arid landscapes of Palm Springs and beyond. View Rating and Reviews Hardcover, 21 x 26 cm, 0.59 kg, 96 pages
Get down with Marvin Gaye, Earth, Wind & Fire, Stevie Wonder, Donna Summer, Barry White, Funkadelic, Al Green, The Jackson 5, Diana Ross, James Brown, Chaka Khan and many more black music legends in this collection of largely unseen images from the golden age of soul, R&B, and funk. This volume gathers all of the glamour and groove captured by Los Angeles based photographer Bruce W. Talamon. View Rating and Reviews Hardcover, 22.6 x 31.6 cm, 2.67 kg, 376 pages
Flowering mountain slopes and flowing meadows. Icy glaciers and majestic summits. With their pristine natural beauty, the Alps have always been a source of wonder. Angelika Taschen presents the best accommodation for Alpinists – historic inns, guesthouses, monasteries, mountain huts, chalets, palazzi, design hotels, and even a youth hostel. View Rating and Reviews Hardcover, 23.8 x 30.2 cm, 2.29 kg, 360 pages