The most recent volume of this popular series on “Human History in Aerial Photographs” features 20th-century wonders of technology, from Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia to skycrapers in New York and the Golden Gate Bridge, the Sydney Opera, the London Swiss Re Tower, and the Viaduct de Millau in Southern France.

New York photographer Ed Feingersh produced some of the most beautiful Marilyn Monroe shots there are, such as the iconic Chanel No. 5: Marilyn in her hotel suite putting the finishing touches to her evening attire — with a touch of perfume for her decollete. In 1955 she retreated to her exile in New York to avoid the constraints of her contract with Twentieth Century Fox and to take acting lessons with Lee Strasberg. For one whole week, Feingersh observed 29-year-old Marilyn during her private and public life in New York. He followed her on her wanders through the city, joined her at costume fittings and at the Actors Studio, went along for an incognito jaunt on the subway and during her legendary ride on the pink elephant in Madison Square Garden. What he captured was the truly beautiful Marilyn Monroe oscillating between new self-confidence and extreme vulnerability, who could be relaxed and joyful one moment, contemplative, dreamy and sad the next? Marilyn the person, as it were.

«Jim Rakete hat sich schon immer für Menschen interessiert, die etwas bewegen — ob in der Politik, auf der Bühne, in den Medien oder in der Kunstszene. Schauplatz ist im wesentlichen Berlin, und sein Spektrum reicht von der Bundeskanzlerin über Kulturschaffende jeder Couleur bis zum Boxweltmeister. Wir sehen uns lauter»vertrauten Fremden»gegenüber, deren Namen jeder kennt, die uns hier aber näher zu kommen scheinen, als ihr öffentliches Bild, ihr Image, es jemals erlauben würde. Das Geheimnis dieser ungewohnten Nähe liegt in Jim Raketes Art zu photographieren. Da es ihm um eine im doppelten Wortsinn ungeschminkte Wahrheit geht, hat er sich bei seinem jüngsten Projekt einer Technik bedient, die heute schon als exotisch gilt und bald nicht mehr praktizierbar sein wird: Die hier versammelten Portraits sind mit einer alten Plattenkamera aufgenommen, die viel Handarbeit, natürliches Licht und vom Modell vergleichsweise langes Stillhalten erfordert. Im»Glück des Verzichts»- auf das digitale Sofortbild, auf Manipulationen, Styling und Dynamik — liegt für ihn die Chance, den Augen-Blick zwischen Photograph und Modell zu verlängern, sich selbst und dem Portraitierten die Zeit zu geben, die man braucht, um die Zeit anzuhalten: eine Achtelsekunde. Die meisten der hier versammelten Aufnahmen — darunter auch Landschaften, Impressionen, verschwindende Orte — entstanden während des Jahres 2007 im Vorfeld einer Werkausstellung von Jim Rakete bei Camera Work in Berlin.»

The first joint project of photographer Bettina Rheims and writer/art critic Serge Bramly. The cultivated literary confessions of Monsieur X, a perfectly discreet voyeur with an obsessive curiosity about the female body, are set against photographs speaking a far clearer language that tells of female eroticism and exhibitionism as no one else does.

When 24-year old Henri Cartier-Bresson acquired a Leica camera in 1932, his casual interest in photography turned into passion. This volume explores the photographer’s early work documenting the poor and disenfranchised in Italy, Spain, Eastern Europe, and Mexico. Marked by tangible empathy and solidarity with the models, it is an original body of work to be rediscovered.

Rarely published and virtually inaccessible until the collapse of the Sovjet regime, some of the most radical modernist buildings of the 20th century were completed in the decade following the revolution and civil war, to serve new social goals of communal life. Richard Pare’s photographs retrieve these architectural gems, some still in use but many now abandoned and decayed.

Recently sold at Christie’s, Holly Golightly’s black Givenchy dress (and its enchanting wearer) remain available for admiration in this volume presenting movie shots from Breakfast at Tiffany’s and fashion shots with Audrey Hepburn taken by Howell Conant, a long-time friend of Grace Kelly’s and the official court photographer to the Grimaldis.

Our Marilyn Monroe classic, now available in a low-price special hardcover edition. Marilyn posing for nearly every major photographer: Avedon, Beaton, Erwitt, Cartier-Bresson and others; Marilyn in all her moods: young and carefree, sexy and serious; glamorous and girl-next-door; and Marilyn in her own words in a 1960 interview conducted by Georges Belmont.

With a characteristic mix of humor, vitality, and eroticism, German photographer Roswitha Hecke has created a body of sensitive portraits and reports spanning forty years, four continents and all aspects of human life: German theater, French cinema, Zurich prostitutes, Paris transvestites, a Bronx private eye or the homeless on the Bowery. This volume accompanies a major retrospective in Berlin. German text.

In mesmerizing photographs Mondino presents the guitar as the aphrodisiac, sex symbol, and fetish of rock and pop, with players famous and unknown.

Photographer Eve Arnold, grande dame of Magnum agency, was one of Marilyn’s few confidantes, watching (over) her for long periods of time and from close distance. Arnold’s pictures present Marilyn at her most relaxed, natural and unstyled, her written memories provide a private look behind the scenes. Together they convey the special trust and friendship between both women. German text.

Andrey Tarkovsky (1932-1986) is one of the eminent film makers of the 20th century. The five feature films he directed in the Soviet Union-among them Andrei Rublev, Solaris, and Stalker-brought him international fame. Evading censorship and mounting pressure by Soviet authorities, he did not return to the Soviet Union after completing Nostalghia in Tuscany in 1983. His final film, The Sacrifice, was shot in Sweden in 1985. Compiled and edited by Tarkovsky's son Andrey Jr., film historian and critic Hans-Joachim Schlegel, and Lothar Schirmer, our book pays homage to a great visionary who though in poetic and, at times, disturbing images of near-biblical intensity. It features stills and documentary photos from each of his films, a rich selection of Tarkovsky's own writings, private photographs from the family album, as well as Polaroids from Russia and Italy. A compilation of prominent voices who have commented on Tarkovsky's work and personality-including Jean-Paul Sartre, Ingmar Bergman, and Aleksandr Sokurov-rounds out the volume.

The 50 most famous iconic photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson, doyen of picture journalism.

Famous for her unusual portraits of women and female nudes, French photographer Bettina Rheims focus is the visualization of female eroticism. She will be celebrated in a major travelling retrospective starting in Helsinki in February 2004. This accompanying book provides a representative overview of her work created between 1979 and 2002.

42 selected master works by legendary Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. A special bargain in first-class Schirmer/Mosel quality.