Few artists can lay claim to representing an entire music genre: singer-songwriter, guitarist Bob Marley is one. His name is synonymous with the indigenous Jamaican off-beat music of reggae, a local genre he took from his beloved island homeland to the world. This title traces the progression of Marley's life and career.
Eugene Agtet roamed the streets with his bulky large format camera, systematically cataloguing turn-of-the-century old Paris down to the very smallest details. This selection of Agtet's photographs captures Paris's parks, buildings, streets, prostitutes, workers, and even door handles.
Who took 1970's porn esthetic and made it fashion chic? Terry Richardson. Who made the trailer park trendy and the tractor hat de rigueur? Richardson again. Who's equally at home in Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Purple and Vice? Our boy Terry. Who uses his fashion money to fund an X-rated website? Yes, Richardson.
Renzo Piano was born in Genoa, Italy, in 1937. He established technology as a starting point for his designs. This work shows that he modified his attempts to generate an architectural character based on technological forms with a concern for user comfort and needs.
The Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) is one of the most important 20th century painters, and one of the few Latin American artists to have achieved a global reputation. In 1983 her work was declared the property of the Mexican state. Kahlo was one of the daughters of an immigrant German photographer and a Mexican woman of Indian origin.
In this title America's naughtiest town is seen in vintage pictures and ephemera that chronicle all the hot spots from the Sands and the Strip to the Golden Horseshoe and Glitter Gulch, along with an historical overview of the city's multiple reinventions.
Edward Lear's set of 42 hand-colored lithographs entitled Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots comprise one of the first collections entirely dedicated to parrots in the history of scientific illustration. With a zoological introduction and written 'portraits' of various birds, this title presents Lear's parrots.
Born of the sensual Polynesian dance that was introduced to America by English explorers returning from Hawaii, the Hula Girl evolved into a symbol of exotci fantasy for American man. This collection of kitschy images pays tribute to the Hula Girl phenomenon.
In-your-face, brutally pleasing, achingly simple, deceptively frank, the work of Christopher Wool is so very New York. Exploring Wool's work, this monograph analyzes Wool's career from its roots in the early 1980s to its state as one of the important and widely celebrated in contemporary art.
Showcases about 100 examples of work from the some of the world's best digital agencies - such as Greenpeace, Volkswagen, and Nike - demonstrating the uses of interactivity on the web.
Eero Saarinen was a visionary in the fields of furniture design and architecture. Among his greatest accomplishments are monuments that shaped architecture and became icons in themselves: Washington DC's Dulles International Airport, the TWA terminal at JFK Airport in New York, and the 630-foot high Gateway to the West, the Arch of St Louis.