A fresh appraisal of Giacometti's output, from painting to sculpture
This comprehensive survey of the work of the Swiss-born modern master Alberto Giacometti offers a fresh and incisive account of his creative output. Published on the occasion of Giacometti's first major museum presentation in the US in over a decade, the volume brings together nearly 200 sculptures, paintings and drawings to trace the artist's wide-ranging and hugely innovative engagement with the human form across various mediums.
While Giacometti may be best known for his distinct figurative sculptures that emerged after World War II, including a series of elongated standing women, striding men and expressive busts, this volume devotes equal attention to the artist's early and midcareer development. It explores his lesser-known engagement with Cubism and Surrealism as well as African, Oceanic and Cycladic art, while also highlighting his remarkable talents as a draftsman and painter alongside his sculptural oeuvre. Of particular focus is Giacometti's studio practice, which is examined through rarely seen plaster sculptures that highlight the artist's working process, in addition to historical photographs documenting his relationship with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum--which hosted the artist's first US museum exhibition, in 1955--and with New York City.
Alberto Giacometti was born in Borgonovo, Switzerland, in 1901. In 1922, Giacometti settled in Paris, and began to exhibit his sculptures. By 1930 he was a participant in the Surrealist circle, up until 1934--also the year that he first exhibited in the US, at the legendary Julien Levy Gallery in New York. From 1942, Giacometti lived in Geneva, where he associated with the publisher Albert Skira. In 1948, he was given a solo show at the Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York. In 1955, he received retrospectives at the Arts Council Gallery, London, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. He received the Sculpture Prize at the 1961 Carnegie International in Pittsburgh. In 1965, retrospective exhibitions were organized by the Tate Gallery, London, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Giacometti died in 1966.
Binding Type: Hardcover Author: Alberto Giacometti, Karole Vail (Editor), Megan Fontanella (Editor) Published: 06/26/2018 Publisher: Guggenheim Museum ISBN: 9780892075386 Pages: 160 Weight: 1.90lbs Size: 11.20h x 8.30w x 0.90d

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In relationships and communities, an expanding vision of what families can be.
Family considers how artists and photographers have chronicled their relationships to their families and chosen communities.
Aperture magazine is an essential guide to the art and phenomenon of photography, that combines the smartest writing with beautifully reproduced portfolios. Published quarterly, each issue focuses on a major theme in contemporary photography, serving as a book about its subject, for everyone interested in understanding where photography is heading. With fresh perspectives on the medium by leading writers and thinkers, and beautifully designed and produced, Aperture magazine makes new ideas in photography accessible to the photographer, student, and the culturally curious alike.
Binding Type: Paperback Author: Aperture Published: 12/04/2018 Publisher: Aperture ISBN: 9781597114363 Pages: 136 Weight: 1.90lbs Size: 11.90h x 9.30w x 0.50d

Family: Aperture 233

For over two decades, Phyllis Galembo has documented cultural and religious traditions in Africa and the African Diaspora.
Traveling widely throughout western and central Africa, and regularly to Haiti, her subjects are participants in masquerade events--traditional African ceremonies and contemporary costume parties and carnivals--who use costume, body paint and masks to create mythic characters. Sometimes entertaining and humorous, often dark and frightening, her portraits document and describe the transformative power of the mask. With a title derived from the Haitian Creole word mask, meaning to wear a mask, this album features a selection of more than 100 of the best of Galembo's masquerade photographs to date, organized in country-based chapters, each with her own commentary. Now back in print by popular demand, the book is introduced by art historian and curator Chika Okeke-Agulu (himself a masquerade participant during his childhood in Nigeria), for whom Galembo's photographs raise questions about the survival and evolution of masquerade tradition in the 21st century. Binding Type: Hardcover Author: Phyllis Galembo, Chika Okeke-Agulu (Introduction by) Published: 03/22/2016 Publisher: Aperture ISBN: 9781597113533 Pages: 208 Weight: 2.60lbs Size: 9.50h x 8.70w x 0.90d

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With a beautiful clean design befitting Eva Hesse's aesthetic, this voluminous collection tracks the artist's insights, doubts, process and personal life "Giving life to a once white piece of linen stretched on 4 pieces of wood, to create a rich visual experience is indeed an intriguing complete experience," wrote Eva Hesse in a 1957 diary entry between notes on her weekly plans and further musings about her goals as an artist.
In this extensive collection of Hesse's diaries, recorded from 1955 to 1970, readers are given an intimate glimpse into the mind of one of contemporary sculpture's most prominent figures. Despite personal tragedies and the difficulties she faced as one of the few female artists in the male-dominated postminimalist movement, Hesse remained intrepid in both her life and craft. Composed of twisted ropes and delicate plastic among other unconventional materials, Hesse's sculptures defy traditional notions of form; her deeply thoughtful practice as a sculptor and a painter are revealed at length in her writing.
Born to Jewish parents in 1936, American painter and sculptor Eva Hesse fled Nazi Germany with her older sister at the age of two and eventually reunited with her family in New York City a year later. In 1959 she received her BA from Yale University, and within a few years began creating the sculptures that would put her at the forefront of the postminimalist movement. Though her life was cut short in 1970, Hesse's prolific output of artwork in her decade-long career has cemented her as a pioneer of contemporary sculpture.
Binding Type: Paperback Author: Eva Hesse Published: 05/12/2020 Publisher: Hauser & Wirth Publishers ISBN: 9783906915586 Pages: 904 Weight: 2.60lbs Size: 8.00h x 5.60w x 2.10d

Eva Hesse: Diaries

Since Apartheid's fall in 1994, South African photography has exploded from the grip of censorship onto the world stage.
A key figure in this movement is Zwelethu Mthethwa, whose portraits powerfully frame black South Africans as dignified and defiant individuals, even under the duress of social and economic hardship. Photographing in urban and rural industrial landscapes, Mthethwa documents a range of aspects in South Africa, from domestic life and the environment to landscape and labor issues. Mthethwa's work challenges the conventions of both Western documentary work and African commercial studio photography, marking a transition away from the visually exotic and diseased--or "Afro-pessimism," as curator Okwui Enwezor has described it--and employing a fresh approach marked by color and collaboration."Zwelethu Mthethwa," the artist's long awaited first comprehensive monograph provides an overview of his work to date, and features the stunning portraits that have brought him international acclaim.
Born in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, in 1960, Zwelethu Mthethwa received his BFA from the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, a then white-only university he entered under special ministerial consent. In 1989, he received his Master's degree while on a Fulbright Scholarship to the Rochester Institute of Technology. Mthethwa has had more than 35 international solo exhibitions and has been featured in numerous group shows, including the 51st Venice Biennale in 2005 and "Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography" at the International Center of Photography, New York, in 2006. He is represented by Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, and lives in Cape Town, South Africa. Binding Type: Hardcover Author: Zwelethu Mthethwa, Zwelethu Mthethwa (Author), Isolde Brielmaier (Interviewer) Published: 03/31/2010 Publisher: Aperture ISBN: 9781597111133 Pages: 120 Weight: 3.10lbs Size: 12.20h x 10.30w x 0.90d

Zwelethu Mthethwa

Melding rational forms with poetry, Mathieu Lehanneur has become a rising star of a new generation of designers.
In only a short period of time the French designer Mathieu Lehanneur has established himself as a rising star of the global design community. He creates breakthrough work at the nexus of design and the human body, bionic structures, geometric forms, and both the rational and irrational sides of science. Lehanneur shapes aesthetic objects that provide astounding insight into the complexity of organic systems as well as cleverly address and comment on social issues.
This first monograph is a cutting-edge collection of Mathieu Lehanneur's creative explorations in the areas of interior design, product design, and art. The featured work includes filtration systems of interior air by plants, a recuperative sleeping space based on physiological studies of sleeping disorders, workshop rooms for children at the Centre Pompidou, ceramic jars created from population data provided by the UN, and the stunning redesign of the chancel of a Romanesque church that is as modern as it is timeless. The book includes an extensive conversation between Hans Ulrich Obrist and Mathieu Lehanneur as well as texts by the Museum of Modern Art's Paola Antonelli and designer Ross Lovegrove, among other contributors. Binding Type: Hardcover Author: Robert Klanten, Marie Le Fort (Editor) Published: 01/19/2012 Publisher: Gestalten ISBN: 9783899553956 Pages: 192 Weight: 2.94lbs Size: 11.27h x 9.59w x 0.85d

Mathieu Lehanneur

The biennials, festivals, and educational spaces changing the shape of African photography.
Aperture takes a detailed look at the dynamic spaces that have shaped conversations about photography in Africa for the last twenty-five years--the biennials, experimental art spaces, and educational workshops in which artists and audiences interact with photography.
Platform Africa presents a new generation of artists, and is produced in collaboration with guest editors Bisi Silva, founder and artistic director of the Centre for Contemporary Art in Lagos, Nigeria; John Fleetwood, director of the South Africa-based platform Photo and former head of the Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg; and Aïcha Diallo, associate editor of Contemporary And.
Binding Type: Paperback Author: Aperture Published: 05/25/2017 Publisher: Aperture ISBN: 9781597114196 Weight: 1.80lbs Size: 11.90h x 9.10w x 0.60d

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A look at the dynamic photography scene in a city of images.
Aperture's"Los Angeles" issue explores how one of America's most photographed cities is also an essential hub for some of today's most important photography and photo-based art. Part of an ongoing series of issues that profile the photographic culture of a particular city, "Los Angeles" features key figures in the city's photography community.
Brand-new portfolios highlight Los Angeles's unique conceptual traditions and, in some cases, consider the city as a studio. Including contributions by Janna Ireland, Carter Mull, Guadalupe Rosales, Catherine Opie, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, and Lise Sarfati, "Los Angeles" captures the city's historic and contemporary photographic vibrancy through enduring visual records of its landscape and communities. Binding Type: Paperback Author: Aperture Published: 09/04/2018 Publisher: Aperture ISBN: 9781597114356 Pages: 136 Weight: 2.05lbs Size: 12.20h x 9.30w x 0.60d

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From the 1880s to 1940, French colonial officials, businessmen, and soldiers, returning from overseas postings, brought home wooden masks and figures from Africa. This imperial and cultural power-play is the jumping-off point for a story that travels from sub-Saharan Africa to Parisian art galleries; from the pages of fashion magazines, through the doors of the Louvre, to world fairs and international auction rooms; into the apartments of avant-garde critics and poets; to the streets of Harlem, and then full-circle back to colonial museums and schools in Dakar, Bamako, and Abidjan.
John Warne Monroe guides us on this journey, one that goes far beyond the world of Picasso, Matisse, and Braque, to show how the Modernist avant-garde and the European colonial project influenced each other in profound and unexpected ways. Metropolitan Fetish reveals the complex trajectory of African material culture in the West and provides a map of that passage, tracing the interaction of cultural and imperial power. A broad and far-reaching history of the French reception of African art, it brings to life an era in which the aesthetic category of "primitive art" was invented.
Binding Type: Hardcover Author: John Warne Monroe Pages: 349

Metropolitan Fetish

This first thorough survey of Bourgeois' prints and books orients these works within her broader practice Louise Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait explores the prints and books of the celebrated sculptor. This little-known body of work is vast in scope--numbering some 1,200 individual compositions--and highly significant within her larger practice. These works encompass the same themes and motifs that occupied Bourgeois throughout her career, and they are explored here within the context of related sculptures, drawings and early paintings. This investigation sheds light on Bourgeois' creative process overall, most vividly through the evolving print states and variants that led to her final compositions; seeing these sequences unfold is akin to looking over the artist's shoulder as she worked. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, this catalog presents more than 270 prints and books, organized thematically, and includes an essay that traces Bourgeois' involvement with these mediums within the broader developments of her life and career. It also emphasizes the collaborative relationships that were so fundamental to these endeavors. Included are interviews with Bourgeois' longtime assistant, a printer she worked with side-by-side at her home/studio on 20th Street in New York and the publisher who, in the last decade of her life, encouraged her to experiment with innovative prints that broke the traditional boundaries of the medium. The volume is rounded out with a chronology and bibliography that focus on prints and illustrated books while also providing general background on Bourgeois' life and art. Born in Paris in 1911, Louise Bourgeois was raised by parents who ran a tapestry restoration business. She met Robert Goldwater, an American art historian, in Paris and they married and moved to New York in 1938. Early on, Bourgeois focused on painting and printmaking, turning to sculpture only in the later 1940s. In 1982, at 70 years old, Bourgeois finally took center stage with a retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art. She died in New York in 2010, at the age of 98. --Zachary Small "Artsy" Binding Type: Hardcover Author: Louise Bourgeois, Deborah Wye (Text by (Art/Photo Books)) Published: 09/29/2017 Publisher: Museum of Modern Art ISBN: 9781633450417 Pages: 248 Weight: 3.30lbs Size: 10.70h x 9.30w x 1.10d

Louise Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait

Kerry James Marshall is one of America's greatest living painters. History of Painting presents a groundbreaking body of new work that engages with the history of the medium itself.
In History of Painting, the artist has widened his scope to include both figurative and nonfigurative works that deal explicitly with art history, race, and gender, as well as force us to reexamine how artworks are received in the world and in the art market. In the paintings in this book, Marshall's critique of history and of dominant white narratives is present, even as the subjects of the paintings move between reproductions of auction catalogues, abstract works, and scenes of everyday life.
Essays by Teju Cole and Hal Foster help readers navigate the artist's masterful vision, decoding complexly layered works such as Untitled (Underpainting) (2018) and Marshall's own artistic philosophy. This catalogue is published on the occasion of Marshall's eponymous exhibition at David Zwirner, London, in 2018.
Binding Type: Hardcover Author: Teju Cole, Kerry James Marshall (Artist), Hal Foster (Text by (Art/Photo Books)) Published: 09/17/2019 Publisher: David Zwirner Books ISBN: 9781644230152 Pages: 96 Weight: 1.75lbs Size: 10.10h x 9.20w x 0.60d

About the Author
Through its formal acuity, Kerry James Marshall 's (b. 1955) work reveals and questions the social constructs of beauty, taste, and power. As the artist has written, 'I gave up on the idea of making Art a long time ago, because I wanted to know how to make paintings; but once I came to know that, reconsidering the question of what Art is returned as a critical issue.' Engaged in an ongoing dialogue with six centuries of representational painting, Marshall has deftly reinterpreted and updated its tropes, compositions, and styles, even pulling talismans from the canvases of his forbearers and recontextualizing them within a modern setting. At the center of his prodigious oeuvre, which also includes drawings and sculpture, is the critical recognition of the conditions of invisibility so long ascribed to black bodies in the Western pictorial tradition, and the creation of what he calls a 'counter-archive' that reinscribes these figures within its narrative arc.

Kerry James Marshall: History Of Painting

Voyages, journeys, and the captivating spell of wanderlust.

This edition of Aperture magazine, "Odyssey," features photography about voyages, journeys, and the captivating spell of wanderlust.
In the Words section, Tacita Dean discusses her personal quests with writer Travis A. Diehl; Eric Banks traces the midcentury journeys of famed travel writer Wilfred Thesiger; Alexander Stille looks at Italian mountain-photography pioneer Vittorio Sella; writer Sean O'Toole profiles the documentary projects of the Invisible Borders Trans-African Photographers Organisation, a West African photography collective; and multidisciplinary artist Taryn Simon speaks with Kate Fowle, of Moscow's Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, about an artwork set for completion in the year 3015.
Binding Type: Paperback Author: Aperture Published: 02/23/2016 Publisher: Aperture ISBN: 9781597113649 Pages: 128 Weight: 1.80lbs Size: 11.90h x 9.20w x 0.60d

Odyssey: Aperture 222

In this installment of The Photography Workshop Series, internationally acclaimed color photographers Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb, offer their expert insight into street photography and the poetic image. Through words and photographs--their own and others'--they invite the reader into the heart of their artistic processes. Aperture Foundation works with the world's top photographers to distill their creative approaches to, teachings on, and insights into photography--offering the workshop experience in a book. Our goal is to inspire photographers at all levels who wish to improve their work, as well as readers interested in deepening their understanding of the art of photography. Each volume is introduced by a well-known student of the featured photographer. In this volume, the Webbs share their thoughts about a wide range of practical and philosophical issues, from questions about seeing and being in the world with a camera, to how to shape a complete body of work in a way that's both structured and intuitive. Award-winning novelist Teju Cole, a student of the Webbs, provides the introduction. Binding Type: Paperback Author: Alex Webb, Rebecca Norris Webb (Author), Teju Cole (Introduction by) Published: 06/30/2014 Publisher: Aperture ISBN: 9781597112574 Pages: 128 Weight: 1.10lbs Size: 10.00h x 7.50w x 0.40d

Alex Webb And Rebecca Norris Webb On Street Photography And The Poetic Image: The Photography Workshop Series

In the last decade there has been a major reappraisal of the role and status of the photobook within the history of photography.
Newly revised histories of photography as recorded via the photobook have added enormously to our understanding of the medium's culture, particularly in places that are often marginalized, such as Latin America and Africa. However, until now, only a handful of Chinese books have made it onto historians' short lists. Yet China has a fascinating history of photobook publishing, and "The Chinese Photobook" will reveal for the first time the richness and diversity of this heritage.
This volume is based on a collection compiled by Martin Parr and Beijing- and London-based Dutch photographer team WassinkLundgren. And while the collection was inspired initially by Parr's interest in propaganda books and in finding key works of socialist realist photography from the early days of the Communist Party and the Cultural Revolution era, the selection of books includes key volumes published as early as 1900, as well as contemporary volumes by emerging Chinese photographers. Each featured photobook offers a new perspective on the complicated history of China from the twentieth century onward. "The Chinese Photobook" embodies an unprecedented amount of research and scholarship in this area, and includes accompanying texts and individual title descriptions by Gu Zheng, Raymond Lum, Ruben Lundgren, Stephanie H. Tung and Gerry Badger. Binding Type: Hardcover Author: Martin Parr, Martin Parr (Author), Wassinklundgren (Editor) Published: 06/23/2015 Publisher: Aperture ISBN: 9781597112284 Pages: 448 Weight: 8.65lbs Size: 13.10h x 11.70w x 1.90d

The Chinese Photobook: From The 1900s To The Present

For the summer 2019 issue of Aperture, Swinton, as guest-editor, draws upon the central themes of Orlando--gender fluidity, consciousness without limits, and the deep perspective of a long life--to offer a collection of images and writings that celebrate openness, curiosity, and human possibility.
Virginia Woolf's prescient 1928 novel Orlando tells the story of a young nobleman who, during the era of Queen Elizabeth I, lives for three centuries without aging and mysteriously shifts gender along the way. In 1992, filmmaker Sally Potter released a now-classic adaptation of the book with Tilda Swinton in the starring role as Orlando. Since then, Woolf's tale has continued to hold sway over Swinton, who describes the book's ability "to change like a magic mirror. Where I once assumed it was a book about eternal youth, I now see it as a book about growing up, about learning to live." "Woolf wrote Orlando," Swinton notes, "in an attitude of celebration of the oscillating nature of existence. She believed the creative mind to be androgynous. I have come to see Orlando far less as being about gender than about the flexibility of the fully awake and sensate spirit. This issue of Aperture will be a salute to indetermination and limitlessness, and a heartfelt celebration of the fully inclusive and expansive vision of life exemplified by the extraordinary artists collected here."
This issue features contributions by artists and writers, including Michael Cunningham, Zackary Drucker, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Isaac Julien, Eileen Myles, Maggie Nelson, Jamal Nxedlana, Elle P rez, Sally Potter, Walter Pfeiffer, R. Ruby Rich, Antwaun Sargent, Viviane Sassen, Collier Schorr, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Mickalene Thomas, Lynne Tillman, Justin Torres, Marina Warner, Carmen Winant, and more. Binding Type: Paperback Author: Aperture, Tilda Swinton (Guest Editor) Published: 06/04/2019 Publisher: Aperture ISBN: 9781597114615 Weight: 1.95lbs Size: 12.00h x 9.25w x 0.50d

Orlando: Aperture 235

The new edition of the benchmark work originally published by the Dieter and Ingeborg Rams Foundation and Jo Klatt.
Few product designs have the staying power of creations by Dieter Rams. Almost everything produced by one of the most influential designers of the twentieth century is today considered a classic. This new and revised edition of Less but Better shows once again why Dieter Rams's approach to design will be relevant for the foreseeable future Ideas of what can and must be achieved by good design are in a constant state of flux as a result of cultural and technological developments. Dieter Rams, however, came up with ten principles that advocate for a purist, almost imperceptible design.
These principles are still considered timeless fundaments of design theory and practice today: Good design is innovative. Good design makes a product useful. Good design is aesthetic. Good design helps a product to be understood. Good design is unobtrusive. Good design is honest. Good design is durable. Good design is consistent to the last detail. Good design is environmentally friendly. Good design is as little design as possible. Less but Better does not set out to be a complete documentation of Dieter Rams's body of work, nor does it claim to tell the full story of the company Braun. Rather, the book explores the ideas, criteria, and methods behind Rams's creations and reveals how a shifting culture of product manufacturing gave rise to universal design benchmarks. From his reflections on design ethics and values we can distill a clear paradigm for future design --because one principle has remained firm over the years: less is simply better. Binding Type: Hardcover Author: Dieter Rams Published: 03/11/2014 Publisher: Gestalten ISBN: 9783899555257 Pages: 154 Weight: 1.60lbs Size: 11.60h x 8.20w x 0.50d

Weniger, Aber Besser/less But Better

An important and fascinating collection of original projects by unique thinkers in the world of architecture and spatial design
Architectural practice today goes far beyond the design and construction of buildings - the most exciting, forward-thinking architecture is also found in digital landscapes, art, apps, films, installations, and virtual reality. This remarkable book features projects - surprising, beautiful, outrageous, and sometimes even frightening - that break rules and shatter boundaries. In this timely book, the work of award-winning architects, designers, artists, photographers, writers, filmmakers, and researchers - all of whom synthesize and reflect our spatial environments - comes together for the first time.
Radical Architecture of the Future 's featured architects include Diller Scofidio + Renfro, David Adjaye, SANAA, Amateur Architecture Studio, and Ensamble Studio. Artists, designers, filmmakers, and writers covered include Julie Mehretu, Wolfgang.
Binding Type: Hardcover Author: Beatrice Galilee Published: 01/06/2021 Publisher: Phaidon Press ISBN: 9781838661236 Pages: 240 Weight: 2.24lbs Size: 10.90h x 8.20w x 0.90d

Radical Architecture Of The Future

A study of Europe and America's boldest and most fashionable style. Binding Type: Paperback Author: Stephen Escritt Pages: 448

Art Nouveau A&i

A journey through the acclaimed design studio's effortless California aesthetic, ethos, and lifestyle
Design Commune reveals the evolution story of an acclaimed design studio rooted ﬁrmly in the California aesthetic, ethos, and lifestyle. Truly multidisciplinary in practice, Commune has, since its inception in 2004, tackled all areas of design. The work featured in this second book highlights all disciplines that Commune engages in, including interior design projects for private and commercial spaces, artist collaborations, product designs, packaging, and graphics. Its projects share many common threads, such as the inﬂuence of handcrafted materials, but each remains deeply personal and unique.
Binding Type: Hardcover Author: Roman Alonso, Steven Johanknecht (Author) Published: 11/10/2020 Publisher: ABRAMS ISBN: 9781419747748 Pages: 288 Weight: 3.35lbs Size: 11.20h x 8.80w x 1.20d
About the Author
Roman Alonso and Steven Johanknecht are cofounders and principals at Commune Design. They first met while working at Barneys New York, when Alonso was director of corporate PR and Johanknecht was vice president of display and store design. Previous to Commune they had long careers in design, fashion, retail, and marketing, as well as magazine and book publishing.

Design Commune

Leading design magazine Openhouse has spent the last six years giving readers a closer look at some of the most extraordinary houses around the globe.
In their first book, the editors open the doors to their highlights, including exclusive photography and rarely seen homes. From case study houses by midcentury masters to cutting edge contemporary architecture, Casa Grande describes what it feels like to occupy these spaces from the perspective of their owners - who themselves have become stewards of architectural history. Binding Type: Hardcover Author: Gestalten, Andrew Trotter (Editor), Mari Luz (Editor) Published: 11/24/2020 Publisher: Gestalten ISBN: 9783899558586 Pages: 288 Weight: 5.30lbs Size: 13.30h x 10.00w x 1.10d

Living In

African-American fashion designer Willi Smith, pioneer of streetwear and visionary collaborator, finally gets his due in an exuberant celebration of his life and work.
Before Off-White, before Hood By Air, before Supreme, there was WilliWear. Willi Smith created inclusive and liberating fashion: I don't design clothes for the queen, but the people who wave at her as she goes by, he said. A rising star from the time he left Parsons, Smith went on to found WilliWear with Laurie Mallet in 1976 and became one of the most successful designers of his era by his untimely death in 1987. Smith broke boundaries with his streetwear, or street couture, and trailblazed the collaborations between artists, performers, and designers commonplace today in projects with SITE Architects, Nam June Paik, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Spike Lee, Dan Friedman, Bill T. Jones, and Arnie Zane. Essays by leading figures from the worlds of fashion, art, architecture, and cultural studies paired with never before-seen images and ephemera make Willi Smith essential reading for the history of streetwear culture and the evolution of fashion from the 1970s to today. Binding Type: Hardcover Author: Alexandra Cunningham Cameron Published: 03/24/2020 Publisher: Rizzoli Electa ISBN: 9780847868193 Pages: 256 Weight: 2.95lbs Size: 11.70h x 7.70w x 1.00d
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Alexandra Cunningham Cameron is the curator of contemporary design and Hintz Secretarial Scholar at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York.

Willi Smith: Street Couture

How do homes serve as emblems of a moment, markers of the past, or articulations of future possibilities?
The Spring 2020 issue of Aperture considers the meanings and forms of a home, and the relationships between architecture, design, and the domestic realm.

From interviews with leading architects--such as David Adjaye, Denise Scott Brown, and Annabelle Selldorf --and a reconsideration of the irreverent interiors magazine Nest, to previously unpublished work by Robert Adams and new portfolios by artists, including Alejandro Cartagena, Fumi Ishino, Mauro Restiffe, and the duo Randhir Singh and Seher Shah, House & Home considers the concepts of home across diverse geographies and time periods. Binding Type: Paperback Author: Aperture Published: 03/10/2020 Publisher: Aperture ISBN: 9781597114837 Pages: 136 Weight: 1.95lbs Size: 11.90h x 9.20w x 0.50d

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One of Japan's foremost twentieth-century photographers, Shomei Tomatsu has created a defining portrait of postwar Japan.
Beginning with his meditation on the devastation caused by the atomic bombs in "11:02 Nagasaki," Tomatsu focused on the tensions between traditional Japanese culture and the nation's growing Westernization, most notably in his seminal book "Nihon." Beginning in the late 1950s, Tomatsu photographed as many of the American military bases as possible--beginning with those on the main island of Japan and ending in Okinawa, a much-contested archipelago off the southernmost tip of the country.
Tomatsu's photographs focused on the seismic impact of the American victory and occupation: uniformed American soldiers carousing in red-light districts with Japanese women; foreign children at play in the seedy landscape of cities like Yokosuka and Atsugi; and the emerging protest- and counter-culture formed in response to the ongoing American military presence. He originally named this series "Occupation," but later retitled it "Chewing Gum and Chocolate" to reflect the handouts given to Japanese kids by the soldiers--sugary and addictive, but lacking in nutritional value. And although many of his most iconic images are from this series, the best of this work has never before been gathered together in a single volume.
Leo Rubinfien, co-curator of the photographer's survey "Skin of the Nation," contributes an essay that engages with Tomatsu's ambivalence toward the American occupation and the shifting national identity of Japan. Also included in this volume are never-before-translated writings by Tomatsu from the 1960s and 70s, providing context for both the artist's original intentions and the sociopolitical thinking of the time.
Shomei Tomatsu (1930-2012) played a central role in Vivo, a self-managed photography agency, and founded the publishing house Shaken and the quarterly journal "Ken." He participated in the groundbreaking "New Japanese Photography" exhibition in 1974 at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and, in 2011, the Nagoya City Art Museum featured "Tomatsu Shomei: Photographs," a comprehensive survey of his work. Binding Type: Hardcover Author: Shomei Tomatsu, Shomei Tomatsu (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Leo Rubinfien (Editor) Published: 05/31/2014 Publisher: Aperture ISBN: 9781597112505 Pages: 216 Weight: 3.75lbs Size: 11.60h x 9.70w x 1.20d

Shomei Tomatsu: Chewing Gum And Chocolate

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The first monograph on one of today's most celebrated architects, renowned for designing interiors that combine minimalism with classic French style.
When describing a space that intertwines both minimalism and elegance, the name Joseph Dirand immediately comes to mind. The son of Jacques Dirand, one of the most renowned interior photographers of his time, Joseph Dirand is now one of the most sought-after architects. By incorporating a quintessentially French style into otherwise minimalist interiors, Dirand creates instantly recognizable spaces, known for their strong lines and meticulous precision.
This book focuses primarily on Dirand's residential interior design work in Paris and New York, while also featuring some of his acclaimed designs for the interiors of hotels, restaurants, and fashion houses worldwide. Lavishly illustrated with photography that captures the timelessness of his style, which touts impeccable proportions and breathtaking attention to detail, Joseph Dirand: Interior is a feast for the eyes and essential for anyone with an interest in interior design.
Binding Type: Hardcover Author: Joseph Dirand, Adrien Dirand (Photographer), Yann Sillec (Text by (Art/Photo Books)) Published: 09/19/2017 Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications ISBN: 9780847849376 Pages: 248 Weight: 4.50lbs Size: 13.10h x 10.40w x 1.40d

About the Author
Joseph Dirand is a Parisian architect and interior designer whose work is renowned for its extraordinary precision and elegant minimalism. His projects include numerous residential commissions and stores for ChloÈ, Givenchy, Balmain, Rick Owens, and Alexander Wang.
Yann Siliec is a cultural, fashion, and design contributor. He regularly collaborates with Vogue magazine.
Sarah Medford is the former executive editor of Architectural Digest and director of arts, culture, and design at Town & Country. Today she contributes to WSJ Magazine and the Wall Street Journal.
After studying cinema and graphic design, Adrien Dirand pursued fashion and architectural photography. He collaborates with prestigious magazines such as AD, Citizen K, or The World of Interiors and notably works with Dior and Rick Owens.

Joseph Dirand: Interior

Creative and forward-thinking design solutions for every room offer readers endless inspiration on how to tackle small spaces while achieving an effortless, Japanese-cool aesthetic.

Live Small/Live Modern curates the most envy-inducing spaces pulled from Beams at Home, the interior and lifestyle series that has sold over 70,000 copies and has gained a cult-like following in Japan. Filled with infinite ideas for how to spruce up your home in hip and clever ways, this is an indispensable guide to the Japanese art of tidying up in small spaces.
Published here for the first time in English, Live Small/Live Modern profiles more than 100 homes--from tiny one-bedroom apartments to high-ceilinged lofts--offering readers a fountain of ideas on how to design, organize, and adorn small spaces without sacrificing personality and style. Over 400 beautiful color photographs showcase the homes of ever-hip people whose honest approach to decorating never fails to exude a laid-back, Japanese-cool style.
This book will be loved by dwellers in destinations such as LA, Brooklyn, Tokyo, Portland, and London as well as fans of art, fashion, and design while serving up a major dose of interior design envy.
Binding Type: Hardcover Author: Beams Published: 04/23/2019 Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications ISBN: 9780847865253 Pages: 412 Weight: 3.20lbs Size: 9.80h x 6.90w x 1.70d

About the Author

BEAMS is a Japanese retailer based in Tokyo. BEAMS started as a small shop in the Harajuku district of Tokyo in 1976, and has since grown into an influential fashion brand and an arbiter of style in Japan and beyond. To best serve the ever changing patterns of life for new generations of consumers setting trends in fashion and streetwear for over four decades, BEAMS puts collaboration at the core of its philosophy, helping it to become a magnet for a range of young designers with crisp and dynamic ideas.