Book of the Day Posted Oct 04, 2025

Book of the Day: Annie Lennox - Retrospective

From the publisher: "A long-awaited visual memoir from Annie Lennox, a legend of popular music and culture. This is the award-winning artist’s first and only official book—destined to be the must-have title for music lovers and will command attention from the fashion and photography worlds. Over a career spanning almost half a century, Annie Lennox has established herself as one of the true superstars of pop music and an icon of popular culture. With Dave Stewart as Eurythmics, and later as a solo artist, she is responsible for some of the best-selling records of all time, as well as some of the most memorable imagery created around music. Always recognized for her unique approach to style and performance—she has been described as 'the singer whose powerful, androgynous look defied the male gaze.' Lennox has been filmed and photographed by all the great image-makers of our time, from Richard Avedon and Paolo Roversi to Bettina Rheims and Ellen von Unwerth. With Polaroids from her personal archives alongside iconic portraits, music video stills, and record covers, Annie Lennox: Retrospective collates more than two hundred images to create an illustrated memoir of a creative’s life, both in and out of the spotlight. Made in close collaboration with the artist, this highly anticipated volume moves chronologically through the entirety of Lennox’s life and career—from the early 1970s when she first met Dave Stewart following through with Eurythmics in the 80s, and then as a solo artist starting in the 90s and onwards. Extracts of her lyrics accompany the photographs throughout. Engrossing captions and personal anecdotes shine light on periods of her life, to tell the stories behind the pictures. At once intimate, revelatory, and celebratory, this is a beautiful and compelling document of the woman behind one of the strongest voices in music." RIzzoli, 2025, book of the day!
Book of the Day Posted Oct 03, 2025

Book of the Day: Coreen Simpson

From the publisher: "Coreen Simpson—photographer, writer, jeweler—has done it all. Working for publications such as Essence, Unique New York, and The Village Voice, from the late 1970s onward, Simpson covered New York’s art and fashion scenes, producing portraits of a wide range of Black artists, literary figures, and celebrities. Her iconic jewelry, the Black Cameo, has been worn by everyone from the model Iman to civil-rights leader Rosa Parks. This long-awaited volume, Simpson’s first, features her celebrated B-Boys series—portraits of young people coming of age during the early years of hip-hop—as well as her experiments with collage and other formal interventions. An assortment of essays and an extended interview offer powerful reflections on Simpson’s unique blend of portraiture, sartorial politics, and her riveting story of an intrepid life in journalism, art, and fashion." Book of the day.
Book of the Day Posted Oct 02, 2025

Book of the Day: Ithell Colquhoun - Between Worlds

From the publihser: "A landmark publication on an artist whose life has largely been shrouded in mystery, this dazzling volume reveals a daring visionary who charted her own course between two worlds: that of modern art and the realms of myth and magic. Ithell Colquhoun (1906–1988) was one of the most ground-breaking artists of her generation. An important figure in British Surrealism during the 1930s and 1940s, she was also an innovative writer and practicing occultist, inspired by the metropolises of London and Paris as well as by the ancient landscape of Cornwall. Colquhoun investigated surrealist methods of unconscious picture-making and fearlessly delving into the realms of myth and magic, exploring the possibilities of a divine feminine power as a path to personal fulfilment and societal transformation. Published to coincide with the first major exhibition of Colquhoun's work, this major publication features over 200 artworks and archival materials in tracing the artist's evolution: from her early student work and engagement with the surrealist movement, to her fascination with the intertwining realms of art, sexual identity, ecology and occultism. It culminates in a room dedicated to Colquhoun’s interpretation of the Tarot deck – her most accomplished fusion of her artistic and magical practice." Book of the day.
Book of the Day Posted Sep 25, 2025

Book of the Day: Live from My Studio

From the publisher: "LIVE FROM MY STUDIO is the first book to showcase the art of Edie Baskin. The pioneering, 2x Emmy-nominated photographer and art director created the signature look of a show that would transform television and popular culture and influence the people and events that have shaped our lives for 50 years. Her iconic hand-colored portraits of the stars of rock, screen, stage, and television were a signature of the show, broadcast to tens of millions of homes every week, reflecting the show’s wit, charm, and mischief -- and captivating generations while reviving a long-lost art form." Book of the day. 
Book of the Day Posted Sep 21, 2025

Book of the Day: Yves Saint Laurent and Photography

From the publisher: "Yves Saint Laurent collaborated with some of the greatest photographers of the 20th century. For over four decades, until the closing of his fashion house in 2002, Saint Laurent and his creations were captured by cutting-edge photographers – including such legends as Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, David Bailey, Helmut Newton, William Klein, Sarah Moon, Annie Leibovitz, Paolo Roversi, and Juergen Teller – resulting in iconic pictures that helped shape his own image as well as that of his brand. Yves Saint Laurent and Photography shines new light on the world of the genius couturier, tracing both the course of fashion and the history of 20th–century photography. This beautifully designed book features an astonishing range of imagery: breathtaking fashion photographs of subjects such as Audrey Hepburn, Catherine Deneuve, Naomi Campbell, and Kate Moss; portraits of Saint Laurent; and never-before-seen archival documents." Book of the day!
Book of the Day Posted Sep 13, 2025

Book of the Day: Chanel Haute Couture by Sofia Coppola

From the publisher: "At the age of fifteen, Sofia Coppola took up a summer internship at the Chanel studio in Paris, moving from her family home in Northern California. This indelible experience initiated a relationship with the fashion House which has flourished over decades and resulted in numerous collaborations. The latest is this luxurious and compelling volume, in which Coppola uses her signature style of collage and assemblage to present a bespoke visual history of Chanel’s Haute Couture designs. The story of the Haute Couture House unfolds across this 450-page tome through unseen sketches, photographs of Chanel clients wearing creations, runway photographs, and archival ephemera. Encompassing the distinct eras of Chanel’s lead designers – Gabrielle Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld, Virginie Viard – their teams, their famous clientele, and the models of each period, as seen by renowned photographers, this book is a definitive guide to the extraordinary creations that have influenced generations of designers and a piece of fashion history in its own right. Conceived with the support of Chanel and designed by Anamaria Morris for Joseph Logan Design Co-published by Éditions 7L and Important Flowers." Book of the haute day!
Book of the Day Posted Sep 12, 2025

Book of the Day: Richard Prince - Early Photography 1977-1987

From the publisher: "This book was published on the occasion of three exhibitions by Richard Prince at Gagosian—Early Photography, 1977–87 at the Grosvenor Hill and West 21st Street galleries in London and New York, respectively, and The Entertainers at the Davies Street gallery in London. (The New York exhibition brought together the works from the two London exhibitions.) The presentations featured many of Prince’s iconic cowboy, girlfriend, and advertisement photographs, as well as the complete series of The Entertainers (1982–83), a rarely seen set of manipulated photographs that evoke the adult entertainment theaters prevalent in New York’s Times Square in the early 1980s. Writings by the artist and source material from his time working in the tear-sheet department at Time magazine are also included. The catalogue reproduces the over seventy exhibited works and archival materials along with installation photography, supplemented by rarely seen documents and work prints from the artist’s archive. An illustrated eight-section essay by Sydney Stutterheim follows the structure of Prince’s circa 1977 text “The 8-Track Photograph,” illuminating his foundational project in depth and connecting it to multitrack recording in music. Stutterheim explores the origins, processes, components, and lasting significance of “rephotography,” through which Prince appropriated images from advertising and the lifestyle press, redefining the concepts of authorship and originality." Book of the day.
Book of the Day Posted Sep 10, 2025

Book of the Day: Mimi Plumb - The Reservoir

From the photographer, via the publisher: “From 2021 to 2023, I photographed around two reservoirs in the Central Valley of California experiencing a twenty-three year megadrought. The Reservoir weaves together images of the drying lakes and people seeking a leisurely day at the beach. They bring their dogs, babies and baby carriages, inner tubes, kayaks, rafts, umbrellas, coolers, and tents. As the summer progresses and the waterline recedes, families walk over a mile to reach the beach. At times, the sky is colored with smoke from nearby forest fires. The photographs in The Reservoir are part of an ongoing exploration in my work of how droughts, climate change, and ever-present anxiety collectively maps onto life in the American West.” — Mimi Plumb. Book of the day, from Nazraeli Press.
Book of the Day Posted Sep 05, 2025

Book of the Day: Richard Avedon -- In the American West

From the publisher: "An exquisitely produced new publication of In the American West: Photographs by Richard Avedon, a landmark project of classic American photography. First published by Abrams in 1985 in conjunction with the groundbreaking exhibition at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, the book is now available in this lush 40th anniversary edition. Richard Avedon was the greatest American photographer of his generation. For In the American West, he traveled for five years, meeting and photographing the ordinary people populating America’s most extraordinary landscape. The resulting book includes 103 meticulously printed black-and-white photographs, an essay by Avedon on his working methods and portrait philosophy, and a journal of the project by Laura Wilson. The reissuing of this legendary book, out of print for more than a decade, is a major publishing event in the photography world." Book of the day in the West!
Book of the Day Posted Sep 04, 2025

Book of the Day: Wolfgang Tillmans - Things matter, Dinge zählen

From the publisher: "Very few artists mirror our recent past as profoundly as Wolfgang Tillmans in their work. On the occasion of his exhibition Weltraum at the Albertinum in Dresden, Tillmans has created a unique artist's book that places his four decades of artistic practice in a thoughtprovoking dialogue with the past and present of East and West Germany. Things matter, Dinge zählen intertwines excerpts from a 1987 Dresden inventory catalogue with Tillmans' 2003 catalogue If one thing matters, everything matters for Tate Britain, in which he devised a speculative catalogue raisonné of his early work. The resurgence of these two out-of-print titles is combined with a conversation in which Tillmans reflects on his artistic beginnings and analyses their aesthetic and social implications today." Buch des Tages!
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