Le Mal d'Afrique: A Journey Into Old and New Africa
Jerry Schatzberg's photographic series, Paris 1962 documents the ultra exclusive world of French haute couture. On assignment for Esquire magazine in 1962, Schatzberg was sent to Paris to photograph the non-stop glamour, intrigue, and opulence of the runway shows. With an eye for subtle moments of elegance, drama, and humor, Schatzberg captured the essence of the period's style and mannerisms. Contemporary designers, art directors, filmmakers, scholars, and historians who buy authentic material such as this for professional inspiration will find Paris 1962 a valuable resource. More >
Baseball
For more than three decades, artist David Levinthal has examined American popular culture and social mores as reflected through toys and miniatures.
For Levinthal, the playful surface and shiny sheen of children’s objects shroud other meanings, which he cleverly uncovers in large format photographs that are equally stunning for both their beauty and irony. In series, like Wild West, American Beauties or Modern Romance, Levinthal pierces the mythology of quintessentially American subjects while also playing to our collective nostalgia. His is a vision that not only underscores our country’s uniqueness but also its desire for iconic representations and recognizable heroes. More >
Stoked
STOKED: THE EVOLUTION OF ACTION SPORTS is a visual history of the world’s most exciting sports. Through daring and dramatic images, STOKED celebrates the daring and fearlessness, the beauty and glory, the heights and depths, and the speed and agility of athletes who defy the laws of nature and the limits of sanity. More >
Andy Warhol - The Day The Factory Died
Christophe von Hohenberg stumbled upon the beginnings of Andy Warhol’s Memorial Service at St. Patrick’s Cathedral on April 1, 1987. Now published for the first time on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the Pop legend’s death, von Hohenberg’s lens captured a veritable time capsule of the social swirl of the era that Warhol had such a hand in shaping. More >
Le Mal d'Afrique: A Journey Into Old and New Africa
“So many people have tried to define the feeling the French call mal d’Afrique which in fact is a disease. The English never had a definition for it, I guess, because they never liked to admit that they were being threatened in any way by this continent. Obviously, because they preferred the idea of ruling it rather than being ruled by it.” More >
Le Mal d'Afrique: A Journey Into Old and New Africa
Peter Beard: Scrapbooks From Africa and Beyond is a colorful and definitive portrait of a man of all seasons, a man in love with people and places, a passionate man, an obsessed man constantly passing from one dimension to another. The book and film follow the inner drama of one of the great creative spirits. Like the colorful marginalia of the notebooks he's kept since his youth, it is collage drawn from life itself. Scrapbooks From Africa and Beyond reveals a mixture of seriousness and wit, and rests upon Peter Beard's skills as a storyteller. A person cannot experience the intensity of life such as Beard has-suffer such scrapes and bruises associated with the adventurer's life-without being lively company. More >