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Dear Photograph
This beautiful collection of more than 140 never-before-seen Dear Photographs displays photos from the past to the present that evoke childhood memories, lament difficult losses and celebrate the universal nature of love. 75,000 first printing.
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Blown Covers
New Yorker Covers You Were Never Meant to See
In Blown Covers, Françoise Mouly — The New Yorker's art editor since 1993 — explains how she selects each issue's topical, iconic cover image and gives readers a glimpse at some of the juicier images that didn't make the cut.
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Children's Picturebooks
The Art of Visual Storytelling
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Abstract City
A collection of posts from illustrator and designer Christoph Niemann's visual blog for The New York Times. Niemann turns mundane experiences such as riding the subway or trying to get a good night's sleep into flights of visual fancy.
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The Lady In Gold
The Extraordinary Tale Of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait Of Adele Bloch-Bauer
Shares the events that shaped the creation of the painter's most famous portrait, covering such topics as the story of the salon hostess who was his model, contributing factors in turn-of-the-century Vienna and the painting's fate.
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Jack Robinson on Show
Portraits 1958-72
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Da Vinci's Ghost
Genius, Obsession, and How Leonardo Created the World in His Own Image
Recounts the intellectual journey behind the creation of Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man and how the drawing represents the momentous period in Western history when the Middle Ages gave way to the Renaissance.
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PostSecret
Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives
Offers illustrated postcards from the PostSecret website sent in by people who anonymously reveal secrets from their past which they have never told to anyone, presenting a full range of emotions.
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Alex Steinweiss
The Inventor of the Modern Album Cover
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1950s Radio in Color
The Lost Photographs of Deejay Tommy Edwards
Collection of color photos by the Cleveland DJ of early rock and pop stars.
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The Toaster Project
Or a Heroic Attempt to Build a Simple Electric Appliance from Scratch
Thomas Thwaites, a graduate student at London's Royal College of Art, sets out to build a toaster from scratch — not just an object that toasts bread, but one that aesthetically and mechanically replicates the ubiquitous $6 drugstore toaster. After dissecting a live toaster to uncover its 400 separate parts, he embarks on a project that takes nine months, thousands of dollars, and nearly 2,000 miles of travel.
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Unpacking My Library
Writers and Their Books
Looks at the literary collections of thirteen top novelists--including Jonathan Lethem, Rebecca Goldstein, Junot Diaz, Alison Bechdel, Edmund White, Claire Messud, and Lev Grossman--and showcases their libraries with full-color photos.
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Just My Type
A Book About Fonts
Documents the history of typefaces from the early days of Gutenberg to the modern applications of digital fonts, tracing the impact of font usage in business and pop culture while explaining what favorite fonts reveal about personality.NPR Bestseller
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The New York Times Magazine Photographs
Editor Kathy Ryan presents diverse photographs in four sections: reportage, portraiture, style and conceptual photography, including photo illustration, all accompanied by tear sheets. A behind-the-scenes look from photographers, writers and editors offers commentary and anecdotes on images that have captivated the public.
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The Art Museum
Ten years in the making, The Art Museum covers 2,500 works of art, compiled by a global team of 100 art history specialists.
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Alexander McQueen
Savage Beauty
Features garments made by the designer throughout his career, accompanied by quotes from the designer, an essay about his fashion career, and an interview with his long-time design assistant.
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Pilgrimage
For Pilgrimage, Annie Leibovitz visited places with personal meaning. From Emily Dickinson's house in Amherst, Massachusetts to Georgia O'Keefe's home in Abiquiu, New Mexico, Leibovitz photographed locations and artifacts, instead of her traditional celebrity subjects.
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The Art of Walt Disney
From Mickey Mouse to the Magic Kingdoms and Beyond
One of the most successful art books on American pop culture featuring concept art, animation drawings, and archival material from films.
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Ocean Soul
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Chicks With Guns
In Chicks with Guns, Lindsay McCrum has created a cultural portrait of women gun owners in America through photographs that are both beautiful and in a sense unexpected. The book examines issues of self-image and gender through the visual conventions of portraiture and fashion, but the guns are presented here not as superimposed props but as the very personal lifestyle accessories of the subjects portrayed.
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Indigo
In Search of the Color That Seduced the World
A history of the rare pigment discusses its significance in everything from colonialism and slavery to fashion and religion, describing the mysterious scientific process through which it is obtained and the ways in which the author's own family was profoundly influenced by the indigo trade. 35,000 first printing.
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The Heights
Anatomy of a Skyscraper
A graphic tour through the inner workings of modern skyscrapers explains how they operate and how sophisticated networks of technologies and utilities are possible within their complex structures.
