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My Mother, Schiaparelli, and Me
The author shares the lessons about womanhood and personal style she learned from both her mother, an upper-middle-class New Yorker who was the polished hostess at her family's garment district restaurant, and Elsa Schiaparelli, the outrageous, iconoclastic Italian fashion designer.
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The Gateway Arch
A Biography
A surprising history of the spectacular Gateway Arch in St. Louis details the competing agendas of its supporters and the mixed results of their ambitious plan.
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Things Come Apart
A Teardown Manual for Modern Living
Fifty everyday objects, from an SLR camera to an espresso machine, appear as though they've been exploded and frozen in midair, offering an intricate, piece-piece overview of the inner workings and elegance of each object's design. 20,000 first printing.
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New York City of Trees
With photographs and narratives, Benjamin Swett tells the stories of 60 trees, in all five of New York City boroughs.
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Studio Thinking
The Real Benefits of Arts Education
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A Period of Juvenile Prosperity
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Unsettled / Desasosiego
Children in a World of Gangs / Los Ninos en un Mundo de las Pandillas
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William Klein
ABC
"Born in New York in 1928, William Klein is one of the leading photographers of the postwar era, as well as an influential filmmaker, painter, and graphic artist. This astonishing book, selected and designed by Klein himself, captures the essence of his life's work. It includes selections from his powerful photo books on New York, Moscow, Rome, Tokyo, and Paris; his dynamic fashion photography that used the city as a stage for glamour; stills and posters from his bitingly satirical films, including his send up of fashion magazines, Who Are You, Polly Magoo; and the graphically powerful painted contact sheets that he has exhibited around the world. Klein, whose achievement puts him on a level with Robert Frank, Richard Avedon, and Irving Penn, lives in Paris and is revered in Europe. This is the first comprehensive book on his work published in the United States in twenty years. "--
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Philip Treacy
Irish milliner Philip Treacy is the subject of a book of photography by Kevin Davies.
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This Is the Day
The March on Washington
Compiles the photographs taken by Leonard Freed of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, during which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech.
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The Hare With Amber Eyes
A Hidden Inheritance
Traces the parallel stories of 19th century art patron Charles Ephrussi and his unique collection of 264 miniature netsuke — Japanese ivory carvings — documenting Ephrussi's relationship with Marcel Proust and the impact of the Holocaust on his cosmopolitan family.NPR Bestseller
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Grand Central
How A Train Station Transformed America
For Grand Central's 100th anniversary, New York Times reporter Sam Roberts offers an illustrated history of the celebrated Manhattan transit hub, including amusing stories, insider information about movies filmed there and hidden passageways.
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The Lost Carving
A Journey to the Heart of Making
The author of Grinling Gibbons and the Art of Carving recounts his career as a woodcarver and his path to becoming a forefront practitioner of the Baroque artist's forgotten technique. Esterly also traces the challenging and philosophically passionate year he spent replacing a Gibbons masterpiece that was destroyed in a fire at Henry VIII's Hampton Court Palace.
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Detroit City Is the Place to Be
The Afterlife of an American Metropolis
Mark Binelli traces Detroit's demise and recovery efforts, evaluating the plans of urban developers, speculators, politicians, agriculturalists and utopian environmentalists to transform Detroit into a viable, desegregated and economically diverse post-industrial region.
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Sophie Calle
The Address Book
After finding a lost address book, the artist sets out to understand its owner by randomly interviewing contacts to learn more about the personality and past of its owner.
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Where The Heart Beats
John Cage, Zen Buddhism, And The Inner Life Of Artists
Assesses the influence of Zen Buddhism on the work of composer John Cage, exploring the ways in which Zen transformed Cage's troubled psyche, his relationship with partner Merce Cunningham, and his often indefinable music.
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Instant
The Story of Polaroid
Instant tells the remarkable tale of Edwin Land's invention of the Polaroid camera, from the first instant camera to hit the market in 1948, to its meteoric rise in popularity, to the company's dramatic decline into bankruptcy in the late '90s and its unlikely resurrection in the digital age.
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Dancers Among Us
A Celebration Of Joy In The Everyday
Dancers Among Us presents photographs of dancers leaping and spinning in the midst of daily life: on the beach; at a construction site; in a library, a restaurant and a park.NPR Bestseller
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More Than Human
More Than Human collects photographs celebrating the striking similarities between humans and other animals, including pandas, tigers, lions, cobras, bullfrogs, elephants and armadillos.
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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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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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Cindy Sherman
Cindy Shermanpresents about 180 photographs from the artist's 35-year career.
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The 20th-Century World Architecture
The 20th-Century World Architecture delivers an overview of the finest built architecture from around the world completed between 1900 and 1999.
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Rock 'n' Roll Billboards of the Sunset Strip
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All Access
The Rock 'n' Roll Photography of Ken Regan
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A World in One Cubic Foot
Portraits of Biodiversity
Presents portraits of the diverse life forms that moved through one cubic foot of space over twenty-four hours in six different ecosystems around the world.
