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A unique selection of books on five of the most pioneering photographers of all time. The box set comprises five books from the Phaidon 55 series, available for the price ...

Richard Rogers is head of an internationally respected architectural practice responsible for many landmark buildings around the world and well-known for the quality of its work and its expertise in ...

Carlo Mollino (1905-73), the son of a prominent engineer of the city of Turin, graduated with honours from the Royal School of Architecture. He joined his father's firm in 1931, ...

Born in 1940, Nobuyoshi Araki is arguably Japan's greatest living photographer, and certainly its most controversial. His inexhaustible creative energy is attested to by the more than 300 books he ...

In 1972, Stephen Shore left New York City and set out with a friend to Amarillo, Texas. He didn't drive, so his first view of America was framed by the ...

Roger Ballen (b.1950) challenges the ways in which we perceive the 'reality of photography. His striking, ambiguous images of people, animals and objects posed in mysterious, cell-like rooms occupy the ...

Drawing has recently experienced a renewal of importance in the art world; in fact, it has rarely been as widely represented in the biennials, art fairs and exhibitions as it ...

The art of ukiyo-e (the floating world) originated in the city of Edo (1603-1867, now Tokyo), when the political and military power of Japan was in the hands of the ...

Alex Katz is a towering figure in contemporary painting, a key New York-based artist since the early 1960s. Katz was an independent figure during the heyday of Abstract Expressionism and ...

Born in New York City in 1928, Stanley Kubrick began taking photographs when in high school. At sixteen, he sent a photograph he took of a newsstand after President Roosevelt's ...

An accessible monograph on the work of David Seymour (1911-56), the Polish-born American photojournalist, who used his camera to record the political upheavals and social change of the 1930s. Known ...

For more than half a century people have marveled at the sweeping forms of the Trans World Airlines terminal at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York, lined up to ...

Ever since antiquity, philosophers have pointed to the supposed 'divine' character of music, and following Pythagoras's discovery of the mathematical basis of the musical scale, have posited a link between ...

Reading like a who's who of the world's most important players in contemporary art, pressPlay makes a fascinating stand-alone introduction to the current art scene and those associated with it. ...