Your favorite coffee table books (photography, artist monographs, fashion bible, etc)

[Faust]

Ha, totally see what you mean.
I guess the reason why I'm so drawn to Brandt is just how close he gets to a lot of his subjects

I know what you mean. I liked it viscerally when I first saw it. It took some thinking to realize what it is I am looking at.

[Chinorlz]

Can cookbooks be considered "coffee table books"? I keep them throughout my place for people to look through as the photography in a lot are fantastic, and they are also utilitarian in the sense I can use them for recipes. I'm a huge fan of cuisine myself, and whenever I find a chef I genuinely love, I look into wether or not they've wrote a cookbook.

The Alinea "cookbook" and The French Laundry cookbook fit into this category IMO. Food porn at its absolute best

[bukka]

Lost in a fire, up there on my list of things to repurchase. The best photos from this book aren't even visible online.

Went to his Genesis exhibition and bought the Taschen, I was going to suggest it

[gawkrodger]

always gets people flicking through

[Shogun8]

Kehinde Wiley's "World Stage: Jamaica" - the first time he's portrayed women in his work:

[bukka]

Naoya Hatakeyama - Zeche Westfalen I/II Ahlen

[Faust]

Lugged this gem all the way from Antwerp and couldn't be happier.

[yay]

David Lynch: The Factory Photographs is currently on my table, not sure how interesting it is if you are not a fan of the man himself, though.

http://www.amazon.com/David-Lynch-Ph...+lynch+factory

[omnidata]

If there's any book I'd recommend it would probably be one of the strangest books I own, Codex Seraphinianus.



The drawings inside portray some nightmarish dream world, it fascinated my as a kid and still does till this very day.