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

[profondo nero]

I also picked up the monograph of Viviane Sassen. I first saw her work in Photoworks magazine (cover) and loved it.

Not that long ago I have randomly attended to an exhibition of her photographies, amazing pictures indeed.

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Francis Bacon
And The Tradition Of Art
Edited by Wilfried Seipel, Barbara Steffen
and Christoph Vitali
Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Skira(2003)

[Faust]

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[sam_tem]

I acquired mine several months ago as I assumed the price would only increase through other outlets overtime, like every other fashion book I want .

oh i wouldn't worry about it, the book market can be a fickle beast so best to grab it when you can. i just noticed amazon is going to be selling this moriyama exhibition book for about $20 less than i bought it for a few months back, it happens.

http://www.amazon.com/Daido-Moriyama-Something-Matthias-Harder/dp/9071848140/ref=sr_1_8?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1346977443&sr=1-8&keywords=daido+moriyama

and that kibosh book ended up being terrible, way too much, straight to relisting.

just got this book in the mail for the gf today. can't say illustrations excite me much, but it's still packed with some pretty good photos and other goodies:

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Definitely one of the better exhibition catalogues
I have come across, especially the focus on the
relation between Bacon's work and the tradition
of art is interesting.

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Martin Munkácsi
Edited by F.C. Gundlach
Thames & Hudson(2005)

[cremaster]

Wasn't there another thread on just fashion books?
Anyway here is a new book on Vintage Menswear - from the Vintage Showroom.

http://www.laurenceking.com/product/Vintage+Menswear%3A+A+Collection+from+the+Vintage+Showroom.htm

I've never heard of Vintage Showroom though it does seem they have a substantial collection.
Couple of examples -

[cremaster]

Are those images too big?

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i post bigger images than that on a dailiy basis and i'm still in the sz game. i think u good

[Faust]

FALL BOOKS, PART I

[sam_tem]

Steidl's S/S 2013 catalogue is up for those that are interested.

some goodies to look forward to, but of course i'm still waiting for a good half of my fall/winter books to arrive still

[Faust]

Great publishing house where nothing gets done on time.

[destroymebaby]

Was looking, with one eye, just one eye, for this very rare and insanely expensive book when I suddenly found it. In a second hand shop. For about 15 euro. In mint condition.

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DRAWINGS & WATERCOLOURS:
Egon Schiele
Jane Kalir
Thames & Hudson(2003)
Gustav Klimt
Rainer Metzger
Thames & Hudson(2005)
August Rodin
Antoinette Le Normand-Romain
And Christina Buley-Uribe
Thames & Hudson(2006)

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“IN 1969 HOSOE AND HIJIKATA VISITED A SMALL FARMING VILLAGE IN TOHOKU, NORTHERN JAPAN. DRAWING IN THE VILLAGERS AS PERFORMERS AND USING THE RURAL LANDSCAPE AS A THEATRICAL SET FOR AN IMPROVISATIONAL BUTOH PERFORMANCE, HOSOE PHOTOGRAPHED HIJIKATA’S SPONTANEOUS INTERACTIONS WITH THE LAND AND ITS INHABITANTS. THE PERFORMANCE WAS INSPIRED BY THE LEGEND OF THE KAMAITACHI, A WEASEL-LIKE DEMON WHO HAUNTS THE RICE FIELDS AND SLASHES THOSE WHO ENCOUNTER HIM. USING PERFORMANCE AND PHOTOGRAPHY, THE TWO ARTISTS ENACTED AN INTESE INVESTIGATION OF TRADITION AND AN EXPLORATION, BOTH PERSONAL AND SYBOLIC, OF THE CONVULSIONS OF JAPANESE SOCIETY AT THE TIME. HOSOE CONSIDERS THE PROJECT THE PROJECT TO BE A “SUBJECTIVE DOCUMENTARY” OF BOTH HIJIKATA AS AN INNOVATOR OF BUTOH DANCE AND OF HOSOE’S EARLY MEMORIES OF HIS EVACUATION TO RURAL JAPAN DURING WWII.”

(*these aren't proper scans, just taken with my phone...)