Dont Think, Just shoot is the Lomo motto. Back in print, this is the first official publication on the phenomenon of Lomography. The Lomo camera, which emerged from Russia in the 1960s, is cherished for its ease of use and immediacy. Because of its simple, quality glass lens and low-light sensitivity, it remains the tool for capturing the moment, ...
The Hermitage showcases some of the most famous treasures from the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, including Leonardo's Benois Madonna and Rembrandt's Return of the Prodigal Son, as well as superb examples of Scythian gold, ancient Egyptian statues, and Russian decorative art. With an introduction by Professor Mikhail Piotrovsky, director ...
The last five years has been a period of explosive activity in the American art scene. This definitive survey of its most exciting and ebullient contemporary artists was shown at London's Barbican Art Gallery. Respected British curator Mark Sladen explored both East and West Coasts to select new work by emergent and cult figures, from Keith ...
Seen: blackstyleUK is the first publication to explore the immeasurable impact of Black subculture on British streets, dance floors, wardrobes and beauty parlours over the past three decades. It gives unique visual expression to the energy and innovation of a range of fashion trends and musical subcultures, including Ragga, drum 'n' bass, House, ...
This book raises the temperature of the current design scene, bringing together the most surprising new work from a young breed of graphic and communication designers. The industry's best known protagonists were asked for personal recommendations for contributors and their selection can legitimately be called the 'best of' today's young graphics ...
Anthony Webb and Ingrid Rasmussen's photography captures the thriving ethnic and cultural diversity that lights up Britain's contemporary urban landscapes. Foods, exotic dishes, body products and garments spill out from their images as they do through inner city streets, stores and markets. Arrays of plantains, batiks, hair extensions, dried fish, ...
Zines are the maverick inhabitants of publishing's Wild West, where the obsessional, the idiosyncratic and the wilfully obscure roam free across pages unbound by the constraints of mainstream agendas. Zines offers the first highly-visual analysis of this phenomenon, assembled with expert fanaticism by the team of Pop theorists who created ...
A vibrant examination of the interchange of fashion, graphics, photography, music and digital media ideas between the cities, shown at the Barbican Art Gallery, London. This book distills the reciprocal energies of two very different scenes.
This cut-and-paste mix of clothes, photographic and cinematic images, music and new interactive media, from the heart of 1990s youth culture became a platform for creatives working outside the mainstream -- then including Alexander McQueen, David Sims and Tomato.
One of the more widely discussed and inventive exponents of contemporary British art, Sam Taylor-Wood has spent a decade creating film and photographic works that extend the boundaries of their media. She worked closely with Bruce Mau Design on this project to give unprecedented insight into the usually private or suppressed source images behind ...
First begun in 1764, Catherine the Great's fabulous collection of paintings, sculpture, ceramics, and jewellery is still at the heart of the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg. This lavishly illustrated book adds a fascinating new dimension to one of the world's most intriguing stories of art collecting.
A poignant evocation of the life of the last Romanov tsar and tsarina, this superbly illustrated book is both historical documentary and art book. It includes over 600 images of costumes, official regalia portraits, books, icons and jewellery belonging to, or associated with, the imperial family. In addition, the book contains previously ...
This hugely successful title is a typographic journey through the streets of New York City created by Tomato's Karl Hyde and John Warwicker. Its pages are alive with pulsating masses of numbers, letters and fragments of words. British techno band Underworld collaborated on the project and used it as the basis of their album, dubnobasswithmyheadman.
New Art for a New Era looks at the remarkable body of work that was collected from 1919 by the State Russian Museum, St Petersburg, under the guidance of the artist Kazimir Malevich. With around 120 pieces [mostly paintings but also some Revolutionary ceramics, Futurist books and posters] by the leading artists of the period, including Chagall, ...
A follow-up to the successful Scrawl: Dirty Graphics and Strange Characters, this visceral selection of record sleeves, zines and walls from Vancouver to Osaka, Rio to Melbourne, explores the creative identities of public art from unexpected regions of the world.
Chosen from more than 7,000 entries and voted on by juries of industry leaders as the best advertising of the past year, grand finalists in the prestigious International Advertising Festival are exhibited in this winning volume. Honorees lists include categories for both screen-based and press and poster ads.
A comprehensive historical survey of the techniques that underpin 3-D photography and an overview of the history of Paris during the last 150 years, including documentation from the two World Wars, early erotica and advertising. Originally exhibited at the Musee Carnavalet, Paris.
The first survey of a group of artists who have come up from the streets, chopped the computer down to size and reconfigured the hand-made. Inhabiting a gray area some-where between art, design and illegality these artists and writers operate outside the colleges and galleries of the art establishment. Their starting point was traditional graffiti ...
Chicks On Speed (COS) are a band, a clothing label, a Web site, a record label, a design team, and a 21st-century phenomenon.This unusual package is die-cut, with a concert DVD, his-and-hers dress, poster, and garment pattern, all in a fabric bag.
Christopher Le Brun holds a passionate belief in the power of figurative art and the re-exploration of narrative. This book offers the most authoritative survey of his classical muscular visual vocabulary and symbolism which has brought a unique intensity and inventiveness to contemporary painting. It also gives due recognition to his work as a ...
Explores the visual representation of Native North Americans during the development of photography, the emergence of anthropology and the US government's policy of assimilation. It includes photographic journeys by three Native and three non-Native authors. Exhibited at the Barbican Art Gallery, London.
Powerful images by seminal photographers, realist painters and sculptors -- including Tierney Gearon, Nan Goldin, Andreas Gursky, Cindy Sherman and Andy Warhol -- which sparked a high-profile row about the boundaries of taste when exhibited at London's Saatchi Gallery.
Experience documents dialogue between over 100 organisations, marketeers, designers and artists around the world -- from the creators of Japanese fog parks to the creatives behind Nike Town -- exploring the possibilities of a radically progressive approach to marketing.
Here's where to see the brightest ideas from advertising's top pros across Europe. Selected from nearly 3,000 entries, these Grand Prix winners represent the cutting edge of European advertising and design, including campaigns for television and movie theaters, print ads, packaging, and billboards. A jury drawn from the Continent's major ...
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