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The multifaceted American artist William Wegman (born in 1943) has been exploring inter-species relationships since the 1970s and, together with his dogs—all Weimaraners—has created a substantial body of photographic and video works featuring them. Man Ray, his first companion, followed by Fay Ray and their many descendants, have been by his side to this day. Whether alone in the studio, in pairs, or in groups (up to 10 dogs and puppies!), they have journeyed with him through more than 50 years of contemporary art history—from conceptual art to fine art photography—while maintaining strong ties to pop culture, from television shows to children’s books.

The fifth volume in the Amigos Forever collection, this richly illustrated book also bears witness to the bond and friendship that unite the author, Martin Bethenod, and William Wegman.

“I was impressed by The Stones. They were dressed casually, had mischief in them and were different to other bands.” Terry O Neill

In July 1962, a group of young men played a gig at The Marquee Club on Oxford Street, London. They called themselves ‘The Rollin’ Stones’ and little did they know they would soon be making music history.

This brilliant new book captures the youth, the times and the spirit of The Stones’ formative early years. And documenting 1963-1965 were two young photographers just starting out in their careers. Terry O’Neill, aged just 25, had a few years’ experience photographing musicians and knew that this group had the same magic as another British phenomenon that just recently started to chart, The Beatles. As the band was starting to record and tour, Gered Mankowitz came along. His first shoot, the now famous Mason’s Yard session, was so fruitful, Gered was asked to tag along on tour to America. Gered was a mere 19 when he picked-up his camera and joined the band on stage in 1965. Between these two legendary photographers, they document the band’s beginnings and these indelible images are forever placed in music’s consciousness. The photography throughout this book is embellished with various memoires and interviews, celebrating the early days and giving an insight into what it must have felt like to go from a small club in Soho with no record deal to touring the world a few years later with a number one record. Terry O’Neill and Gered Mankowitz, two of the most respected, collected and exhibited photographers in the world were sitting in the front-row.

In 2016, London’s Saatchi Gallery hosted the first ever major exhibition dedicated to the band: Exhibitionism, a career-spanning, museum-style display of Stones artifacts and memorabilia. The publication of this book coincided with the opening of this ground-breaking exhibition.

It doesn t take a passport to visit Brooklyn, as some Manhattanites might lead you to believe. Still, Brooklyn can feel a world away. And that’s precisely what locals love about it. It’s independent. Fiercely headstrong about maintaining its individuality. Tolerant of the different, the foreign, the weird. But what outsiders might be surprised to learn is that Brooklyn is less an undifferentiated mass than a collection of neighbourhoods, each with its own distinctive character and history. From Bay Ridge, Bed-Stuy and Bergen Beach to Weeksville, Williamsburg and Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn is a patchwork quilt of communities stitched together with mismatched threads from nearly everywhere in the world. Celebrating its in-your-face diversity, but continually churning those differences into something fresh and unique, Brooklyn embodies a hip and cool version of the American experiment. E pluribus unum – from many comes one. Here are 111 places to start your explorations.

More than any other civilization, China is renowned for its long tradition of ceramic production, from its terracotta and stoneware works in ancient times to the imperial porcelain manufactured at Jingdezhen from the end of the fourteenth century. These works have been admired and collected over centuries for their outstanding quality and refinement. Now two hundred masterpieces from prominent private collections around the world have been brought together for the first time in a new book. The Baur Collections in Geneva, formed between 1928 and 1951, and the Zhuyuetang Collection (the Bamboo and Moon Pavilion in Hong Kong), which has been building since the late 1980s, reveal the elegance and variety of imperial monochrome porcelain wares produced during the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties, which followed on from the Tang (618-907) and Song (960-1279) periods. These restrained pieces – both profane and sacred – exemplify the values of simplicity and modesty espoused by classical Chinese texts. With chapters devoted to the historical, cultural and technical contexts in which these pieces were made, this book will be a key reference on Chinese monochrome ceramics for all lovers of the subject, as well as students, researchers and connoisseurs.

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“As with stocks, education is the way to begin. There are many excellent books on the jewelry market, but start with Understanding Jewellery, the industry bible by two former Sotheby’s jewelry executives, David Bennett, and Daniela Mascetti.” — Kristen Shirley, Bloomberg

Understanding Jewellery is a comprehensive guide to 19th and 20th Century jewelry. From the methods used to identify and date pieces, to the factors that can affect their value, this volume contains an abundance of expertise relating to precious stones and metals. With almost 1000 magnificent color illustrations accompanied by straightforward but thorough explanations, this publication offers a richer and more accessible reading experience than traditional text-dominated books.

Including introductions to precious and semi-precious stones, and details of the stylistic developments of jewelry over the last 200 years, this volume is a standard work of reference and an invaluable tool for collectors and dealers alike.

“… a delightful and presentation worthy coffee table book, Understanding Jewellery also, in the truest sense, serves as an inviting educational tool with exhaustive encyclopedic explanations of jewelry starting in the late 18th century to the present.” – New York Journal of Books

César (1921-1998), an emblematic sculptor considered provocative by the critics of his day, achieved fame during his lifetime and stands as a major figure of the New Realist movement, alongside Yves Klein, Arman and Niki de Saint Phalle. The creator of a wide-ranging body of work, he is known for his human imprints (one of his Pouce sculptures stands in the Tuileries Gardens) and for his Compressions, the most famous of which is the César trophy awarded at the French film awards. He represented France at the Venice Biennale in 1994, a mark of his international recognition. Twenty years after his death, the Centre Pompidou staged a retrospective, gathering together more than a hundred of his works from collections around the world. This book is a reissue, expanded with 150 new catalog entries, of an edition conceived in close collaboration with the artist in 1994; together with the author, he carefully defined, among other things, the layout, titles and dating of the works. Faithful to César’s own wishes, this new edition is the first volume of a trilogy of catalog raisonnés, the essential reference for understanding his work. This first volume traces the early years of his career – his bestiaries and his work in iron – through to his first Compressions in the 1960s, richly illustrated with portraits of the artist and excerpts from interviews that bring readers close to his creative process.

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Albert Dros has a passion for landscape photography. Although he travels the world in search of the most beautiful images, the Netherlands is still his favorite subject. After all these years, Albert has created extremely atmospheric, colorful and almost romantic photographs of the Netherlands. His dream images in this book show everything that makes the Netherlands the Netherlands: from tulips to windmills, from purple moors to vast river landscapes and from picturesque towns to animals in meadows and in the wild. The Beauty of the Netherlands is the result of ten years of craftsmanship by an internationally renowned photographer who captures a Netherlands that few people will ever see with their own eyes.

Andy Goldsworthy tells the story of his career in his own words – from school art classrooms to the ambitious retrospective exhibition this book accompanies. In a wide-ranging and personal conversation, Goldsworthy recalls the triumphs and tribulations that have shaped his journey to become an artist of global renown. Illustrated by many of his iconic installations and ephemeral works, this book also includes previously unseen drawings for new creations. This is an unmissable account of the life and work of an artist pushing the boundaries of the art world.

“So beautiful, it hurts” – Buzzfeed

In the Land of Fire and Ice: Horses of Iceland is photographer and explorer Guadalupe Laiz’s second book celebrating her love for Iceland, its people, and its horses. In this follow up to Horses of Iceland (2019), Laiz widens her lens to not only capture the undeniable beauty of the horses in their natural habitat, but to showcase the rugged, harsh, and unpredictable environment that has shaped their character. Her intimate color and black-and-white images of the majestic Icelandic horses are pure poetry in motion.

Undertaking a more ambitious production, Laiz collaborated with local horse breeders and with Icelandic photographer, filmmaker, and artist Thrainn Kolbeinsson to capture the magnificent animals in iconic and breathtaking locations—from the famous Skógafoss blanketed with snow to the active Fagradalsfjall volcano; and galloping across beaches, frolicking amid glaciers, and with waterfalls, tundra, and fierce ocean backdrops. Kolbeinsson’s powerful drone photography featured throughout the book showcases the aerial perspective of these epic landscapes that have shaped the horses of Iceland.

Laiz’s photographs are testament to her passion for the Icelandic horse and wildlife photography. She shares this collection to reveal the beauty and importance of the remote corners of our planet and the unique animals that call it home.

In this revised edition of the superb large-format, trilingual volume, first published in 2019, Guadalupe captures the beauty, strength, and gentleness of the Icelandic horses in a compelling pictorial journey. Guadalupe’s sensitive photographs—taken over a period of five years—showcase the inherent nature of the horses in intimate portraits and against Iceland’s dramatic landscapes. The magnificent color and black-and-white images present the horses in fine detail, bringing the majestic animals to life. Guadalupe invites readers to share her love for Iceland and its indigenous horses. She has since returned to Iceland numerous times to photograph the horses for her follow-up publication, In the Land of Fire and Ice: Horses of Iceland (2025), in which she widens her lens to not only capture the horses, but to showcase their rugged, harsh, and unpredictable environment. This breathtaking volume is for fans of wildlife photography, nature conservation, and exploration travel, and anyone who admires and appreciates the sublime presence and pure beauty of the Icelandic horse.

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This scholarly volume explores the evolution and artistic significance of human figures and faces in historical and prehistorical Chinese jade. The fruit of an extraordinary collection of artifacts, assembled over several decades, Jade People: The Human Figure and Faces in Chinese Jade over More Than 7,000 Years showcases Chinese jade working dating back millennia, focusing on representations of the human figure in 3D, in relief and in cutout silhouette form. Portrayals of the human form have featured among the principal drivers of artistic expression throughout history, with China being no exception to this shared spirit of sculptural exploration, as the amazing historical development of Chinese jade-working skills makes clear in these pages.
The well-preserved jade artifacts presented here include prehistoric works from before the Shang Dynasty and are accurately dated thanks to carbon dating of buried organic matter and skeletal remains, providing us with a continuous timeline from ancient times to the present. From leading expert Angus Forsyth, this is an important guide to the history of human images in China’s jade artifacts. 

Wall Stories: 20 Years of Street Art offers a visual and textual journey through two decades of street art, from its early years to the large-scale murals that now shape urban landscapes worldwide.

The book follows the work of Studio Giftig, the duo Niels van Swaemen and Kaspar van Leek, twice named winner of “Best Mural in the World” by Street Art Cities, the largest international platform for street art. Alongside an overview of iconic murals, the publication provides rare insight into the making process: from initial sketches and concept development to technical execution and monumental realization. It also places the evolution of street art in a broader context, showing how a once illegal and marginal art form has grown into an acknowledged and influential visual language in public space. Richly illustrated, this is a document of 20 years of visual power, urban transformation and artistic evolution.

“These are the cars that most collectors would want to own for their looks, character, performance and driving enjoyment. They all broke the mould.” – Simon de Burton

Simon de Burton journeys through some of the most coveted cars of the twentieth century. From the Alfa Romeo 6C to the Porsche 996 GT3, the author has chosen cars from each decade from the 1930s to the end of the 20h century, his choices made from the perspective of the enthusiast and collector. All are considered ‘milestone’ cars and all have risen substantially in value in recent years. They are not all necessarily the fastest, rarest or most valuable cars, but they are all highly significant and highly regarded. These are the cars that should have been bought when they were new and kept for the future – now that they are truly desired. Features cars from across the varied spans of time, price and purpose, including: Lancia Lambda, Austin Seven, Volkswagen Beetle, Jaguar C-Type, Citroen DS19, Ford Mustang, DeLorean DMC 12, McLaren F1.

Curves: Northern Italy: Lombardy, South Tyrol, Veneto portrays the most beautiful passes of Northern Italy. Starting at the Timmelsjoch, heading south to Lake Garda, and then east to the Three Peaks in South Tyrol, this book will lead you on a stunning journey through some of Northern Italy’s most beautiful roadway scenescapes. Among the special highlights are the Gavia Pass, the Monte Baldo high alpine road and the Three Peaks. Stefan Bogner shot the atmospheric photos – some of them from a helicopter – to capture the full magnificence of the landscape. In addition to full-color photography, Curves is also a useful travel guide, offering tips for restaurants and hotels along the route.

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The French, Italian, and Austrian Alpes, the Pyrenees… Master photographer Stefan Bogner presents breath-taking photographs of mountain passes, taken during the winter season.
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Also available by Stefan Bogner: Porsche Drive:15 Passes in 4 Days; Switzerland, Italy, Austria ISBN 9783667102898 Epic: The Roads of Iceland ISBN 9783768838832 Tracks Nürburgring North Loop ISBN 9783768838092

The Curves series encapsulates the joy of the open road through Stefan Bogner’s masterful photography, showcasing the full magnificence of the landscape. This new addition to the series covers the most scenic driving routes between Denver and San Francisco, including Pikes Peak, Aspen, Durango, Monument Valley, Bryce Canyon, Lake Tahoe and 14 others. Curves is also a useful travel guide, offering tips for restaurants and hotels along the route.

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The Monaco Grand Prix is considered one of the most demanding races in Formula 1. Constant gear changes and the slowest corner in the world championship have always demanded everything from the racing drivers.
Edward Quinn captured the most famous car race in the world from 1950 to 1965 in numerous photos. In his recordings, the well-known Formula 1 track is presented with almost no crash barriers and run-off zones, without advertising posters and sponsor logos. Many of his pictures are now combined for the first time in a large-format illustrated book. Accompanied by short descriptions and background information, they give a fascinating insight into the motorsport history of that time.

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The Monaco Grand Prix is considered one of the most demanding races in Formula 1. Constant gear changes and the slowest corner in the world championship have always demanded everything from the racing drivers.
Edward Quinn captured the most famous car race in the world from 1950 to 1965 in numerous photos. In his recordings, the well-known Formula 1 track is presented with almost no crash barriers and run-off zones, without advertising posters and sponsor logos. Many of his pictures are now combined for the first time in a large-format illustrated book. Accompanied by short descriptions and background information, they give a fascinating insight into the motorsport history of that time.

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This sixth opus in the Car Racing series continues to delve into the archives of the DPPI photographic agency, coming up with an impressive selection of shots, most of them previously unpublished, unusual or particularly striking. Dedicated to the 1970 motorsport season, this volume offers readers total immersion in a bygone era, when photographers were in the thick of things, mere centimeters from the drivers and their cars. In this volume, a sign of the times, an increasing number of the selected pictures are in color.
The 250 photographs and six thrilling stories bring to life the atmosphere of a year that saw many triumphs — and tragedies — including the posthumously awarded title of Jochen Rindt, François Cevert’s Formula 1 debut, Porsche’s first ever victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the onsite shooting of Le Mans with Steve McQueen, and a last tribute to Bruce McLaren.

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The Art of Endurance is a coffee table book about the 2024 season of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC), which is one of the most exciting competitions in motorsport. This book is based on the very rich production of images that will be developed and embellished over the eight races that are held around the globe on internationally renowned circuits, including the legendary 24 Hours of Le Mans. The main goal is to capture the “spirit” that characterizes these endurance races. This beautiful publication will be a perfect promotional tool for the championship, whose considerable drawing power is due to the number of competitors and manufacturers who are taking part.

Immerse yourself in the diverse and colorful world of Japan, a country rich in culture and sights. The new volume by Stefan Bogner and his team takes you on an adventurous journey through the land of the rising sun, full of spectacular photos and breathtaking perspectives. From snow-covered mountain passes to the pulsating streets of Tokyo – experience dream roads, nature and how metropolis combines pop culture with traditional facets.

Highlights:
– Unique images: Experience the beauty of Japan through great photography – captivating views that take you to another world.
– Diverse travel destinations: Discover a harmonious balance between natural paradises and bustling metropolises.
– Practical planning aids: Benefit from detailed maps, route recommendations and hotel tips – the essentials for your travel planning.

Curves: Japan is the perfect read for car fans, bikers and cyclists who dream of breathtaking routes and want to inspire their travel plans. The successful series sets new standards for your driving adventures and makes you want to travel to the Far East.

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“A fascinating look at the new levels of craft and technology that have emerged to cater to the world of luxury mobility.” — Wallpaper

“Curated by Bill Schwartz, it’s the kind of book that fuels big dreams and garage goals.” — Boss Hunting

“… Schwartz has curated a veritable smorgasbord of restomod goodness, moving effortlessly from coupes to trucks, American muscle to Italian speed, and powertrains that run the gamut from naturally aspirated to turbocharged to fully electrified.” — LA Car Online

“Bill Schwartz’s well-researched, 324-page hardback is a fascinating Who’s who of the industry, filled with 55 of the scene’s biggest movers and shakers – you’ll know your Revology from your Zero Labs in no time.” — Classic & Sports Car Magazine

“A collector’s edition that doesn’t just revisit classic cars, but transforms them into modern works of art.” — Knightsbridge Magazine

Cars Reimagined – Restomods: The New World Order of Handcrafted Cars celebrates the thrilling world of super-refined and highly personalized automobile restoration. 

Fusing classic design with cutting edge technology requires an almost impossible level of imagination, creativity and workmanship, resulting in models that frequently test the technical boundaries of vehicle design and engineering. Cars Reimagined – Restomods: The New World Order of Handcrafted Cars collects over 50 companies who are at the forefront of this world, among them Singer, Eagle, Tuthill & Alfaholics. Each of the featured firms has contributed directly to these pages, supplying specifications, quotes and the very highest quality professional photographs. The result is a spectacular volume that showcases the new world order of personalized car restoration.   

Cars Reimagined – Restomods: The New World Order of Handcrafted Cars is the first volume in the Cars Reimagined series, showcasing the cars and their creators who are pushing motor vehicles to the next level.

Very few people know what it feels like to drive the Mercedes-Benz 300SL Coupé – aptly nicknamed ‘Gullwing’ – that graces the cover of Iconic Classic Cars. Photographer Kevin van Campenhout has access to some of the rarest classic cars in the world and travels to every corner of the globe to photograph them in carefully selected settings, both natural and urban. Discover a super sleek 1974 Lamborghini Countach Periscope, a Porsche 550 Spyder – the first sports car the brand ever built; a 1965 Aston Martin DB5 – widely believed to be one of the most beautiful cars in the world; and many more. Photographed ‘up close and personal’ in Kevin Van Campenhout’s signature style and expertly described by journalist/car specialist Yan Alexandre Damasiewicz, these rare and classic cars unveil their secrets in this stunning new book.

Restomods: The New World Order of Handcrafted Cars celebrates the thrilling world of super-refined and highly personalized automobile restoration. 

Fusing classic design with cutting edge technology requires an almost impossible level of imagination, creativity and workmanship, resulting in models that frequently test the technical boundaries of vehicle design and engineering. Restomods collects over 50 companies who are at the forefront of this world, among them Singer, Eagle, Tuthill & Alfaholics. Each of the featured firms has contributed directly to these pages, supplying specifications, quotes and the very highest quality professional photographs. The result is a spectacular volume that showcases the new world order of personalized car restoration.   

Restomods: The New World Order of Handcrafted Cars is the first volume in the Cars Reimagined series, showcasing the cars and their creators who are pushing motor vehicles to the next level.

This slipcased edition is signed, and limited to 200 copies.