In 1987, The Main: Portrait of a Neighborhood (9781550130461) was published and quickly sold out. The critically acclaimed project celebrated the communities around Montreal’s Boulevard Saint Laurent and contributed to the eventual designation of “The Main” as a Canadian heritage landmark.
In 2017, to celebrate the city’s 375th anniversary, the author was invited to re-imagine the original book. Returning to his former neighborhood, his new book weaves old and new photographs with texts and archives, inviting us on a journey into his creative process to reflect on questions of home, identity, time, memory, and the evolving urban landscape, and asking: in a globalized world where people and cities are in constant movement, what happens to places and memories? Can we go home again?
Text in English and French.
Building on her Forget Me Not series (2022), Joëlle Dubois’s work has grown into a trilogy of exhibitions that come together in this monograph as one powerful whole. In this poignant monograph, inspired by her mother’s Alzheimer’s, she explores themes such as loss, grief, memory, and love.
With intimate images ranging from self-portraits to tender scenes with her mother, Dubois unfolds a poetic reflection on connection, identity, and healing. For this series, she also presents impressive sculptural work for the first time, and this book gains an extra dimension with video stills. Dubois offers a raw, honest, and comforting portrait of life, loss, and hope for a new beginning.
With text contributions by, among others, Katrina Schwarz (Whitechapel Gallery, London), Christel Tsilibaris (BOZAR, Brussels), and Patrick Ronse (Be-Part, Kortrijk).
The chance discovery of letters from Hester Thrale (1741–1821) to her daughter Sophia provides an opportunity to rethink our understanding of one of the key people in the life of the dictionary-maker and moralist Dr Samuel Johnson. Much-maligned after the death of her first husband for her decision to marry Gabriel Piozzi, an Italian musician and Catholic, Hester has often been portrayed as cold-hearted and lacking in the essentials of motherhood. These letters shed new light on her relations with her four surviving daughters (she gave birth to 12 children in 14 years). They also reveal her desire for recognition as a scholar and poet, and her keen awareness of her shortcomings. They provide a fascinating portrait of a complex woman, determining her independence and that of her daughters, in spite of family tragedy and vicious criticism in the press.
Erwin Olaf – Freedom offers an intimate look at the life and work of Erwin Olaf, one of the Netherlands’ most groundbreaking photographers. Known for his staged, cinematic imagery and bold aesthetic, Olaf’s work explored themes of sexuality, transience, vulnerability, and activism. This book, launching alongside a major Stedelijk Museum exhibition, provides a fresh perspective on his artistic legacy, including unseen works created during his final years.
A tireless advocate for equal rights, Olaf’s photography captured the beauty and struggles of marginalized communities – queer individuals, people of color, those with disabilities, and the everyday person. His final pieces, including Self-Portrait with Lungs (2023), reveal an even deeper personal and artistic reckoning.
With striking imagery and personal insights, Ewin Olaf – Freedom is a powerful tribute to an artist who redefined contemporary photography and left behind a legacy of beauty, defiance, and humanity.
Roger Fry (1866–1934) and his role as critic, curator and member of the Bloomsbury Group are explored in this rich and vibrant biography. From his curation of one of the most important collections in New York and groundbreaking exhibitions in London to his launch of the Omega Workshops with Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, Fry introduced Post-Impressionism, radicalized interiors and changed the landscape of twentieth-century art. His introduction of Cézanne, Van Gogh and Matisse to a British audience played a significant role in a legacy that still inspires today.
Often overlooked, Fry was one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century art in Britain, giving a generation of modern artists their first exhibitions, while also creating art himself. Roger Fry: Bloomsbury and the Invention of Modern Art offers a compelling portrait of his extraordinary career and his pivotal role in redefining British art.
Ayrton Senna is one of the greatest Formula 1 drivers in history. Deified in Brazil, the man from São Paulo continues to fascinate long after his death on May 1, 1994, at the Imola circuit in Italy. Thirty years later, Daniel Ortelli, Thomas Woloch, and photographer Dominique Leroy have delved into Senna’s story, from his debut in Formula 1 in 1984 to his final season with Williams ten years later. Through exclusive interviews and testimonies from those who knew the Brazilian intimately – drivers, team managers, mechanics – the authors provide a truly human portrait of this driver who became a legend in motorsports. His character, strengths, weaknesses, moments of joy, or doubt, all facets of the career of the man known as “Beco” or “Magic,” are revealed in this fascinating book filled with untold stories and anecdotes. The entire narrative is richly illustrated with over 200 rare and unpublished photos by Dominique Leroy, a privileged witness to Ayrton Senna’s career.
“Dafydd Jones’s photographs capture the future establishment at their most unguarded.”— FT How To Spend It
“This book is one for Waugh nostalgics, dark academia dreamers and anyone who is about to start at Cambridge.” — The Times
Cambridge Balls is the sensational new book by bestselling social photographer Dafydd Jones. The Cambridge University colleges are renowned for many great alumni and important achievements… and also a series of marathon all-night parties, known as the May Balls, held annually to celebrate the end of the academic year. Dafydd Jones, who according to The New York Times, ‘goes about his business with cheery zest and a wicked eye’, has been granted unique access to this hidden world of revelry since 1981, during which the author of England: The Last Hurrah and Hollywood Confidential has captured an extraordinary tableau of antics and shenanigans now beautifully reproduced on these pages. From former British Prime Minister David Cameron in his Bullingdon coat to victorious rowing teams celebrating into the night, from gate crashers punting across the river to the more international student groups of modern times toasting their successes, this is a fascinating portrait of jubilation among the young, the wealthy and the academic elites of one of the world’s most famous universities.
Praise for England: The Last Hurrah…
“Wonderfully ironic, every point in the picture ignites and knows how to entertain very well.” — Lovely Books
“Dafydd catches those moments of genuine exhilaration, wealth and youth.” — The Hollywood Reporter
Praise for Hollywood Confidential…
“With his new collection of photographs, Dafydd Jones offers a sensational dive into the excitement of the awards season in the 1990s.” — Vanity Fair France
Praise for New York: High Life / Low Life…
“The New York book is an evocative historical document, brimming with nostalgia and menace.” –– Hannah Marriott, The Guardian
Praise for Dafydd Jones…
“Modest though he is, Dafydd’s photographs will endure for having perfectly captured a society on the brink of decline.” –– Country & Townhouse podcast
“Sublime vintage photographs…” –– Hermione Eyre, The Telegraph
“Some carefully tended public images are punctured with such rapier precision that one can hear the hiss as they deflate.” –– Mitchell Owens, The World of Interiors
The complete photographic record of the iconic documentary, where extreme wealth, greed, overreach, and reality-TV culture converge in one distinctly American story told by Lauren Greenfield, named by The New York Times as “America’s foremost visual chronicler of the plutocracy”. In the age of the one percent (1%) – those with a net worth of over $30 million – this is a story that will shake-up the national conversation around oligarchy, inequality, and the definition of economic well-being.
A century after Theodore Dreiser and F. Scott Fitzgerald mapped the American Dream’s promise and peril, Lauren Greenfield’s latest photographic monograph visually recaptures the origin story behind her hit 2012 critically acclaimed film, named by Vogue as one of the best documentaries of all time. It is published when the issues raised by her work are more critical than ever – and as they have ever been.
“Glamour is what I sell,” Marlene Dietrich once said. “It’s my stock in trade.”
Marlene Dietrich remains one of the most enigmatic figures of twentieth-century cinema. This collection brings together rare and iconic photographs spanning her extraordinary career, from glamorous studio portraits and film-set moments to intimate encounters away from the spotlight.
Featuring both world-famous and never-before-seen images, the book includes portraits by world-renowned photographers: Clarence Sinclair Bull, Cecil Beaton, George Hurrell, Lin Mayberry, Lee Miller, Cornel Lucas, Angus McBean and John Engstead as well as portfolios of eight renowned photographers – Eugene Robert Richee, Don English, William Walling Jr, Eve Arnold, Lawrence Fried, Norman Parkinson, Douglas Kirkland, and Terry O’Neill.
An illustrated essay by former head of photographs at the National Portrait Gallery, Terence Pepper OBE tells the stories behind the images, from childhood photographs of Dietrich through to her years in cabaret.
The historical sweep and stylistic variety of the photographs throughout this book creates a rich visual tableau, shedding light on Dietrich’s famously mysterious character, which combined the sultry cabaret singer, the fierce patriot, the lover, the mother, and the independent thinker.
The Letting Go is a long-standing, performative, and participatory practice by artist Natascha Stellmach. It explores themes of vulnerability and empowerment. Following a meditation and in response to the question, “What would you like to let go of?”, the practice involves identifying, naming, embodying, and experiencing healing and impermanence through the body. Its method includes ritual tattooing without ink (a bloodline tattoo) to address a personal obstacle and initiate an intimate enquiry.
Over a period of almost 10 years, Stellmach performed more than 120 sessions with individuals in galleries and privately, including herself. Through evocative photography, academic research, and participant-contributed selfies and reflections, the publication invites readers to embrace “the wonder in our wounds” and offers a deeply human portrait of what it means to let go.
The book includes a welcome message by acclaimed actor Sandra Hüller, as well as essays by curator and arts writer Kelly Gellatly and psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Dr. Matthew McArdle.
Text in English and German.
China, nearly half a century after economic transformation and development, is changing not just itself, but the world around it. The BRI (Belt and Road Initiative, a global infrastructure and economic development program initiated by the Chinese government) promises investments in countries along the ancient overland trading routes between China and the West, with maritime arcs around Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent and the Arabian peninsula, down the eastern coast of Africa and through the Mediterranean. These distinctive images from 21 countries participating in China’s BRI (Belt and Road Initiative) are taken by Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Liu Heung Shing, described by Newsweek as “the Henri Cartier-Bresson of China”. Unfolding across Asia, Central Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa, the book covers a distance of over 267,000 kilometers, documented from early 2023 to late 2025. A compelling new perspective on the reality of China today.
British Portuguese Paula Rego (1935–2022) carved out her place in international art history with a self-possessed, uncompromising expression and a burning commitment to fighting oppression and lack of freedom. She grew up in Portugal under António de Oliveira Salazar’s dictatorship, which imposed strong constraints, especially on women’s freedom, and throughout her long career Rego dissected the relationship between gender, the body and power in a dark, fantastical visual language. At a time when authoritarian forces are on the rise across the world and women’s right to control their own bodies is under pressure, her images feel more relevant than ever. The exhibition Paula Rego – Dance Among Thorns presents Rego’s powerful and unsettling body of work in its full breadth. The catalog includes all works on display and a collection of new texts by the exhibition’s curator Kari J. Brandtzæg as well as by Catarina Alfaro, Isabel Freire and Jennifer Higgie. Together, they sketch an intense and nuanced portrait of an artist who never ceased to challenge – whether aesthetically or politically.
Long considered anonymous, a striking portrait of an old man in the Kunsthistorisches Museum is now attributed to the Baroque genius Gian Lorenzo Bernini, a rare and remarkable discovery. Almost life-size, the bust grips viewers with its piercing gaze and palpable presence. Bernini, famed creator of Apollo and Daphne and architect of St. Peter’s Square, is known to have painted only for his own pleasure, and fewer than twenty works survive as autograph paintings. This book traces the thrilling investigation behind the attribution and reveals how Bernini infused paint with sculptural force, redefining the boundaries between painting and sculpture.
The Aix Annunciation Triptych (1443–1444) is attributed to Barthélemy d’Eyck and is widely celebrated as a masterpiece of fifteenth-century Western European painting. Based on an in-depth study of the altarpiece, this book offers a more complete picture of the artist’s artistic origins, career, workshop practice, and professional network.
Combining art-historical, archival, and technical approaches, this study brings together newly discovered documents and provides a reappraisal of the patron and the liturgical context of the work. Furthermore, it places the Aix Annunciation Triptych within the broader landscape of fifteenth-century Provençal altarpieces and presents the results of a material and technical analysis conducted on the surviving fragments. These findings resolve long-standing questions regarding the work’s original format and significantly deepen our understanding of Barthélemy’s artistic training and methods.
Photographer Jérôme Schlomoff (b. 1961) has been capturing the souls of artists and numerous creative figures through his lens since 1984. He presents his portraits against a white background, tightly framed, with no props, showcasing a magnificent interplay of light and shadow. Look at Me is a raw, face-to-face exchange – an inviting gaze.
This new book brings together his hundred most iconic photographs, including portraits of Georg Baselitz, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Gilbert & Georges, Keith Haring, Panamarenko, Bill Viola, John Cale, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Juliette Gréco, Michael Stipe, and Peter Greenaway. Each portrait is accompanied by a poetic narrative by Didier Arnaudet, in an intuitive layout.
Cécile Plaisance is a French contemporary artist renowned for her pop, glamorous, and provocative visual universe. Her monumental lenticular works play with movement, revelation, and transformation depending on the viewing angle. She explores themes of femininity, desire, and women’s freedom. Her creations combine humor, sensuality, and social critique while maintaining a strong aesthetic dimension. In particular, she questions the hyper-sexualisation of the female body and the contradictions of contemporary society. Cécile Plaisance exhibits internationally, from Paris to Miami, London to Las Vegas, Venice to Los Angeles.
Text in English and French.
Copenhagen is a city of contrasts. Historic yet forward-looking, understated yet influential, intimate yet internationally admired. Over the past decades, the Danish capital has emerged as a global reference point for design, gastronomy, architecture, fashion, and urban living. From iconic landmarks and innovative neighborhoods to celebrated restaurants, independent boutiques, harbor baths, and cultural institutions, this book explores the many facets of contemporary Copenhagen. Through the people, places, and ideas that shape the city today, it offers a portrait of a destination whose influence extends far beyond its modest size.
The Craft of Baking in Copenhagen is a journey into one of the world’s most vibrant baking cultures. Across 16 of the city’s most acclaimed bakeries, this book captures the essence of a craft where tradition meets relentless innovation. Through evocative photography and intimate texts, we step inside the ovens, the early mornings, and the quiet precision behind each loaf and pastry. From perfectly laminated croissants to deeply fermented sourdoughs, Copenhagen’s bakers have redefined what modern baking can be—rooted in Nordic ingredients, driven by technique, and shaped by a distinct sense of style. More than a collection of bakeries, this is a portrait of a city where baking has become culture. A place where flavor, craftsmanship, and aesthetic refinement come together in every detail. For those who care about what they eat—and how it is made—this book offers a rare and inspiring look at the craft of baking in Copenhagen.
Spanning grand movie palaces, beloved neighborhood cinemas, and contemporary multiplexes, Thomas Schiff’s photographic survey celebrates the enduring role of movie theaters in American public life. Using his signature panoramic camera, Schiff captures these buildings as vital civic spaces whose architecture reflects the communities they serve. Rather than documenting decline, the book highlights theaters that remain active in new and evolving ways—whether as cinemas, repurposed live performance venues, or cherished landmarks preserved through local advocacy. An introductory essay by film historian Ross Melnick explores the cultural history of the American movie theater, while a foreword by Barbara Miller of Museum of the Moving Image considers their lasting significance as places of collective experience. Together, text and images offer a compelling portrait of movie theaters as enduring centers of community, memory, and shared cultural life.
From 1880 onward, Claude Monet sought out storm lashed cliffs, desolate coastlines and fierce weather in Bordighera, Antibes, Belle Île, the Creuse Valley and Norway. In his works from these places, nature emerges as a dramatic encounter between sky, sea and rock. At the same time, the artist shaped his own counterpoint to these landscapes: the garden at Giverny, which from around 1890 became his principal motif, where he tamed water, plants and light according to his own and his era’s ideals.
At first glance, the cliff scenes and the paintings from his own garden appear to be opposites, yet Monet – The Wild and the Tamed shows how the apparent divide between chaos and control is constantly challenged in the works from the last forty years of the artist’s career. In the powerful coastal scenes, Monet’s compositional eye acts as a quiet, ordering force, while the wild continually threatens the garden’s fragile harmony in the pictures from Giverny – not least in the final years, when his brushwork grew increasingly dissolved, intense and unsettled.
This catalog, with texts by the exhibition’s curator Richard Thomson and by Stephen Eisenman, André Dombrowski, Øystein Sjåstad and Clare Willsdon, offers a new and multifaceted portrait of Claude Monet: an artist who throughout his late production questioned, reshaped and shifted the boundaries between the organic and the constructed.
Along the sensational path that Napoleon carved for himself through history runs another, more hidden trail. Upon it stand the women who accompanied the emperor for part of the way, on the margins of his extraordinary life.
Most legendary is Joséphine de Beauharnais, his first wife and the love of his life. But Empress Joséphine had to make way for Napoleon’s political marriage to Marie-Louise of Austria, who bore him an heir to the throne. In addition, Napoleon had countless mistresses and fathered several illegitimate children. Not infrequently, his sexual escapades carried a political undertone.
All of these women were, in their own way, of exceptional importance. They helped shape the grand narrative. Thus, the saga of Napoleon is also one of princesses and maîtresses, of emotions and desires—matters of the heart. Although in his heart there was often more room for grand ideals and political ambitions. Did Napoleon truly have a heart?
In his inimitable style, master storyteller and eminent Napoleon expert Johan Op de Beeck lays bare the extravagant love life of the French emperor. This gripping story, steeped in turbulent passion and political intrigue, offers an illuminating portrait of Napoleon, one of history’s most important figures.
Lord Burlington (1694–1753), the tastemaker who defined the Georgian age, was the epitome of an eighteenth-century aristocrat. Having become 3rd Earl of Burlington at the age of nine, Richard Boyle’s world encompassed friendships with the leading literary figures of his time, a Grand Tour and the collecting of art and antiquities, as well as revelry and scandal at court. He is most famous, though, for his immense contribution to English architecture, not only as a patron and pundit but an architect, many of whose drawings now survive at Chatsworth House. Burlington played a key role in the transition from the Baroque to Palladianism, helping to transform the country’s architecture and shape many of its most celebrated buildings. His influence is still seen and felt today.
Offering a comprehensive reassessment of Burlington’s life and designs, Alexander Echlin’s Lord Burlington: The Earl Who Shaped Georgian Architecture considers his work and legacy afresh, shining new light on the decline of the Baroque and the emergence of the Palladian Revival. Lord Burlington is hereby restored to the forefront of English culture and art in the eighteenth century, emerging at last as a fascinating, rounded individual, in contrast to the stilted portrait all too often presented in the past.