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Joseph Szabo: Teenage 3 reviews
Greybull Press, 2003
Timeless Teenagers
+ 80's student from Malverne High + A True Classic
Anyone who has ever been a teenager will want to own this remarkable book. Joseph Szabo's photographs capture the angst, the defiance, the vulnerability and the joy of adolescence in breathtaking black and white reality. All the memories of that pivotal period, tempered by the kindness of time, ...
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WonderWall - Masamichi Katayama 1 review Shigekazu Ohno
Birkhäuser Basel, 2003
Amazing architecture and photography
This is one of the best books in my collection. The first section is devoted to BAPE stores and has some great photos and explanations.
If you like architecture, graffitti, or fashion books you should definitely buy this.
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Suburbia 6 reviews Bill Owens
Fotofolio, 1999
1999 Edition Lives Up to Its Claim of "New & Improved"
+ 1st person account + Looking through the picture window. + Welcome Back , Suburbia! + Welcome Back , Suburbia!
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Looking At Los Angeles 3 reviews Jane Brown, Craig Krull
Metropolis Books, 2005
Getting to Know LA: Los Angeles Time Capsule
+ For those who love LA + Stretch city
Nice time captures of LA images.
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Paper Rad, B.J. And Da Dogs 2 reviews Ben Jones, Paper Rad
PictureBox, 2005
Style and Substance combine to make delicious pancakes
+ SHIT ALERT
They gots comic cred, art cred, now they puttin out books. Glorious, mind bafflin books. Books to read books. By read, I mean devour. The humor, the characters, the colors, the composition of page and panel. Full course meal right there. Seriously.
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Tokyo Nobody 2 reviews Masataka Nakano
Trucatriche, 2000
An underground beauty
+ =Another must have reference resource.=
I was fortunate enough to come across a copy of this book in the stacks at a large NYC bookstore and snapped it up after leafing through just a few pages. This book is a body of work of about 70 color photographs of places in and around Tokyo. They are of architectural subjects and are unique in ...
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The Stanley Kubrick Archives 39 reviews
Taschen, 2005
Not $600+. $44 !
+ For Loyal Fans Only + A reminder for those who wants this new print. + Excellent book + KUBRICK - THE CONSUMATE ARTIST!
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Stephen Shore: American Surfaces 3 reviews Stephen Shore
Phaidon Press, 2005
Helping us See Again...Beyond Critiques of American Consumer Fetishism
+ Excellent, beautiful book!
I loved this book, partly because I love this photographer's eye. Are the pictures documentary? Sure. Are they wry? Often, though not always. They are beautiful in the most strange, farfetched, formal aesthetic sense (shapes, colors, imaginary visual lines). That about sums it up. Stephan Shore's ...
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Bill Henson: Lux et Nox 7 reviews Bill Henson, Dennis Cooper
Scalo Publishers, 2002
It's "Sumptuous," "Captivating," Etc.; Furthermore, It Complements "Mnemosyne"
+ Lux et Nox, Bill Henson + Land of Soft Nox + A rare find. + Splendid book that frames a master of photography
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Casa Susanna 6 reviews
powerHouse Books, 2005
A historical first
+ The better half + Lovely book + Those were the days
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Alphonse Mucha 7 reviews Sarah Mucha
Frances Lincoln, 2006
Can't get better than this.
+ The Joy of Mucha + Mucha the great, in print!!!! + Spectacular + Good, but wish I had my book from prague
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Magnum Stories 4 reviews Chris Boot
Phaidon Press, 2004
Stories -- get to know them better
+ Brilliant Anthology Of Decisive Moments + Fascinating
This book is not your usual photo book -- it's real value and what makes it different is the stories inside. Inside, 61 Magnum photographers have written 2-page story about themselves, about why they take pictures, how they work etc. As the book also features photos and/or photo story from each ...
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U&lc : Influencing Design & Typography 6 reviews
Mark Batty Publisher, 2005
A MARVELOUS LOOK BACK!
+ U&lc: when art and design were excellent + Next best thing to original U&lc magazine + Good for you + Incredible
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Tokyo: A Certain Style 25 reviews Kyoichi Tsuzuki
Chronicle Books, 1999
How the others live
+ REAL Japanese living + Another great coffeetable book. + Niice
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Kusama Yayoi Robert Nickas
Steidl Verlag, 2000
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Marc Joseph: American Pitbull 36 reviews Cory Reynolds
Steidl, 2003
Wonderful Book
I read some of the reviews and was a little hesitant to get it, but I am glad I did. I am devoted to the breed and have been for over 10 years, I've owned rescue Bull Dogs and have purchased pups from breeders too. I do everything I can to portray and present these dogs as the family and companion ...
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Marcel Dzama: Welcome to Winnipeg 2 reviews Marcel Dzama
Rizziero Arte, 2004
A Gem
A beautifully put together book. Quality printing on quality paper (the Italians don't pinch pennies). The book contains reproductions of paintings and sketchbook pages. Seeing the swirling creativity of the sketchbook pages gives one a fresh sense of the mind from which the paintings spring. If ...
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Leisure 2 reviews Bill Owens, Sofia Coppola, ...
Fotofolio, 2005
Wonderfully amusing collection of images
+ Free time folk
I saw a collection of Bill Owens images from this book at the ICP a while back. All of the images were wonderfully amusing tales of what folk do for leisure. After seeing the collection, I had to purchase the book and was pleasantly suprised by the book's production quality and the wide range of ...
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Dos Logos 21 reviews
Gestalten Verlag, 2004
many examples of different logos for graphic design
+ LOGOS + Dos Logos + Designer focused
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Leisure 2 reviews Bill Owens, Sofia Coppola, ...
Fotofolio, 2005
Wonderfully amusing collection of images
+ Free time folk
I saw a collection of Bill Owens images from this book at the ICP a while back. All of the images were wonderfully amusing tales of what folk do for leisure. After seeing the collection, I had to purchase the book and was pleasantly suprised by the book's production quality and the wide range of ...
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