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| Wednesday, October 28, 2009 | |
 | "The Modern Wing" by James Cuno, Joseph Rosa, Paul Goldberger, Judith Turner This handsome book examines the remarkable new addition to the Art Institute of Chicago, designed by Renzo Piano and scheduled to open in May 2009. This expansion to the Art Institute of Chicago, already one of the largest museums in the country, will provide new galleries for modern and contemporary painting and sculpture, as well as for photography, film and video, and architecture and design. The structure is Piano’s largest art museum building to date. (view more...) |
| Friday, October 23, 2009 | |
 | "Earth on Fire" by Bernhard Edmaier, Phillip Strand This stunning collection of photographs from Bernhard Edmaier showcases the world's most dramatic and beautiful volcanic landscapes. Divided into five chapters by tectonic plate region, this book includes geothermal regions in Europe, the Americas, Africa, New Zealand, the Indian Ocean and the Caribbean; famous volcanoes such as Mount St. Helens in the USA, Etna in Italy, Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and Krakatoa in Indonesia are just a few of the sites highlighted. "Earth on Fire" features images of a wide variety of phenomena - from hot flowing lava and towering columns of smoke and ash to lakes, islands and mountain ranges - that are the result of volcanic activity, accompanied by clear, accessible texts explaining key details and events.(view more...) |
| Friday, October 16, 2009 | |
 | "A Photographer's Life: 1990-2005" by Annie Leibovitz "I don’t have two lives," Annie Leibovitz writes in the Introduction to this collection of her work from 1990 to 2005. "This is one life, and the personal pictures and the assignment work are all part of it." Portraits of well-known figures–Johnny Cash, Nicole Kidman, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Keith Richards, Michael Jordan, Joan Didion, R2-D2, Patti Smith, Nelson Mandela, Jack Nicholson, and William Burroughs–appear alongside pictures of Leibovitz’s family and friends, reportage from the siege of Sarajevo in the early Nineties, and landscapes. The pictures form a narrative of a life rich in contrasts and continuities. The photographer has a long relationship that ends with illness and death. She chronicles the celebrations and heartbreaks of her large and robust family. She has children of her own. All the while, she is working, and the public work resonates with the themes of the life.(view more...) |
| Monday, October 12, 2009 | |
 | "World in Vogue: Parties, People, Places" by Plum Sykes, Hamish Bowles This one-of-a-kind book of 300 photographs of some of the most celebrated actors, artists, models, First Ladies, and social figures draws on stories that have appeared in the pages of Vogue over the past four decades, as well as photographs from those stories that have never been published. These trendsetters and newsmakers are captured by such famous photographers as Cecil Beaton, Jonathan Becker, Eric Boman, Horst P. Horst, Edward Steichen, Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, François Halard, Helmut Newton, Stephen Meisel, Snowdon, Toni Frissell, Bruce Weber, Herb Ritts, and Annie Leibovitz. Not only did these photographers take dazzling portraits—in studios or on location—that caught these iconic figures in classic, playful, or dramatic moments but they also documented their parties, weddings, houses, and gardens. (view more...) |
| Monday, October 05, 2009 | |
 | "The Secret Lives of Buildings" by Edward Hollis A strikingly original, beautifully narrated history of Western architecture and the cultural transformations that it represents Concrete, marble, steel, brick: little else made by human hands seems as stable, as immutable, as a building. Yet the life of any structure is neither fixed nor timeless. Outliving their original contexts and purposes, buildings are forced to adapt to each succeeding age. To survive, they must become shape-shifters. In an inspired refashioning of architectural history, Edward Hollis recounts more than a dozen stories of such metamorphosis, highlighting the way in which even the most familiar structures all change over time into "something rich and strange."(view more...) |
| Thursday, October 01, 2009 | |
 | "Hue" by Kelly Wearstler, Steve Crist Kelly Wearstler is the ultimate trendsetter in interior design. "Untitled", by Kelly Wearstler builds upon the success of her first monograph, Modern Glamour and includes recent, unpublished projects, including her home in Beverly Hills, celebrity residential projects as well as some of her latest hotel projects. Untitled celebrates the power of color in Kelly's work and the possibilities of color in interior design and decorating. A must-have for amateurs and professionals seeking design inspiration Americas top interior designer.(view more...) |
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