Art, Photography & Fashion

In 2017 the Salvator Mundi was sold at auction for $450m. But is it a real da Vinci? In a thrilling narrative built on formidable research, Ben Lewis tracks the extraordinary journey of a masterpiece lost and found, lied and fought over across the centuries.

The events of the past few years, from 9/11 to the South Asian tsunami disaster, have once again shown us that despite round-the-clock news coverage, the Internet and multi-channel cable TV, the still image is as powerful as ever. Photography remains the ideal medium for capturing all aspects of human ...

Attend this on-the-page digital photography school . . . and become a better photographer Created by an editor for Practical Photography magazine, How to Shoot Like a Pro offers a unique photography course that's designed for both beginners and experts. Illustrated with more than 400 photographs, it ...

Delve into Warhol's cherished personal collections, published together here for the first time, and discover how truly unique he was Andy Warhol (1928-1987) remains an icon of the 20th century and a leading figure in the Pop Art movement. He also was an obsessive collector of things large and small, ...

A career guide for fashion designers and professionals, covering everything they need to know about building a successful business after graduating.

Seek out a marine graveyard in Brittany, a spectacular former coal mine inGermany s Ruhr basin, an abandoned hospital complex in Poland, ghostlyplaster figures installed at a dilapidated church in the Czech Republic, closed-down prisons and asylums, deserted factories... Since the resounding success ...

Delve into Warhol's cherished personal collections, published together here for the first time, and discover how truly unique he was Andy Warhol (1928-1987) remains an icon of the 20th century and a leading figure in the Pop Art movement. He also was an obsessive collector of things large and small, ...

Hugely popular illustrator Mel Elliott helps you unleash your inner creativity on today's pop icons, with techniques including drawing, colouring, collage and text manipulation.

Gorgeous artwork allows you to create your own vision and add your own splash of color to this exploration of our amazing world. Includes inspirational quotes beside the art, as well as perforated pages so you can share your creations with the world.

Collected essays honoring the work of British professors Carole and Robert Hillenbrand. Carole and Robert Hillenbrand are legendary British professors, both of whom have made immense contributions to the fields of Islamic history and art history, and they are highly respected and beloved by the academic ...

This visual history of photography from its inception to the present day is a treasure trove of 400 color and black-and-white images, carefully sequenced and profoundly evocative.

Beautiful, haunting photographs of abandoned places around the world. Once thriving buildings now ravaged by nature and time are the subject of this fascinating, coffee table book.

Bordeaux is not only the name of a worldwide, high-quality wine terroir, it has long been the center city of the countryside of France. A magnificent place founded in the third century B.C., Bordeaux boasts several golden periods of development, including its meteoric rise in the eighteeth century as ...

A fundamental reevaluation of how the Nazi past shaped postwar German art
and architecture. Paul B. Jaskot fundamentally reevaluates pivotal developments in postwar German art and architecture against the backdrop of
contentious contemporary debates over the Nazi past and the difficulty of determining who was or was not a Nazi perpetrator.

This illustrated monograph looks at the multimedia work of Jitish Kallat, one of India's most prominent and irreverent young artists.

In the spirit of Richard Avedon, this book contains striking photographic portraits of 10,000 people from across the US, bringing readers face to face with LGBTQ America.

The Art of Vintage is a fascinating insight into the mystique, the art and the history surrounding twenty legendary vintage champagnes produced by Perrier-Jouet champagne.

Gives you sketch ideas and allows you to fill in the contents yourself.

The versatility and flexibility of digital camcorders gives everyone the opportunity to make great films and videos. Containing hundreds of colour images and easily comprehensible diagrams, this book provides an essential port of call for anyone looking to make their first video, or take their production to a new level of expertise.

Offers subject-specific advice from five professionals that specialize in portrait photography. This title includes chapters that cover working with people, composition, posing, indoor and outdoor lighting techniques and wedding photography as well as key Photoshop processes and printing tips.