Search Results: Fashion from Pellbooks

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Rizzoli Intl Pubns, 1991. Like new condition in oversized black cloth hardcover and thick double folded photographic dustjacket. Clean and crisp, no inscriptions or flaws. Tiny bit of wear to the dj else in As New condition. A study of fashion photography since 1945 which places it in the mainstream of popular culture. It links fashion to such influential figures as Walker Evans and Robert Frank, and its implications transcend purely photographic history. Martin Harrison explores the role of magazine culture and the influences of art directors and editors, who have both created and reflected the mood and tones of the post-war decades. With the participation of the greatest figures in the field, from Richard Avedon and Irving Penn to Bruce Weber, he presents some of the most famous fashion photographs of all time, as well as many rare images. The involvement of artists such as Cindy Sherman and Robert Mapplethorpe is also examined, whose work is peripheral to the fashion… Read More

Grey Gallery Grey Art Gallery, New York, 2000. Illustrated large trade Paperback. in Fine condition/"Looking at images of women's faces - one after another - we see how the production and use of makeup illuminates some of the social and aesthetic changes that have taken place over the past century. Shiseido - a global cosmetics corporation that is world-renowned for its design innovations - provides a powerful lens. From its beginnings as a Western-style pharmacy in Tokyo in 1872, Shiseido has played an unprecedented role in the culture of Japan and in the lives of Japanese women.'Lavishly illustrated.. Fine as New.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Editions Assouline, 2000. Fine as new copy in embossed red cloth Hardcover without dj as issued. Violent, mystical, powerful, hot, sensual and sophisticated, red is the color, and this book celebrates it in its various incarnations in religion, fashion, design, medicine, architecture and contemporary art. See how red has been influential to Fellini and Kurosawa, James Turell, Picasso and Caravaggio. Witness the violent red of Andy Warhol or Cindy Sherman. The red of Buddhist rituals. The sophisticated red of geishas and lacquer, of Barragan and Villa Malaparte. The aggressive red of bordellos, lingerie, Nan Goldin and Barbara Kruger. The shocking red of bullfights. Linked in our imagination with the forbidden and the taboo, red provokes, fascinates, repulses and attracts, but never leaves indifferent. First Edition. Fine.