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There are few things more rewarding than having a pet. They love us unconditionally, shower us with attention, and actually help us live longer. So, what can possibly be awkward about our animal BFFs? Well ...nothing. In fact, we're the awkward ones. We adore our pets but let's face it - sometimes L...

The celebrated photographer Annie Leibovitz, author of the New York Times bestselling book A Photographer's Life, provides the stories, and technical description, of how some of her most famous images came to be. “The first thing I did with my very first camera was climb Mt. Fuji. Climbin...

A two-sided photographic tour of the world of modern American burlesque and fetish includes in the first part a cultural history of burlesque complemented by the author's provocative tips on erotic fashion and sensuality, and in the second part a photographic celebration of fetish style.

Legendary American photographer Jim Marshall has documented the world's greatest musicians since the late Fifties. His unique style and fearless approach gained him unlimited access to everyone from Miles Davis to Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan and The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones, The Who and ...

Photographer Andrew Zuckerman has captured the voices, physical presence and the written word of 60 iconic over 65-year olds to create profound, honest, and truly revealing portraits. The resulting books and film provide an extraordinary legacy for the generations that follow and timeless portraits ...

Some call it the American obsession, but men everywhere recognize the hypnotic allure of a large and shapely breast. In "The Big Book of Breasts", Dian Hanson explores the origins of mammary madness through three decades of natural big-breasted nudes. Starting with the World War II Bosom-M...

From Marilyn Monroe to Cindy Crawford, Linda Evans to Farrah Fawcett, "Playboy" has celebrated the sensuality (and even launched a few careers) of celebrities for more than fifty years. Here, in all their glory, are over 150 breathtaking photographs of the magazine's most famous heavenly b...

The SuicideGirls adult-entertainment website mixes the edginess and attitude of the best alternative music and culture sites with an unapologetic, grassroots approach to sexuality. It is 'empowered erotica', in which women outside of mainstream culture showcase their unique personal styles on their ...

Renowned photographer, Bryan Peterson shows how to successfully take portrait shots that speak volumes - at any moment, any place. Peterson's approach explains what makes a photo memorable and how to use lighting, setting and exposure to reveal the wonder and the joy of everyday moments. Bryan Peter...

Do blondes have more fun? Back in the golden years of Playboy magazine, it seems like all the bunnies had more fun - building sandcastles in the buff, romping on tiger skin rugs or starting a mischievous pillow fight. From Playboy's classic archives comes a trilogy of pocket-sized volumes that celeb...

Hotel LaChapelle takes the reader another step deeper the shocking world of David LaChapelle. Each full-color page is, metaphorically, a room in a crazy hotel. Hotel LaChapelle is full of neon, sex, and strange people -- and the result is a beachy postcard from that nuns-with-guns place in the sun t...

Photographer Andrew Zuckerman has captured the voices, physical presence and the written word of 60 iconic over 65-year olds to create profound, honest, and truly revealing portraits. The resulting books and film provide an extraordinary legacy for the generations that follow and timeless portraits ...

Photographer Andrew Zuckerman has captured the voices, physical presence and the written word of 60 iconic over 65-year olds to create profound, honest, and truly revealing portraits. The resulting books and film provide an extraordinary legacy for the generations that follow and timeless portraits ...

A photographic celebration of the people of New Zealand by renowned photographer Brian Curtis. While there is a huge number of books around that showcase the many landscapes of our country, few have taken the opportunity to celebrate our people. Faces of New Zealand captures more than 100 images of ...

Be Seduced . . . An exclusive collection of never-published color photographs of beautiful stars captured in pinup style, including Gina Gershon, Kate Hudson, Susan Sarandon, Molly Sims, Vanessa Williams, and many more . . . In the 1980s, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the original V...

Jean Davidson's Harley-Davidson Family Album: 100 Years of the World's Greatest Motorcycle in Rare Photos. Harley-Davidson fans and motorcycle buffs are eager for inside family stories and photos of this all-American company. As the 100th anniversary of Harley-Davidson is celebrated in 2003-2004,...

For anyone who worships the male body or wants to know why others do (TASCHEN's 25th anniversary special edition) While the female nude has long played a concpicuous role in western iconography, the male nude has not always enjoyed such adoration. This collection provides an overdue review of materi...

Bettie Page sent the world for a cold shower when her first photo appeared

Published by Ngati Kahungunu Iwi Inc., and the National Library of New Zealand: Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa in association with Huia Publishers. This collection of remarkable photographic portraits of Ngati Kahungunu 1870-1906 by Samuel Carnell is accompanied by essays in English and Maori which p...

In this unique photobook, the Swedish photographer Gerth Sernelin treats us to three decades of erotic photography. Rarely has the beauty of the nude female body been so candidly documented. Constantly changing fashions are also evident in these photos. In the 1970s, most of the models still had lar...

With the first Centerfold, who just happened to be the radiant Marilyn Monroe, Hugh Hefner masterminded a cultural icon: Playboy's Playmate of the Month. Now, for the first time ever, Playboy has gathered together every Centerfold from every issue into one luxurious collector's edition. That's over ...

Through the influences of vanity, aging, and insecurities, many find fault with their own faces and few achieve their own notions of perfection. Yet, in the course of such self-criticism, most people take for granted their own ability to explore and employ the full range of facial expressions and th...

As part of his unique series of beauty books, also including Alex Box and Caroline Saulnier, photographer Rankin and makeup artist Ayami Nishimura present a revolutionary collection of beauty portraits. Ayami Nishimura is a beauty book unlike any other. Highlighting the talents of two forward thinke...

The authoritative and lovingly-crafted publication takes the reader on a nostalgic visual journey from Madonna's arrival in New York in the late 1970s to the lead-up to her latest album release, MDNA, in 2012, covering all her albums, tours, plays and films, and the occasional husband or boyfriend a...

Photographer Rankin and makeup artist Caroline Saulnier, two of the most respected practitioners of their respective professions, have come together to create a beauty book of unprecedented artistry. As part of Rankin's unique series of three beauty books, also including Alex Box and Ayami Nishimura...

Malcolm Venville's rare deluxe Mexican wrestling volume, now available in an accessible, popular format. Lucha Libre, or "free wrestling," is a cultural phenomenon--renowned not only for the wrestler's high-flying moves, but also for the mythology of their personas. These masked figures (a ritual da...

A treasure trove of pin-up girl images from photographer Bunny Yeager, celebrated for her playfully erotic photos of Bettie Page that continue to influence photography and fashion today. The only woman pin-up photographer of her day, Bunny Yeager was also a model in her own right. After winning seve...

For almost six decades, Elliott Erwitt has had a keen eye for the often-overlooked world of children. What has resulted is a wry, endearing, and often humorous vision that captures the joys and heartaches of childhood from the United States to Japan to Brazil. Here we see kids through the eyes and l...

Now in paperback, a volume of stunning photographs of 50 country music icons and intimate accounts of their thoughts on God, America, and their favorite songs.Award-winning photographer and author of "My Last Supper," Melanie Dunea traces the throughlines from country music's gritty roots to the cha...

Marilyn Monroe's status as one of the most recognisable icons of the twentieth century lives on, most recently in the Oscar-nominated film My Week with Marilyn. but the real Marilyn in many ways has remained a mystery. Her life has been pondered by everyone from film scholars and historians to novel...

An unheralded grandmothers' movement is changing the world. Insurgent grandmothers are using their power to fight for a better future for grandchildren everywhere. And they are succeeding. "Grandmother Power" profiles activist grandmothers in 15 countries on five continents who tell their compelling...

Photography is clearly not a mirror of daily life: that images are constructions is especially obvious in19th-century studio portrait photography. This book explores how indigenous Iranian photographers constructed their own realities in contrast to how foreign photographers constructed Iranians' re...

'Farmers' presents eccentric portrait photography of Dutch farmers. Faces become mirrors of the past as they are captured in a dark and dramatic background.

Through Sarah Wong's beautiful, moving photographs and Ellen Visser's poignant writing, this book provides the first insight into what it really feels like to be born in the wrong body, both for cross gender children and their families. Over the course of seven years, Sarah Wong and Ellen de Visser ...

Vincent Mentzel is a Dutch photojournalist, who was knighted by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands in 2007 for his contributions to photography. Known for his portraits of eminent Dutch politicians and statesmen, he changed the face of Dutch political photography and is considered one of the great pho...

It was the amazing statistic which got Chris Steele-Perkins attention. There are 10,000 people aged over 100 in the UK and that number is growing rapidly. The Office of National Statistics predicts that 5% of the people alive today in the UK will live to be over 100. That is 3 million people. Howev...

On a day like this, I remember - I'm the President, but he's The Boss. President Obama, commenting on Bruce Springsteen, Kennedy Center awards ceremony, 2009. Before Bruce Springsteen became The Boss, he was just a kid musician from New Jersey, playing at the City's local stomping grounds and hawkin...

From school yearbooks to graduation day, photographs are essential keepsakes for special days and achievements. The Best of Teen and Senior Photography contains all the tips and tricks for capturing a portrait that will please both the teenager and their family. Featuring the artistry of top portrai...

This title contains over 160 iconic, rare, and previously unpublished images of The Who. Tracing their progress from sharp-suited mods to psychedelic stars and pioneers of the rock opera through images of the band on the road, recording TV shows, performing at Monterey and the Isle of Wight, and in ...

Fifty survivors of the Holocaust tell their stories in this unique compilation of text and superb portrait photographs of the survivors as they are now. Some endured concentration camps, some passed as non-Jews, some fled, and some fought in the underground. Mark Seliger's portraits movingly capture...