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Louis Vuitton's monogrammed bags have been seen on the arms of celebrities and royals alike for over 150 years. From the young Louis seeking his fortune in Paris through to two world wars, the Great Depression, the Jazz Age and the Swinging Sixties, there is no era in which this most opulent of brands hasn't thrived.

Detailing the global expansion of Louis Vuitton in the 1980s, the creation of the powerful fashion conglomerate LVMH, and the appointment in 1997 of Marc Jacobs, this is the story of a transformation from luggage company to high-fashion label. Louis Vuitton's continued evolution under the creative direction of Nicolas Ghesquière and Virgil Abloh is also depicted through fabulous images and captivating text.

A visual history of the world’s magic megalopolis

Walt Disney dreamed for decades about opening the ultimate entertainment venue, but it wasn’t until the early 1950s that his handpicked team began to bring his vision to life. Together, artists, architects, and engineers transformed a dusty tract of orange groves about an hour south of Los Angeles into one of the world’s most beloved destinations.
Today, there are Disney resorts from Paris to Shanghai, but the original Disneyland in Anaheim, California, which has been visited by more than 800 million people to-date, remains one of America’s most popular attractions. From the day it opened on July 17, 1955, Disneyland brought history and fairy tales to life, the future into the present, and exciting cultures and galaxies unknown to our imaginations.
This intruiging visual history draws on Disney’s vast historical collections, private archives, and the golden age of photojournalism to provide unique access to the concept, development, launch, and enjoyment of this sun-drenched oasis of fun and fantasy. Disneyland documents Walt’s earliest inspirations and ideas, the park’s extraordinary feats of design and engineering, and each of its immersive “lands” from Main Street, U.S.A., to Tomorrowland. It is a treasure trove of original Disney documentation and expertise, with award-winning writer Chris Nichols drawing on his extensive knowledge of both Disneyland and Southern California history to reveal the fascinating tale of “the happiest place on Earth.”

Визуальная история волшебного мегаполиса мира

Уолт Дисней десятилетиями мечтал об открытии идеального развлекательного заведения, но только в начале 1950-х годов его тщательно отобранная команда начала воплощать свое видение в жизнь. Вместе художники, архитекторы и инженеры превратили пыльный участок апельсиновых рощ примерно в часе езды к югу от Лос-Анджелеса в одно из самых любимых мест в мире .
Сегодня курорты Диснея есть от Парижа до Шанхая, но оригинальный Диснейленд в Анахайме, Калифорния , который на сегодняшний день посетили более 800 миллионов человек , остается одним из самых популярных аттракционов Америки . С того дня, как он открылся 17 июля 1955 года, Диснейленд оживил историю и сказки, будущее в настоящее и захватывающие культуры и галактики, неизвестные нашему воображению.
Эта интригующая визуальная история опирается на обширные исторические коллекции Disney, частные архивы и золотой век фотожурналистики, чтобы предоставить уникальный доступ к концепции, разработке, запуску и наслаждению этим залитым солнцем оазисом веселья и фантазии. Диснейленд документирует самые ранние вдохновения и идеи Уолта , необычайные подвиги дизайна и инженерии парка и каждую из его захватывающих «земель» от Мэйн-стрит, США, до Tomorrowland. Это сокровищница оригинальной документации и опыта Disney, а отмеченный наградами писатель Крис Николс использует свои обширные знания как истории Диснейленда, так и Южной Калифорнии, чтобы раскрыть захватывающую историю «самого счастливого места на Земле».

Абсолютный вечный фаворит — теперь в новом формате по очень привлекательной цене! Одно из самых успешных автомобильных изданий последнего десятилетия, Porsche 911 Book прославляет уникальную историю спортивного автомобиля с момента его презентации на IAA 1963 года и до наших дней.

Особая фотографическая техника Рене Штауда выходит далеко за рамки простых иллюстраций — он выставляет напоказ каждое транспортное средство, акцентирует внимание на деталях, восхищается неповторимым языком дизайна интерьера и экстерьера.

A good street photographer must be possessed of many talents: an eye for detail, light, and composition; impeccable timing; a populist or humanitarian outlook; and a tireless ability to constantly shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot and never miss a moment. It is hard enough to find these qualities in trained photographers with the benefit of schooling and mentors and a community of fellow artists and aficionados supporting and rewarding their efforts. It is incredibly rare to find it in someone with no formal training and no network of peers.

Yet Vivian Maier is all of these things, a professional nanny, who from the 1950s until the 1990s took over 100,000 photographs worldwide—from France to New York City to Chicago and dozens of other countries—and yet showed the results to no one. The photos are amazing both for the breadth of the work and for the high quality of the humorous, moving, beautiful, and raw images of all facets of city life in America’s post-war golden age.

It wasn’t until local historian John Maloof purchased a box of Maier’s negatives from a Chicago auction house and began collecting and championing her marvelous work just a few years ago that any of it saw the light of day. Presented here for the first time in print, Vivian Maier: Street Photographer collects the best of her incredible, unseen body of work.

Хороший уличный фотограф должен обладать многими талантами: вниманием к деталям, свету и композиции; безупречный тайминг; популистский или гуманитарный взгляд; и неутомимая способность постоянно стрелять, стрелять, стрелять, стрелять и никогда не упускать момент. Достаточно сложно найти эти качества у обученных фотографов, имеющих образование, наставников и сообщество коллег-художников и поклонников, поддерживающих и вознаграждающих их усилия. Невероятно редко можно встретить это у человека, не имеющего формального образования и сети сверстников.

Тем не менее, Вивиан Майер — профессиональная няня, которая с 1950-х по 1990-е годы сделала более 100 000 фотографий по всему миру — от Франции до Нью-Йорка, Чикаго и десятков других стран — и, тем не менее, никому не показала результаты. Фотографии поражают как широтой работы, так и высоким качеством юмористических, трогательных, красивых и необработанных изображений всех сторон городской жизни послевоенного золотого века Америки.

И только несколько лет назад местный историк Джон Малуф купил коробку негативов Майер на аукционе в Чикаго и начал собирать и защищать ее чудесные работы, все из них увидели свет. Представленная здесь впервые в печати книга «Вивиан Майер: уличный фотограф» собирает лучшие из своих невероятных, ранее невиданных работ.

In 2016, sportswear manufacturer Nike and fashion designer Virgil Abloh joined forces to create a sneaker collection celebrating 10 of the Oregon-based company’s most iconic shoes. With their project The Ten—which reimagined icons like Air Jordan 1, Air Max 90, Air Force 1, and Air Presto, among others—they reinvigorated sneaker culture.

Virgil Abloh’s designs offer deep insights into engineering ingenuity and burst with cultural cachet. Drawing on the genius of the original shoe using lettering, ironic labels, collage, and sculpting techniques, Abloh played with language and sculptural elements to construct new meaning. Inspired by the wit of Dadaism, architectural theory, and avant-garde happenings, he analyzed what makes each shoe iconic and deconstructed it into an artistic assemblage, making each shoe into a piece of industrial design, a readymade sculpture, and a wearable all at once.

ICONS traces Abloh’s investigative, creative process through documentation of the prototypes, original text messages from Abloh to Nike designers, and treasures from the Nike archives. We find Swooshes sliced away from Air Jordans and reapplied with tape or thread, Abloh’s typical text fragments in quotation marks on Air Force 1, and All Stars cut into pieces. We take a look behind the scenes and witness Abloh’s DIY approach, which gave each model in the Off-WhiteTM c/o Nike collection its own unique touch. His deconstructive vocabulary is reflected in the Swiss binding, which showcases an open spine and discloses the production of the book.

The book documents Abloh’s cooperative way of working and reaffirms the power of print. For its design Nike and Abloh partnered with the acclaimed London-based design studio Zak Group. Together they conceived a two-part compendium, equal parts catalog and conceptual toolbox. The first part of the book presents a visual culture of sneakers while a lexicon in the second part defines the key people, places, objects, ideas, materials, and scenes from which the project grew. Texts by Nike’s Nicholas Schonberger, writer Troy Patterson, curator and historian Glenn Adamson, and Virgil Abloh himself frame the collaborative work within fashion and design history. A foreword by Hiroshi Fujiwara places the project within the historical continuum of Nike collaborators.

To explore the Tarot is to explore ourselves, to be reminded of the universality of our longing for meaning, for purpose and for a connection to the divine. This 600-year-old tradition reflects not only a history of seekers, but our journey of artistic expression and the ways we communicate our collective human story.

For many in the West, Tarot exists in the shadow place of our cultural consciousness, a metaphysical tradition assigned to the dusty glass cabinets of the arcane. Its history, long and obscure, has been passed down through secret writing, oral tradition, and the scholarly tomes of philosophers and sages. Hundreds of years and hundreds of creative hands—mystics and artists often working in collaboration—have transformed what was essentially a parlor game into a source of divination and system of self-exploration, as each new generation has sought to evolve the form and reinterpret the medium.

Author Jessica Hundley traces this fascinating history in Tarot, the debut volume in TASCHEN’s Library of Esoterica series. The book explores the symbolic meaning behind more than 500 cards and works of original art, two thirds of which have never been published outside of the decks themselves. It's the first ever visual compendium of its kind, spanning from Medieval to modern, and artfully arranged according to the sequencing of the 78 cards of the Major and Minor Arcana. It explores the powerful influence of Tarot as muse to artists like Salvador Dalí and Niki de Saint Phalle and includes the decks of nearly 100 diverse contemporary artists from around the world, all of whom have embraced the medium for its capacity to push cultural identity forward. Rounding out the volume are excerpts from thinkers such as Éliphas Lévi, Carl Jung, and Joseph Campbell; a foreword by artist Penny Slinger; a guide to reading the cards by Johannes Fiebig; and an essay on oracle decks by Marcella Kroll.

About the series

The Library of Esoterica explores how centuries of artists have given form to mysticism, translating the arcane and the obscure into enduring, visionary works of art. Each subject is showcased through both modern and archival imagery culled from private collectors, libraries, and museums around the globe. The result forms an inclusive visual history, a study of our primal pull to dream and nightmare, and the creative ways we strive to connect to the divine.