When Benedikt Taschen asked the most important portrait photographer working today, Annie Leibovitz, to collect her pictures in a SUMO-sized book, she was intrigued by the challenge. The project took several years to develop and when it was finally published in 2014, it weighed in at 26 kg (57 pounds)....

Vanity Fair: Oscar Night Sessions presents 10 years of luminous photographic portraits of Hollywood celebrities who attended the most exclusive and glamorous after-party of the year in a gorgeous volume....

Russell \\\"Russ\\\" Melcher came to Europe and photographed the superstars of the time, either during their visits to Paris and France or accompanied them on worldwide trips. He witnessed many world events from film festivals to terrorist attacks....

Sebastiao Salgado on the traces of the indigenous peoples of the Amazon rainforest Sebastiao Salgado traveled the Brazilian Amazon and photographed the unparalleled beauty of this extraordinary region for six years: the forest, the rivers, the mountains, the people who live there—an irreplaceable treasure of humanity....

A fifty-five-year history of life and love This is a photographic love story tracing the fifty-five years of collaboration, partnership and history of Helmut and June Newton. First published in 1998, their legendary joint project?Us and Them?was presented in book form and accompanying exhibitions....

A photographic homage to our planet “In Genesis, my camera allowed nature to speak to me. And it was my privilege to listen.” — Sebastiao Salgado On a very fortuitous day in 1970, 26-year-old Sebastiao Salgado held a camera for the first time. When he looked through the viewfinder, he experienced a revelation: suddenly life made sense....

The Colors of Life transports readers through the lens of autochromes and paget plates - from the infancy of early color photographic processes - and enhances detail and definition and dynamic range to create a startlingly new way to connect to the past....

Magnum photographer Steve McCurry’s Afghanistan retrospective Afghanistan has long been a country overwhelmed by tribal rivalries, colonial wars, and geo-political conflict. The Afghans have called their mountains “the land of rebellion,” a land that has not been successfully occupied since the times of Alexander the Great....

Born in 1926, married in 1947, crowned as Queen in 1953, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II carried out her duty with great dedication for more than seven decades. Taschen celebrates her remarkable royal story with a new edition of Her Majesty, a definitive photographic collection of her public and private life....

In I Love You, Mario Testino presents a celebration of weddings. A beginning in life -that is also a culmination and a public promise - captured by a unique photographic point of view which shows beauty not only in emotion and tradition, but in the complete intimacy of shared joy....

The companion volume to Peter Lindbergh’s first self-curated exhibition The first-ever exhibition curated by Peter Lindbergh himself, shortly before his untimely death, Untold Stories at the Dusseldorf Kunstpalast served as a blank canvas for the photographer’s unrestrained vision and creativity....

Helmut Newton (1920-2004) always showed a healthy disdain for the easy or predictable, so it\"s no surprise that the Sumo was an irresistible project....

Castles and fortresses of medieval Europe Follow photographer Frederic Chaubin as he embarks on a unique, century-spanning journey through Europe. Featuring images of more than 200 buildings in 21 countries, Stone Age presents the history and architecture of the most dramatic medieval castles of the continent in an unprecedented collection....

Journey back to early 20th-century Italy \\\"You may have the universe,\\\" composer Giuseppe Verdi once said, \\\"if I can have Italy.\\\" Back in the mid-19th century, Verdi\"s emotive language appealed to the patriotic sentiments of an emergent nation state....

Michael O’Neill’s meditation on the essence of yoga It’s taken yoga several thousand years to journey from a handful of monasteries dotting the Himalayas to the myriad studios of London, Lower Manhattan, and beyond....