Erik Parker Colorful Resistance

The Bicycle in Nørrebro, a combination of photography and quirky writings will allow readers to see a place and a neighbourhood from a surprising, untraditional angle. The book conveys Jon’s subjective experience of Nørrebro (Copenhagen N) and of what it means to be part of such a complex neighbourhood through pictures of bicycles.   Form and content: The book is a photographic stream of consciousness containing pictures of bikes, riders and both strange and familiar bike situations taken over the last five years: Snapshots of children biking, bike repair shops, Nørrebro winters, bike polo, touring all the bike shops and bike repair shops in the neighbourhood, and much more. All captions are in Danish and English. Jon Nordstrøm: Jon Nordstrøm is a photographer/author. Since 2008, he has published four books – several of which have won awards and nominations: Danish Tattooing (2009), Sølvpil (2010), Nordic Tattooing (2011), Danish Porn (2012). 

Surfing’s formative period from 1965 to 1978, as shown through the most complete book of the iconic images of photographer John Witzig. Chronicling the great creative years in the evolution of surfing, the late 1960s and early ’70s, this engaging volume documents the revolutionary changes of the era—in board length, in surf style and technique—through the images of Australian photographer John Witzig. Witzig was not only photographing the scene, he was part of it, a group that included surfers Bob McTavish and George Greenough, and his images reflect both that access and that intimacy. In 1967, he created a firestorm of controversy with a Surfer cover story declaring that a core of young Australian surfers had redefined the sport, as evidenced by his friend Nat Young’s blazing win in the 1966 World Surfing championships. Witzig went on to capture the defining moments—the surfers, the draft-dodging back-to-landers, the radical developments of board design, and, of course, the waves, from Australia to Honolua Bay—of surfing’s most thrilling period. Soulful, poetic, iconoclastic, filled with rare images, this book is a unique look at surfing’s cultural revolution.

Everyone now knows how influential the downtown art scene was in New York in the 1980s and Jeannette Montgomery Barron was fortunate to be right in the thick of it all, close friends with many who became legends. Her portraits of Warhol, Basquiat, Haring, Schnabel, Clemente, and many others uniquely captured their personalities, and most importantly, the era.

Montgomery Barron wasn't merely a journalist or outsider documenting this scene. The fact that she was good friends with so many of these creative people meant there was
instant trust between subject and photographer, resulting in rich, revealing portraiture.

New York at Night: Photography after Dark, showcases images of New York City's legendary nightlife by the leading photographers of the 20th and 21st centuries, from Joseph Byron and James Van Der Zee to Henri Cartier-Bresson, Diane Arbus, Elliott Erwitt, Larry Fink, and more. As diverse and complicated as the city itself, New York's nightlife is glamorous and grungy, lonely and dangerous, highbrow and lowbrow. These images are complimented by writing from some of New York's most respected contemporary authors, adding depth, context, and personal stories of their own experiences to those presented by the photographers. This engaging book captures the energy of the New York night and the city's evolving hotspots, building a history of how New Yorkers play after dark and how that helps make this city a cultural and entertainment powerhouse.

Redefining cool for a new generation, Pharrell Williams is a creative force, using music, fashion, and design to express his distinctive style. Originating at the crossroads of art, design, popular culture, and street savvy, Pharrell Williams’s output is unique. By playing off different disciplines—namely music, fashion, street art, and design—and using each as an element in the other, Pharrell has redefined the role of the contemporary recording artist, blazing a trail for other musicians and prominent cultural figures. Illustrated with lavish photography, this book also explores his musical career in depth, charting his many projects from his production team The Neptunes, to the band N.E.R.D., and his collaborations with friends Kanye West, Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg, and other hip-hop royalty.This unprecedented volume documents Pharrell’s prolific body of work and his contribution to contemporary culture. In his own unique graphic language, he details his extensive creative pursuits, including clothing lines, jewelry, and accessories designs for Louis Vuitton, furniture and other product design, limited-edition toys, graphic designs, skate graphics, and collaborations with Moncler, Marc Jacobs, the artist KAWS, and with architects Zaha Hadid and Masamichi Katayama/Wonderwall. 

With the eye of a painter, Guy Bourdin created images that contained fascinating stories, compositions, and colors. Using fashion photography as his medium, he sent out his message, one that was difficult to decode, exploring the realms between the absurd and the sublime. Famed for his suggestive narratives and surreal aesthetics, he radically broke conventions of commercial photography with a relentless perfectionism and sharp humor.

A highly collectable numbered and signed limited-edition book documenting Shore's influential road trip across America in 1973, including a facsimile of the journal he kept, as well as photographs he made along the way. Shore's journal meticulously itemizes where he stayed, what he ate, what he watched on TV, which photographs he took and how many miles he drove, alongside pasted-in ephemera such as receipts, postcards and parking tickets. A section of plates showcases every photograph he took while on the road, from small town high streets to plates of food, from hotel rooms to portraits of locals. This collection brings together the entire body of work for the first time, including iconic shots, outtakes and unpublished photographs. 

Limited to 3,300 slipcased copies, each one numbered and signed by the photographer. 

Graduating from Antwerp’s Royal Academy of Fine Arts in the 1980s, Martin Margiela (and his contemporaries in the Antwerp Six) transformed global fashion with his aggressive restatement of traditional fashion design and a polemical approach to luxury trends. Working first with the house of Gaultier, Margiela absorbed the radical design of Japanese deconstruction, making it wholly his own with the founding of his own label in 1988. Margiela propounds a singular, enigmatic look, moving beyond the recognizable tropes of deconstruction—a monochromatic palette, outsized garments, non-traditional fabrics, exposed seams, or roughly appliquéd details—to develop a fully considered worldview, one with elegance, mystery, and menace in equal measure. This book provides an inside look at the design process from a craftsman who creates pieces prized for their originality, delicacy, and daring. In the spirit of Margiela’s garments, the book is a work of art in itself, designed exclusively by Margiela and complete with silver inks, ribbon markers, a variety of lush paper types, twelve booklets, and an embroidered white-linen cover. This book provides a window onto the intimate, handmade world of a unique designer.

Fashion illustration is and always has been about far more than pretty drawings of pretty dresses. This lavish celebration of today's leading artists in the field showcases the timeless craft and amazing diversity that characterize the genre.
From David Downton to Cecilia Carlstedt and from Jason Brooks to Jordi Labanda, 28 masters of fashion illustration from across the world are featured, one by one, in a grand tour of the best work currently produced. While some illustrators create daringly bold graphics, others prefer delicate watercolours and ink drawings. Throughout the volume, both hi-tech multimedia effects and traditional drawing skills are given pride of place, with many of the artists using a mixture of techniques. Lively commentary accompanies the images, while interviews with each illustrator provide further insight into their influences and methods.

Brand Spaces: Branded Architecture and the Future of Retail Design

The future of spatial branding experiences. New concepts for communicating brands via architecture, trade show presentations, shops, and interior design. Brand communication is becoming increasingly sophisticated and diversified. Today, the consistent implementation of a corporate design is not enough to keep a brand relevant. More and more companies are discovering the benefit of spatial brand experiences for communicating their messages effectively on an emotional level. Until recently, uniformity was the rule. Today, however, an impressive range of ideas, concepts, variations, and experiences for effective spatial brand communication are being developed. The results are locations with character that are a far cry from the excessively ornate brand temples of the past. Brand Spaces shows how trailblazers are creating branded worlds, event locations, flagship stores, and pop-up shops to continually surprise and inspire their target audiences.

Los Logos 6 is the authoritative reference on contemporary logo design worldwide. Like the previous editions of Gestalten’s best-selling Los Logos series, the book is both a guide to the latest innovations as well as a precursor to coming styles and trends. The 400-page, fully indexed compendium presents an unparalleled selection of cutting-edge examples from around the globe. It is intuitively structured into seven chapters: Emblem, Script, Art Brut, Type, Glitch, Iconic, and Family.

All fashion accessories have a historic beginning and an evolution. They all started life for practical reasons, to protect our feet from the cold, our face from the sun, our personal belongings, etc. Even jewelry, despite the fact that it is more decorative in nature, has in turn been used to distinguish various social groups or classes. Such facts are important to know and will be observed in the small details. Details we shall use to present a gallery of innovative photos and unveil a wide range of contemporary fashion accessories invarious chapters: shoes, bags, jewelry, watches, sunglasses, hats, shawls and gloves, etc. Those that think that everything has already been invented in the accessory world are wrong. Today's fashions have obviously drawn from centuries of costume history. However, new techniques and new materials, combined with the explosion of contemporary creativity, have generated a challenging
whole world of accessories. The final chapter, devoted to the concept of style, will teach us how to play with accessories and combine them to create different styles inspired by a particular era, color or urban tribe, with a classic or futuristic look about them.

Choosing to ride a particular bike conveys an attitude and a way of life. Velo—2nd Gear illuminates and celebrates contemporary bicycle culture’s diverse scenes. From classic racing bikes to high-tech speed machines, from rough fixies to fashionable city cruisers and hardworking cargo bikes, this book showcases today’s most outstanding and unusual bicycles and their riders. Velo—2nd Gear not only introduces coveted manufacturers, specialized boutiques, and historical tours. It also explains how each bike-related scene cultivates its own distinct codes through the choice of certain frames, jerseys, caps, or bags or by visiting specific events or key establishments. In doing so, the book shows why, for more and more people, bicycles have now replaced cars as the vehicles that best express their identity.

When French Elle ran an article on How to Become Hip in 15 Steps, there was no question about Step 1: have your photograph taken by Face Hunter. Face Hunter is the pseudonym of 32-year-old Swiss-born Yvan Rodic, who began his career with the advertising agencies Saatchi & Saatchi and Leo Burnett before founding one of the most innovative fashion blogs on the internet, which bills itself as eye candy for the style-hungry. Until recently, fashion trends were created by designers, celebrity models and fashion editors from the top down; now they trickle up from the street to the runway, sometimes bypassing the fashion industry entirely. Face Hunter is at the forefront of this fashion revolution as he travels the globe, snapping the most stylish looks in the street and discovering beguiling individualists in some 30 countries. These unexpected new icons of style are gathered together in over 300 photographs, accompanied by Face Hunters sharp observations from the new frontline of fashion: the street corner.

If you've ever doubted that the work of the greatest photographers
transcends genre, one look at this evocative book of black and white
photos by Peter Lindbergh will change your mind. The German-born
Lindbergh is considered a fashion photographer, and almost every
work in this large-format exhibition catalog was shot for a fashion
magazine. Yet Lindberg often finds a gentle surrealism reminiscent of
Fellini; his landscapes echo with the footsteps of people unseen. Says
Lindberg, -Only if a person's soul appears in the photo do I as the
photographer feel I have achieved what I wanted. With an
outstanding essay by Klaus Honnef.

The book features rare and unseen paintings from the late 1940s and early '50s, along with several projects from that era that are carried out here for the first time. The project will introduce a small group of unknown and unseen abstract silver gelatin works, along with a monumental painted Mural Project. William Klein (New York, 1928) is a photographer and filmmaker noted for his ironic approach to both media and his extensive use of unusual photographic techniques in the context of photojournalism and fashion photography. He was ranked twenty-fifth on Professional Photographer's Top 100 most influential photographers

In this first full-length biography of Diana Vreeland, Amanda Mackenzie Stuart portrays a visionary: a fearless innovator who inspired designers, models, photographers, and artists.

Vreeland reinvented the way we think about style and where we go to find it. As an editor, curator, and wit, Diana Vreeland made a lasting mark and remains an icon for generations of fashion lovers.

“My Freedamn! 3″ was released in 2005, featuring vintage Americana sports jacket; from military jackets, motorcycle jackets, surfs jackets etch. You can enjoy lots of super rare and cool designs. 10,000 copies of this title were also sold out very quickly; it became “out of print” now. (Unfortunately, no plan to be reprinted in the future. Please find this collectable title at used book markets.)

Collector's item - limited availability

“My Freedamn! 4″ was released in 2006, featuring vintage hippies fashions! Included lots of excellent examples of hand-made custom denim fashions, rare Peter Max’s official items, super rare East West Musical Instrumental leather collections….Also big featuring over 500 vintage Grateful Dead t-shirts from the 1970s to 1995! This title is mostly sold out! Don’t miss the chance before out of print!

Collector's item - limited availability

A beautifully produced notebook featuring the wonderful illustrations of Nina Chakrabarti. Her illustrations are featured on the cover, on the interleaved tracing paper inserts, and in small details running through the notebook. With pink quarterbinding, an elastic closure and a pocket inside the back cover, this notebook will appeal to Nina's many fans.

Sergei Sviatchenko’s work leaves viewers in a state of satisfied confusion. The Ukrainian-Danish artist’s intent and message might not be immediately clear or understandable, but his images still click with their viewers—like dreams.In the world of contemporary art, Sviatchenko is a provocateur. He draws on and harnesses all of the cultural tides he has experienced in 40 years of image-making. Sviatchenko’s oeuvre spans the known and the unimaginable. It cuts through the boundaries of traditional and contemporary visuals to merge pop culture with politics, personal memory with collective histories, and architecture and science with the logic of dreams.

"Eames: Beautiful Details" celebrates the seamlessness and fluidity in which Charles and Ray Eames operated as both a husband-and-wife team and as designers unrestricted by traditionally profesionally boundaries. Select details of their life and work, from their refined designs to to their innovative experiments, and even including images depicting the everyday poetic moments of their lives, and are shared here in this exhibit within a book.

This new book charts the story of Stone Island with over 300 iconic images of garments from the Stone Island archives.   Titled Stone Island, Archivio '982–'012, the book is an illustrated history of Stone Island, visually exploring the brand's extensive archive that includes over 20,000 garments created by Stone Island founder Carlo Rivetti as he sought to shift the technical clothing paradigm. Archivio '982'012 recounts three decades of exploration and experimentation in clothing, which ash resulted in some of the most advanced garments currently available. 

Andrei Tarkovsky was a Russian filmmaker, writer, film editor and film theorist. He directed the first five of his seven films "Ivans Childhood", "Andrei Rublev", "Solaris", "Mirror" and "Stalker" in the Soviet Union, but left for Italy in 1982, where he shot "Nostalghia". His last film, "Sacrifice", was produced in Sweden in 1985. His work is characterized by spirituality and metaphysical themes, very long takes, an absence of conventional dramatic structure and plot, and his own distinctive style of cinematography. He is today considered one of the 20th centurys most important filmmakers. This book collects film stills and documentary photographs from each of the films, exploring the cinematographic side to his oeuvre.