Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky has traveled internationally to chronicle the production, distribution, and use of the most critical fuel of our time, followed the path of oil through modern society, from wellhead to pipeline to car engine… and then beyond to the projected peak-oil endgame.
A new wave of Chinese musicians is taking Beijing by storm, they now constitute a fresh, independent voice in a country renowned for creative conformity and saccharine Cantonese pop. In Sound Kapital, freelance photographer Matthew Niederhauser captures the energy of the performers involved in this innovative orgy gripping Beijing’s music underground. BTW, there are some morbid but engrossing illustrations by Chinese illustrator and graphic novelist Chairman Ca 张诗浩 in this book.
Patrizio Bertelli and Miuccia Prada have unveiled a 706-page book, chronicling 30 years of innovations and experiments in fashion, art, architecture, cinema, and communications by the famed fashion house. “For Prada, fashion, luxury and style go beyond producing an infinity of clothes and shoes, so the book wants to illustrate the various aspects through which Prada expresses itself,” said Bertelli. The book will be sold in Prada stores worldwide, in select bookstores and on Prada website for 100 Euros.
今年的Hyères国际时尚与摄影节期间，艺术家Michel Mallard和Raphaëlle Stopin策划了一场名为Steven Meisel 317 & Counting的展览，展览的内容是殿堂级时尚摄影大师Steven Meisel从1988年到2009年期间，与意大利版VOGUE杂志合作拍摄的317期封面。展览过后，就有了这一本限量版封面集，图书售价49欧元，共400页，采用英语和法语两种文本对照。
建筑形式在激进派建筑师和局外人的抽象概念中，变现为空间技术的临时审美。Gestalten出版社的新书《空间技术2》（Spacecraft 2），不仅能激发建筑师的创作灵感，还能鼓动更多艺术家在空间技术上进行尝试与探索，某种程度上来说，这些个建筑已经成为美学思想的最好载体。
Fashion and sports have always been undeniably attracted to each other, and more so now than ever before. Setting out to explore the “creative and fluid” relationship of the two segments, the Victoria and Albert Museum will launch a new exhibition on August 5 called Fashion V Sport. and A book edited by Ligaya Salazar will be published in conjunction with the exhibition. Fashion V Sport will run until December 14, 2008.
The fascinating phallus – After the bust out success of The Big Book of Breasts TASCHEN presents the perfect companion, The Big Penis Book. This book explores the centuries-old fascination with the large phallus, a fascination common to men and women alike.
