Schirmer/Mosel

Every centerfold from every issue for the first time ever gathered in one book, reproduced exactly as they appeared in the magazine. The ultimate indulgence for every passionate erotics collector.

Romy Schneider, mythological heroine of the European cinema, in a charming portfolio by Italian-French photographer Giancarlo Botti. Pictures taken on the sets of her movies, at home with her son, at her wedding with Daniel Biasini, and a breathtakingly beautiful series of striking nudes.

Richard Avedon’s pictures are milestones in the history of photography and engraved in our collective memory. Woman in the Mirror, the last book designed by the artist himself, features 50 years of women’s portraits and is now available again. Performance, a recent volume, portrays actors, comedians, musicians, and dancers in action. German edition.

The most recent volume of this popular series on “Human History in Aerial Photographs” features 20th-century wonders of technology, from Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia to skycrapers in New York and the Golden Gate Bridge, the Sydney Opera, the London Swiss Re Tower, and the Viaduct de Millau in Southern France.

New York photographer Ed Feingersh produced some of the most beautiful Marilyn Monroe shots there are, such as the iconic Chanel No. 5: Marilyn in her hotel suite putting the finishing touches to her evening attire — with a touch of perfume for her decollete. In 1955 she retreated to her exile in New York to avoid the constraints of her contract with Twentieth Century Fox and to take acting lessons with Lee Strasberg. For one whole week, Feingersh observed 29-year-old Marilyn during her private and public life in New York. He followed her on her wanders through the city, joined her at costume fittings and at the Actors Studio, went along for an incognito jaunt on the subway and during her legendary ride on the pink elephant in Madison Square Garden. What he captured was the truly beautiful Marilyn Monroe oscillating between new self-confidence and extreme vulnerability, who could be relaxed and joyful one moment, contemplative, dreamy and sad the next? Marilyn the person, as it were.

For more than three decades Anton Corbijn has photographed the greatest artists in the music world and beyond. That made him one of the most influential portrait photographers of our days. In Corbijn's career, however, there has been one constant: the band U2, and their collaboration of 22 years. This publication is dedicated to Bono, Edge, Larry, and Adam, to their longstanding friendship, mutual inspiration, and shared experience of rock history that is part of the history of photography.It was Anton Corbijn who «invented» U2's public image and he is still shaping it. The long way from their first encounter in February 1982 in New Orleans to their April 2004 Lisbon shooting for the most recent U2 album is documented in a wealth of private and so-called official pictures with hand-written annotations by the photographer.

The first joint project of photographer Bettina Rheims and writer/art critic Serge Bramly. The cultivated literary confessions of Monsieur X, a perfectly discreet voyeur with an obsessive curiosity about the female body, are set against photographs speaking a far clearer language that tells of female eroticism and exhibitionism as no one else does.

When 24-year old Henri Cartier-Bresson acquired a Leica camera in 1932, his casual interest in photography turned into passion. This volume explores the photographer’s early work documenting the poor and disenfranchised in Italy, Spain, Eastern Europe, and Mexico. Marked by tangible empathy and solidarity with the models, it is an original body of work to be rediscovered.

Rarely published and virtually inaccessible until the collapse of the Sovjet regime, some of the most radical modernist buildings of the 20th century were completed in the decade following the revolution and civil war, to serve new social goals of communal life. Richard Pare’s photographs retrieve these architectural gems, some still in use but many now abandoned and decayed.

Recently sold at Christie’s, Holly Golightly’s black Givenchy dress (and its enchanting wearer) remain available for admiration in this volume presenting movie shots from Breakfast at Tiffany’s and fashion shots with Audrey Hepburn taken by Howell Conant, a long-time friend of Grace Kelly’s and the official court photographer to the Grimaldis.

Taken in Florida a few weeks before JFK's presidential inauguration, Avedon shows Kennedy with Jackie, 4-year-old Caroline, and new-born John Jr. Whereas his celebrity portraits are usually emotionally charged and confrontational, these pictures, most of them unpublished, reflect a calm simplicity right before the hectic presidential years. German edition.

Our Marilyn Monroe classic, now available in a low-price special hardcover edition. Marilyn posing for nearly every major photographer: Avedon, Beaton, Erwitt, Cartier-Bresson and others; Marilyn in all her moods: young and carefree, sexy and serious; glamorous and girl-next-door; and Marilyn in her own words in a 1960 interview conducted by Georges Belmont.

With a characteristic mix of humor, vitality, and eroticism, German photographer Roswitha Hecke has created a body of sensitive portraits and reports spanning forty years, four continents and all aspects of human life: German theater, French cinema, Zurich prostitutes, Paris transvestites, a Bronx private eye or the homeless on the Bowery. This volume accompanies a major retrospective in Berlin. German text.

Ever since Marilyn Monroe posed with “nothing on but the radio” in the 1950s, Playboy has celebrated the sensuality of the world’s biggest stars. Here, in all their glory, are some 150 breathtaking pictures of the magazine’s most famous heavenly bodies. With an introduction by Hugh Hefner himself.

Courted by international fashion magazines and loved for his sensitive portraits of women, Lindbergh in his third book presents a collection of his best shots of international movie, pop music, showbiz, and fashion stars. The climax to his earlier books Ten Women (1996) and Images of Women (1997).

In mesmerizing photographs Mondino presents the guitar as the aphrodisiac, sex symbol, and fetish of rock and pop, with players famous and unknown.

Sante D'Orazio's 1998 photo diary featuring photographs of stars alongside Polaroid snaps, air tickets, notes, and all sorts of memorabilia became an instant cult book. Providing a glimpse on the scenes behind a prominent celebrity photographer's daily work, the sought-after book is finally back in print.

Photographer Eve Arnold, grande dame of Magnum agency, was one of Marilyn’s few confidantes, watching (over) her for long periods of time and from close distance. Arnold’s pictures present Marilyn at her most relaxed, natural and unstyled, her written memories provide a private look behind the scenes. Together they convey the special trust and friendship between both women. German text.

U2 & i’ is the photo story of the 22-year friendship between Irish rock band U2 and Dutch photographer Anton Corbijn who invented the band’s image and has shaped it to the present day. It presents a wealth of official and private pictures taken between 1982, when they first met in New Orleans, and their April 2004 shooting in Lisbon for U2’s most recent album.

A tribute to Audrey Hepburn, an endearing star of ethereal beauty. Now in its sixth edition, the book assembles the best film stills, portraits, and private photographs of arguably the most charming movie actress of all times.

In his monumental nudes of the early 80s, Helmut Newton shocked the world with a new image of women: self-assured, powerfully staged, and closer to the aesthetics of body building than fashion and luxury, Newton’s women flex their muscles in a high-heels “Here we come”. Here this Newton classic comes in a new reprint.

The 50 most famous iconic photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson, doyen of picture journalism.

Famous for her unusual portraits of women and female nudes, French photographer Bettina Rheims focus is the visualization of female eroticism. She will be celebrated in a major travelling retrospective starting in Helsinki in February 2004. This accompanying book provides a representative overview of her work created between 1979 and 2002.

Isabella Rossellini. Looking at Me.