Schirmer/Mosel

Her disturbing pictures of emotionally and physically deformed people, freaks, and outsiders of human society opening the eye to a reality long denied made Diane Arbus a classic of American photography. Her monograph with 81 selected plates ad original texts, posthumously published in 1972, has become a classic in itself that is finally available in a German edition.

After his bestselling book ‘Deja vu’, Jean-Baptiste Mondino’s equally mesmerizing sequel ‘Two Much’ is another testimony of the image guru’s boundless ingenuity, imagination, black humour and bizarre erotic visions executed with the most exquisite visual and technical skills.

Witkin’s subject is the reconciliation of religion and art, the overcoming of moral and social taboos. Making ‘misfits’ the sublime subject of his tableaux, each of them inspired by a classic piece, his juxtapositions and complementing commentaries confront the discriminating power of social norms and the depth of human suffering.

Bert Stern was the last photographer to be granted a sitting by Marilyn Monroe, six weeks before she died. In a three-day session yielding nearly 2600 pictures, they produced photographs that forever shaped our Marilyn image. Our lavish volume presenting the complete series is now available again in an unchanged reprint. English text.

Karl Blossfeldt first published his plant photographs in 1928, achieving overnight fame. His images influenced artists of the time and continue to affect the work of visual artists, craftsmen, and architects to the present day. A pioneer of Neue Sachlichkeit, his pictures are classics in the history of photography. Neither a trained photographer nor a botanist, Blossfeldt was interested in plants for didactic reasons. By enlarging the inner structures of plants he revealed their organic configuration and their consummate artistic forms that arose from biological necessity. Blossfeldt's aim was to produce a pure catalogue of forms, and yet he created one of the most stunning oeuvres in the history of photography. Gert Mattenklott in his essay explores the origin of Blossfeldt's work and its subsequent influence. Georges Bataille's historical article The Language of Flower, first published in 1929 with illustrations by Blossfeldt, defines plants as occupying a space between profanity and sanctity.

42 selected master works by legendary Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. A special bargain in first-class Schirmer/Mosel quality.

Through their inimitable mixture of eroticism, subdued elegance and decadent luxury, Newton's pictures reflect in the highest aesthetic quality an obsession with human vanity — from female exhibitionism to male voyeurism. With technical perfection, an extremely detailed style and a relentless directness, Newton staged the neverending psychodrama that contrasts glamour with the need for admiration, self-confidence with the desire for self-presentation, and Eros with Thanatos. Private Property was originally a three-part portfolio containing 45 black-and-white photographs. It includes Newton's best work from the period 1972-1983 — an exquisite assortment of fashion shots, portraits, and erotic motifs which are all based on real locations and luxurious life styles. The entire sequence of picture from the Private Property portfolio is included in our book which first appeared in 1989.

Helmut Newton's best photographic work from the 1960s to the 1990s traveled around Europe in a major retrospective in 1993. The catalogue of that show has now run to a 4th edition. It contains all the icons of Newton's special fields of interest including fashion, nudes, portraits as well as works for which he became world famous — the sensational fashion photos for the British magazine Vogue, Liz Taylor with a parrot in a swimming pool, Helmut Berger naked at his fireplace, Helmut Kohl with a German oak, Salvador Dali on an IV drip, the «Big Nudes» and some of his later macabre wax figures... Newton was a genius for not being blinded by the glamour and the masquerade of pretence that were prevalent in the world in which he lived. On the contrary, he illuminated and exposed that world with bright light and displayed it in brilliant photographs which contain much more than they show.