Graphic design increasingly emphasizes a user-oriented approach that is based around communication and interaction between users and the work itself. Interactive graphics can be found in books, brochures, posters, packaging, and albums. "Playful Grap...

Two decades ago, art collectors Florence and Daniel Guerlain decided to focus their energies on shaping a collection of contemporary works on paper. In 2013 they donated a large part of their holdings – 1,200 works in total – to the Centre Pompidou i...

This handsome volume offers an innovative perspective on the artistic processes of some of the most influential photographers of the 20th century. For decades before the advent of digital technology, the proof sheet or contact sheet was vital to the...

Peter Lindbergh's Images of Women is now available in this new unabridged compact edition. Lindbergh, who passed away in 2019, took a comprehensive look at his body of work from the 1980s and '90s and hand selected these black & white photographs of...

At the Kronenhalle restaurant, arguably Zurich's finest, the old-world decor is as sumptuous as the food. A former beerhall, this culinary landmark was a meeting place for musicians, artists, and thinkers from the early 20th century, many of whom pai...

A treasure trove for dog-lovers and porcelain enthusiasts alike, this book celebrates a collection of more than 100 porcelain pugs, most of which were designed in the mid-18th century by Johann Joaquim Kنndler, the eminent modeler in the Meissen porc...

Renowned artist Mark Dion (b. 1961) has a deep passion for history and the natural world. His installations mine the materials of the past to level an institutional critique in the present. Evoking the grand expeditionary journals of the 19th century...

"Painting with Fire" shows how experiments with chemicals known to change visibly over the course of time transformed British pictorial arts of the long eighteenth century – and how they can alter our conceptions of photography today. As early as the...

Originally from northern Italy, Paolo Gasparini moved to Venezuela at the age of twenty and over his extensive career he has become one of the most renowned photographers in Latin America. Associated with Italian neorealism in his early period and in...

Pablo Picasso always maintained a complex and intense relationship with photography and with the photographers in his milieu, something that could be seen when he pretended to be a reporter one summer, when he used his image as an icon, or when he to...