As the 50th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe’s death approaches in 2012, Taschen has created a unique biography by pairing Norman Mailer’s 1973 bio Marilyn with Bert Stein’s intimate portraits of the actress from a Vogue photo shoot just six weeks before her death. The homage — simply titled Norman Mailer, Bert Stern: Marilyn Monroe — […]

The second installment of our Best Of 2011 retrospective series focuses on the Top 10 Books of 2011, including photo-heavy coffee table books, research tomes and literature. From the history of menswear staples to Japanese art to modernist architecture to the appreciation of the well shaped derrière, there were a multitude of books published covering […]

When previewed this summer, Pirelli’s 2012 ode to feminine beauty promised to be another stunner. This time famed Italian photographer Mario Sorrenti took over head lensmen duty for the tire maker’s yearly supermodel escapade, the successor in a long run of world class photographers. Last night at a gala event in New York City, Pirelli […]

Who doesn’t fantasize about owning an assortment of beautiful, expensive cars? But we all can’t be Jay Leno, so most of us will have to make due with flipping through photographs of our most coveted vehicles while drool pools on our desks. Capitalizing on this notion, Assouline presents its new book The Impossible Collection of […]

Wow — who would’ve thunk it? Already the 50th volume in our beloved and illustrious Because We Love You Series, and who better to knock it out than homegrown Los Angeles photographer Estevan Oriol. We’ve shown some of Oriol’s work before, including when we interviewed him for the coffee table book counterpart to this aptly titled […]

Belgium-born artist Geert Goiris captures the emptiness and indelible essence of the natural world in his truly breathtaking Resonance series. The quietly beautiful still life and nature photographs that comprise the series are mostly devoid of humans — but not of life. The photographs contain nothing exciting: empty landscapes, a circle of green chairs, architectural […]

Brooklyn Decker is everywhere these days. You’d think being in an Adam Sandler movie would be enough to completely destroy all artistic cred, but she’ll probably do more damage when she graces the big screen in the film version of the board game Battleship next year. Until that piece of cinematic turd drops on the […]

Forgotten letters, hairbrushes, and an old alarm clock are all carefully preserved in the lost suitcases of the mentally insane. Once belonging to patients who entered the Willard Asylum for the Insane that operated from 1910 to the 1960s, these suitcases were discovered in 1995 by New York State Museum staff and are now a […]