Yesterday morning we brought you the Pirelli Calendar 2012 photographed by Mario Sorrenti, and today comes the video showing the Making Of process behind the endeavor. Included are interviews with Sorrenti who explains why he chose Corsica, as well as interviews with all the models. It’s worth watching alone to hear Milla Jovovich’s awkward explanation […]

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 […]

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 […]

OK, I admit paying $200 for a book seems a little crazy. It’s not as crazy as buying a $35,000 alligator skin backpack from the Olsen twins… but still. But since this is a book about and sort of by the inimitable Spanish filmmaker (being the first book Almodóvar has ever written about all his […]

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 […]

Spanning three years and 280 photo shoots, Lindsay McCrum’s new book, Chicks with Guns, is a collection of photographs that explores a variety of women’s personal histories with guns. Ordinary women pose dramatically with rifles or handguns against backgrounds that hint at their complex relationships with these most controversial firearms. In one photograph, a young […]

With models touting perfectly red painted lips, seductive stares and a playful sensuality, Ellen von Unwerth captures moments of sublime female sexuality in her new hardcover, Fräulein. In this collection of photos spanning fifteen years of von Unwerth’s work, women are portrayed as cute, assertive, overtly sexual, soft and contemplative to explore all expressions of […]

Is there anything more that needs to be said beyond the title? I mean, if the devil is in the details then the divine is in the profoundly simple. Case in point: photographer Ben Watts takes a bunch of naked models, throws some superfluous biking accessories on them, and has them ride around on some […]