When Benedikt Taschen asked the most important portrait photographer working today, Annie Leibovitz, to collect her pictures in a SUMO-sized book, she was intrigued by the challenge. The project took several years to develop and when it was finally published in 2014, it weighed in at 26 kg (57 pounds).This incredible collection is now available in an accessible XXL book format. Leibovitz drew on more than 40 years of work, starting with the photojournalism she did for Rolling Stone magazine in the 1970s through the conceptual portraits she made for Vanity Fair and Vogue. She selected iconic images—such as John Lennon and Yoko Ono entwined in a last embrace—as well as portraits that had rarely, if ever, been seen before.The Annie Leibovitz SUMO covered political and cultural history, from Queen Elizabeth II and Richard Nixon to Laurie Anderson and Lady Gaga.“What I had thought of initially as a simple process of imagining what looked good big, what photographs would work in a large format, became something else,” Leibovitz says. “The book is very personal, but the narrative is told through popular culture. It’s not arranged chronologically and it’s not a retrospective. It’s more like a roller coaster.”Fans of Leibovitz and her many celebrated subjects can now enjoy that same roller coaster ride for themselves with this unlimited edition.

Mark Lewisohn

"Including never-before-seen photographs and ephemera, a behind-the-scenes look into The Beatles' acclaimed first film

In March of 1964, director Richard Lester began shooting A Hard Day's Night, a feature film starring The Beatles. With fast, sharp humour and a brilliant soundtrack, the movie depicts the excitement and chaos of thirty-six hours in the life of the Fab Four, and stars John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, with Wilfrid Brambell portraying McCartney's grandfather. This collection of photographs and unique ephemera captures the infectious energy and anarchic spirit of this groundbreaking film."

Sebastião Salgado
Sebastião Salgado traveled the Brazilian Amazon and photographed the unparalleled beauty of this extraordinary region for six years: the forest, the rivers, the mountains, the people who live there—an irreplaceable treasure of humanity.In the book’s foreword Salgado writes: “For me, it is the last frontier, a mysterious universe of its own, where the immense power of nature can be felt as nowhere else on earth. Here is a forest stretching to infinity that contains one-tenth of all living plant and animal species, the world’s largest single natural laboratory.”Salgado visited a dozen indigenous tribes that exist in small communities scattered across the largest tropical rainforest in the world.

Supermodelo, empresaria, activista y provocadora: repase la extraordinaria carrera de la inigualable Naomi Campbell. Actualizado y publicado en colaboración con Naomi, este libro es al mismo tiempo un encuentro íntimo con un icono cultural y un viaje fascinante por los grandes hitos de la moda. Incluye numerosas instantáneas inolvidables, portadas de revistas y fotogramas, así como un texto exclusivo de Naomi.

David Hockney

When David Hockney discovered the iPhone as an artistic medium, it opened up entirely new possibilities for his art. He made his first digital drawings in spring 2009, describing the morning landscape in broad lines and dazzling colors directly on a display that offered subtle hues as unmixed expressions of pure light. Then in 2010, Hockney started working with an iPad, and the larger screen expanded his artistic repertoire and enabled an even more complex interplay of color, light, and line.

Each image in this book captures a fleeting moment seen through a window in Hockney’s Yorkshire home: from vibrant sunrise and lilac morning sky to peaceful night-time impressions or the sudden arrival of spring. Fascinating details reveal drops on window panes, distant lights in the night, reflections on vases or an abundance of varied window-sill vegetation. In 120 drawings made between 2009 and 2012, selected and arranged by the artist himself, we experience the passage of time through the eyes of David Hockney.

This artist’s book, which first appeared in an exclusive signed edition, now returns as an unlimited run, whose still generous XL format presents Hockney’s impressions in brilliant resolution. So now is the perfect occasion to heed the advice of the Times critic regarding this book: “If you would like to be given a bouquet by David Hockney, here is your chance.”

Presenta la obra de uno de los más grandes paisajistas méxicanos, Gerardo Murilllo, conocido como Dr. Atl (1875-1964), que fue a su vez promotor del muralismo y de las vanguardias que marcaron la historia del arte mexicano.Esta publicación recorre siete décadas que atestiguan la evolución artística de Dr. Atl y sus aportaciones al arte moderno de México; se muestran sus retratos, autorretratos, paisajes y aeropaisajes; estos últimos dotados de un movimiento interior y una calidad cromática característica, resultado del manejo que el artista hizo de la perspectiva curvilínea y de los llamados Atl color. Gracias a ellos losvolcanes Popocatépetl, Iztaccíhuatl y Paricutín surgen de los cuadros como protagonistas cuya vida palpita sobre el lienzo.El horizonte curvo en la obra de Dr. Atl fue inspirado en la teoría perspectiva curvilínea desarrollada por Luis G. Serrano, reflejando una nueva percepción del paisaje, dotándole una gran vivacidad. Frente a su trabajo, el espectador se adentra en la naturaleza y se sumerge en su colorida visión del territorio mexicano.Los Atl colors son el resultado del gusto personal del artista por el pastel y su búsqueda de fijeza e inalterabilidad. Murillo elaboró una pasta dura compuesta de cera, resinas y petróleo en forma de pequeñas barras que pueden sobreponerse y producen una gran variedad de tonos. Esta técnica da como resultado una gran luminosidad y riqueza de materia.

CARLA ZAREBSKA

A veritable folk hero in Latin America and Mexico’s most important artist―along with his wife, painter Frida Kahlo―Diego Rivera (1886–1957) led a passionate life devoted to art and communism. After spending the 1910s in Europe, where he surrounded himself with other artists and embraced the Cubist movement, he returned to Mexico and began to paint the large-scale murals for which he is most famous. In his murals, he addressed social and political issues relating to the working class, earning him prophetic status among the peasants of Mexico. He was invited to create works abroad, most notably in the United States, where he stirred up controversy by depicting Lenin in his mural for the Rockefeller Center in New York City (the mural was destroyed before it was finished). Rivera’s most remarkable work is his 1932 Detroit Industry, a group of 27 frescos at the Detroit Institute of Art in Michigan.

El Archivo Casasola está presente en el imaginario colectivo de los mexicanos a través de las fotografías de los héroes revolucionarios; sin embargo, el espectro de temas abordados por los Casasola es mucho más amplio y diverso: de escenas de la vida cotidiana a imágenes de indígenas, personajes públicos, hombres y mujeres trabajando, así como aspectos del desarrollo tecnológico y del crecimiento del país, entre muchos otros.

Diego Rivera, considerado actualmente uno de los artistas más importantes de México. Sus murales a gran escala que muestran el cambio social experimentado durante la primer mitad del siglo XXdecoran aún hoy destacados edificios públicos de México.

Este volumen presenta numerosos detalles a gran escala de los murales, permitiendo que sus diversos componentes y sutilezas sean examinados de cerca. Además de los estos, se incluye una gran selección de pinturas, fotografías de época, documentos y dibujos de colecciones públicas y privadas de todo el mundo, muchos de los cuales eran hasta ahora desconocidos para los estudiosos y cuya inclusión ha sido posible gracias a la más intensa investigación realizada sobre el trabajo de Rivera desde su muerte. Los textos incluyen una biografía ilustrada y ensayos de destacados historiadores del arte que ofrecen interpretaciones de cada mural. No se puede pedir un estudio más completo de la obra de Rivera.