Helmut Newton: Work
Edited by Manfred Heiting, Essay by Françoise Marquet  
Taschen 2000
Hardback, colour d/w, 320 x 250 mm, 280 pages 
£24.99

The world of Helmut Newton is extremely complex and diverse. Considered shocking and provocative back in the sixties, he now enjoys the reputation of a photographer who was able to imagine and visualise women exactly as they are today: women who take the lead rather than follow it, women who enjoy the resplendence and vitality of their bodies, bodies over which they have sole command; women who are both responsible and willing.

This book presents the whole spectrum of Newton's work (fashion, nudes, portraits) and celebrates the 80th birthday of this outstanding photographer.

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Photography From 1839 To Today
Therese Mulligan and David Wooters (eds)
Taschen 2000
Paperback, 196 x 142 mm, 766 pages 
£16.99

Located in Rochester, New York, George Eastman House is one of the world's premier institutions for the study, exhibition, and preservation of photography. Opened in 1949 in the home of George Eastman, founder of Eastman Kodak Company, Eastman House was the first museum in the United States dedicated to photography and motion pictures. 

Organised thematically and chronologically the images selected here offer a view into the collection that consists of over 400,000 artifacts (the database can be accessed via the museum's website at www.eastman.org) with its multitude of subjects, genres and processes. Each image in this comprehensive book is accompanied by a caption that indicates maker (where known), nationality, life dates, title, date, process, source, and the museum's reference number. These images reveal the boundless story of photography and its history, from its pre-photographic origins to its present-day cultural, aesthetic, and personal manifestations.  

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Photomontage: Experimental Photography Between The Wars
Introduction by Michel Frizot
Thames and Hudson, 1991
Paperback, 191 x 127 mm, 135 pages 
£3.50

Photomontage was the innovation of John Heartfield and Georg Grosz, engineer-artists who in 1916 brought photographic images together according to new aesthetic rules. This collection shows the wide range of its application to revolutionary art and propaganda, advertising and graphic design, as photomontage was adopted as a primary means of visual expression by the leading avant-garde movements of the inter-war years. 

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Leni Riefenstahl: Five Lives
Angelika Taschen (ed) 
Taschen 2000
Hardback, colour d/w, 333 x 272 mm, 336 pages 
£25.00

An extraordinary woman with an extraordinary career, this work reveals in photographs the path taken by a life spanning nearly an entire century. Born in 1902, Leni Riefenstahl began as a celebrated dancer in Berlin during the early twenties, became an actress, then finally directed and produced her own films, several of which are amongst the most influential and controversial in the history of film.

Since the fifties she has travelled frequently to Africa and has lived for extended periods in the Sudan with the primitive Nuba tribes. Then, at 71, she learned to dive and yet again turned her experiences into art with photographs of the undersea world. This beautifully illustrated book includes an extensive filmography, biography and bibliography. 

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August Sander  
Edited by Manfred Heiting, Essay by Susanne Lange, Portrait by Alfred Döblin
Taschen 1999
Hardback, colour d/w, 338 x 270 mm, 252 pages 
£19.99

August Sander (1876-1964) is regarded as one of the greatest photographers of the 20th century. He became famous in the 1920s chiefly for his portraits in which he captures the personality and special character of his subjects in a way that remains quite unparalleled. By systematically photographing individuals from various professions and social classes he left behind him a unique documentation of society. 

Other important branches of Sander's work include landscapes and botanical and architectural studies, all of which are represented in this broad cross-section of his ouevre.

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Edward Weston  
Edited by Manfred Heiting, Essay by Terence Pitts, 
Portrait by Ansel Adams
Taschen 1999
Hardback, colour d/w, 335 x 270 mm, 252 pages 
£19.99

Few photographers have created such a legacy as Edward Weston (1886-1958). After a decade of successfully making photographs with painterly soft-focus techniques, Weston became the key pioneer of the school of precise and sharp presentation, dubbed "Straight Photography".

Through the 1920s, 30s and 40s, Weston was a major force, pushing forward the art of photography. His photographs are monuments of sensual realism, perfectly composed images of stillness that sear with passion and intensity. Whatever the subject, be it a vegetable, the landscape, a shell, or the naked body, Weston's lens captures the essence of its life force, the fundamentals of its form.  

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Edward Weston: Forms Of Passion
Edited by Gilles Mora
Harry N. Abrams 1995
Hardback, colour d/w, 311 x 250 mm, 367 pages 
£25.00

Concentrating on natural forms - the human figure, seashells, plants, landscapes - Weston rejected pictorialism, romantic subjects, and manipulated imagery. 

This comprehensive book surveys Weston's work more exhaustively than any previous work, with over 320 meticulously reproduced monotone images. 

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