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Spring/Summer 2011
Front-/Backlist
Dear Bookworms,
Please check out our Spring/Summer frontlist
2011. Thank you for your continuous support.
Happy Holidays and a great New Year.
Peace,
Benedikt Taschen
TASCHEN booth at Frankfurt Book Fair 2010,
designed by Shigeru Ban. Photo © Daniel Schäfer
JANUARY 2011
Ideolog ical dreams
The fourth and fi nal age of Soviet architecture
Frédéric Chaubin
CCCP—Cosmic Communist Constructions
Photographed
Hardcover, format: 26 x 34 cm
(10.2 x 13.4 in.), 312 pp.
English/German/French edition
978–3–8365–2519–0
£ 34.99
Opposite: Ministery of Highways,
Tbilisi, Georgia, 1976.
Photo © Frédéric Chaubin
Photographer Frédéric Chaubin reveals 90
buildings sited in fourteen former Soviet
Republics which express what could be consid-
ered as the fourth age of Soviet architecture.
They reveal an unexpected rebirth of imagina-
tion, an unknown burgeoning that took place
from 1970 until 1990. Contrary to the twenties
and fi fties, no “school” or main trend emerges
here. These buildings represent a chaotic
impulse brought about by a decaying system.
Their diversity announces the end of the Soviet
Union.
Taking advantage of the collapsing monolithic
structure, the holes in the widening net, archi-
tects went far beyond modernism, going back
to the roots or freely innovating. Some of the
daring ones completed projects that the
Constructivists would have dreamt of (Druzhba
sanatorium), others expressed their imagination
in an expressionist way (Tbilisi wedding palace).
A summer camp, inspired by sketches of a proto-
type lunar base, lays claim to its suprematist
infl uence (Promethee). Then comes the speak-
ing architecture widespread in the last years of
the USSR: a crematorium adorned with con-
crete fl ames (Kiev crematorium), a technologi-
cal institute with a fl ying saucer crashed on the
roof (Kiev institute of scientifi c research), a
political center watching you like Big Brother
(House of Soviets in Kalinin-grad). This puzzle
of styles testifi es to all the ideological dreams
of the period, from the obsession with the
cosmos to the rebirth of identity, and it also
outlines the geography of the USSR, showing
how local infl uences made their exotic twists
before bringing the country to its end.
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JANUARY 2011
Ceci n’est pas un livre,
ceci n’est pas un film...
Surrealist visions, confused identities, obsession, fetish and seething desire
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INCL.
DVD
Bettina Rheims, Serge Bramly
Rose, c’est Paris
Hardcover + DVD, format:
25.7 x 35.7 cm (10.1 x 14.1 in.), 368 pp.
English/German/French edition
978–3–8365–2785–9
only £ 44.99
“An extraordinary work of art.
We are left with two works that
beg for repeat inspections, which
invariably recall Duchamp’s
artistic maxim:
‘
Unless a picture
shocks, it is nothing.’
Rose
is raw
electricity.”
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Interiors Magazine
, Chicago
Opposite: Tenue de Gala, 2009.
Photo © Bettina Rheims, Serge Bramly
Bettina Rheims and Serge Bramly’s
Rose, c’est
Paris
is both a photographic monograph and a
feature-length fi lm on DVD. This extraordinary
work of art, in two di erent but interlocking
and complementary formats, defi es easy cate-
gorization. For in this multi-layered opus of
poetic symbolism, photographer Bettina Rheims
and writer Serge Bramly evoke the City of Light
in a completely novel way: this is a Paris of
surrealist visions, confused identities, artistic
phantoms, unseen manipulation, obsession,
fetish, and seething desire.
Equal parts erotica, fashion shoot, art mono-
graph, metaphysical mystery, social and cul-
tural archaeology of the French capital, and
neo-noir arthouse fi lm—
Rose, c’est Paris
is the
steamy tale of twin sisters, known only as B and
Rose, and a third principal—the city itself. An
abduction leads to a detective story that unfolds
in the streets, cafés, cabarets, museums, aban-
doned factories, and grand hotels of Paris. What
happened to the missing sister? Was there a
plot? Was she really kidnapped? Is she alive or
dead? Is it in fact a case of mistaken identity?
Rheims and Bramly create a series of extraordi-
nary tableaux suggesting all these possibilities
and many more, featuring a host of celebrity fi g-
ures, including Naomi Campbell, Michelle
Yeoh, Monica Bellucci, Charlotte Rampling,
Valérie Lemercier, Inès Sastre, Anna Mouglalis,
Audrey Marnay, Anthony Delon, Rona Hartner,
Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Azzedine Alaïa, Louise
Bourgoin, and Hélèna Noguerra.
After our limited and art editions, this book is
now available in an unlimited trade edition.
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JANUARY 2011
Fashion’s dynamic duo
A photographer’s tribute to his greatest muse
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FORMAT
Mario Testino
Kate Moss by Mario Testino
Softcover, format: 28.7 x 39.6 cm
(11.3 x 15.6 in.), 228 pp.
English/German/French edition
978–3–8365–2506–0
only £ 44.99
“The summer blockbuster
of fashion books.”
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NYMag.com
, New York
Opposite: Kate Moss, London, 2006
Mario Testino is recognized as the ultimate fash-
ion photographer of his generation, but his pic-
tures of Kate Moss transcend fashion. The con-
sequence of two decades of extraordinary
friendship and phenomenal glamor, this iconic
collaboration is an intimate insight into the lives
and minds of two of the world’s defi nitive style
leaders.
Follow the journey of one of fashion’s most crea-
tive collaborations, from early days backstage at
the shows to behind-the-scenes glimpses of the
ground-breaking editorials they continue to
produce for the world’s most respected maga-
zines. Many photographs have been chosen from
Testino’s private archive and are published here
for the fi rst time.
This book is Mario’s personal homage to his
greatest muse: a young girl who captured his
heart and eye with her beauty, humor and spirit,
and whose image in his photographs has cap-
tured imaginations the world over.
Contents include:
• Foreword by Mario Testino
• Exclusive essay by Kate Moss
• Over 100 images in black-and-white and color,
including many unseen private photographs
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