"A chic and informative guide to the Ballet Beautiful method, featuring dance-inspired exercises, wellness tips, and lifestyle advice that help readers achieve ballerina confidence and self-esteem. After a career with the New York City Ballet, Mary Helen Bowers created Ballet Beautiful, a fitness and lifestyle program inspired by ballet’s artistry and athleticism. Designed to give anyone a ballerina body, Bowers’s targeted exercises to ..."
"#girlgaze is on a mission to close the gender gap by creating visibility and tangible jobs for girls behind the lens and this timely book, from photographer and media entrepreneur Amanda de Cadenet's visionary focus, features a beautiful and powerful collection of images capturing how young women perceive the world.This inspiring must-have for feminists and creatives alike showcases the work of a diverse collective of female-identifying ..."
"Extravagant style photography from the overlap between fashion and art, by iconic Dutch duo Inez & Vinoodh This large-format staplebound book gathers self-selected works by Dutch fashion photography duo Inez (born 1963) & Vinoodh (born 1961). Presented in a magazine-like style, these images focus on their early mastery of digital photography."
"Visionaire first featured the provocative fashion designs of Lee Alexander McQueen in 1996, and he remained a continuous inspiration and presence for the magazine, providing some of its most treasured contributions. In 2003, McQueen visited the New York offices and gallery of Visionaire to discuss collaborating on an issue of the magazine--an issue that sadly was never to be. Visionaire No. 58: Spirit is a tribute to McQueen's genius an ..."
"For AutoWork, two teams of curators in the United States and Germany invited internationally renowned artists to work with the BMW group's corporate identity--in the widest sense of the term: its employees, products, customers, work processes and image, using both photography and film. The artists were granted absolute artistic freedom and complete autonomy. Included among the project's participants in Germany are Heike Baranowsky, Thom ..."
"Inez van Lamsweerde gehört zu den bekanntesten Vertreterinnen des Crossover. Ihr Spielfeld liegt dort, wo sich Mode und Kunst treffen. Bekannt geworden ist die Niederländerin, die an der Kunsthochschule Amsterdam Modefotografie studierte, durch digital bearbeitete Hochglanzporträts. Bilder, die durch eine irritierende Mischung aus Attraktivität und Absonderlichkeit von sich Reden machten. Ihre männlichen Modelle befreite sie per Mauskli ..."
"Here are images made by students during their studies at the ECAL [Ecole Cantonale d'art de Lausanne], and by their teachers in the context of workshops. They showcase the widening scope of photographic practices within the framework of the Department of Visual Communication. Images by Natacha Lesueur, Inez van Lamsweerde, Valèrie Belin, Nan Goldin, Leo Fabrizio, Erwan Frotin, Raphael Hefti, Joel Tettamanti and many others."
"From El Lissitzky, Kurt Schwitters and Bruno Munari to Paul Chan, Lawrence Weiner and Richard Prince, modern artists have found ingenious ways of reinventing and reimagining books for children. With its expanded possibilities for visual play and storytelling, the children's book as a form in itself has been increasingly explored by contemporary artists. Now, Visionaire 59: Fairytale presents a mini-library of children's stories by conte ..."
"How does a museum build up its own collection? How do the choices made by an institution, and the eventual content of its collection, compare to that of a private collection? These questions and many more about the nature of art collecting are addressed in Imagine You Are Standing here in Front of Me, an attractive, generously illustrated overview of the Caldic Collectie, the sizeable, kaleidoscopic, and willfully accumulated private co ..."
"For their latest issue, "Power",Visionaire has teamed up with the renowned cosmetic house Shiseido to create a hardcover book housed in an iridescent injection-molded case. Nature and beauty are the starting points for "Power", an issue combining saturated colors, "natural" elements and "supernatural" holographic papers. Contributions from Visionaire's usual all-star list of artists, photographers, and image-makers include Mariko Mori, ..."
"Der vorliegende Bildband mit Arbeiten von Inez van Lamsweerde und Vinoodh Matadin entstand im Rahmen der Ausstellung Photographs in Florenz. Von der Modefotografie kommend dreht sich die Kunst der beiden um das Thema Schönheit. Doch diese Schönheit ist künstlich, überhöht und surreal. Durch die digitale Veränderung der dargestellten Modelle wirken die Fotografien auf den Betrachter irritierend, abstoßend, gleichzeitig faszinierend und ..."
" Two artists, one vision. The enigmatic and genre-defying work of Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin ""It is typical of the photographic art of van Lamsweerde and Matadin that they urge their image making to de-stabilise the pristine surfaces expected of consumer culture; to this end they make use, in turn, of the Gothic, inscrutability, androgyny, comedy, eroticism, surrealism, fantasy, montage, cinema, replication, ima ..."
"A 528-page monograph - conceived as a reschuffled alphabetical dictionary that starts with the letter 'M' on page 311 - that presents for the first time twenty years of works by M/M (Paris), one of the most emblematic and influential design practices and art partnerships of the twenty-first century. Michael Amzalag and Mathias Augustyniak originally established M/M (Paris) as a graphic design studio in 1992. Their close associations wit ..."
"In its ongoing assault on the five senses, Visionaire gained acclaim for a 2003 issue that deconstructed the elements of scent, pairing twenty-one experimental perfumes - produced in collaboration with International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF) - alongside twenty-one equally innovative images. Mario Sorrenti's (literally and figuratively) chilling photo of icebergs paired with the scent of cold by perfumer Vera Degen and Mert Alas & Marcu ..."
"Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (AKA Bureau Amsterdam) is project space of the world-renowned Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition area, a former clothing workshop, is located in the city center amidst many contemporary art galleries. Since 1993, Bureau Amsterdam has organized exhibitions of Amsterdam-based art in an international context, with an emphasis on new trends and an openness to many forms of media. Exchanges with ..."
"Re-shaping the conventions of fashion photography, Inez vanLamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin subvert the status quo toexplosive effect. Bringing an underground perspective toexclusive brands and top-shelf celebrities, this provocativeduo delight and vex in equal measure. Sometimes startling butalways stylish, both their fine art and commercial work challengethe outer limits of digital wizardry. In 2006 vanLamsweerde and Matadin were invite ..."
"Nan Goldin shoots campaigns for Prada, David LaChapelle does Camel cigarette ads, and Jurgen Teller got his start photographing models in i-d, w, and The Face. The debate between aesthetic images and commercial pressure has perhaps never been so relevant and complex as it is today, with the increasing commercialization of the art world, the not insignificant exploratory aspects of fashion photography, and our constantly expanding realm ..."
"French electronic musician Jean-Michel Jarre once defined Yohji Yamamoto's style like this: "For me, a woman in Yohji is like a nymphomaniac nun. His clothes are at once sensual and very ritualistic." This about a man whose reputation marks him as a designer of clothes for earnest intellectuals. This about a man whose 1998 "wedding" show featured a bridal striptease which took models from inflated Victorian crinolines down to slim-line ..."
"The enigmatic and genre-defying work of Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin “It is typical of the photographic art of van Lamsweerde and Matadin that they urge their image making to de-stabilise the pristine surfaces expected of consumer culture; to this end they make use, in turn, of the Gothic, inscrutability, androgyny, comedy, eroticism, surrealism, fantasy, montage, cinema, replication, image manipulation, Pop art, fetish ..."