Portrait | Figure | Body

From political leaders to celebrities, photographic portraits exert considerable influence over our reaction to public figures. As the first academic publication focused on the Taikang photography collection, this book explores both the mechanics of portraiture and its psychological effects.Taikang Space is one of the...

The phenomenon of recognising faces in everyday objects, called face pareidolia, is experienced widely. Once thought of as a symptom of psychosis, it is increasingly understood that pareidolia images are processed by the same mechanism that would normally process emotion in a real face....

Best known in the art world for his ceramic works, to the wider public Grayson Perry is perhaps equally famous for his cross-dressing alter ego. This book reveals a unique relationship between Perry and renowned portrait photographer Richard Ansett through a previously unseen archive...

Seven hundred years of sculptural practice—from fourteenth-century Europe to the global present—are examined anew in this catalogue of the groundbreaking 2018 exhibition presented at The Met, New York. The book explores narratives of sculpture in which artists have sought to replicate the literal, living presence...

Rare & Collectible For years, Chinese photographer Zhong Weixing has been dedicated to shooting the very best portraits of international masters of photography. Through his lens he has captured the faces of many of the world's foremost contemporary photographers, including Sebastião Salgado, William Klein,...

What does “family” mean today? Which notions and prejudices come to light with it? How is modern family life shaped these days? In her project A Real Danish Family, the British artist Gillian Wearing asks these questions in ways that are both artistic and...

Rare & Collectible "Photographing kids is an adventure. You can't expect them to stay interested (or still)for long, and that can sometimes make life difficult technically. But on the other hand, when you are working with them, such difficulties become irrelevant because children can...

Rare & Collectible Unspeaking Likeness is a series of images of forensic facial reconstruction sculptures. Occasionally, when investigators call for it, shortly after an unidentified corpse (or part thereof) is found, a forensic artists constructs an artificial face made of clay or plaster to better...

Rare & Collectible Young Photographer is a super-sized book featuring superb reproductions of Amy Adler's photographs of her own drawings. Adler selects photographs from her personal collection, and in some instances from magazines, then makes a life-sized pastel drawing of the figure. She proceeds...

All across the Americas, from the 16th century onwards, enslaved Africans escaped their captors and struck out on their own. These runaways, having found their freedom, established their own communities or joined with indigenous peoples to forge new identities. Cimarron, borrowing a Spanish-American term...

This catalogue of Renoir's first monographic exhibition in Hungary (2023-2024) presenting almost seventy works, this book explores an oeuvre spanning six decades, from the beginnings through the major impressionist works to the last masterpiece, The Bathers, completed shortly before his death. Portraits, genre paintings, and...

Written by Marta Weiss, Curator of Photographs at the V&A, Making It Up: Photographic Fictions shows how, throughout its history, photography has been used to depict fiction as well as fact. With over 130 photographs supported by extended commentaries and an introduction, Making It Up: Photographic Fictions illustrates...

Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) is considered one of the greatest painters of all times. Often described as the archetype of the homo universalis, he was a true Renaissance polymath, active in fields as diverse as astronomy, painting, sculpting, science, mathematics, engineering, cartography and architecture....

One of the most groundbreaking artists to emerge in American art in the 1960s, Hannah Wilke consistently challenged the prevailing narratives of women’s bodies and their representation throughout her career, until her untimely death in 1993. Wilke established a uniquely feminist iconography in virtually...

A multitude of colourful and naïve biblical and other religious pottery figures found their way into 19th century Victorian homes in Britain. They were bought by tradesmen, shop-keepers, clerks, teachers and the more skilled working class people. This book tells the story of these...

From the daguerreotype to the digital age, Face Time is an accessible introduction to one of photography’s most popular subjects: ourselves. With over 250 illustrations, it presents rarely seen treasures alongside works by the greatest names in photography, including nineteenth-century pioneers Hippolyte Bayard and Julia Margaret Cameron, twentieth-century...

Originally published in 1967, this authoritative monograph, discusses Rodin's great significance as an innovator in sculpture, as well as his lasting influence on new sculptural directions in the early twentieth century.  Auguste Rodin is the most famous and influential sculptor of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He was...

The work of Mona Hatoum (b. 1952) addresses the growing unease of an ever-expanding world that is as technologically networked as it is fractured by war and exile. Best known for sculptures that transform domestic objects such as kitchen utensils or cribs into things...

Vivian Keulards is a conceptual portrait photographer. She creates visual human stories, often accompanied with text. Addiction is still a big taboo. With this photo book and project, Vivian Keulards breaks her silence around the addiction and death of her brother Hans. Years after...

From the filth and the fury to the elegant extravaganza, Peter Gravelle, the many named photographer, has remained in the shadows of punk rock, low culture and high fashion, deflecting attention while steadily producing an epic body of iconic work. The Death of Photography...