Nominated through on-line votes and selected by Life editors, the 100 images in this compendium cover unforgettable moments in "The Arts," "Society," "War & Peace" and "Science & Nature." The photographs are all striking-whether visually or viscerally, artistically or emotionally-but many are difficult to look at. As Gordon Parks writes in his introduction, "these images helped push us toward a change." And so it's possible to revisit the moments when a white crowd in Indiana cheered at the hanging bodies of two black men, when grieving members of AIDS activist David Kirby gathered around his deathbed, when the 1937 bombing of Shanghai left a train station destroyed and a single bloody child alone amidst the wreckage. There are a few lighter moments-the Beatles arriving at JFK in 1964, the American Olympic hockey team celebrating their 1980 landmark victory over the "Soviet machine"-but over all, this gathering of photos shows our darker hours. There's little here that hasn't been reprinted numerous times, but it's a stirring collection nevertheless.
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Artistic genius, political activist, painter and decorator, mythic legend or notorious graffiti artist? The work of Banksy is unmistakable, except maybe when it’s squatting inthe Tate or New York’s Metropolitan Museum. Banksy is responsible for decorating the streets, walls, bridges and zoos of towns and cites throughout the world. Witty and subversive, his stencils show monkeys with weapons of mass destruction, policeman with smiley faces, rats with drills and umbrellas.If you look hard enough you’ll find your own. His statements, incitements, ironies and epigrams are by turns intelligent and cheeky comments on everything from the monarchy and capitalism to the war in Iraq and farm animals. His identity remains unknown, but his work is prolific. And now for the first time, he’s putting together the best of his work – old and new in a fully illustrated colour volume.

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「女装」というフェチズムと文化を撮る、新しい「女装少年写真集」―― 『スク水』『絶対領域』など、さまざまな目線から、見る人を楽しませる写真を撮る写真家・青山裕企氏が新たに作りだす世界は「女装少年」。 テレビや雑誌、新聞など各種メディアを賑わせる「女装」という新しいカルチャーは、もはやひとつの固定化した文化として認知されつつあります。 かわいらしい服やフェミニンな服を着たいという男性、あるいはそれを見るのが好きだという人々は男女関係なく増えてきており、もはやひとつのファッションとして存在しています。 そんな中において、青山氏が撮る「女装」というシチュエーションにある写真は、顔を撮影せず、身体と動きで「女装」を表現するという、ひとつ独自の世界観をもって描き出される「女装そのもの」を収めた写真によるフェティッシュなフォトブックです。 これまでの「女装写真集」とはまったく違う視線の、「女装」というものそのものを扱う新しい写真集は、女装が好きだという人々の「女装少年を見たい」「女装がしたい」という二つの大きな嗜好ともに吸収できる写真集になっております。
著者について
「身近な人」を被写体に、「個」ではなく、シンボライズされた「記号」を撮る手法により、今までにない新たな世界を写真によって築き上げる写真家。『スクールガール・コンプレックス』(イーストプレス)、『絶対領域』(一迅社)など多数の写真集を手掛け、独自の表現に魅了されるファンも数多い。

Where Children Sleep presents English-born photographer James Mollison's large-format photographs of children's bedrooms around the world--from the U.S.A., Mexico, Brazil, England, Italy, Israel and the West Bank, Kenya, Senegal, Lesotho, Nepal, China and India--alongside portraits of the children themselves. Each pair of photographs is accompanied by an extended caption that tells the story of each child: Kaya in Tokyo, whose proud mother spends $1,000 a month on her dresses; Bilal the Bedouin shepherd boy, who sleeps outdoors with his father's herd of goats; the Nepali girl Indira, who has worked in a granite quarry since she was three; and Ankhohxet, the Kraho boy who sleeps on the floor of a hut deep in the Amazon jungle. Photographed over two years with the support of Save the Children (Italy), Where Children Sleep is both a serious photo-essay for an adult audience, and also an educational book that engages children themselves in the lives of other children around the world. Its cover features a child's mobile printed in glow-in-the-dark ink.