In 2004, Steidl published a seven-volume facsimile edition of the complete first decade of Interview magazine, housed in a trolley carrying case, which quickly sold out and has since become highly collectible. This edition is no longer available, but D.A.P. now has limited stock of the seven complete facsimile books, available for only $195! If you missed the collector's edition, this is a unique opportunity to own the facsimile volumes themselves. Founded by Andy Warhol and Gerard Malanga in 1969, and celebrating its fortieth anniversary in 2009, Interview magazine has developed from the newsletter of the Studio 54 set into the definitive guide to the stars of today and tomorrow. Interview's brilliant conception was to invite celebrities who might be fans of one another's work to interview each other, eliciting often intimate and revelatory results. Alongside these interviews are photographs by the cream of celebrity and fashion photography--Robert Mapplethorpe, Francesco Scavullo, Herb Ritts, Ara Gallant, Peter Beard, Bruce Weber, Perry Berenson and others--who are given the opportunity to make some of their most challenging and original work. For 40 years, Interview has offered a fresh perspective on the sexy, fascinating and funny people who shape popular culture.

Andy Warhol's Interview (7 Volume Set)

Arts & Photography

John, Elton

History & Criticism

Edition 7L

Over the past few years, Hedi Slimane’s ongoing design collaborations with musicians on their stage costumes has allowed him unfettered access around the stages of live concerts by David Bowie, The White Stripes, Beck, The Rolling Stones, Blondie, The Strokes and The Libertines... in Paris, London, Berlin, New York and Los Angeles. This juncture between fashion and music has evolved into a personal photographic investigation on the mythology of the rock concert. In Slimane's pictures, the stars of the shows are often conspicuously absent; what the images reveal, instead, is a meditation on the creation of a rock personality, the silent ritual that goes on in the space he (or she?) inhabits. His images capture, as Slimane himself puts it, the sacred--almost sacrificial--space of the stage.”

Hedi Slimane: Stage

Individual Artists

In Paul Jasmin's hauntingly beautiful new book, Lost Angeles, the city takes on a quality of light and personality known only to someone who has experienced it first hand. Here are the “tarnished angels” that hang out on Hollywood Boulevard or in local motel rooms, that have come to L.A. looking for the American dream, Hollywood style, and have quickly discovered it takes more than just desire to succeed. Jasmin combines formally fluid pictures of these youths languishing in dreamlike settings or in erotically charged compositions--clothed and unclothed. His images present the viewer with a personal survey of Los Angeles, of the place and the people who live there, some of whom have realized their dreams, some of whom are still searching. A major figure in the world of photography and an influence on many of today's young artists, Jasmin has included among his subjects his friends, including Sofia Coppola, who along with long-time friend and admirer Bruce Weber, have contributed essays that explore the depths of this truly rarefied vision. They add yet another dimension to his portrait of a town they all love.

Lost Angeles

COPPOLA, SOFIA

For the past 30 years, I've been taking photos of people with cameras when on location, at home, and in my studio. During this time my camera collection has grown to over one hundred, and I still use every one of them! I got my first in 1965: a Nikon F. Next was a Leica M-2 with a Summicron 35mm lens. Soon after I moved into larger formats. First came a Graflex 4 x 5 and a Rolleiflex. Then Hasselblads, Linhofs and Mamiyas. My most recent purchase is a digital Olympus that I love to use for personal work. They are all close friends. I am truly camera crazy! I think the pictures in this book reflect that I am not the only one! --Arthur Elgort A master of the snapshot aesthetic, Arthur Elgort is one of the most famous camera-toting people in the world. In Camera Crazy, he takes pictures of other camera-toting people, from children to supermodels, from strangers back to himself. There's Cindy Crawford and Richard Gere, cameras at the ready. There's a crowd of paparazzi. It's an endless and ever-growing sea of lenses, this camera crazy culture of ours. Sometimes it seems as if we can't even see unless it's through a lens! And who better to capture the contemporary zeitgeist than the maestro of the framed moment: Arthur Elgort.

Arthur Elgort: Camera Crazy

Elgort, Joan

Within the pages of V Best is the best of V magazine; a publication that doesn't fit on most bookshelves, not to mention magazine racks. V's large format is not the only thing that sets it apart, however; the magazine's temperament and style place it in a privileged spot among periodicals. V was launched in September, 1999, as the younger sibling publication to the limited-edition quarterly, Visionaire. But if Visionaire is a couture book, V is ready-to-wear--visually driven, international in scope, and collaborative in spirit. V is a magazine about fashion with a capital F, and all the things that go with it: art, music, film, architecture. Before V was put into print, the founders conceptualized it as a wall of 44 televisions, each tuned to a different station. Today you would need a wall of 250 televisions, but it's still a good way to think of the insane and unpredictable mix of people, places, and things that V celebrates in its pages. Here is a place where uptown meets downtown, celebrities mingle with total unknowns, high art converses with underground culture; all reflected through spreads, photography, and design. In the five years since its launch, V has grown up a lot, and the idea of grown-up and underground seems about as oxymoronic as wearing a thrift store T-shirt with an obscenely expensive designer bag. Which is to say, not at all. Chic, wacky, fun, fabulous . . . In a letter: V. The publication of V Best marks V's fifth anniversary and while the editors like to think of every issue as an instant hit, they've taken the best-of-the-best from their archive, bringing together everything from fashion stories by contributors like Mario Testino, Inez Van Lamsweerde, Vinoodh Matadin, and Karl Lagerfeld, to talks with celebrities as diverse as Janet Jackson, Norman Mailer, Helmut Lang, Beyonc Knowles, and David Bowie. This deluxe, two-volume, slipcased edition includes a voucher for a free copy of V-Best magazine, along with a large, folded poster.

V-Best: Best of V Magazine

Graphic Design

The Wow Wow Diary 2005 is a collection of images sourced from strange and unusual websites. Presented in the form of a leather-bound desk diary, with a week to view per double-page spread, and an image to view per week, it offers something unexpected 52 times a year. Each picture has a URL caption which links the viewer to the original website source. The result is an internet diary that is both functional and intriguing.

Wow Wow Diary 2005

Preston, Richard

Back Stage &amp; Front Row is an all-access pass to the heady world of fashion and glamour, via the eyes of Gauthier Gallet. For almost ten years, Gallet scanned behind-the-scenes and the front-rows at the ready-to-wear and couture shows in Paris, Milan, New York, and Tokyo, as well as some of the most star-laden parties of the past decade. Uncontrived, personal images, his photos show fabulous untouchables to be surprisingly human. These images are documents of our times, a compilation of encounters, and a continuous expression of Gallet's great talent. His uncalculated photographs reveal the strength of his subjects and capture, in a split-second, the “now,” the moment. His unique working relationship with models, designers, and celebrities and their mutual trust is reflected in this collection of beautifully reproduced and timeless images. Back Stage &amp; Front Row is at once a documentary of Gallet's work and a testimony to his great talent.

Gauthier Gallet: Back Stage & Front Row

The personal art photographs of young fashion photographer S»bastien Meunier, who died in 2002, plunge the viewer into a disturbing world. Against a backdrop of life and death, Meunier invokes a bizarre cast of characters, animals, objects, and symbols to create an emotional mise-en-scÀne that becomes engraved on our unconscious. His obsessions are also revealed in the outstanding precision of his work, each photograph evidencing meticulous technological skill. This book reveals the vivid individual universe that Meunier left behind.

Sébastien Meunier: Visual Pollution

For six years, Jason Schmidt has traveled all over the world, to biennials, fairs, far-flung locations and home studios, photographing artists in their natural environments. This, his first book, is an intimate glimpse into the creative processes of some of his most important and exciting colleagues, accompanied by texts in their own words. Schmidt, whose work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Harper's Bazaar and The New Yorker,makes no pretense of forging a coherent international contemporary art scene--he's more interested in cataloguing its heterogeneity. His subjects include painters (Laura Owens, Luc Tuymans), photographers (Thomas Demand, Philip-Lorca diCorcia), video artists (Doug Aitken, Bill Viola), sculptors (Liz Larner, Marc Quinn), installation artists (Maurizio Cattelan, Gregor Schneider) and those who defy the categorical imperative of medium (Sophie Calle, Paul McCarthy). Each portrait is its own self-contained world, full of the mythology, symbols and methodology that inform, and ultimately become, the subject's art.

Jason Schmidt: Artists 2000-2006

Right from the beginning, Karl Lagerfeld conceived Room Service as a multi-track matrix: a series of photos, a short film and an unusual version of the song "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend," all collected in one deluxe volume. The project began when Lagerfeld was commissioned to create a campaign for Dom Perignon. The storyline he created was an ultra-contemporary fairy tale that recounted an irresistible attraction between two solitary and seductive hedonists whose paths cross at one of Paris's finest hotels--the woman played by Eva Herzigova, and the man by Brad Kroenig. Lagerfeld shot photographs of the stranger-couple's erotic encounter, and Johan Renck shot the film, all in the luxurious George V hotel. Says Lagerfeld, "Johan Renck is a music video genius. He liked the story and put it into action. He followed the script even more carefully than I could have done with still photos." For the song, Lagerfeld chose neo-folk singer/songwriter Devendra Banhart. "After Marilyn, who could have sung this song? A woman? I find Devendra's low-high, ambiguous voice amazing and absolutely perfect. His version of 'Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend' is magnificent, unique and daring." This deluxe volume features tritone printing, an exclusive vinyl single of Banhart's performance and a DVD of Renck's film.

Karl Lagerfeld: Room Service

Banhart, Devendra

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