Matthew Rolston – Beauty Light

Matthew Rolston offers a unique series of glamorous photo portraits. With painterly skill, Warhol’s protégé creates gorgeous vignettes of some of the world’s most scintillating and talented people.
Rolston’s photographs channel the spirit of vintage Hollywood. In two luxuriously printed limited editions, Rolston presents a stunning series of celebrity portraits — veritable paintings of color, light, vampish intrigue and retro glamour.

• Offering a very limited numbered edition to display in a custom-made, extra large linen box
• Containing one of Rolston’s most distinctive photographs as a signed, numbered and archival print
• Penelope Cruz, Snakes, Los Angeles, 2000, Format: 48.6 x 35.2 cm, 19 1/8 x 13 7/8 in. / Lenny Kravitz, Opium Bed, New York 1998, Format: 35.2 x 48.6 cm, 13 7/8 x 19 1/8 in.

Limited to only 300 copies

Tim Walker – Pictures Limited Collectors and Special Editions

Tim Walker’s exuberant fashion photography has dazzled the readers of Vogue and other leading magazines for over a decade. Elaborate staging and romantic motifs characterize his distinctive style.

Compiled by Walker himself, a mélange of photo essays and personal pictures as well as scrapbook pages of collages and preliminary studies take us deep into his creative methods.
In addition, there is a fascinating array of quotes from Walker, his assistants, fashion editors and models. These two editions showcase some of the most imaginative art produced today.

This book is released in two limited edition versions:

• A limited Pictures Special edition
  of 100 copies containing a a signed print : Lili Cole on Fish Hook, 2004, Format: 26 x 34 cm, 10 1/4 x 13 1/3 in.
• A limited Pictures Collector’s edition
  of 50 copies containig a siged numbered and stamped print: Lili Cole and Spiral Staircase, 2005, Format: 48 x 57 cm, 18 7/8 x 22 7/16 in.

Both releases contain:

• 368 page hardcover
• linen slipcase
• 268 color and 11 b/w photographs
• Text in English, German, French, Italian and Spanish

Ed Hardy – Beyond Skin (Collectors Edition)

This distinctive collector’s edition showcases the exuberant images of Ed Hardy Beyond Skin. For those hooked on Hardy’s rich and detailed style, readers can fully appreciate his technical mastery translated from classic tattoo flash to other fine art mediums.

Each volume has a museum-quality clamshell box and includes a signed and numbered, limited edition lithographic print (c. 36 x 43 cm) created especially for this collector’s edition.

• Offering a signed and numbered edition to display in a custom-made, extra large linen box
• Each copy contains a unique limited edition fine art print made by world renowned Trillium Graphics
• 250 pages
• Hardcover with jacket
• clamshell box (37 x 44 cm)
• portfolio with a signed and numbered lithographic print
• 200 color illustrations
• Text in English, German, French, Spanish and Italian
• Retails for $3250

This book is also released in a regular edition of 12.9 x 10.1 x 1.3 inches with a list price of $98 (currently available at 33% off!)

Ellen von Unwerth – Fraulein – Boxed Limited Edition Book

Ellen von Unwerth

Ellen von Unwerth used to be a “supermodel” before she became a photographer and knows her stuff. In this incredible book she depicts women in a candid, intimate, sensual and always beautiful way. Paying homage to the world’s most delectable women, Fraulein celebrates female icons in provocative poses: Claudia Schiffer, Penelope Cruz, Natalie Portman, Kate Moss, Vanessa Paradis, Britney Spears, Dita von Teese, Adriana Lima, Eva Mendes, Lindsay Lohan, Carla Bruni, Eva Green and many more.

Limited Edition of only 1500 copies, signed and numbered by the photographer

The Fraulein Boxen Limited Edition Book

Switching effortlessly between color and immaculate black and white, von Unwerth’s photography revels in sexual intrigue, femininity, romance, fetishism and sheer joie de vivre. The photographs in this book were shot over the last 15 years and many are previously unpublished. This is yet another massive quality photography book by top publishing house Taschen, best known for their incredible works such as the awesome Helmut Newton’s Sumo book and recent re-release.

Hardcover in a clamshell box, 30.5 x 44 cm (12 x 17.3 in.), 482 pages

Images courtesy of Taschen Publishing

Hugh Hefner’s Playboy (6 Volumes Collectors Edition)

Taschen has announced an incredible six-volume limited edition anthology of Hugh Hefner’s Playboy, celebrating the decadence, sophistication and wit of the original men’s magazine and its creator.

Hugh Hefner’s Playboy highlights the extraordinary years between 1953 and 1979, with a huge selection of centerfolds and writing by Gore Vidal, Norman Mailer, Jack Kerouac and Ray Bradbury. It also includes some of the most important Playboy Interviews, including those with Martin Luther King, John Lennon, Richard Nixon, and Roman Polanski. This huge collection contains a vast selection of personal photos many previously unseen. These include behind-the-scenes shots from the Playboy Mansion, Playboy Clubs, and the Big Bunny jet. This is the definitive history of Playboy and its legendary founder.

• The Hugh Hefner’s Playboy 6 Volumes Collectors Edition is released in a very limited number of only 1,500 sets,each numbered and signed by Hugh Hefner
• Six volumes totaling 3,506 pages
• packaged in a 10mm-thick Plexiglas box
• Features 59 of the hottest Centerfolds in full size
• Contains all 312 covers from the magazine’s first 25 years
• Comprehensive overview of artwork and pictorials by all of the important Playboy artists and photographers
• Contains a facsimile edition of Playboy s groundbreaking first issue, featuring Marilyn Monroe’s iconic nude portrait
• Hefner s text in English with German, French and Spanish translations

Special bonus: includes a 7 x 7 cm piece of Hef’s legendary silk pajamas