Woodstock: Peace, Music & Memories

By Brad Littleproud and Joanne Hague

1969, when the Woodstock Music & Art Festival began. An event that brought more than half a million people to Max Yasgur’s farm in the Catskill Mountains of New York for three days of music and celebration, Woodstock signaled the popularity and potency of modern rock ’n’ roll in American society, and ultimately led to the creation of today’s popular music empire and celebrity culture. Three books, two new volumes and an updated reissue, provide exhaustive and often spirited accounts from insiders, historians and participants in the epic festival that paved the way for the convergence of commerce and culture that constitutes such contemporary spectacles as Bonnaroo.

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Ed Ruscha: Fifty Years of Painting

Transforming words into icons and images into wide-screen epics, Ed Ruscha has wholly reconceived the terms of painting for our era. Tagged variously as a Conceptualist, Pop artist or latter-day Surrealist, Ruscha flouts category, or rather incorporates all categories, always surprising and experimenting with both subject and method. His paintings are steeped in our times: cinema, advertising, logos, late capitalism and the twists and turns of postwar art have all informed his iconography since the early 1960s, arriving on the cool surfaces of his canvases with magnetic detachment.

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Photography: The 50 Most Influential Photographers of All Time

Icons of Culture : Photography presents the spellbinding ideas and images of 50 of the most influential photographers in history and chronicles 10 of the most significant trends and developments in the field.
Following the personal histories and photography of such luminaries from around the world as Man Ray, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Annie Leibovitz, and Cecil Beaton, this intriguing book sheds light on the inspirational forces that have shaped the way in which the world views itself.
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Tim Burton

Over the past three decades, Tim Burton has reinvented genre filmmaking, melding the fantastic, the horrific, and the comic. Accompanying Burton's first major museum retrospective, this book considers his career as an artist and filmmaker. It narrates the evolution of his creative practices, following the current of his visual imagination from his early childhood drawings through his mature work, and revealing how popular culture and Pop Surrealism have infused his distinctive vision. Reproducing now only film stills but drawings, paintings, photographs, and maquettes from both film and nonfilm projects, the book presents previously unseen works from Burton's personal archive and sheds new light on his singular aesthetic.
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Grey Gardens

This eclectic volume offers a myriad of collaged illustrations, photographs, film stills, production notes and other archival materials alongside transcripts of the Beales' own stories and conversations edited from unreleased Grey Gardens sound recordings. Structured to mirror the Maysles' own approach to the world of the Beales, it closely resembles the enchanting clutter of the mansion, a self-contained world littered with mementos and telling ephemera. It also reproduces unpublished photographs by both Albert and David Maysles. With an introduction by Albert Maysles, drawings and illustrations by Albert's daughter, Rebekah Maysles and an appendix with the full transcript of Grey Gardens, as well as an audio CD of sound recordings capturing the Beales at their best, this book is the essential companion to the film and a beautiful testimony to its legacy. The 60-minute CD that comes with the book contains conversations with the Beales and their friends, songs and poetry recited by the two Edies and audio of the Beales during and after watching the film for the first time.
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Hunt & Gather: Discovering New Art

Hunt & Gather showcases contemporary international art featured in galleries and media across the globe. Its striking collection of surrealism, pop art, illustration, collage, graphic design and mixed media represents many of the poses struck by today's most boundary-pushing artists. Aspects of the collection are dark, at times macabre, but have their compliment of arrestingly playful pieces.

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Atget: Photographe De Paris

Originally published in 1930, Atget : Photographe de Paris has been reproduced by Books on Books, an ongoing publishing project dedicated to making rare and out-of-print photography books accessible to photobook enthusiasts.
This edition reproduces all 96 collotype plates and an English translation of the Pierre Mac Orlan text on Eugene Atget's remarkable documentation of Paris at the turn of the 19th century. 
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