“Steve Schapiro was the special photographer on the set of Taxi Driver, capturing the film’s iconic moments and actors behind the scenes. This book features hundreds of images selected from Schapiro’s archives, offering fans a trip back in time to witness the making of Scorsese’s masterpiece.”
Edited by TASCHEN Books.
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Bloody Good Stuff from our Shop: Hell Bound. New Gothic Art, by Francesca Gavin…

The first book to focus on new gothic art, Hell Bound highlights a new generation of contemporary artists who are increasingly obsessed with the darker things in life. Illustrators, street artists, sculptors, photographers, film-makers, installation artists and painters are all reflecting this renewed interest in gothic imagery.

“Il était une fois…” is an amazing pop-up book by Benjamin Lacombe. Out in November…

Lacombe’s Books on Amazon.com

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A Comparative View of the Human and Animal Frame by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins was published in 1860. Hawkins’ intent was “to give a comparative view of the variation in form of the bony skeleton or framework of those animals most frequently required by the artist, designer, or ornamentist.”

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Brooklyn-based artist and designer Brian Donnelly, a.k.a. KAWS, is well know all over the world for his humorous and challenging work.

KAWS’s first aesthetic influences came from skateboarding, as did his familiarity with New York City. Around 1991, he started marking his name in different areas of New Jersey and Manhattan. By the time he finished high school, he was mostly focused on graffiti and started intervening on advertising billboards. While exploring new strategies and locations for his work, he obtained a tool for opening bus shelter advertisement boxes. This allowed KAWS to seize the posters, integrate his work, and then replace them. He added an inflated skull with crossed bones and X-ed-out eyes; sometimes the skull was part of a serpentine-looking body that wrapped around the models, a blend that was humorous and daring. Word got around, and when it came to the point where the posters were pulled down and collected almost as soon as KAWS had replaced them, he decided to move on. Next he channeled his creativity into his studio practice, as well as products he developed and distributed on his own and in his boutique in Tokyo, OriginalFake, in partnership with Medicom Toy.

His firts solo museum exhibition of the work of, includes his most recent paintings, sculptures, and drawings, as well as a survey of his iconic street art, apparel, product and graphic designs is open at Aldrich Museum until January 2nd 2011.

The show is curated by Mónica Ramírez-Montagut, who also edited the forthcoming monograph published by Skira/Rizzoli International (out in November). This book is going to be awesome, don’t miss it!
You can preorder it here.