Showing posts with label Phaidon Press. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Phaidon Press. Show all posts

Saturday, November 22, 2025

The Fashion Book

The Fashion Book 
Language: English 
London: Phaidon, 2022. 
583 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color), portraits (chiefly color) ; 30 cm. 
ISBN: 9781838665708, 1838665706 
Summary: Fully revised and updated for 2022, this new edition of Phaidon's iconic global bestseller The Fashion Book takes a fresh look at the fashion world and the people who created and inspired it. Spanning almost 200 years, the entire industry is represented: from designers to photographers, stylists, and retailers, as well as editors and creative directors. Marking significant changes on the fashion landscape, this revised edition features important new names who have fundamentally shaped the way we see fashion in recent years, alongside fashion pioneers of the previous edition. This bestselling - and now updated - classic volume remains a comprehensive and definitive view of the fashion industry today.
Reviews: Library Journal

Sunday, November 16, 2025

Evolution: A Visual Record

Evolution: A Visual Record 
by Robert Clark, Joseph E. Wallace 
Language: English 
London: Phaidon Press, 2016. 2
39 pages : colour illustrations ; 26 cm. 
ISBN: 9780714871189, 0714871184 
Summary: Through 200 revelatory images, award-winning photographer Robert Clark makes one of the most important foundations of science clear and exciting to everyone. Evolution: A Visual Record transports readers from the near-mystical (human ancestors) to the historic (the famous 'finches' Darwin collected on the Galápagos Islands that spurred his theory); the recently understood (the link between dinosaurs and modern birds) to the simply astonishing.-- Source other than Library of Congress.
Reviews: Publishers Weekly

Saturday, November 15, 2025

Map: Exploring The World

Map: Exploring The World 
Language: English 
London: Phaidon Press Limited, 2020. 
352 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 25 cm. 
ISBN: 9781838660642, 183866064X 
Summary: Map: Exploring the World brings together more than 300 fascinating maps from the birth of cartography to cutting-edge digital maps of the twenty-first century. Selected by an international panel of curators, academics and collectors, the maps include those of the greatest names in cartography, as well as maps from indigenous cultures around the world, rarely seen maps from lesser known cartographers, and maps of outstanding beauty and surprising individuality from the current generation of map makers. An international bestseller when it first appeared in a larger format, this new edition has been created in a compact and covetable new format.
Reviews: Geographical Review; Library Journal; Terrae Incognitae; New York Times Book Review