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Velázquez: His Life and Works in 500 Images by Michael Howard (Lorenz Books) — all five hundred major Velázquez paintings, from the early Seville genre scenes through the court portraits of Philip IV to the incomparable Las Meninas. The greatest court painter of the seventeenth century and one of the greatest painters in Western art — whose psychological penetration and mastery of light and shadow have never been surpassed. Published by Lorenz Books.

Degas: His Life and Works in 500 Images by Gill Knappett (Lorenz Books) — all five hundred major Degas works alongside the biographical material tracing his extraordinary career. The most psychologically acute of the Impressionists — the painter who captured the backstage reality of the Paris ballet and the exhaustion of the laundress with a visual intelligence that went beyond Impressionism toward something more like a novelist’s interest in character and situation. Published by Lorenz Books.

Daido Moriyama: Complete Works (Thames & Hudson) — the most comprehensive survey of Moriyama’s fifty-year engagement with Tokyo: grainy, high-contrast, restlessly mobile images that capture the city as a permanent present tense, a flux to be inhabited rather than a space to be composed. One of the twentieth century’s most important photographers, in the definitive Thames & Hudson monograph. Published by Thames & Hudson.

The Architecture Concept Book by James Tait (Thames & Hudson) — fifty of the most important concepts in architectural thinking, from classical notions of order and proportion through the Modernist revolution to contemporary debates about parametric design and sustainability, presented with the visual richness and the scholarly depth that Thames & Hudson brings to its major reference volumes. An essential intellectual companion for architecture students. Published by Thames & Hudson.

Harry Gruyaert: Between East and West (Thames & Hudson) — a career-spanning collection from one of the great European photographers, a master of colour who spent decades photographing the points of contact between Eastern and Western visual cultures in Morocco, India, Egypt, and the Soviet Union. Gruyaert helped define the possibilities of colour photography in an era when most serious photographers still worked in black and white. Published by Thames & Hudson.

Vivienne Westwood Catwalk: The Complete Collections by Alexander Fury (Thames & Hudson) — every Westwood collection, from the punk origins of the 1970s through four decades of politically engaged, technically accomplished fashion that simultaneously revived historical tailoring traditions and subverted every fashion convention it encountered. The complete record of the most important British fashion career — runway photography and expert commentary throughout. Published by Thames & Hudson.