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The definitive portrait of James Gandolfini — the actor who transformed television with The Sopranos. Film critic Jason Bailey explores the contradictions of a deeply private man who played the most compelling antihero in TV history, examining a career that changed American storytelling.

Yves Saint Laurent: Icons of Fashion Design (Abrams) — fifty signature YSL pieces presented in full-page photography, selected for the qualities that distinguish fashion from clothing. The argument for which pieces from forty years of haute couture deserve to be called works of art — including the first pieces that elevated non-Western visual traditions to haute couture status. The ideal YSL introduction for new readers. Published by Abrams.

Rubens: His Life and Works in 500 Images by Jp A. Calosse (Lorenz Books) — all five hundred major Rubens works tracing the career of the most prolific and most energetically vital painter of the Baroque: altarpieces, mythological canvases, portraits, and landscapes of such physical energy and visual richness that they remain the definitive statement of Baroque excess and Baroque pleasure. Published by Lorenz Books.

Manet: His Life and Works in 500 Images by Susie Hodge (Lorenz Books) — all five hundred major Manet paintings alongside the biographical material tracing the most controversial and most consequential career in nineteenth-century French painting. The man who, with Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe and Olympia, forced the question of what modern painting was allowed to depict — and whose answer transformed the history of Western art. Published by Lorenz Books.

Monet: His Life and Works in 500 Images by Susie Hodge (Lorenz Books) — all five hundred major Monet paintings alongside the biographical material that places them in the context of his long, productive life. Monet painted water, light, and atmosphere with a persistence and precision that no other painter has matched — returning to the same subjects across decades to watch how light changed them through seasons and hours. Published by Lorenz Books.

Magnum America (Thames & Hudson) — the Magnum Photos agency’s complete American archive: the definitive visual history of America through the eyes of the world’s greatest photographers, from the agency’s founding in 1947 to the present. A monumental achievement — the most comprehensive photographic document of American life available, and essential for anyone who cares about photography or the United States. 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.

Tarantino: A Retrospective by Tom Shone (Thames & Hudson) — the complete Tarantino career from Reservoir Dogs through Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, with exceptional visual material from the archive and rigorous analysis by one of film criticism’s sharpest minds. A serious engagement with a filmmaker who has been one of the defining forces in American cinema for three decades — polarising, essential, and completely original. Published by Thames & Hudson.

Tarkovsky: Films, Stills, Polaroids and Writings (Thames & Hudson) — the films, the working stills, the personal Polaroids, and the writings of Andrei Tarkovsky, one of the twentieth century’s greatest artists, gathered in the most comprehensive available account of a cinema of metaphysical ambition and extraordinary visual power. Andrei Rublev. Mirror. Stalker. Sacrifice. — an indispensable companion for anyone who has encountered his work. Published by Thames & Hudson.