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A sweeping visual history of 100 years of New York City filmmaking, featuring exclusive filmmaker interviews and a foreword by Matt Zoller Seitz. Film critic Jason Bailey reveals how cinema and the city shaped each other across ten iconic decades.

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.

The Wes Anderson Collection: Bad Dads by Lauren Wilford (Abrams) — the best work from multiple iterations of the beloved Bad Dads art show, in which independent artists from around the world respond to Anderson’s visual world with creativity that reflects how deeply his aesthetic has penetrated the popular imagination. Essays contextualise both the art and the films — a beautiful celebration of one of cinema’s most distinctive visual artists. Published by Abrams.

Yves Saint Laurent: The Perfection of Style by Olivier Saillard (Abrams) — a beautiful and authoritative account of YSL’s career focused on the concept of perfection: the standard he held himself to and that his best work achieves. The trouser suit, the safari jacket, the tuxedo — the pieces that liberated the female body while simultaneously creating some of the most beautiful clothes ever made. Essential for serious students of fashion history. Published by Abrams.

Ballerina (Cabana) — the world of classical ballet celebrated through photography, backstage imagery, and the personal stories of the dancers who have dedicated their lives to one of the most visually spectacular and technically demanding performing arts. From the great European ballet companies to emerging schools of contemporary dance — Cabana’s visual intelligence applied to an art form of extraordinary physical and artistic difficulty. Published by Cabana.

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.

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.