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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.

Andy Warhol: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (Galison) — Warhol’s aphorisms, observations, and semi-autobiographical reflections on fame, money, shopping, beauty, and boredom, spoken with the deadpan wit of someone who thought deeply about all of them. One of the most entertaining and most unexpectedly illuminating books about contemporary culture produced in the twentieth century. Published by Galison.

Andy Warhol After the Party 250 Piece Wood Puzzle by Galison — this premium wooden jigsaw puzzle brings one of the Pop Art pioneer’s most vibrant late-career screenprints into your hands. Featuring sturdy, uniquely shaped wooden pieces, it offers a tactile and engaging way to appreciate Warhol’s masterly play of neon color and shadow. It is a brilliant, interactive celebration of twentieth-century art history.

500 Self-Portraits by Julian Bell (Phaidon) — the complete history of the most intimate genre in the visual arts, from Dürer’s Messianic self-portrait through Rembrandt’s decades of self-scrutiny, Frida Kahlo’s symbolic autobiography, and the contemporary artists who have pushed the genre into entirely new territory. A complete history of how artists see themselves — and therefore of how they see, full stop. Essential Phaidon. Published by Phaidon.

Now Make This by Phaidon Editors (Phaidon) — twenty-four hands-on projects created by the editorial and design team at Phaidon, drawing on the visual vocabulary of artists, designers, and craftspeople whose work Phaidon has documented over its century of publishing. Bookbinding, ceramics, textiles, printmaking, and graphic design — each chosen to introduce a specific material or technique. A beautifully produced invitation to creative practice. Published by Phaidon.

Magnum Magnum (Thames & Hudson) — the greatest photographs from the complete Magnum archive, selected by the agency’s own photographers — each choosing the image by a colleague they most admire. A portrait of the world’s most important photographic agency as a community of peers: diverse in style and subject, united by a commitment to the photograph as a vehicle for truth. One of the great photography books. Published by Thames & Hudson.

Design: The Whole Story (Thames & Hudson) — the complete history of design from the crafts of antiquity through the Arts and Crafts movement, the Bauhaus, postwar industrial design, graphic design, corporate identity, digital interfaces, and the sustainability imperative of the contemporary moment. Over five hundred objects and projects profiled — the most comprehensive design history available in a single volume, with Thames & Hudson’s characteristic visual richness. Published by Thames & Hudson.

Robert Capa: In the Making by Cynthia Young (Thames & Hudson) — the complete arc of Robert Capa’s career presented with exceptional archival photography and the contextual depth that the work demands. From the falling soldier of the Spanish Civil War through the Normandy beach landings to his death on a landmine in Vietnam in 1954 — the greatest war photographer of the twentieth century, and the most debated. Published by Thames & Hudson.

Harry Gruyaert: Morocco (Thames & Hudson) — Gruyaert’s definitive Morocco collection, gathering work from across five decades of photographing a country whose chromatic intensity has drawn him back repeatedly. The terracotta and cobalt and saffron of Marrakech, the silver Atlantic light of Essaouira — the full range of Moroccan visual experience captured by one of the great colour photographers. Large-format, rich, and completely absorbing. Published by Thames & Hudson.