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只要你看过《Mad Man》，相信都会对那个“Big Idea”如泉涌一般的美国广告黄金年代印象深刻。的确，在美国上世纪50年代至60年代间，广告业搭乘着“消费至上”的快车蓬勃发展，因而催生了无数令人印象深刻的聪明的广告作品。文化人类学家、平面设计历史学家、TASCHEN出版社特约编辑Jim Heimann将诞生于黄金年代间，且最具代表性的印刷广告集结成书《Mid-Century Ads: Advertising from the Mad Men Era》，不论从是创意还是视觉表现，都是那个年代广告人的智慧与野心的体现。
Mid-Century Ads: Advertising from the Mad Men Era is a fascinating documentation of American print advertising in the 50s and 60s. The book is edited by cultural anthropologist and graphic design historian Jim Heimann, who is also the Executive Editor for TASCHEN America.
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荷兰设计师Ivo Schmetz的自制书《Archivo De Pivo》，以视觉、文字、设计和摄影为载体，建立了一个全然来自于个人经历与想像的，无规则无边界，介于真实与虚拟之间的世界观。全部内容都由Ivo Schmetz一手包办，平时，他忙于阿姆斯特丹设计工作室310k和唱片厂牌Basserk。秘密炮制三年时间，才正式对外释出这本发自内心的，充满了快乐、能量、灵感与个人情感的《Archivo De Pivo》。
Archivo De Pivo is an autonomous book about the world. It transforms personal memories, dreams, fantasies, ideas, stories and travel experiences into a new borderless universe. The writer plays with the truth and fiction and is not concerned about objectivity or accuracy. It is an open hearted, warm, layered and vibrating view on the world. Ivo Schmetz has written, photographed, designed and published the whole book himself. During normal work days he is busy with his design studio 310k or record label Basserk but this project was his own and he has kept a secret until it was completely finished. He worked on it for more then 3 years, quietly behind his laptop during the nights or with a hangover in the weekend. The result is this: a book that is coming straight from the heart, full of joy, energy, inspiration and personal feelings!
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在过去的十年中，自闭症这个社会议题引发了很多人的关注。每150个儿童中，就有1个患有自闭症。《Drawing Autism》一书中，收录了全世界50位自闭症人士的绘画和拼贴作品，试图通过这些作品来窥探他们看待世界的独特视角。他们中有如Gregory Blackstock，Jessica Park、叶平连（Ping Lian Yeak）等成就卓越的艺术家，也有很多名字不被大家所知道的天才，例如之前介绍过那位，喜欢画鸟的13岁的荷兰小画家David Barth。
Over the last decade autism has become an international topic of conversation. Knowing no racial, ethnic or social barriers, today autism is diagnosed in 1 in every 150 children. Drawing Autism celebrates the artistry and self-expression found in the drawings, paintings and collages created by individuals diagnosed with autism. The work of over 50 international contributors exhibits unique perspectives on how these individuals see the world and their places in it. Author Jill Mullin, a behavior analyst and educator, has assembled a staggering array of work from established artists like Gregory Blackstock, Jessica Park and Ping Lian Yeak to the unknown but no less talented. Their creations, coupled with artist interviews, comprise a fascinating and compelling book that makes visual how autism manifests differently in every diagnosis.
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Linda McCartney，生前不单是Paul McCartney的妻子，她还是摄影师、食谱作家、音乐家和动物维权人士。最近，他们的孩子，服装摄影师Stella McCartney从母亲留下的20万张照片中筛选出了一部分，集结成书《Linda McCartney: Life in Photographs》。你不但可以看到1960-70乐坛大神，如The Beatles、Rolling Stones、Aretha Franklin、Jimi Hendrix、Bob Dylan、Janis Joplin等人的珍贵照片，还有McCartney一家的私密照。
Linda McCartney: Life in Photographs, from Taschen, is a retrospective volume – selected from Linda McCartney’s archive of over 200,000 images – produced in close collaboration with Paul McCartney and their children. The world through Linda McCartney’s lens is not just a document of the rock ‘n roll world from the sixties on but also a moving personal journal and a lasting testament to her talent.
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“我曾经的理想之一，是在实验室做一个操作员，为来做实验的学生们配试剂，装瓶，或者制作石蜡切片标本。日复一日，沉默的简单重复劳动中包含着最大的诗意。拍照片给我带来的享受与此类似，那过程就如同为世界制作切片标本，对于标本的价值我很少去关心，它们单个来看是脆弱、虚假、不值一提的，但我知道，有朝一日这些标本能够重组出一个过去的世界，无数的‘虚假’生出了真实。面对世界我常常觉得是无力而不可得的，拍摄则让我觉得能用穷举的方式去尽可能接近这个世界。‘即鹿无虞，惟入于林中’，这便是我对摄影的全部想法吧。”——陈思然
来自香蕉鱼书店及其背后的香蕉鱼影像书籍出版社A Perfect Book的夏天制作，陈思然的个人摄影作品集。
Bananafish Books is very proud to announce it’s first publication, A r i a, a new photobook by Chen Siran which is also the first book of the photographer. Chen Siran is a female photographer currently living and working in the city of Beijing.
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法国摄影师Fabien Seguin，现居中国。这个老外自己动手做的《黑龙江》摄影集吸引了我的目光，看看他是怎么说的：“2009年的夏天，我基本待在哈尔滨和大庆，用一台135相机拍照。起初，这些照片不过是我的个人随记。不过，就在一个多月前，我觉得我得用它们来做些什么，比如说整理一下，做本书。于是我在武汉尝试着使用惠普Indigo印刷机做了这本38页，21张照片的书，同时，我也学会了InDesign。”
“I shot this series in summer 2009 mainly in Harbin and Daqing on 35mm film. These pictures were just really notes for myself in the beginning. Then, one month ago, I thought I could do something with these pictures, organize them in a book form, and I did this mostly as a test to try the only printer using Hp Indigo technology in Wuhan and to start learning how to use InDesign.” - Fabien Seguin
Born in 1980 in the French Alps, Fabien Seguin is a fine art photographer currently based in China. The book is soft cover, perfect bound, 38 pages, 21 images.
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