Photography

Globetrotting filmmaker Wim Wenders always takes his old panorama camera with him, using it whenever the sheer wealth of what he sees and the impression it leaves on him breaks the normal scale of things.

For a decade, Ken Schles watched the passing of time from his Lower East Side neighbourhood. His camera fixed the instances of his observations, and these moments became the foundation of his invisible city. Friends and architecture come under the scrutiny of his lens and, when sorted and viewed in the pages of this book, a remarkable achievement of personal vision emerges.

-Portraits of the faces behind the world's most famous hands - each peeling a banana These hand models are the stars of the biggest advertising campaigns around, but you've never seen their faces... until now. 24 portraits, 24 ways to peel a banana.

The Kama Sutra has thrilled and fascinated western readers since the book was first translated and made available in a small privately printed version in 1883 by noted orientalist and author Sir Richard Francis Burton.This ancient Hindu text, written by Vatsyayana, gives practical advice in prose and poetry on the four goals of ......