Christian Dior called Cristobal Balenciaga "the master of us all." The priest-like Balenciaga, whose private life remained a total mystery until the day he died, created day dresses of deceiving simplicity and evening gowns of staggering extravagance, and for them he was paid the highest prices in the couture world. His faithful clients were the great fashion plates of the post...(展开全部)

Christian Dior called Cristobal Balenciaga "the master of us all." The priest-like Balenciaga, whose private life remained a total mystery until the day he died, created day dresses of deceiving simplicity and evening gowns of staggering extravagance, and for them he was paid the highest prices in the couture world. His faithful clients were the great fashion plates of the post...(展开全部)

The publication of Paris marks the first time that the significant body of photographs which Robert Frank made in Paris in the early 1950s have been brought together in a single book. Having left Switzerland in 1924, this 1951 trip to France was only Frank's second return to Europe after he had settled in New York City in 1947, and some of the images he made during that visit h...(展开全部)

Paris Peasant is one of the central works of Surrealism. Largely a detailed description of a Parisian passage about to be torn down, Paris Peasant is also part fiction, part memoir, and part treatise. The translator received the author's approval for this translation, which has never before been published in the U.S.

NY: St. Martin's Press, 2002. 2nd. Oblong 4to (11-13" wide), 95pp, color and b&w illustrations, cloth. Fine/Fine.

NY: St. Martin's Press, 2002. 2nd. Oblong 4to (11-13" wide), 95pp, color and b&w illustrations, cloth. Fine/Fine.

William Klein always dreamed of living in Paris, like Henry Miller, Gertrude Stein, and other like-minded artists and writers. In 1948, stationed by the United States Army in Paris, he stayed--and fled his family and America to become a painter. He quickly found another family and recognition for his talent. Today, one is tempted, like critic Anthony Lane, to say that he is "th...(展开全部)