Cape Light, Joel Meyerowitz’s series of serene and contemplative color photographs taken on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, quickly became one of the most influential and popular photobooks in the latter part of the 20th century after its publication in 1978, breaking new ground both for color photography and for the medium’s acceptance in the art world. Now, more than 35 years later, Joel Meyerowitz: Cape Light is back. This edition features all the now-iconic images, new

How to Make a Nation: A Monocle Guide reveals all you need to make a happy, vibrant and successful nation. From designing a better parliament, choosing a flag and creating social capital to taking care of your young and old, using culture to gain soft power and devising a national brand, this is a book for anyone who fancies a stint as PM, wants to be a more engaged citizen or just believes they des

"You could feel it in the air: something terrible was about to happen". Enid and Alfred Lambert drag their days by accumulating objects, memories, disappointments and frustrations of their marriage: one preys to the symptoms of a Parkinson's that he prefers to ignore, the other with the desire, now to become a life purpose, to gather for a "Last" Christmas the three children raised according to the rules and values ​​of post-war America, careful to "correct" any deviatio

Basic Forms is a brief, handy, visual introduction to the encyclopedic formal canon of industrial buildings in the Western world – and the Bechers devoted their life’s work to documenting it. The book brings together, as its title implies, basic forms of all kinds of industrial structures in a representative selection of 61 photographs. The different forms of the most frequent types of structure are presented like the letters of an alphabet. The Bechers’ repertoire of

"It makes no sense to ask where Ninfa begins her run, nor where she will end it. For Aby Warburg Ninfa designates the impersonal hero of Nachleben, the 'survival' of those paradoxical things of the time, just existing, but indestructible, that come to us from afar and are incapable of dying completely. We cannot know where, or when, Ninfa will end, but how far she is able to nest, hide, transform. Many things happen to traditional nymphs