180 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 18 cm, pb, German/English

32 p, ills b&w, 11 x 27 cm, pb, English

160 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 17 cm, pb, Russian/English

Meet the Queen

The public and private life
of the world’s most famous monarch

Born in 1926, married in 1947, crowned as Queen in 1953, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has carried out her duty for more than six decades. TASCHEN celebrates her remarkable royal story with a new edition of Her Majesty, a definitive photographic collection of her public and private life.

Brimming with history, tradition, glamour, and culture, the book spans the Queen’s early years right through to her most recent state tours and ceremonies. Along the way, we trace her coming of age during World War II; her marriage, motherhood, and coronation; her encounters with such icons of their age as the Beatles, Marilyn Monroe, and JFK; and her extensive international travels. We visit the spectacular royal palaces and enjoy the infectious celebration of royal weddings and jubilees. We witness the elegance of official portraits, and the tenderness and humor of informal and family moments.

As much a showcase of top photographers as a royal celebration, Her Majesty includes the work of such luminaries as Cecil Beaton, Studio Lisa, Dorothy Wilding, Karsh, Lord Snowdon, David Bailey, Patrick Lichfield, Wolfgang Tillmans, Rankin, and Annie Leibovitz.

Her Majesty.
A Photographic History 1926–Today

This Is What Democracy Looked Like

A Visual History of the Printed Ballot

Alicia Yin Cheng

This Is What Democracy Looked Like, the first illustrated history of printed ballot design, illuminates the noble but often flawed process at the heart of our democracy. An exploration and celebration of US ballots from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this visual history reveals unregulated, outlandish, and, at times, absurd designs that reflect the explosive growth and changing face of the voting public. The ballots offer insight into a pivotal time in American history---a period of tectonic shifts in the electoral system---fraught with electoral fraud, disenfranchisement, scams, and skullduggery, as parties printed their own tickets and voters risked their lives going to the polls.

Alicia Yin Cheng is a founding partner of MGMT. design in Brooklyn, New York. She currently serves as an external critic for the MFA program at the Rhode Island School of Design and has taught at Yale University, Maryland Institute College of Art, Barnard College, and Cooper Union. Cheng was a past board member of the AIGA/NY chapter and the Fine Arts Federation.

Details: Hardcover
Size: 6.75 X 10.25 IN
Pages: 176
Color: 200
Publication Date: 06/30/2020
Rights: World
ISBN: 9781616898878

Issue 03 - Resilience

In the new issue of Point.51, we bring together stories of untold courage and endurance from across Europe. Printed over 136 pages with 102 images, we follow the lives of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances: stories of adversity and hardship in challenging times, but ultimately of strength, survival, and hope.

“Perfect reading for right now” – Magalleria

• Rafael Bastido de los Santos has a master’s degree and speaks excellent English, but he couldn’t find one stable job – so he worked three part-time. Like many young Spaniards, he faces a choice between life at home and more attractive career opportunities abroad.

• Emma Ringqvist sailed the Atlantic Ocean alone for nine months, including sixty-seven days where she was completely out of reach of both land and people. It was the purest experience of loneliness.

• Irish millennial writers are a hot literary trend. But Lucy Sweeney Byrne – who doesn’t read reviews – is different, transcending the line between fact and fiction as she records the highs and lows of young women travelling a pre-corona world, in search of self.

• There are 800,000 informal and unpaid caregivers in Portugal, but their work is largely hidden and their stories untold. Photographer Teresa Nunes’ mother is one of them.

• When Monique Jackson was told she “almost certainly” had COVID-19, she expected to be sick for a couple of weeks. Now “long-haulers” – and a growing body of research – are beginning to reveal an unexplained part of the pandemic.

• In the mountains of northern Albania, the “shepherd’s life” is little-known – and a long way from the romanticised ideal.

• Kristina Sergeeva visits the formerly “closed” and classified secret Russian city her grandparents were recruited to, where residents once found solace and security in luxurious isolation from the outside world.

• For school leavers in England, “lockdown” cut short one of the most formative experiences of their lives. Serena Brown meets five young women from West London who talk about the challenges of their final year.
  
  
  
• German veterans of Kosovo and Afghanistan who have Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder often feel isolated from a society where the experience of war is considered a “taboo” subject. 

COMMANDER IN CHEAT: HOW GOLF EXPLAINS TRUMP

02 . Britain

Britain is changing. The result of the Brexit referendum spectacularly shattered the illusion of a broad social consensus, but the issues it has revealed extend well beyond leaving the European Union. Britain now faces an acute identity crisis, without easy answers.

In issue two, we get to grips with Britain at a time of unprecedented global attention. The stories and photographs inside stretch across the UK, throwing light on how Britain got to where it is today – and where it might be heading in the future.

Herkunft: England
Sprache: Englisch