Alas mert (7 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: As New. BOX S6 - Paperback magazine, as new. Partially sealed in original packaging. Minor scuffing and scratching to packaging.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Original bdg. HC. 4to. (28 x 20 cm). In English. [2], 64, [1] p., color and b/w photos. Mert & Marcus: Tales of the subconscious. [Album of photographs]. "Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott have made a shimmering impact upon our image culture over the past two decades. They have rewritten the rulebook for how to stage seductive voyeurism and activate our imaginations. They take the arena of fashion photography to one where social conventions and strictures can be suspended. The baton handed to them by their creative forebears Helmut Newton and Guy Bourdin, who dominated the well of French Vogue through the 1970s, centres on an understanding of human desire - of how to trigger it and, simultaneously, make us conscious of our viewership. We feel this in Mert & Marcus's images when we encounter the darkest stories as if glimpsed through a keyhole into a dreadful and potent other world. Mert & Marcus deploy an assembly of visual cues to stimulate our imaginations. References to radical art movements and notably the Symbolists and Surrealists staccato through their work. We see Gustave Moreau's Salome and Medea, Hans Bellmer's nightmarish dolls, George Platt Lynes's shadowed masculine forms, each recalibrated into contemporary scenes. Mert & Marcus are alchemists of sorts, who make new visual tales that can cause a chain reaction in our memory banks, leaving a far-reaching and indelible mark. Mert & Marcus's understanding of photography remains fundamentally as it began in the early 1990s - as a pluralistic medium grounded in experimentation. From the outset, their creative partnership has been about discovery and the challenge of how to visualise their imaginings. Their photographic signature shifts between the casual and elaborate - the glimpsed and strictly choreographed. At the heart of their modality is a shared history in the post-Punk environment of London where their partnership began in the early 1990s. They take the ultimate individualism of Punk - its defiance of conventions and dark romanticism - and reconfigure it in all of their iconic images. They customise and individualise everything with this sensibility and create fierce protagonists. Of course, they bring their own histories and experiences into play within the stories that they tell. We see, for instance, in their strong use of colour, a resonance with Mert Alas's Turkish heritage, encoded with pre-modern symbolism and ancient emotion. Marcus Piggott's absorption of his parents' connoisseurship of art and antiques is carried into the creative duo's sense of style that turns objects into subjects and stories - creating something new and tangible from what is old. Mert & Marcus are alchemists of sorts, who make new visual tales that can cause a chain reaction in our memory banks, leaving a far-reaching and indelible mark. (Excerpted from Charlotte Cotton's introduction to Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott).…

Paperback. Zustand: Fine. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Fine in original plain mailing box. 26 fine full page b/w and colour photos by Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott 53cms x 40 Hanging calendar format, spiral bound . Numbered 27298.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. First Edition. Hardback. 4to. Original publisher's light pink pebbled cloth boards lettered gilt on spine and on front cover pp 231. Copiously illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. Includes a good analytic essay on fashion photograph by Vince Aletti 'After Flattery.' About fine.Issued sans d/w.…

Wraps. Zustand: Very good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. 68, [2] pages plus covers. Covers are fold-outs. Illustrations (some in color). No CD present (Front cover says CD included). No poster present at page 48. Signed by Taylor Swifft on rear cover with sticker and Certificate of Authenticity. The Ta(y)ble of Contents includes Handwritten Lyrics, Personal Photos & Fashion Portraits. Lyrics: This si Why We Can't Have Nice Things; Look What You Made Me Do; Getaway Car; King of My Heart; Dress; Dancing WIth Our Hands Tied; Call It Waht You Want; New Year's Day. Video Shoot Photography: Valut Set; Motorcycle Set; Squad University Set; Ballroom Set; Plane Wing Set; Mountan of Taylors Set; Poster, and Poem. Reputation is the sixth studio album by Taylor Swift. Swift conceived the album amidst media scrutiny on her personal life. Swift employed an autobiographical songwriting approach on Reputation, which references her romantic relationships and celebrity disputes. Its songs form a linear narrative of a narrator seeking vengeance against wrongdoers but ultimately finding solace in a blossoming love. Swift produced the album to create an electropop, synth-pop, and R&B record with elements of urban styles such as hip-hop, trap, and EDM. The lead single "Look What You Made Me Do" topped charts worldwide, the single "Delicate" topped airplay charts in the United States, and the Reputation Stadium Tour became the highest-grossing North American tour of all time. Reputation was nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards, and was listed on Slant Magazine's list of the best albums of the 2010s. Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter. Known for her autobiographical songwriting, artistic versatility, and cultural impact, Swift is one of the world's best-selling artists, the highest-grossing performer, the richest female musician, and the first billionaire with music as the main income. Swift signed to Big Machine Records in 2005, debuting as a country singer with the albums Taylor Swift (2006) and Fearless (2008). The singles "Teardrops on My Guitar", "Love Story", and "You Belong with Me" found crossover success on country and pop radio formats. She incorporated rock on Speak Now (2010) and electronic on Red (2012), later re-calibrating her image from country to pop with the synth-pop set 1989 (2014); the ensuing media scrutiny inspired the hip-hop-imbued Reputation (2017). The albums contained the Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together", "Shake It Off", "Blank Space", "Bad Blood", and "Look What You Made Me Do". Shifting to Republic Records in 2018, Swift released the electropop album Lover (2019) and contested with Big Machine for masters, re-recording four albums as Taylor's Version until reclaiming them in 2025. She explored indie folk styles in the 2020 albums Folklore and Evermore, and experimented with pop subgenres on Midnights (2022) and The Tortured Poets Department (2024). In the U.S., a record seven Swift albums have sold one million copies first-week each, alongside the number-one songs "Cardigan", "Willow", "All Too Well", "Anti-Hero", "Cruel Summer", "Is It Over Now?", and "Fortnight" through the 2020s. She has undertaken six concert tours, including the Eras Tour (20232024), the highest-grossing tour of all time. Her films include Miss Americana (2020), All Too Well: The Short Film (2021), and The Eras Tour (2023)the highest-grossing concert film. Swift is a subject of extensive media coverage and has a global fanbase of Swifties. Publications such as Rolling Stone and Billboard have listed her amongst history's greatest artists; she is the only individual from the arts to have been named the Time Person of the Year (2023). Her accolades include 14 Grammy Awards (including a record four Album of the Year wins), a record five IFPI Global Recording Artist of the Year awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award. Swift is the most-awarded artist of the American Music Awards (40), the Billb. Benny Horne (Cover photography), Mert Alas (Additi (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. First Edition. Hardback. "VISIONAIRE 52: PRIVATE" - first edition book, published by Visionaire in collaboration with Louis Vuitton and edited by Marc Jacobs. Original numbered 1709 of 2500 Featuring supermodels and celebs like Lindsay Lohan, Jamie Dornan Gisele Bndchen, Marc Jacobs, Selma Blair, Drew Barrymore, Naomi Campbell, Chlo' Sevigny, Courtney Love, Ludivine Sagnier Photography by Mert Alas and Markus Piggott Gold box 16 by 13 inches , book circa 200 pages colour and b/w photos, much nudity. Original black clothelettered in gold - the book itself is 11 by 15 inches. Lavish thick gold card folding box with Louis Vuitton monograms all over and thick pale brown leather title label on front of box. Heavy. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. First Edition. Hardback. Large 4to. Signed at front by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott Hardcover in clamshell box, 31.5 x 42 cm, 408 pages; with photo print 'Kate Moss, Love Magazine' (London 2009), signed by the artists and numbered, printed by hand in black and white on Harman Galerie FB digital paper, 34.8 x 45 cms. Multilingual text (English, French, German) Taschen (who have no copies left) say: Discover the megawatt world of Mert and Marcus, the creative tour de force who have styled and shot some of the most powerful brands and personalities of our time, from Miu Miu to Angelina Jolie, Givenchy to Gisele Bndchen. This XXL-sized Art Edition features some 300 pictures from their hyper-glamorous, hyper-glossy repertoire, complemented by an exclusive print." This is copy 198. Copies with the signed print were in the first 250 of 1250 copies i.e. 2 editions of 125, the other 125 had a photo of Lara Stone. Both editions are now elusive. Heavy. Fine. Signedes.…