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The "dream shock" of Liu Zheng's title refers to an awakening as if from a deep sleep. There is a moment between sleep and consciousness in which the dream state and conscious reality collide. It is a fertile, erotic and sometimes violent area of the mind, in which both exquisite and tortured imagery may surface.Liu Zheng is one of the few Chinese photographers whose work has reached the West. The exhibition of his extensive series The Chinese at ICP in New York in 2004 and the accompanying Steidl book indicated he was working on the borders between the documentary tradition and the extended portrait school of August Sander. His background on the Workers' Daily suggests his grounding as a photojournalist. Yet Liu Zheng's vision does not echo the common view of China, characterized by anonymity in the sheer mass of the population or by the momentum of industry. Frequently the subjects of his portraits are those on the fringes of Chinese society; his outsiders contribute to an unfamiliar collective portrait of a nation.Dream Shock brings us to another space that exists in the mind itself. Some of the characters, such as a beautiful Peking Opera singer, may be half-familiar, but the historical references to a brutal occupation and the sexual explicitness take us into unprecedented territory. Elaborate scenes are delicately choreographed in a series of terrifying tableaux. The directness of photographic evidence exists alongside studio staging that is pure and unsettling theatre. We enter a wholly new domain.

This book is the career and life story of the A&P heir and American businessman Huntington Hartford (1911-2008), as told by his daughter Juliet Hartford. Huntington Hartford's grandfather founded the Great Atlantic & Pacifi c Tea Company (A&P supermarket) in 1859 and his two uncles built it into the world's largest retail empire. A&P became a beloved staple of American life and Huntington Hartford was a symbol of it.Using a wealth of photographs and visual documents including press clippings and advertisements, the book traces Hartford's life from a boy in Newport, Rhode Island, to his years at Harvard where he was known as the world's richest college boy, his time in the US Coastguard during World War II, his Hollywood career producing movies and opening the Huntington Hartford Theatre, to his founding of the oil shale company Tosco and developing Paradise Island in the Bahamas in the 1960s. In Juliet Hartford's words Huntington Hartford was a cultural and popular hero, "always at the forefront and on the cutting edge. He created a hurricane and walked straight through it, and he changed the world."

Throughout his career, the renown American sculptor RichardSerra has kept a large number of notebooks which by now fill an entire library in his studio. Contained within them aredelicate sketches of his travels, of landscapes, architecture and of other ideas, some of which the artist developed into mature sculptures and drawings. Serra has personally selected three of his notebooks, two of which made in Iceland in 1989 and a very recent one from Qatar, which are reproduced here in facsimile.Book 1 Iceland, 1989: 26 × 34.5 cm, 40 pages, Brown Florentine bindingBook 2 Afangar, Videy Island, Iceland, 1989, 14.7 × 9.3 cm, 280 pages, Black marbled bindingBook 3 East-West / West-East, Qatar, 2014: 9.5 × 12.5 cm, 174 pages, LeatherboundHoused together in a cardboard box. Limited edition of 1000 with Arabic numbers and 50 épreuves d'artiste. Signed and numbered by Richard Serra.

Traces the physical and emotional development of Brad Kroenig, once an unknown but now one of the worlds sought-after male model. This book explores Kroenigs evolution from a young All American Boy into a professional model conscious of the subtleties of facial and corporeal expression.