ARTBOOK BLOGEventsStore NewsMuseum Stores of the MonthNew Title ReleasesStaff PicksImage GalleryBooks in the MediaExcerpts & EssaysArtbook InterviewsEx LibrisAt First SightThe Artbook 2023 Gift GuidesArtbook Featured Image ArchiveArtbook D.A.P. Events ArchiveDATE 7/22/2024 Explore the influence of Islamic art and design on Cartier luxury objectsDATE 7/18/2024 Join us at the San Francisco Art Book Fair, 2024!DATE 7/18/2024 History and healing in Calida Rawles' 'Away with the Tides'DATE 7/16/2024 Join us at the Atlanta Gift & Home Summer Market 2024DATE 7/15/2024 In 'Gordon Parks: Born Black,' a personal report on a decade of Black revoltDATE 7/14/2024 Familiar Trees presents a marathon reading of Bernadette Mayer's 'Memory'DATE 7/11/2024 Early 20th-century Japanese graphic design shines in 'Songs for Modern Japan'DATE 7/8/2024 For 1970s beach vibe, you can’t do better than Joel Sternfeld’s ‘Nags Head’DATE 7/5/2024 Celebrate summer with Tony Caramanico’s Montauk Surf JournalsDATE 7/4/2024 For love, and for countryDATE 7/1/2024 Summertime Staff Picks, 2024!DATE 7/1/2024 Enter the dream space of Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret CameronDATE 6/30/2024 Celebrate the extraordinary freedom of Cookie Mueller in this Pride Month Pick | BOOKS IN THE MEDIACORY REYNOLDS | DATE 8/7/2013This Is Mars: PreviewThis week, we received an advance copy of This Is Mars, one of the most important and fascinating photo (and science) books of the year. Published by Aperture and compiled by the revered French publisher, editor and designer Xavier Barral, this deluxe hardcover features 150 exquisite tritone images of the Red Planet, taken by the famous HiRISE camera. At once abstract and thrillingly specific, they are universally stupendous. Below is Barral's Preface, followed by a selection of images. If only our digital reproductions could do the book justice!![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |