Sheila Metzner: Grey Vase, Vanda Orchid, 1980

This celebration of the earth's natural and manmade wonders features over 60 full-page photographs from the Mojave Desert to the stones of Easter Island, from the lush greens of Costa Rican rainforests to the indescribable blue of the Alaskan icebergs, from Venezuelan waterfalls to Egyptian pyramids. Photographer Sheila Metzner has ...more

Sheila Metzner: Form and Fashion intermingles Metzner’s fashion work, her sensual and erotic nudes, and her formalist still lifes — a juxtaposition that conveys a romanticism balanced by precision. The transcendent quality of many of Metzner’s photographs is enhanced by a printing process invented by the Fresson family in 1895 ...more

Grace Coddington's celebration of fashion has danced along its cutting edge for over 30 years. Abandoning a highly lucrative career as a leading model on the 60s London scene, alongside such swinging contemporaries as Jean Shrimpton and Twiggy, Coddington signed on in 1968 as a junior fashion editor at British ...more

French electronic musician Jean-Michel Jarre once defined Yohji Yamamoto's style like this: "For me, a woman in Yohji is like a nymphomaniac nun. His clothes are at once sensual and very ritualistic." This about a man whose reputation marks him as a designer of clothes for earnest intellectuals. This about ...more