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ART, ARCHITECTURE & PHOTOGRAPHY: TOP 10 OF 1999

Editor, Jordana Moskowitz

Books on pre-pop Warhol, early Steichen, and a desert full of modern masterpieces are among Art, Architecture & Photography editor Jordana Moskowitz's favorites of 1999.

1. "Edward Steichen: The Early Years"
by Joel Smith
Edward Steichen's famous image of New York City's Flatiron building by night anchors this collection of the photographer's early work. An Autochrome color image of Rodin in his studio in 1907 and a dreamlike woodscape from 1899 are among the wonderful photographs sumptuously reproduced in full-page plates. Read more

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2. "Art at the Turn of the Millennium"
edited by Burkhard Riemschneider and Uta Grosenick
Late-20th-century art stars like photographer Cindy Sherman and filmmaker Larry Clark share space with less widely known artists Liam Gillick, Jorge Pardo, and more than 100 others in "Art at the Turn of the Millennium," an indispensable handbook for any viewer or collector of contemporary art. Read more

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3. "The American Art Book"
It's big, it's beautiful--and it's cheap. "The American Art Book," one of the newest members of the family that includes "The Art Book" and "The Fashion Book," continues the series tradition: 500 pages, 500 artists, and a staggeringly inexpensive price tag. Arranged alphabetically, the artists--as the title indicates, all American--range from photographer Berenice Abbott to sculptor William Zorach. A welcome addition to any art lover's library. Read more

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4. "Andy Warhol: Drawings, 1942-1987"
by Andy Warhol
Pop-art papa Andy Warhol seemed to always have a pencil in hand. "Drawings" presents for the first time a complete collection of Warhol's drawings: astronauts, rock stars, green cats, and perfume bottles, to name a few subjects. Read more

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5. "Paul Rand"
by Steven Heller
In "Paul Rand," the designer who brought modernism to Madison Avenue is treated to a full and thoughtful retrospective of his life and work. Rand's famous logos for UPS, IBM, and Ford are just a few examples of a remarkable oeuvre that reinvented the field of graphic design. Read more

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6. "Palm Springs Modern"
by Adele Cygelman
Blame it on the desert air--when movie stars and millionaires hired architects like Richard Neutra and Albert Frey to build homes for them in Palm Springs, something magical happened. "Palm Springs Modern" documents the resulting homes--the Annenbergs' Rancho Mirage estate and Frank Sinatra's rambling house among them. Read more

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7. "Francis Bacon: A Retrospective"
by Dennis Farr
The interview-shy Francis Bacon, who during his lifetime repudiated any attempts to analyze or categorize his work, is as enigmatic as his paintings. The first major retrospective of Bacon's paintings since his death in 1992 was on view earlier this year at the Yale Center for British Art. And the accompanying catalog, filled with rich color plates, includes lucid analysis that dispels some of the mysteries behind the works. Read more

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8. "Brassai: The Eye of Paris"
by Anne Wilkes Tucker
The City of Light was photographer Brassai's favorite muse. The images he created there during the 1930s-- portraits of friends like Pablo Picasso and Henry Miller, prostitutes in bordellos, gangsters in bars, quiet nudes and city scenes to name a few--fill the pages of "The Eye of Paris," a wonderful record of some of Brassai's best work. Read more

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9. "Women"
by Annie Leibovitz
A photo of Jerry Hall wearing a fur coat, seated in a very formal parlor, and breast-feeding her plump, naked baby is just one of the stellar images Annie Leibovitz made for her latest book, "Women." Her pictures of artists, farmers, showgirls, politicians, and many others form a unique portrait of contemporary womanhood. Read more

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10. "The Pritzker Architecture Prize: The First Twenty Years"
edited by Martha Thorne
Philip Johnson, I.M. Pei, and Robert Venturi are among the architects who have won the coveted Pritzker Architecture Prize--the "Nobel of Architecture"--since it was established in 1979. This book catalogs the works of each of the winners, and is a key document of contemporary architecture. Read more

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