Music

This sumptuous and luxuriously produced volume gathers portraits, album covers, photographs of performances and rehearsals, rarely seen private moments, and candid snapshots of Prince, one of the greatest singer-songwriters of his generation. This collection from ACC Art Books & Iconic Images - publishers of the bestselling book Bowie: Icon - was curated in consultation with Steve Parke, and its impact is both powerful, and inspiring. With images by renowned and little-known photographers from around the world, close friends, and colleagues, the result is the most opulent visual anthology of Prince that has ever been published. Accompanying personal essays and reflections offer unprecedented insight into what he was like: from memories of the earliest days in Minneapolis to touring the world, each contributor shares their memories and experiences of working with - and knowing - this legendary artist.

The most significant collection of Prince images ever assembled. Impeccably printed, sumptuously designed, large format hardback book from the publisher of the bestselling book Bowie: Icon.

ACC Art Books 325 x 285mm. 252pp. June 2023 £60.00, Hardback

David Bowie: Rock ‘n’ Roll with Me is Geoff MacCormack’s remarkable photographic memoir, charting his lifelong friendship with David Bowie. Images bring MacCormack’s stories to life, showing the places he and Bowie inhabited, the people they met and the adventures they shared. Beginning at Burnt Ash Primary school in the mid-1950s, the years go by in a whirlwind of discovering and making music. The book contains nearly 150 photos taken by MacCormack throughout the years, some never seen before: from touring the Ziggy Stardust and Aladdin Sane shows and sailing to New York on a world tour, to Bowie’s first major film The Man Who Fell to Earth and the recording of Station to Station and his Thin White Duke persona. David Bowie: Rock ‘n’ Roll with Me is an incredible story, told with wit and candour. A must for all Bowie fans, it sheds a rare insight into a friendship where two men shared their love for music from the moment they met to their final goodbyes.

Includes an afterword by David Bowie.

ACC Art Books 260 x 195mm. 240p. March 2023 £30.00, Hardback Photographic memoir, charting a lifelong friendship, of untold stories and nearly 150 candid photos, many shown for the first time.

Delius Klasing Verlag Gmbh 334 x 244mm. 352pp., 265 col. Available £45.00, Hardback English, German

From rockstars, pop icons, soul singers to jazz musicians – over his 50-year-long career, Michael Putland has photographed them all. Now he brings them all together in one fulminant photographic anthology. Here, pictures of action-packed concerts are set aside intimate portraits of stars, and atmospheric still life shots accompany those of tension-filled tours and legendary performances. Stories behind each photograph are offered by Putland’s personal anecdotes, creating a testament to music’s greatest moments and a must-have for all fans of music and photography.

Tongji University Press 260 x 190mm. 161pp. Available £15.95, Paperback

This book is a collection of 12 academic papers published in Chinese Theatre Arts, a journal of the Shanghai Theatre Academy. They include pieces on contemporary theatre, modern drama, foreign drama, stage art, acting, and directing. The Editor in Chief, Professor Yang Yang, is Vice President of Shanghai Theatre Academy. In this English translation, the book introduces the outstanding academic achievements of Chinese theatre research to readers in the English world so they can better understand Chinese theatre and Chinese culture.

Verlag Kettler 250 x 200mm. 224pp., 90 col., 50 b.&w. January 2023 £30.00, Paperback English, German

In June 2021, the Hungarian ruling party Fidesz under Viktor Orbán passed a law banning the portrayal of homosexuality to minors. At the same time, the German ARD miniseries Eldorado KaDeWe – Jetzt ist unsere Zeit was being shot in Budapest. It depicts, among other things, the queer life of the Berlin subculture around 1920. In their book Hurry Up and Wait, the two lead actresses juxtapose queer fiction with queer reality through photographs and texts.

Hannibal Publishers 285 x 220mm. 224pp., 36 col., 46 b.&w. Available £60.00, Hardback English, Dutch

It was in 1970 that Philippe Herreweghe founded Collegium Vocale Gent, dedicated among other things to works by Johann Sebastian Bach and German Baroque music. In 2022, Philippe Herreweghe marks his 75th birthday with a splendid book in which he looks back at his life and his successful career as a conductor. Photographer Stephan Vanfleteren accompanied the ensemble to the Collegium Vocale Crete Senesi summer festival in Tuscany, and has produced a set of masterful images of the ensemble and its conductor.