Julia Vitale
Libraries of Dreams
A new volume compiles photographs of the world’s oldest and most groundbreaking book collections
Gridiron Giants
Ahead of Sunday’s Super Bowl, a look back through the archives of America’s favorite sport
Steve Schapiro Brought the Laughs
A fixture on the Hollywood circuit, Schapiro photographed everyone from Mel Brooks to Dolly Parton with humor and class
Architecture’s Avant-Garde
A look at the transgressive styles that disrupted and remade 20th-century architecture
Witches and Wizards and Wonders, Oh My!
Illustrations old and new bring the world of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz to life
Masters of Disguise
Stéphan Gladieu’s enchanting photos explore a spiritual West African masquerade of epic proportions
AIR MAIL’s 10 Best Books of 2021
Hustlers, hippies, artists, transcendentalists: holiday reading for every type
We’ll Always Have Paris
Photographs highlight the city’s boutiques, studios, and ateliers that have withstood the test of time
The Real Slim Aarons
Kevin McClory, Mick Jagger, C. Z. Guest, and others feature in a collection of the photographer’s glamorous shots
North Korea as You’ve Never Seen It
Stéphan Gladieu’s otherworldly photos take viewers where they’ve never been allowed to go—inside Pyongyang
Paging Picasso!
A new book traces the painter’s life—Paris, women, wars, and all
Lost in Translation
The moment Japan opened its doors to the West, in the late 1800s, was the moment many of its traditions disappeared. A new volume brings them back
Land Before Time
Gianfranco Gorgoni’s otherworldly shots put the 20th-century Land Art movement of Richard Serra, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, and others on the map
Animal Attraction
Joachim Schmeisser’s African-wildlife photographs pay homage to the magical creatures of Kenya’s Amboseli National Park
