2017 Frankfurt International Rights Guide

2017 FRANKFURT INTERNATIONAL RIGHTS GUIDE 2017 FRANKFURT INTERNATIONAL RIGHTS GUIDE Table of ContentsTable ABRAMS Art 1 Art, Graphic Design, Photography 4 Fashion and Style Graphic Design 6 Entertainment 8 Food and Drink Photography 13 Architecture and Interior Design 15 Craft Ungrateful Mammals ■ BY DAVE EGGERS 18 ABRAMS Image SPECIFICATIONS 26 ABRAMS Press ggers is one of the most notable writers of his Egeneration, recognized for such bestselling 100 color illustrations and critically acclaimed books as A Hologram for 1,500 words 28 ABRAMS Noterie the King, What Is the What, and The Circle. Before 144 pages he embarked on his writing career, Eggers was 203 × 279 mm 31 Contact Information classically trained as a draftsman and painter. He Hardcover then spent many years as a professional illustrator RIGHTS SOLD: and graphic designer before turning to writing GERMAN (KIWI) full-time. More recently, in order to raise money PUB MONTH: OCTOBER 2017 for ScholarMatch, his college-access nonprofit, he ART returned to visual art, and the results have been ISBN 978-1-4197-2463-3 exhibited in galleries and museums around the US $29.95 country. Usually involving the pairing of an animal with humorous or biblical text, the results are wry, oddly anthropomorphic tableaus that create a very entertaining and eccentric body of work from one of today’s leading culture makers. Dave Eggers is the author of seven bestselling and award-winning books. He is also the founder and editor of McSweeney’s, an independent publishing house based in San Francisco that produces a quarterly journal and a monthly magazine (The Believer). In 2002, he cofounded 826 Valencia, a nonprofit writing and tutoring center for youth in San Francisco, which has spawned six affiliate 826 centers nationally. ABRAMS 2017 ■ 1 Escape Mark Seliger ■ BY GRAY MALIN 30 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHY ■ BY MARK SELIGER SPECIFICATIONS ray Malin’s collection of incredible beach SPECIFICATIONS 200 color photographs Gphotography was a runaway hit. Now the ark Seliger’s photography has dominated magazine 97 4-color and 91 duotone 3,500 words it-photographer takes his astonishing photography beyond Mcovers, feature articles, and media campaigns for illustrations 224 pages the beach. Collecting breathtaking images, journal entries, decades. With signature compositions and painterly flair, 224 pages 330 × 254 mm and behind-the-scenes anecdotes, Escape explores Gray he has built an incredible body of work with unforgettable 254 × 355 mm Hardcover with stained edges Malin’s enduring drive to capture life’s joyful moments. portraits of the world’s leading personalities in music, fashion, Hardcover with Jacket PUB MONTH: OCTOBER 2017 These awe-inspiring images of exotic locales from politics, business, and entertainment. This book showcases PUB MONTH: MAY 2018 PHOTOGRAPHY • around the world are a celebration of light, shadow, and Seliger’s best-known portraiture, as well as select standouts PHOTOGRAPHY absolute bliss. Whether trained on the snowy mountains from his landscape and creative work. His extraordinary TRAVEL ISBN 978-1-4197-2661-3 of Aspen, the dry plains of Namibia, or the warm sun of portfolio is thirty years in the making and features some of ISBN 978-1-4197-2759-7 US $75.00 US $45.00 Bora Bora, Malin’s sharp eye highlights the exuberant the most famous and influential faces of our time, including: colors and striking forms that make each location so Kurt Cobain, Nelson Mandela, Emma Watson, Barack Obama, unique. Featuring more than 22 destinations across 11 Hillary Clinton, Susan Sarandon, Julia Roberts, Bruce countries, the book also includes highlights from Malin’s Springsteen, David Byrne, Matthew Barney, Jennifer Lawrence, ALSO AVAILABLE conceptual photography, offering a comprehensive look at Mick Jagger, Lenny Kravitz, Rob Thomas, Kerry Washington, the photographer’s desire to showcase the beauty he sees Brand Nubian, and Tony Bennett. This is his most diverse and in the world. From remote islands to major cities, Escape comprehensive book since Physiognomy (1999). captures the spirit of dozens of unbelievable vacation spots—and will inspire every lover of travel and exploration COVER NOT FINAL Beaches to plan an escape of their own. RIGHTS SOLD: KOREAN (WILLBOOKS) ISBN 978-1-4197-2089-5 Gray Malin is a fine-art photographer and the New York Times bestselling author of Beaches. His work hangs in homes Mark Seliger is a pre-eminent American photographer. Seliger began working for Rolling Stone in 1987, and served as US $40.00 across the world and can be found in both private and public collections. He lives in Los Angeles. its chief photographer from 1992 to 2001. Love, Cecil Microsculpture A JOURNEY WITH CECIL BEATON PORTRAITS OF INSECTS ■ BY LISA IMMORDINO VREELAND ■ BY LEVON BISS SPECIFICATIONS SPECIFICATIONS 300 photographs n Love Cecil, Lisa Immordino Vreeland offers an evocative icrosculpture is a unique photographic study of 144 color photographs 25,000 words Iportrait of this talented whirlwind whose creative work Minsects in mind-blowing magnification that celebrates 15,000 words 144 pages captured many facets of the 20th century. Using photography, the wonders of nature and science. Levon Biss’s photographs 144 pages 254 × 304 mm drawings, letters, and scrapbooks by Beaton and his contem- capture in breathtaking detail the beauty of the insect world 259 × 305 mm poraries, along with excerpts from his sparkling diaries and and are printed in large-scale format to provide an unforget- Hardcover Hardcover with jacket other writings, Immordino Vreeland brings his spirit to life in a table viewing experience. Each picture in Microsculpture is PUB MONTH: OCTOBER 2017 RIGHTS SOLD: way that no previous book has been able to do. created from approximately 8,000 individual photographs. PHOTOGRAPHY • JAPANESE Immordino Vreeland organizes her book around the Segments of the specimen are lit and photographed separately TYPOGRAPHY (GAKKEN PLUS CO.) circles of Beaton’s daily life: the people who inspired and using microscope lenses, then “stacked” to maintain sharp ISBN 978-1-4197-2660-6 PUB MONTH: OCTOBER 2017 influenced him, his colorful friends, his fellow photographers, focus throughout. These images are then combined to create US $50.00 PHOTOGRAPHY • NATURE his Hollywood conquests, his wartime service, and his English a single high-resolution file. From start to finish, each portrait ISBN 978-1-4197-2695-8 roots. This cavalcade offers a shimmering vision of high style, takes approximately 4 weeks to create. The project has US $35.00 but it also captures often-troubled souls struggling to create captured the attention of the world with features in WIRED and the open, tolerant, creative worlds of art and culture that we New Scientist. Microsculpture has been exhibited at the Oxford have inherited today. University Museum of Natural History and the Xposure 2016 International Photography Festival in Sharjah, U.A.E. It has been viewed by over half a million people so far and will be touring museums around the world from 2017 onward. Lisa Immordino Vreeland is the author of Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel. Her popular and innovative documentaries on Vreeland, which the Hollywood Reporter called a “vivid, delicious trip,” and Peggy Guggenheim Levon Biss is an award-winning British photographer. His work has been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums have reached wide audiences. Previously a fashion entrepreneur, Immordino Vreeland was born in Milan and lives in over the world. Biss lives in London. 2 ■ 2017 ABRAMS ABRAMS 2017 ■ 3 Wise Trees kate spade new york: SHE ■ BY DIANE COOK AND LEN JENSHEL MUSES, VISIONARIES AND MADCAP HEROINES ■ BY KATE SPADE NEW YORK SPECIFICATIONS ise Trees is a photography book about SPECIFICATIONS 60 color photographs trees that have a remarkable story to tell 300 color photographs W he fourth book in kate spade new york’s successful series, us. To create it, photographers Diane Cook and Len 15,000 words SHE: muses, visionaries and madcap heroines invites 15,000 words Jenshel spent two years traveling to five continents T 192 pages readers back into a way of living that is singularly joyous, dis- 240 pages to photograph more than 50 extraordinary trees that 292 × 229 mm tinctly feminine, and wildly interesting. To the New York–based 292 × 241 mm were carefully selected for their historic and cultural Hardcover with jacket brand, the most exciting and vibrant women in America are the Hardcover significance. From Luna, the coastal redwood in RIGHTS SOLD: ones who stand out from the crowd. PUB MONTH: OCTOBER 2017 California that became an international symbol for GERMAN (KNESEBECK) Paying tribute to revered activists like Gloria Steinem and FASHION • PHOTOGRAPHY conservation, to the Bodhi Tree, the sacred fig in JAPANESE (NIKKEI Shirley Chisholm, classic fictional characters like Mary Richards ISBN 978-1-4197-2720-7 India that is a direct descendent of the tree under NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC) and Carrie Bradshaw, treasured icons like Marilyn Monroe and US $40.00 which the Buddha attained enlightenment, Cook and PUB MONTH: OCTOBER 2017 Nina Simone, and contemporary firebirds like Chimamanda Jenshel reveal trees that have shaped our lives and PHOTOGRAPHY • NATURE Ngozi Adichie and Dolly Parton, this much-anticipated book our feelings about nature. The project both reflects ISBN 978-1-4197-2700-9 celebrates the women whose bold personalities and styles ALSO AVAILABLE and inspires awareness of the enduring role trees US $35.00 play an important role in the lives of women across the country. have played in nurturing and sheltering humanity. kate spade new york: With rich photography, spirited quotes and profiles, amusing all in good taste anecdotes, words of wisdom, personal essays, and signature ISBN 978-1-4197-1787-1 kate spade new york “she” statements, every page of SHE: US $27.50 muses, visionaries and madcap heroines will inspire you to live kate spade new york: places Diane Cook and Len Jenshel are two of America’s foremost landscape photographers.

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