-On the occasion of the upcoming Cindy Sherman retrospective exhibition in the New York Museum of Modern Art in 2012, we are pleased to present one of her most fanciful photographic series, Clowns. Having astonished the art world with her -role portraits- for almost 40 years--her History Portraits and Untitled Film Stills are milestones of conceptual portraiture--she explores the horror of laughter and the laughable in Clowns. Sherman said: -I came to clowns to show the complex emotional abysses of a painted smile.-
This volume presents the entire series of eighteen color photographs...

The Men in the Cities series made Robert Longo famous
in the 1980s: larger-than-life drawings of sharply
dressed business people writhing in contortion, a sort
of death dance of the modern man. Created between
1977 and 1983, it is an early attempt in merging
sculpture, drawing, photography, and film.
This book presents the photographic source material
to the series taken by the artist himself. Using friends
such as Cindy Sherman, Brooke Alexander, Glenn
Branca, and Larry Gagosian as models, he'd bring
them up on the roof of his New York City loft, rig up
ropes...