Glamour and nostalgia on the coffee table at the NYT

Audrey Hepburn in costume for the film

‘Cecil Beaton: The New York Years’

This coffee-table book showcases some of the finest photographs the high-society favorite took during his many sojourns in New York.
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‘Magnum Contact Sheets’

Hundreds of raw images from some 70 photographers are included in this compilation.
An Irving Penn photo of Lisa Fonssagrives in Balenciaga, 1950.

‘Nostalgia in Vogue’

Joan Didion, Carly Simon, Karl Lagerfeld and others share their enthusiasm for archival fashion photos in this collection of essays from Vogue.
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‘Zeitgeist and Glamour’

An enormous coffee-table book fixes the work of paparazzi with an almost ennobling glaze.

‘75 Years: The Very Best of Life’

A collection of gorgeous, memorable photos from Life magazine’s archive.

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