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Inside the circle: Behind-the-scenes photos of celebrities by the fashion world’s favorite
photographer

As one of the 21st century’s most travelled, acclaimed, and influential fashion photographers,
Mario Testino has unsurpassed access to the most magnetic stars of popular culture. For some
time now he has been collecting a personal archive of off-screen moments, often snatched
spontaneously before, during, and after more official sittings for Vanity Fair, Vogue, and
Testino’s many clients in the world of fashion. The result is a portrait not just of a generation of
the most wanted and talked-about, but an invitation to be part of the backstage parties and
unstaged moments of Testino’s life. Sometimes offbeat, but always on the pulse, Let me in!,
with Testino’s eye for a modern kind of elegance liberated from conventional polish, is a new
chapter from the photographer who has already made his mark with the books Any Objections,
Front Row Backstage, Alive, Portraits, Kids, Diana Princess of Wales, and numerous exhibitions
and publications worldwide.

Collector’s edition features:
• Limited to 1,000 copies, each numbered and signed by the artist
• Packaged in a slipcase

Features include:
• Introduction by Michael Roberts, fashion director of Vanity Fair
• Foreword by Nicole Kidman
• 300 pages in color and black and white featuring more than 100 contemporary stars

About the photographer: Peruvian-born Mario Testino is currently based in London, though he
travels extensively shooting for Vanity Fair, American, British, French and Italian Vogue, and
GQ. Other clients include Estée Lauder, Burberry, and Versace. Galleries around the globe from
Japan to Italy to the USA have featured his solo exhibitions and his work is held in collections of
many institutions worldwide, including the National Portrait Gallery in London, V&A Museum in
London, and New York University. Mario is an Honorary Doctor of the University of the Arts
London and has recently received the Rodeo Drive Walk of Style Award for his outstanding
contribution to the world of fashion and entertainment.

Life
Planet earth, home sweet home
Nederlandse editie!
In the year 2000, world-renowned wildlife photographer Frans Lanting set out on a personal
journey to photograph the evolution of life on earth. He made pilgrimages to true time capsules
like a remote lagoon in Western Australia, spent time in research collections photographing
forms of microscopic life, and even found ways to create visual parallels between the growth of
organs in the human body and the patterns seen on the surface of the earth. The resulting volume
is a glorious picture book of planet earth depicting the amazing biodiversity that surrounds us all.
Lanting’s true gift lies beyond his technical mastery: it is his eye for geometry in the beautiful
chaos of nature that allows him to show us the world as it has never been seen before. From
crabs to jellyfish, diatoms to vast geological formations, jungles to flowers, monkeys to human
embryos, LIFE is a testament to the magical beauty of life in all its forms and is Lanting’s most
remarkable achievement to date.

The photographer: Dutch-born Frans Lanting has been hailed as one of the great nature
photographers of our time. For the past two decades he has documented wildlife and our
relationship with nature in environments from the Amazon to Antarctica. Exhibits of his
photographs have been shown at major museums in Paris, Milan, Tokyo, New York, Madrid,
and Amsterdam. Lanting’s previous TASCHEN titles include Eye to Eye, Jungles, and Penguin.

The editor: Christine Eckstrom is a writer and editor specializing in natural history. She
collaborates with Lanting on fieldwork, books, and other publishing projects from their home
base in California.
Editions:
ISBN 978-3-8228-5271-2 (Dutch)