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| New coffee-table tomes cover the range from girl culture to Bond style. | |
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de Dienes, Marilyn Edited by Steve Crist and Shirley T. Ellis de Dienes (Taschen; $200) Perfect for: Monroe fans with big coffee tables. Why we love it: The Hollywood icon has never looked more carefree or outdoorsy. De Dienes met the aspiring model in 1945 and helped launch her career (he was also briefly engaged to her), and his memoirs make very juicy reading, too. What else: The tome comes in one of the best cases we've seen -- a copy of the original Kodak photo-paper box that the pictures were stored in, marker scribbles and all. 
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Winogrand:
1964 By Trudy Wilner Stack (Arena; $60) Perfect for: Sixties-Americana buffs and road-trip addicts. Why we love it: These startlingly familiar images document a cross-country adventure photographer Garry Winogrand took in 1964. What else: Most of the book's color images had never been printed from Winogrand's negatives (even he never saw them on paper).
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Vitamin
P: New Perspectives in Painting introduction by Barry Schwabsky (Phaidon; $69.95) Perfect for: Anyone who is under the illusion that painting is dead. Why we love it: It's a well-curated selection of paintings by 114 talked-about contemporary artists -- among them Cecily Brown, John Currin, Tim Gardner, Inka Essenhigh, Julie Mehretu, Fabian Marcaccio, Elizabeth Peyton, and Matthew Ritchie.
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Chrysler Building: Building a New York Icon Day by Day By David Stravitz (Princeton Architectural Press; $45). Perfect for: Trivia buffs who like to hold forth on the city's architectural history. Why we love it: Archives on the construction of the 77-story Art Deco icon were supposedly lost, but Stravitz found a box of negatives on the floor of a defunct stock-photo company. The stunning, never-before-seen photographs document the construction of the building and street life around it. Did you know there were hubcaps among the gargoyles?
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| Edited by Edith Newhall. Photographed by Eric Piasecki. | |
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From the November 25, 2002 issue of New York
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