Tim Walker- Pictures

This is my absolute favorite book, every time i go into Barnes and Noble I go to the fourth floor in the photography section and look at it for at least an hour. Pictures is a collection of photographs from the fashion photographer Tim Walker. His work has been published in many notable fashion magazines but are nothing like any typical fashion shoots. The images are always fantastical and tell a story. He loves to play with colors and size- often making normally pocket sized objects taller than a supermodel, or stringing hundreds of balloons to a century old mansion. His book contains his work and inspirations in the form of collages: he scanned his poems, his stories and sketches so we can see exactly how he creates the images he imagines. The layout ranges from full blown images, to images next to poems, or collages, negatives and sketches with his notes and doodles on everything. —Belinda Hale