Mark Best - Publicist
PR professional specialising in Photography and Art books with a large international contacts book covering arts and culture.
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I am a freelance PR professional working across arts and culture. Having worked for one of the largest art book publishers as their International PR Manager I have a large contacts book of journalists across various sectors. Based in the UK, I travelled to various territories looking after the PR for about 80 new books each year, and a reprint list of nearly 150 each year, ranging in price from £8.99 up to the most expensive book which was 480,000 Euros.
Now I look after more than just books and am working with galleries, photographers, artists, and publishers on various projects, be they personal ones or professional ones.
Currently I'm working with a well-known photographer on his new book and exhibition, and also with a pair of artists who are using augmented reality to push the boundaries of their art.
Now I look after more than just books and am working with galleries, photographers, artists, and publishers on various projects, be they personal ones or professional ones.
Currently I'm working with a well-known photographer on his new book and exhibition, and also with a pair of artists who are using augmented reality to push the boundaries of their art.
Services
Non-Fiction
Antiques & Collectibles
Architecture
Art
Design
Entertainment
Home & Garden
Photography
Travel
Fiction
Comics & Graphic Novels
Work experience
Photography and Arts PR Consultant
Self-employed
April, 2016
–
Present
(over 4 years)
PR Manager
TASCHEN
August, 2011
–
December, 2015
(over 4 years)
Looking after all publications across the EMEA and APAC territories.
Portfolio (16 selected works)
Sebastião Salgado. GENESIS
Sebastiao Salgado, Lélia Wanick Salgado
This is a collection of the photographic works of Sebastiao Salgado.....
The James Bond Archives
Danny Graydon
This beautiful over-sized book is truly a spell-binding celebration of Bond films, beginning with Dr. No (1962) and ending with Skyfall (2012) featuring archived photos, storyboards and production materials.
Time, space, and a telescope: Hubble s most magnificent images With investigations into everything f....
NW1
David Bailey, Francis Hodgson
Marilyn Monroe
Norman Mailer, Bert Stern
Marilyn Monroe Pairs the author's original text with photographs from the legendary "Last Sitting" - widely considered the most intimate photographs of Marilyn Monroe ever taken - to create a fitting tribute to the woman who, at the time of her death in 1962, was the world's most famous, a symbol of glamour and criticism for an entire generation. Full description
The Pedro Almodóvar Archives
Pedro Almodovar, Vicente Molina-Foix, Gustavo Martin Garzo
Praised by critics, championed by fellow film-makers, adored by actors and adorned with international awards, Pedro Almodovar is the most successful Spanish film-maker since Luis Bunuel, with films such as "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown", "Talk to Her", and "Volver". This title takes you on a visual odyssey through his complete works.
Project Japan, Metabolism Talks...
Rem Koolhaas, Hans-Ulrich Obrist
This is a new architecture for postwar Japan. Once there was a nation that went to war, but after they conquered a continent their own country was destroyed by atom bombs...then the victors imposed democracy on the vanquished. For a group of apprentice architects, artists, and designers, led by a visionary, the dire situation of their country was not an obstacle but an inspiration to plan and ... read more
Better smart than sorry: An odyssey of architectural adaptation with Bjarke Ingels After the global....
The Big Book of Breasts 3D
Dian Hanson
The best of the biggest in three luscious dimensions. It'll knock both your eyes out! OK, imagine the best photos from the iconic first volume of the body parts series, "The Big Book of Breasts", in their original 30 by 30 cm size, but popping off the page in state-of-the-art 3-D. An impossible dream? Not so, Luddites! In this wonderful modern world of digital magic, 90 photos from the origina... read more
CCCP: Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed
Frederic Chaubin
Photographer Frederic Chaubin reveals 90 buildings sited in 14 former Soviet Republics which express....
Samuel Johnson famously said that: "When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life." In this title, London's remarkable history, architecture, landmarks, streets, style, cool, swagger, and stalwart residents are pictured in hundreds of compelling photographs sourced from a wide array of archives around the world.
Art of Burning Man
NK Guy
"You voluntarily assume the risk of serious injury or death by attending". 100 miles from the gambling town of Reno, in the wilderness of northern Nevada, lies a vast, hostile plain known as the Black Rock Desert. The region has been an empty and windswept dry lake bed for most of the past 10.000 years. Except, that is, for one brief week at the end of the summer, when a temporary city rises o... read more
Wolfgang Tillmans. Neue Welt
The photographer: Wolfgang Tillmans
From snapshots of his friends to abstract images made in a darkroom without a camera or works made with a photocopier, the author has pushed the photographic process to its outer limits in myriad ways. In this collection of photos, he offers a powerful and singular view of life today in diverse parts of the world, seen from many angles.
The New York Times: 36 Hours Europe, 2nd Edition
Barbara Ireland
Grand tour: Weekend wonders across Europe.. Through ancient wonders, world....
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