A publishing collaboration between Gagosian Gallery and Phaidon. An in-depth study of painters' andphotographers' studios with examples from the sixteenth through the twentieth centuries.Introductory essays and catalogue entries on individual works by two experts in their respective fields-John Elderfield for In the Studio: Paintings and Peter Galassi for In the Studio: Photographs.An invaluable and unprecedented art historical resource that will also appeal to a general audienceThe slipcased two-book set accompanies simultaneous exhibitions, one each on painting and photography.

John Elderfield (In the Studio: Paintings), a Consultant at Gagosian Gallery, is Chief Curator Emeritus of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, where he directed numerous celebrated exhibitions, among them Kurt Schwitters, Henri Matisse: A Retrospective, and De Kooning: A Retrospective, and the more specialized Manet and the Execution of Maximilian and Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913¿1917.