Benedikt Taschen, Taschen Books
The British branch of Amazon.com has aroused controversy by offering sample images from a Taschen photo volume of naked Asian women. The supposedly offending pictures are actually pretty tame, showing breasts only, and Amazon hasn't removed them from its site.
The Register (Feb 2001)
At the Guardian, Jessica Berens profiles Benedikt Taschen, founder of the Taschen publishing house, which "has merged the sensibility of a small imprint with sure-fire commercial ideas, while managing to remain independent, transgressive and viable."
Guardian (Nov 2001)
Brendan Bernhard profiles publisher Benedikt Taschen. "Along with his co-editor and wife, Angelika, Taschen produces coffee-table books that range from scholarly tomes to flashy compendiums of hip contemporary design to lurid explorations of underground sexuality." (Sep 2002)
