Alan Siegel: On Branding and Clear Communications, by Louis J. Slovinsky book cover design, photography, and art direction by Siegel+Gale

Over the last three decades, Alan Siegel has become one of the best-known figures in the branding business and a champion of clear communications. He is a pillar of the establishment and a provocative iconoclast, and has built a leading brand consultancy, Siegel+Gale. He advises organizations such as Xerox, American Express, the National Basketball Association, Caterpillar, The Girl Scouts, and The New School, has created guides for The Wall Street Journal on understanding financial markets, and has served on the boards of numerous business and cultural organizations. View the books web site.

One Man’s Eye: Alan Siegel, by Robert A. Sobieszek

This large, elegantly produced volume reflects the eclectic tastes and ardent enthusiasms of one man, Alan Siegel, whose illustrious private collection of photographs rivals that of many museums. Truly one of the stunning volumes of photography to appear in recent years, One Man’s Eye features 120 masterworks by Diane Arbus, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Man Ray, Robert Mapplethorpe, Robert Adams, Ezra Stoller, Robert Frank, Irving Penn, Walker Evans, Erwin Blumenfeld, Edward Weston, and many important contemporary photographers, including Jan Groover, Tina Barney, Zeke Berman, Tom Baril, Lynn Davis, and Michael Spano. View the books web site.