Sir Don McCullin CBE began covering conflict during the 1956 Suez Crisis, when he served as a photographer's assistant after being called up for National Service with the Royal Air Force. He then spent the following decades traveling to places around the globe to witness harrowing scenes of war and poverty, earning a reputation as one of the foremost photojournalists of his time. But since the early 1980s, McCullin has been creating still life arrangements in his garden shed at home in Somerset, England. Now, coinciding with his 90th birthday, GOST books is bringing out "The Stillness of Life," a collection of McCullin's still-life and landscape images capturing a countryside he has called his "greatest salvation."

  Fernand Léger was born in 1881 to a family of cattle farmers in Normandy, France. His parents discouraged his interest in art so he initially apprenticed to an architect, in Caen, before moving to Paris in 1900 to pursue his art studies. Although he didn’t get in to the  École des Beaux-Artes, he studied classical drawing and painting independently. Influenced by Modernist painters of the time, including Cezanne, Picasso, Braque, and others,&n...