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Check out this article on BBook.com: http://www.blackbookmag.com/article/winters-tales Winters’ Tales American artist Walton Ford is perhaps best described as Audubon on acid. The naturalist-gone-nuclear’s intricate, dazzling, and sometimes disturbing watercolors might be mistaken at first glance for antiques-until you notice some of the animals are engaged in sex acts, cannibalism, or other supposedly “unnatural” behavior. Ford’s outsized talent gets a suitable forum in an opulent, signed, limited-edition volume, Walton Ford: Pancha Tantra (Taschen, $1,250). Scrappy New Yorker scribe Bill Buford provides the text. In other noteworthy tomes this month: Jean-Michel Berts captures a deserted Manhattan in the ethereal magic of dawn in The Light of New York (Assouline, $50). And the photographic genius who made the Modernist architectural masterpieces of California famous through his work is celebrated in the three-volume Julius Shulman: Modernism Rediscovered (Taschen, $300). Some of the houses first touted by Shulman are seen in their current incarnations in Diane Dorrans Saeks’s sleek, stylish Palm Springs Living (Rizzoli, $55). Widely imitated and justly world-famous architect Richard Meier’s residential commissions are showcased in Richard Meier: Houses and Apartments (Rizzoli, $85). www.bbook.com