The Coffee-Table-Book Publisher Who Prints Whatever He Wants

Benedikt Taschen’s company puts out big, lush volumes on the likes of Picasso, Monet, Stanley Kubrick and Zaha Hadid, of course. But his projects range from The Big Book of Breasts (and its sequel, The Big Butt Book) to a glossy volume of raunchy gay comics by Tom of Finland to a facsimile of the 1534 Luther Bible to GOAT, a 20-inch-square, pink-leather-bound tribute to Muhammad Ali.