Benedikt Taschen

The Cologne-based publishing house of TASCHEN was established in 1980 by Benedikt Taschen who started at the early age of 18 by starting a store called TASCHEN COMICS.

The publisher is known for its eclectic releases, everything from at photography and painting, to design, fashion and film. Not surprisingly, starting in late 2012 the publisher began publishing ebooks into the Apple iBooks Store. Today, TASCHEN has 20 eBooks available and in the Apple iBooks Store, as well as two stand-alone apps.

While many book publishers are heavily investing in the digital frontier, Benedikt Taschen is looking to corner the market in oversize collectible books.

His Cologne, Germany-based publishing house, Taschen, collaborated with Sebastião Salgado, a Brazilian photojournalist and Unicef Goodwill Ambassador who spent the past eight years traveling to remote places untouched by deforestation, urbanization and the modern world, to produce "Genesis." The 704-page two-volume collection of black-and-white photos depicts Mr. Salgado's trek, which included a 47-day journey tracking 7,000 reindeer across Northern Siberia and a roughly 525-mile hike in the Simien Mountains of Ethiopia.