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"View Slideshow\n\nKelly Klein has long had more than just a fleeting passion for pools. Two decades ago the author and photographer released the book Pools, an elegant, oversize tome combining short texts on the history and design of pools with images that span from classic prewar photos by Jacques Henri Lartigue and Edward Weston to 1980s shots by Bruce Weber and Robert Mapplethorpe. Now she's diving back into the subject with Pools: Reflections, an equally lush follow-up, due out this fall.\n\n\"Pools are a place where I can really relax,\" says Klein, partly explaining her unwavering interest in the topic. \"I love to swim, and I love spending time around the pool. Nowadays, pools have become so beautiful, with different colors and shapes. They're architecture within the ground.\"\n\nWhile her first book used plenty of vintage pictures of pools designed over the previous century, Klein's new title is almost entirely contemporary. \"This book is really about the 1970s to today,\" she says. After inviting close to 600 photographers to submit favorite pool images, she edited the selection down to 180. The photographers represented include Robert Polidori, Nikolas Koenig, Mario Sorrenti, and Klein herself, while the images range from iconic hotel pools to splashy private retreats to abandoned pools that have taken on haunting new lives of their own.\n\nKlein's book shows us that every swimming spot has a unique personality. Perhaps that's why even though she has an exquisitely minimal pool of her own at her Palm Beach, Florida, residence (featured in the August issue of AD), she always finds time to study others. \"I became a bit obsessed with pools more than 20 years ago,\" she says, \"and I still am.\"\n\nPools: Reflections (Rizzoli, $100) will be available in October.\n\n Click here to preview five extraordinary pools from the book."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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