Published by ACC Art Books in 2025, LIVE FROM MY STUDIO: The Art of Edie Baskin is the first book devoted to Baskin’s work as a photographer and art director. Its title places the studio at the center of the project: not simply as a workplace, but as the position from which an artist addresses an audience. “Live” suggests immediacy and performance, while “my studio” asserts a personal space of production and authorship.

The book brings sustained attention to a practice shaped by both image-making and art direction. That conjunction matters. Photography concerns the individual picture; art direction extends to selection, arrangement, context, and the construction of a public image. By gathering Baskin’s art within a single volume, the publication offers a framework for considering how these roles meet across a body of work rather than treating them as separate professional activities. Baskin’s Emmy nomination further locates that practice within the history of American broadcast culture.

The project is also associated with the fiftieth anniversary of Saturday Night Live, giving the volume a specific historical setting. Yet its significance is not limited to commemoration. Across 216 pages, the hardcover establishes a substantial record of an artist whose work operated at the intersection of photography, design, and popular media. For collectors, its interest rests on that documentary concentration: it is the first dedicated book through which Baskin’s work can be considered in sequence and at publication scale. Rather than claiming rarity or special-edition status, the volume deserves attention as a focused monographic reference and as a record of creative authorship within a collaborative media environment.