
This book, published to coincide with an exhibition at MoMA, is a comprehensive overview of the work of Garry Winogrand. Grouped under the following titles—Eisenhower Years, The Street, Women, The Zoo, On the Road, The Sixties, Etc, The Fort Worth Fat Stock Show and Rodeo, Airport, and Unfinished Work—many of the 179 plates are works that had never before been published.

From Coco Chanel's final show to Galliano's graduation, supermodels to showstoppers, McQueen to Versace and more Catwalking presents the definitive catwalk highlights captured by the photographer who has seen and shot it all.

Remember, Be Here Now is book on spirituality, yoga, and meditation by the American yogi and spiritual teacher Ram Dass.

In this magnificent collection, the lost world of Eastern Europe's Jewish communities once again comes to life. Between 1936 and 1939, Roman Vishniac travelled through the Jewish settlements of Carpathian Ruthenia, Slovakia, and Poland, passionately documenting a rich and vital culture that would soon cease to exist.

An encyclopedic collection of all known Becher industrial studies, arranged by building type.

An impressive collection of photographs and essays portraying the intricate work of jewellery designers – from the world famous to the lesser known. A variety of topics are covered: from technical aspects of jewellery work to general views on the way jewellery design is developing.

A facsimile of surrealist artist and poet Jındřıch Štyrský's handmade artist book from 1933 - originally published in an edition of 69 numbered examples. Contains black and white examples of surrealist photography with collage.

An homage to Japanese street style bible Kerouac's monthly feature, Hair Wars documents dyes, bangs and cuts on the streets of a post-pandemic London in all its glory. Shot by William E. Wright (editor of fanzine Street Flash), the project frames experimental hair as a self-made antidote to the latest fashion movements, something that can be "as democratic as a box of dye, a couple of clips and the willingness to be creative.

Where other portraitists were content to have their subjects sit for them, Philippe Halsman had his jump, an action which he felt caused the real self of his illustrious sitters to come out. Famous sitters included in the book are Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly, Brigitte Bardot and Richard Nixon.

Bosnian War Posters presents a powerful visual history of the Bosnian War (1992–1995) through political posters, archival images, and contemporary photographs. Collected across Bosnia and the former Yugoslavia, these graphics capture lived experiences of conflict, nationalism, and propaganda.

Published in 1983 as a companion piece to the hugely popular Sloane Ranger’s Handbook, authors Ann Barr and Peter York expanded the satirical take on the upper classes by providing a definitive guide to the Sloane year.

Iconic British fashion designer, Jean Muir (1928-1995) was the doyenne of dressmaking. Her signature style married a distinctive purity of line with a soft fluidity on the body, to create the sensuous deceptively simple clothes that became her trademark, epitomised by her work in matte jersey, and in particular her jersey dresses, which brought her legendary status in an internationally-renowned career that spanned four decades. This book presents Muir's career across every aspect of the fashion world – including many of her sketches, as well as photography by Norman Parkinson, David Bailey, Eric Boman, and Deborah Turbeville.
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“Shifting Cosey Fanni Tutti from noun to verb” & “discussing and theorising Cosey as methodology,” this book follows the one-day event conceived by Maria Fusco, in collaboration with Richard Birkett, at ICA London, on March 27, 2010.

Ahmed Morsi: A Dialogic Imagination discusses the places, people, texts, ideas, and materials that have shaped the unique practice of the New York–based Egyptian artist Ahmed Morsi.

This book is a tribute to an extraordinary personality in 20th-century architecture. It features an exemplary selection of his key designs, both built and unrealised, lavishly illustrated with images and reproductions of previously unpublished plans, drawings, and documents.

Ernest Cole, a Black South African man, photographed the underbelly of apartheid in the 1950s and ’60s, often at great personal risk. He methodically captured the myriad forms of violence embedded in everyday life for the Black majority under the apartheid system—picturing its miners, its police, its hospitals, its schools. In 1966, Cole fled South Africa and smuggled out his negatives; House of Bondage was published the following year with his writings and first-person account. This edition retains the powerful story of the original while adding new perspectives on Cole’s life and the legacy of House of Bondage, remaining a visually powerful and politically incisive document of the apartheid era.

Collection of store signs.

Eyes For Blowing Up Bridges explores the radical artistic networks linking post-war countercultural movements—from Situationism to Beat and Punk. Featuring rare materials, it traces the creative exchange between figures such as William S. Burroughs, Guy Debord, Asger Jorn, Alexander Trocchi, and King Mob, and their influence on Malcolm McLaren’s disruptive cultural experiments across art, fashion, music, and film.

Gucci by Gucci bringing together the archive of the loved House – in the form of bags, clothes, accessories, and a dazzling cache of documentary photographsthe history of the Florentine family-owned saddler that has imprinted its name on the fashion consciousness. Both a history of the company and a glorious visual exploration of its far-reaching influence, the book is a treat for the collector and the fan.

Brilliantly useful for all things disco, filled with illustrated instructions for basic disco moves.

This book presents cross-cultural means of how to understand the reality which lies in dreams.

Aspen, published between 1965 and 1971, was a multimedia “magazine in a box” created by Phyllis Johnson. Each issue broke from traditional print by being curated by different artists and designers, including diverse materials such as booklets, vinyl records, film reels, and posters, showcasing avant-garde movements like pop art, Fluxus, and conceptual art. The third issue of volume one is the renowned "Pop Art Issue" designed by Andy Warhol and David Dalton. This multimedia "magazine in a box" acts as a 1960s time capsule – featuring a dayglo detergent box cover, a Velvet Underground flexi-disc, and Warhol’s Kiss film flip-book.

This volume compiles and annotates the extensive correspondence of Marcel Duchamp, offering insights into his personality, creative process, and groundbreaking projects—including the “ready-made” that reshaped 20th‑century art. Curated over 20 years by Francis Naumann, the book translates, contextualizes, and introduces each correspondent, making Duchamp’s life and ideas accessible to both scholars and general art enthusiasts.

Encompassing photography, installation, print media, video and more, this publication is a comprehensive account of Tillmans' wide-ranging career. Featuring everything from trenchant documents of social movements to windowsill still lifes, ecstatic images of nightlife to cameraless abstractions, sensitive portraits to architectural studies, astronomical phenomena to intimate nudes.

An exhibition catalogue published by The Redfern Gallery documenting new work by the British painter. Featuring contributions from Wes Lang and Reba Maybury, it highlights his shift toward narrative-driven, observational painting, influenced by his time in St. Ives and the US.

Ground is the result of a decade long documentation of the conflict between Palestine and Israel. With his camera, Bruno Stevens portrays the lives of many shapes by violence, loss and destruction.

An exhibition catalogue to accompany the MAN RAY/BAZAAR YEARS: A Fashion Retrospective exhibition presenting Man Ray's fashion photographs for Harper's Bazaar.

When Maxime Gaillard opened a small bistro at 3 rue Royale, his restaurant was soon discovered by the star socialite of the moment, Irma de Montigny, who launched it as a center of Parisian nightlife. A masterpiece of Art Nouveau architecture and design, Maxim's remains faithful to this period and continues to be a symbol of Parisian luxury life. In this book, Jean-Pascal Hesse tells us the fascinating story of this legendary place along with also the restaurant most successful recipes, with accompanying illustrations.

Mirror Reflecting Darkly explores artist Rita Keegan’s archive, blending autobiography and critical history. Documenting her journey through the 1980s and '90s Black British Art movement, Soho clubland, and the Women of Colour Index, the book features diverse essays reflecting on creative kinship, self-archiving, and archiving as activism.

The people of New Guina have little art in the form of objects – instead, their art takes form through self decoration. Birds of paradise plumes, animal furs, ochre plants, leaves and grasses are their props of choice. This book documents and describes the styles of decoration in the Mountain Hagen area, and the variations expressive of individuality.

Aspen, published between 1965 and 1971, was a multimedia “magazine in a box” created by Phyllis Johnson. Each issue broke from traditional print by being curated by different artists and designers, including diverse materials such as booklets, vinyl records, film reels, and posters, showcasing avant-garde movements like pop art, Fluxus, and conceptual art. The fourth issue of volume one is "Marshall McLuhan Issue," designed by Quentin Fiore. Known as a 3D multimedia magazine, this issue explores media theory, famously packaged in a white box with black/red geometric designs, featuring recordings, texts, and advertisements

Fashion Forever is a unique account of the aesthetic choices of British youth and a comprehensive guide to three decades of style driven subcultures. This book also presents a unique collection of portraits of distinctive individuals, their looks, their styles and their very personal statements.

From the Caribbean to Italy and Mexico to Monaco, Poolside with Slim Aarons whisks the reader away to an exclusive club where taste, style, luxury and grandeur prevail.

Born and raised in Belgrade, Boogie first began photographing during the Yugoslav Wars, which ravaged the Serbian territory throughout the 1990s. Growing up during these wars ignited Boogie’s attraction to the darker side of human existence; his distinctive photographs often focuses on rebellion, unrest, and the disenfranchised. In this book, he documents the people of Moscow – people sculpted by a brutal, concrete landscape, fighting to survive.

David Hockney's examination of his interest in photography, his thoughts on the influence of Picasso and Rembrandt and of Eastern conventions of perspective and their relevance to his work.

Full Scale False Scale is a study of a site-specific installation for the Museum of Modern Art, created for its 2019 reopening. Blending reader and collage, the book assembles research materials—spanning color theory, politics, and architectural motifs—into a constructed, subjective archive mirroring the installation itself.

This incredible album is a testimony to the magnificent minerals collected in what was known as the Katanga Province in Congo.

For three years, Dennis Feldman (born 1946) repeatedly walked an eight-block stretch from Hollywood and Vine to the Chinese Theater, called the Walk of Fame, where people flocked to gaze at a sidewalk full of terrazzo stars inlaid with the names of famous (and no longer famous) entertainers. Hollywood Boulevard compiles the photographer's large-format, black-and-white portraits into a painfully human character study of social identity and performance.

The Lithuanian filmmaker and chronicler of the American underground movement, Jonas Mekas, wrote down his dreams between August 1978 and June 1979. All these events and characters, combined with memories of his childhood in the Lithuanian fields and snow, are transformed and filtered through the absurd logic and advenutures of dreams.

This updated edition brings back to life an era of Paris' history, seen through Nabokov’s original Polaroid photos, together with the original introduction by the late interior designer Andrée Putman.

Published in 1970, Aspen Magazine Issue 7 ("British Box") was a multimedia "magazine in a box" showcasing countercultural London. Edited by Mario Amaya, the hinged box contained 14 unbound pieces. Highlights include a John Lennon and Yoko Ono flexi-disc, Eduardo Paolozzi’s coloring book, and an Ossie Clark sewing pattern.

This is the first book to be published on the leading London architecture firm Gumuchdjian Architects whose widely published first project the Think Tank established their reputation for sensitive, contextual work.

This exhibition catalogue was published to coincide with the J Street Project exhibition held at Compton Verney between September and October 2005. At Compton Verney, Hiller showed The J-Street Project; a complex study documenting every street in Germany whose name contains a reference to Jews. The resulting installation contained both video and photographic works, mapping the whole of Germany and containing an extraordinary 303 place names. The images are haunting, often sparse yet dramatic, some occupied with people; others empty.

The Paper Snake is an essential work in Ray Johnson’s oeuvre and the second title published by Dick Higgins’ Something Else Press in 1965. Johnson describes the book as "all my writings, rubbings, plays, things that I had mailed to [Higgins] or brought to him in cardboard boxes or shoved under his door, or left in his sink, or whatever, over a period of years."

Two volume set of Herb Ritts' photographs of nude men and women.

Still, Life is a cookbook by British artist Joe Sweeney that blend his personal response to the restrictions of the 2020 pandemic with the tradition of still life in art

Black and white photographs of New York City coupled with nude bodies by photographer Arthur Tress.

The 408-page collection of Grace Coddington's greatest work as a fashion stylist and sittings editor is not just a monograph of her first 30 years at Vogue, it is also a visual reminiscence of 30 years of British and American Vogue's best work. The photographers whose work is included: Irving Penn, Cecil Beaton, Helmut Newton, Guy Bourdin, Norman Parkinson, Ellen von Unwerth, Bruce Weber, Mario Testino, Steven Meisel, Steven Klein, Annie Leibovitz, Sarah Moon, Peter Lindbergh, and more.

This retrospective of Japanese photographer Masahisa Fukase whose deeply introspective and cinematc photography illustrated his intense and occasionally violent life. This book provides an overview of one of the most radical and important photographers of his generation. Edited by Simon Baker, the Tate’s first photography curator, and Tomo Kosuga, director of the Masahisa Fukase Archives, the comprehensive book showcases 26 of the artist’s series, including many previously unpublished works, on more than 400 pages.

This book is a collection of photographs of the painter Georgia O'Keeffe by Alfred Stieglitz. The two met in 1916 and married in 1924, and these several hundred portraits made over twenty-something years is an image of a life and a love. O'Keeffe claimed: "When I look over the photographs Stieglitz took of me . . . I wonder who that person is. It is as if in my one life I have lived many lives."

GA Document is a Global Architecture focusing on contemporary international architecture and design projects.

A previously unpublished one act play by Don DeLillo, illustrated with photographs by Richard Prince.

A study of prehistoric art.

A book about the patterns and fabrics of Juergen Lehl, a German designer who worked in Tokyo since starting a company there in 1972

If music fans and musicians carry a composite image in their head of The Rolling Stones' street-fighting dandy look in the '60s, they were all taken by revered British photographer Mankowitz. This book presents the classic shots, as well as images from the thousands of lesser-known photos in his Stones archives.

Altars presents Mapplethorpe's colour work together with his final work, which were unique prints, elaborately framed and mounted on multiple coloured panels. The final work was the culmination of his creation of the unique photographic object, and it places Mapplethorpe outside the realm of photography and firmly in the world of contemporary art.

Examples of American experimental film from 1939-1979.

Camera in Paris by Brassaï is a captivating photographic journey through the streets of 1930s Paris, revealing the city’s hidden nocturnal life with striking intimacy and poetic depth. Known as the “Eye of Paris,” Brassaï captures the city’s shadowy corners, bustling nightlife, and everyday moments.

The book was published on the occasion of the inauguration of the A.M. Qattan Foundation’s new building, Subcontracted Nations was a group exhibition that questions differing concepts of nation.

Kraftwerk: Dance Forever documents the visual and cultural evolution of the pioneering electronic group Kraftwerk from the 1970s to today. Published alongside an exhibition launched in Detroit, the birthplace of techno, it showcases posters, photographs, recordings, sheet music, and memorabilia that capture the band’s iconic machine-music aesthetic and lasting influence on electronic and dance music culture.

This superbly produced book covers the period 1969-71, and features the photo session in and around Syd Barrett's London flat that produced the cover for his first solo album, The Madcap Laughs; it also features images Mick shot for the now famous Rolling Stone interview in 1971, which became the last photos Syd ever posed for.

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Photographs of fans of The Rolling Stones.

In this book, Salisbury set out to recapture the memories of childhood and the vagaries unique to place. Inscribed with the loss of his brother and the history of six generations before him, he has relived the past vicariously, photographing his cousins, Drew and Jimmy, as they grew to manhood. Delineated by the seasons and the intimacy of small town life, the results suggest nothing less than a Gothic portrait of boyhood in rural America.

Let’s Become Fungal! takes its inspiration from the world of art and mycology and shares innovative practices from Latin America and the Caribbean that are rooted in multispecies collaboration, symbiosis, alliances, non-monetary resource exchange, decentralization, bottom-up methods and mutual dependency—all in line with the behavior of the mycelium.

The stylish and extravagant world of the "Bright Young Things" of 1920s and '30s London, seen through the eye of renowned British photographer Cecil Beaton.

This book is document of the centennial history of the The University of California containing more than 100 rich photogravures of university life by Ansel Adams.
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Edited by Dick Higgins and Wolf Vostell, Fantastic Architecture is an artist’s book/anthology explores the boundaries between pop art and architecture through writings and projects by key artists and thinkers of the 1960s and earlier—from John Cage and Buckminster Fuller to Kurt Schwitters and Joseph Beuys

Showing Elderfield's distinct view of South Philadelphia, this book documents a big scope of "street life", ranging from snapshots to carefully composed pictures. These beautiful black and white photographs strike the eye because of their lyrical quality, which is enhanced and complemented by contemporary poems.

Foote abandoned a successful fashion photographer career to wander the back alleys, scrub land and bars of Memphis portrayed in this book. With textual contributions by photographer William Eggleston and film director Bernardo Bertolucc

John Deakin (1912-1972), whose portraits are among the most significant (and amongst the most overlooked) in the history of twentieth-century photography, was a natural successor to August Sander and precursor of Diane Arbus. He phographed everyone from Hollywood stars for British Vogue in the late 1940s and early 1950s to his artist and poet friends in London's bohemia, Soho. Robin Muir, former picture editor of British Vogue, bringstogether a comprehensive collection of Deakin's most important photographs.

Herbert List was fascinated by the ”artificial humans“—life-size figures moulded in wax—on display at the Panoptikum in Vienna’s Prater. In 1944, he photographed these waxworks, depicting them as “corpses set in position and daubed with make-up—frozen in poses of the utmost intensity, they are inhabitants of a Sleeping Beauty castle.” List took a string of fairytale scenes, historical tableaux, and medical subjects and combined them with a trenchant text to create an illustrated book published here for the first time, more than seventy-five years later, in a bibliophile edition based on List’s original draft.

This is the second issue of Heatwave – a British libertarian socialist and Situationist publication from the 1960s.

This book presents a detailed account of manned space programmes of the US and the USSR as well as an account of the non-American and non-Soviet astronauts.

In 2022, Jamaica Society Leeds staged the Rebellion to Romance exhibition as part of the Out of Many Festival marking 60 years of Jamaica independence. The exhibition, and subsequent book, explored the lives of second-generation West Indians in the 1970s and 80s Leeds and the impact of Jamaican ulture.

Back in the Days documents the emerging Hip Hop scene from 1980-1989-before it became what is today's multi-million-dollar multinational industry.

Emerges from the innovative minds of Theseus Chan, Werk, and Comme Des Garçons. This edition, known for its distinctive torched flambé cover, marks a unique chapter in the collaboration between the avant-garde fashion label and its global guerrillastores. The magazine documents the revolutionary retail concept by Comme des Garçons, which allowed partners worldwide to open a store, manage expenses, and offer CDG merchandise on a sale or return basis for one year.


A comprehensive study of the work of photographer Bill Brandt, and a catalogue to an exhibition at the Barbican Centre in London in 1993. Brandt is perhaps best known for his sequence of ever more abstracted studies of the nude, but his telling portrayals of artists from the same period remain immediate and perceptive decades later. This book explores, on a large scale, all the different aspects of Brandt's work.

A periodical book on modern houses from around the globe. Featuring work of architects Alvar Aalto, Le Corbusier, Eero Saarinen, Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Meier & Associates

This monograph presents a comprehensive overview of Metzger's oeuvre. An illustrated chronology outlines the artist's activities within the historical and political context in which they originated. Thus, the book presents Metzger not just as an artist, but also as an activist.

Sound Postcards is an interesting compilation CD coming with italian Uovo magazine’s Sound Postcards issue – compiling a collection of varied sound art and audio works.

Sifting through the prosthetic memory of our contemporary time, the ADDPM Program aims to scale a collective human legacy. The book becomes encyclopedia on the cultural and cognitive flattening of human networked recollections.

A documentation of Black style through portraits of people on the streets of Chicago.

Afro-Atlantic Histories brings together a selection of more than 400 works and documents by more than 200 artists from the 16th to the 21st centuries that express and analyze the ebbs and flows between Africa, the Americas, the Caribbean and Europe. The book is motivated by the desire and need to draw parallels, frictions and dialogues around the visual cultures of Afro-Atlantic territories--their experiences, creations, worshiping and philosophy. The so-called Black Atlantic, to use the term coined by Paul Gilroy, is geography lacking precise borders, a fluid field where African experiences invade and occupy other nations, territories and cultures.

Photographs and text documenting life at the Bauhaus.

A perfectly encapsulated visual documentation Parisian youth & their subcultures.

Issue on the Pompidou Centre, Paris 1972-1977

In 1969, Winogrand documented a number of public events. The photographs depict our emerging dependence on the media as well as how the media changes and sometimes even creates the event itself.

A collection of Henry Moore's writings and spoken words.

A photographic document of a Mexican bull fight in 1961.


Double Game is the a book of work by Sophie Calle and the fiction of Paul Auster. We see the pieces both as they're described in their fictional context and as Calle's own interpretation of the descriptions from Auster's novel. The book delves deeper into Calle's world, with a sequence of Calle's seminal narrative and abstract works in texts and images that were in turn appropriated by the fictional Maria in Leviathan.

Born in Iran and based in Berlin, German artist Nairy Baghramian explores and reflects on formal languages of both modernism and post-minimalism. This book provides an overview of the work of Nairy Baghramian, with texts that explore the sculptor’s creative process.

Liz Rideal is an artist, writer, and Professor of Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. Working across a variety of media including photography, printmaking, and painting, Rideal explores themes of drapery, portraiture and pilgrimage in her work.

Showboat traces the interplay of punk and sexuality from 1972 to the present through posters, flyers, record covers, photographs, and ephemera from The Mott Collection. Complemented by essay, the book offers a vivid exploration of punk’s provocative, subversive visual and cultural legacy.
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Shot over the period of 5 months in 2017, Yodo Hito documents the communities and individuals who have built their homes or congregate along the concrete oodplains of the Yodogawa River in Osaka city, Japan.

A collection of painterly images of women in sexual relationships, accompanied by poetry. Portraits of intimacy, tenderness and love between women.
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Catalogue published on the occassion of the 2002 German museum exhibition "For the Benefit of All the Races of Mankind An Exhibition of Artifacts, Remnants, and Effluvia EXCAVATED from the Black Heart of a Negress" by African-American artist Kara Walker.

A history of pottery in Britain.
The Library
Our Library is the heart of Reference Point and from where all other elements take their philosophy and context. An evolving and growing collection of rare books, ephemera and printed matter focused on Post-War Radical Art, Architecture, Design, Fashion and Culture. The library exists to create inspiration and conversation, and provide creatives of all stages and disciplines reference points for their projects.
Our librarians are always on hand to serve as research assistants but you can also email us with your interests and project brief and we can prepare a selection of works in advance of your visit.
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