
Studies in leather and sadomasochism.

Otherworldly presents avant-garde garments, styling, fashion photography, and young designers who are reimagining fashion through new design technologies – from wearables to the utter transfiguration of the human silhouette. Otherworldly showcases a fashion avantgarde between futurism and fetish.

Lee Miller is arguably the 20th century's most famous woman photographer. During her extraordinary life, she came into contact with a wide range of people including many of the most celebrated and influential artists, writers, actors, fashion designers and socialites of the last century. This book is a comprehensive collection of these photographs, while exploring the relationship between photography and Lee Miller's life.


A book investigating the relationship of art and society through the works of eight German artists: Albrecht D., Joseph Beuys, KP Brehmer, Hans Haacke, Dieter Hacker, Gustav Metzger and more.

Michael Cooper (1941–1973) was a British photographer who is remembered for his photographs of leading rock musicians of the 1960s and early 1970s, most notably the many photos he took of The Rolling Stones from 1963 to 1973. This book collect some of his photographs shot during the 1960s in London.

This book is a visual celebration of the Swinging Sixties and of the beautiful, creative women of that era. Portraits taken by John D. Green Julie Christie, Susannah York, Hayley Mills, Dusty Springfield, Marianne Faithful, Mary Quant and many more.

This book is a collection of photographs and texts of the friendship between photographer Kei Orihara and Jana, a woman he met in New York.

A collection of male nudes of one male model in many different costumes, shot by Charlotte March.

Containing poetry, drawings, pressed flowers, photographs, excerpts from scripts and notes, Derek Jarman’s sketchbooks are part autobiography and part social history, bursting with the energy and creativity of this groundbreaking artist.

With photographs spanning Sam McKnight s entire career, this book is a dramatic anthology of looks from retro to androgynous, romantic to sexy, red to platinum all from the master hairstylist's deft hand. Featured are some of the most iconic images in popular culture. Richly illustrated, it features photographs by leading fashion photographers and styles commissioned by Vivienne Westwood, Balmain, Chanel, and many others.

The Way We Wore: Styles of the 1930's and '40's and Our World Since Then illustrates the fashion of the 1930s and '40s – discussing fabrics, colors, and prices from each era – and outlines what changed in from the 50s onwards.
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This comprehensive monograph contains a selection of emblematic works by Sengalese-born artist Issa Samb aka Joe Ouakam. The publication follows Samb's first solo exhibition in Europe, curated by Koyo Kouoh, entitled “WORD! WORD? WORD!".

In 1966, Yves Saint Laurent designed his first tuxedo and continued to create different versions of it up until 2002. In that time, the tuxedo has come to symbolize female liberation. This book was published to accompany an exhibition that presented the long history of this garment. Illustrations include numerous couture sketches and photo plates throughout, some in color and some in B&W, many full-page.

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.
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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

Dubbed an “It Girl” by Yves Saint Laurent in the early 1970s, Marisa Berenson is the original modern muse-inspiring fashion designers, photographers, stylists, and fashion editors for over thirty years. This captivating collection of fashion editorials, magazine covers, film stills, and candid photos were captured by the leading photographers and filmmakers of the day, including Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, David Bailey, Hiro, Helmut Newton, Henry Clarke, Norman Parkinson, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Steven Meisel, among many others.

Top photographers Bruce Weber, Richard Avedon, and Herb Ritts interpret Gianni Versace's kaleidoscopic vision of men's fashion. Whether at ease by the sea, or dressed for business in New York or Milan, the Versace man radiates self-assurance and defines contemporary taste. The Versace man - a man without ties - is drawn to Gianni Versace's timeless elegance.

This book chronicles Ede's his unique vision of combining art and living at Kettle's Yard, his Cambridge home and collection, featuring poetry and photographs of the house's curated spaces, portraying how art, light, and everyday objects create a harmonious, accessible experience for visitors, inspired by his belief that art should be part of everyday life, not confined to gallerie

Jocks and Nerds: Men's Style in the Twentieth Century offers a visual history of the way men have dressed in the twentieth century, tracing twelve social roles that have formed fashion and fashion leaders.

Documenta 6 complete catalogue including: Volume I painting / plastic environment / performance; Volume II photography / film / video; Volume III hand drawings / utopian design / books. Featuring the work of almost every important artist ever, including Chantal Akerman, Pierre Alechinsky, Robert Altman, Diane Arbus, Cecil Beaton, Joseph Beuys, Brassaï, Fellini, Agnes Martin, Man Ray, Mapplethorpe and so many more.

Horst Portraits celebrates the portraits of Horst P. Horst - one of the great master photographers of the twentieth century and the creator of some of the most elegant, glamorous, and stylish images in photographic history. It is the first book specifically devoted to his signature portraits.The photographs are all reproduced in full-page plates. For anyone interested in photography, fashion, or celebrity, some of the most fascinating faces of the twentieth century are to be found in the pages of this book.



Fashion Now profiles the work of the 150 most important designers around the globe, focusing on both established and emerging talent. With A to Z designer entries that include exclusive interviews, biographical information, photos of recent designs by today's leading photographers, and current catwalk shots, Fashion Now is a comprehensive reference book to all things fashion.

Concrete is one of the most innovative agencies of the moment and has acquired worldwide fame for its startling interior designs. This book is a project realised in collaboration with a diversity of leading authors, designers, artists and photographers.


From liposuction to lip implants, this book explores all the ins and outs of body sculpting, focusing on the artistry of aesthetic surgery.


A book showcasing the jewellery made by Dali.

This book explores contemporary pharmacy design as a distinctive branch of commercial architecture. In a tightly regulated market where price and products offer little differentiation, pharmacies compete through spatial atmosphere and customer experience. Featuring selected examples, it highlights sophisticated, modern, and hygienic designs that foster trust and loyalty, redefining pharmacies beyond traditional chemists’ interiors into welcoming, functional environments.

A book about architecture

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.

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

This book documents the collaborative furniture design work of architects Lina Bo Bardi and Giancarlo Palanti in Brazil between 1948 and 1951.

This book presents a parade of millinery marvels – from the sweeping feather and lace confections of the Edwardians to the minimal pillboxes of the late seventies. These captivating high fashion photographs demonstrate the Vogue adage that nothing in nature or art is so magically transforming as a hat.


This book presents an overview of Nauman's career from 1965 through 1988 and separate chapters devoted to his drawings, writings, films, videotapes, and performances.

A selection of photographs of one of the most distinguished practitioners of portrait and fashion photography. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, this catalogue was the first comprehensive retrospective of Irving Penn's work.

This book is a photographic celebration of the Hajj pilgrimage – an annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, the holiest city for Muslims. Newsha Tavakolian's remarkable photography is reproduced here with full captions that detail the events and rituals that form part of the pilgrimage.

A socialist journal of the social services. In this issue: Bertha Reynolds as Educator, Sport and Community Organising, Independent Unionism, The Democratic Party.

Iain R Webb's Postcards from the Edge of the Catwalk is a personal photographic portfolio spanning three decades that documents the glittering brouhaha surrounding the ready-to-wear and haute couture fashion collections in New York, London, Milan and Paris.

American bioacoustician and musician Bernie Krause has recorded over 5,000 hours of natural soundscapes since the 1970s. Both poetic and scientific, his archive reveals the musical harmony and orchestral structure of nature. This book presents an immersive installation created in 2016 by Krause and United Visual Artists for the Fondation Cartier in Paris. It traces the transformation of Krause’s field recordings into a three-dimensional audiovisual experience that blends art, technology, and ecology.

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Although Will McBride's work almost always appeared in magazines, this book presents a different side to his work that presents more intimate and photographs private snapshots into the most private spheres of American human existence.
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Special supplement to influential eighties men’s magazine Per Lui which featured the work of many well known fashion photographers through its time: Bruce Weber, Mario Testino, Herb Ritts, Steven Meisel amongst them. In this extended 80-page editorial, Bruce Weber and crew based out of the Shangri La Hotel in Los Angeles photographs a summer at the beach.

Everyday Things, White City Generation 88-97 is a photobook that attempts to answer two pivotal questions; what is the everyday and what our are our everyday things? This photobook is compromised by a series of photographs made with a familial group of young Black adults living in White City, Shepherd's Bush, West London. Throughout the photobook, annotative reflections exploring what it was like to grow up in and live the area, are shared by the familial group alongside their perceptions of White City’s historical and contemporary representations.

A report identifying the causes of urban declinein England and the recommended practical solutions to bring people back into cities, towns and urban neighbourhoods.

Street photographs of scenes in Shanghai.

Seven Years is a series of photographs that deconstruct the trope of family photography by meticulously mimicking it. In the series, the title of which refers to the age gap between the artist and her elder sister.

Samba Samba Brazil is the only large-format photography book Miki Jun published during his lifetime. It is a superb record of Brazil during the 60s. Dark photogravures capture the amazing energy of the people and the optimism of the country. Parts of the new capital of Brazil had just been built by Oscar Niemeyer and Lucio Costa and their grand architectural vision is documented in a series of impressive black-white images.

This is an exploration in photographs of the world of underwear, looking beneath the surface of our clothes, as seen through the lenses of top photographers. The book explores all aspects of the body – with mages by Henri Lartigue, Richard Avedon, Man Ray, David Bailey, David Hockney, Bruce Weber, Bob Carlos Clarke and Robert Mapplethorpe.

This book is the ultimate celebration of the shoe – an insight into the the world of the bespoke shoemaker, following the rise of mass manufacture with highlights of great designers past and present.

Photographer Chantal Regnault spent many years capturing the emergent underground gay ballroom scene in Harlem at the end of the 1980s, from where Voguing emerged. A riot of fashion, image, poly-sexuality and a radical subversion of style, sexuality and race is vividly captured in the hundreds of amazing, never before seen, photographs in this deluxe book. The book also features interviews with key figures from the movement, essays, flyers and documents from this momentous era.

Photographic documentations of war across USA, Afghanistan and Iraq. With contributions by Christopher Anderson, Alexandra Boulat, Ron Haviv, Gary Knight, Antonin Kratocvil, Christopher Morris, James Nachtwey and John Stanmeyer.

Renowned as the world's leading female fashion photographer from the 1930s to the 1960s, Louise Dahl-Wolfe (1895-1989) was acclaimed for her fashion photographs, still lifes, and portraits. Her fame reached its apogee after she joined Harper's Bazaar, the vanguard of women's magazines. This book is the first comprehensive retrospective on this important photographer. In addition to her fashion image, the 200 photographs gathered here include Louise Dahl-Wolfe's experimental color work and black-and-white portraits of such luminaries as Mae West, Cecil Beaton, Josephine Baker, Christian Dior, Orson Welles, Isamu Noguchi, and others

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

Twenty years of Versace by Avedon, this collection of beautifully produced photographs from the advertising campaigns of Gianni Versace features images of some of the most beautiful women in the world, including Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell, and Linda Evangelista,

Welcome Aboard! Photographs 1980–2000 is, at the same time, a monograph on Pfeiffer’s photographic work and an artist’s book, a photo-novel all of its own. With simple means Pfeiffer creates intelligent and classic images of beauty and bliss, imbued with a wistful awareness of their artifice. Stylish, suggestive, and erotic, his images are an encyclopaedia of desire.

A collection of photographs depicting the female nude.

Gold & Ashes is a visual series on the Grenfell Community by bereaved family member Feruza Afewerki. It features a collection of photo stories of the local community of survivors and bereaved, documented over 3 years, in hopes of highlighting the humanity and courage of the Grenfell residents, honour the memories of their loved ones lost and bring dignity to those directly impacted by the tragedy.

Born in Hungary, Ata Kando worked in Paris where she married Ed van der Elsken and later settled in the Netherlands. She may be best known for her hard hitting photojournalistic work on Hungarian children refugees from WWII photographed with Violette Cornelius. In this book of photographs she uses her children as models and can be seen as an escapist fantasy from those grim wartime years.

This book features photographs of the pre-fame Beatles taken in Hamburg in 1961 along with pictures of German and French Rock'n'Roll fans from the years 1961 to 1964. The photos are complemented by a fascinating account by Jurgen Vollmer of his friendship with the Liverpool band and his sometimes dangerous encounters with Rockers.

A book of the furniture design work by Thomas Rietveld.

This is the third book in Sam Haskin's 1960s trilogy of books containing evocative female nudes, following on from Five Girls and Cowboy Kate.
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To mark the twentieth anniversary of Obrist's landmark project 'do it', this publication presents the history of this ambitious enterprise and gives new impetus to its future. It includes an archive of artists' instructions, essays contextualizing Do It, documentation from the history of the exhibition and instructions by 200 artists from all over the world selected by Obrist,

A socialist journal of the social services. In this issue: Juvenile Institutions and lesbian youth; a theory of institutional abuse; women and mental health; restructuring political organisations for the Eighties; burnout as a political issue.

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.

A collection of pavillions featured at Serpentine. Featuring work by: Zaha Hadid, Daniel Libeskind, Toyoito, Oscard Niemeyer, MVRDV, Alvaro Siza & Eduardo Souto De Moura, Rem Koolhaus & Cecil Balmond, Olafur Elisasson & Kjketil Thorsen, Frank O. Gehry, Sanaa, Jean Nouvel

A collection of different designs of Rock band T-shirts.

The definitive book on the legendary photographer's life in New York City, with many never-before-seen images and reminiscences by his closest friends and confidants. From the 1930s, when he helped revolutionize fashion journalism, through the 1960s, when he launched headlong into the Pop art era, London-based photographer Cecil Beaton brought to New York City his own perspective--aristocratic, sexually ambiguous, and theatrical

A intriguing look into Maholy Nagy's photographs and photograms.

Issue on apartment interiors.

AFROSURF is the first book to capture and celebrate the surfing culture of Africa. This unprecedented collection is compiled by Mami Wata, a Cape Town surf company that fiercely believes in the power of African surf.

A limited edition booklet published in conjunction with the 2009 Tate Triennial. It functions as a companion guide, featuring contributions that explore the "Altermodern" concept—a term coined by curator Nicolas Bourriaud to describe art made as a reaction against standardisation and commercialism.

BLINK. presents the work of 100 of the world's most exciting contemporary photographers, selected by 10 internationally acclaimed critics, curators and creative directors. An exhibition in a book, BLINK. showcases up-and-coming talent from all parts of the world, enabling the reader to stay one step ahead of emerging trends in the fast-changing world of photography.

Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with a show held June 6 - August 19, 1990.

This major monograph was published on the occasion of a retrospective exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum,o cntaining work from over a 30-year period, including photographs from Friedlander's previous publications: Self-Portrait, The American Monument, Lee Friedlander: Photographs, Flowers and Trees, Factory Valleys, Lee Friedlander: Portraits, and Cray at Chippewa Falls.

This book presents Rineke Dijkstra's uncanny and thoughtful portraits of teenagers and young adults.

Fashion Photography 1950-1975 is a book by German photographer F.C. Gundlach that showcases his iconic work during that period. His photos are known for blending social commentary with fashion, reflecting the spirit of the times and influencing fashion perception in Germany and beyond.

After years of research in artists’ studios as well as in private and public collections, this book depicts a rich period when the Italian artists figured among the most influential interprets of the transformation in the visual languages. This book displays more than 300 works of art by major figures of the Italian scene, including Giovanni Anselmo, Alighiero Boetti, Luigi Ghirri, Jannis Kounellis, Piero Manzoni, Mario Merz and more.

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.


Fred Astaire is best known for a number of highly successful musical comedy films in which he starred with Ginger Rogers. He is regarded by many as the greatest popular-music dancer of all time.

A huge book that holds the fashion photography career of Bruce Weber.

Donald Judd Furniture surveys over one hundred furniture pieces created by Donald Judd between 1970 and 1991 for his spaces at 101 Spring Street in New York and in Marfa, Texas. Through drawings and photographs, the book highlights Judd’s minimalist forms, functional clarity, material precision, and his thoughtful response to mass production and design.

Jan Kaplický (1937-2009) was a visionary architect with a passion for drawing. It was his way of discovering, describing and constructing; and through drawing he presented beguiling architectural imagery of the highest order. Many of his sketches, cutaway drawings and photomontages are brought together and celebrated in Jan Kaplický Drawings. These drawings date from the early years of his independent practice, Future Systems, in the 1970s, to his final ink drawings, executed in the mid-1990s.

Released on the 40th anniversary of Debbie Harry’s debut solo album KooKoo (1981), this book and exhibition collect a rarely seen and unpublished body of photographs by Chris Stein capturing the alchemy of the collaboration between artist H.R. Giger and the Blondie frontwoman and lead vocalist.

Abramovic defines "Inbetween" as the place between departure and arrival—or the space one inhabits while in transit. The sketches, hastily written notes, collages made from found and accumulated scraps, and photographs that are included in this bookwork are a chronicle of her visit to this temporal resting-place. Part diary, part work notebook, we are offered an intimate glimpse of Abramovic’s observations and thoughts during her residency in Japan. Printed on a heavy printmaking stock.

Raised By Wolves, published in 1995, followed California street kids as they fumbled through lives coloured by addiction, abuse, and violence.

A themed collection of Araki photographs. Issue 12: Dramatic Shooting and Fake Reportage

This is the first comprehensive monograph on acclaimed painter Amy Sherald, whose distinctive style of simplified realist portraiture features African American subjects rendered against colourful monochrome backdrops or in everyday settings.

A zine about The Black People’s Day Of Action of 3rd March 1981.

This book brings together a selection of images from all the campaigns into a collection that marks how significant this collaboration between Teller and Jacobs has been in both fashion and visual culture.

Farm is a view of Africa outside the language of photojournalism and the previous depictions of the glories of tribal culture.

A book published from the exhibition of the same name held May 22 - June 16, 1976 of women artists from Paris. Features works by Bour, Hessie, Janicot, Maglione, and a collective work by Aballea, Blum, Croiset, Mimi, and Yalter.


This book is a celebration of the Yves Saint Laurent look, a combination of elegance and sophisticated artistry. It is also a book in which the premiere fashion photography of our time is represented, and a book in which "the subject and the object blend because each one is a work of art."

Control: The Ian Curtis Film biopic is Anton Corbijn's is one of the directors most famous projects that followed the troubled life of post-punk Joy Division lead musician Ian Curtis. This book is a document of the process of making the film – a visual diary with annotations, drawings, and a wealth of photographs detailing the creative process from pre-production to first screenings.

In oversized photos and full colour, this lavish book presents a stunning collection of clothing designs by Dolce & Gabbana, providing a comprehensive view of the Houses' best work – with anecdotes from famous fans of D&G including Isabella Rossellini, Cindy Crawford, Madonna, and Demi Moore.
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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