Issue 6 of IL focuses on wide-span structures, exploring biological, geometric, and structural principles. Featuring contributions from Frei Otto and others, it examines minimal surfaces, soap films, plant and spider structures, form representation, and photogrammetry. Blending architecture, engineering, and biology, the bilingual issue investigates natural models as inspiration for innovative structural design – with contributions by Benno Kummer, H.M. Peters, Rainer Schill, Rudolph Doernach, Walter Reinhardt, Wolfgang Faig, D. Schwenkel

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A socialist journal of the social services. In this issue: the housing movement, the social theory of Wilhelm Reich, An alternative tradition to social work, Radical Social Work.

Over three years in the making, BREAK DOWN is one Michael Landy’s most extreme projects in which he made an inventory of his life. This book compiles the list of all his possessions.

In this incredible book, photographer Andrew Bush examines the tension between private and public in his remarkable series of photographs of individuals driving cars in and around Los Angeles--a city famous for its car culture. By attaching a camera to the passenger side window, Bush made these pictures while driving alongside his subjects--often traveling at 60 mph.

This iconic book presents a selection of 138 photos taken at the Coney Island from 1952 to 1977.

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.

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Male Nudes by Women, edited by Peter Weiermair, brings together contemporary female photographers engaging with the male body. The anthology examines and challenges long-established gender roles and visual clichés, while also exploring the artists’ own erotic perspectives and imaginative responses to representation, identity, and the history of the nude in art. With photographs by Karin Rosenthal, Marsha Burns, Nan Goldin, Lynn Davis, Jacqueline Livingstone, Jaschi Klein, and more.

A collection of painterly images of women in sexual relationships, accompanied by poetry. Portraits of intimacy, tenderness and love between women.

This book explores the origins of Roger's thinking and the wide ranging interests that informed his design process

The year in which photographer Jillian Edelstein turned 40 she came across an image of her great aunt Minna, of whose existence she had been unaware. The photograph of Minna became the catalyst for a journey to unearth her family history and the discovery of an unknown branch of her family living in Ukraine. Here and There documents Edelstein’s family odyssey and expands to encompass photographs made throughout her career, inextricably linked by the thread of human displacement.

This book combines the very best of the punk press photographs and the most interesting pictures of primitive peoples resplendent in their ritual adornments.

This book is artist's book by American sound artist and visual artist Terry Fox documenting 52, out of a potentially larger set, of the symbolic, often chalked, messages used by transient individuals in America and Europe.

A comprehensive collection of images photographer Herbert List shot from 1930s to 1970s – including everything from his landscapes of Greece to people in the streets of Germany street, all shotin his usual surrealist way.

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A visual guidebook for photographing women.

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.

Ann Bonfoey Taylor (1910-2007) was a pioneering female flight instructor during World War II, was a member of the US Olympic Ski Squad in 1939, competed in tennis at Wimbledon and was accomplished at riding and shooting. This book serves as a celebration of Taylor’s extraordinary wardrobe of couture and custom-designed sporting ensembles.

A book on the people who came to America told through objects, prints and photographs at the Smithsonian Institution.

American Polychronic presents the first comprehensive catalogue of Roe Ethridge’s work from 1999 to 2022, comprised of two interlocking threads of his celebrated photographic practice – a postmodernist approach exploring the plastic nature photography exploring how pictures can be easily replicated to create new visual experiences.

New York, New York: Master Works of a Street Peddler by George Forss is a captivating photographic journey through the soul of New York City, as seen through the lens of a self-taught street photographer. From his humble post on the sidewalks of Manhattan, Forss captured iconic cityscapes and fleeting moments with striking clarity and emotion. This collection showcases the raw beauty, grandeur, and humanity of the city that never sleeps—revealing a world often overlooked by the hurried passersby. A true outsider artist, Forss transforms everyday scenes into masterworks, offering a deeply personal and timeless tribute to New York.

A reflection of the extraordinary transformation in sports clothes from the voluminous to the minimal, since 1910 as presented in Vogue.

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.

The portraits presented here reflect a universe unknown to most Brazilians and bring a vocabulary of gestures and expressions that demonstrate everyday knowledge of Brazillian people.

Richly reproduced colour illustrations alongside interviews that explore multiple dimensions of female sexuality. Through a blend of visual and textual material, the book offers an in-depth, reflective examination of intimacy, identity, and representation within contemporary photographic and cultural discourse.

Los Angeles-based artist Ed Ruscha, one of the seminal American artists of the past 30 years, is known for taking elements from the visual language of advertising and commercial art: he has made hundreds of 'word' prints, drawings and paintings that exhibit an interplay between bold letters and softly shaded, atmospheric backgrounds.

This volume explores the immeasurable impact of Black subculture on British streets, dance floors, wardrobes and beauty parlours over the past three decades. It gives unique visual expression to the energy and innovation of a range of fashion trends and musical subcultures, with photographs by Dennis Morris and David Swindells.

From his illustrations for "Nadja" by André Breton, to "Le Gros Orteil" and "Les Mouches" published in Documents magazine, the photographer Jacques-André Boiffard (1902-1961) brought some of the most emblematic pictures into the Surrealist iconography – which are gathered in this book.

Mondialité features visual artworks and environments, documentary film and songs, dramaturgical structures and archival material by Edouard Glissant for an exhibition at Fondation Boghossian.

This book is a groundbreaking, visually driven exploration of how media technology reshapes human perception and society. The book, known for its iconic, unconventional, and disjointed layout, argues that the form of media (television, print) has a greater impact on society than its content.

An informative A-Z guide to over 300 makers, schools and styles of ceramics from around the world.

I Can't Stand to See You Cry is an exploration of Texas and the surrounding states, as well as the people who are fixed within its complex landscape. Fortune analyses relationships between family, friends and strangers, all caught in a flood of health and environmental issues while working to maintain grace.

A book about architecture

John Waters: Pope of Trash was published in tandem with the first comprehensive exhibition dedicated to the artist’s contributions to cinema. The book delves into his filmmaking process, key themes, and unmatched style.

Workbooks is an extensive book that gathers together a creative lifetime of collecting, imagining, sketching and recording by British artist Nigel Shafran from 1984-2024. These working documents are informal books that predated Shafran's published work. Each is filled with drawings, notes and everyday ephemera as well as photographs, and each has a particularcharacteristic of Shafran’s intuitive organising principles and working process.

A visual survey of various cars.

A photographic survey of Metropolitan architecture by David Adjaye

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.

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A themed collection of Araki photographs. Issue 20: Sentimental May

A collection of prints from Corita Kent’s 1968 Circus print series .

Callahan's work embodies the expressive and structural potential of photography. This book brings together personal and social documentary photographs - from images of his family to pedestrians on Chicago Streets, or the beaches of Cape Cod.

Austin Cooper, a leading UK poster designer of the interwar period, shares enduring insights in his 1938 book Making a Poster. Celebrated for its practical guidance and artistic wisdom, the book remains a timeless reference for designers, illustrating principles of composition, typography, and visual impact that are still relevant today.

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.

Vogue: The Covers chronicles the extraordinary images that have reflected--and transformed--the world of style for more than 120 years. More than 300 of the most beautiful, provocative, and fashion-forward covers ever produced are highlighted alongside the history and stories behind the covers themselves.

Lost Dreams details the youth clubs of East London from 2005 to '07, these clubs provided the foundations for aspiring musicians some of whom are now well recognised in the grime scene and beyond. If you're at all familiar with Wheatley's previous book on the heydays of Grime, you'll know the depths of his access to the subject and his attention to detail photographically.

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

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The Centro de Arte y Comunicación was an arts organization based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, that was instrumental in creating an international arts movement based on the ideas of systems art within conceptual art.

The American photographer Leonard Freed travelled to Germany for the first time in 1954. He observed the people in their social surroundings, at work, at street festivals, in public parks, in the streets and against the industrial backdrop of the Ruhr Valley.

Visual collection of art from artists of the New Wave movement – a French film movement (La Nouvelle Vague) that began in the late 1950s, characterized by a rejection of traditional filmmaking to embrace experimental techniques, auteur theory, and unconventional storytelling.

A socialist journal of the social services. In this issue: social planning; women, class and struggle; children's education.

Yamou’s work explores organic processes, continuity and change, the tensions and instabilities of boundaries and the spaces in between. Beneath the surface of these beautiful paintings, both large and small scale, there is an underlying sense of disquiet. Stunningly illustrated with Yamou’s elegant, abstract, and stylised paintings, Working from Life will bring this unusual artist’s works to a larger audience.

In South African Township Barbershops and Salons, Simon Weller presents his vivid photographs of these places, their signage and their patrons alongside interviews with the proprietors, customers and the sign makers.

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.

For almost 60 years the Rolling Stones have helped shape popular culture around the world. Unzipped traces their impact and influence on rock music, art, design, fashion, photography, and filmmaking. Packed with evocative archive photos, artworks, outtakes, and memorabilia, this book immerses readers in the world of the Stones.

A poignant photographic exploration of the dangers of nuclear war and the desire for peace.

Tek Hod is a contemporary photographic response to an ancient tradition: Cumberland and Westmorland Wrestling. Documenting a legacy of romanticism on one hand and industrialisation on the other, David Ellison's photo series speaks to the complexity of the landscape's tradition via costume and archive as well as the influence of the Arts and Crafts movement.

A captivating look at the career of social and style revolutionary Vidal Sassoon. A visionary hairstylist who became a household name, Vidal Sassoon was an instrument of change during the cultural shifts of the 1960s.

A booklet for an exhibition at the 1976 Venice Biennale surveying improvements in city planning in the Netherlands, based on the concept that good living environments go beyond shelter.

A variation of scenes shot on the beach.

S.M.S., founded in New York by William Copley with Dmitri Petrov, was a subscription-based “art in a box” series distributing small, often playful works by mail. Inspired by Marcel Duchamp, it mixed famous and emerging artists across disciplines, all paid equally. Designed to bypass the traditional art market, it fostered accessibility and a collaborative, communal creative environment. Contributors to Issue #3 include Aftograf, Enrico Baj, John Battan, William Bryant, Dick Higgins, Joseph Kosuth, Ronnie Landfield, Roland Penrose, Man Ray, H. C. Westermann, Hannah Weiner, and Terry Riley.

A study of man's expression of the symbol in the city.

This book present and discusses some of the twentieth century's most significant examples of Outsider Art in America.

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

Icon Stations is a photographic index of 300 icon stands; wayside shrines that punctuate the vast and mountainous landscape of Crete. Compiled over the course of 4 years, the collection of images is both a straight-forward, objective record and yet an intimate document of a journey – one that unravels a whole host of histories and myths woven into the fabric of their existence. It is an attempt at a loose indexing, an intuitive gathering of various forms of shrines that occupy various indeterminate spaces across the island: roads, pathways, shorelines, boundaries and thresholds. Together, these lonely reliquaries make up a symbolic geography through which memory is both conveyed and sustained.

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Cage voices his concerns on the nature and future of music, they ways of dancers, the West's interpretation of Eastern ideas in this thought provoking collection of anecdotes and epigrams.

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.

Over the past decade, the fashion industry has witnessed a renaissance of the classic khakis that have been the casual pant of choice of such prominent historical figures as James Dean, Albert Einstein, John F. Kennedy, and Picasso. Produced in conjunction with Dockers "RM" Khakis, Khaki: Cut from the Original Cloth is a compilation of over 100 historical and contemporary images, creating a veritable photographic history of khakis. Included in this fascinating fashion retrospective are Hollywood film stills, historical snapshots, and recent fashion and celebrity images by such acclaimed photographers as Annie Leibovitz, Peter Beard, Duane Michals, Cecil Beaton, David Bailey, and more.

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.

6+ Antwerp explores the international success story of Antwerp fashion – through the designers Ann Demeulemeester, Dries Van Noten, Walter Van Beirendonck, Dirk Van Saene, Dirk Bikkembergs and Marina Yee, additionally Margiela who is referred to by the plus sign in the title.

Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999) is undoubtedly one of the most significant figures in 20th-century interior design. This is the first monograph of her works.

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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.

Rowing Blazers looks at the authentic striped, piped, trimmed and badged blazers that are still worn by oarsmen and women around the world today, and at the elaborate rituals, elite athletes, prestigious clubs and legendary races associated with them.

This book chronicles Beau Geste Press (1971–1976) through works by founders and collaborators linked to Fluxus and neo-Dada. A detailed “catalogue dé-raisonné,” it examines experimental publishing methods and the press’s international influence, accompanying the 2017 CAPC exhibition.

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Maximilian Stejskal (1906-1991), an ethnologist and gymnastics teacher from Helsinki, carried out a study for his PhD thesis on “folk athletic” contests amongst Finland’s Swedish-speaking male rural population in the early 20th century. This book comprises his research – handwritten pages of travelogs, descriptions of exercises, tables, sketches, musical and phonetic recordings and photographs.

A book on the design and wear of ties.

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Juergen Teller’s most cult book documents a year from May 1998 to May 1999 of casting sessions outside his studio in West London. The mythical, intimate and vulnerable process of a go-see is put under a microscope, revealing raw documentary-style images of models at the start of their career. Amongst the new faces are Debra Shaw (with her dad in the car behind her), Mariacarla Boscono, Adrianna Lima and Devon Aoki.

A guide to typography.

Biba was a famous fashion brand during the 1960s and 1970s started by Polish-born designer Barbara Hulanicki. Initially, it started out as a mail order business advertising in the national newspapers. This is an original copy of a mail order catalogue from the mid 1960s – beautifully crafted and featuring full length lookbook shots.

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In 1933, John Rice founded Black Mountain College in North Carolina as an experiment in making artistic experience central to learning. Though it operated for only 24 years, this pioneering school played a significant role in fostering avant-garde art, music, dance, and poetry, and an astonishing number of important artists taught or studied there. This book is a singular exploration of this legendary school and of the work of the artists who spent time there.

Artist’s book by appropriation artist Richard Prince and art dealer Colin de Land, inspired by Bob Crane, the star of the 1960s television show "Hogan's Heroes."

Street Art captures and explores the works and philosophies of the most prominent street artists of today, often in their own voices, revealing what is behind these familiar images —from the influence of Christo's early public projects to Keith Haring's chalk drawings.

Top Symbols & Trademarks of the World was the efforts of Franco Maria Ricci & Corinna Ferrari, and Italian publisher Deco Press. The series, published in 1973 was an unprecedented initiative to catalogue many of the finest examples of trademark design of the time. What marks this series out is both the format and the approach Ricci and Ferrari took. The fourth volume in the series looks at Great Britain, Ireland and Benelux.

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Ibrahima Sory Sanle (b. 1943) started his photographic career in Bobo-Dioulasso in 1960, the year his country (now Burkina Faso) gained independence from France. Sanle opened his Volta Photo portrait studio in 1965 and, working with his Rolleiflex twin lens medium format camera, Volta Photo was soon recognised as the finest studio in the city. This book is dedicated to Volta Photo’s heyday in the 1960’s and 1970’s, telling the story of photographer Sanlé Sory’s fascinating and moving studio images.

A witty, candid, and revealing autobiographical account of the artist's early life, from his childhood in Bradford to his time at the Royal College of Art and sojourns in California and Paris. It contains a wealth of reproductions of his work, including 434 illustrations.

Merry Alpern is known for her controversial oeuvre and utilisation of surveillance photography. Her acclaimed series Dirty Windows (1995), presented here in this book, contains voyeuristic black and white images of men and women engaging in sex, doing drugs, and dressing or undressing at a low-rent brothel near Wall Street in Manhattan. “Although the notion of the ‘female gaze’ has never really interested me, as a woman I could project some of my own experiences onto the pantomime in the window,” the artist remarked on the series.

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.

In the 1960s and 1970s, Conrad was perhaps best known for his contribution to film, where he helped to redefine structural filmmaking with The Flicker and Yellow Movies. Conrad went on to create an extensive body of work in a variety of media such as installation, photography, and performance until his death in 2016. Essential writings from the downtown New York legend and polymath, pioneer of both structural film and drone music.

Photographs of everyday objects recall alphabet shapes.

A 10-year personal diary and visual anthology of Prince's collection of American pop culture.

An illustrated guide to the principles and practice of hairdressing.

This book surveys the history and cultural meaning of funeral practices and corpse disposal. It examines how different societies have managed death through burial, cremation, sea burial, preservation, and exposure to the elements. Considering both ritual and practical concerns, it explores the symbolism of earth, air, fire, and water as enduring agents in human responses to mortality.

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.

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Bonnettstown is an example of an early 18th-century Georgian manor situated in the countryside near Kilkenny, Ireland. Photographer Andrew Bush visited the estate and photographed the house and its surroundings from many aspects, all of which are included in this volume.

This book documents Glen Luchford's iconic campaigns shot for Prada from 1996 to 1998. The huge cinematic billboards all over the world featuring Amber Valletta, Willem Dafoe, Joaquin Phoenix and many others are reproducced in their entirity and discussed at length in the book's text, a transcript of a conversation between Glen and Lou Stoppard.

Skinhead: An Archive, is a landmark publication and exhibition exploring one of the most controversial, misunderstood and radical subcultures. Designed by Jamie Reid and published by Ditto, with printed material curated by Toby Mott, the book examines this multi-faceted culture through the filter of printed material, zines, posters and films. Divided into sub-sections looking at the original iteration of skinhead, the fascist interpretation, the socialist counterpoint, queer skinhead culture, exploitation literature, skin girls, and everything in between.

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.

A collection of portraits of students in a Sixties high school.