
This book looks at the work of King and Miranda who industrially manufactured prodcuts from machines to photocopiers to lighting and furniture.


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.

Portraits taken of visitors to Amsterdam's Paradiso club in the early 80s.

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

Published alongside her first solo exhibition, also titled Contrasts, at London’s Hamiltons Gallery in September 1985, this volume encapsulates Stark’s fascination with light and shadow, juxtaposition and nuance.

A book about architecture

Press photographer Emil Brunner was not only a widely traveled reporter, he also retained an eye for the close-up. During the Second World War, he photographed people, especially children, in eleven communities in the Graubünden Oberland. He portrayed them in a touching yet detached way that allowed each person to retain their individuality. A selection from this unique portrait series, comprising around 1,700 photographs, is now being shown for the first time: impressive visual documents from a distant social reality, beyond the idealized world of Heidi, Switzerland.

In reaction to--as Nick Waplington puts it--'the grainy, downtrodden, black-and-white interpretation of working-class life' one generally sees, Living Room offers lushly colored glimpses of the communal spirit, fired by the joys, mishaps, and adventures of family life.

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Created by artist Antoni Miralda and chef Montse Guillén, El Internacional (1984–1986) was a legendary Tribeca restaurant that introduced Spanish tapas to New York City. Merging food with installation art, it became an 1980s cultural icon. It combined the social ritual of eating with installation and performance art, blurring the boundaries between food, art, design, architecture and mass media. This richly illustrated volume documents its vibrant history through recipes and personal memories.

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.

American Surrealist Dorothea Tanning (1910–2012) worked for seven decades across painting, sculpture, printmaking, installation, and writing, creating one of the twentieth century’s most enigmatic bodies of work. Her art evokes dreamlike worlds between figuration and abstraction, forging a prismatic language still resonant today. This illustrated catalog focuses on works from the 1950s–90s, tracing her stylistic evolution through twenty key paintings, scholarly essays, and her 1986 manifesto “To Paint.”

A book of surreal and eccentric architecture.

Each summer, thousands of Juggalos from around the world congregate at a privately owned campground on the Illinois border of the Ohio River to party. This intimate portrait of the Gathering presents Daniel Cronin's images of men, women, and children sitting in tents and cars, swimming in a brackish lake, painting each other's faces and, often, staring back at the camera communicating their defiance and pride.

W is an award-winning publication, one of the world’s greatest and best-known fashion magazines. It was founded in 1971 as a sister publication to Women's Wear Daily and was owned by Fairchild Publications until it was purchased by Condé Nast in 1999. This book celebrates its 40th anniversary and is divided into three sections; Who, Where, and Wow.

A collection of rarely seen photographs that provide an entirely fresh perspective on male friendship in the 19th century. The poignant images in more than 100 early photographs, drawn from both public and private collections, suggest a surprisingly broad-minded attitude towards physical intimacy between men, challenging the conventional view of the Victorian era.

This book examines the full range of textiles produced by William Morris and his firm, Morris & Co.. The revised edition expands earlier research with updated scholarship and photography, detailing embroideries, printed and woven fabrics, carpets, and tapestries, alongside analysis of design development, production methods, and Morris’s workshop practices.

A book detailing the development of the tin plate model car from the 1890s until 1939.

In Love with Beauty offers an unprecedented chronological overview of the legendary Walter Pfeiffer, spanning four decades of photographic eroticism and wit, classical serenity and ornamental playfulness, artifice and immediacy. Initially a painter, draughtsman and graphic designer, Pfeiffer used photographs as aide-memoirs for large-scale Photorealist pencil drawings, but quickly developed a genuine passion for photography and, inspired by a Warholesque cast of handsome drifters and stylish women, began to evolve a trademark style.

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."

In a collection of austere portraits of personalities including Truman Capote, Rose Mary Woods, and Andy Warhol, Avedon demonstrates his aim to retain the sitter's identity and solidity of being without using illusionistic effects.

Rineke Dijkstra’s Beach Portraits presents adolescents standing alone against the sea, captured in striking, full-length frontal compositions. Marked by clarity and formal restraint, the images echo a typological approach associated with August Sander and Thomas Ruff, while also carrying a more intimate, Arbus-like sensitivity. Together, the series forms a collective portrait of adolescent vulnerability, existential uncertainty, and unexpected beauty.

Yangon Fashion 1979 offers a unique insight into the photographs that brought a spark of free expression to Yangon’s fashionable youth in the late 1970s. Photography studios around Yangon University and downtown attracted large numbers of young clients posing in elegant outfits, some of which were even customised for the occasion. The resulting images resembled an old-school Facebook – an exchange of physical images, as photos were usually shared with friends.

This is the first book to document the short yet prolific artistic career of fashion photographer and filmmaker Tom Kublin, and a celebration of his creative union with Cristóbal Balenciaga during the fashion house’s postwar heyday in Paris. More than 140 photographs and film stills by Kublin capture the golden age of Balenciaga couture in the 1950s and 1960s, from the impeccable elegance of the collection shoots – including exclusive film footage of Balenciaga himself at work – to striking covers and editorials for high-profile magazines.

This book explores the connection between dance and visual arts in the work of choreographer and dancer Trisha Brown.

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.

Eikoh Hosoe is one of Japan's most iconic post-war photographers, recognized for his legendary collaborations and impeccable aesthetics. Ordeal by Roses is an extended photographic portrait of his work in collaboration with celebrated author Yukio Mishima. The series features Mishima in a variety of poses, proudly showing off his muscular physique, the result of many years of dedicated bodybuilding. The photographs—taken from autumn 1961 to spring 1962, mostly at the writer’s home in the Magome district of Tokyo—encapsulated Mishima’s self-image and brought it to vivid life in photographs that used a variety of sophisticated techniques to create an astonishing world of provocative sensuality.

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.

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.

Shot over four years, ‘Drifting in Paradise’ is a photo series that documents the grassroots car culture of Barbados, captured through the lens of Ollie Trenchard, a London-based photographer of Barbadian descent who spent much of his youth on the island.

This book collects Brassai's iconic scenes of nocturnal Paris with its prostitutes and thugs, its night workers, cafes, dance halls, and theatres; fog-shrouded streets, monuments, and bridges; the literary and artistic elite of the Parisian avant-garde, whom Brassai counted among his friends.

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,

A history of pottery in Britain.

Published alongside Vulnicura and Björk’s major retrospective at Museum of Modern Art, Björk: Archives moves beyond the typical artist monograph. Presented as five beautifully crafted volumes, it offers a thoughtful exploration of her creative universe, revealing the ideas, processes, and inspirations that have shaped one of contemporary music’s most innovative voices.

This volume features the Spring/Summer 2022 collection designed by John Galliano for Maison Margiela. Leafing through the book, you will find a spool with a measuring tape hidden in the middle of the pages.

Curated by editor Jacqueline de Jong, the issue explicitly explores the topological problem of rings, interlaced rings, and chains across mathematics, poetry, and art. Featuring essays, images, poetry, drawings and photo-collages by French artist Max Bucaille.

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.

This book features 44 of Odundo's vessels alongside a large selection of museological and contemporary objects that reveal the wide range of global references that have informed her practice. The book object comprises a series of interleaved sections presenting an organic flow of content which pairs and juxtaposes the historic and the contemporary, featuring works by Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Lucie Rie, Jean Arp, as well as ancient vessels from around the world.


After Butler’s Wharf: Essays on a Working Building is a collaborative project by the 2013 MA Critical Writing in Art & Design graduates at the Royal College of Art. Combining thirteen critical, historical, and fictional perspectives, it examines the landmark London wharf through archival material, interviews—including Derek Jarman and Kevin Atherton—performance documentation, and rare photographs, exploring its evolution from Victorian industry to 1970s art hub, mid-century decline, and present-day gentrificatio

Feldmann has become increasingly noted for his commentary on the way we archive photos, sending up the everyday from a very personal perspective. Accordingly, apart from the title page, this photo album contains no text. Even the frontispiece is a photograph of boxes from Feldmann's picture archive--amassed over many years and comprising images from magazines, advertising supplements, photography books, postcards and collectibles.

Covering more than five decades, this publication gives a dazzling review of the great enfant terrible of French fashion, Jean Paul Gaultier (born 1952). Displaying Gaultier's oeuvre alphabetically--including iconic pieces such as Madonna's corsets and Kylie Minogue's stage costumes--Jean Paul Gaultier: From A to Z examines the designer's singular aesthetic from all angles while exploring his different influences: from cinema to dance, from Frida Kahlo to sailors.

Scottish photographer Jane Stockdale's first publication I Predict a Riot documents the now notorious G20 demonstrations that took place in London in April 2009. Hyped in the British media as "The Summer of Rage" and "Meltdown in the City," the events of that summer are here recorded from the midst of the action, in photographs and interspersed captions.

A periodical book on modern houses from around the globe. Featuring work of architects Frank Lloyd Wright, Philip Johnson, Bruce Goff, Le Corbusier and Marcel Breuer.


A book on the work of design studio Hipgnosis.

By visually examining the ways in which gender is dressed, made up and culturally enforced, Sherman has for many become an icon of feminism and postmodernism. More than 270 images show the breadth of Sherman's body of work, from the Untitled Film Stills of the 1970s to series such as Centrefolds, Fashion, Disasters, Fairy Tales and History Portraits, as well as photographs influenced by surrealist artists. Also included are intriguing excerpts from Sherman's notebooks, selections from her contact sheets and numerous Polaroid studies, all of which shed light on the artist's process.

A book of the exhibition curated by Issey Miyake that explores the relationship between human body and the way things are made as a platform for considering how things will be made in the future.

A periodical book on modern houses from around the globe. Featuring work of architects Jørn Utzon, Hans Scharoun, John Portman & Associates, Cesar Pelli/Gruen Associates
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An exploration of the captivating work and mystical outlook of the modern artist Remedios Varo, focusing on her years in Mexico City.

This book accompanies the Parrworld exhibition at ","Haus der Kunst","Munich, Germany"], showcasing examples from Martin Parr’s extensive collection of 20,000 postcards. Featuring 750 cards across 21 themed chapters, it includes an essay on the history of postcards and their influential role in shaping Parr’s photographic practice.

Poster for Bollywood action film C.I.D

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.
For Naked City, his first collection, photographer Weegee cruised the streets of 1940s New York in the early hours of the morning in search of the sensational.

An encyclopedia about documenting the Decorative Arts Movement from 1940-1980.

A unique story of people protecting a park in Berkeley California and the city's retaking of it.

An extensive history of ties.

This book makes an argument for photography as the definitive art form of the twentieth century by presenting whole series of works by the medium's pioneers, instead of isolated individual photographs. Arranged thematically rather chronologically, the connections between seemingly disparate bodies of work are made clear. Cindy Sherman's early film stills sit easily across the page from Lee Friedlander's sly shadow self portraits; Robert Adams' desolate suburban sprawls lead a path to Larry Clark's strung-out dopers in Tulsa several pages later; and more.

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.


Suburbia is a sociological dissection of the Northern California suburban sprawl of the late sixties and early seventies, one of the great American photography books of the last quarter of the 20th Century.

Covering the full span of David Hockney's career, this book includes early studies and a selection of his acclaimed California sketched, as well as portraits of such figures as Christopher Isherwood and W. H. Auden.

In the late 1950's Weinberger started to develop an obsessive interest in the nascent biker culture and its proud and self-confident celebration of the body, embarking on a longtime study of their lifestyle. Weinberger's photographs are a unique document both of pre-Stonewall gay culture and postwar youth culture and its cycles, imbued with a mischievous sense of humour that makes them as vibrant and vital today as they were when they were first taken.

With over 200 images of t-shirt 'messages', A Typology of T-shirts looks at those individuals who stand out in a crowd through their choice of the message on their back.

A themed collection of Araki photographs. Issue 8: Private Diary 1980-1995

Flashpoint! is an collection of protest photography in print from the 1950s to today. Surveying over 245 photobooks, zines, posters, and alternative journals, it examines how photography functions as both activist tool and historical document. Organised thematically, it highlights resistance movements worldwide, revealing how printed images shape, record, and amplify political struggle.

A Period of Juvenile Prosperity by Mike Brodie is a vivid photographic chronicle of American rail-riding subculture, capturing a life of movement, risk, and fleeting freedom. Beginning as a teenager who unexpectedly discovered train hopping in Florida, Brodie went on to document nomadic journeys across the United States using a second-hand 35mm camera. His portraits of fellow travellers carry an unexpected warmth and intimacy, balancing hardship with a quiet sense of camaraderie. Widely acclaimed upon publication, the work has been recognised as one of the defining photobooks of its time.

1996-2001 / 2001-2006 is the first book to be released by printings.jp, featuring internationally-sourced garments as presented by the designer throughout a decade of his career.

A comprehensive book published to accompany the exhibition held at the Hamburg Kunsthalle and the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, focusing on understanding the artist who communicated with people by photographing them.

Norman Parkinson (1913-1990) has been described not only as a craftsman but also as a consummate artist who brought a dramatic glamour and bold inventiveness to the fashion portrait. Organised decade by decade and illustrated with fashion plates, portraits and contact sheets, the book features a number of previously unpublished editorial images.

In this publication, Tiane Doan na Champassak curates his collection of Parkett magazine (1984–2017), focusing on double-spread gallery advertisements from its first five years. Treating these ads as artworks, the book highlights the primacy of text in conceptual art, tracing an alternative history of postmodern and contemporary practice and recurring figures such as Marcel Broodthaers, Louise Bourgeois, Cindy Sherman, and others.

Temporary Pleasure traces the evolution of nightclub culture across America and Europe since the 1960s, revealing constant reinvention. From psychedelic New York and radical Italian clubs to disco, house, rave, Ibiza retreats, and Berlin techno, each chapter explores a defining scene. Through interviews, design analysis, and vivid photography, John Leo Gillen captures nightlife’s shifting cultural and architectural identities.

Liquid Spaces explores immersive spatial design across art, architecture, interiors, and scenography, where physical environments create powerful sensory experiences. In an age of digital saturation, it argues for the renewed importance of tangible spaces that engage emotion, memory, and attention. Museums, stores, and installations blur art, commerce, and experience itself.

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

This is the accompanying publication for Die Cuts, a film installation exhibited at Frieze No.9 Cork Street from November 2–4, 2022. The installation featured a 14-minute looping film by Tyrone Lebon alongside the album Die Cuts by Dom Maker of Mount Kimbie. The film and album were presented together but looped independently. This publication records every hand-animated frame from the film.

Kazuo Ohno was a Japanese performance artist and leading exponent of Butoh, a Japanese dance-theatre movement in which formal technique is eschewed and primal sexuality and the grotesque are explored. Throughout his life, Kazuo Ohno has been captured on film by many photographers and what is produced is an image of his body but photographs cannot show what is hidden within the body.

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

An impressive, as ever, collection of 81 black-and-white photographs of model (and his wife at the time) Marie Helvin by David Bailey.

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.

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.

Nothing Personal is Avedon's classic photobook depicting 1950s America. Here, the photographer moves away from the glitz of fashion photography and presents a series of political portraits documenting the power and the weaknesses of mid-century USA. Featured are portraits of Allen Ginsberg, Brother Malcom X, Arthur Miller, Marilyn Monroe and more.

A collection of street photographs with interviews on the contents of the subjects’ bags. Photographs of the items and brief explanations of what they carry and what it says about them.

With a decades-long career in photography and film, Brian Griffin is considered one of the UK's most celebrated photographers alongside Martin Parr, John Davies, and others. Work is a seminal book in the history of photography, featuring portraits of people at work in the 1980s - ranging from middle management to construction workers.

American conceptual artist Pacifico Silano’s practice is rooted in excavating the printed ephemera of gay culture to create new images that comment on loss, longing and queer melancholy. In particular, Silano uses the gestures of framing, cropping and layering vintage gay erotica to comment on the HIV/AIDS crisis and its reverberations on queer lives, which included the loss of the artist's uncle at the height of the epidemic.

An Atlas of Es Devlin is the first comprehensive study of Es Devlin, exploring her work across art, theatre, music, dance, opera, and sculpture. The book traces her creative process from sketches and miniature models to large-scale installations and stage designs, highlighting her innovative, collaborative approach in public art, performance, and high-profile cultural events worldwid

Stoumen's four decade documentation of Times Square solidifies its legendary reputation as a crossroads of the world.

Daniel Jack Lyons’ debut monograph continues the American artist’s long-term commitments to visualising the social and political rights of under-represented communities. Like a River is anthropological exploration of identity, transformation and coming-of-age amongst marginalised communities in the heart of the Amazon.

Cornelius Cardew cofounded the Scratch Orchestra in 1969 with Howard Skempton and Michael Parsons. The orchestra was a culmination of the ideals expressed in Cardew's own innovative and experimental music through the 1960s. Scratch Music is a collection of the repertory the Scratch Orchestra created. Brought back into print with a new preface by John Harries and Sharon Gal, this reissued edition of a classic work makes a key title in sound studies available to new audiences.

In My Room: Teenagers in their Bedrooms, photographer Adrienne Salinger has been allowed to enter the private lives of forty-three teens. Her images, taken over a two-year period, offer an intimate glimpse into these intimate escapes and the adolescents who have made them their own.

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

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.

A photo album chronicling the world of John Cassavetes, Gena Rowlands, and their collaborators for the film Love Streams. Shot by Sam and Larry Shaw, this first edition offers a candid, intimate portrait of Cassavetes’ creative circle.

This artist’s book by Richard Prince features The Entertainers (1982–83), an early series of photographs inspired by the nightclubs, theaters, and restaurants of New York’s Times Square.

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A photographic reminiscence of the 1987 Glyndebourne dance season.

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

Christopher Felver's photographs testify to the spirit's vitality in late-twentieth-century America. In Angels, Anarchists & Gods, Felver assembles a community of individuals whose lives and work nourish America's historic dream of freedom, justice, and human decency.

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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.
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