In the early 1970s, Gabriele and Helmut Nothhelfer began taking photographs of people in public spaces. After studying photography at Lette School in Berlin followed by two semesters at Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, they moved back to West Berlin. Mainly on their weekends, they visited large gatherings such as fairs or public festivals and photographed people in their leisure time who were trying to escape the bleakness of everyday life by finding distraction and entertainment. Separately, they roamed through the crowds until somebody caught their attention and they pressed the shutter button. Sometimes they realised afterwards that they had both photographed the same person independently of each other.

This book presents Schmidt's portrait of a still-divided Berlin: it brings together surprising combinations of high-contrast, black-and-white images to express a generation's dystopian sense of life shortly before the fall of the Wall.

This book charts the Parisian years of the Dutch photographer van der Elsken. His images depict the typical atmosphere of its places throughout the 1950s: cafes, jazz clubs, student restaurants… and the fauna that haunted them. This “love” in Saint-Germain-des-Prés is a true artistic postcard of a time when intellectuals, jazz musicians, artists, young people from La Sorbonne met on the boulevards, but van der Elsken reconstitutes especially an idea of the Parisian bohemian of the 1950s.

Hans-Peter Feldmann was a German conceptual artist known for his obsessive collecting, archiving, and rearranging of everyday images and objects to explore themes of memory and time. This monograph contains a number of his works from the late 1960s.

This book showcases dutch counter-culture.

Contemporary Hyloshapes establishes a relationship between contemporary sculpture (produced over the last 25 years) and typography, as an exercise of translating visual language from a medium to another, between scales, collaborators and methodologies.

In the early sixties, Marilyn Stafford spent over a year in Lebanon and became fascinated with the country and its people. She travelled extensively, journeying to the most remote villages and recording scenes of everyday life. This album is a selection of 140 of these outstanding photographs. Although there are some architectural scenes and views of towns and villages, the main focus is on the Lebanese people and their way of life.

Achter Glas, translating to Behind Glass, is an early photobook by acclaimed Dutch photographer Joan van der Keuken. It presents a lyrical visual narrative tracing the coming of age of twin sisters Georgette and Yvonne. Accompanied by text from poet Remco Campert, the book blends photography and storytelling into a poetic photo novel.

An exploration of the Kasbah – a unique kind of medina, or Islamic city. It stands in one of the finest coastal sites on the Mediterranean, overlooking the islands where a Carthaginian trading-post was established in the 4th century BC.

VILE magazine was published between 1974 and 1983 by the mail artists Anna Banana and Bill Gaglione. The inside contents of VILE featured a wide array of texts & manifestoes, letters, performance documentation, articles on individual artists & their projects, detourned mass media advertisements as well as art works from mail artists in different countries.

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The Nazi is an assortment of 164 photographs portraying actors – from Marlon Brando and Michael Caine to Clint Eastwood, Anthony Hopkins and Donald Pleasence – who appeared as Nazis in a variety of cinematic productions. This series is as much about history as it is about the industry of entertainment.

This unique photo journal provides a firsthand look at what life was like with Lennon on a day-to-day basis during his years in New York.

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.

A themed collection of Araki photographs. Issue 17: Sensual Flowers.

Issue on houses in the U.S.A.

A reprint of David Wojnarowicz’s fractured scrapbook of dream journals, political critique and collage—a document of 1980s New York subculture.

In 1968, Magnum photographer Dennis Stock took a 5-week road trip along the California highways, documenting the height of the counterculture hippie scene. These black and white photos were compiled to create California Trip and have become an emblem of the free love movement that continued to inspire throughout the decades.

A periodical book on modern houses from around the globe. Featuring work of architects Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates, Mies van der Rohe, Carlo Scarpa, Louis I. Khan, Piano + Rogers Architects.

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.

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.

Patti Smith is known most widely as a musical artist and a poet, but her creative energies are not limited to those genres. This book offers a chance to explore the photography of the punk poetess. Published to accompany an exhibition at the Fondation Cartier Pour L'Art Contemporain in Paris, it presents hundreds of Polaroids and black-and-white photographs, plus commentaries by the artist.

While Haring's career involved a diverse range of art making—painting, drawing, performance, video, murals, and art merchandising, he drew over 5,000 chalk drawings over a 5 year period, from 1980 to 1985, in New York City subway stations. These have become his most well known and celebrated works, and this book present them together.

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.

Männer Vogue was Germany's leading men's fashion magazine. During its golden age between 1984 and 1989, Swiss-born Beda Achermann was the magazine's creative director and commissioned young photographers like Mario Testino, Ellen von Unwerth and Max Vadukul, along with established talents including Herb Ritts, Peter Lindbergh and Helmut Newton, Achermann set a new benchmark in fashion editorial.

This book is an insight into Japanese post-war design.

This book presents a collection of works taken between 1966 and 1992 by photographer Esther Kroon. Kroon mainly photographed street children, with the streets and the neighbourhoods forming the background of the images. Her photos are moving but never move into cliché territory, which often happens with photographs of children. The images are characterised by honesty and openness. The children pictured are both curious and hesitant. The hard flash and the often low perspective create penetrating photos and give the images a rather dark and ominous feeling, bringing to mind the photos of Diane Arbus.

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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.

The mysterious and ethereal fashion work of Sarah Moon is gathered together in monograph from 1981 – featuring images made for Marie-Claire, Carita, Vogue, French Vogue, Italian Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Cacharel, The Sunday Times of London, Nova, Pentax, Arkitektur and Wohnen.

Issue on houses and interiors in Southern Europe

Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender, Resistance explores the history of resistance movements and alternative forms of living from a gendered perspective, grounded in intersectional queer and feminist thinking. Spanning the 19th century to today, the exhibition & its subsequent catalogue pays attention to a range of scales – from domestic to mass uprisings, moving away from the notion of 'waves' of feminism and towards a more fluid attempt to unite ideas and bodies.

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A visual guidebook for photographing women.

This humorous visual book is based on the culture of football clubs and the language of "fanzines". The "fanzine", the most popular of which has a circulation of 70,000, provides a refreshing alternative to the views and interests of the football elite.

This book captures the essence of Parisian living, showcasing a range of styles from the opulent to the understated, featuring works by designers like Jacques Grange and Madeleine Castaing.

Exploring themes of perception, vision, & insight, this book focuses on the most astonishing pieces from a special collection of spectacles -- over 200 original works of art by noted designers & artists from around the world.

This book explores the central role of posters in defining punk culture in Britain. Curated by Toby Mott, the exhibition and book feature over 1,000 artifacts—including fanzines, flyers, and ephemera—by iconic artists like Jamie Reid and Linder Sterling, as well as anonymous creators. It documents punk’s aesthetics, political engagement, and its dialogue with events such as Rock Against Racism and the Queen’s Silver Jubilee.

Gucci by Gucci bringing together the archive of the loved House – in the form of bags, clothes, accessories, and a dazzling cache of documentary photographs—the 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.

To celebrate its fifteenth anniversary, this volume brings together the best in fashion, art, and culture from Purple’s illustrious history. Purple revolutionised fashion photography in the nineties by commissioning fine artists to shoot fashion editorials. What resulted was a raw, improvisational aesthetic, which continues to exert its power today. Includes work from Terry Richardson, Juergen Teller, Jack Pierson, Richard Prince, John Currin, and Vanessa Beecroft.

Tsuguya Inoue, renowned Japanese graphic designer, showcases a dynamic series centered on the theme of “dragon.” Through striking photographs capturing geckos, mantises, and water drops, he creates playful, visually compelling graphics. The book highlights his signature humor and design skill, featuring recent projects for clients like Comme des Garçons, Morisawa, Parco, Suntory, and Asahi Shimbun.

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While Joseph Beuys, Marcel Broodthaers, Robert Rauschenberg, and Andy Warhol are not a “group” in the formal sense, they are tightly connected through postwar avant-garde art, especially the shift from modernism to conceptual, media-aware, and socially engaged art in the 1950s–70s. This is a catalogue of their works from a show presented at Galerie Isy Brachot in Paris.

The Time Is Out Of Joint is a multi-space project; this two-volume publication is one of its manifestations that adopt spatial and temporal strategies inspired by the idea of time as a fluid space and space as frozen time. Structured in four chapters: BAGHDAD, TBC, CHINA and EQUATOR. These chapters are concepts extended from the contexts of three events in an exhibition project that took place in Beirut, Sharjah and Gwangju.

Released on the 50th anniversary of the publication of Penny Slinger's iconic artists’ book 50% The Visible Woman, this edition presents Slinger’s series of surrealist photomontage works and poetry unabridged for the first time, following the hand-constructed snakeskin-bound book from 1969, and the out-of-print abridged edition from 1971.

A portrait of the Andes mountain range in South America. Across 131 photographs and text contributions, Claude Arthaud andFrancois Herbert-Stevens present this extraordinary country of cold heights with startling immediacy.

A book exploring the photographic worlds of surrealist artists Picasso, Miró, Dalí, and Tàpies.

A handwritten cookbook of everything from soups to pizzas, and a guide to communal living.

Through his camera, Genevan photographer Charles Weber documented Iconstases – minature chapels adored with icons found along the roads of Greece. His pictures that deliberately reject the romantic question: what is preserved of the divine in the midst of ever-changing landscapes?

A book about architecture

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 documentation of the changing landscapes of 1950s America through the large format photographs of Andreas Feninger.

In Broken Spectre, photographer Richard Mosse pushes the boundaries of photography to raise an urgent warning over the devastation in the Amazon rainforest. In an attempt to render the scale and urgency of the Amazon’s extensive, impending collapse, Richard Mosse’s most ambitious work to date employs a dazzling array of photographic techniques – from inky, fluorescent microscopic imagery describes the interdependent complexity of the Amazonian biome in scientific detail, while cinematic monochrome infrared scenes track illegal mining, logging and burning, industrial agriculture and indigenous activism.

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This translated volume examines the unruly, deliberately anti-functionalist design of Studio Alchimia, the radical Milan-based collective that challenged modernist principles. Initially focused on experimental furniture, the group later expanded into accessories and fashion during the 1980s. Featuring a foreword by Alessandro Mendini, the book includes an index of Alchimia members and reflects their provocative, unconventional aesthetic.

This book celebrates Mugler's fashion, imagination and style, combining his own sketches with images from some of the world's top photographers.

In 1978, photographer Nathan Farb found his away into Soviet Russian to document the people living in Nowosibirsk, Siberia. This book presents these portraits of everyday people, presenting their fashions and expressions.

Batia Suter's work intuitively situates found images in new contexts to provoke surprising reactions and significative possibilities. This volume follows on from the first Parallel Encyclopedia, published originally in 2007. Underlying themes of Suter's practice are the "iconification" of old images, and the circumstances by which they become charged with new associative values.

This book offers a unique guide to the style and design of the furniture of this century.

A brilliantly humorous collection of incredible black and white photographs of people on the toilet by Leni van Dinther.

Lindokuhle Sobekwa began this project after finding a family portrait with his sister Ziyanda’s face cut out. He describes her as a secretive, rebellious, and recalls the dark day when she chased him and he was hit by a car: she disappeared hours later and returned only a decade later, ill. Employing a scrapbook aesthetic with handwritten notes, I Carry Her photo with Me is a means for Sobekwa to engage both with the memory of his sister and the wider implications of such disappearances – a troubling part of South Africa’s history. The book complements his wider work on fragmentation, poverty, and the long-reaching ramifications of apartheid and colonialism across all levels of South African society.

This vividly illustrated tribute celebrates the radical design of Memphis Group, founded in Milan in 1981 by Ettore Sottsass. Rejecting functionalism and modern “good taste,” the group created sculptural furniture, bold colors, and playful forms, proposing an emotional, artistic vision of everyday objects that reshaped postmodern design.

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

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Distinct Ambiguity is the first book to present GRAFT’s comprehensive body of work. It is structured into five thematic chapters that reflect the fundamental aspects of the collective’s inimitable approach.

A pioneer in the art and science of photography, Eadweard Muybridge developed the use of multiple cameras to capture motion too quick for the eye to detect. This remarkable collection of his famous stopped-action photographs features 166 photographic sequences, in which men and women, mostly nude, perform a variety of motions—running, jumping, lifting, and other activities. This book is essential for artists, illustrators, and flash animators.

Cape Light by Joel Meyerowitz captures the serene beauty of Cape Cod’s landscapes and seascapes in the early days of color photography.

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.

Thames Log by British photographer and film-maker Chloe Dewe Mathews examines the ever-changing nature of our relationship to water – from ancient pagan festivities through to the rituals of modern life.

Focusing on the near-fifty-year period in which abortion was legal in the United States (1973–2022), The Last Safe Abortion recognises the care, advocacy, and community-building of abortion workers. Artist Carmen Winant draws from over a dozen personal, organisational, and institutional archives from across Midwest America. The photographs themselves are surprisingly regular. In centring the tender, quotidian, and routine acts that inform this healthcare work, Winant works to counter the ways anti-choice activists have weaponised photography by proposing a visuality that attends to abortion care. The Last Safe Abortion presents a selection of this vast collection of photographs, accompanied by a text by Winant.

A book on the work of design studio Hipgnosis.

Originally published by Doubleday and Company in 1970, N.H. Pritchard's The Matrix was one of a tiny handful of books of concrete poetry published in America by a major publishing house. Forcing the reader to straddle the line between reading and viewing, the book features visual poems that predate the experiments of the Language poets, including words that are exploded into their individual letters, and columns of text that ride the edge of the page.

A document of an important time for popular music, Lynn relates personal stories about many of the stars she has photographed. From intimate accounts about her friends and lovers, including Bruce Springsteen, Sting, Bob Dylan, David Byrne, and Patti Smith.

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.

This book describes a variety of chairs, sofas, tables, beds, bookcases, dressers, and other functional furniture designed by contemporary American artists.

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

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.

Designed as a companion book to his critically-acclaimed monograph South Central, Mark Steinmetz here turns his focus to Athens and Atlanta, New Orleans, Memphis and East Tennessee, and the roads between.

Things As They Are tells the story of modern photojournalism – from the heyday of Life magazine in 1955 to the era of the camera-phone seen today. With 120 picture essays, this book reveals how the events of the world, the art of photographers.and interests of the press have converged onto the printed page to portray an ever changing world. Includes photographs from artists such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Nan Goldin, Mary Ellen Clark and Walker Evans.

8 Women presents Schorr's work from the mid-nineties to the present. The works in 8 Women propose a variety of subjects, all of whom are involved in performance, be it as artists, models or musicians. Working between out-takes and manipulations of tear sheets, Schorr questions who the women that desire to be looked at are, as well as what power exists in acknowledging that as a post-feminist position.

A periodical book on modern houses from around the globe. Featuring work of architects Le Corbusier, Atelier 5, Taller de Arquitectura, Carlo Aymonino/Aldo Rossi, Ralph Erskine.

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.”

PICPUS is an A6-format arts quarterly that was founded by Charles Asprey and Simon Grant over lunch in London. This issue features Lily McMenamy, Beca Lipscombe, focusing on thematic content related to the Stelae of Axum

A collection of images taken by Lee Friedlander of his wife Maria and his family from 1960 to the 1990s, accompanied by an interview with the photographer.

For 25 years, Tom Wood lived in New Brighton, just across the river Mersey from Liverpool. He became known locally as "photieman" because everyday he was out on the streets with his camera. Most of the pictures collected in this book were taken within a five-minute walk from Wood's home. The work focuses on the inhabitants of the town and its regular visitors – youths, friends, lovers, fathers, mothers and babies to provide insight into the area.

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.

Powerful narrative and graphics tell the story of Malcolm X’s life, his journey of self-discovery, his far-reaching ideas, his martyrdom, and his impact on an era.

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

A collection of archival memorial photography in America – a popular postmortem practice to remember the dead, a form of mourning and memorialisation. This book presents a chronological arrangement of postmortem photography from 1840 - 1930, presenting the image of death from the Puritan journey for a sinner to the late Victorian beautifaction of death and its interpretation as the soul's restful sleep.

Black and white photos focusing on the changing shape of "The Mannequin" through the twentieth century.

A themed collection of Araki photographs. Issue No.9: Private Diary 1999

The photographers from the renowned photo agency Magnum have worked with movie-makers since the agency was established. These momentous partnerships are properly celebrated for the first time ever in a book containing powerful images of such legends as Clint Eastwood, Marilyn Monroe, Ingrid Bergman, James Dean, Clark Gable and many others.

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.

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.

Designed while Man Ray was living in Hollywood and published in December 1948, Alphabet for Adults was printed by pioneering California lithographer Lynton R. Kistler Man Ray illustrated it with reproductions of 39 fanciful cartoon drawings representing the letters of the alphabet.

As a follow-up to his crazy successful, fashion and pop culture-influencing book of Hip Hop's early days, Back In The Days, photographer Jamel Shabazz takes a sharp turn in bringing to light a vastly original - and under-documented--emerging subculture in Last Sunday In June. Drawing from an enormous cast of eye-catching characters, Shabazz showcases an extraordinary collection of luscious lesbians, tasteful transsexuals, and dramatic drag queens done up in their Sunday best to celebrate Gay Pride.

Sportscape tells the story of how sport has been shown by photographers over a period of 100 years, focusing on the beauty and interest of the photographs and what they can tell us about the development of sport.

Bordertown by Barry Gifford is a gritty, lyrical collection of photos, stories, drawings, poems, news clippings, and odd ephemera set along the blurred edges of the U.S.-Mexico border—a place where cultures collide, identities shift, and the line between law and outlaw is paper-thin. With his signature noir-infused prose, Gifford introduces a cast of drifters, dreamers, and desperados navigating lives of danger, desire, and displacement. Atmospheric and sharply observed, Bordertown captures the raw poetry of life on the margins, offering a vivid portrait of a land and its people caught between worlds.

Photographs of fans of The Rolling Stones.

Published in 2001, "Alive" was Mario Testino’s third book in which the photographer shares moments from all his travels to exotic locales from magnificent cities by night. filled with models, celebrities and friends.

Pierre Huyghe is known for creating complex, self-evolving ecosystems and immersive, time-based installations that blur the line between reality and fiction. This publication follows the course of the development of Huyghe’s practice in the last ten years.