A comprehensive history of Prada, featuring editorials, shop fronts, behind the scenes of designing and more.

In the 1930s, Herbert List's photography focused on an idealised and escapist vision of life, featuring young men and Mediterranean landscapes, influenced by Surrealism and a desire to escape the rising political turmoil in Germany. As a gay man of Jewish heritage, he fled Nazi Germany in 1936 to Paris, then Greece, where he captured images of what he termed the "magical essence" of the world. His work from this period, often shot in Italy, Germany, and Greece, contrasts the turbulent political climate with personal freedom and the beauty of youth

Bobby Baker is one of the most widely acclaimed and popular performance artists working today. This book brings together for the first time an account of Baker’s career as an artist with critical commentary by reviewers; transcripts of Baker's performances; and other originial materials.

The script of Under the Skin includes Glazer’s never-before-published director’s statement, an original essay by Hari Nef, and writing and set photography by Niall O’Brien.

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

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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.

A book of the work of Austrailian architect Harry Seidler.

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

Known for subverting the conventions of fashion and celebrity photography, Teller here turns his iconoclastic eye to the two-Michelin-starred food of chef Antonio Guida in Eating at Il Pellicano. Eleven menus of five courses encapsulate the unique, offhanded chic of the Hotel Il Pellicano, in Teller’s second photographic collaboration with this exclusive Italian retreat.

Curated by connoisseurs of vintage clothing, the Vintage Showroom is a vast collection of rare 20th-century pieces that fashion designers and stylists pay to view, using the cut and detailing of individual garments as inspiration for their own work. Offering one-of-a-kind access, Vintage Menswear now makes this unique resource available in book form.

Intervening Space is a companion publication for an exhibition of six contemporary Algerian artists, held at the Mosaic Rooms. The exhibition, curated by Ali MacGilp and Yasmina Reggad featured newly commissioned and reimagined works from Fayçal Baghriche, Amina Menia, Atef Berredjem, Hanan Benammar, Massinissa Selmani, and Sadek Rahim.

Madonna’s Sex book is one of the most iconic and resounding art projects conceived by the pop star. The photographs by Steven Meisel feature open-minded erotic imagery and sexual fantasies.

Dressed to Kill is an interesting look at the ways in which clothing, and its symbol as a from of status and power, has developed over time. Looking at the influences of sexuality and gender, this book presents how fashion is a means of looking at ourselves and the society.

In the South Bronx of America is a work which, through documentary photographs, counterpointed with statements by residents and by newspaper reports and statistical information, offers both an intimate view of life in this neighbourhood and a context for understanding accelerated social decay.

In Cities for a Small Planet, Sir Richard Rogers, one of the world's leading architects and the designer of the Pompidou centre in Paris, demonstrates how future cities could provide the springboard for restoring humanity's harmony with its environment.

This is the first monograph of Gabriel Moses, filled with lusciously colored images that capture Moses' eye for beauty and talent for storytelling.

Bauhaus Imaginista marks the centenary of the Bauhaus, founded by Walter Gropius, highlighting its global influence across art, design, and architecture. Featuring figures like Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, László Moholy-Nagy, and Josef Albers, it traces the school’s international reception and enduring impact amid twentieth-century geopolitical change.

Superhumanity seeks to explore and challenge our understanding of “design” by engaging with and departing from the concept of the “self.” This volume brings together more than fifty essays by leading scientists, artists, architects, designers, philosophers, historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists.

Berman has been long heralded as one of the most significant and influential artists to emerge in Southern California. Spiritually inclined yet steeped in popular culture and the political events of the day, his work mined the American psyche and broadcasting his ideas through mail art, publications, photographs and multilayered art works. This volume offers the first substantial survey of the entire oeuvre of Wallace Berman (1926-76) from the late 1940s until 1976.

This highly illustrated book is a complete monograph on the Leigh Bowery, and includes previously unpublished photographs and ephemera from the artists' personal archive.

The Rolling Stones: 365 Days follows the Stones from their explosion on the English scene in 1963 to their status as living legends today. The band's offstage and backstage antics, iconic performances (including Hyde Park, Altamont, and the Ed Sullivan Show), their many girlfriends and wives, infamous brushes with the law, and more are all represented here.

Archive is the first book by Sofia Coppola, covering the entirety of her singular and influential career in film. Constructed from Coppola’s personal collection of photographs and ephemera, including early development work, reference collages, influences, annotated scripts, and unseen behind-the-scenes documentation, it offers a detailed account of all eight of her films to date.

For over three decades, the unique lens of Roxanne Lowit has captured the faces, personalities, and spaces of modern culture. This volume features full page black and white portraits of hundreds of luminaries, including Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali, Kate Moss, Yves Saint-Laurent, Johnny Depp, Madonna, and George Clooney. With accompanying texts by Yves Saint Laurent, Bob Colacello, Sonia Rykiel, Fran Lebowitz, and Karl Lagerfield.

This book is document of the centennial history of the The University of California containing more than 100 rich photogravures of university life by Ansel Adams.

Portraits shot on film of teenage smokers – an image of youthful rebellion.

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.

A guide on how to make movies at home.

Curated by Peter Weiermair for an exhibition at Kunsthalle Vienna, this collection of photographs documents the social landscape of American from 1940-2006. Featuring works by Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Larry Clark, Bruce Davidson, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Peter Hujar, Helen Levitt, Ryan McGinley, Gordon Parks, Rosalind Solomon, Ed Templeton and Burk Uzzle.

A nuanced profile, in image and text, of the great Black Power leader at the exhilarating moment of the movement's ascendancy.

A socialist journal of the social services. In this issue: visions from the left on the human services.

This book focuses on Ulises Carrión's personal and groundbreaking approach, managing to illustrate all aspects of his artistic and intellectual work. This includes books, magazines, videos, films, sound pieces, mail art, public projects, and performances, along with Carrión's initiatives as curator, editor, distributor, lecturer, archivist, art theorist, and write

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This magnificent survey of Calvin Klein is illustrated with era-defining photographs by the most distinguished names in fashion photography, from Irving Penn and Richard Avedon to Bruce Weber, and Patrick Demarchelier—among others. In it, the world’s most iconic models like Christy Turlington and Kate Moss, are captured in images that would define their careers. Every image was chosen by Calvin Klein to narrate his evolution as a designer—from couture to jeans, underwear, and fragrance—all categories in which he redefined what was chic and essential.

Through his own work, David Hicks offers examples of how to decorate bathrooms.

A collection of exclusive, behind-the-scenes and fittings images of Pieter Mulier’s shows at Alaïa. Captured through Seklaoui’s unfiltered photography, this limited-edition book explores the intensity of the crucial moments leading up to a collection presentation, revealing the Maison’s creative process in its purest form. Born from the intimate collaboration between Pieter Mulier and Anthony Seklaoui, Alaïa by Seklaoui was built upon their shared obsession with the idea of raw beauty.

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“Zoo York” reflects New York’s extravagance of the 1980s, when individual freedoms, sexual in particular, became relatively unrestricted and openly expressed in the streets of New York. Nagasaki’s title for this photobook could sound critical of NY’s flamboyant lifestyle, but in fact, as he explains in the introduction, “New York is a zoo, not because the people here are animals, but because, as in any zoo, they are interesting and worth examining. We do not visit a zoo with a sense of judgement or superiority. We go for a better understanding of a different way of life…Here people have freedom to choose their own lifestyles: how they want to live.”

British Women Go to War documents the vital contributions of British women during the Second World War, covering their work in the armed forces, industry, the Women Land Army, and the Women's Voluntary Services. Featuring striking colour photographs by percy Hennel that show women in various roles during this period.

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Prison Notebook is a powerful visual memoir by pioneering Sudanese modernist artist Ibrahim El-Salahi, documenting his wrongful imprisonment in Khartoum's Kober Prison in 1975 through delicate pen-and-ink drawings, Arabic prose, and poetry, offering a personal account of his surreal experiences and enduring hope, published as a book featuring facsimiles, translations, and critical essays.

This book is the first to feature the work of the Brazilian photographer Alair de Oliveira Gomes. A philosopher, art critic and university professor, Gomes (1921-92) was in his 50s when he began to develop a body of photographic work, focusing almost exclusively on the athletic young men to be found on the beach at Rio de Janeiro. This book presents a collection of these images.

This book, with over 150 photographs, presents everything a man would need to know about style, grooming and self presentation.

A book about architecture

For ten years - from 1984 until 1995 - Newton published his best photographs in his own magazine, Helmut Newton's Illustrated. During this period, four editions appeared: No. 1 "Sex and Power," No. 2 "Pictured from an Exhibition," No. 3 "I was there" and No. 4 "Dr. Phantasme." This edition brings them all together.

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

Haraka Baraka is the second book published by SkatePal, a non-profit organisation that supports young people in Palestine through skateboarding. Since 2013, they have been building skateparks, providing equipment and teaching skate classes to young people across the West Bank. This book is the result of a collaboration between SkatePal and Lebanese designer Samar Maakaroun. Over 224-pages, Haraka Baraka gives a unique introduction to the Arabic language explored through a collection of expressions, ranging from simple everyday phrases shouted in the street, to more complex proverbs steeped in history.

The portrait is central to Fazal Sheikhs work. Often these have been people in crisis: displaced from their homes and their countries, at risk from violence, poverty and prejudice. This book takes in the full range of Fazal Sheikhs work, from his earliest portraits taken in African refugee camps, through long-term projects in Afghanistan and Northern Pakistan, Somalia and Kenya, to more recent work in South America and in India.

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.

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.

Philippe Garner’s absorbing book describes the way in which the talented and opportunistic Cowan carved himself a very specific niche in the fast flowing maelstrom that was sixties fashion photography.

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

A collection of black and white photographs by Herbert List that portray a dramatic interplay between light and shadow across different Greek landscapes.

‍The Airport Pictures of Garry Winogrand assembles 86 of the photographer's most compelling, never-before published images of travellers, flight attendants, airport waiting rooms, airplanes on runways and all the people and places in between.

No Mundo Maravilhoso do Futebol, which translates to 'the wonderful world of football' is a book photographs taken by children at Favela do Cascalho in Brazil.

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

This is the only book to thoroughly document the world's finest examples of Brutalist architecture. More than 850 buildings - existing and demolished, classic and contemporary - are organised geographically into nine continental regions.

Among the significant projects of the last year of his life, Richard Avedon (1923–2004) completed a book of his photographs of women – ranging from celebrities (Marilyn Monroe), artists (Marguerite Duras, June Leaf), and high-fashion models (Suzy Parker, Dovima) to anonymous people that simply drew his attention.

Catalogue published inconjunction with the British Museum, showing pieces from their collections alongside artworks by Paolozzi to explore the connection between primitive and modern art.

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

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.

Shot over the period of 5 months in 2017, Yodo Hito documents the communities and individuals who have built their homes or congregate along the concrete oodplains of the Yodogawa River in Osaka city, Japan.

Dance Magazine was a monthly dance publication covering modern dance and ballet, as well as other forms of dance, including jazz, that ran from 1927 to 2001.

Inspired by found objects, personal archives and poetic experiences, Lebanese artists and filmmakers Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige invent a unique way of to navigate between art and film. Their documentaries, fictional films, photography, art installations, texts and performances develop narratives and images around stories kept secret, acting as a resistance to official history.

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.

Superb photographs, by Richard Young, of the famous, the glamorous, the ambitious and the tastless as they party, and relax in chic Mayfair environs. The celebrities captured on camera include, Warhol, Divine, Francis Bacon, Bianca Jagger, Keith Moon, Zandra Rhodes, Elton John, Grace Jones, Britt Ekland and a host of others. Christopher Wilson’s text captures in wry and studied prose the antics of the famous and infamous.

A collection of black and white images of 1950s London people and landmarks.

Near East documents photographer and designer Cecil Beaton's wartime assignment for the Ministry of Information in the Middle East during World War II. The book combines his photographs, including images of soldiers and ancient sites in Egypt, Palestine, Syria and Iraq along with his journalistic text that provides a unique pictorial history of the region during the conflict.

Outsider Art refers to the mesmerizing creations of those who live and work at a distance from prevailing notions about mainstream artistic trends, individuals who are frequently unaware of themselves as artists or their works as art. This book presents and discusses some of the 20th century's most significant examples of Outsider Art artists from around the world, including Gedewon, a cleric from Ethiopia who made unique and psychedelic talismans; William Hawkins, an African-American self-taught artist with a unique pop sensibility; and more.

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

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.

A book of the exhibition curated by Johan Jugelburg that celebrated 40 years of the Velvet Underground and Nico album. Featuring newspaper clippings, photographs, texts.

Over a period of two years, writer-photographer Kyoichi Tsuzuki visited a hundred apartments, condos and suburban homes, and lovingly documented what he saw.

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.

In this book, through searing images evoked in paintings, photographs, performances and texts, David Wojnarowicz exposes the duplicity and soullessness of an illusory "one-tribe nation" promoted by media, government and organised religion.

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.

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 collection of photographs of Londoners in various stages of undress.

Rat Piece is a compendium of documents regarding Kim Jones’ infamous piece of performance art on February 17, 1976; in which he lit three live rats on fire in a cage, causing their torture and consequent death. The piece, performed in front of 30 students on the California State University Campus in Los Angeles, caused an enormous public backfire, initiating dialogue about the ethical limitations of action done in the name of “conceptual art”.

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.

This book provides a 30-year overview of the collaborations between American artist Anthony Aziz (born 1961) and Italian artist Sammy Cucher (born 1958), pioneers in the field of digital art. Synthesizing reality and fiction, their work highlights pathologies associated with unfettered globalization and posthuman conditions.

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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.

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

Photographer Philip-Lorca diCorcia is best known for his elaborately staged scenes made to look like real life, in which he meticulously plans every element of a shot-lighting, pose, etc, before taking the photograph, creating the "ur" moment. This is conceptual photography with the veneer of the documentary. Heads is a departure from this method. Turning his lens onto New York City, diCorcia took unstaged pictures of passers by that follow in the street photography tradition of Paul Strand, Walker Evans, Harry Callahan and Robert Frank.

A collection of conversations from David Bailey, Anthony Barboza, Arthur Elgort, Horst, Erica Lennard, Jimmy Moore, Jean Pagliuso and Chris Von Wangenheim, accompanying numerous fashion shoots from the 60’s and 70’s, some of which were previously unpublished. An insight into the work of the fashion photographer.

A book on the design and wear of ties.

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A captivating look at the glamorous, jet-setting lifestyles of those who frequent the legendary Hotel Il Pellicano, overlooking a secluded bay in Tuscany's Porto Ercole. One of the most beautiful destinations in the world, the chic Hotel Il Pellicano, located on the Argentario, is a hangout for many from the design, fashion, and art worlds.

People of the Mud is a powerful new series by Berlin-based US-Dominican artist Luis Alberto Rodriguez, made collaboratively amongst the communities of County Wexford in Ireland, where ancient tradition and modern life rub shoulders daily.

Martin Munkacsi changed the look and style of fashion photography in the 1930's. The legendary Harper's Bazzar photographer set new standards for fashion photography. Models ran on beaches, perched on rooftops and catapulted into the air. He was the first to take models out of the studio, photograph the rain and use dramatic angle shots. This book is the result of four years of research into the photographer and his work.

During a Jack Kerouac-inspired road trip that lasted nine years, the photographer William Eggleston documented working-class towns, rest stop diners, dilapidated gas stations, and barren stretches of land in the American South and Southwest. For thirty years following Eggleston’s trip, the images sat in a warehouse as he focused on other work, many of them unseen. In 2002, Eggleston’s journey finally reached its destination when the resurfaced snapshots were published in Los Alamos.

Dance Perspectives was published quarterly from 1959-1976, and was a collection of writings on dance, art, costume and theatre.

A wonderful monograph of the great British photographer, Cecil Beaton.

Beautiful London by Helmut Gernsheim is a captivating photographic tribute to the city in the early 20th century, capturing London’s elegance, charm, and architectural splendor before the upheavals of World War II. Published in 1939, this rare collection showcases Gernsheim’s keen eye for composition and atmosphere, blending documentary precision with artistic vision

A themed collection of Araki photographs. Issue 10: Chiro, Araki and 2 Lovers.

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.

‘Rain Time’ is a large collection of photographs found at a flea market in London documenting the self-portraiture of one woman’s penchant for deep-sea submersion via the burgeoning world of rubber fetishism. The collage works in the collection precede by at least 15 years what would become the cut n’ paste aesthetic of punk, devising and framing new identities culled from images in the daily papers, on the spectrum from Sophia Loren to Mrs Mills. 'Rain Time’ reveals a hitherto unseen world of exploratory erotic investigation taking place for personal satisfaction behind the net curtains of suburban Britain. It is so called for the catalogue of rubber wear accompanying the archive, one subsequently employed by Vivienne Westwood for her revolutionary Kings Road ‘Sex’ shop a decade later.

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