

Following on from the enormous success of Fruits, Fresh Fruits features the latest from Tokyo based Fruits Magazine. Fresh Fruits uncovers how street fashion has changed in the downtown districts of Tokyo as seen through the eye of Japanese fashion photographer Shoichi Aoki. Sublime in its simplicity, Fresh Fruits captures the strange and often ‘surreal’ fashion sense of Japanese teenagers

New Age: Stonehenge to Jungle is a visual chronicle of UK rave, jungle, and warehouse party culture from the early 1970s to 2000. Drawn from Toby Mott’s extensive Mott Collection, the book features 575 flyers and ephemera, tracing a generation of youth rebellion and the imaginative visual language that defined British party culture and its global influence.

Street photographs of scenes in Shanghai.

Featuring the work of some of the most highly regarded photographers, Cinéstars brings together portraits of some of the most loved movie stars along with a brief introduction by film critic James Cameron-Wilson.

Couple by Joji Hashiguchi presents 103 frontal portraits of couples photographed between 1990 and 1992, from Okinawa to Tokyo. Continuing the approach of his earlier works Seventeen’s Map and Father, the series examines relationships, individuality, and social context. Hashiguchi’s structured yet intimate fieldwork reveals the shifting dynamics of identity within contemporary Japanese society.

Photographer Vivian Cherry began her career in the early 1940s while working as a dancer in Broadway shows and nightclubs. At the end of World War II, New York City went through a period of transformation, as war rations gave way to prosperity, loved ones were reunited, and babies were born into a new era. Her work from this period, collected here for the first time in Helluva Town, provides lively vignettes of our collective memory, suffusing gritty street scenes with warmth and gentleness alongside social consciousness and history.

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

Eve Babitz offers a great insider survey of the fashion phenomenon that was Fiorucci in the late seventies.

Defining momnets in studio ceramics from 1950-2000, with selections from the SMits Collection and Related Works at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. With contributions by Grethen Adkins, Garth Clark, Rebecca Niederlander, Susan Peterson, Peter Selz

From the twilight of the Romanov dynasty through les annees folles of Art Deco Paris to the jet-set seventies, Bals explores the nine most exceptional private costume parties of the twentieth century.

David Hockney's examination of his interest in photography, his thoughts on the influence of Picasso and Rembrandt and of Eastern conventions of perspective and their relevance to his work.

A socialist journal of the social services. In this issue: Sexism in social work, Health in Nicaragua, Impact of racism on the family, undergraduate social work, stress at the workplace.

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.

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.

The Ecstasy of Things explores twentieth-century objects, from handmade to mass-produced, as symbols of beauty, innovation, and cultural identity. Featuring nearly 500 photographs from global archives, it examines how product photography captured emotional and symbolic qualities, reflecting changing tastes and aesthetics. The book serves as both a design compendium and a visual history of material culture.

Photographs of fugitive and performance artist CS Leigh.

A book of Japanese shop displays.

Alison Laurie examines how clothes are a form of signal, a means of expressing identify sex, age and class as well as occupation, geographical origin, personality, opinions, tastes, sexual desires and current mood.

A collection of works by Joji Hashiguchi, full of "human drama" in Hashiguchi's typical zoo, from works captured from a unique angle between humans and animals, reminiscent of Garry Winogrand's masterpiece "The Animals". Cnsists of imahges taken at the "zoo", and is set not only in Tokyo but also in Berlin, New York, Moscow, London, Delhi, Ho Chi Minh City, Seoul, Mexico City, and other places around the world.

Featuring the work of Frank Lloyd Wright

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.

Foote abandoned a successful fashion shooting career to wander the back alleys, scrub land and bars of Memphis creating the compositions in this book. It includes texts by photographer William Eggleston and film director Bernardo Bertolucc

This book is part of a four part series exploring the work of four influential designers. This volume explores the work of Pierre Bernard, an influential French graphic designer known for his social, political, and cultural design work, most notably as a founder of the collective Grapus

Life is Space 4 was a one day seminar held at Studio Olafur Eliasson where invited artists, scientists, scholars, dancers, theorists, spatial practitioners and movement experts gathered to share, discuss, present, and experiment with ideas loosely based around the theme of Life and Space.

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.

Hassan Sharif (1951–2016) was a pioneering Emirati artist who revolutionised the regional art scene in the 1970s/80s through performance, installation, and assemblage, often using discarded consumer materials to critique rapid urbanization. This book presents an intimate view of Sharif’s diverse and varied work featuring new translations from his writing.
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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.

This beautifully illustrated book draws together for the first time the work of French artist Claude Cahun (1894–1954) and British contemporary artist Gillian Wearing (b. 1963). Although they were born almost a century apart, their work shares similar themes—gender, identity, masquerade, and performance.
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A Positive View started as a personal philanthropic photography project hosted by the Saatchi Gallery in 1994, when all the donated works were sold by Sotheby's to support the Chickenshed Theater Company for children with learning difficulties. Featuring fashion photographs and textual contributions.
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Published to coincide with a major exhibition of the work of the Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershoi (1864-1916).

This experimental volume reimagines what a book can be by inviting over thirty leading artists and writers to reinvent its traditional parts. Endpapers, footnotes, page numbers, even the ribbon bookmark become individual artworks. The result is a playful, collaborative object that blurs boundaries between literature and visual art, celebrating creativity, surprise, and the book as medium itself in inventive ways.
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A collection of self portraits by 60 female artists and photographs, offering a glimpse into the (caucasian) female experience and concerns in the late 1970s after the Women's Liberation Movement.

A photographic reminiscence of the 1987 Glyndebourne dance season.

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.

Few artists have succeeded in creating a body of work as uncompromisingly honest and tender as Goldin’s. Couples and Loneliness presents a collection of images gathered from across her photographic ouevre – represents the thematic reoccurances of love, loss, sexuality, intoxication, pain, and her ongoing obsession with the documentation of those around her. Alongside images, this book contains a narrative commentary by Goldin adding further anecdotal insight into her world.

Roots to Reckoning brings together more than 100 photographs by pioneering Jamaican-born British photographers Neil Kenlock, Armet Francis, and Charlie Phillips. Spanning four decades, the images capture cultural icons, political movements, everyday life, and evolving Black identities, offering a powerful visual record of Britain’s social and cultural transformation.

A book about architecture

In the early 1990s Collier Schorr began working on and off in Southern Germany, compiling a documentary and fictional portrait of a small town inhabited by historical apparitions. Combining the overlapping roles of war photographer, traveling portraitist, anthropologist, and family historian, Schorr tells the interwoven stories of a place and time determined by memory, nationalism, war, emigration, and family through polaroid photography.

Portraits of American women by Macadams including Patti Smith, Laurie Anderson, Margie Beals, Marisol Escobar, Laurel Wise, Michelle Phillip and more.

This book covers materials, forming methods, surface decoration, glazing, and firing techniques of clay. The third edition expands technical guidance, includes colour charts of clay and glaze combinations, outlines historical developments in ceramics, and provides references to key resources and museums, supporting both introductory study and advanced practice.

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.

Still, Life is a cookbook by British artist Joe Sweeney that blend his personal response to the restrictions of the 2020 pandemic with the tradition of still life in art

The most refined of the costume, the glove follows the shape of the hand and keeps its imprint. In symbolic language, it has come to designate the entire hand. Instrument of action and execution, the hand holds within it the promise of all gestures. From the gloves of the Renaissance and even older to the gloves of fashion designers through sports or protective gloves, this book offers a comprehensive overview of the art of the glove. This book presents all the uses and symbols of the glove.

Wonderful and expressive full page black and white photographs of American actor Steve McQueen taken by William Caxton.

This book collects the work of Saul Bass, who created some of the most compelling images of American postwar visual culture.

A survey of enamel street signs and advertisements of the 1970s.

The Situationist Times No. 3 (January 1963) maps out an exhaustive visual and philosophical index of knots, spirals, and topological forms. The issue deliberately weaves scholarly critique, mathematical mapping, avant-garde illustrations, and experimental fiction.

The book examines three distinct strands of photographic practice: the documentation of performance works; the work of photographers incorperate a performative practice; and the construction of self-identity through camera based practices. Includes the work of – Merce Cunningham, Yves Klein, Yayoi Kusama, Charles Ray, Samuel Fosso, Tomoko Sawada, Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol, Masahisa Fukase and more.

Linder Sterling's work had its first exposure in the punk fanzine The Secret Public and as art for the sleeve of the Buzzcocks' first single, "Orgasm Addict." Linder's multidisciplinary work, work that has led observers to call her the missing link between Yoko Ono and Tracey Emin. This first book, a rediscovery and a debut at once, includes contributions from writers and cultural figures including Philip Hoare, Jon Savage, Andrew Renton, Lynne Tillman, Paul Bailey and Morrissey.

For nearly two thousand years, Japanese women living in coastal fishing villages made a remarkable livelihood hunting the ocean for oysters and abalone, a sea snail that produces pearls. They are known as Ama, and they make their living (well into their 90s) by filling their lungs with air and diving for long periods of time deep into the Pacific ocean, with nothing more than a mask and flippers. This book is a document to the lives of these women.

Over the course of eight days in December 2021, Danny Fox and Kingsley Ifill travelled across the length of the British Isles and back again. Composed of a series of fifty collaborative works on paper which bring together photography by Ifill and paintings by Fox, Holy Island is a visual travelogue of their time spent together: an exploration into the cross-section of rural and urban fabric that makes up Britain today.


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

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

A collection of the winning books from the Most Beautiful Swiss Book Awards of 2022.

A book on the work of architect, designer and artist Ugo La Pietra.

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

Aspen, published between 1965 and 1971, was a multimedia “magazine in a box” created by Phyllis Johnson. Each issue broke from traditional print by being curated by different artists and designers, including diverse materials such as booklets, vinyl records, film reels, and posters, showcasing avant-garde movements like pop art, Fluxus, and conceptual art. It became a landmark of experimental publishing. This issue was designed by the award-winning Esquire art director George Lois, along with Tom Courtos and Ralph Tuzzo.

Surrealism and fantasy in graphic design.

A book exploring Roger's belief in the regenerative social potential of architecture

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

Magnum photographer Chien-Chi Chang photographed pairs of some 700 psychiatric inmates who are chained together and forced to tend one million chickens on a large farm in Taiwan.

Violence Grows is a forceful, wide-ranging look at four iconoclastic female icons of the 1980s. A four-phase journey, focusing on three punk artists and one divisive politician. All four re-shaped antiquated ideas on identity, sexuality, and the role of women in a dysfunctional society. These four determined women set out to overturn the world they lived in.

Twenty young people aged 14-18 were selected to edit the School Kids Issue (Issue 28) of Oz. They were given editorial freedom, resulting in a mixture of articles and cartoon strips that communicated their view on music, sexual freedom, hypocrisy, drug use, corporal punishment, and education. It caused an outrage, and the editors were charged with obscenity and conspiring to 'debauch and corrupt the morals of young children'. However, after an outcry by supporters and anti-censorship campaigners, the verdict was overturned at appeal.

A collection of the most desired, envied, and debonair men in history. From the frock coats of Gainsborough's portraits to city workers' two-piece suits, men and their fashion have made a vital contribution to our collective notion of style.

Through the layte 1960s and early 1970s, the John Hinde Studio based in Ireland produced a seires of postcards to be sold at Butlin's holiday camps throughout Britain. This book celebrates John Hinde's vision, the wonderful photographs that set the standard for postcards of their day and the holiday entertainment of phenomenon of Butlin's at its peak. With photography from Elmar Ludwig, Edmund Nägele, David Noble.

Jean Cocteau: Metamorphosis (2018) was a major exhibition and accompanying book, curated by Ioannis Kontaxopoulos, that highlighted the French artist’s perpetual self-transformation across various media, including film, drawing, and ceramics. It showcased over 250 works, often from the Musée Jean Cocteau in Menton, tracing his lifelong, multidisciplinary, and deeply personal creative evolution.

This book brings together a distinguished group of authros to reflect on Adjaye's practice as an architect.

Pharmakon brings together a sequence of subtle and disquieting photographs with a dozen compact short stories by Teju Cole.

Sifting through the prosthetic memory of our contemporary time, the ADDPM Program aims to scale a collective human legacy. The book becomes encyclopedia on the cultural and cognitive flattening of human networked recollections.

Excellent compilation of swimming pool photographs from William Klein, Shomei Tomatsu, Helmut Newton, Claude Nori, Josef Koudelka or Mary Ellen, among others.

A Year of Disobedience is a beautiful photo-documentary on the demonstrations, civil disobedience, arrests, and trials of thousands of people against the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant during the one-year period between April 29, 1978 and April 28, 1979. With Photos by Joseph Daniel, text by Keith Pope, preface by Daniel Ellsberg, poetry by Allen Ginsberg.

Hilla and Bernd Becher's cool, objective photographs of industrial structures have earned them a special position in international photography. The Bechers' 224 photographs of watertowers comprise a unique, single minded, even obsessive mission. They were taken from as many as 8 angles, over a period of 25 years, with a stylistic approach so consistent that photographs juxtaposed from the 1950s and 1980s suggest a minute to minute account deadpan portraits of unadorned metal, concrete, and wooden structures.

Carnival: A Photographic and Testimonial History of the Notting Hill Carnival captures the heart of London's largest street festival through powerful images and personal stories. From its roots in Caribbean resistance to its role as a beacon of culture and community, this book is a vibrant tribute to the people, music, and spirit that make Notting Hill Carnival.

This book explores contemporary pharmacy design as a distinctive branch of commercial architecture. In a tightly regulated market where price and products offer little differentiation, pharmacies compete through spatial atmosphere and customer experience. Featuring selected examples, it highlights sophisticated, modern, and hygienic designs that foster trust and loyalty, redefining pharmacies beyond traditional chemists’ interiors into welcoming, functional environments.
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Julio Mario Santo Domingo was a collector and visionary related to the subjects of drugs, sex, magic, and rock and roll. A library of more than 50,000 items, it contained everything from rare manuscripts and photos to posters, bottles, letters, opium pipes, and pinball machines. Exploring the innumerable influences of mind-enhancing drugs on art, science, and politics over the centuries, Santo Domingo's collection contained work by diverse figures including Andy Warhol, Timothy Leary, Sigmund Freud, Allen Ginsberg, the Rolling Stones, Aleister Crowley, and many more.

Look at Me: Fashion and Photography in Britain 1960-1997 was published to accompany a traveling exhibition curated by writer/curator Val Williams and Brett Rogers, director of The Photographers' Gallery. Through editorials, advertisements, and street snaps, this book explores the evolution of fashion style and fashion photography from the 1960s to the late 1990s. Featuring the works of Juergen Teller, Helmut Newton, Wolfgang Tillmans, Nigel Shafran, Hannah Starkey, Corine Day, Elaine Constatine and more.

Featuring photographs by Irving Penn, David Bailey, Bruce Bernard, Dorothy Bohm, Mark Boxer, David Hockney, Sue Davies, Bill Brandt, Chris Killip and more.

Notorious for his continually subversive takes on classical dance, Michael Clark is without doubt one of the most important dancers and choreographers of our time. Through essays and imagery, this book covers Clark's career from the late 1970s to 2011, detailing his subversive approach to classical dance.


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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This book, the title of which translates to, "The Novel of François Truffaut", is a collective work published shortly after the director's death. Across 239 pages book, you will find black and white photographs of the director, his films along with essays.

Gianni Versace catalogue of the Spring/Summer 1985 collection, published as a supplement in L'uomo Vogue.

A documentation of the history of the bikini in photographs and magazine clippings

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.

From Disneyland to Detroit, Spokane to Scotland, Hairdos of Defiance highlights Templeton’s encounters with iconic punk-rock plumage across two decades and two continents.

Created by Kate Moss herself, in collaboration with creative director Fabien Baron, Jess Hallett, and Jefferson Hack, this book is a highly personal retrospective of Kate Moss’s career, tracing her evolution from “new girl with potential” to one of the most iconic models of all time.

An issue of Architecture and Urbanism on the work of Richard Rogers

This book presents the photographic work of Karl Lagerfeld. In full-bleed plates Lagerfeld presents the different forms of nature, alongside elements of the human body.
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Guido Palau pioneered the radical unstructured styles made famous by his subjects (the likes of Kate Moss and Stella Tennant) reacting against slick salon styles, to enhance, rather than hide, people's idiosyncrasies. This book presents 100 classics shot by fashion photographers David Sims, Steven Klein and Paul Wetherell.

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

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.

This book aims to collect and present a comprehensive overview of the work of Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt. The book presents her typewritings series, all produced between the early 1970s (some of the earliest works are dated 1972) and 1989. Mail Art was her way to be in contact with the world outside the GDR, otherwise impossible to reach. After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Reunification, the artist stopped producing any art: she felt her involvement was no longer “needed”.


Cover to Cover follows artist Michael Snow through a series of disorienting, domestic self-portraits. Snow, who remains quietly composed throughout, is depicted in various ordinary scenarios made ethereal by artful gestures in composition and lighting.

This publication documents the creative contribution of OMA/AMO Rem Koolhaas to the Prada stores in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

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.

In this unusual archive, Rose Salane documents 64,000 NYC MTA “slug” coins—counterfeit tokens collected from 2017–2019. Categorized by patterns of Faith, Place, Chance, Imitation, and Blank, the coins reveal fragments of commuter histories and urban movement. The work honors the everyday circulation of New Yorkers, transforming overlooked fare tokens into a reflection on time, place, and collective experience.

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.
The Library
Our Library is the heart of Reference Point and from where all other elements take their philosophy and context. An evolving and growing collection of rare books, ephemera and printed matter focused on Post-War Radical Art, Architecture, Design, Fashion and Culture. The library exists to create inspiration and conversation, and provide creatives of all stages and disciplines reference points for their projects.
Our librarians are always on hand to serve as research assistants but you can also email us with your interests and project brief and we can prepare a selection of works in advance of your visit.
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