Nightswimming is a photographic history of discotheques, told in a subjective, partial way, but always with a clear purpose in mind: the analysis of space. The history of dance clubs is undoubtedly an anthropological as well as architectural phenomenon. The cultural and economic evolution of society progressively transformed the idea of entertainment, and consequently the spaces in which it is formed and shaped.

John Deakin (1912-1972), whose portraits are among the most significant (and amongst the most overlooked) in the history of twentieth-century photography, was a natural successor to August Sander and precursor of Diane Arbus. He phographed everyone from Hollywood stars for British Vogue in the late 1940s and early 1950s to his artist and poet friends in London's bohemia, Soho. Robin Muir, former picture editor of British Vogue, bringstogether a comprehensive collection of Deakin's most important photographs.

An exploration of the captivating work and mystical outlook of the modern artist Remedios Varo, focusing on her years in Mexico City.

This Will Not End Well is the first book to present a comprehensive overview of Nan Goldin’s work as a filmmaker. The book draws from the nearly dozen slideshows and films Goldin has made from thousands of photographs, film sequences, audio tapes and music tracks. The stories told range from the trauma of her family history to the portrayal of her bohemian friends, to a journey into the darkness of addiction. By focusing exclusively on slideshows and video installations, This Will Not End Well aims to fully embrace Goldin's vision of how her work should be experienced.

In the small mountain town of Heber Springs, the Arkansas artist known as Disfarmer captured the lives and emotions of the people of rural America between 1939-1945.

This book contains the transcript of David Bailey and Andy Warhol's TV documentary, with taken by David Bailey. Featuring Leo Castelli, Jane Forth, Jane Holzer, Brigid Polk, Henry Geldzahler, Pat Aast, Mrs Warhol, Dale McConarthy, Richard Bernstein, Paul Morrissey, Madame Duchamp, Philip Johnson.

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.

This comprehensive volume presents the works of the Swedish photographer, and includes five essays which analyse different aspects of Frank's photographs, films and videos.

This book presents Hockney's designs for costumes, masks, and sets in an exploration of the artist's approach to working with ballets and operas.

Seen/Unseen is a monograph documenting Strachan’s 2011 survey exhibition “Seen/Unseen,” installed in an undisclosed New York City location and deliberately made inaccessible to the general public. Navigating through the polarising dichotomies of presence and absence, visibility and invisibility, and man and nature, Tavares Strachan has engineered a multidisciplinary artistic practice that mobilises our visual, intellectual, and emotional faculties.

Carine, and her vision of French Vogue, embodies all that the world likes to think of as Parisian style. This elegant volume is a visual history of Roitfeld's fearless career throughout which she pushed the limits with her subversive styling ideas. Featuring a selection of 250 magazine tear sheets and covers from pivotal editorial shoots and advertising campaigns, as well as intimate visual ephemera.

Catalogue for the first major posthumous exhibition on the work of Ulises Carrión.

London Fashion Week has been opening its doors to young designers since its inception in 1984. It has introduced many brands to the world as an incubator, such as John Galliano, Alexander McQueen, Hussein Chalayan and more. These footprints are presented through interviews with 83 designers from 72 brands and catwalk photographs. The book is constructed with consists of archive articles by Mina Wakatski, who has covered Fashion Week for over 30 years, and photographs by Chris Moore, one of the world's leading catwalk photographers. It also includes several articles on the transition of London Fashion Week and projects to support newcomers.

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Ultimate Angels is a striking exploration of transgender identity in all its isolation, expression, and glory.

ONE BLOOD is the first monograph by photographer Frank Lebon. Borne out of loosely applied yet technically defined approaches to portraiture, ONE BLOOD showcases multiple photographic series taken between 2020 and 2023. The practice of photographing loved ones is taken to its extreme both in process and form. In this book, Lebon searches across scales and through layers for photographic evidence of unity and similitude across the people in his family, his life, and his city, London.

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

This classic work of analog photojournalism—focusing on the idiosyncratic denizens of an iconic bar in the red-light district of Hamburg, Germany

Eamonn Doyle employs a unique approach to photographing Dubliners in the streets—from a close but respectful distance, his views of the city’s solitary figures reveal a quiet reverence and respect for these old souls. This book contains full bleed black and white photographs, cinematic and dramatic in their execution, of people in Dublin.

This book presents a dialogue between Shoji Hamada and Bernard Leach, exploring the aesthetics, techniques, and philosophy of one of the 20th century’s most influential craftsmen. It offers insights into their creative processes and the distinctive lifestyle shaped by dedication to traditional and studio pottery.

This book presents a survey of fabric works by Swiss artist Caro Niederer. Her starting point is often a snapshot taken while traveling abroad or at home. By transferring her source imagery into other media such as paintings, silk prints or woodcuts, Niederer plays with subtle shifts of form and meaning.

A book of the work of George Ohr –  an American ceramic artist and the self-proclaimed "Mad Potter of Biloxi" in Mississippi. In recognition of his innovative experimentation with modern clay forms from 1880 to 1910, some consider him a precursor to the American Abstract-Expressionism movement.

Full-colour reproductions of Duchamp's notes – grouped as "Infrathin," "The Large Glass," "Projects," and "Word Plays."

Features stunningdesigns of kosode used in Japanese Noh theater, including many edo works of the patchwork style.

This phootgraphic anthology brings together the groundbreaking work of Black women photographs active in the UK during the 1980s and 1990s. Seen through the lens of Britain’s sociopolitical and cultural contexts, the publication draws on both lived experience and historical investigation to explore the communities, experiments, collaborations, and complexities that defined the decades. Includes the works of Maxine Walker, Ingrid Pollard, Claudette Holmes, Mohini Chandra, Carole Wright, Sutapa Biswas, Maud Sulter, Brenda Agard, Anita McKenzie, and more.

In Jamaica, Clarks the ruling name in footwear. Including current and historic photographs, interviews and previously unseen material from the Clarks archive, and with particular focus on the musicians who have worn and sung about Clarks through the years, this book explores how footwear made by a Quaker firm in the quiet English village of Street, Somerset came to be the most popular shoes in Jamaica.

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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An intimate behind-the-scenes look at London designer fashion over the last fifteen years, edited by Tania Fares and Sarah Mower. The book profiles 50 leading London fashion designers, from Paul Smith and Stella McCartney to Erdem and Simone Rocha.

Photographs, essays, anecdotes following the live and career of The Rolling Stones.

Willy Vanderperre is one of the pre-eminent fashion photographers of his generation. Hailing from Belgium, he has established a 20-year body of work that spans campaigns for Prada, Raf Simons, Calvin Klein and Christian Dior, and more. This book, created in collaboration with IDEA books is an experimental compliation of Vanderperre's Instagram feed – edited in just 10 days – over 220 pages.

A history of rings and jewels.

The thousands of portraits that Keïta took form an outstanding record of Malian society between the end of the Forties and the early Sixties. His photographs have become - in addition to their sociological value - works of art, free from tricks, eccentricity, or any attempt at illusion. As such they have acquired an objective character and a timeless dimension. Through his quest for accuracy, Seydou Keïta seems intuitively to have reinvented the art of the portrait.

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

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.

Containing poetry, drawings, pressed flowers, photographs, excerpts from scripts and notes, Derek Jarman’s sketchbooks are part autobiography and part social history, bursting with the energy and creativity of this groundbreaking artist.

A socialist journal of the social services. In this issue: uses of homelessness; housing policy in Cubal; organising social services (The Yugoslav Experience); book reviews and more.

A collection of photographs shot mainly in Bristol in the mid 80s documenting the rise of Massive Attack. It also includes shots of them performing at the dug out club, the infamous red house jam and at St Pauls Carnival.

In 1970, Trasov assumed the identity of Mr. Peanut, donning a handmade paper mâché replica of the mascot of the Planters Peanut Company. Soon after, he produced The Mr. Peanut Mayoralty Campaign of 1974, a twenty-day performance developed in collaboration with members of the Vancouver arts community. The legume quickly became Trasov’s cipher and central component of his practice. Mr. Peanut Drawings collects nearly a hundred of Trasov’s Peanut drawings together with a text by Nancy Tousley.

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.

To mark the twentieth anniversary of Obrist's landmark project 'do it', this publication presents the history of this ambitious enterprise and gives new impetus to its future. It includes an archive of artists' instructions, essays contextualizing Do It, documentation from the history of the exhibition and instructions by 200 artists from all over the world selected by Obrist,

When Maxime Gaillard opened a small bistro at 3 rue Royale, his restaurant was soon discovered by the star socialite of the moment, Irma de Montigny, who launched it as a center of Parisian nightlife. A masterpiece of Art Nouveau architecture and design, Maxim's remains faithful to this period and continues to be a symbol of Parisian luxury life. In this book, Jean-Pascal Hesse tells us the fascinating story of this legendary place along with also the restaurant most successful recipes, with accompanying illustrations.

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

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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 collection of portrait photographs of Mexican Lucha Libre Superheros.

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

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

Joseph Beuys: Multiples includes some 600 pieces of Beuys work, annotated lists of the major collections where they can be found, essays from significant curators and scholars and an interview with the artist.

Renowned as the world's leading female fashion photographer from the 1930s to the 1960s, Louise Dahl-Wolfe (1895-1989) was acclaimed for her fashion photographs, still lifes, and portraits. Her fame reached its apogee after she joined Harper's Bazaar, the vanguard of women's magazines. This book is the first comprehensive retrospective on this important photographer. In addition to her fashion image, the 200 photographs gathered here include Louise Dahl-Wolfe's experimental color work and black-and-white portraits of such luminaries as Mae West, Cecil Beaton, Josephine Baker, Christian Dior, Orson Welles, Isamu Noguchi, and others

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This book showcases Isaac Julien's work from the early 1980s to the present day – from early films to large-scale, multi-screen installations which investigate the movement of peoples across different continents, times and spaces.

This publication consists of 930 photographs taken by Daido Moriyama in the first twenty years of his career. Starting with the oldest existing print from 1960 and ending around the publication of Moriyama’s photobook “Light and Shadow” in 1982, the book allows an unprecedented insight into the work – including many previously unpublished images – of one of Japan’s greatest photographers.

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.

A Lebanese Archive is based on a collection of archival photographs from Lebanon and the Middle East which came into the hands of Ania Dabrowska in 2010 when she was a SPACE artist-in-residence at Arlington hostel in Camden, London. It belongs to Diab Alkarssifi, a Lebanese emigre who was living there at the time. The images were taken and collected by Alkarssifi over a lifetime. It was a chance encounter that gave birth to the archiving of a huge collection, and the developmen of a new body of work by Dabrowska - published here for the first time.

Photographs and texts by critic Germano Celant about selected works considered as Arte Povera – an Italian art movement from the late 1960s and 1970s that used "poor" or commonplace materials to challenge the commercialised art world. Includes the works of Joseph Beuys, Lawrence Weiner, Alighiero Boetti, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Hans Haacke, Eva Hesse, Jan Dibbets, Carl Andre, and more.

London as one of the global fashion capitals has produced such outstanding designers as John Galliano, Alexander McQueen, Hussein Chalayan and Stella McCartney. Style City tells, for the first time, the story of how that came about, describing how fashion developed in Britain from the early 1970s, when designer fashion scarcely existed, to the present day.

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?

This book contains over 150 pages of 200 photographs of London in the late sixties taken by German photographer Juergen Seuss.

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.

Celebrated and iconic photographs of Helmut Newton's women.

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."

Documenta 6 complete catalogue including: Volume I painting / plastic environment / performance; Volume II photography / film / video; Volume III hand drawings / utopian design / books. Featuring the work of almost every important artist ever, including Chantal Akerman, Pierre Alechinsky, Robert Altman, Diane Arbus,  Cecil Beaton, Joseph Beuys, Brassaï, Fellini, Agnes Martin, Man Ray, Mapplethorpe and so many more.

Marin is a unique album of the great Navy family – the strength, the solitude and solidarity, the open faces of reunions, the serious looks of great departures.

A book of the furniture design work by Thomas Rietveld.

This book presents a focused visual and textual study of the solitary buildings of Mies van der Rohe, created through decades of engagement by Werner Blaser. Using consistent duotone photography and carefully organized materials, it objectively documents Mies’ architectural legacy, including previously unpublished images, while encouraging critical reflection on the enduring roots and principles of good architecture.

Dorothy Sing Zhang unveils a compelling portrayal of humanity’s vulnerable state during sleep. The scene is set in the bedrooms of others. One is asked to be asleep, a squeeze cable release is placed under the pillow. The chance of one’s unconscious body rolling over and triggering the camera results in an exposure. Like Someone Alive expands these boundaries by withdrawing the traditional relationships between the photographer, the object and the camera.

AM I is a publication created on the occasion of Tavares Strachan's desert neon installation in the desert outside Palm Springs unveiling during Desert X.

A collection of paintings by American painter Lois Dodd known for her deceptively simple, observant paintings of everyday life, capturing landscapes, windows, and interiors with a unique, almost abstract clarity, often painting outdoors on small panels, and co-founding the influential Tanager Gallery in the 1950s.

With its evocative images, this book immerses us in a world of dolce vita, youthful enthusiasm, the joy and beauty of Italian holidays – an atmosphere filled with young girls' laughter, stifling heat, the sounds of crashing surf and the playful cat-and-mouse games of the sexes.

This book, published to coincide with an exhibition at MoMA, is a comprehensive overview of the work of Garry Winogrand. Grouped under the following titles—Eisenhower Years, The Street, Women, The Zoo, On the Road, The Sixties, Etc, The Fort Worth Fat Stock Show and Rodeo, Airport, and Unfinished Work—many of the 179 plates are works that had never before been published.

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.

A series of photographs of women from the late 50's to 80's taken by Norman Parkinson.

This publication accompanies Sharjah Art Foundation's exhibition of Lebanese photographer and film maker Akram Zaatari’s work, on view from 27 September 2019 to 10 January 2020 at SAF venues Galleries 3 and 4 in Al Mureijah Square, Sharjah.

In this book, American documentary photographer Susan Meiselas captures the Nicaraguan Revolution of the 1970s.

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

Once a month a horse fair is held at Smithfield in north Dublin. In the almost medieval atmosphere, kids from the tough Dublin estates can buy ponies for the price of a pair of trainers. The pony kids now exist in defiance of moves to licence such trading, portrayed here in portraits by Perry Ogden.

Berlin-based photographer Michael Schmidt is among the most important photographers of post-war German photography. In his long out-of-print artist's book "Ein-heit" (Unity), Schmidt explores the universal symbolism of political systems and their image of humanity.  In his uncompromising view of reality, he combines photographs already mediated by the media with his own photographic works.

Sound Postcards is an interesting compilation CD coming with italian Uovo magazine’s Sound Postcards issue – compiling a collection of varied sound art and audio works.

Kitchen Table Series is the first publication dedicated solely to this early and important body of work by the American artist Carrie Mae Weems. The 20 photographs and 14 text panels that make up Kitchen Table Series tell a story of one woman’s life, as conducted in the intimate setting of her kitchen.

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.

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.

Black and white photographs of New York City coupled with nude bodies by photographer Arthur Tress.

Though it began as a military uniform, the trench coat has become a cornerstone of the twenty-first century wardrobe, a kind of chic yet classic envelope that perfectly balances form and function. From linen to leather, The Trench Book explores the stylish evolution of this outerwear icon in design and fashion.

The photographs in Eye For A Sty, Tooth For The Roof served as the source material from which Danny Fox based his series of paintings included in his current solo show at Alexander Berggruen, Danny Fox: The Sweet and Burning Hills (January 12-February 26, 2021).

This book is a visual celebration of the Swinging Sixties and of the beautiful, creative women of that era. Portraits taken by John D. Green Julie Christie, Susannah York, Hayley Mills, Dusty Springfield, Marianne Faithful, Mary Quant and many more.

A themed collection of Araki photographs. Issue 2: Bodyscapes.

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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.

This luxurious volume celebrates twenty years of an incomparable partnership, drawing together their most significant moments in fashion. It is a collection of memories and iconic images which marks every step of their evolution, featuring the work of photographers such as Steven Meisel, Mario Sorrenti and Ferdinando Scianna, and models including Gisele, Linda Evangelista, Isabella Rossellini and Marpessa.

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“Shifting Cosey Fanni Tutti from noun to verb” & “discussing and theorising Cosey as methodology,” this book follows the one-day event conceived by Maria Fusco, in collaboration with Richard Birkett, at ICA London, on March 27, 2010.

In this book, freedom of expression is exhibited at its most casual, with political, commercial, and populist signage jostling for attention in the social landscape, dissecting the current disenchantment that has become American civic life.

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.

This is a chronicle of Nan Goldin and David Armstrong's friends, loves, and lives over 20 years. The book is both a visual dialogue between two artists, friends and lovers who together create a portrait of a generation whose hopes and aspirations have been scarred by drugs, AIDS and sexual harassment. The parallel paths of their lives are represented in this book in the juxtaposition of styles - Goldin's colour photography set against Armstrong's more austere black-and-white imagery

This book explores the career of Yoko Ono, include her work in all media, including film and music. An introductory essay by Alexandra Munroe explores Ono's life, her relationship to international avant-garde movements in America and Japan, and the aspects of her art and thought that have guided her prolific production over four decades.

Fashion photographer Bob Richardson (1928-2005) first began to publish his powerful, transgressive and emotionally charged black-and-white images in the high-fashion press of the 1960s, highlighting the new freedoms and attendant disillusions of the era in a distinctive, maverick style. This highly-anticipated, beautifully-produced volume is the first ever dedicated to Richardson's oeuvre. Put together by his son, the equally renowned photographer Terry Richardson, it collects what remains of the original work, much of which was destroyed over the course of Richardson's career.