
A perfectly encapsulated visual documentation Parisian youth & their subcultures.

Beautifully reproduced in duo-tone, this collection of winter photographs shot in the Alphs, the majority of which are published here for the first time, reiterate Lartigue's position as one of the great masters of twentieth-century photography.

Between 1916 and 1925 Paul Klee (1879-1940) made some 50 hand puppets for his son, Felix, of which 30 are still in existence. These figures become reminiscent of Klee's relationships with his family, and beautifully illustrative of the artistic and social developments of the time.


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.

EverWonderful is Jeano Edwards’ first photobook, and is a tender love story dedicated to his homeland of Jamaica.

An illustrated study of the development of twentieth century Russian theatre up until 1932.

Double Game is the a book of work by Sophie Calle and the fiction of Paul Auster. We see the pieces both as they're described in their fictional context and as Calle's own interpretation of the descriptions from Auster's novel. The book delves deeper into Calle's world, with a sequence of Calle's seminal narrative and abstract works in texts and images that were in turn appropriated by the fictional Maria in Leviathan.

Stylists are some of the most influential people working within the fashion industry. This book covers styling for commercial ad campaigns, catwalk shows and fashion editorial, as well as looking inside the business of retail itself, featuring the hugely successful brands and designers for whom the ‘super stylists’ consult. Featuring stunning imagery and entertaining interviews with some of the biggest names in the field, including Lady Gaga's stylist Nicola Formichetti, Marc Jacob's collaborator Katie Grand and Melanie Ward of Harper's Bazaar, this is an essential book for any aspiring stylist or fashion student.

In Spring 2015, the photographer Joel Meyerowitz sat at the work table in Giorgio Morandi's Bologna home, in the exact spot where the painter had sat for over 40 years making his quiet, sublime still lifes. Here Meyerowitz looked at, touched, studied and connected with the more than 250 objects that Morandi painted. Using only the warm natural light in the room, he photographed Morandi's objects: vases, shells, pigment-filled bottles, silk flowers, tins, funnels, watering cans.

This book presents Bruce Davidsons personal selections from his lesser-known colour archive. Ranging from a period of fifty-six years and counting, these images are representative of the photographers color career – ranging from work with magazines and on his travels.

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.

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

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

Full bleed colour and black and white fashion photographs of Dolce & Gabanna menswear from 1990s to 2010.

Publication accompanying an exhibition at the Jerwood Gallery, showcasing the unique, often dark and macabre, artistic style of painter Paula Rego.

A mid-career retrospective of the work of María Magdalena Campos-Pons who has become one of the most important and influential contemporary Afro-Cuban artists. Her multimedia work explores themes of memory, the African diaspora, gender, and Afro-Cuban spirituality (Santería).

A monograph of the work of architect Richard Rogers

Published for an exhibition at the Centre de la Vieille Charité, this catalogue explores ceramics and glass by the Memphis Group. Featuring essays and illustrations, it highlights works by designers including Ettore Sottsass, Michele de Lucchi, Andrea Branzi, and Nathalie du Pasquier, alongside a bibliography and exhibition history.

A photographic document of a Mexican bull fight in 1961.

Callahan's work embodies the expressive and structural potential of photography. This book brings together personal and social documentary photographs - from images of his family to pedestrians on Chicago Streets, or the beaches of Cape Cod.
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It’s Urgent! is a project curated by Hans-Ulrich Obrist, which began in 2019 in Denmark. During the elections for the European Parliament in 2019, artists were invited to think about the present and the future with an exhibition of posters on billboards in the city of Copenhagen. The idea then was to make the artists’ works available to the public, inserting them into public life and the community.

A socialist journal of the social services. In this issue: Juvenile Institutions and lesbian youth; a theory of institutional abuse; women and mental health; restructuring political organisations for the Eighties; burnout as a political issue.

This book explores the origins of Roger's thinking and the wide ranging interests that informed his design process
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This comprehensive monograph contains a selection of emblematic works by Sengalese-born artist Issa Samb aka Joe Ouakam. The publication follows Samb's first solo exhibition in Europe, curated by Koyo Kouoh, entitled “WORD! WORD? WORD!".

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

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 superbly produced book covers the period 1969-71, and features the photo session in and around Syd Barrett's London flat that produced the cover for his first solo album, The Madcap Laughs; it also features images Mick shot for the now famous Rolling Stone interview in 1971, which became the last photos Syd ever posed for.

A book of fashion and jewelry made from metal tabs pulled from beverage cans.

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.

A book documenting kids playing on the streets of New York.

Camera in Paris by Brassaï is a captivating photographic journey through the streets of 1930s Paris, revealing the city’s hidden nocturnal life with striking intimacy and poetic depth. Known as the “Eye of Paris,” Brassaï captures the city’s shadowy corners, bustling nightlife, and everyday moments.

An exhibition catalogue to accompany the exhibition of the same name at Getty Gallery 2006. This collection includes images of globally renowned actors and musicians, drawn from Agius's vast and acclaimed body of work dating from the mid-1990.

Kara Walker is among the most complex and prolific American artists of her generation. Over the past decade, she has gained international recognition for her room-sized tableaux, which depict historical narratives haunted by sexuality, violence and subjugation.

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

This book compiles Dash Snow's famous Polaroids. Opening with scenes of friends crashed on beds and couches, floors and even the street, it records hazily snatched glimpses of sex, hard drugs and hanging out; adventures in cars, baths, pools, subway cars, friends’ apartments, on boardwalks and rooftops.

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.
This reference work presents Gus Van Sant's filmmaker's artistry (photography, painting and music) through the optic of his films. It is an original work combining all facets of his creation for the first time, bringing a fresh vision of his cinematographic work.

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.

Book detailing the practice of architectural training at the Bauhau based on the lecture notes made by the Dutch ex-Bauhaus student and architect J.J. van der Linden of the Mies van der Rohe curriculum.

This major monograph was published on the occasion of a retrospective exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum,o cntaining work from over a 30-year period, including photographs from Friedlander's previous publications: Self-Portrait, The American Monument, Lee Friedlander: Photographs, Flowers and Trees, Factory Valleys, Lee Friedlander: Portraits, and Cray at Chippewa Falls.

A themed collection of Araki photographs. Issue 18: Bondage

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

A collection of painterly images of women in sexual relationships, accompanied by poetry. Portraits of intimacy, tenderness and love between women.
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This book an art project and book by British artist Suzanne Treister (2018–2019). It explores speculative narratives, mapping journeys from a survivor persona through a "black hole spacetime" (BHST) framework, often using diagrams, drawings, and, in this case, a book format that connects different conceptual, often fictional, personas and spaces.

In this remarkable visual survey, internationally acclaimed photographer Sebastiaao Salgado documents traditional methods of sustainable coffee farming across the globe, revealing rituals deeply steeped in history and pride.

John Galliano has truly reinvented the art of haute couture, redefining its tropes into a new type of contemporary fashion and vision of Christian Dior. This book highlights the exceptional silhouettes he created for Dior collection after collection from 1996 to 2011, as photographed by Steven Meisel, Annie Leibovitz, Irving Penn and more.

An impressive collection of photographs and essays portraying the intricate work of jewellery designers – from the world famous to the lesser known. A variety of topics are covered: from technical aspects of jewellery work to general views on the way jewellery design is developing.

Anselm Kiefer is a highly influential German painter and sculptor known for his monumental, textured artworks that confront Germany's complex post-war history, the Holocaust, mythology, and mysticism, using materials like straw, lead, ash, and clay to explore memory, cultural identity, and the weight of the past. The High Priestess, begun in 1985, consists of two enormous steel bookcases, containing almost 200 gigantic lead books.



Working closely with her subjects on setting, lighting, and pose, photographer Deana Lawson creates intimate depictions of Black bodies interacting in both public and private spaces. The resulting images are formally rigorous in terms of composition—every detail is meticulous and motivated—as well as suggestive of Lawson’s personal connection with those she photographs. Deana Lawson: An Aperture Monograph features forty beautifully reproduced photographs that portray the personal and the powerful in black life.

Best known for her provocative SEX/Seditionaries boutique on Kings Road, and then perhaps her runway shows. This is the first book to gather Westwood's shoe designs, from 1973 to present day, every one of them - 140 examples, including the infamous platform that felled Naomi Campbell. Includes a biography and chronology.

Otherworldly presents avant-garde garments, styling, fashion photography, and young designers who are reimagining fashion through new design technologies – from wearables to the utter transfiguration of the human silhouette. Otherworldly showcases a fashion avantgarde between futurism and fetish.

An extensive history of ties.

A collection of photographs of New York taken by Weegee between 1935-60.

A monograph dedicated to the oil paintings of London-based artist Somaya Critchlow. Drawing upon her expansive knowledge of picture-making traditions ranging from the Renaissance to the Rococo, Critchlow’s mix of miniature and medium-sized portraits of voluptuous, nonchalant Black women raise questions about sexuality, feminism, pornography, beauty and power.

Published to coincide with Welcome to Iraq, an Iraqi participation in the 55th International Art Exhibition la Biennale di Venezia, 2013. Texts by exhibition curator Jonathan Watkins and acclaimed Iraqi writer Tamara Chalabi. Illustrated with images of selected work and recent photographs of everyday life in Baghdad, Babylon, Basra, Erbil and Sulaimaniya.

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

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

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

Written to mark the silver jubilee of the Design Research Unit, this book surveys the progress of industrial design since World War II. Using DRU as a case study rather than producing a conventional company history, it examines how major postwar trends shaped design practice—and how design, in turn, influenced industry and society.

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.

The publication is the catalogue of the exhibition On Failure, which examined and reconsidered the connotations of failure – repositioning the concept as an intentional outcome or state of being, often via an interrogation of what cost this approach comes at. Featuring artists Olivia Erlanger, Cash Frances, Jordan/Martin Hell, Kelsey Isaacs, Maren Karlson, Sam Lipp, Chris Lloyd and Narumi Nekpenekpen.

The magazine Apparel Arts was launched in 1931 in the United States as a men's fashion magazine, until 1958 when it rebranded at Gentlemen's Quarterly (GQ)
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Beat Streuli: New York City 2000–2002 presents a striking portrait of urban life at the turn of the millennium through the lens of Swiss photographer Beat Streuli. Focusing on the anonymous passersby who populate New York's bustling streets, Streuli captures fleeting expressions, gestures, and glances that reflect the energy and diversity of the city. His large-format, candid photographs offer an unfiltered view of the everyday—poised between intimacy and detachment—revealing the quiet drama and individuality found within the urban crowd.

Leafing through a wealth of private photo albums and personal archives, Lee Radziwill offers a unique perspective of happy times: from the first trip to Europe and the Bouvier sisters to fond memories of Christmas in Palm Beach with President Kennedy. Through anecdotes and pictures, personal notes and drawings, Happy Times offers readers a very personal perspective on a highly publicized life.

A themed collection of Araki photographs. Issue 3: Yoko (Ono)

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

A intriguing look into Maholy Nagy's photographs and photograms.

This is the catalogue from Prospectiva 74 – a groundbreaking 1974 exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art at the University of São Paulo in Brazil, curated by Walter Zanini, showcasing conceptual art, video art, mail art, and new media, crucial for introducing global avant-garde practices and challenging traditional art forms in Brazil during the military dictatorship

New York Living Rooms is the first instalment in Dominique Nabokov’s holy trinity of interior photography works, re-issued by Apartamento Publishing more than two decades after it was first published in 1998. Originally commissioned as a photo essay for the New Yorker in 1995, it offers a frank and intimate study of the interior living spaces of some of the city’s most fabled cultural figures, including Susan Sontag, Norman Mailer, Louise Bourgeois, Francesco Clemente, Allen Ginsberg, and Joan Didion.
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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.

The teenage athletes in Luke Smalley's pictures seem inhabitants of some time or place other than the northwestern Pennsylvania towns where the photographer recently found and photographed them. For the past ten years the photographer has painstakingly coordinated the creation of the work presented here, often making his own athletic equipment, props, and costumes.
This book contains over 330 Namio Harukawa illustrations, a short manga, seven unfinished sketches, two photos of his atelier, and essays by Shigeru Kashima.

Bonnettstown is an example of an early 18th-century Georgian manor situated in the countryside near Kilkenny, Ireland. Photographer Andrew Bush visited the estate and photographed the house and its surroundings from many aspects, all of which are included in this volume.
Adrien Mesko spent three months with the dancers of La.Horde directed National Ballet de Marseille. Each day, he would visi the studio to observe, document their training, perfomances, dedication to the physical demands of their craft and the quiet moments of intimacy in between.

This book brings together a wealth of research and an expansive selection of photographs found at a New York Flea Market to create an enduring account of America's first known trans network, Casa Susanna.

Representing Jean-Paul Goude's life and work from the late 1960s up to the present, the book spans Goude's years at Esquire; his revolutionary work with Grace Jones, his videos for MTV and for Azzedine Alaia; his advertising work for Chanel, and more.

Ronda Goyesca presents the newest work of Spanish photographer Aitor Lara (born 1974), documenting the astounding Corrida Goyesca – a legendary bullfight that takes place every year in the Andalusian city of Ronda, the oldest bull ring in Spain.

Catalogue presenting the Spring/Summer 1984 Menswear Collection attached to Issue 137 of L'uomo Vogue.

Avedon Fashion 1944-2000 encompasses seven decades of extraordinary images by Richard Avedon, the most influential fashion photographer of the 20th century.This comprehensive volume offers a definitive survey, from Avedon's groundbreaking early photographs for Harper's Bazaar through his constantly inventive contributions to Vogue, Egoiste, and The New Yorker.

A book about architecture

An illustrated history of fashion in skateboarding.

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

Coco Chanel’s passion for fabulous jewels, for exceptional stones, and for improbable marvels produced pieces that were unparalleled in their insistence on luxury and refinement. Drawing inspiration from tradition, Chanel was never the slave of everyday formulas or market values. Yet she reinvented tradition in the most arresting and modern jewelry pieces, based on her love of colour and her assured command of austere classical beauty. This book is the first to present the remarkable jewellery work of Chanel.

Whilst most Fashion photographers were out the front at the catwalk photographing the glitz and the glamour, Rennie Ellis, more often than not, could be found out the back, in the dressing rooms amongst the fan fare and flashes of flesh.

In An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar (2007), Simon compiles an inventory of what lies hidden and out-of-view within the borders of the United States. She examines a culture through the documentation of subjects from domains including: science, government, medicine, entertainment, nature, security, and religion.

Heavyweight studies the contemporary, violent visual culture using the Dutch underworld as its source. Pouria's introduction offers insight into the violent world of cocaine smuggling in the Netherlands.

Portraits of students at Cheletenham Ladies college by British Photographer Sue Packer.

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.

Known as the poet of glamour and the man who adores women, Peter Lindbergh has been a driving force in the world of fashion and the evolution of the supermodel. This book features not only Lindberghs print photo campaigns but also the outtakes, Polaroids, and scouting photos of the photographers little films that have redefined fashion photography with their compelling realism and depth of emotion. The 250 color and duotone photos feature never-before-published images of Milla Jovovich, Kate Moss, Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell, Helena Christensen, Cindy Crawford, and Amber Valletta.

A book containing essays on boxing, illustrated by the remarkable photographs of Charles Hoff, one of the leading photographers of the 1940s and 50s.

A book exploring trends and theories of school planning.

First monograph examining the work of Proctor and Matthews Architects


Photographs taken behind the scenes of Nollywood films.

BLINK. presents the work of 100 of the world's most exciting contemporary photographers, selected by 10 internationally acclaimed critics, curators and creative directors. An exhibition in a book, BLINK. showcases up-and-coming talent from all parts of the world, enabling the reader to stay one step ahead of emerging trends in the fast-changing world of photography.

This work reflects Versace's experience in Florence. It examines the sources of the designer's inspiration and suggests that, in return, his work inspired the direction of contemporary art.

Photographs of people in their place of work – accompanied by humorous, heartbreaking and insightful quotes about the experience of work 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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