
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.

Frida by Ishiuchi is the first photographic documentation ever published of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo's personal attire and belongings, as portrayed by Japanese artist Miyako Ishiuchi. The victim of a nearly fatal bus accident as a young woman, Kahlo used fashion to channel her resulting physical difficulties into courageous statements of heritage, strength and beauty.

Yousuf Karsh was one of the premier portrait photographers of the 20th century. Among the personalities portrayed in this volume are Marian Anderson, Pablo Casals, Marc Chagall, Winston Churchill, Albert Einstein, Queen Elizabeth, Robert Frost, Ernest Hemingway, Helen Keller, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King.

Beginning in 1970, Anni Albers filled her graph-paper notebook regularly until 1980. This rare and previously unpublished document of her working process contains intricate drawings for her large body of graphic work, as well as studies for her late knot drawings.

John Cage: A Mycological Foray draws readers across the idiosyncratic, mushroom-suffused, innermost landscape of celebrated American composer John Cage. Upon the remarkable journey with Cage, one encounters assorted photographs, compositions, and contemplations; all in the very same unexpected fashion one encounters various flora and fungi species while mushroom foraging.

If David Bailey was the quintessential London photographer during the Swinging Sixties, the photographs he produced in the 1970s reflect a radical reorientation. This volume collects images from his 1970s fashion sittings as well as his portraits of subjects ranging from Salvador Dali and Mick Jagger to Margaret Thatcher and Mother Teresa. His acclaimed television documentaries on Andy Warhol, Cecil Beaton and Luchino Visconti provided yet more opportunities for compelling stills.

I Can Make You Feel Good, is a 206-page celebration of photographer and filmmaker Tyler Mitchell is distinctive vision of a Black utopia, portraying the young Black men and women with intimacy and optimism

Shigeo Fukuda (1932-2009) was a highly influential Japanese graphic designer and sculptor celebrated for his witty, minimalist, and illusion-based visual communication. A pioneer in using optical illusions and simple forms, he was the first Japanese designer inducted into the New York Art Directors Club Hall of Fame in 1987.

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

Control: The Ian Curtis Film biopic is Anton Corbijn's is one of the directors most famous projects that followed the troubled life of post-punk Joy Division lead musician Ian Curtis. This book is a document of the process of making the film – a visual diary with annotations, drawings, and a wealth of photographs detailing the creative process from pre-production to first screenings.

Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with a show held June 6 - August 19, 1990.

François Truffaut was a French film director, one of the founders of the French New Wave movement, known for his personal, intimate films that explored themes of human fragility, outsiders, and the struggles of growing up. His work is characterizsd by its humanist approach, detailed character studies, and a blend of melancholy and humour.

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

A book of Japanese shop displays.

Celebrated and iconic photographs of Helmut Newton's women.

Issue on interior design in Latin America.

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


For a decade, Alessandra Sanguinetti returning to the small town of Black River Falls in Wisconsin to create the photographs that would come to form this stark and elliptical series. Inspire by the 1800s photographs of Charles Van Schaick found in Wisconsin Death Trip, Some Say Ice is a humane look at bleack and melancholic realities of those that inhabit Black River Falls.

This book was published to accompnay the exhibition "Couture/Sculpture" which presented the parallels between the great couturier Azzedine Alaïa and the Greco-Roman-inspired sculptures that are exhibited in the gallery of the Borghese villa.The sensuality of feminine haute couture is exposed in the midst of the naked bodies of Bernini and other prestigious sculptors.

Chéri Samba (born 1956) is a renowned Congolese painter known for his "popular painting" style, which merges vivid, humorous, and critical imagery with textual commentary to address social, political, and daily life in Kinshasa.

In the 1980s, Peter Lindbergh invented a new way of photographing and interpreting fashion. Considered as one of the great masters of black and white photography, he is best known for his brilliantly posed images of women of stiking beauty. Using fashion photography as the key to his era, Lindbergh creates scenes which are immediately recognisable and forceful in their modernity. This book celebrates the essential and fruitful relationship between Lindbergh's photographs and their primary destination, the magazine page, presenting a selection of his work from 1996-1998 as it appeared in publications such as "Vogue", "W Magazine" and the "New Yorker".

This book presents a detailed account of manned space programmes of the US and the USSR as well as an account of the non-American and non-Soviet astronauts.

Born in 1929 in Ghana, James Barnor has left an incisive mark on the history of photography. From the establishment of his Ever Young photo studio in Accra in the 1950s, to international assignments for the influential magazine Drum, he captured societies in transition: a burgeoning Ghana, marching toward independence, and Swinging Sixties London growing into a multicultural metropolis. This book is the first monograph of his work – from the late 1940s to his pioneering work in colour of the 1970s.

In September 2020, Kim Jones was named head of Fendi’s couture and womenswear, marking a new era for the Italian brand. This publication examines Jones’s relationship to the legendary Bloomsbury Set: the early twentieth-century community of British writers, intellectuals, and artists, including Virginia Woolf, Duncan Grant, and Vanessa Bell, who inspired the collection and his creative process.

The self-portraits in this book were taken by visitors in the summer 1976 at an American cultural exchange visit, Photography USA, in Kiev. Here, photographer David Attie set up his large format camera in a studio with a shutter release for Russian visitors to take their portraits – from couples to children, youth, old people and families.

For Miles Aldridge Acid Candy' refers to the hard boiled sweets he had as a kid. But this spirit is also found in the photographic dreams he constructs using a bright, almost plastic, coloured palette in order to illustrate fashions for potential buyers. In admiration, David Lynch describes his work as 'a colour coordinated, graphically pure, hard-edged reality'. This book presents 70 full page, colour photographs created for leading fashion magazines such as Vogue, Numero and Paradis.

A substantial selection of Stanley's fiction over the past ten years or so, this book shows a contemporary master of the micro narrative. Apocalyptic, funny, unsettling and hallucinogenic in their intensity, Stanley Donwood's stories present a series of haunting episodes in a world drained of meaning, sense and consequence.

Ronald Traeger was an American commercial photographer, painter and graphic designer who also took a range of experimental photographs. The monograph Ronald Traeger New Angles (1999) pays tribute to his short-lived photographic career in London (1961-7) with a memoir by his wife, fellow photographer Tessa Traeger.

This book takes place at the cusp of the 20th and 21st centuries, in the pre and post-September 11th world. It is a singular product of its time, packed full of words and images portraying the architectural projects and metaphysical mechanics that have defined Rem Koolhas's OMA-AMO firm.

After years of covering wars and conflicts around the globe, British photographer Don McCullin – one of the most celebrated photojournalists of his generation – returned home in the hopes discovering who he was and where he came from. The resulting photographs are as much as portrait of England as they are of McCullin himself.
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Spanning five key years from 2016 to 2021, this monograph is dedicated to Tobias Spichtig’s work presents a high-definition snapshot of the Swiss artist’s aesthetic vision. Published by KALEIDOSCOPE, the pages present a variety of the artist's works – from oil, acrylic, graphite, diamond dust, and photographic prints on canvas – alongside essays.

Black in White America 1963-1965 is an expanded edition of Leonard Freed’s 1969 publication, Black in White America, published by Reel Art Press. Here, Michael D. Shulman, Magnum’s director of publishing and the book’s co-editor, introduces how the title was produced in consultation with the Freed Estate, providing an overview of the project’s striking images and their relevancy today.

American Polychronic presents the first comprehensive catalogue of Roe Ethridge’s work from 1999 to 2022, comprised of two interlocking threads of his celebrated photographic practice – a postmodernist approach exploring the plastic nature photography exploring how pictures can be easily replicated to create new visual experiences.
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This book is a collection of works by Australian artist Glenn Sorensen who creates watercolors and paintings of flowers that are remarkably personal and sensitive.

A documentation of students Rossville High School by photographer Jim Richardson.

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 the history of Japan's fine pottery and porcelains.

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.

This book presents extended sequences of stills from each of Tarkovsky's films alongside synopses and cast and crew listings. It includes reflections on Tarkovsky’s work from fellow artists and writers.

In his second book, Luke Smalley revisits the themes and ideas that resonated throughout his 2002 monograph Gymnasium. Smalley returns to his native Pennsyvania to investigate the small-town interiors and landscapes which are the settings for his portraits of young atheletes. Color photographs, inspired by a more innocent era, depict exercises which combine whimsy with the inexplicable.

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.

In the 1960s and 1970s, Conrad was perhaps best known for his contribution to film, where he helped to redefine structural filmmaking with The Flicker and Yellow Movies. Conrad went on to create an extensive body of work in a variety of media such as installation, photography, and performance until his death in 2016. Essential writings from the downtown New York legend and polymath, pioneer of both structural film and drone music.

A book exploring trends and theories of school planning.

Published in 1983 as a companion piece to the hugely popular Sloane Ranger’s Handbook, authors Ann Barr and Peter York expanded the satirical take on the upper classes by providing a definitive guide to the Sloane year.

Originally published in 1971, A Documentary HerStory of Women Artists in Revolution documents the efforts of W.A.R., a loose group of women artists, filmmakers, writers and cultural workers organized around advancing the place of women in the art world.

Yellows arises from Akira Gomi's nearly obsessional documentation of body-types. His Post-Modern approach to the concept of "types" combines an ironic catalogue of data. What can we tell from a naked body, its form, posture, and expression, and what do we project? Yellows is a brilliant exploration of the non-sexual nude and an interesting peek into the obscenity restrictions of the Japanese publishing industry.

This book is seeped in social history, fact and trivia, art and artifacts surrounding the drug of choice for nineteenth-century poets – absinthe.

Filled with compelling images from revered photographers of the past and present, this book sheds light on marginalised communities who have traditionally shied away from the cameras. Works by critically acclaimed photographers including Bruce Davidson, Paz Errazuriz, Jim Goldberg, Danny Lyon, Mary Ellen Mark, Boris Mikhailov, Daido Moriyama, and Dayanita Singh cast a compassionate, unflinching eye on the worlds inhabited by transsexuals, hookers, hustlers, bikers, junkies, circus performers, gang members, survivalists, petty criminals, and others who live in the shadows, on the streets, and out of the public eye.

The definitive retrospective of America's preeminent photographer. This book reveals for the first time Penn's own view of his extraordinary and diverse career. Accompanied by his fascinating and insightful commentaries and examples of his portraits, still lifes, and fashion drawings.

A history of pottery in Britain.

This book explores the bold, colorful world of Bollywood movie posters found across the streets of Mumbai. Blending popular art with energetic cinema, the posters showcase a striking mix of color, dramatic imagery, and expressive typography that reflects the spirit of Bollywood.

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)

Published in conjunction with the 2010 exhibition Compost Pictures at the Charleston art centre in East Sussex, this artist’s book by Shafran continues his long-standing interest in the domestic environment as subject matter. Focusing on food waste collected in a kitchen compost bowl, the images reveal accidental arrangements of vegetables and utensils that resemble sculptural or installation-like compositions. This small, limited-edition, signed publication highlights the artist’s sharp observational eye and understated sense of humour.

The iconic black-and-white photographs of Hamburg-born photographer Frank Habicht displayed in this book reflect the spirit of the Swinging Sixties in London. In the 1960s, the conservative postwar years in England gave way to a period of upheaval, with a younger generation dreaming of an unconstrained life, peace and harmony. On the streets of the British capital, Habicht began photographing the profound social and political changes that were underway.

This publication brings together approximately 6,000 trademarks, focused on the period 1940–1980, to examine how modernist attitudes and imperatives gave birth to corporate identity.

This book showcases extraordinary cars, with a standout section on Lamborghini. Featuring period photos of Bertone designs like the Marzal, Bravo, and Athon, it highlights iconic the design of many iconic cars.

Ed Templeton captures the intimacy and awkwardness of young love.

45 RPM celebrates the design and cultural impact of 7-inch single record sleeves. These small cardboard covers, popular with DJs and collectors since 1949, became iconic elements of Top 40 music culture. The book presents over 200 sleeves arranged chronologically, highlighting inventive graphic design across genres and featuring legendary artists such as the Beatles, Elvis Presley, the Rolling Stones, and many others.
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Since the beginning of her career in Belgrade during the early 1970s, Marina Abramovic has pioneered the use of performance as a visual art form. This book is a collection of some of her most influential works.

This monograph of the Jamaican self-taught artist John Dunkley offers a generously illustrated overview of his powerful work. Reproducing the intricate details and somber palette that characterise John Dunkley's paintings, this book situates the artist's oeuvre within its historical context.

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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"XL Photography 2" is the title of the second catalogue of the collection. This volume documents the acquisitions up to 2003, including works by the artists Bernd and Hilla Becher, Phillip-Lorca DiCorcia, Roni Horn, Matthias Klose, Chantal Michel, Josef Schultz, Juergen Teller, Christina Zück and more.
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This book is a moving collection of sensitive and informative photos and captions documenting the African American struggle for self-definition in mid-20th century America. Through black and white photographs, Freed investigates the politics of the country in the 1960s, as well as articulates the anxiety of under represented and discriminated people.

The Japan A.U. Mail Art Book II, part of a three part series, is a rare, important compilation documenting the Japanese mail art movement in the early 1980s, featuring artworks, texts, and collages from global artists serving as vital records of conceptual art exchange.

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A sweet life full of pleasure and indulgence, 'La Dolce Vita' was a phrase that entered popular usage following the success of the 1960 film La Dolce Vita written and directed by Federico Fellini and starring Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg and Anouk Aimee. As a phrase it has come to sum up the Golden Age of stylish sophistication in Italy that spanned the years 1958 to 1964. This beautifully illustrated book features over 300 surprisingly candid and revealing photographs from this remarkable era, and captures an era of effortless cool and glamorous style.

Gallant began his professional career in fashion as a hairdresser, working at Bergdorf Goodman department store in New York as one of the city's top colourists. This new book tracing Gallant's life and career is edited by David Wills and features photographs by Richard Avedon plus a foreword by Anjelica Huston.

A report identifying the causes of urban declinein England and the recommended practical solutions to bring people back into cities, towns and urban neighbourhoods.

A Meaningful Order by OK-RM is a 328-page exploration of design’s distributed realities, shaped through dialogue, exhibition, and industrial production. Structured A–Z, it presents sixteen years of work via experimental lithography and designerly writing. Blending archive, interview, and reflection, it examines how designed objects generate meaning through form, context, culture, and conversation beyond academe.

Exhibition catalogue published to coincides with the exhibition by British Sculpture Gavin Turk, In Search of Ariadne, at The Heong Gallery at Downing College.

Concentrating mainly on the 19th and 20th centuries, this is a study of the necklace as an emblem of wealth and status, shaped and reshaped throughout the centuries by successive fashions, techniques and materials, from the Egyptian broad collar to the diamond chokers of the 1920s.
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The bilingual, colour illustrated book entitled "XL Photography - Art Collection Deutsche Börse" presents the first acquisitions for the collection, including works by the artists Araki, Anna and Bernhard Blume, David Weiss, Axel Hütte, Martin Liebschenr, Beat Streuli and more.

Having entered the New York underground in the 1960s while still a teenager, filmmaker Barbara Rubin quickly became one of its key figures. Her pioneering 1963 double-projection film Christmas on Earth was both sexually provocative and aesthetically innovative. She worked regularly with Jonas Mekas and Andy Warhol, introduced Bob Dylan to Allen Ginsberg, and connected Warhol with The Velvet Underground. During an intense period of activity and travel, Rubin wrote passionate letters about film and the underground to Mekas. This special eightieth issue of the magazine Film Culture features her previously unpublished letters to Mekas, as well as interviews and extended scripts.

Collection of paparazzi photographs of celebrities caught off guard – on holiday, at the market, kissing in a doorway.

Lippard’s classic text from 1973 documents the emergence of conceptual art and related experimental artistic practices. Experimental in itself, this book details various artworks by their chronological context rather than by artist.


Sixteen practitioners interview curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, tracing his journey from curating exhibitions in his Zurich kitchen to directing international projects at Serpentine Galleries in London. Through “production of reality conversations,” the book explores his restless practice, intellectual networks, and “protest against forgetting,” mapping the psychogeography, curiosity, and cross-disciplinary thinking that shaped his influential curatorial career

As the title suggests, this book features never-before-published pictures of horses and dogs by William Eggleston, who is widely regarded as the most influential figure in contemporary color photography.

In 1996, Alexander McQueen took over the Hawksmoor masterpiece Christ Church in London’s East End to present Dante – the seminal collection that would resonate throughout the young designer's career. This book features unique photographs shot behind the scenes, with raw, unseen pictures of the designer, models and clothes. The fashion creatives who worked with McQueen to make the show such a success recall this pivotal time in the designer’s career and reflect on what made the collection so groundbreaking.

Hiromix’s glamorous renditions of Keita Maruyama’s entire 2001 collection are splashed, fashion magazine style, onto thick glossy paper. As the year unfolds, back stage shots, Spring/Summer, Autumn/Winter as well as one-off photo shoots present the quirky sophistication of this young Japanese designer.

After Life is the debut photobook by London-based, Italian photographer Michele Baron. Known for his spontaneous and punchy photographic style, Baron captures the underground queer communities and techno clubbing scenes of London, Paris, and Berlin. Through intimate portrayals of friends, lovers, and vibrant subcultures, After Life presents one of the largest selections of Baron’s impressive archive and offers an unflinching visual diary of these marginalised yet dynamic worlds.

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.

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.
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Catalogue published on the occasion for the first ever retrospective of Wallace Berman's work. An enigmatic figure, Berman’s interests in the Kabbalah, music and poetry combined to make him a huge influence on a group of artists and poets of the Beat generation in the late 1950s and 1960s.



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

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.

A pictorial celebration of the clothing and accessories that dominated the American male dress code from 1955 to 1965.

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.

The Sitwells were an aristocratic British literary family consisting of three siblings—Dame Edith Sitwell (poet), Sir Osbert Sitwell (writer and critic), and Sacheverell Sitwell (art and music historian)—who, along with their family, were influential cultural figures in the 20th century, known for their avant-garde tastes, eccentricity, and patronage of the arts, particularly in the 1920s and 1930s London scene. This illustrated biography of the Sitwell family accompanies a major 1994 exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery.

This three-volume book looks back on Supreme's T-shirt archives from the year 1994 to now. Each volume is dedicated to a different time and period, providing an introspective look into every T-Shirt that the New York imprint has released throughout its 30-year history

Jocks and Nerds: Men's Style in the Twentieth Century offers a visual history of the way men have dressed in the twentieth century, tracing twelve social roles that have formed fashion and fashion leaders.

In this ongoing project, Anthony Hernandez documents the haunts of the world's homeless, proceeds to international sites and finds similar scenes.

Home Economics explores the frontline of British domestic architecture in response to Alejandro Aravena’s theme Reporting from the Front. Curated by Shumi Bose, Jack Self, and Finn Williams, it features immersive full-scale projects by established and emerging designers proposing innovative models for contemporary homes.
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Drawing into Film: Directors Drawings is a 1993 book published alongside an exhibition showcasing the personal sketches, storyboards, and other drawings of various film directors, such as Alfred Hitchcock, Sergei Eisenstein, and David Lynch. Curated by Marc Glimcher and Mark Pollard for the Pace Gallery, it demonstrates how drawing is an integral part of a director's creative process for visualising ideas, from scripts and storyboards to character and set design

The story of Christian Dior's rise to fame as a fashion designer is told through a survey of the House's major collections from 1947 to 1957.

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

Weber 0001 catalogues 256 t-shirts selected from the archives of Tokyo-based cult collectors Weber. It is an overtly utilitarian book object destined to compare, reference and reflect on the archive of cultural artefacts. 0001 remains faithful to the ambitions of its authors to celebrate the unassuming yet historically resonant status of the vintage t-shirts.
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.
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