Powerful narrative and graphics tell the story of Malcolm X’s life, his journey of self-discovery, his far-reaching ideas, his martyrdom, and his impact on an era.

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

The people of New Guina have little art in the form of objects – instead, their art takes form through self decoration. Birds of paradise plumes, animal furs, ochre plants, leaves and grasses are their props of choice. This book documents and describes the styles of decoration in the Mountain Hagen area, and the variations expressive of individuality.

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

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Reading Basquiat considers the ways in which Basquiat constructed large parts of his identity--as a black man, as a musician, as a painter, and as a writer--via the manipulation of texts in his own library.

The Other Story: Afro-Asian Artists in Post-War Britain is a seminal 1989 exhibition catalogue published by the Hayward Gallery/Southbank Centre, London, edited and curated by artist Rasheed Araeen. This scarce book documents the first major survey of African, Caribbean, and Asian artists' contributions to British post-war modernism.

Issue 5 of IL was dedicated to convertible roofs. Contributions by Dieter Blumel, Rainer Graefe, Jurgen Hennicke,  Friedmann Kugel, Uta Pankoke, Frei Otto, Hans-Joachim Schock, Jorg Wagner. Texts in German and English.

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Unusual Sounds traces the full history of library music through interviews with its composers, producers, and musicians, appearing amid renewed interest and major-label reissues. Originally created as low-cost stock soundtracks for television and genre films, library records evolved into a thriving industry. Behind many anonymous releases were leading late-20th-century composers, whose inventive work flourished within commercial constraints.

In reaction to--as Nick Waplington puts it--'the grainy, downtrodden, black-and-white interpretation of working-class life' one generally sees, Living Room offers lushly colored glimpses of the communal spirit, fired by the joys, mishaps, and adventures of family life.

A guide on how to make movies at home.

A book documenting the works produced by the Italian design movement Memphis, known for bold colors and geometric shapes.

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

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.

This book presents cross-cultural means of how to understand the reality which lies in dreams.

Since the mid-1950s, Eikoh Hosoe has been at the forefront of photographic practice in Japan: as an image-maker encompassing a broad range of subjects; a curator introducing works of master European and American photographers to Japan in 1968; a teacher informing the careers of numerous distinguished photographers, such as Daido Moriyama. This book features Hosoe’s major photographic series but also reveals his lesser-known collaborative works with writers, critics, dancers, and artists, including Yayoi Kusama, in portraiture and beyond.

Pearls is a photographic record of Simryn Gill's ongoing bead-making project, that was begun in 1999, in which she makes books into bead necklaces. This book brings together over sixty sets of beads, each one unique and particular to the specific volume from which it has been created.

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.

Issue 4 of IL continued the report on the colloquium, Biology and Building, held at May 7 and 8, 1971 at IL which was begun in IL3.

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Unlike the later thematic issues focused on topology (situlogy), Issue 2 functions primarily as an ideological and political journal that critiques the 1962 split within the Situationist International (SI) and addresses the heavy state censorship and legal targeting of avant-garde artists.

Celebrated and iconic photographs of Helmut Newton's women.

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

This is the first major publication by multidisciplinary designer Samuel Ross, showcasing his work for A-COLD-WALL* and his studio SR_A. Featuring over 300 images, previously unpublished materials, and essays by figures such as Virgil Abloh, Takashi Murakami, and Hans Ulrich Obrist, it provides a comprehensive study of Ross’ contributions to fashion, art, and design.

This book features a collection of written materials from American artist Joseph Cornell, famous for his surrealist shadow boxes – it includes diaries, letters, and files detailing his creative process, influences, and personal life.

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

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Richard Rogers explores modern architecture

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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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.

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.

Untitled is the only volume devoted to a single project by Diane Arbus, drawn from photographs taken in residences for people with developmental disabilities between 1969 and 1971, during the final years of her life. Largely unpublished until this edition, the images reveal a lyrical, emotionally direct vision that Arbus herself described as “finally what I’ve been searching for.” More mythic than documentary, the work reflects her unflinching engagement with reality and affirms the individuality and shared humanity of her subjects.

Drawn from a career spanning seven decades, Irving Penn Portraits presents thirty photographs of renowned personalities by one of the most distinguished photographers of the 20th century

Surveying 30 years of work, this monograph on Henry Taylor captures his bold, improvisational practice across painting, sculpture, and installation. Blending portraits, found objects, and cultural symbols, Taylor transforms everyday materials into layered reflections on Black life, identity, and community, producing work that is both intimate and expansively human.

This book explores the history of fashion photography from 1945, placing it in the main stream of popular culture and it links the imagery to the art of photography itself by drawing on such influential figures as Robert Frank and Walker Evans. It also charts the rise of the magazines and the influence of the great art directors and editors of the time. The book was published to accompany an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum exhibiting work from Richard Avedon to Irving Penn to Bruce Weber.

Aspen Issue 9, titled "Dreamweapon," is devoted entirely to psychedelic art and literature. Edited by Angus and Hetty MacLise, the issue comes in a custom box and contains unbound pamphlets, posters, poetry, and booklets exploring the 1960s drug movement and mysticism. Features a curated selection of artists, poets, and musicians centered on psychedelic and avant-garde themes, including contributions from La Monte Young, Terry Riley, and Timothy Leary.

A book about architecture

With many never-before-published photographs taken by the artist, as well as paintings, drawings, sculptures, prints, and films, this volume offers an unparalleled examination of Pablo Picasso’s relationship to photography.

In Hackney Flowers, Stephen Gill continues to use his east London surroundings as the inspiration for his work. He collected material objects, such as flowers, seeds, berries and other found items from various locations in Hackney, pressed them in his studio, and photographed them alongside his own photographs. Some of the base photographs were also buried in Hackney Wick, and the consequent decay has left its imprint upon the images, stressing the collaboration with place.

Lee Miller in Fashion gives us a wide lens view on Miller’s fashion photography. Set against the fast-changing landscapes of New York, Paris, and London, the book shows the story of how Miller challenged the boundaries of fashion photography of the day. Using unpublished photographs and archival research, Conekin shows how Miller’s fashion photographs were a brilliant combination of sharp wit, high art and modernist edge.

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Tulsa is a collection of black-and-white photographs by Larry Clark of the life of young people in Tulsa, Oklahom. Taken between 1963 and 1968, the images document a youth culture progressively overwhelmed by self-destruction.

Works collects the best of Japanese photographer Hiromix’s commercial work from 1995-2000.

Casting director Jennifer Venditti’s process relies on ‘chance encounters with random strangers’ who capture her imagination. She usually engages them with a simple opener: ‘Can I ask you a question?’ This book is a thorough exploration of Venditti’s uncommon casting process that brings real life to narrative films and series including Good Time, Uncut Gems, and Euphoria.

This comprehensive volume documents the design history of Braun, covering consumer electronics, photography equipment, watches, calculators, lighters, flashlights, personal care products, and household appliances. Richly illustrated with photographs, it traces Braun’s influential industrial design approach and its lasting impact on modern product aesthetics and functional innovation.

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

Long Shot was a notable underground literary journal founded in New Brunswick, New Jersey, that published poetry, prose, and art focused on social issues.

Abramovic defines "Inbetween" as the place between departure and arrival—or the space one inhabits while in transit. The sketches, hastily written notes, collages made from found and accumulated scraps, and photographs that are included in this bookwork are a chronicle of her visit to this temporal resting-place. Part diary, part work notebook, we are offered an intimate glimpse of Abramovic’s observations and thoughts during her residency in Japan. Printed on a heavy printmaking stock.

This book presents the work of five artists – Chris Killip, Graham Smith, John Davies, Martin Parr, and Paul Graham – who each are represented a new approach to social documentary photography.

A periodical book on modern houses from around the globe. Featuring work of architects Le Corbusier, Atelier 5, Taller de Arquitectura, Carlo Aymonino/Aldo Rossi, Ralph Erskine.

Sidewalk Stories showcases some of New York City’s most remarkable individuals—the homeless—and their integrity and courage despite the stigma of homelessness. For five years, photographer Salvo Galano visited a park near the Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen in New York. There, tens of thousands of homeless men, women, and children have gathered daily for food, friendship, and guidance since its inception in 1982. Galano set up a makeshift studio with a simple burlap backdrop and photographed the fascinating characters he encountered, documenting their stories of love, loss, and survival.

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

In/sight: African Photographers, 1940 to the Present was a major exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in 1996 that showcased the work of 30 African photographers, covering the period from the beginning of decolonization to the modern era. The exhibition, and this accompanying book, presented a diverse range of photography, from 1940s studio portraits by artists like Seydou Keita to contemporary art by photographers such as Samuel Fosso and Zarina Bhimji, and explored themes of identity, representation, and cultural transformation.

The Group of Thirteen (Grupo de los Trece) was a prominent Argentine conceptual art collective from the Centro de Arte y Comunicación (CAYC) in Buenos Aires, known for its "systems art" (conceptual, ecological, performance art) challenging art's role in society, notably winning the top prize at the 1977 São Paulo Biennial with their installation Signs in Artificial Ecosystems, featuring artists like Jorge Glusberg, Luis Benedit, Victor Grippo, Leopoldo Maler, Vicente Marotta, Luis Pazos, and Clorindo Testa.

Weaving the World is the first substantial monograph on the Swedish-born, Norwegian modernist textile artist Hannah Ryggen (1894–1970), presenting works from her entire oeuvre, emphasizing her politcal tapestries from the 1930s. Six of these were presented at Documenta 13 in 2012.

Beady Minces is David Bailey's iconic 1973 photography monograph, capturing the energy and glamour of the Swinging Sixties and early '70s. Featuring roughly 100 black-and-white portraits and travel images, the book includes fashion models, celebrities, and cultural figures of the era, with a foreword by Terence Donovan. It includes Bailey's striking images of Penelope Tree, Jean Shrimpton, Andy Warhol, and others.

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.

A themed collection of Araki photographs. Issue 8: Private Diary 1980-1995

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Looks is the definitive guide to the looks designed and, in these photographs, worn by Leigh Bowery. One of Britain's most heroically ambitious designers and performance artists, Bowery remains an inspiration to many fashion designers today.

In the 1960s men's fashion witnessed an extraordinary rebirth that led to lasting social, cultural and commercial change - what media commentators came to coin the Peacock Revolution. "The Day of the Peacock" takes a fascinating look at the shops, celebrity photographers, tailors and fashionable dressers who made up the scene - all illustrated with photographs, outfits and ephemera drawn from the V&A's archive.

A comprehensive history of couture designers.

A socialist journal of the social services. In this issue: the political economy of homelessness; housing in Milkwaukee for low income people; the mental health effects of work; fear in our culture.

The Secret History Of Kate Bush is an entertaining and original book, tracing back the family and folk history of Kate Bush – from her Saxon Roots to her spectacular rise to fame.

The eighth volume of the Villages and Towns series explores vernacular architecture across the Iberian Peninsula. With texts by Fernando Higueras Díaz and photographs by Yukio Futagawa, it examines landscape, climate, community harmony, environmental preservation, and natural light, highlighting shared regional principles that create enduring architectural diversity.

Get Rid of Meaning is a comprehensive compendium on the work, life, and legacy of Kathy Acker, one of the most influential figures in transgressive autofiction. Situating her writing within postwar experimental traditions, the volume explores her radical blend of literature, theory, and visual culture. It includes archival material, cut-up notebooks, correspondence, and essays that trace her connections to avant-garde art scenes in New York and California, as well as her lasting influence on contemporary writers and thinkers.

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

In the practice of Dr. X - a dermatologist in Lyon in the early thirties - surface rugged men with bizarre life stories: Foreign Legionnaires, ex-convicts, artists and sailors. They are all tattooed all over their bodies. The doctor and amateur photographer, who liked to take photos of flowers and landscapes on the weekends, was fascinated by the skin illustrations he saw, not as clinical cases but as "secret" works of art. This book presents a collection of these works.

Photographs and text documenting life at the Bauhaus.

Born and raised in Belgrade, Boogie first began photographing during the Yugoslav Wars, which ravaged the Serbian territory throughout the 1990s. Growing up during these wars ignited Boogie’s attraction to the darker side of human existence; his distinctive photographs often focuses on rebellion, unrest, and the disenfranchised. In this book, he documents the people of Moscow – people sculpted by a brutal, concrete landscape, fighting to survive.

Through essays, illustrations and an extensive abecedarium, On the Necessity of Gardening reflects on the garden as an abiding metaphor for society and culture.

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Over the course of 202-2021, during the pandemic, Kara Walker produced series of drawings in the style of a medieval 'Book of Hours'. Enigmatic images appear to traverse a range of time periods, from scenes of biblical and mythological origins, to images of historical violence, to others that suggest more recent political strife. The highly personal nature of these images capture Walker's own response to the intersection of past and present as a way to understand our contemporary political moment.

This book captures the spirit of the 1960s through a vibrant visual survey of cinema, reflecting a decade of upheaval in art, fashion, music, politics, and philosophy. Filled with iconic images, it celebrates the ethos, cultural shifts, and legendary figures that defined a transformative era in both film and society.

Donald Judd Furniture surveys over one hundred furniture pieces created by Donald Judd between 1970 and 1991 for his spaces at 101 Spring Street in New York and in Marfa, Texas. Through drawings and photographs, the book highlights Judd’s minimalist forms, functional clarity, material precision, and his thoughtful response to mass production and design.

A photo album chronicling the world of John Cassavetes, Gena Rowlands, and their collaborators for the film Love Streams. Shot by Sam and Larry Shaw, this first edition offers a candid, intimate portrait of Cassavetes’ creative circle.

Cecil Beaton was a man of dazzling charm and style, and his talents were many. At the age of twenty he sent Vogue an out-of focus snap of a college play, and for the next half-century transformed the world of fashion into high art through photographs. This book includes articles, drawings, and photographs by Beaton dating from the 1920s to the 1970s during his time shooting for Vogue – a period in which he contributed his wit, imagination, and professionalism to the magazine.

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

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The book was published on the occasion of the inauguration of the A.M. Qattan Foundation’s new building, Subcontracted Nations was a group exhibition that questions differing concepts of nation.

Accompanying the first retrospective of Shoji Hamada, this collection of essays and illustrations examines his work at Mashiko and St. Ives, as well as his visits to Ditchling. It highlights Hamada’s craft, techniques, and influence on studio pottery, offering insights into his role in bridging Japanese and Western ceramic traditions.

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.

Norman Parkinson (1913-1990) has been described not only as a craftsman but also as a consummate artist who brought a dramatic glamour and bold inventiveness to the fashion portrait. Organised decade by decade and illustrated with fashion plates, portraits and contact sheets, the book features a number of previously unpublished editorial images.

An Atlas of Es Devlin is the first comprehensive study of Es Devlin, exploring her work across art, theatre, music, dance, opera, and sculpture. The book traces her creative process from sketches and miniature models to large-scale installations and stage designs, highlighting her innovative, collaborative approach in public art, performance, and high-profile cultural events worldwid

"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.

Published alongside her first solo exhibition, also titled Contrasts, at London’s Hamiltons Gallery in September 1985, this volume encapsulates Stark’s fascination with light and shadow, juxtaposition and nuance.

A collection of black and white photographic portraits by Laon Maybanke presenting the many expressions, gestures and faces of humanity.

An extensive collection of work from leading graphic designers - including Grapus, Jacqueline S. Casey, Alan Fletcher, Morteza Momayez, Bruno Monguzzi and more.

Dawn of New Mesopotamia: The People of Iraq is the third Japan Press Photo Report. It is a collection of photographs to portray the Iraq in it's process of building a new era after its monarchy fell in 1958. Through photographs and texts, the book references the civilisations of Mesopotamia and Islam, as well details on the history of the the land.

Published on the occasion of Tillmans’s exhibition at David Zwirner in Hong Kong in 2018, this fully bilingual catalogue juxtaposes pictures of intimacy and friendship with views and angles of the world at large.

Dark Rooms takes five interconnected series of photographs by Nigel Shafran and weaves them together with the common thread of domestic scenes. There is a constant sense of forward movement that is sometimes overt, as in the photographs of supermarket checkouts or underground escalators; sometimes implicit and more emotionally charged. Each image carries the inevitability of change and the psychological undertow of time passing.

Feldmann has become increasingly noted for his commentary on the way we archive photos, sending up the everyday from a very personal perspective. Accordingly, apart from the title page, this photo album contains no text. Even the frontispiece is a photograph of boxes from Feldmann's picture archive--amassed over many years and comprising images from magazines, advertising supplements, photography books, postcards and collectibles.

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.

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 offers a snapshot of American sculpture at the start of the 1980s, showcasing diverse artists and styles of the time.

Notting Hill in the Sixties attempts to capture the exuberance and vivacity of the people in one of London's most famous neighbourhoods. Phillips photographs present a pictorial documentary of the area of North Kensington which, from the fifties, became the spiritual home of Britain's Afro-Caribbean community. His pictures are both affectionate personal portraits of friends and neighbours, and a social commentary which evokes the flavour of the period and the locality.

Issue on the work of Frank Lloyd Wright.

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.

The 408-page collection of Grace Coddington's greatest work as a fashion stylist and sittings editor is not just a monograph of her first 30 years at Vogue, it is also a visual reminiscence of 30 years of British and American Vogue's best work. The photographers whose work is included: Irving Penn, Cecil Beaton, Helmut Newton, Guy Bourdin, Norman Parkinson, Ellen von Unwerth, Bruce Weber, Mario Testino, Steven Meisel, Steven Klein, Annie Leibovitz, Sarah Moon, Peter Lindbergh, and more.

A philosophical and historical exploration of art, delving into how artists transform reality, emphasising the human need to create.

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

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

The Free People is a photo essay about a new generation of young people and the quality of openness and sharing that permeates their life. It is a book about their music, their work, their mobility, what they read and what they buy, their styles, about why they are free people and how they live.