This series of portraits by Julian Germain began in northeast England in 2004 and he has subsequently visited schools in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Southeast Asia. His photographs are packed with detail, inciting curosity and wonder for what the future holds.
This book introduces the writing of Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier
Eden is a Magic World is a story of obsession. The central figure of Calderón’s book is Flor Eduarda, a former child actress in her native Mexico. After Carrusel (the hugely successful telenovela she appeared in as an infant) began screening around the world, Eduarda started to receive letters from a besotted admirer, Choi Chun Moon, an 18 year old student based in Seoul, Korea.
This book is an insight into Japanese post-war design.
A themed collection of Araki photographs. Issue 14: Obscenities and Strange Black Ink Stories
Carolee Schneemann (1939–2019) was one of the most experimental artists of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. This book traces six decades of the feminist icon’s diverse, transgressive and interdisciplinary expression through Schneemann’s experimental early paintings, sculptural assemblages and kinetic works; rarely seen photographs of her radical performances; her pioneering films; and groundbreaking multi-media installations.
In this book, photographer Graciela Iturbide documents the matriarchal culture of the Zapotec women in Juchitán, Mexico.
This lavishly illustrated book contains over 100 photographs tracing the development of Robert Redford's extensive film career. Together with text written by David Downing, the book presets stills from all of his major roles – from Barefoot in the Park to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and All the President's Men – as well as discussions of his debut as a film director. In his time on and off-screen, he made some of the best movies that reflected, with power and subtlety, Western society in retreat from both the overblown aspirations of the 1960s and the raging despair of the 1970s. While other actors and directors setting for either commerical or artistic success, Redford at somewhere between the two.
Ground is the result of a decade long documentation of the conflict between Palestine and Israel. With his camera, Bruno Stevens portrays the lives of many shapes by violence, loss and destruction.
Gianni Versace catalogue of the Spring/Summer 1985 collection, published as a supplement in L'uomo Vogue.
For Naked City, his first collection, photographer Weegee cruised the streets of 1940s New York in the early hours of the morning in search of the sensational.
A collection of Bill Brandt's portraits of actors, poets, musicians, philosophers, and artists of all kinds.
An impressive, as ever, collection of 81 black-and-white photographs of model (and his wife at the time) Marie Helvin by David Bailey.
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.
This iconic book presents a selection of 138 photos taken at the Coney Island from 1952 to 1977.
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.
A book investigating the relationship of art and society through the works of eight German artists: Albrecht D., Joseph Beuys, KP Brehmer, Hans Haacke, Dieter Hacker, Gustav Metzger and more.
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 book presents some of the most remarkable manifestations of the idiosyncratc, eccentric glory of the human imagination.
Indian Circus is documentary photography at its finest. Mary Ellen Marks' photographs are not only compelling portraits of the performers, but also eloquent and poetic narratives about life in the Indian circus.
Middle East Archive: From the Collection of Fouad ElKoury is the debut book by Middle East Archive, expanding its digital curatorial project into print. The platform brings its spirit of simplicity and hope into the physical world through a collaboration with Lebanese photographer Fouad ElKoury. The book features photographs taken between 1980 and 1997 in Oman, Palestine, Egypt, and Lebanon. Accompanied by interviews with B 018 founder Naji Gebran, contemporary Omani photographer Mahmood Najali, and a historical overview of Egyptian cinema’s golden age, the images are recontextualized within a broader cultural landscape.
Icon Stations is a photographic index of 300 icon stands; wayside shrines that punctuate the vast and mountainous landscape of Crete. Compiled over the course of 4 years, the collection of images is both a straight-forward, objective record and yet an intimate document of a journey – one that unravels a whole host of histories and myths woven into the fabric of their existence. It is an attempt at a loose indexing, an intuitive gathering of various forms of shrines that occupy various indeterminate spaces across the island: roads, pathways, shorelines, boundaries and thresholds. Together, these lonely reliquaries make up a symbolic geography through which memory is both conveyed and sustained.
Photographs of life on the French Riviera by Edward Quinn.
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.
The Independent Group, or the IG, as it was called, is best known for having launched Pop Art. But the young artists, architects, and critics who met informally at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts in the early 1950s were actually embarked on a far more subversive and constructive mission than the founding of an art movement. This book presents exhibitions, discussions, art and writings of IG members, showing the ways in which they established a new aesthetic horizon.
Fashion Photography 1950-1975 is a book by German photographer F.C. Gundlach that showcases his iconic work during that period. His photos are known for blending social commentary with fashion, reflecting the spirit of the times and influencing fashion perception in Germany and beyond.
Cindy Sherman: The Early Works, 1975-1977 gathers all of the artist's work from moment in which Sherman was formulating her conceptions of gender and identity construction, gathering her toolkit of props (wigs, makeup, costumes) and becoming friends with artists such as Robert Longo (with whom she would establish the Hallwalls gallery in New York).
Shot in Taos, New Mexico, where Hopper was based following the production of Easy Rider in the late 60s, this series was taken with disposable cameras and developed in drugstore photo labs.
GA Document is a Global Architecture focusing on contemporary international architecture and design projects.
Commissioned by 180 Studios, Ijó follows a group of young ballet dancers in Lagos, Nigeria, exploring common themes within Moses’ work through the intersections of art, family and culture.
The latest collection of work by Talia Chetrit riffs insouciantly on themes of life, death, and birth through a variety of visual languages. In JOKE, Chetrit brings together family photos, street photography, still lives, selections from the artist’s teenage archive, and expansive self-portraits involving a cast of characters who feature as both engaged and unwitting collaborators.
VILE magazine was published between 1974 and 1983 by the mail artists Anna Banana and Bill Gaglione. The inside contents of VILE featured a wide array of texts & manifestoes, letters, performance documentation, articles on individual artists & their projects, detourned mass media advertisements as well as art works from mail artists in different countries.
A book about architecture
Born in Hungary, Ata Kando worked in Paris where she married Ed van der Elsken and later settled in the Netherlands. She may be best known for her hard hitting photojournalistic work on Hungarian children refugees from WWII photographed with Violette Cornelius. In this book of photographs she uses her children as models and can be seen as an escapist fantasy from those grim wartime years.
Published to accompany the 1996 mid-career survey at the Whitney Museum of American Art, I'll Be Your Mirror remains the most comprehensive and critically praised publication on the work of photographer Nan Goldin. Covering two decades of her life and art, from her time in Boston in the 1970s through her move to downtown New York City and her subsequent and stratospheric rise in the art world, Goldin's most memorable work is collected here. Amongst the many powerful images are photographs of friends and lovers sometimes in pain, sometimes in repose; self portraits taken during an abusive relationship, from The Ballad of Sexual Dependency; the transvestite and transgendered kings and queens of The Other Side; and more.
The most refined of the costume, the glove follows the shape of the hand and keeps its imprint. In symbolic language, it has come to designate the entire hand. Instrument of action and execution, the hand holds within it the promise of all gestures. From the gloves of the Renaissance and even older to the gloves of fashion designers through sports or protective gloves, this book offers a comprehensive overview of the art of the glove. This book presents all the uses and symbols of the glove.
Every Street by Nik Hartley was photographed over three days in March 2014, in Nelson, North-East Lancashire. A former cotton mill town with a high British-Asian population, the roads are lined with terraced, former mill-worker cottages.
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.
Offering the reader a privileged glimpse into the artistic process used by top fashion photographer Tim Walker, 'Pictures' provides a comprehensive overview of his work which brings us deep inside his world of glamour and adventure – including sketches, pages from his notebooks, polaroids, and contact sheets.
Brick Index celebrates the overlooked artistry of UK bricks, showcasing the textures, colors, and maker’s marks stamped into their “frogs.” Featuring 155 actual-size photographs with an index detailing time, place, and maker, the book includes an introduction by brick historian David Kitching and an essay by design critic Rick Poynor, with photography by Inge Clemente.
A documentation of the changing landscapes of 1950s America through the large format photographs of Andreas Feninger.
Catalogue edited by Celant comprising the work of 74 German and Italian artists in the fields of architecture, art, cinema and film, design, fashion, graphics, photography and theatre.
Photography - A Queer History examines how photography has been used by artists to capture, create and expand the category 'Queer'. It bookmarks different thematic concerns central to queer photography, forging unexpected connections to showcase the diverse ways the medium has been used to fashion queer identities and communities. Featuring the works of 84 photographers past and present – including Nan Goldin, Robert Mapplethorpe, Wolfgang Tillmans, Zanele Muholi, Libuse Jarcovjakova, Sunil Gupta, Peter Hujar, Lola Flash and more.
London/Wales brings together two distinct bodies of work to reveal a new understanding of Franks contribution to the history of photography. Juxtaposing the world of money and the world of work in post-war England, Frank photographed London bankers, workers, and children, and Welsh coal miners and their families. Featuring 90 black and white photographs, London/Wales tells a timeless story of cities, people, and institutions in transition through emotional, evocative images while revealing Franks struggle to forge a new form of poetic narrative photography.
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.
An insider's history of the "Beat" movement and its personalities through the personal photographs of one of its principle figures – Allen Ginsberg. Pointing his camera randomly at the counterculture around him, the poet created a unique visual record of his friends and companions covering a period of almost forty years. His subjects include Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Neal Cassady, Robert Frank, Paul Bowles, Timothy Leary, dozens of other writers, painters, and friends, and several revealing self-portraits. Beneath each photograph are Ginsberg's handwritten reminiscences of the circumstances, people, and places relating to the photograph.
Howard Dearstyne was an architect who studied at the Bauhaus from 1928 to 1933. This book offers an his insider look at the Bauhaus movement, and discusses the courses, workshops, and teachers.
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This book showcases dutch counter-culture.
This book celebrates Mugler's fashion, imagination and style, combining his own sketches with images from some of the world's top photographers.
Work of David Adjaye published in conjuction with an exhibition organised by the Art Institute of Chicago and Haus der Kunst, Munich.
I Can't Stand to See You Cry is an exploration of Texas and the surrounding states, as well as the people who are fixed within its complex landscape. Fortune analyses relationships between family, friends and strangers, all caught in a flood of health and environmental issues while working to maintain grace.
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.
Portraits of composers and musicians from 1940-1979.
Eric Kroll’s cult 1977 book is an unflinching study of the marginalised mid-seventies American sex worker. Focusing on women who worked at roadside sex shops, massage parlours or live peep shows, Kroll’s poignant portraits sit alongside matter-of-fact interviews conducted with each subject. Kroll travelled from Iowa to California and to Texas, photographing 50 women in total and interviewing over 100.
Jim Goldberg’s seminal project, Rich and Poor, was shot between 1977 and 1985 of people acorss San Francisco. As the title suggests, the wealthy and comfortable are juxtaposed with those who are living in poverty. All the pictures were taken in the same West Coast city but the difference in circumstances makes them seem worlds apart. Inviting more intimacy into the photographs, Goldberg invited the people he photographed to reflect on their portraits and the lives that they depict. Their accounts range from devastating edicts of hopelessness to affirmations of self-satisfaction. One man writes “I am doomed to be in this place, I have no future” while another woman comments “My life is luxurious and my taste is refined.”
This book offers a comprehensive visual survey of Donald Judd’s living and working spaces in New York and Texas. Featuring unpublished photographs and essays, it explores his buildings at 101 Spring Street and in Marfa, including Ayala de Chinati. The volume reveals Judd’s concept of permanent installation, integrative living, architectural preservation, and rigorous attention to function, design, and landscape.
Josie Borain carried a camera throughout her career as one of the top models of the 1980s. This book brings together these fascinating, intimate photographs to build a portrait of Borain outside of fashion.
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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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
A History of Men's Fashion is divided into four parts that follow the sartorial evolution of the male wardrobe from the era of Beau Brummell, which created the model of the gentlemen and the dandy, to the "anti-fashion" trends of the early 1990s.
A socialist journal of the social services. In this issue: Sexism in social work, Health in Nicaragua, Impact of racism on the family, undergraduate social work, stress at the workplace.
PÒTOPRENS: The Urban Artists of Port-au-Prince is at once a portrait of Haiti's capital, a celebration of its arts, and a visionary re-mapping of culture in the world's first Black republic. The exhibition, and this accompanying book, showcases thevibrant, complex urban art using found objects, Voodoo traditions, and street life, moving beyond rural folklore to map Haiti's dynamic culture
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.
Weighted with heavy, nineteenth-century camera equipment, Vittorio Sella climbed some of the world's most mysterious, perilous peaks and photographed them, many for the first time. His strikingly elegant photographs offer groundbreaking scientific and documentary information.
Set amongst the reggae scene of late 70s Jamaica, the film Rockers achieved instant cult status among music and cinema fans. This book brings together unseen images of behind the scenes.
Bruce Weber’s first monograph, published by Twelvetrees Press in 1983, was his breakthrough collection, a powerful sampling of images from his early career that are still considered among his most iconic. The book is divided into eight sections: “Brothers”; “Matt Dillon,” a series of photographs drawn from several sittings with the young actor; “Notebook,” an eclectic sampling of early editorial and personal work; “Lifeguards;” “Clammers;” “Hall of Fame” and “Jeff,” both photo-essays of Jeff Aquilon, a championship swimmer and star of many of Bruce’s early GQ editorials. Now among the rarest of his collections, this book set the standard for all of Bruce’s future publications.
The definitive book on the legendary photographer's life in New York City, with many never-before-seen images and reminiscences by his closest friends and confidants. From the 1930s, when he helped revolutionize fashion journalism, through the 1960s, when he launched headlong into the Pop art era, London-based photographer Cecil Beaton brought to New York City his own perspective--aristocratic, sexually ambiguous, and theatrical
A unique album of photographs featuring Peter Johnson, an athlete turned muse Weber discovered on location at a wrestling camp in Iowa. Taken over four consecutive years, the photographs show the evolution from adolescence to manhood, as Johnson is seen in various states of dress and undress, in diverse locations around the world. Includes brief texts by Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, T.E. Lawrence, Shel Silverstein, and Bruce Springsteen.
A collects portraits of talented, glamorous, controversial, or influential women such as Margot Fonteyn, Princess Anne, Indira Gandhi, Mother Teresa, and Iris Murdoch.
Three of the best-known artists from the YBA group come together in an exhibition of their work and ideas. This book offers their personal communications with each other, providing a unique insight into their creative processes.
Brassai became interested in the marginal art form of graffiti in the 1930s, seeing it as a form of outsider art that could open the door to new forms of artistic expression. His atmospheric photographs capture the essence of this unfettered creation. Stark contrasts of black and white alternate with softer shades of grey that meld into one another, smoothing the harsh gouges typical of graffiti.
The first book of images from Champion Studios, famous for quality color images of handsome, athletic young men from the late 1950's and early '60's. This book brings together 345 photographs of scantily athletes - packed with amusing props and costumes.
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.
Wim Wenders is a promimet film maker known for his role in the New German Cinema Movement. He has directed Paris, Texas, The State of Things, Wings of Desire, Pina and more. His visually distinctive films that often explore themes of identity, displacement, and the nature of reality.
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Published to coincide with a major exhibition of the work of the Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershoi (1864-1916).
In the early sixties, Marilyn Stafford spent over a year in Lebanon and became fascinated with the country and its people. She travelled extensively, journeying to the most remote villages and recording scenes of everyday life. This album is a selection of 140 of these outstanding photographs. Although there are some architectural scenes and views of towns and villages, the main focus is on the Lebanese people and their way of life.
This book is the brass ring of stories and photographs that trace the lavish history of merry-go-rounds.
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Only recently has fashion photography been accurately seen as an important medium within contemporary visual culture. Its power, in defining itself as a means of communication, is to record, or even determine today's lifestyle. Italian Eyes not only shines a much-deserved light on Italians who have made photographic history, but also highlights an Italian style that goes beyond fashion, thus offering a repertoire of images that reconstruct the changes in fashion and the evolution of society from the end of World War II to the present.
Artist’s book by appropriation artist Richard Prince and art dealer Colin de Land, inspired by Bob Crane, the star of the 1960s television show "Hogan's Heroes."
A socialist journal of the social services. In this issue: Psychotherapy, racism, classism and welfare, capitalistic origins of mental distress, critical theory and social work practice, social values and psychotherapy.
The Rock and Roll Circus starring the Rolling Stones has long been regarded as a long-lost treasure of rock film history. This book collects full-bleed production stills during rehearsals and filming – featuring 100 black and white portraits of costume shots, performance stills, and intimate backstage details.
This book includes over 200 portraits, still lives, landscapes and dirty realism by photographerWolfgang Tillmans.
Herbert List was fascinated by the ”artificial humans“—life-size figures moulded in wax—on display at the Panoptikum in Vienna’s Prater. In 1944, he photographed these waxworks, depicting them as “corpses set in position and daubed with make-up—frozen in poses of the utmost intensity, they are inhabitants of a Sleeping Beauty castle.” List took a string of fairytale scenes, historical tableaux, and medical subjects and combined them with a trenchant text to create an illustrated book published here for the first time, more than seventy-five years later, in a bibliophile edition based on List’s original draft.
Steve Schapiro travelled throughout America taking photographs during one of the nation's most revolutionary periods. Working in the classic mode of Walker Evans and Diane Arbus, he covered everything from the two Kennedy assassinations to Andy Warhol's Factory to race riots. With an essay by Dave Hickey, this book includes unforgettable images of the poor and the working class, as well as celebrities such as Nixon, Brando, and Janis Joplin.
This book explores furniture from ancient Egypt to 400 BC, emphasising style, construction, and detailed measured drawings. It presents continuity of design across centuries, showcasing features like animal-hoof chair legs evolving from cattle to lions, and decorative motifs such as pine cones, offering a thorough study of early craftsmanship and aesthetic development in ancient furniture.
For this collection, Tillmans edited his previous four books with into a single work examining life at the turn of the millennium.
In 1985, photographer Jamie Morgan and stylist Ray Petri created their duo Buffalo – a movement that would become a phenomenon, defining the look, feel and attitude of 80s fashion photography. Collaborators include the likes of Naomi Campbell and Kate Moss in the very early days of their careers, at only fifteen and fourteen years old, both now integral to British fashion history. This book presents photographs taken by Jamie Morgan, presenting a legacy of an uncompromisingly urban style that has inspired designers & image makers the world over.
A collection of male nudes of one male model in many different costumes, shot by Charlotte March.
Vintage Fashion is an encyclopedic visual journey through women’s fashion that features more than 1,000 of the most remarkable vintage items ever sold on the resale market. Classified by decade and accompanied by the history of each item’s creation, the 850 articles of clothing and 150 bags depicted in this book offer a panoramic look across the evolution of style.
This book is a collection of photographs of the painter Georgia O'Keeffe by Alfred Stieglitz. The two met in 1916 and married in 1924, and these several hundred portraits made over twenty-something years is an image of a life and a love. O'Keeffe claimed: "When I look over the photographs Stieglitz took of me . . . I wonder who that person is. It is as if in my one life I have lived many lives."
Renowned and highly regarded for his experiments with literature, painting, film, and music, William S. Burroughs was also a prolific photographer. This book reproduces some of his rarely seen works, accompanied by texts.
Examining some of the many parallels between visual art, dance and music in the 20th century, this issue of Art & Design brings together an enormous diversity of material: from the pure saturated colours and blue-black voids of Anish Kapoor's art, to the choreographic notations of Merce Cunningham; to the musical scores and edible drawings of John Cage.
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.
During the summer of 1959, Bruce Davidson followed a loosely knit "gang" of teenagers around Brooklyn, New York. His camera captured the youth of the James Dean generation in both private and public moments at the soda fountain, the tattoo parlor, Coney Island, and late night basement dance parties.
Jan Kaplický (1937-2009) was a visionary architect with a passion for drawing. It was his way of discovering, describing and constructing; and through drawing he presented beguiling architectural imagery of the highest order. Many of his sketches, cutaway drawings and photomontages are brought together and celebrated in Jan Kaplický Drawings. These drawings date from the early years of his independent practice, Future Systems, in the 1970s, to his final ink drawings, executed in the mid-1990s.
A large format publication documenting graffiti through the lenses of Mervyn Kurlansky and Jon Narr.
An illustrated guide to the principles and practice of hairdressing.
Stile in Progress is a celebration of thirty years of L'Uomo Vogue and brings together 100s of the best fashion photographs from its pages. The photographers featured over the three decades include Steven Meisel, Oliviero Toscani, Albert Watson, Bruce Weber, Paolo Roversi, Mario Testino, Arthur Elgort, Snowdon, Ellen von Unwerth, Peter Lindbergh, and more.
War Without Heroes is a book of black and white photographs by David Douglas Duncan of soldiers during the Vietnam war – capturing moments of both comradeship and tragedy.