
This book explores the versatility and playful nature of rubber, tracing its forms, uses, and transformations in everyday objects, art, fashion, and design—from toys and clothing to surreal works like Dali’s melting clocks. Its textured rubberized cover enhances the tactile experience, celebrating rubber’s creativity, diversity, and sensory appeal.

A comprehensive book published to accompany the exhibition held at the Hamburg Kunsthalle and the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, focusing on understanding the artist who communicated with people by photographing them.

This book charts the Parisian years of the Dutch photographer van der Elsken. His images depict the typical atmosphere of its places throughout the 1950s: cafes, jazz clubs, student restaurants… and the fauna that haunted them. This “love” in Saint-Germain-des-Prés is a true artistic postcard of a time when intellectuals, jazz musicians, artists, young people from La Sorbonne met on the boulevards, but van der Elsken reconstitutes especially an idea of the Parisian bohemian of the 1950s.

Published by Ediciones Era, this volume presents the work of British-born surrealist Leonora Carrington, encompassing painting, drawing, and sculpture. Based in Mexico City after her early association with Max Ernst and the European surrealist circle, Carrington developed a singular visual mythology blending mysticism, dream imagery, and feminist symbolism across multiple media.

A collection of photographs depicting the female nude.

Although Will McBride's work almost always appeared in magazines, this book presents a different side to his work that presents more intimate and photographs private snapshots into the most private spheres of American human existence.
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This book, published alongside an exhibition takes the 2005 painting 'The Eye of Go' as its starting point, and looks at how the circular geometric motif of this painting - part of a way of thinking for Orozco, a way to organise ideas of structure, organisation and perspective - migrates onto other work, recurring in other paintings, sculptures and photographs.

Fashioning Fiction in Photography Since 1990 presents a selection of high-profile fashion photographs influenced by two aesthetic strategies: cinema and the amateur photograph. Featuring works by by photographers such as Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Cedric Buchet, Glen Luchford, Tina Barney, Juergen Teller, Nan Goldin and Larry Sultan, among others.

Art News Annual XXXIV is a collection of thirteen illustrated essays tracing the history of the avant-garde from France in the 19th century to Pop Art; contributors include: Linda Nochlin, Michel Butor, Meyer Schapiro, Harold Rosenberg, John Ashbery and Ron Padgett.

These Are Situationist Times! explores the radical 1960s magazine The Situationist Times, tracing its six inventive issues and their challenge to cultural conventions. It examines situationism, experimental publishing, and artist-led production, while reassessing contemporary relevance. The book also revisits unpublished material developed with Hans Brinkman for a planned seventh issue centered on pinball, enriched by rare archival discoveries.

Following the evolution of fashion from the beginning of the twentieth century to its culmination, this volume takes in all the diversions, influxes and crossroads along the way. A decade by decade account of all the prevailing fashion for the period and its most influential designers.

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

A long interview between René Denizot and Robert Barry, with with numerous visuals and exhibition views.

Not Dead Or Famous Enough Yet is a 600-page book that celebrates 10 years of a studio built independently from the ground up by two friends following their own path.

This richly illustrated book, created to accompany the traveling exhibition of the same name, provides a fascinating critical overview of Ant Farm, the radical architecture collective eager to bring to its practice a revolutionary spirit more consistent with the times.

Through his camera, Genevan photographer Charles Weber documented Iconstases – minature chapels adored with icons found along the roads of Greece. His pictures that deliberately reject the romantic question: what is preserved of the divine in the midst of ever-changing landscapes?

Fellini's Faces is an impressive collection of photographs taken by legendary Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini throughout his long career.

A book by London-based fashion photographer Valerie Phillips, in which she documents Swedish artist, photographer, model and online celebrity Arvida Byström, known for her colourful images, including countless self-portraits shared though social media and blogs.

Covering the full span of David Hockney's career, this book includes early studies and a selection of his acclaimed California sketched, as well as portraits of such figures as Christopher Isherwood and W. H. Auden.

In 1981, the National Western Stock Show celebrated its seventy-fifth year. It was a major cultural and economic event in Denver to stage the many people and businesses who make up the cattle industry in the United States and Canada. This book presents over five years of Sandy Hume's photographic work documenting the National Western Stock show.

A publication to accompany the British Pavilion’s exhibition of the same name at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale, explores an island as a place of refuge and exile. With contributions from artist John Akomfrah, poet and musician Kate Tempest and Museu Calouste Gulbenkian director Penelope Curtis.

A collection of works by conceptual artist Bruno Mouron made from trash.

The Way We Wore: Styles of the 1930's and '40's and Our World Since Then illustrates the fashion of the 1930s and '40s – discussing fabrics, colors, and prices from each era – and outlines what changed in from the 50s onwards.

A socialist journal of the social services. In this issue; Marxian theory and social work practice; the economic context of day care policy debates; conselling in crisis; focus on peace from the archives; plus book reviews.

This book presents some of the most remarkable manifestations of the idiosyncratc, eccentric glory of the human imagination.

Four volume set of The Best Of Ikebana, contains the a whole history of the art of Ikebana.

Modern typography, established primarily in Switzerland during the 1950s, flourished as a free and diversified American typography in the 1960s before greatly influenced the Japanese typography. This book examines the history of typography after the war.

An exploration of the unique world of British fashion, including established names and the work of new British designers. All aspects are covered including tailoring, fabrics, branding and accessories while special features highlight the work of key designers and influential trends – including the work of Alexander McQueen and Vivienne Westwood.

A collection of photographs by David Hockney, published in 1982 for the exhibition of the same name at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

This book presents Rineke Dijkstra's uncanny and thoughtful portraits of teenagers and young adults.

Kraftwerk: Dance Forever documents the visual and cultural evolution of the pioneering electronic group Kraftwerk from the 1970s to today. Published alongside an exhibition launched in Detroit, the birthplace of techno, it showcases posters, photographs, recordings, sheet music, and memorabilia that capture the band’s iconic machine-music aesthetic and lasting influence on electronic and dance music culture.

Despite his exceedingly premature death at the age of 32, Davis’s paintings have deeply influenced the rise of figurative and representational painting in the twenty-first century. Davis’s emotionally charged work places him firmly in the canon of great American painting. Compiled through the unique relationship between Davis and Helen Molesworth, this monograph tells the story of a brilliant artist and cultural force through the eyes of his friends and collaborators.

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."

The art of Louise Bourgeois stages a dynamic encounter between modern art and psychoanalysis. From Bourgeois's formative struggle with the male dominated surrealist movement, to her galvanising role in the feminist art movement of the 1970s, to her subsequent emergence as a leading voice in postmodernism, this book explores the artist's responses to war, dislocation, and motherhood, to the predicament of the woman artist and the politics of sexual and social liberation, as a dialogue with psychoanalysis.

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.

Leading civil rights attorneys Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck of The Innocence Project commissioned photographer Taryn Simon to travel across the United States photographing and interviewing individuals who were convicted of heinous crimes of which they were innocent. Simon photographed these innocents at sites of particular significance to their illegitimate conviction: the scene of the crime, misidentification, arrest, or alibi. Simon’s portraits are accompanied by a commentary by Neufeld and Scheck.

In the early 1970s, Gabriele and Helmut Nothhelfer began taking photographs of people in public spaces. After studying photography at Lette School in Berlin followed by two semesters at Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, they moved back to West Berlin. Mainly on their weekends, they visited large gatherings such as fairs or public festivals and photographed people in their leisure time who were trying to escape the bleakness of everyday life by finding distraction and entertainment. Separately, they roamed through the crowds until somebody caught their attention and they pressed the shutter button. Sometimes they realised afterwards that they had both photographed the same person independently of each other.

Contextualising Anni Albers' early career at the Bauhaus, and her teaching years at Black Mountain College, this showcases major commissioned works, wall hangings, designs for commercial use, preparatory drawings, jewellery designed and made by Albers and a selection of her prints.

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.

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

Gucci by Gucci bringing together the archive of the loved House – in the form of bags, clothes, accessories, and a dazzling cache of documentary photographsthe history of the Florentine family-owned saddler that has imprinted its name on the fashion consciousness. Both a history of the company and a glorious visual exploration of its far-reaching influence, the book is a treat for the collector and the fan.

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

An important early gathering of the work of Wallace Berman, an enigmatic figure whose work blends music and poetry to explore everyday life. He was hugely influential on a group of artists and poets to emerge from the legacy of the Beat generation in the late 1950s and 1960s.

This book explores the central role of posters in defining punk culture in Britain. Curated by Toby Mott, the exhibition and book feature over 1,000 artifacts—including fanzines, flyers, and ephemera—by iconic artists like Jamie Reid and Linder Sterling, as well as anonymous creators. It documents punk’s aesthetics, political engagement, and its dialogue with events such as Rock Against Racism and the Queen’s Silver Jubilee.

Traces the development of modern graphic design, and shares the comments of top American designers

Curated by Jefferson Hack, TRANSFORMER featured newly commissioned and debut works by: Doug Aitken, Sophia Al-Maria & Victoria Sin, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Donna Huanca, Juliana Huxtable, Evan Ifekoya, Dozie Kanu, Quentin Lacombe, Lawrence Lek, Jenn Nkiru, Chen Wei and Harley Weir & George Rouy.

Welcome Aboard! Photographs 1980–2000 is, at the same time, a monograph on Pfeiffer’s photographic work and an artist’s book, a photo-novel all of its own. With simple means Pfeiffer creates intelligent and classic images of beauty and bliss, imbued with a wistful awareness of their artifice. Stylish, suggestive, and erotic, his images are an encyclopaedia of desire.

A book showcasing the jewellery made by Dali.


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

The Secret Paris of the 30s is one of the most remarkable photographic memoirs ever published. For years it was known that Brassai had taken a series of `secret photographs' that could not be published because of their daring nature. Alone, or in the company of friends, he discovered the underworld Paris of the 1930s . These fascinating images are accompanied by Brassai's own text, in which he describes the extraordinary conditions under which he took his photographs.

Clifford Coffin is known by many as the greatest of Vogue's "lost" photographers – an artist who was ahead of his time. His innovative an intriguing fashion photographs of the 1940s and 1950s for renowned magazines including Vogue, Glamour and Jardin des Modes challenged the standards of the day. This is the first monograph of his work, published to coincide with an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery and includes a rare collection of over 100 full colour and duotone photographs – many of which were previously unpublished.

In this collection of classic work from the 1980s, Bailey abstains from any comment or explanation but shows the reader the world of a mature photographer whose vision has been sharpened by time.

In this book, Munkacsi's images from across the entireity of his oeuvre have been brought together – from portraits of Hollywood stars such as Jean Harlow to private snapshots of the artist's life.

Shapeshifting is a contemplation and reflection of the experience of dance. Molly through fragmented poetry and prose, Evan through photography. Dancing with his camera, he surrendered his body to the moment – becoming it, rather than observing it. In this way, the camera became an extension of his subconscious. The resulting long exposure photographs become visual abstractions of dance as a feeling.

A themed collection of Araki photographs.

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

The Gentlemen’s Clubs of London offers a fascinating journey into the capital’s most exclusive institutions. Exploring their histories, traditions, memberships, and enduring rituals, it reveals the character, eccentricities, and scandals that have shaped club life, illustrated with rare archival and contemporary photographs of these remarkable spaces.

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).

New York photographer Tina Barney was born to an upper-class East Coast family. Ever since she started to take photographs in 1974 she has documented and examined her family's life. As an intimate observer, the viewer witnesses the intricacies of social rituals-weddings, Christmas dinners, and cocktail parties. Barney captures the tension between the polished surfaces and the intensity of the feelings underneath.

Bikers is a fascinating look at bike culture through the photographs of German photographer Andreas Endemann who spent a summer following UK bikers as they travelled from meet to meet, throughout the country.

In Israel, Palestinian-Christian burial sites are often found vandalized and desecrated by members of other religious groups. Artist Dor Guez, founder of the Christian Palestinian Archive, has used his work to tell the stories of this minority group, their religious practices, and the discrimination waged against them for their heritage and beliefs. His exhibition 40 Days featured photographs from the Archive as well as video installations to narrate the losses of the Christian-minority families affected by this violence.

In the world of fashion, 'The well' is industry terminology for the main image section of a magazine. For influential British photographer Nigel Shafran, The Well is a space to critique and reflect the worlds of fashion from the inside, a place for unexpected creativity, subversive critique and wry commentary. This chronicles both Shafran’s commercial and non-commercial approach to photography, along with interviews and reflections between Shafran and his peers threaded throughout.
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Bruce Weber’s second eponymous monograph is a multidimensional exploration of masculinity. These photographs present a wide array of shifting archetypes and myths that inform society's sense of the masculine – the tough guy, the wild man, the heroic athlete, the courageous soldier, the pensive artist, the family man, the sensitive troubadour, the object of desire.

A collection of works by American sculpture Alexander Calder.

William Eggleston's Guide was the first one-man show of colour photographs ever presented at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Museum's first publication of colour photography. Shot between 1969 and 1971, the photographs displayed in the exhibition and in this publication present a deceptively casual look at the surrounding world – with photographs of people, landscapes and odd little moments in and around Eggleston's home town of Memphis.

People of the Mud is a powerful new series by Berlin-based US-Dominican artist Luis Alberto Rodriguez, made collaboratively amongst the communities of County Wexford in Ireland, where ancient tradition and modern life rub shoulders daily.

Kazuo Ohno was a Japanese performance artist and leading exponent of Butoh, a Japanese dance-theatre movement in which formal technique is eschewed and primal sexuality and the grotesque are explored. Throughout his life, Kazuo Ohno has been captured on film by many photographers and what is produced is an image of his body but photographs cannot show what is hidden within the body.

Richard Kern’s classic and long out of print book of black and white photographs of young women was published by a Tokyo Gallery in 1996 as a way to get some of his erotic images from the book New York Girls past the censors in Japan. This book, published early in Kern’s career, features nude photos of girls he knew and worked with from New York’s downtown art and music scene.

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.

First published in 1954, Das Auge der Liebe (The Eye of Love) by the Swiss photographer René Groebli is a small book featuring images that were made during the honeymoon with his wife Rita in France.

Naïvy by Coco Capitán presents the artists paintings, large-scale photographs, and artist-embellished found objects, which expands upon the visual possibilities that open up to the artist through contemplation of an iconic form of apparel: the sailor suit.


In 1975, photographer Mary Ellen Mark was assigned by The Pennsylvania Gazette to produce a story on the making of Milos Forman's film of Ken Kesey's 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, shot on location at the Oregon State Hospital, a mental institution. While on set, Mark met the women of Ward 81, the only locked hospital security ward for women in the state. The result is a compelling, intimate and haunting collection of portraits of vulnerable women.

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

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.

Tillmans’s now iconic artist’s book consists of 62 color photographs of the Concorde airplane—taking off, landing or in flight, and sometimes as just a tiny, birdlike silhouette in the sky.

A collection of rarely seen photographs that provide an entirely fresh perspective on male friendship in the 19th century. The poignant images in more than 100 early photographs, drawn from both public and private collections, suggest a surprisingly broad-minded attitude towards physical intimacy between men, challenging the conventional view of the Victorian era.

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.

To Evelyn collects local entertainer posters from a Yorkshire pit village working men’s club, originally gathered in the 1990s by Evelyn Short and now curated by her grandson, David. Pre-dating the internet and social media, these posters celebrated alternate identities and weekend personas, offering a glimpse into local culture, national identity, and the imaginative freedom to transform into anyone or anything.

This work, subtly homoerotic, draws from themes of the past rather than the present, resulting in an overall quality that is unbounded by the constraints of time. As Nan Goldin says on the back cover: "David has always used photography as a seductive device, a sublimation of his desire. His pictures of people feel so tactile because one senses his desire to touch but never in an aggressive or insistent way...He is intensely aware of the delicate balance of form in the shapes, the light, the relationship between person and place."

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)

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

Dressed to Kill is an interesting look at the ways in which clothing, and its symbol as a from of status and power, has developed over time. Looking at the influences of sexuality and gender, this book presents how fashion is a means of looking at ourselves and the society.

Collection of nudes, portraits and still life photographs documenting queer nightlife.

This book examines nine pioneers who shaped American graphic design from the 1930s to the 1950s, including Lester Beall and Paul Rand. Through over 200 illustrations, the book explores their education, philosophies, client work, and problem-solving, revealing the foundations of modern American visual communication.

An offprint of Brakhage's remarks following a screening of his film, "The Text of Light," at the San Francisco Art Institute, Nov 18, 1974.

Bosnian War Posters presents a powerful visual history of the Bosnian War (1992–1995) through political posters, archival images, and contemporary photographs. Collected across Bosnia and the former Yugoslavia, these graphics capture lived experiences of conflict, nationalism, and propaganda.

The book covers the foundational years of the Ferus Gallery, showcasing artists like Wallace Berman, John Altoon, Edward Kienholz, and Larry Bell. Through photographs and textual contributions, this book documents the Southern California art scene of that era.

This title presents a handbook of the potent skinhead cult. It traces the development of the skinhead movement in England, describes the characteristics and behaviour of these gangs, and explains their attitudes towards school, the police, and the government.

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.

A periodical book on modern houses from around the globe. Featuring work of architects Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Ludiwig Mies van der Rohe, Richard Neutra, Alvar Aalto.

The 99th publication by Temporary Services, Records as Portable Exhibitions and Interactive, Participatory Objects, serves as a catalog and a playful exploration of records as visual and interactive objects.

Daniel Jack Lyons’ debut monograph continues the American artist’s long-term commitments to visualising the social and political rights of under-represented communities. Like a River is anthropological exploration of identity, transformation and coming-of-age amongst marginalised communities in the heart of the Amazon.


A selection of works by T. Secchiaroli who worked on film sets at Cinecittà with Federico Fellini.

Seydou Keita and Malick Sidibe, two important and widely known commercial photographers from Mali, took mesmerising photographs of members of their communities during the decades before and after the country's independence from France in 1960. This book presents a range of these portraits, as well as excerpts of recent interviews with the artists and an essay placing the photographers within the context of the history of portrait photography in West Africa since its beginnings in the 1840s.

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

This catalogue presents Niko Pirosmani as a legendary yet unconventional Georgian artist, through rich illustrations and scholarly essays by Georgian art historians. It highlights his empathetic portraits, animals, and scenes of everyday life, his rapid brushwork on black oilcloth, and his role in early modern art and the vibrant Tbilisi scene known as the “Paris of the East,” city heritage.

"This book is a pictorial and practical guide to the psychology of the woman interested in lingereis which expose her real character". A collection of photographs shot from the lowest angle inside the skirts of women, revealing what they're wearing below.
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