

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.

In conjuction with their exhibit at The Washington County Museum of Fine Arts in Maryland, Dr. George and Connie Manger produced this catalogue featuring over 125 pieces of pottery from the Shenandoah and Cumberland Valleys.

An extensive history of ties.

A document of Los Angeles told in photographs and prose.

Living Rooms celebrates the central role of family life and hospitality across the Middle East and North Africa, focusing on the communal spaces where connections are made, traditions upheld, and stories shared. Through a curated collection of archival and contemporary photography, the book explores the rich interplay of design, culture, and identity reflected in these spaces. From intricate textiles and low seating arrangements to gold accents and elaborate décor, these rooms embody the pride and character of the families who inhabit them.
The book features the work of 41 photographers, spanning archival and contemporary collections. Contributors include Olivia Arthur, Miriam Stanke, Abbas, Sabiha Çimen, Olgaç Bozalp, Mariam El Gendy, Sakir Khader, Aly Saab, Lara Chahine, Nariman El Mofty, Rena Effendi, and others.

Scenes varying from parties to beach hangouts – all featuring beer drinkers.

A socialist journal of the social services. In this issue: uses of homelessness; housing policy in Cubal; organising social services (The Yugoslav Experience); book reviews and more.


This book celebrates modern Japanese poster design, showcasing works that combine tradition, bold experimentation, and visual sophistication. Highlighting the concept of kirei, the collection demonstrates how Japanese posters blend classical elegance with inventive, self-contained visual messages, creating striking, memorable imagery that transcends conventional advertising and reflects a unique, independent creative spirit.

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 contains over 330 Namio Harukawa illustrations, a short manga, seven unfinished sketches, two photos of his atelier, and essays by Shigeru Kashima.
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Guido Palau pioneered the radical unstructured styles made famous by his subjects (the likes of Kate Moss and Stella Tennant) reacting against slick salon styles, to enhance, rather than hide, people's idiosyncrasies. This book presents 100 classics shot by fashion photographers David Sims, Steven Klein and Paul Wetherell.

A visual collection of rock star tattoos.

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.

This book examines the full range of textiles produced by William Morris and his firm, Morris & Co.. The revised edition expands earlier research with updated scholarship and photography, detailing embroideries, printed and woven fabrics, carpets, and tapestries, alongside analysis of design development, production methods, and Morris’s workshop practices.
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.

In his photographic practice, Irish photographer Wood pursued the goal of opening a window onto one specific piece of reality in the great pictorial swell of our media world, a piece that seems familiar, yet which we see for the first time. Wood’s artist vision tears away from reality the veil that has been thrown over it by the media, creating deeply intimate portraits.

Scottish photographer Jane Stockdale's first publication I Predict a Riot documents the now notorious G20 demonstrations that took place in London in April 2009. Hyped in the British media as "The Summer of Rage" and "Meltdown in the City," the events of that summer are here recorded from the midst of the action, in photographs and interspersed captions.

In this book, Takashi Homma uses fragments collected in camera obscura constructed in metropolitan areas of Japan and the US to build a city image by image.

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.

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.

By visually examining the ways in which gender is dressed, made up and culturally enforced, Sherman has for many become an icon of feminism and postmodernism. More than 270 images show the breadth of Sherman's body of work, from the Untitled Film Stills of the 1970s to series such as Centrefolds, Fashion, Disasters, Fairy Tales and History Portraits, as well as photographs influenced by surrealist artists. Also included are intriguing excerpts from Sherman's notebooks, selections from her contact sheets and numerous Polaroid studies, all of which shed light on the artist's process.


Published alongside the 2014 Araki Teller Teller Araki exhibition at OstLicht Gallery in Vienna, this first jointly conceived book by Nobuyoshi Araki and Juergen Teller presents over 300 photographs, including previously unpublished works. Bringing together two of contemporary photography’s most influential figures, the publication reflects their shared radical vision and relentless pursuit of images as expressions of personal experience.

This striking series of photographs by Irving Penn was inspired by the exhibition The 10s, 20s, 30s at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1973, curated by Diana Vreeland. The clothes in the exhibition were so exquisite in their detail and richness that Penn felt compelled to photograph them and produce a book of his images. A studio was erected for him in The Met and the clothes were placed upon a mannequin. The resulting images bear the hallmark of Penn's finest studio portraits, but here the clothes, rather than the person, are the subject.

Vogue: The Covers chronicles the extraordinary images that have reflected--and transformed--the world of style for more than 120 years. More than 300 of the most beautiful, provocative, and fashion-forward covers ever produced are highlighted alongside the history and stories behind the covers themselves.

A comprehensive collection of images photographer Herbert List shot from 1930s to 1970s – including everything from his landscapes of Greece to people in the streets of Germany street, all shotin his usual surrealist way.

Dieter Roth (1930–1998) was a highly diverse and influential artist, known for his work as a poet, sculptor, graphic designer, and musician. He associated with the Fluxus movement and explored the boundaries between material and intellect in his work, often using unconventional and even perishable items in his art. This book is characteristic of Roth's experimental approach to art and publishing, with a mix of letterpress texts, drawings, and rubber-stamp pictures, with German and English texts included.

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.

Curated by Peter Weiermair for an exhibition at Kunsthalle Vienna, this collection of photographs documents the social landscape of American from 1940-2006. Featuring works by Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Larry Clark, Bruce Davidson, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Peter Hujar, Helen Levitt, Ryan McGinley, Gordon Parks, Rosalind Solomon, Ed Templeton and Burk Uzzle.

First book to bring together a representative collection of the influential work of photographer Paul Jasmin. Jasmin had a long career as a fashion and art photographer, was had previously painted and acted. His images of real and imagined American dreamers evoke a sensual and glamorous ideal while firmly rooted in reality.

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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.

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A survey of decorative arts and crafts.

This book presents Gillian Wearing's most seminial public artwork in which she invited members of the public to write what was on their mind on a sign. With their permission, she then photographed them holding their written statement. 'Queer and Happy', 'I'm Desperate', 'I Really Love Regents Park', 'Convenience causes apathy', are just a few of the responses. The images presented interrupt the logic of documentary photography, and present an engineering of self representation.

Shotgun Seamstress collects all eight issues (2006–2015) of Shotgun Seamstress, founded by Osa Atoe. This cut-and-paste DIY zine centers Black punk and outsider identity, reclaiming rock as Black music. Featuring artists like Death and Poly Styrene, it celebrates radical politics, gender diversity, and self-defined Black expression.

Following Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Curating* *But Were Afraid to Ask, this second volume in the series on international curator Hans Ulrich Obrist presents a selection of his key writings from the past two decades, which elaborate on the manifold thinkers, curators, and events that influence his interdisciplinary practice of exhibition making.

Slim Aarons: A Place in the Sun is a visual journey through the lens of legendary photographer Slim Aarons, who famously captured "attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places." This iconic collection showcases the golden age of leisure, luxury, and affluence from the 1940s through the 1980s, featuring glamorous socialites, Hollywood stars, and European aristocrats in sun-drenched settings around the world. With vibrant imagery and candid elegance, A Place in the Sun is both a nostalgic escape and a timeless celebration of style and privilege.

A comprehensive history of Prada, featuring editorials, shop fronts, behind the scenes of designing and more.

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."

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.

In 1996, Johnnie Shand Kydd began taking photographs of young British artists and their friends, dealers and critics at the centre of the art world. This collection of portraits is the result; a record of over 70 artists including Dinos and Jake Chapman, Damien Hurst and Gary Hume.

This is the only book to thoroughly document the world's finest examples of Brutalist architecture. More than 850 buildings - existing and demolished, classic and contemporary - are organised geographically into nine continental regions.

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.

This book presents the work of fashion designer Norman Hartnell, who was a major personality in the world of fashion. By the mid 1930s, Hartnell's meteoric rise to fame resulted in London becoming a centre of style that closely rivalled Paris. Known for glamorous evening clothes, Hartnell augmented his early design successes by creating a series of stunning wedding dresses for his younger society clientele. His bridal extravaganzas culminated in the romantic 1947 wedding of HRH Princess Elizabeth to HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

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.

Peter Saville is perhaps the most influential graphic designer of his generation. Best known for his seminal record covers for Joy Division and New Order, Saville has also art directed catalogues and advertisements for fashion brands such as Yohji Yamamoto and Dior. This book includes a comprehensive interview by Christopher Wilson as well as essays by style guru Peter York, music critics Paul Morley and Miranda Sawyer, and design critics Rick Poynor, Emily King and Peter Hall.

Observations is Richard Avedon's first book – a striking collection of portraits of artists, authors, musicians, and performers, with accompanying text by Capote.

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

This book presents the photographic work of Karl Lagerfeld. In full-bleed plates Lagerfeld presents the different forms of nature, alongside elements of the human body.

A collection of paintings by American painter Lois Dodd known for her deceptively simple, observant paintings of everyday life, capturing landscapes, windows, and interiors with a unique, almost abstract clarity, often painting outdoors on small panels, and co-founding the influential Tanager Gallery in the 1950s.

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

Abloh-isms is a collection of essential quotations from American fashion designer, DJ, and stylist Virgil Abloh, who was a major creative figure in the worlds of pop culture and art.

Ahmed Morsi: A Dialogic Imagination discusses the places, people, texts, ideas, and materials that have shaped the unique practice of the New York–based Egyptian artist Ahmed Morsi.

Born in Iran and currently living in the US, Shirin Neshat's work sits at the centre of two very different cultural universes. This book documents all of her activity, including her first black and white photographic work in which she gave voices to Iranian women by tracing onto their faces, hands, and naked feet the verses of ancient Persian poets.

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.

American conceptual artist Pacifico Silano’s practice is rooted in excavating the printed ephemera of gay culture to create new images that comment on loss, longing and queer melancholy. In particular, Silano uses the gestures of framing, cropping and layering vintage gay erotica to comment on the HIV/AIDS crisis and its reverberations on queer lives, which included the loss of the artist's uncle at the height of the epidemic.
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Full-colour reproductions of Duchamp's notes – grouped as "Infrathin," "The Large Glass," "Projects," and "Word Plays."

A book showcasing the jewellery made by Dali.

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Seen/Unseen is a monograph documenting Strachan’s 2011 survey exhibition “Seen/Unseen,” installed in an undisclosed New York City location and deliberately made inaccessible to the general public. Navigating through the polarising dichotomies of presence and absence, visibility and invisibility, and man and nature, Tavares Strachan has engineered a multidisciplinary artistic practice that mobilises our visual, intellectual, and emotional faculties.

Issue on the work of Frank Lloyd Wright

Bonnettstown is an example of an early 18th-century Georgian manor situated in the countryside near Kilkenny, Ireland. Photographer Andrew Bush visited the estate and photographed the house and its surroundings from many aspects, all of which are included in this volume.

This publication documents the creative contribution of OMA/AMO Rem Koolhaas to the Prada stores in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Across three decades the American artist and cinematographer, Arthur Jafa (b. 1960, Tupelo, USA) has developed a dynamic, multidisciplinary practice ranging from films and installations to lecture-performances and happenings that tackle, challenge and question prevailing cultural assumptions about identity and race. This book was published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name at Serpentine.

London's Lost Riverscape is a unique photographic record of the River Thames, commissioned in 1937 by the Port of London Authority. Showing in a continious line both the north and south banks of the River from London Bridge to Greenwich, the photographs were al taken from the river itself before the bombing of WWII dramatically altered its appearance.

The renowned and influential book artist Hedi Kyle shows you step–by–step how to create her unique designs using folding techniques. Presents bookbinding and paper craft projects include flag books, blizzard books, the fishbone fold, and nesting boxes.



Though it began as a military uniform, the trench coat has become a cornerstone of the twenty-first century wardrobe, a kind of chic yet classic envelope that perfectly balances form and function. From linen to leather, The Trench Book explores the stylish evolution of this outerwear icon in design and fashion.

A varied collection of photographs made throughout history by various artists – a historical account of the photograph.

A photographic study of cockroaches.

Portraits of composers and musicians from 1940-1979.


This book surveys 1,800 recent print publications that operate outside the international book trade. Lacking ISBNs and produced on paper, they range from photocopied flyers to handcrafted editions and hardcovers. Created largely by young artists, these works highlight independent, experimental publishing, with illustrations chosen to reflect the expressive energy of contemporary art-driven print culture.

John Deakin (1912-1972), whose portraits are among the most significant (and amongst the most overlooked) in the history of twentieth-century photography, was a natural successor to August Sander and precursor of Diane Arbus. He phographed everyone from Hollywood stars for British Vogue in the late 1940s and early 1950s to his artist and poet friends in London's bohemia, Soho. Robin Muir, former picture editor of British Vogue, bringstogether a comprehensive collection of Deakin's most important 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

A periodical book on modern houses from around the globe. Featuring work of architects Frank Lloyd Eight, Victor Horta, Antoni Gaudi, Pierre Chareau with Bernard Bijvoet, Michel de Klerk.


Enghelab Street, Revolution Street explores Tehran’s iconic book district through Iranian artist Hannah Darabi’s collection of photographic and propaganda publications from 1979–1983. Covering a brief period of relative free expression between the Shah’s fall and the Islamic government’s rise, the book presents a visual essay with critical commentary by Chowra Makaremi, revealing rare printed materials from a transformative cultural moment

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

Josef Koudelka: Exiles reflects the personal and profound experience of a life in exile, a theme central to Koudelka's life after he left Czechoslovakia in 1968. His photographs captures the spiritual and physical state of his nomadic and stateless life, exploring themes of alienation, disconnection, and loss.

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

Provoke, with its subtitle of Provocative Materials for Thought, was an experimental, small-press Japanese photography magazine founded in 1968 by critic/photographers Kōji Taki and Takuma Nakahira, photographer Yutaka Takanashi, and writer Takahiko Okada. Daidō Moriyama joined from the second issue. The magazine itself was printed through techniques like the "are-bure-boke" style, which embraced grain, blur, and high contrast to convey a sense of immediacy and raw energy. The printing process was considered a crucial part of the work, often using techniques that increased grain and contrast, with photos printed edge-to-edge without margins to make them appear to bleed into one another.

A collection of photographs of famous celebrities from the 1970s and 1980s, many caught in off-the-guard moments by the camera of Richard Young.

Including over 200 of Vinca Petersen’s photographs, diary entries and ephemera, No System is a party book that one can also read like an alternative family album. This publication tells the story of a 10-year journey around Europe in the 1990’s that Petersen did in a van, following illegal free parties and techno festivals. Images of rave parties, the road and intimate portraits of friends and strangers compose the series. If nostalgia for this free-spirited bygone era and this alternative lifestyle certainly arise in the book, one can also read it as a necessary manifesto for our current times under surveillance.

This book is a study of fashion and the body which aims to establish the relations between codes and systems of clothing and the conduct of everyday life.

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

Cook Book collects 23 recipes by Rirkrit Tiravanija, reflecting his interactive, meal-based installations shown worldwide. Combining Thai staples and reinterpretations of European classics, the book features photography, an essay by Thomas Kellein, and an extended interview with Tiravanija, revealing his artistic philosophy. It bridges culinary practice and avant-garde art, highlighting social engagement as central to his work.
Lee Miller (1907-1977) began her artistic career in 1929 as a Surrealist photographer in Paris. She produced images, often in collaboration with Man Ray, in which she alienated motifs by means of tight framing and experimental techniques, and in doing so rendering visible a paradoxical reality. The publication provides renewed access to her best works, including early Surrealist compositions as well as travel photos that later came to shape her photography oeuvre.

Photographs by Young British Photographers from Blitz Magazine 1980-1987.

In 1973, photographer David Bailey did all his major fashion shoots for British Vogue with actress and, at that time, occasional model, Anjelica Huston. This irresistible volume chronicles the duo's fiery photographic collaboration.

This book is a collection of portraits of women in France by Daniel Frasnay. Frasney, born in 1928 in Paris, was a French landscape and portrait photographer who belonged to the humanist movement.

A mosaic of life, projects and ideas for a better society by architect Richard Rogers

Near East documents photographer and designer Cecil Beaton's wartime assignment for the Ministry of Information in the Middle East during World War II. The book combines his photographs, including images of soldiers and ancient sites in Egypt, Palestine, Syria and Iraq along with his journalistic text that provides a unique pictorial history of the region during the conflict.

1996-2001 / 2001-2006 is the first book to be released by printings.jp, featuring internationally-sourced garments as presented by the designer throughout a decade of his career.

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.

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.
The Library
Our Library is the heart of Reference Point and from where all other elements take their philosophy and context. An evolving and growing collection of rare books, ephemera and printed matter focused on Post-War Radical Art, Architecture, Design, Fashion and Culture. The library exists to create inspiration and conversation, and provide creatives of all stages and disciplines reference points for their projects.
Our librarians are always on hand to serve as research assistants but you can also email us with your interests and project brief and we can prepare a selection of works in advance of your visit.
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