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

8 Women presents Schorr's work from the mid-nineties to the present. The works in 8 Women propose a variety of subjects, all of whom are involved in performance, be it as artists, models or musicians. Working between out-takes and manipulations of tear sheets, Schorr questions who the women that desire to be looked at are, as well as what power exists in acknowledging that as a post-feminist position.

Spawned by a commission from fashion designer Marc Jacobs for an advertising campaign, "Ohne Titel" is a collection of largely unpublished images of Juergen Teller and Cindy Sherman. Marc Jacobs' ads have often reflected his close relationships with artists, and in this instance he invited Cindy Sherman to work with Teller. Both artists are known for blurring boundaries: film and fashion, advertising and art, public and private, real and fictitious – and this collaboration solidifies their similarities.

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

Small World is Martin Parr’s long-running photographic series examining global tourism and its cultural rituals. First published in 1996 and revised in 2007, this third edition (2018) adds over 40 new images to the classic body of work. Spanning more than three decades, it combines iconic and recent photographs to reflect the evolving spectacle of mass travel.

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

South African artist William Kentridge's drawings, films, books, installations, and collaborations with opera and theater companies have established him as a world-class star in contemporary art. In this book, Jane Taylor, Kentridge's friend and frequent collaborator, invites us to take an extraordinary behind-the-scenes look at his work.

Work of David Adjaye published in conjuction with an exhibition organised by the Art Institute of Chicago and Haus der Kunst, Munich.

During the 1970s and 80s, Lynne Cohen turned her view-camera toward classrooms, science laboratories, testing facilities, waiting rooms, and other interior spaces where function triumphs over aesthetics. In cool, functional offices, futuristic reception areas, lifeless party rooms, and escapist motel rooms, Cohen surveys a society of surface, contradiction, and social engineering.
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This publication developed from the exhibition and research project The Place Is Here (2016–19), which traced the urgent and wide-ranging conversations taking place between black artists, writers, and thinkers in Britain during the 1980s.

Remember, Be Here Now is book on spirituality, yoga, and meditation by the American yogi and spiritual teacher Ram Dass.

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This book explores overlooked yet vibrant history of Black participation in American film, from the beginning of cinema through the civil rights movement.

This book is an insight into the idiosyncratic flourishes which make a house into a home. Photographer Bruce Weber takes the reader around the world, looking at how creative individuals' homes reflect their own particular personalities.

Issue on interior design in America.


After years of covering wars and conflicts around the globe, British photographer Don McCullin – one of the most celebrated photojournalists of his generation – returned home in the hopes discovering who he was and where he came from. The resulting photographs are as much as portrait of England as they are of McCullin himself.
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This unique photo journal provides a firsthand look at what life was like with Lennon on a day-to-day basis during his years in New York.

A pioneer in the art and science of photography, Eadweard Muybridge developed the use of multiple cameras to capture motion too quick for the eye to detect. This remarkable collection of his famous stopped-action photographs features 166 photographic sequences, in which men and women, mostly nude, perform a variety of motions—running, jumping, lifting, and other activities. This book is essential for artists, illustrators, and flash animators.

Master photographer Larry Fink offers a surreal window into the fashion world, from Milan to New York, focusing on the major players, behind-the-scenes preparations, and strange industry doings that constitute the runway scene.

A photographic study of cockroaches.
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To mark the twentieth anniversary of Obrist's landmark project 'do it', this publication presents the history of this ambitious enterprise and gives new impetus to its future. It includes an archive of artists' instructions, essays contextualizing Do It, documentation from the history of the exhibition and instructions by 200 artists from all over the world selected by Obrist,

Ancient and Modern is a collection of photographs chosen from Eggleston's earliest photographs taken in the American South, Africa and England. The photographs depict subjects and objects from everyday life and it is Eggleston's unique ability to find beauty, and striking displays of colour, in ordinary scenes that make him one of the greats.

The world's most talented photographers and prestigious models grace the pages of this classic volume that celebrates Yves Saint Laurent's illustrious career, reprinted in a smaller format on the eve of his fortieth anniversary. From pret-a-porter to haute couture, from the runway to the studio to the earth's most exotic settings, images from nearly fifty photographers, including Richard Avedon, Horst, Peter Lindbergh, Duane Michals, Helmut Newton, Irving Penn, Francesco Scavullo, Snowdon, and Bruce Weber bring YSL's renowned creations to glorious life.

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.

This magnificent survey of Calvin Klein is illustrated with era-defining photographs by the most distinguished names in fashion photography, from Irving Penn and Richard Avedon to Bruce Weber, and Patrick Demarchelier—among others. In it, the world’s most iconic models like Christy Turlington and Kate Moss, are captured in images that would define their careers. Every image was chosen by Calvin Klein to narrate his evolution as a designer—from couture to jeans, underwear, and fragrance—all categories in which he redefined what was chic and essential.

The official journal of Burning Man 1998.

Accompanying exhibitions at DCA and le Consortium, Dijon, this publication illustrates a selection of Wool’s paintings made between 2000 and 2002 as well as two vast photographic series, ‘East Broadway Breakdown’ (1994-5 / 2002) and ‘Studio Polaroids’ (1993 – 2001). Text by Anne Pontégnie.

Trinity by British artist Oliver Raymond Barker explores the complex histories embedded in the fabric of the land and engages with narratives around spirituality, protest and control.

Patti Smith is known most widely as a musical artist and a poet, but her creative energies are not limited to those genres. This book offers a chance to explore the photography of the punk poetess. Published to accompany an exhibition at the Fondation Cartier Pour L'Art Contemporain in Paris, it presents hundreds of Polaroids and black-and-white photographs, plus commentaries by the artist.

Volume two of the monograph on M/M (Paris) traces the duo’s radical, cross-disciplinary practice since 1992. Featuring over 850 images arranged A–Z from “M” to “M,” it highlights collaborations across fashion, music, art, and publishing. Interviews and essays from leading creatives frame their influential visual atlas, completing the definitive Thames & Hudson edition.

The Rolling Stones: 365 Days follows the Stones from their explosion on the English scene in 1963 to their status as living legends today. The band's offstage and backstage antics, iconic performances (including Hyde Park, Altamont, and the Ed Sullivan Show), their many girlfriends and wives, infamous brushes with the law, and more are all represented here.

Hanoos Hanoos was born in Iraq in 1958, where he studied at the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad. He moved to Madrid, Spain, in 1984 where he obtained his PhD and has lived ever since. This book looks at his print makings, paintings and collage works.

Top Symbols & Trademarks of the World was the efforts of Franco Maria Ricci & Corinna Ferrari, and Italian publisher Deco Press. The series, published in 1973 was an unprecedented initiative to catalogue many of the finest examples of trademark design of the time. What marks this series out is both the format and the approach Ricci and Ferrari took. The sixth volume in the series looks at Scandinavia and Socialist Countries.

Theatre Arts Magazine, sometimes titled Theatre Arts or Theatre Arts Monthly, was a magazine published from November 1916 to January 1964.

From 1936 until the end of the 20th century, the photographers of LIFE magazine travelled the globe to chronicle in pictures every aspect of the human condition. This book is a testament a living history - the history of our times, as seen by the photographers who captured and immortalized it.

A guide to the work of Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto.

For ten years - from 1984 until 1995 - Newton published his best photographs in his own magazine, Helmut Newton's Illustrated. During this period, four editions appeared: No. 1 "Sex and Power," No. 2 "Pictured from an Exhibition," No. 3 "I was there" and No. 4 "Dr. Phantasme." This edition brings them all together.
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.

An Island Is A Circle spans the various bodies of work Gabriel Orozco created whilst living in Bali, Indonesia. The book's design was closely overseen by the artist himself and is profusely illustrated with images of drawings, paintings and the limestone Dés sculptures made in collaboration with professional artisans in Bali.

Provoke was first published in November 1968 as a dojin-shi, or self-published magazine. It was originally conceived by art critic Koji Taki (1928-2011) and photographer Takuma Nakahira (1938-2015), with poet Takahiko Okada (1939-1997) and photographer Yutaka Takanashi as dojin members. The subtitle for the magazine was “Provocative Materials for Thought”, and each issue was composed of photographs, essays and poems.

Emerges from the innovative minds of Theseus Chan, Werk, and Comme Des Garçons. This edition, known for its distinctive torched flambé cover, marks a unique chapter in the collaboration between the avant-garde fashion label and its global guerrillastores. The magazine documents the revolutionary retail concept by Comme des Garçons, which allowed partners worldwide to open a store, manage expenses, and offer CDG merchandise on a sale or return basis for one year.

The comprehensive book on the visionary Hussein Chalayan, one of the most innovative, experimental, and conceptual fashion designers working today. Internationally acclaimed, Hussein Chalayan is known for his inventive use of materials and integration of new technology into his designs. He is also celebrated for putting the creative process itself on view.

In this, Ralph Gibson's 30th monograph, books themselves have become objects of fascination, examination, and veneration.
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Full-colour reproductions of Duchamp's notes – grouped as "Infrathin," "The Large Glass," "Projects," and "Word Plays."

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

Inspired by found objects, personal archives and poetic experiences, Lebanese artists and filmmakers Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige invent a unique way of to navigate between art and film. Their documentaries, fictional films, photography, art installations, texts and performances develop narratives and images around stories kept secret, acting as a resistance to official history.

The Lithuanian filmmaker and chronicler of the American underground movement, Jonas Mekas, wrote down his dreams between August 1978 and June 1979. All these events and characters, combined with memories of his childhood in the Lithuanian fields and snow, are transformed and filtered through the absurd logic and advenutures of dreams.

A collection of black and white male nudes taken between 1940-1970 by Bruce of Los Angeles.

George Dureau, The Photographs is an album of the great photographic portraits made throughout the forty years of Dureau’s artistic career―a New Orleans romance between the photographer and his subjects. All of Dureau’s exquisite photographs, many of them nudes, were made in his studio in the French Quarter of New Orleans, or on the city’s streets.

A socialist journal of the social services. In this issue: Juvenile Institutions and lesbian youth; a theory of institutional abuse; women and mental health; restructuring political organisations for the Eighties; burnout as a political issue.

Folk Archive: Contemporary Popular Art from the UK documents contemporary British folk and popular art. The book presents a personal selection of objects and actions reflecting ambition, humor, pathos, and resistance, offering insight into everyday life, culture, and creativity in present-day Britain.
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Beginning with his early days in London's East End, this book follows the life and work of David Bailey from the 1950s up until the late 1960 – from his first photographic experiences as an assistant to John French; his early years with Vogue; his close relationship with the stars of rock music; and his friendships and love affairs.

Inside the Westminster Menswear Archive is a unique guide to the role of garment archives as an industry resource for designers to research and examine both historical garments and the work of their peers. Groves and Sprecher analyse over 140 key garments from the Westminster Menswear Archive, spanning the last 275 years, each brilliantly photographed in close-up detail and annotated with curator commentary, to inspire new generations of designers.

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.
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This book is a collection of works by Australian artist Glenn Sorensen who creates watercolors and paintings of flowers that are remarkably personal and sensitive.

Examples of American experimental film from 1939-1979.

In this book, artists LaBelle and Le Fort present the library as an organic space and the destination of an intellectual and sensuous journey during which thoughts expand quickly beyond the books displayed on the shelves.

Photographs of renowned photographers across the world taken by Peggy Jarrell Kaplan including Merce Cunningham, Eiko, David Gordon, Trisha Brown, Michael Clark, Pina Bausch

The book contains over 250 previously unpublished photographs of Warhol's famous friends and anecdotes. The subjects include Mick Jagger, Bianca Jagger, Truman Capote, Jackie Onassis, Liza Minnelli, Halston, Calvin Klein, Muhammad Ali, Diana Vreeland, and Yves Saint Laurent among others.

The Teddy Boys were a flashily dressed, rebellious and sometimes violent youth movement that originated in Britain in the ’50s. The three-quarter-length Edwardian jacket with velvet collar, drainpipe trousers and quiff became a focus of male fashion which still holds cult status today. The Teds combines image and text to tell their story—a fascinating tale spanning three decades.

Mirror Reflecting Darkly explores artist Rita Keegan’s archive, blending autobiography and critical history. Documenting her journey through the 1980s and '90s Black British Art movement, Soho clubland, and the Women of Colour Index, the book features diverse essays reflecting on creative kinship, self-archiving, and archiving as activism.

Rampartswas a pivotal, radical magazine highlighting anti-war sentiment, the New Left, and investigations into the CIA. Known for its investigative journalism, this issue continued the magazine's high-impact coverage of CIA involvement in student organizations and anti-war activities during a turbulent period in 1967.

An exploration of the Kasbah – a unique kind of medina, or Islamic city. It stands in one of the finest coastal sites on the Mediterranean, overlooking the islands where a Carthaginian trading-post was established in the 4th century BC.

For over three decades, the unique lens of Roxanne Lowit has captured the faces, personalities, and spaces of modern culture. This volume features full page black and white portraits of hundreds of luminaries, including Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali, Kate Moss, Yves Saint-Laurent, Johnny Depp, Madonna, and George Clooney. With accompanying texts by Yves Saint Laurent, Bob Colacello, Sonia Rykiel, Fran Lebowitz, and Karl Lagerfield.

EverWonderful is Jeano Edwards’ first photobook, and is a tender love story dedicated to his homeland of Jamaica.

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

Dionysus in 69 was created by The Performance Group and played in the Group’s theater, The Performing Garage, from June 6, 1968 to July 27, 1969. The play text of Dionysus in 69 is based on group improvisation, composition by members of The Performance Group, and the William Arrowsmith translation of Euripides’ The Bacchae.


This publication consists of 930 photographs taken by Daido Moriyama in the first twenty years of his career. Starting with the oldest existing print from 1960 and ending around the publication of Moriyama’s photobook “Light and Shadow” in 1982, the book allows an unprecedented insight into the work – including many previously unpublished images – of one of Japan’s greatest photographers.

The rare catalogue for an exhibition at the Fondation Pierre Bergé - Yves Saint Laurent examining the fashion relationship between Saint Laurent and Nan Kempner. Kempner was one of the best-dressed women in America during the second half of the twentieth century. As muse and patron of Saint Laurent she amassed a vast collection of his couture pieces. These are photographed here, alongside archival images of Kempner wearing Saint Laurent designs.

The Art of Bollywood explores the vibrant hand-painted posters of India’s Bollywood, tracing their evolution since the early 20th century. Showcasing original artworks, rare street publicity, and cinema displays, the book highlights the skill of key poster artists, restoring a neglected visual tradition and revealing Bollywood’s distinctive, highly collectible graphic language.

This book co-published by the documents the 14th Sharjah Biennial, featuring contributions from over 30 artists to explore contemporary art's response to environmental, political, and technological shifts.

S.M.S., founded in New York by William Copley with Dmitri Petrov, was a subscription-based “art in a box” series distributing small, often playful works by mail. Inspired by Marcel Duchamp, it mixed famous and emerging artists across disciplines, all paid equally. Designed to bypass the traditional art market, it fostered accessibility and a collaborative, communal creative environment. Contributors to issue #1 include Su Braden, James Byars, Christo, Walter de Maria, Richard Hamilton, Julien Levy, Kasper König, Sol Mednick, Irving Petlin, Nancy Reitkopf, La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela.
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Outsider Art refers to the mesmerizing creations of those who live and work at a distance from prevailing notions about mainstream artistic trends, individuals who are frequently unaware of themselves as artists or their works as art. This book presents and discusses some of the 20th century's most significant examples of Outsider Art artists from around the world, including Gedewon, a cleric from Ethiopia who made unique and psychedelic talismans; William Hawkins, an African-American self-taught artist with a unique pop sensibility; and more.

Photographer Joseph Szabo's subject is adolescence; his rare gift is capturing the spirit of his students at Malverne High School, caught between puberty and the precipice of adulthood. Taken in the 70s and 80s, the photographs in Teenage represent a remarkable evocation of that period, and yet there is something timeless and endlessly compelling about Szabo's portrait of almost-adulthood.

Released on the 40th anniversary of Debbie Harry’s debut solo album KooKoo (1981), this book and exhibition collect a rarely seen and unpublished body of photographs by Chris Stein capturing the alchemy of the collaboration between artist H.R. Giger and the Blondie frontwoman and lead vocalist.

Material Man: Masculinity, Sexuality, Style examines masculine images in fashion and the media, attempting to answer the question of what it means to be a man in the contemporary world – contains images from films, television, magazines and the fine arts, along with essays.

This book offers an intimate look at the country’s most stylish offices, conference rooms, and dining spaces, belonging to figures such as David Rockefeller, Katharine Graham, and Halston. It highlights how each workspace reflects personal taste, from Estee Lauder’s romantic interiors to Oppenheimer & Co.’s sleek, executive designs.

An homage to contemporary hairstylists including, Serge Normant, John Sahag and Orlando Pita.
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A survey of Armani menswear from 1975 to 1985 masterfully shot by Aldo Fallai. From tailoring, natural coloured separates, sportswear and 1940s influences, to clothing design for the films American Gigolo, The Untouchables and Raiders of the Lost Ark.

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 provides a 30-year overview of the collaborations between American artist Anthony Aziz (born 1961) and Italian artist Sammy Cucher (born 1958), pioneers in the field of digital art. Synthesizing reality and fiction, their work highlights pathologies associated with unfettered globalization and posthuman conditions.

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

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.

This book features previously unpublished drawings and photographs from the extraordinary archives of Danzig Baldaev and Sergei Vasiliev documenting a disappearing subculture of tattooed criminals.

20 Anni di Vogue 1964-1984 is the catalogue published to accompany an exhibition of the same name celebrating 20 years of Vogue Italia. The catalogue is an extensive dictionary of all the photographers who have contributed to the pages of Vogue Italia, with a short text and examples of their work - including Richard Avedon, Bruce Weber, David Bailey, Cecil Beaton, Guy Bourdin, Peter Lindbergh, Ugo Mulas, Herb Ritts, Paolo Roversi, Snowdon, Deborah Turbeville and so many more in between.

Trains and steamships transformed transportation in the mid-19th century and opened the world to a new breed of traveler. Louis Vuitton understood the need for more practical luggage, and strove to create products that were adaptable to all situations--and the travel trunk was born.

European Diary 1983. 1984 is a collection of works by Keizo Kitajima, a photographer representing postwar Japan.
Jean Tinguely was one of a number of artists of the period who explored movement, in what became known as Kinetic art. From the mid-1950s he made strange machines, some of which involved radios, lights and motors while others relied on the viewer to turn a crank. He used everyday materials and junk to explore ideas of motion, impermanence and accident.

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.

The inaugural Future Art Ecosystems report examines emerging infrastructures supporting artistic practices engaged with advanced technologies. Drawing on research by the Serpentine Galleries, it includes insights from artists such as Hito Steyerl, James Bridle, Ian Cheng, and Jakob Kudsk Steensen. Through interviews with creatives, technologists, and researchers—including Refik Anadol and teamLab—the publication explores how art, technology, and innovation are shaping future cultural ecosystems.

Yangon Fashion 1979 offers a unique insight into the photographs that brought a spark of free expression to Yangon’s fashionable youth in the late 1970s. Photography studios around Yangon University and downtown attracted large numbers of young clients posing in elegant outfits, some of which were even customised for the occasion. The resulting images resembled an old-school Facebook – an exchange of physical images, as photos were usually shared with friends.

In the words of Gavin ‘Cave Drawings are a lawless series of abstract subject-less pencil line work, where an ‘automatic’ surreal zone appears’.

This book was published on the eve of International Women’s Year in 1974, following the establishment of the Office for Women’s Affairs by the Whitlam government in 1973. The book is a collective portrait of women from al walks of life, with photographs and interviews.

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.

Photographs of fans of The Rolling Stones.

A photo-book by Luis Venegas made specially for the J.W. Anderson Workshop in Shoreditch – presenting the designer's collections, from archive pieces to present ones.

A history of female swimwear.

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