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.

Over the course of forty years, tens of thousands of men and women were sent to the Narcotic Farm for rehabilitation. Two-thirds of Narco's population had been convicted of violating strict federal drug laws. The other one-third were “volunteers” who had signed themselves in for treatment.

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

Sportscape tells the story of how sport has been shown by photographers over a period of 100 years, focusing on the beauty and interest of the photographs and what they can tell us about the development of sport.

Written to mark the silver jubilee of the Design Research Unit, this book surveys the progress of industrial design since World War II. Using DRU as a case study rather than producing a conventional company history, it examines how major postwar trends shaped design practice—and how design, in turn, influenced industry and society.

In his epitaph to the age of conspicuous consumption and wealth, Luxury features Martin Parrs photographs over five years of watching the rich and fabulous at international champagne-fuelled gatherings.

This book offers brief profiles of important designers, architects, engineers, graphic artists, movements, and manufacturers, and shows influential designs in automobiles, furniture, fabrics, fashions, and products.

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Ultimate Angels is a striking exploration of transgender identity in all its isolation, expression, and glory.

This book traces the five-year construction of Plumtree Court, Goldman Sachs' new headquarters in Central London, through Juergen Teller's inimitable vision. Teller relished immersing himself in such a long-term project, one thrillingly different to the fashion world he knows so well.

The bilingual, colour illustrated book entitled "XL Photography - Art Collection Deutsche Börse" presents the first acquisitions for the collection, including works by the artists Araki, Anna and Bernhard Blume, David Weiss, Axel Hütte, Martin Liebschenr, Beat Streuli and more.

In the 1960s and 1970s, the artist Ed Ruscha created a series of small photo-conceptual artist's books, among them Twentysix Gas Stations, Various Small Fires, Every Building on the Sunset Strip, Thirtyfour Parking Lots, Real Estate Opportunities, and A Few Palm Trees. This book collects ninety-one of these projects, showcasing the cover and sample layouts from each along with a description of the work. It also includes selections from Ruscha's books and an appendix listing all known Ruscha book tributes.

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 fourth volume in the series looks at France and Italy.

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Chez Walti reveals Pfeiffer’s importance as a pioneer of contemporary photography and laid the foundation for his rise from a classic “artist’s artist” to a world-renowned artist who went on to work for international magazines like Vogue and shoot campaigns for luxury brands like Bottega Veneta.

Featuring the work of some of the most highly regarded photographers, Cinéstars brings together portraits of some of the most loved movie stars along with a brief introduction by film critic James Cameron-Wilson.

Ray Johnson (1927–1995) was an influential American artist known as the "father of mail art" and a key figure in early Pop Art and Neo-Dada. He founded the New York Correspondence School, sending collages and letters through the mail to friends and acquaintances. Known as "New York's most famous unknown artist," he specialized in, surreal, text-heavy collages.

This illustrated guide focuses on collectible military watches and clocks, detailing over 150 models issued over the past century to global armed forces.

The Nazi is an assortment of 164 photographs portraying actors – from Marlon Brando and Michael Caine to Clint Eastwood, Anthony Hopkins and Donald Pleasence – who appeared as Nazis in a variety of cinematic productions. This series is as much about history as it is about the industry of entertainment.

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.

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.

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The magazine Apparel Arts was launched in 1931 in the United States as a men's fashion magazine, until 1958 when it rebranded at Gentlemen's Quarterly (GQ)

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This publication accompanies Sharjah Art Foundation's 2018 exhibition of artist Zineb Sedira – a London-based Franco-Algerian feminist photographer and video artist, best known for work exploring the human relationship to geography.

During a Jack Kerouac-inspired road trip that lasted nine years, the photographer William Eggleston documented working-class towns, rest stop diners, dilapidated gas stations, and barren stretches of land in the American South and Southwest. For thirty years following Eggleston’s trip, the images sat in a warehouse as he focused on other work, many of them unseen. In 2002, Eggleston’s journey finally reached its destination when the resurfaced snapshots were published in Los Alamos.

Twenty years of Versace by Avedon, this collection of beautifully produced photographs from the advertising campaigns of Gianni Versace features images of some of the most beautiful women in the world, including Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell, and Linda Evangelista,

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

Featuring photographs by Irving Penn, David Bailey, Bruce Bernard, Dorothy Bohm, Mark Boxer, David Hockney, Sue Davies, Bill Brandt, Chris Killip and more.

This book presents a detailed account of manned space programmes of the US and the USSR as well as an account of the non-American and non-Soviet astronauts.

Superhumanity seeks to explore and challenge our understanding of “design” by engaging with and departing from the concept of the “self.” This volume brings together more than fifty essays by leading scientists, artists, architects, designers, philosophers, historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists.

H.R. Giger (1940–2014) was a Swiss surrealist artist famous for his dark, "biomechanical" art style that seamlessly fused human bodies with machines. He is best known for designing the iconic Xenomorph creature and the nightmarish extraterrestrial landscapes in Ridley Scott's 1979 sci-fi horror film Alien. This book is striking monograph presenting Giger’s iconic vision and its lasting impact on science fiction art and cinematic design for contemporary visual culture today still relevant.

Through the eyes and words of fashion photographers and writers, The Idealising Vision recognises the enduring value of fashion photography by showcasing images from around the world, images of clothing, beauty, style, and still life.

Photographer and filmmaker Michael Grecco was in the thick of things during the punk and post-punk eras, documenting a scene which would eventually morph into New Wave and influence pop/rock music in the subsequent decades. Featuring iconic bands such as The Sex Pistols, Blondie, Talking Heads, Human Sexual Response, Elvis Costello, Joan Jett, The Ramones and many others, Grecco’s black-and-white photography captures the raw energy, sweat and antics that characterised the alternative music scene in Boston and New York during the 1970s, 80s and early 90s.

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.

Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty examines the full breadth of the designer’s career, from the start of his fledgling label to the triumphs of his own world-renowned London house. It features his most iconic and radical designs, revealing how McQueen adapted and combined the fundamentals of Savile Row tailoring, the specialized techniques of haute couture, and technological innovation to achieve his distinctive aesthetic.

This book the concept of modularity as a general principle of order in the universe and its application in various fields, including architecture, plastic arts, and music.

Taryn Simon: A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters, I-XVIII was produced over a four-year period (2008-2011), during which Simon travelled the world researching and recording bloodlines and their related stories. In each of the eighteen "chapters" that make up the work, the external forces of territory, power, circumstance, or religion collide with the internal forces of psychological and physical inheritance. Her subjects feuding families in Brazil, victims of genocide in Bosnia and the living dead in India.

The Bikeriders explores firsthand the stories and characters of the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club.

London Fashion Week has been opening its doors to young designers since its inception in 1984. It has introduced many brands to the world as an incubator, such as John Galliano, Alexander McQueen, Hussein Chalayan and more. These footprints are presented through interviews with 83 designers from 72 brands and catwalk photographs. The book is constructed with consists of archive articles by Mina Wakatski, who has covered Fashion Week for over 30 years, and photographs by Chris Moore, one of the world's leading catwalk photographers. It also includes several articles on the transition of London Fashion Week and projects to support newcomers.

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Exhibition catalogue published to coincides with the exhibition by British Sculpture Gavin Turk, In Search of Ariadne, at The Heong Gallery at Downing College.

A themed collection of Araki photographs. Issue No.15 Death: Elegy

For three years, Dennis Feldman (born 1946) repeatedly walked an eight-block stretch from Hollywood and Vine to the Chinese Theater, called the Walk of Fame, where people flocked to gaze at a sidewalk full of terrazzo stars inlaid with the names of famous (and no longer famous) entertainers. Hollywood Boulevard compiles the photographer's large-format, black-and-white portraits into a painfully human character study of social identity and performance.

The Work of Tsuguya Inoue 1981–2024 is a comprehensive collector’s edition surveying 503 works, including new projects, by influential Japanese art director Tsuguya Inoue. Spanning over four decades, it highlights his dynamic graphic design for clients such as Parco and Comme des Garçons, tracing a bold, evolving visual career across 696 full-color pages.

I colori del ferro blends industrial materials and contemporary art, combining photographers by renowned photographers with technical macro shots of steel and industrial scenes. An essay by Umberto Eco and captions by engineer Gino Papuli provide aesthetic, technical, and conceptual insights, creating a sophisticated dialogue between industry and art.

A Period of Juvenile Prosperity by Mike Brodie is a vivid photographic chronicle of American rail-riding subculture, capturing a life of movement, risk, and fleeting freedom. Beginning as a teenager who unexpectedly discovered train hopping in Florida, Brodie went on to document nomadic journeys across the United States using a second-hand 35mm camera. His portraits of fellow travellers carry an unexpected warmth and intimacy, balancing hardship with a quiet sense of camaraderie. Widely acclaimed upon publication, the work has been recognised as one of the defining photobooks of its time.

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.

This book present and discusses some of the twentieth century's most significant examples of Outsider Art in America.

A collection of Nozolino's images of the Arab world taken on numerous trips through Egypt, Syria, Morocco, Yemen, Mauritania, Jordan and Lebanon. His images explore the Arabic culture's struggle between ancient desert villages and overcrowded, polluted cities.

Published to coincide with an exhibition at the Imperial War Museum, Lee Miller: A Woman’s War tells the story beyond the battlefields of the Second World War by way of Miller’s extraordinary photographs of the women whose lives were affected. The photographs in this volume, many previously unpublished, are accompanied by extended captions that place the images within the context of women’s roles within the landscape of war.

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.

This book explores the most influential printed books in Western history, tracing how print shaped science, politics, religion, and culture, and documenting the transformative impact of publishing on the development of Western civilization.

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Photographs of parties and balls.

A socialist journal of the social services. In this issue: The crisis of the international capitalist order, class struggle, the welfare state, psychotherapy and radical politics and more.

Iain R Webb's Postcards from the Edge of the Catwalk is a personal photographic portfolio spanning three decades that documents the glittering brouhaha surrounding the ready-to-wear and haute couture fashion collections in New York, London, Milan and Paris.

In this book, photographer Graciela Iturbide documents the matriarchal culture of the Zapotec women in Juchitán, Mexico.

Showboat traces the interplay of punk and sexuality from 1972 to the present through posters, flyers, record covers, photographs, and ephemera from The Mott Collection. Complemented by essay, the book offers a vivid exploration of punk’s provocative, subversive visual and cultural legacy.

Swiss performance artist, Manon, was a pioneer of body and performance art in the 1970s. In her ambivalent depiction of female identity, she deliberately affirmed gender roles as well as their subversion. Through a series of photographic images, this book illustrates the artist’s interest in personal redefinition, through taking up her own body as both medium and metaphor.

Dance Magazine was a monthly dance publication covering modern dance and ballet, as well as other forms of dance, including jazz, that ran from 1927 to 2001.

Chicks on Speed is a feminist music-art ensemble formed by Melissa Logan, Kiki Moorse and Alex Murray-Leslie. This publication, contained inside of a cloth bag, captures their sense of freedom. It is divided into periods of their lives: 'Fake Band:, 'Pressing the Press', 'Sell Out;, and so on. Die-cut, over-printed, and assembled from many different paper stocks, this book approximates a scrapbook, full of press clippings, personal mementos, printed ephemera, and merch.

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This book presents an overview of Nauman's career from 1965 through 1988 and separate chapters devoted to his drawings, writings, films, videotapes, and performances.

A cookbook with over 100 vegetarian recipes for the home cook from the studio kitchen of world-renowned artist Olafur Eliasson.

The photographers from the renowned photo agency Magnum have worked with movie-makers since the agency was established. These momentous partnerships are properly celebrated for the first time ever in a book containing powerful images of such legends as Clint Eastwood, Marilyn Monroe, Ingrid Bergman, James Dean, Clark Gable and many others.

This book is a photographic celebration of the Hajj pilgrimage – an annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, the holiest city for Muslims. Newsha Tavakolian's remarkable photography is reproduced here with full captions that detail the events and rituals that form part of the pilgrimage.

Vivienne Westwood is one of the icons of our age. Fashion designer, activist, co-creator of punk, global brand and grandmother. Her career has successfully spanned five decades and her work has influenced millions of people across the world. This is the first and only biography written by Westwood in collaboration with award-winning biographer Ian Kelly, to describe the events, people and ideas that have shaped her extraordinary life.

A book of the furniture design work by Thomas Rietveld.

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.

This book presents necklaces, rings, bracelets, pendants, earrings, and cuff links designed by sixteen modern architect, with brief interviews with each about their work. Includes postmodern jewelry by Mario Bellini, Ettore Sottsass, Peter Shire, Marco Zanini, Michele de Luccchi et al.

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

6+ Antwerp explores the international success story of Antwerp fashion – through the designers Ann Demeulemeester, Dries Van Noten, Walter Van Beirendonck, Dirk Van Saene, Dirk Bikkembergs and Marina Yee, additionally Margiela who is referred to by the plus sign in the title.

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.

Simultaneous Soloists is an artist's book emerging from the exhibition Anthony McCall: Solid Light Works and its accompanying performance series Four Simultaneous Soloists, organised by David Grubbs. It documents these ephemeral events through multiple means: an extensive conversation between McCall and Grubbs detailing a decade of working together. Simultaneous Soloists considers from a plurality of perspectives the challenge of combining McCall's visual art with sound in live performance.

Brush Fires in the Social Landscape is a powerful and evocative retrospective collection of Wojnarowicz life. It includes a collection of his paintings, photographs, and writings also includes essays by Nan Goldin, Kiki Smith, Fran Lebowitz, and Karen Finley, among others.

Containing poetry, drawings, pressed flowers, photographs, excerpts from scripts and notes, Derek Jarman’s sketchbooks are part autobiography and part social history, bursting with the energy and creativity of this groundbreaking artist.

Ann Bonfoey Taylor (1910-2007) was a pioneering female flight instructor during World War II, was a member of the US Olympic Ski Squad in 1939, competed in tennis at Wimbledon and was accomplished at riding and shooting. This book serves as a celebration of Taylor’s extraordinary wardrobe of couture and custom-designed sporting ensembles.

Fashion has a dark side – a preoccupation with representations of death, trauma, alienation, and decay. This intriguing book looks closely at this strand of fashion design in the 1990s, exploring what its disturbing themes tell us about consumer culture and contemporary anxieties. Fashion at the Edge considers a range of cutting-edge contemporary fashion in unprecedented depth and detail, including the work of such current designers as John Galliano, Alexander McQueen, Hussein Chalayan, and Viktor & Rolf. Contrasting images by photographers like Steven Meisel, Nick Knight, and Juergen Teller are also reviewed

Anselm Kiefer is a highly influential German painter and sculptor known for his monumental, textured artworks that confront Germany's complex post-war history, the Holocaust, mythology, and mysticism, using materials like straw, lead, ash, and clay to explore memory, cultural identity, and the weight of the past. The High Priestess, begun in 1985, consists of two enormous steel bookcases, containing almost 200 gigantic lead books.

This book is a round up of all forms of aesthetic taste in America – from politics, to religion, to home decoration and advertising.

The Fundamental Picture is a series of thirty-nine works by English artists Gilbert & George that was exhibited simultaneously at the Lehmann Maupin and Sonnabend Galleries from 3 May through 28 June 1997.

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 fourth volume in the series looks at Great Britain, Ireland and Benelux.

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This witty and authoritative account traces the story of the New Romantics from the moment Steve Strange and Rusty Egan began their legendary Bowie Nights at Billyâs in Soho, through the move to Blitz, and the growth of the Birmingham scene.

A pictorial celebration of the clothing and accessories that dominated the American male dress code from 1955 to 1965.

Lee Miller is arguably the 20th century's most famous woman photographer. During her extraordinary life, she came into contact with a wide range of people including many of the most celebrated and influential artists, writers, actors, fashion designers and socialites of the last century. This book is a comprehensive collection of these photographs, while exploring the relationship between photography and Lee Miller's life.

This book is document of the centennial history of the The University of California containing more than 100 rich photogravures of university life by Ansel Adams.

In 1978, photographer Nathan Farb found his away into Soviet Russian to document the people living in Nowosibirsk, Siberia. This book presents these portraits of everyday people, presenting their fashions and expressions.

Photographs of Steve McQueen by William Claxton.

A book showcasing the jewellery made by Dali.

Two volume set of Herb Ritts' photographs of nude men and women.

A collection of different designs of Rock band T-shirts.

A collection of photographs shot mainly in Bristol in the mid 80s documenting the rise of Massive Attack. It also includes shots of them performing at the dug out club, the infamous red house jam and at St Pauls Carnival.

This book collects long-lost images of family and friends from the late 1970s by Tina Barney, the acclaimed portraitist and chronicler of domesticity.

A guide on how to make movies at home.

The pillboxes of Britain and Ireland are among the most important military structures employed in the history of the defence of these islands. This work presents the first thorough study and classification of pillboxes and related structures, including selection posts, Seagull and concrete trenches, gun-houses and turrets, battle headquarters and spigot-mortar emplacements. The author traces the use of small, free-standing defence structures from ancient times to the present, placing the pillbox within a historical continuum and identifying its course of development.

Over 300 striking images reflecting Knight's extraordinary vision and fearless experimentation, presenting his landmark career spanning both photography and fashion.

This book is a celebration of the Yves Saint Laurent look, a combination of elegance and sophisticated artistry. It is also a book in which the premiere fashion photography of our time is represented, and a book in which "the subject and the object blend because each one is a work of art."

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.”

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A collection of black and white photographs by Herbert List that portray a dramatic interplay between light and shadow across different Greek landscapes.

To celebrate its fifteenth anniversary, this volume brings together the best in fashion, art, and culture from Purple’s illustrious history. Purple revolutionised fashion photography in the nineties by commissioning fine artists to shoot fashion editorials. What resulted was a raw, improvisational aesthetic, which continues to exert its power today. Includes work from Terry Richardson, Juergen Teller, Jack Pierson, Richard Prince, John Currin, and Vanessa Beecroft.

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

Jessica Madavo and Phoenix Yemi for Ayvan Black Star is about immersing yourself in the unknown. The photography, along with the poems scattered throughout the book, are a testament to opening your heart to the present moment. Taken during the artist's time in Senegal, the images encapsulate the transformative experience of movement, discovery and unfamiliarity.

The inaugural volume in the All-American series features numerous projects by Bruce Weber, including profiles of photographer Pirkle Jones, football legend Cy Ellsworth, mountaineer Bradford Washburn, and Montana rancher John Hoiland. Also features drawings by Paul Stone.

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.

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