Distinct Ambiguity is the first book to present GRAFT’s comprehensive body of work. It is structured into five thematic chapters that reflect the fundamental aspects of the collective’s inimitable approach.
Photographer Vivian Cherry began her career in the early 1940s while working as a dancer in Broadway shows and nightclubs. At the end of World War II, New York City went through a period of transformation, as war rations gave way to prosperity, loved ones were reunited, and babies were born into a new era. Her work from this period, collected here for the first time in Helluva Town, provides lively vignettes of our collective memory, suffusing gritty street scenes with warmth and gentleness alongside social consciousness and history.
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.
In a collection of austere portraits of personalities including Truman Capote, Rose Mary Woods, and Andy Warhol, Avedon demonstrates his aim to retain the sitter's identity and solidity of being without using illusionistic effects.
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.
Street Art captures and explores the works and philosophies of the most prominent street artists of today, often in their own voices, revealing what is behind these familiar images —from the influence of Christo's early public projects to Keith Haring's chalk drawings.
All-American: Short Stories features Bruce Weber photos of Pietro and Andrea Clemente and a profile of Elizabeth Taylor at home. This edition also includes the interior drawings of Jeremiah Goodman, Kentucky photos by William Gedney, figure studies by George Daniell, and a chapter of poetry by James Schuyler.
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.
A visual guidebook for photographing women.
This book collects Brassai's iconic scenes of nocturnal Paris with its prostitutes and thugs, its night workers, cafes, dance halls, and theatres; fog-shrouded streets, monuments, and bridges; the literary and artistic elite of the Parisian avant-garde, whom Brassai counted among his friends.
Early in life, American fashion photographer George Platt Lynes developed a close friendship with the publisher Monroe Wheeler and with writer Glenway Wescott. This collection presents the photographs the three took travelling together over seventy years ago, and a glimpse into their intertwined intimate three-way relationship. A travel album of their trips around Europe.
In more than three decades, Kentridge has produced an oeuvre spanning diverse media including animated film, drawings, prints and rare books, stage production and sculpture. A Poem That Is Not Our Own aims to create a link between his early drawings and films from the 1980s and 1990s and his most recent work.
A themed collection of Araki photographs. Issue 6: Tokyo Novel
A history of fashion, society and the arts, as seen through "Vogue" magazine, from 1916 to 1990.
This monograph presents the work of Vito Acconci, one of the most influential of the last 30 years. His experiments with performance, audio and video, sculpture, and architecture from the late 1960s through the present have become points of reference for younger artists. The overriding concerns throughout his work have been self-analysis and interpersonal relationships, themes he has explored in many different ways.
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.
Featuring the work of Frank Lloyd Wright
This is the accompanying publication for Die Cuts, a film installation exhibited at Frieze No.9 Cork Street from November 2–4, 2022. The installation featured a 14-minute looping film by Tyrone Lebon alongside the album Die Cuts by Dom Maker of Mount Kimbie. The film and album were presented together but looped independently. This publication records every hand-animated frame from the film.
This book accompanies Sharjah Biennial 14: Leaving The Echo Chamber. This book charts a non-chronological time-space (dis-) continuum between the Americas and the Emirates, building unexpected trans-oceanic and multi-diasporic bridges for a global history. This volume provides interpretative, discursive, poetic, political, and theoretical tools to compare and contrast modes of migration, production, extraction, and exploitation through a series of 30 newly commissioned context-specific works and critical texts.
In a photographic career that spanned only seventeen years, Jack Robinson created an extraordinary body of work that captured both the faces and the fashions of the 1960s - a defining period of twentieth-century popular arts. When he died in 1977 at age 69, few people would have guessed that this reclusive artist had been at the center of the glitterati in the Swinging Sixties and was acknowledged by his peers as one of the preeminent photographers in the business.
This book focuses on Hicks' use of fabric; his treatment of curtains, upholstery, bed-hangings, fabric-covered walls and other soft furnishings
A book on the film and video work of Robert Frank.
Linder Sterling's work had its first exposure in the punk fanzine The Secret Public and as art for the sleeve of the Buzzcocks' first single, "Orgasm Addict." Linder's multidisciplinary work, work that has led observers to call her the missing link between Yoko Ono and Tracey Emin. This first book, a rediscovery and a debut at once, includes contributions from writers and cultural figures including Philip Hoare, Jon Savage, Andrew Renton, Lynne Tillman, Paul Bailey and Morrissey.
A catalogue of different designs for platform shoes.
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Special supplement to influential eighties men’s magazine Per Lui which featured the work of many well known fashion photographers through its time: Bruce Weber, Mario Testino, Herb Ritts, Steven Meisel amongst them. In this extended 80-page editorial, Bruce Weber and crew based out of the Shangri La Hotel in Los Angeles photographs a summer at the beach.
A book about the patterns and fabrics of Juergen Lehl, a German designer who worked in Tokyo since starting a company there in 1972
Tacita Dean is considered among the most important living British artists. Best known for her filmmaking, which has taken her all over the world, she is a passionate defender of analogue methods. This authoritative publication brings together her writings with a complete filmography
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.
Issue on the work of Frank Lloyd Wright.
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.
Max Ernst (1891-1976) remains one of the most famous names to be associated with Surrealism. This book is a definitive adocument of the painter and the creative processes and influences behind his work, enhanced by testaments by many of his friends including fellow Surrealists André Breton, Paul Éluard, Roberto Matta and Hans Arp.
Alexander Honory belongs to the category of artists, whose work is based on the ability of gathering people – utilsing found photography and installation to provide an anthropological review of people from different parts of the globe. The work in this book is part of a series called Rekonstruktionen XII. It is described as a catalog containing photographs and texts related to Honory's work between 1990 and 1992.
The third in the Photoworks Monograph series, a publication displaying the work by Irish photographer Gareth McConnell.
An incredible reference book that quietly tells the history of fashion in Japan. Kurimoto shoots girls on the street in their everyday outfits from 1970-1988, in Tokyo, Kyoto, Yokohama, and so on. Arranged by year and roughly grouped according to their looks – with reference to natural styling & accessorising present in Japanese youth culture.
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.
In London, photographer Alex Hütte takes a typological approach to a building form that was largely ignored by local photographers before he turned his camera upon it--the social housing blocks built at various times during the twentieth century to house London's working class citizens. Hütte concentrates on two particular periods of mass social housing: the blocks built around the beginning of the twentieth century...and the now discredited tower blocks of the 1960s and 1970s.
Confine documents the black and white photographs the Neapolitan artist Marialba Russo.
A periodical book on modern houses from around the globe. Featuring work of architects Frank Lloyd Wright, Philip Johnson, Bruce Goff, Le Corbusier and Marcel Breuer.
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.
From the Caribbean to Italy and Mexico to Monaco, Poolside with Slim Aarons whisks the reader away to an exclusive club where taste, style, luxury and grandeur prevail.
A book about architecture
The book is a significant historical record of Tokyo's sex industry through the photographs by Nobuyoshi Araki, which are raw, candid and explicit images documenting the behind the scenes of sex work in Japan.
Constructed Narratives brings together essays and several recently completed buildings by David Adjaye, in the United States and elsewhere. In the essays, Adjaye shows how his approach to the design of temporary pavilions and furniture, private houses, and installations at the 2015 Venice Biennale feeds into his designs for public buildings.
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.
A book about workshop traditions which have been handed down by Koreans and Japanese from the greatest period of Chinese ceramics in Sung dynasty.
From 11 December 2011 to 6 May 2012, the Groninger Museum presented the exhibition entitled Azzedine Alaia 2001 - 2011: displaying the most fantastic Alaïa fashion creations of the last ten years. This book is an accompaniment to this exhibition, featuring full page photographs of the House's creations.
This is book published to accompany the exhibition Diary at the Seibu Museum, Tokyo, Japan in 1993. it includes extracts of Peter Beard's diary made of various collage of photographs, texts, newspaper clippings and paintings.
Norman Parkinson (1913-1990), along with Avedon and Penn, largely invented fashion photography was a pioneer of fashion photography, influencing the ways in which we know it today. This book illustrates fifty years of his work – including his work for Vogue and portraits of the British Royal Family.
A socialist journal of the social services. Special issue on labour and human services.
This book documents Glen Luchford's iconic campaigns shot for Prada from 1996 to 1998. The huge cinematic billboards all over the world featuring Amber Valletta, Willem Dafoe, Joaquin Phoenix and many others are reproducced in their entirity and discussed at length in the book's text, a transcript of a conversation between Glen and Lou Stoppard.
GA Document is a Global Architecture focusing on contemporary international architecture and design projects.
A collection of photographs depicting the female nude.
Richard Prince is a prominent American conceptual artist who takes existing images from mass media and recontextualises them to critique American consumerism, desire, sex, and power. Adult, Comedy, Action, Drama is a visual "autobiography through words and pictures," utilising a DIY scrapbook aesthetic. It contains 235 color illustrations, juxtaposing Prince's own artwork with images he has collected from consumer culture.
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.
Eikoh Hosoe is one of Japan's most iconic post-war photographers, recognized for his legendary collaborations and impeccable aesthetics. Ordeal by Roses is an extended photographic portrait of his work in collaboration with celebrated author Yukio Mishima. The series features Mishima in a variety of poses, proudly showing off his muscular physique, the result of many years of dedicated bodybuilding. The photographs—taken from autumn 1961 to spring 1962, mostly at the writer’s home in the Magome district of Tokyo—encapsulated Mishima’s self-image and brought it to vivid life in photographs that used a variety of sophisticated techniques to create an astonishing world of provocative sensuality.
A book about architecture
This book features selections from over a dozen albums, many never-before-seen, and includes Shabazz's earliest photographs as well as images taken inside Rikers Island, all accompanied by essays that situate Shabazz's work within the broader history of photography.
A reproduction of (a, b, c) in which Ulises Carrión presents one if his early linguistic exercises in English, originally handwritten in green ink in 1972.
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.
Living Trust is the first monograph by American artist Buck Ellison. LA-based Ellison’s work broadly investigates the language of privilege through meticulously researched images, often executed through staged settings and performative interventions into the visual language of photography.
Since the mid-1950s, Eikoh Hosoe has been at the forefront of photographic practice in Japan: as an image-maker encompassing a broad range of subjects; a curator introducing works of master European and American photographers to Japan in 1968; a teacher informing the careers of numerous distinguished photographers, such as Daido Moriyama. This book features Hosoe’s major photographic series but also reveals his lesser-known collaborative works with writers, critics, dancers, and artists, including Yayoi Kusama, in portraiture and beyond.
Incredible snapshot of the Drag scene during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Issey Miyake: East Meets West features an impressive contrast of designs influenced by both Eastern and Western cultures. East Meets West was the first ever monograph that was created about the living fashion designer, and its importance is unquestionable. With over 200 pages of full bleed color images featuring some of Issey Miyake’s colorful clothing, the book truthfully depicts the designer’s passion for design, culture, and authenticity. Featuring editorial photos shot by the likes of Noriaki Yokosuka to the capturing of runway spectacles that combine movement with clothing.
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.
Photographer Jo Spence challenges the assumptions of conventional photography in this groundbreaking visual autobiography, which traces her journey from self-censorship to self-healing.
A book about architecture
The Bikeriders explores firsthand the stories and characters of the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club.
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 a collection of the early drawings and watercolours of Joseph Beuys. Drawing and painting with watercolors was a form of exploring a spiritual world of images which provided him with the fundamental relationships and terms for his later work as a politically active artist.
When Bruce Weber opened the Tokyo iteration of his “Filmography” exhibition in 2005, he collaborated with the distributor Kinetique to release a limited-edition catalogue of the show. Drawing extensively from imagery related to each of his feature films and shorts, this book celebrates the fantasies and aspirations of cinema. In addition to showcasing his own film work, Bruce celebrates the talents of directors and actors who inspire him, everyone from Michelangelo Antonioni and Pedro Almodovar to Benicio del Toro and Vanessa Redgrave. The book includes an essay Bruce wrote in tribute to the late, great actor, River Phoenix, the subject of a film he never got to make. In this essay, and in each of these photographs, Bruce presents the elusive dreamworld of the big screen as a space of freedom, innocence and the possibility of personal expression.
A themed collection of Araki photographs. Issue 12: Dramatic Shooting and Fake Reportage
A visual collection of rock star tattoos.
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.
From David Beckham to Princess Diana, Michael Jackson to Madonna: few have escaped the lens of Richard Young. This book collects works from his career that spanned three decades.
For this book, the Dutch designer Annelys de Vet invited Palestinian artists, photographers and designers to map their country of Palestine as they see it. Given their closeness to the subject, this has resulted in unconventional, very human impressions of the landscape and the architecture, the cuisine, the music and the poetry of thought and expression.
Top photographers Bruce Weber, Richard Avedon, and Herb Ritts interpret Gianni Versace's kaleidoscopic vision of men's fashion. Whether at ease by the sea, or dressed for business in New York or Milan, the Versace man radiates self-assurance and defines contemporary taste. The Versace man - a man without ties - is drawn to Gianni Versace's timeless elegance.
Robert Frank was a Swiss-American photographer and filmmaker best known for his influential book The Americans (1958), which presented a raw, outsider’s perspective on U.S. society and transformed modern photography. His work is distinguished by its emotional intensity and focus on themes such as identity, loss, and the complexities of American life. Frank later expanded into filmmaking and experimenting with altered photographs and video art. This publication established his autobiographical, sometimes confessional, approach to bookmaking. This structure itself mirrors the rhythm of Frank’s life – featuring short personal texts, diary entries, and photographs that fully bring his voice into the book.
The International Hairstyle Index presents the works of leading and innovative hairdressers and stylists from all over the world.
At the vanguard of fashion, design and art, AnOther Magazine has, over the past decade, become known for its signature fusion of fashion photography and classic portraiture. Another Portrait Book includes a stellar selection of these celebrity shots—Nicole Kidman, Jodie Foster, Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow among them, as well as portraits of figures from the worlds of music, literature and art, such as Gore Vidal, Björk, Lucian Freud, Patti Smith, Marianne Faithful and Kate Moss, captured by the world’s most iconoclastic photographers.
This catalogue was published to coincide with an exhibition at The Art Institute of Chicago featureing established and emerging Dutch photographers – including Rineke Dijkstra, Bertien van Manen, Hans van der Meer, Celine van Balen, Koos Breukel, Juul Hondius, Hellen van Meene, and more.
This book shows some of Miyake’s most famous pieces in beautiful detail photographed on clean white backdrops with bright light to capture the pleat pattern, shot by Irving Penn.
A book about architecture
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.
Everyday Things, White City Generation 88-97 is a photobook that attempts to answer two pivotal questions; what is the everyday and what our are our everyday things? This photobook is compromised by a series of photographs made with a familial group of young Black adults living in White City, Shepherd's Bush, West London. Throughout the photobook, annotative reflections exploring what it was like to grow up in and live the area, are shared by the familial group alongside their perceptions of White City’s historical and contemporary representations.
Between 2007 and 2017, across the hours of 8:30 and 9:30am, Danish photographer stood with his camera at the southern corner of 42nd Street and Vanderbilt Avenue in New York City. In narrowing the infinite opportunities New York City has to offer an artist, Funch brings to the surface the minutiae contained within a fragment of our daily routine.
A collection of photographs depicting the female nude.
Gallant began his professional career in fashion as a hairdresser, working at Bergdorf Goodman department store in New York as one of the city's top colourists. This new book tracing Gallant's life and career is edited by David Wills and features photographs by Richard Avedon plus a foreword by Anjelica Huston.
GA Document is a Global Architecture focusing on contemporary international architecture and design projects.
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Catalogue published on the occasion for the first ever retrospective of Wallace Berman's work. An enigmatic figure, Berman’s interests in the Kabbalah, music and poetry combined to make him a huge influence on a group of artists and poets of the Beat generation in the late 1950s and 1960s.
In this first major monograph chronicling the entirety of the artist’s career, McGinley’s work is considered by three extraordinary figures: Chris Kraus, novelist and critic; John Kelsey, writer, artist and activist; and Gus Van Sant, the auteur filmmaker. Each attends—through the lens of their own rich insights—to various aspects of the artist’s work and creative process, offering in-depth and unique perspectives on McGinley’s work and import.
Catalog of Biennale di Firenze 1996 curated by Germano Celant, Luigi Settembrini, and Ingrid Sishy. The book includes a vast assortment of photo archive materials about both art and fashion. Artists who focus on clothes and designers include Vito Acconci, Azzedine Alaïa, Giorgio Armani, Nigel Atkinson, Manolo Blahnik, David Bowie, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Tony Cragg, Ann Demeulemeester, and more.
Body Architecture explores Lucy Orta's historic works, Refuge Wear, Nexus Architecture and Connector Body Architecture, to reveal ways in which the perceptions of space plays a crucial role in the construction of personal and collective identity.
Abramovic defines "Inbetween" as the place between departure and arrival—or the space one inhabits while in transit. The sketches, hastily written notes, collages made from found and accumulated scraps, and photographs that are included in this bookwork are a chronicle of her visit to this temporal resting-place. Part diary, part work notebook, we are offered an intimate glimpse of Abramovic’s observations and thoughts during her residency in Japan. Printed on a heavy printmaking stock.
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.
his is the brilliant 30 Anni Di Vogue - a visual history of Italian Vogue edited by Franca Sozzani, including fashion photographs of high fashion models from the likes of Claudia Schiffer by Herb Ritts to Veruschka by Steven Meisel.
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.