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.

What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women, 1843 - 1999, is an anthology of an ongoing examination of photobook history with a specific focus on photobooks created by women – from photography's beginnings to the dawn of the 21st century

In One Day, Something Happens: Paintings of People the celebrated writer, art critic and co-editor of Frieze magazine, Jennifer Higgie, illuminates her fascination for the figure in modern British painting through the works of 40 diverse artists from the past century.

A handwritten cookbook of everything from soups to pizzas, and a guide to communal living.

A book about architecture

This offers an insight into early Dutch punk zines from 1977 - 1980, when Punk first hit The Netherlands. It is a rare collection curated by Matt Plezier focusing on the graphic output of the zines, from covers, ads, band pages, comics and collages. Most zines deteriorated overtime as most zines were stenciled, an inferior but readily available printing technique at that time.

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.

As a photographer George Platt Lynes was a brilliant craftsman and master of composition, whether it be in one of his many portraits of the famous and the legendary, or in his stunningly vivid documentations of the New York City Ballet. This book breaks down his body of work into distinct sections, featuring portraits include such luminaries of twentieth century art and society as Thomas Mann, Igor Stravinsky, Countess Bismarck and Gertrude Stein, as well as fellow lens-men Cecil Beaton and Henri Cartier-Bresson.

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.

Tina Barney oeuvre contains a constructed critique of patrician otherness – from portraits in New England beach houses to New York apartments. This book collects portraits of the upper echelons of society, aristocrats and noblemen from Austria, Italy, England, France, Spain and Germany.

Francesca Woodman: On Being an Angel offers a comprehensive overview of Woodman’s oeuvre, organized chronologically, with texts by Anna Tellgren, Anna-Karin Palm and the artist’s father, George Woodman.

An exhibition catalogue to accompany the exhibition of the same name at Getty Gallery 2006. This collection includes images of globally renowned actors and musicians, drawn from Agius's vast and acclaimed body of work dating from the mid-1990.

A collection of 500+ American matchbooks from the collection of Jason Sturgill.

A unique album of photographs featuring Peter Johnson, an athlete turned muse Weber discovered on location at a wrestling camp in Iowa. Taken over four consecutive years, the photographs show the evolution from adolescence to manhood, as Johnson is seen in various states of dress and undress, in diverse locations around the world. Includes brief texts by Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, T.E. Lawrence, Shel Silverstein, and Bruce Springsteen.

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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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.

Released on the 50th anniversary of the publication of Penny Slinger's iconic artists’ book 50% The Visible Woman, this edition presents Slinger’s series of surrealist photomontage works and poetry unabridged for the first time, following the hand-constructed snakeskin-bound book from 1969, and the out-of-print abridged edition from 1971.

This book contains the most eminent and interesting examples of fashion photographer Helmut Newton’s work for magazines across Europe and the United States. Facsimiles of more than 500 original spreads from the likes of Elle, Amica, and, above all, Vogue follow Newton’s ongoing ability to break the boundaries of his genre and explore the interaction of his unique, daring, pictures with typography and layout. In lively personal anecdotes alongside the spreads, Newton talks through the inspirations and informal moments behind some of his most memorable images.

A book documenting kids playing on the streets of New York.

The expressive and empathetic black-and-white photographs of Koen Wessing offers an intriguing look at the reality of China.

Paintings by Harley Weir presents images made as a form of digression from her traditional photographic practice. Presented as short, rhythmical sequences, Paintings moves across the page like a melody, linking rhythm, colour and form through surface studies made consistently throughout the last three years.

Iconic British fashion designer, Jean Muir (1928-1995) was the doyenne of dressmaking. Her signature style married a distinctive purity of line with a soft fluidity on the body, to create the sensuous deceptively simple clothes that became her trademark, epitomised by her work in matte jersey, and in particular her jersey dresses, which brought her legendary status in an internationally-renowned career that spanned four decades. This book presents Muir's career across every aspect of the fashion world – including many of her sketches, as well as photography by Norman Parkinson, David Bailey, Eric Boman, and Deborah Turbeville.

This book illustrates David Hicks' vast range of interior designs.

In his second book, Luke Smalley revisits the themes and ideas that resonated throughout his 2002 monograph Gymnasium. Smalley returns to his native Pennsyvania to investigate the small-town interiors and landscapes which are the settings for his portraits of young atheletes. Color photographs, inspired by a more innocent era, depict exercises which combine whimsy with the inexplicable.

This is the second issue of Heatwave – a British libertarian socialist and Situationist publication from the 1960s.

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.

This three-volume book looks back on Supreme's T-shirt archives from the year 1994 to now. Each volume is dedicated to a different time and period, providing an introspective look into every T-Shirt that the New York imprint has released throughout its 30-year history

Film poster ephemera for Bollywood action film Geraftaar directed by Prayag Raj.

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A themed collection of Araki photographs. Issue 7: Sentimental Travelogue

While Joseph Beuys, Marcel Broodthaers, Robert Rauschenberg, and Andy Warhol are not a “group” in the formal sense, they are tightly connected through postwar avant-garde art, especially the shift from modernism to conceptual, media-aware, and socially engaged art in the 1950s–70s. This is a catalogue of their works from a show presented at Galerie Isy Brachot in Paris.

Kara Walker is among the most complex and prolific American artists of her generation. Over the past decade, she has gained international recognition for her room-sized tableaux, which depict historical narratives haunted by sexuality, violence and subjugation.

Photographs of people in their place of work – accompanied by  humorous, heartbreaking and insightful quotes about the experience of work itself.

This book takes place at the cusp of the 20th and 21st centuries, in the pre and post-September 11th world. It is a singular product of its time, packed full of words and images portraying the architectural projects and metaphysical mechanics that have defined Rem Koolhas's OMA-AMO firm.

This Will Not End Well is the first book to present a comprehensive overview of Nan Goldin’s work as a filmmaker. The book draws from the nearly dozen slideshows and films Goldin has made from thousands of photographs, film sequences, audio tapes and music tracks. The stories told range from the trauma of her family history to the portrayal of her bohemian friends, to a journey into the darkness of addiction. By focusing exclusively on slideshows and video installations, This Will Not End Well aims to fully embrace Goldin's vision of how her work should be experienced.

Thames Log by British photographer and film-maker Chloe Dewe Mathews examines the ever-changing nature of our relationship to water – from ancient pagan festivities through to the rituals of modern life.

An exploration of the evolution at street fashion from 1940 to today.

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.

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

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This zine, published to coincide with the exhibition of the same name, brings together a selection of mail art projects that Carrión developed between 1973 and 1983, erasing the boundaries between artwork, archive and document.

Published in 2001, "Alive" was Mario Testino’s third book in which the photographer shares moments from all his travels to exotic locales from magnificent cities by night. filled with models, celebrities and friends.

During the summer of 1959, Bruce Davidson followed a loosely knit "gang" of teenagers around Brooklyn, New York. His camera captured the youth of the James Dean generation in both private and public moments at the soda fountain, the tattoo parlor, Coney Island, and late night basement dance parties.

A book on the architecture of Scotland from prehistoric times to present day.

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 Sitwells were an aristocratic British literary family consisting of three siblings—Dame Edith Sitwell (poet), Sir Osbert Sitwell (writer and critic), and Sacheverell Sitwell (art and music historian)—who, along with their family, were influential cultural figures in the 20th century, known for their avant-garde tastes, eccentricity, and patronage of the arts, particularly in the 1920s and 1930s London scene. This illustrated biography of the Sitwell family accompanies a major 1994 exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery.

Published in 1983 as a companion piece to the hugely popular Sloane Ranger’s Handbook, authors Ann Barr and Peter York expanded the satirical take on the upper classes by providing a definitive guide to the Sloane year.

Notes From a Revolution chronicles the San Francisco Diggers, a radical 1966 Haight-Ashbury collective formed by members of San Francisco Mime Troupe. Led by activists including Peter Coyote, they fused anarchism, street theater, and direct action, distributing provocative broadsides while providing free food and services, capturing the spirit of early counterculture.

PICPUS is an A6-format arts quarterly that was founded by Charles Asprey and Simon Grant over lunch in London. This issue features Lily McMenamy, Beca Lipscombe, focusing on thematic content related to the Stelae of Axum

Ed Templeton captures the intimacy and awkwardness of young love.

Alexey Brodovitch was a Russian-born American designer, photographer, and educator known for revolutionising graphic design and art direction, particularly during his long tenure as Art Director of Harper's Bazaar. He is celebrated for introducing the avant-garde European aesthetic to American design, using dramatic layouts, bold typography, and generous white space, and for mentoring a new generation of influential photographers like Richard Avedon and Irving Penn. This book presents a look into his work as one of the most important graphic designers and photographers of the 20th century.

Self Publish, Be Happy explores the recent revolution in self-published photobooks. Blending manifesto, practical manual, and survey, Bruno Ceschel highlights key success stories, case studies, and artist testimonies. With insight from Museum of Modern Art librarian David Senior, it situates today’s DIY photobook movement within a broader artistic legacy.

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Privatise the Mandem is a manifesto and blueprint detailing how members of inner-city communities can acquire the freehold of their buildings through legislative tools such as ‘CollectiveEnfranchisement’ and the ‘Right-to-Buy/Acquire‘. The work argues the necessity of collective ownership of the ends as well as detailing the consequences of delivering on the vision.

This book is a visual celebration of the Swinging Sixties and of the beautiful, creative women of that era. Portraits taken by John D. Green Julie Christie, Susannah York, Hayley Mills, Dusty Springfield, Marianne Faithful, Mary Quant and many more.

Batia Suter's work intuitively situates found images in new contexts to provoke surprising reactions and significative possibilities. This volume follows on from the first Parallel Encyclopedia, published originally in 2007. Underlying themes of Suter's practice are the "iconification" of old images, and the circumstances by which they become charged with new associative values.

Originally completed in 1968, Kent’s Signal Code Alphabet is a series of 26 kaleidoscopic serigraphs combining scripture, typography, imagery, iconography, and International Code of Signals flags.

A reprint of David Wojnarowicz’s fractured scrapbook of dream journals, political critique and collage—a document of 1980s New York subculture.

Issue on the Pompidou Centre, Paris 1972-1977

For Gary Winogrand, the street was a stage which revealed humanity through a spectrum of candid dramas. This comprehensive monograph spans three and a half decades, concentrating on the kinetic street pictures that form the core of Winogrand’s vision, capturing a 1970s New York.

A Lebanese Archive is based on a collection of archival photographs from Lebanon and the Middle East which came into the hands of Ania Dabrowska in 2010 when she was a SPACE artist-in-residence at Arlington hostel in Camden, London. It belongs to Diab Alkarssifi, a Lebanese emigre who was living there at the time. The images were taken and collected by Alkarssifi over a lifetime. It was a chance encounter that gave birth to the archiving of a huge collection, and the developmen of a new body of work by Dabrowska - published here for the first time.

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.

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.

This book features 44 of Odundo's vessels alongside a large selection of museological and contemporary objects that reveal the wide range of global references that have informed her practice. The book object comprises a series of interleaved sections presenting an organic flow of content which pairs and juxtaposes the historic and the contemporary, featuring works by Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Lucie Rie, Jean Arp, as well as ancient vessels from around the world.

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.

A series black-and-white photographs of natural elements—water, sand, and wood—rendered in a highly graphic, abstract style. Published in 1967, the images transform natural textures into evocative, almost painterly compositions. Accompanied by a preface by sculptor François Stahly and poems by Anne de Staël, the work combines photography and poetry in a reflective dialogue with nature.

For 25 years, Tom Wood lived in New Brighton, just across the river Mersey from Liverpool. He became known locally as "photieman" because everyday he was out on the streets with his camera. Most of the pictures collected in this book were taken within a five-minute walk from Wood's home. The work focuses on the inhabitants of the town and its regular visitors – youths, friends, lovers, fathers, mothers and babies to provide insight into the area.

Deborah Turbeville is remembered today as a pioneering figure in fashion photography, known for her melancholic, dreamlike imagery that diverged from conventional standards. However, after working with Harper's Bazar, he soon lost interest in conventional editorial work, turning instead to photography as an outlet for artistic expression and experimentation. Les Amoureuses Du Temps Passe, translated to Lovers of Time Passing, is a collection of some of her best images in fashion and beyond.

Portraits of students at Cheletenham Ladies college by British Photographer Sue Packer.

This book presents a collection of works taken between 1966 and 1992 by photographer Esther Kroon. Kroon mainly photographed street children, with the streets and the neighbourhoods forming the background of the images. Her photos are moving but never move into cliché territory, which often happens with photographs of children. The images are characterised by honesty and openness. The children pictured are both curious and hesitant. The hard flash and the often low perspective create penetrating photos and give the images a rather dark and ominous feeling, bringing to mind the photos of Diane Arbus.

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Published to coincide with the Standard Bank Young Artist Award 2015, Kemang Wa Lehulere's first comprehensive monograph traces his work from 2005 to 2015. Images of Wa Lehulere's drawings, performances, videos and installations are interspersed with various forms of texts by the artist, including poetry and scripts for performance,

Dance Perspectives was published quarterly from 1959-1976, and was a collection of writings on dance, art, costume and theatre. This issue focuses on Dance in Ghana.

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Aisha is Yemeni Egyptian American photographer and filmmaker Yumna Al-Arashi’s first artist’s book. This powerful, delicate publication, inspired by Al-Arashi’s great-grandmother, Aisha, is an homage to the lineage of women that she descends from; women of the multidimensional and many-layered landscapes of the MENA region.

A collection of scripts, pictures, documents, scenes and notes from from The Tin Drum directed by Volker Schlöndorff based on the novel by Günter Grass.

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

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

Spanning five key years from 2016 to 2021, this monograph is dedicated to Tobias Spichtig’s work presents a high-definition snapshot of the Swiss artist’s aesthetic vision. Published by KALEIDOSCOPE, the pages present a variety of the artist's works – from oil, acrylic, graphite, diamond dust, and photographic prints on canvas – alongside essays.

AnOther Magazine's launch in 2001 heralded a new chapter in magazine publishing. Its blend of high fashion and world-class photography with intelligent features on the arts, politics and literature.

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Published to coincide with Welcome to Iraq, an Iraqi participation in the 55th International Art Exhibition la Biennale di Venezia, 2013. Texts by exhibition curator Jonathan Watkins and acclaimed Iraqi writer Tamara Chalabi. Illustrated with images of selected work and recent photographs of everyday life in Baghdad, Babylon, Basra, Erbil and Sulaimaniya.

Working closely with her subjects on setting, lighting, and pose, photographer Deana Lawson creates intimate depictions of Black bodies interacting in both public and private spaces. The resulting images are formally rigorous in terms of composition—every detail is meticulous and motivated—as well as suggestive of Lawson’s personal connection with those she photographs. Deana Lawson: An Aperture Monograph features forty beautifully reproduced photographs that portray the personal and the powerful in black life.

A collection of retail window displays.

A periodical book on modern houses from around the globe. Featuring work of architects Jørn Utzon, Hans Scharoun, John Portman & Associates, Cesar Pelli/Gruen Associates

A themed collection of Araki photographs. Issue 17: Sensual Flowers.

Malick Sidibe has gained an international reputation for his documentation of an important period in the history of Bamako. His portraits document the social life in of this region, especially the youth culture. Images of people gathering outside of a club; couples performing the Mali twist in a disco; African fashions; the beauty of havng fun in the street. Sidibe's photographs oscillating between the traditional tribal life and urban survival in the West African city of Bamako.

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 single work of art that unfolds over 200 odd pages, a visual poem of sex and violence and beauty, an essay told through personal work, newspaper clippings, archival images and television screens - it seems to offer a new interpretation of itself with each visit.

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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.

Following the release of the first seven volumes in 1973 the editors returned to the project in 1977 with a series of four yearly annuals.

In 1925 the Siberian immigrant Anatol Josepho had an idea for a small curtain-enclosed booth where people could take affordable portraits anonymously and automatically. The photobooth was born. Within 20 years there were more than 30,000 in the United States alone, an explosive growth due largely to World War II, as soldiers and loved ones exchanged photos. Photobooth presents over 700 photographs taken in the photobooth from the last 75 years – images that are spontaneous, inhibited, and touching. It is a captivating portrait of every day people and a testament to the ongoing fascination with the process and the photography.

Richard Billingham's Ray's a Laugh is considered one of the most important contemporary photobooks from Britain. Centered around Billingham's working-class family who live in a cramped Birmingham high-rise tenement apartment and his father Ray - a chronic alcoholic - these candid snapshots describe their daily lives in a visual diary that is raw, intimate, touching and often uncomfortably humorous.

This classic work of analog photojournalism—focusing on the idiosyncratic denizens of an iconic bar in the red-light district of Hamburg, Germany

Stylists are some of the most influential people working within the fashion industry. This book covers styling for commercial ad campaigns, catwalk shows and fashion editorial, as well as looking inside the business of retail itself, featuring the hugely successful brands and designers for whom the ‘super stylists’ consult. Featuring stunning imagery and entertaining interviews with some of the biggest names in the field, including Lady Gaga's stylist Nicola Formichetti, Marc Jacob's collaborator Katie Grand and Melanie Ward of Harper's Bazaar, this is an essential book for any aspiring stylist or fashion student.

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.

This catalogue accompanied the eleventh iteration of Sharjah Biennial. Re:Emerge Towards a New Cultural Cartography brought together artists, architects and musicians to reflect on themes of identity, migration, trade, cultural influence and synthesis.

This book explores furniture from ancient Egypt to 400 BC, emphasising style, construction, and detailed measured drawings. It presents continuity of design across centuries, showcasing features like animal-hoof chair legs evolving from cattle to lions, and decorative motifs such as pine cones, offering a thorough study of early craftsmanship and aesthetic development in ancient furniture.

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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.

The publication presents selected works between 1998–2008 from Vodder’s oeuvre – spanning painting, drawing, collage, book-objects, and multiples. Her works explore tensions between abstract images and images that depict or carry meaning. Titles, distinct yet understated, are integral, opening a space between word and image. The result is a poetic, conceptual play between language, material, and visual perception.

Ernest Cole, a Black South African man, photographed the underbelly of apartheid in the 1950s and ’60s, often at great personal risk. He methodically captured the myriad forms of violence embedded in everyday life for the Black majority under the apartheid system—picturing its miners, its police, its hospitals, its schools. In 1966, Cole fled South Africa and smuggled out his negatives; House of Bondage was published the following year with his writings and first-person account. This edition retains the powerful story of the original while adding new perspectives on Cole’s life and the legacy of House of Bondage, remaining a visually powerful and politically incisive document of the apartheid era.

Catalogue published on the occassion of the 2002 German museum exhibition "For the Benefit of All the Races of Mankind An Exhibition of Artifacts, Remnants, and Effluvia EXCAVATED from the Black Heart of a Negress" by African-American artist Kara Walker.

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.