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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.

This book explores topics such as the morals of city planning and affordable housing, rehabilitation and education, public vs private space, and the desire to strengthen inner-city communities.

A selection of rings from the Ghysels collection and a complete monography about the different topologies, shapes, materials and functions of rings in the history and culture of different peoples and countries in the world.

Covering more than five decades, this publication gives a dazzling review of the great enfant terrible of French fashion, Jean Paul Gaultier (born 1952). Displaying Gaultier's oeuvre alphabetically--including iconic pieces such as Madonna's corsets and Kylie Minogue's stage costumes--Jean Paul Gaultier: From A to Z examines the designer's singular aesthetic from all angles while exploring his different influences: from cinema to dance, from Frida Kahlo to sailors.

People of the Mud is a powerful new series by Berlin-based US-Dominican artist Luis Alberto Rodriguez, made collaboratively amongst the communities of County Wexford in Ireland, where ancient tradition and modern life rub shoulders daily.

This volume features the Spring/Summer 2022 collection designed by John Galliano for Maison Margiela. Leafing through the book, you will find a spool with a measuring tape hidden in the middle of the pages.

A comprehensive collection of essays on dance.


Concentrating mainly on the 19th and 20th centuries, this is a study of the necklace as an emblem of wealth and status, shaped and reshaped throughout the centuries by successive fashions, techniques and materials, from the Egyptian broad collar to the diamond chokers of the 1920s.

A socialist journal of the social services. In this issue; Marxian theory and social work practice; the economic context of day care policy debates; conselling in crisis; focus on peace from the archives; plus book reviews.
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We Have No Place to Be (originally published by Soshisha in 1982) launched Hashiguchi’s illustrious 40-year career, and remains widely regarded as one of the photographer’s seminal early works. This new edition from Session Press, supervised and edited by Hashiguchi himself, is comprised of 139 b&w photographs, including more than 30 previously unpublished images.

This book is part of a four part series exploring the work of four influential designers. This volume explores the work of Pierre Bernard, an influential French graphic designer known for his social, political, and cultural design work, most notably as a founder of the collective Grapus

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.

Cover to Cover follows artist Michael Snow through a series of disorienting, domestic self-portraits. Snow, who remains quietly composed throughout, is depicted in various ordinary scenarios made ethereal by artful gestures in composition and lighting.

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.

Part memoir, part document of the DIY, punk-infused subculture of skateboarding as it came of age in the 1990s and early 2000s, Ed Templeton's Wires Crossed pulses with the raw, combustive energy of Templeton's image-making from the last twenty-plus years.

Sebastian Riemer’s Press Paintings series looks at the waste paper produced in the last century by the press photo industry. He examines numerous images, analysing the manual work that went into editing them, a primitive process from today’s perspective. The works, produced in the period since 2013, blur the boundary between photography and painting, between the documentary and its opposite.

Leafing through a wealth of private photo albums and personal archives, Lee Radziwill offers a unique perspective of happy times: from the first trip to Europe and the Bouvier sisters to fond memories of Christmas in Palm Beach with President Kennedy. Through anecdotes and pictures, personal notes and drawings, Happy Times offers readers a very personal perspective on a highly publicized life.

Featuring the work of Frank Lloyd Wright

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.

Photographs of fans of The Rolling Stones.
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This book is a moving collection of sensitive and informative photos and captions documenting the African American struggle for self-definition in mid-20th century America. Through black and white photographs, Freed investigates the politics of the country in the 1960s, as well as articulates the anxiety of under represented and discriminated people.

This comprehensive volume presents the works of the Swedish photographer, and includes five essays which analyse different aspects of Frank's photographs, films and videos.

This book chronicles Beau Geste Press (1971–1976) through works by founders and collaborators linked to Fluxus and neo-Dada. A detailed “catalogue dé-raisonné,” it examines experimental publishing methods and the press’s international influence, accompanying the 2017 CAPC exhibition.

A collection of 50 photographs taken by Arnold Newman presented at the National Portrait Gallery on the occassion of an exhibition of the same name, sponsered by Sunday Times. Striking black and white portraits of artists and figures including Francis Bacon, William Armstrong, Cecil Beaton, Janet Baker, and more.


Clifford Coffin is known by many as the greatest of Vogue's "lost" photographers – an artist who was ahead of his time. His innovative an intriguing fashion photographs of the 1940s and 1950s for renowned magazines including Vogue, Glamour and Jardin des Modes challenged the standards of the day. This is the first monograph of his work, published to coincide with an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery and includes a rare collection of over 100 full colour and duotone photographs – many of which were previously unpublished.

This book presents a dialogue between Shoji Hamada and Bernard Leach, exploring the aesthetics, techniques, and philosophy of one of the 20th century’s most influential craftsmen. It offers insights into their creative processes and the distinctive lifestyle shaped by dedication to traditional and studio pottery.

This major monograph looks at the work of seminal Palestinian artist Abdul Hay Mosallam Zarara, who used his work to decry the violent suppression of his homeland and promote international solidarity worldwide.

Looks is the definitive guide to the looks designed and, in these photographs, worn by Leigh Bowery. One of Britain's most heroically ambitious designers and performance artists, Bowery remains an inspiration to many fashion designers today.

Life is Space 4 was a one day seminar held at Studio Olafur Eliasson where invited artists, scientists, scholars, dancers, theorists, spatial practitioners and movement experts gathered to share, discuss, present, and experiment with ideas loosely based around the theme of Life and Space.
A collection of Bill Brandt's portraits of actors, poets, musicians, philosophers, and artists of all kinds.

Featuring sixteen of fashion's top tastemakers, Stylist focuses of fashion insiders whose precocious sense of style often results in trends of global proportions. Featuring the photography of such luminaries as Cecil Beaton, Richard Avedon, Steven Meisel, and Annie Leibovitz among others, this book documents the work and contributions of each stylist through photographs of their creative output and inspirations, and illustrates their distinctive taste, individual flair, and talent for igniting global fashion fervor.


This book presents the archive of Vogue Paris' covers from 1920 to 2009 – each of which record the history and trends in fashion and design, as well as the month-to-month whims of popular culture. Among the covers are creations by some of the greatest artists of their era: distinguished illustrators such as Lepape, Gruau, and Benito, and photographers like Man Ray, Steichen, Newton, Bourdin, and Testino. Here, too, are iconic faces: Twiggy, Audrey Hepburn, Brigitte Bardot, Kate Moss, and more.

Arthur Tress is known for his staged surrealism and exposition of the human body. Theater of the Mind explores adult fantasies and marked the introduction in Tress's work of overtly erotic imagery. As Tress explained, he sought to make "photographs [that] attempt to make explicit . . . sexual passions and ironies," albeit with spiritual dimensions.

A comprehensive history of couture designers.

Lee Miller in Fashion gives us a wide lens view on Miller’s fashion photography. Set against the fast-changing landscapes of New York, Paris, and London, the book shows the story of how Miller challenged the boundaries of fashion photography of the day. Using unpublished photographs and archival research, Conekin shows how Miller’s fashion photographs were a brilliant combination of sharp wit, high art and modernist edge.

Shot in Taos, New Mexico, where Hopper was based following the production of Easy Rider in the late 60s, this series was taken with disposable cameras and developed in drugstore photo labs.

This entry into the Gwent College of Higher Education's 'Newport Survey' series takes an eye towards the domestic. Featuring photographic essays on employment, the area's Muslim community and conditions in housing estates, this is a vital piece of ephemera for those interested in the Welsh experience of the turbulemt 1980s.

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.

The definitive book on the legendary photographer's life in New York City, with many never-before-seen images and reminiscences by his closest friends and confidants. From the 1930s, when he helped revolutionize fashion journalism, through the 1960s, when he launched headlong into the Pop art era, London-based photographer Cecil Beaton brought to New York City his own perspective--aristocratic, sexually ambiguous, and theatrical

Photographs of fugitive and performance artist CS Leigh.

This volume explores the immeasurable impact of Black subculture on British streets, dance floors, wardrobes and beauty parlours over the past three decades. It gives unique visual expression to the energy and innovation of a range of fashion trends and musical subcultures, with photographs by Dennis Morris and David Swindells.
This reference work presents Gus Van Sant's filmmaker's artistry (photography, painting and music) through the optic of his films. It is an original work combining all facets of his creation for the first time, bringing a fresh vision of his cinematographic work.

Samba Samba Brazil is the only large-format photography book Miki Jun published during his lifetime. It is a superb record of Brazil during the 60s. Dark photogravures capture the amazing energy of the people and the optimism of the country. Parts of the new capital of Brazil had just been built by Oscar Niemeyer and Lucio Costa and their grand architectural vision is documented in a series of impressive black-white images.

Work 1961–73 chronicles the years when Rainer found herself and her work at the heart of a revolution in dance, performance and art. Written in Rainer’s wonderful frank, funny and perceptive prose, and illustrated with photographs, handwritten scores, sketches, press articles and ephemera, Work 1961–73 is a period document and an instruction manual, an archive and a manifesto.

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.

The portrait is central to Fazal Sheikhs work. Often these have been people in crisis: displaced from their homes and their countries, at risk from violence, poverty and prejudice. This book takes in the full range of Fazal Sheikhs work, from his earliest portraits taken in African refugee camps, through long-term projects in Afghanistan and Northern Pakistan, Somalia and Kenya, to more recent work in South America and in India.

Paolo Gasparini, although was born in Italy, grew up in Venezuela is his adopted home. He has spent his life documenting the cities and people of Latin America, his lace tracing the contradictions of modernity across the continent. His work evolved within the confluence of European postwar realism and the political awakening of Latin American cities, and this book presents some of his remarkable photographs in full bleed.

Ever Since Night Falls looks at the adventures and misadventures of lost artworks throughout history: records of bad luck, disappearance or deliberation. This publication gives a glimpse into works that have vanished from the reaches of humanity in one form or another — stemming from motivations that encompass human error, greed, ideology and passion.

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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.

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

In this book, Moholy-Nagy's efforts to have photography and filmmaking recognized as art forms on the same level as painting are propounded and explained at length. The artist makes the case for a radical rethinking of the visual arts and the further development of photographic design to keep pace with a radically changing technological modernity.

This book documents 45 singles from The Mott Collection for the Kraftwerk 45RPM exhibition. Featuring iconic 45 RPM record covers, it highlights Kraftwerk’s distinctive aesthetic, capturing the tension between their analogue origins and the digital sensibilities that define their enduring influence.

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 book explores the bold, colorful world of Bollywood movie posters found across the streets of Mumbai. Blending popular art with energetic cinema, the posters showcase a striking mix of color, dramatic imagery, and expressive typography that reflects the spirit of Bollywood.

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Brick Index celebrates the overlooked artistry of UK bricks, showcasing the textures, colors, and maker’s marks stamped into their “frogs.” Featuring 155 actual-size photographs with an index detailing time, place, and maker, the book includes an introduction by brick historian David Kitching and an essay by design critic Rick Poynor, with photography by Inge Clemente.

A history of pottery in Britain.

A photographic history of women's lingerie.

In oversized photos and full colour, this lavish book presents a stunning collection of clothing designs by Dolce & Gabbana, providing a comprehensive view of the Houses' best work – with anecdotes from famous fans of D&G including Isabella Rossellini, Cindy Crawford, Madonna, and Demi Moore.

Black and white photos focusing on the changing shape of "The Mannequin" through the twentieth century.

Look at Me: Fashion and Photography in Britain 1960-1997 was published to accompany a traveling exhibition curated by writer/curator Val Williams and Brett Rogers, director of The Photographers' Gallery. Through editorials, advertisements, and street snaps, this book explores the evolution of fashion style and fashion photography from the 1960s to the late 1990s. Featuring the works of Juergen Teller, Helmut Newton, Wolfgang Tillmans, Nigel Shafran, Hannah Starkey, Corine Day, Elaine Constatine and more.


Artist’s book by appropriation artist Richard Prince and art dealer Colin de Land, inspired by Bob Crane, the star of the 1960s television show "Hogan's Heroes."


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.
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Between 2006 and 2007, photographer Ian Macdonald lived as part of the Eton College community as an artist-in-residence. Ian taught during this placement alongside making a photographic response to his new environment. In this photobook, Ian's social documentary photography presents an insight into Eton College as well as his personal reflections on his time there.

Issue on houses in the U.S.A.

Originally published in 1971, A Documentary HerStory of Women Artists in Revolution documents the efforts of W.A.R., a loose group of women artists, filmmakers, writers and cultural workers organized around advancing the place of women in the art world.

A book about architecture

Magnum photographer Chien-Chi Chang photographed pairs of some 700 psychiatric inmates who are chained together and forced to tend one million chickens on a large farm in Taiwan.

This book brings together, for the first time, the entire Private Scenes photographic series in which we discover a new dimension of the work of Masahisa Fukase, that of the artist struggling with his medium. This singular corpus is made up of images in which the artist inserts himself. The series is made up of two sets: “Letters from Journeys” which presents photographs taken in 1989 in different cities around the world (Paris, London, Brussels, Antwerp, etc.), and “Private Scenes '92” which focuses on his daily life in Tokyo, where now each print is enhanced with colour paints, thus becoming a unique work.

A book about the patterns and fabrics of Juergen Lehl, a German designer who worked in Tokyo since starting a company there in 1972

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

Concrete is one of the most innovative agencies of the moment and has acquired worldwide fame for its startling interior designs. This book is a project realised in collaboration with a diversity of leading authors, designers, artists and photographers.
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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.

Notting Hill in the Sixties attempts to capture the exuberance and vivacity of the people in one of London's most famous neighbourhoods. Phillips photographs present a pictorial documentary of the area of North Kensington which, from the fifties, became the spiritual home of Britain's Afro-Caribbean community. His pictures are both affectionate personal portraits of friends and neighbours, and a social commentary which evokes the flavour of the period and the locality.

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.

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

A zine about The Black People’s Day Of Action of 3rd March 1981.

Cindy Sherman: The Early Works, 1975-1977 gathers all of the artist's work from moment in which Sherman was formulating her conceptions of gender and identity construction, gathering her toolkit of props (wigs, makeup, costumes) and becoming friends with artists such as Robert Longo (with whom she would establish the Hallwalls gallery in New York).

Sound Postcards is an interesting compilation CD coming with italian Uovo magazine’s Sound Postcards issue – compiling a collection of varied sound art and audio works.

Skateistan: The Tale of Skateboarding in Afghanistan shares the strange and beautiful intersection of traditional Afghan society and a new generation of Afghan skateboarders and artists. It features the innovative Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) 'Skateistan,' which since 2007 has taught skateboarding and creative arts to youth in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Conversations with the Dead provides an extraordinary photographic record of life inside six Texas prisons and the relationships.

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.

David Hockney's examination of his interest in photography, his thoughts on the influence of Picasso and Rembrandt and of Eastern conventions of perspective and their relevance to his work.

Callahan's work embodies the expressive and structural potential of photography. This book brings together personal and social documentary photographs - from images of his family to pedestrians on Chicago Streets, or the beaches of Cape Cod.

Bobby Baker is one of the most widely acclaimed and popular performance artists working today. This book brings together for the first time an account of Baker’s career as an artist with critical commentary by reviewers; transcripts of Baker's performances; and other originial materials.

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 Switzerland, West Germany and Austria.

The Queer Tree of Life traces international queer LGBTQ publishing from 1880 to 2019. Featuring over 400 examples, it explores how print—once clandestine—shaped identity and visual culture. From fanzines and self-publishing to academic texts, pornography, and artist books, it highlights publishing as a catalyst for non-heteronormative self-understanding and community formation.

As with the other volumes in the series, the ninth volume draws directly from the archives of the Renzo Piano Building Workshop, and uses previously unpublished material on the history of his Centre Pompidou architecture project in collaboration with Richard Rogers. The history of the project is presented chronologically, using sketches and notes, from the first inspection of the site to the official opening of the building. The stories of Piano and Rogers time working together are meticulously reproduced in their own words andthus the book is a true journal of the creation of this extraordinary architectural adventure.

This highly illustrated book is a complete monograph on the Leigh Bowery, and includes previously unpublished photographs and ephemera from the artists' personal archive.

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.

Football explores the deep-rooted presence of the game across the Middle East and North Africa, where it transcends sport and becoming an integral part of the region’s daily life. The publication is motivated by a love of the game and a desire to showcase an underrepresented football culture in the MENA region. The book includes photographs taken between late 1980s up to 2023, in Morocco, Algeria, Iraq, Tunisia, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Egypt, Oman, Yemen, UAE, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Kurdistan, and other countries in the region.
The book features a variety of photographers including Abbas, Nikos Economopoulos, Karim Sahib, Jinane Ennasri, Marco Di Lauro, Alex Webb, and Salah Malkawi.

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

Gabriela Gründler’s Stars of Suburbia reimagines portraiture through the intimate story of two women who become close friends after meeting in a new neighbourhood. Rather than faces or bodies, their identities are revealed through letters, gifts, and personal exchanges. The work reflects on friendship, perception, and the limits of traditional portraiture.

A themed collection of Araki photographs. Issue 10: Chiro, Araki and 2 Lovers.
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.
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