Contributors to Aspen 5 & 6 include Marcel Duchamp, Samuel Beckett, John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, Hans Richter, Sol Lewitt, Mel Bochner, Naum Gabo, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Dan Graham, George Kubler, Robert Morris, William Burroughs, Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Morton Feldman, Michel Butor, Tony Smith and Merce Cunningham.
Frida by Ishiuchi is the first photographic documentation ever published of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo's personal attire and belongings, as portrayed by Japanese artist Miyako Ishiuchi. The victim of a nearly fatal bus accident as a young woman, Kahlo used fashion to channel her resulting physical difficulties into courageous statements of heritage, strength and beauty.
Having entered the New York underground in the 1960s while still a teenager, filmmaker Barbara Rubin quickly became one of its key figures. Her pioneering 1963 double-projection film Christmas on Earth was both sexually provocative and aesthetically innovative. She worked regularly with Jonas Mekas and Andy Warhol, introduced Bob Dylan to Allen Ginsberg, and connected Warhol with The Velvet Underground. During an intense period of activity and travel, Rubin wrote passionate letters about film and the underground to Mekas. This special eightieth issue of the magazine Film Culture features her previously unpublished letters to Mekas, as well as interviews and extended scripts.
GA Document is a Global Architecture focusing on contemporary international architecture and design projects.
GA Document is a Global Architecture focusing on contemporary international architecture and design projects.
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.
This books contains the many lives of Lee Miller – intimately recorded by her son, Anthony Penrose. From the archives, this book collates a rich selection of her best work – including portraits of her friends Picasso, Braque, Ernst, Eluard, Miró.
Photographs of young people across different cities – punks, ravers, squatters and various tribes of youth.
This book presents a parade of millinery marvels – from the sweeping feather and lace confections of the Edwardians to the minimal pillboxes of the late seventies. These captivating high fashion photographs demonstrate the Vogue adage that nothing in nature or art is so magically transforming as a hat.
Seven Years is a series of photographs that deconstruct the trope of family photography by meticulously mimicking it. In the series, the title of which refers to the age gap between the artist and her elder sister.
American Surrealist Dorothea Tanning (1910–2012) worked for seven decades across painting, sculpture, printmaking, installation, and writing, creating one of the twentieth century’s most enigmatic bodies of work. Her art evokes dreamlike worlds between figuration and abstraction, forging a prismatic language still resonant today. This illustrated catalog focuses on works from the 1950s–90s, tracing her stylistic evolution through twenty key paintings, scholarly essays, and her 1986 manifesto “To Paint.”
Beginning in 1970, Anni Albers filled her graph-paper notebook regularly until 1980. This rare and previously unpublished document of her working process contains intricate drawings for her large body of graphic work, as well as studies for her late knot drawings.
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.”
This book makes an argument for photography as the definitive art form of the twentieth century by presenting whole series of works by the medium's pioneers, instead of isolated individual photographs. Arranged thematically rather chronologically, the connections between seemingly disparate bodies of work are made clear. Cindy Sherman's early film stills sit easily across the page from Lee Friedlander's sly shadow self portraits; Robert Adams' desolate suburban sprawls lead a path to Larry Clark's strung-out dopers in Tulsa several pages later; and more.
Since founding Studio Orta in 1993, the Paris-based husband-and-wife team of Lucy and Jorge Orta has produced an extensive body of work that addresses universal concerns about community, shelter, migration, and sustainable development. Featuring hundreds of drawings and photographs, Lucy + Jorge Orta: Food, Water, Life presents recent works that fall into the categories offood, water, and the environment.
A perfectly encapsulated visual documentation Parisian youth & their subcultures.
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.
Featuring previously unseen photographs, While you Were Sleeping is a rich and comprehensive visual document of ’90s nightlife and subculture and grants special access to an underground world, providing genuine insights of one of the most memorable era for British fashion, music and youth culture.
Perhaps the most famous and significant fashion model of the 1960s, the muse to Richard Avedon and star of Antioni's Blow Up, 'Veruschka' was the alter ego of a young German art student called Versa Con Lehndorff and, after a decade as the subject, she gave up modelling to become the canvas. Working in collaboration with the painter Holger Trülzsch, she disappears in images with her body as the canvas, becoming a stone, a wall, a factory floor, or a man, a worker, an aged queen.
A book of the exhibition curated by Johan Jugelburg that celebrated 40 years of the Velvet Underground and Nico album. Featuring newspaper clippings, photographs, texts.
Both sacred and profane, Mountain Ecstasy is the cult book by Penny Slinger and her partner at the time, Nik Douglas. Working with found images – many from Slinger’s own collection of erotica – and poetry, the resulting book is a hyperreal celebration of the Tantric world.
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.
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 collection of stamps from the People's Republic of China between 1949 - 1954, supplement to China Reconstructs Issue 4 1955
Representing Jean-Paul Goude's life and work from the late 1960s up to the present, the book spans Goude's years at Esquire; his revolutionary work with Grace Jones, his videos for MTV and for Azzedine Alaia; his advertising work for Chanel, and more.
This monumental collection brings together some of August Sander’s most impressive work collected here in 7 volumes, subdivided according to the various social categories investigated by the author. Hundreds of beautiful portraits of ordinary people: office workers, artists, farmers, lawyers, nurses, and more.
Weber 0001 catalogues 256 t-shirts selected from the archives of Tokyo-based cult collectors Weber. It is an overtly utilitarian book object destined to compare, reference and reflect on the archive of cultural artefacts. 0001 remains faithful to the ambitions of its authors to celebrate the unassuming yet historically resonant status of the vintage t-shirts.
Fast Forward: Growing Up in the Shadow of Hollywood documents the experience of growing up in Los Angeles, and the ways children are influenced by the values of Hollywood. The quest for "fame," the preoccupation with trends, the culture of materialism, and the obsession with image that characterises Hollywood is reflected in the everyday lives and rituals of L.A. youth.
Bauhaus Imaginista marks the centenary of the Bauhaus, founded by Walter Gropius, highlighting its global influence across art, design, and architecture. Featuring figures like Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, László Moholy-Nagy, and Josef Albers, it traces the school’s international reception and enduring impact amid twentieth-century geopolitical change.
A comprehensive exploration of the work of visual artist-activist Zanele Muholi, presenting images from the key series Muholi has produced over the past twenty years, as well as never-before-published and recent works, presenting the full breadth of Muholi's photographic and activist practice like never before.
From liposuction to lip implants, this book explores all the ins and outs of body sculpting, focusing on the artistry of aesthetic surgery.
Black and white photos focusing on the changing shape of "The Mannequin" through the twentieth century.
Catalogue issued on the occasion of the 1973 Italian visual and concrete poetry exhibition held at the Finch College Museum in New York, U.S.A., and at the Civic Gallery in Turin, Italy.
A monograph dedicated to the oil paintings of London-based artist Somaya Critchlow. Drawing upon her expansive knowledge of picture-making traditions ranging from the Renaissance to the Rococo, Critchlow’s mix of miniature and medium-sized portraits of voluptuous, nonchalant Black women raise questions about sexuality, feminism, pornography, beauty and power.
This book is a tribute to an extraordinary personality in 20th-century architecture. It features an exemplary selection of his key designs, both built and unrealised, lavishly illustrated with images and reproductions of previously unpublished plans, drawings, and documents.
Published alongside Vulnicura and Björk’s major retrospective at Museum of Modern Art, Björk: Archives moves beyond the typical artist monograph. Presented as five beautifully crafted volumes, it offers a thoughtful exploration of her creative universe, revealing the ideas, processes, and inspirations that have shaped one of contemporary music’s most innovative voices.
Volume three of Raad’s series of artist's books includes recent work that focuses on the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982 and on the ammunition trade during Lebanon’s civil war. Raad produces performances, videos and photographs; in 1999, he founded The Atlas Group, a fictitious archive that documents the contemporary history of Lebanon
Women in Concrete Poetry: 1959-1979 is an expansive anthology focused on concrete poetry written by women in the groundbreaking movement’s early history. It features 50 writers and artists from Europe, Japan, Latin America, and the United States selected by editors Alex Balgiu and Mónica de la Torre.
A socialist journal of the social services. In this issue: visions from the left on the human services.
A history of rings and jewels.
In conjuction with their exhibit at The Washington County Museum of Fine Arts in Maryland, Dr. George and Connie Manger produced this catalogue featuring over 125 pieces of pottery from the Shenandoah and Cumberland Valleys.
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.
Issue on houses and interiors in Southern Europe
The complex and often ambiguous relationship between the hand crafted and the machine made is examined in this intriguing look at the ever-changing world of fashion and taste. Manus x Machina traces styles of dress from one-of-a-kind works and haute couture created by highly skilled artisans, through the introduction of industrial manufacturing, to extraordinary recent technological advancements applied to high fashion, such as 3D printing, laser cutting, and computer-generated weaving and patterns.
The photographers Harry Shunk (German, 1924–2006) and János Kender (Hungarian, 1937–2009) worked together under the name Shunk-Kender from the late 1950s to the early 1970s, based first in Paris and then in New York. Shunk-Kender photographed artworks, events, and landmark exhibitions of avant-garde movements of the era, from Nouveau réalisme to Earth art. They were connected with a vibrant art scene that they captured through portraits of artists and participated in through collaborative projects. This nearly 500-page volume from Xavier Barral accompanied the first Shunk-Kender retrospective, held at the Centre Pompidou, and is based on a selection of more than 10,000 vintage prints.
Among the significant projects of the last year of his life, Richard Avedon (1923–2004) completed a book of his photographs of women – ranging from celebrities (Marilyn Monroe), artists (Marguerite Duras, June Leaf), and high-fashion models (Suzy Parker, Dovima) to anonymous people that simply drew his attention.
A previously unpublished one act play by Don DeLillo, illustrated with photographs by Richard Prince.
Ground is the result of a decade long documentation of the conflict between Palestine and Israel. With his camera, Bruno Stevens portrays the lives of many shapes by violence, loss and destruction.
A collection of conversations from David Bailey, Anthony Barboza, Arthur Elgort, Horst, Erica Lennard, Jimmy Moore, Jean Pagliuso and Chris Von Wangenheim, accompanying numerous fashion shoots from the 60’s and 70’s, some of which were previously unpublished. An insight into the work of the fashion photographer.
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.
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.
In this ongoing project, Anthony Hernandez documents the haunts of the world's homeless, proceeds to international sites and finds similar scenes.
A periodical book on modern houses from around the globe. Featuring work of architects Frank Lloyd Eight, Victor Horta, Antoni Gaudi, Pierre Chareau with Bernard Bijvoet, Michel de Klerk.
A cult publication documenting Helmut Lang pieces from archival collections consisting of over 800 pages over two volumes. The privately owned garments were photographed piece by piece over several months – resulting in an important documentation of Lang's sharp silhouettes and cutting edge fabrics that trace his career between 1986 and 2005. The book is particularly significant given Lang famously destroyed 6,000 pieces of work for his exhibition Make it Hard exhibition.
The Smell of Calpol on a Warm Summer's Night blurs the line between reality and fiction. Framed like paintings, each image is a cinematic tableau of Suburbia, with a warm glow of neon light reminiscent of hazy evenings spent in front of TV screens. Carlos Clarke presents a glance into others' living rooms and domestic environments, offering an eerie portrayal of twilight.
In September 2020, Kim Jones was named head of Fendi’s couture and womenswear, marking a new era for the Italian brand. This publication examines Jones’s relationship to the legendary Bloomsbury Set: the early twentieth-century community of British writers, intellectuals, and artists, including Virginia Woolf, Duncan Grant, and Vanessa Bell, who inspired the collection and his creative process.
An iconic zine by Ed Templeton documenting teenagers smoking.
Merci la nuit documents European rave culture from the 1990s to today, highlighting its DIY energy and creative communities. The book features posters and flyers from 90s raves, including the fanzine Musique du diable, curated by Mö, a free-party DJ and activist, offering a vibrant visual record of underground music, art, and countercultural expression.
This book explores a period of British design history when a new generation of designers crossde boundaries between architecture, interiors, product design, craft, and fashion to redefining avant-garde creativity.
This richly illustrated volume presents the first comprehensive photographic study of Soviet military uniforms from the Revolution through the Second World War. Featuring hundreds of detailed colour images of original uniforms alongside period photographs, it offers a rare visual record of Soviet military history, from decorated marshals to ordinary soldiers.
Whilst most Fashion photographers were out the front at the catwalk photographing the glitz and the glamour, Rennie Ellis, more often than not, could be found out the back, in the dressing rooms amongst the fan fare and flashes of flesh.
A collects portraits of talented, glamorous, controversial, or influential women such as Margot Fonteyn, Princess Anne, Indira Gandhi, Mother Teresa, and Iris Murdoch.
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Only recently has fashion photography been accurately seen as an important medium within contemporary visual culture. Its power, in defining itself as a means of communication, is to record, or even determine today's lifestyle. Italian Eyes not only shines a much-deserved light on Italians who have made photographic history, but also highlights an Italian style that goes beyond fashion, thus offering a repertoire of images that reconstruct the changes in fashion and the evolution of society from the end of World War II to the present.
A socialist journal of the social services. In this issue: social welfare in a capitalist society, radical therapy.
Throughout the 1980s, Arakawa continued to address both the physical and conceptual relationship of the viewer to a painting. This publication is the catalogue for thw 1991 retrospective, Constructing the Perceiver – Arakawa: Experimental Works, which opened at the National Museum of Art in Tokyo and later travelled to The National Museum of Art, Kyoto and The Matsuzukaya Art Museum, Nagoya.
As a follow-up to his crazy successful, fashion and pop culture-influencing book of Hip Hop's early days, Back In The Days, photographer Jamel Shabazz takes a sharp turn in bringing to light a vastly original - and under-documented--emerging subculture in Last Sunday In June. Drawing from an enormous cast of eye-catching characters, Shabazz showcases an extraordinary collection of luscious lesbians, tasteful transsexuals, and dramatic drag queens done up in their Sunday best to celebrate Gay Pride.
In this book, Salisbury set out to recapture the memories of childhood and the vagaries unique to place. Inscribed with the loss of his brother and the history of six generations before him, he has relived the past vicariously, photographing his cousins, Drew and Jimmy, as they grew to manhood. Delineated by the seasons and the intimacy of small town life, the results suggest nothing less than a Gothic portrait of boyhood in rural America.
The Castle is a meticulous record of refugee camps located across mass migration routes from the Middle East and Central Asia into the European Union via Turkey. Using a thermal video camera intended for long-range border enforcement, Mosse films the camps from high elevations to draw attention to the ways in which each interrelates with, or is divorced from, adjacent citizen infrastructure.
Shotgun Seamstress collects all eight issues (2006–2015) of Shotgun Seamstress, founded by Osa Atoe. This cut-and-paste DIY zine centers Black punk and outsider identity, reclaiming rock as Black music. Featuring artists like Death and Poly Styrene, it celebrates radical politics, gender diversity, and self-defined Black expression.
This book explores the mid-1960s boom in West German underground and self-published works, produced with hectographs, mimeographs, and offset printing. Embracing DIY experimentation, creators combined typescripts, handwriting, collages, comics, and photography to forge a radical new aesthetic. Published alongside a Weserburg Bremen exhibition, it situates these works internationally and reconsiders today’s independent publishing and risograph revival.
Camera in Paris by Brassaï is a captivating photographic journey through the streets of 1930s Paris, revealing the city’s hidden nocturnal life with striking intimacy and poetic depth. Known as the “Eye of Paris,” Brassaï captures the city’s shadowy corners, bustling nightlife, and everyday moments.
This book documents the eclectic collections of Martin Parr, spanning 25 years of photographic and themed objects. It features memorabilia of political figures, cultural icons, wristwatches, photographic trays, kitsch wallpaper, and items commemorating events like 9/11 and Sputnik. The collection combines humor, poignancy, and the eccentricity of everyday objects.
The Situationist Times No. 4 is famously known as the "Labyrinth Issue". Spanning 184 pages, it was edited by Jacqueline de Jong and conceived as a dérive (a drift), where readers navigate a maze-like layout of imagery and multi-language texts. Features archival imagery and essays all about labyrinths, neolithic and ancient sites.
Published on the occassion of an exhibition of works by the Bauhaus created between 1919 and 1928.
Aspen Issue 8 is widely known as "The Fluxus Issue". Edited by artist Dan Graham, this issue marked a shift toward conceptual art and information science. Rather than a traditional magazine, it took the form of a multimedia portfolio containing 14 unbound sections. Contains works David Antin, Terry Atkinson, Michael Baldwin, Philip Glass, Jackson Mac Low, La Monte Young, Steve Reich, Richard Serra, Yvonne Rainer, Dennis Oppenheim, Robert Morris, and Ed Ruscha.
Leonor Antunes is an artist making “sculptures created in space”. Her work addresses complex relationships between sculpture, architecture, design, light and the body. She dedicates special attention to the materials she uses, which are often natural or organic, and to the effects left on them by time and their use. This is the most comprehensive publication on the artist to date, spanning her entire career, and it accompanies exhibition.
Gay Areas Telephone Directory is an artefact from another age. It is an exact facsimile of an American telephone directory published by Gay International Inc targeted at queer population. The phonebook is a now-obsolete format, but before mobile phones and the internet every household had one by the landline. This queer directory featured listings and advertisements for businesses friendly towards or catering to lesbians and gay men at a time when such visibility was a rare and possibly dangerous thing.
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.
GA Document is a Global Architecture focusing on contemporary international architecture and design projects.
This mesmerizing collection of photography, drawing, and sculpture showcases the work of Birgit Jürgenssen, an Austrian avant-garde artist. Birgit Jürgenssen (1949 - 2003) was a strong feminist and fierce advocate for women in the arts. Her early vibrant illustrations and surrealist, dreamlike photographs explored gender and societal restraints, and blurred the lines between humans, plants, and animals.
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.
Published in 1999, the first edition of Future Systems presents a selection of ground-breaking and original work by this pioneering architectural and design practice from the end of the 20th century.
Lee Miller (1907-1977) began her artistic career in 1929 as a Surrealist photographer in Paris. She produced images, often in collaboration with Man Ray, in which she alienated motifs by means of tight framing and experimental techniques, and in doing so rendering visible a paradoxical reality. The publication provides renewed access to her best works, including early Surrealist compositions as well as travel photos that later came to shape her photography oeuvre.
This book collects photographs shot by former Head of Photography at Edinburgh College of Art, in 1984 of his St Margaret’s School for Girls series.
This is the catalogue for Wolfgang Tillmans' exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery in London in 2010. After 20 years of working in London, Tillmans reflects on his relationship with the city, both through his past work and the new work produced for this exhibition.
An incredible and compelling collection ofimages shot by British photographer Tom Wood spanning twenty years of travel on the Merseyside buses. The result is a long-lasting portrait of Liverpool – it's people, familial relationships, changing fashions and landscapes throughout the 1980s to the 2000s.
during 20 years of travel on the buses of Merseyside. The images provide a visual impression of Liverpool's population, the changing fashions and the changing faces of the city throughout the 1980s and 1990s.
This interactive, experimental book offers 140 contributions—drawings, recipes, activist guides, and meditative exercises—encouraging readers to engage creatively with a worldview where humans and the planet are inseparable. Featuring artists and thinkers such as Olafur Eliasson, Vivienne Westwood, Jane Fonda, Judy Chicago, and others, it invites hands-on participation, reflection, and environmental consciousness.
GA Document is a Global Architecture focusing on contemporary international architecture and design projects.
Portraits of composers and musicians from 1940-1979.
A collection of writings, poems, plays, games, and correspondence culled from the notebooks of George Brecht and Robert Filliou. The two artists lived in France and ran an a storefront gallery and research space, La Cédille Qui Sourit (the Smiling Cedilla). Operating on the principles of a gift economy, it presented the works and ideas of an international network of friends and collaborators and is a prime example of the collective, anti-commercial Fluxus activities of the 1960s.
Sounds Codes Images examines the shifting boundary between sound and image, focusing on intersections of visual art and music. Drawing on sound studies, music theory, and acoustic ecology, it maps Czech visual art and synaesthetic approaches. The book also presents Czech, Slovak, and international artists experimenting with graphic scores, sonification, visualization, resonant objects, installations, and digital media.
The Mechanical Hand: Artists' Projects at Paupers Press focuses on the work of Paupers Press, a fine art print studio that concentrates on etching, lithography and relief printing. The studio has worked with many of the leading contemporary artists working in collaboration with the artists to produce limited edition and unique prints, books and portfolio collections. The book examines the collaborative relationship of the studio and the contemporary artists they work with.
A photographic showcase of a dazzling top model who embodied haute couture in the 1950s.
This series celebrates the Bodleian Library’s acquisition of Tom Phillips’s archive of over 50,000 photographic postcards. This book presents postcards of men in all manner of outfits, whether formal, practical or casual, dating from around 1900 up to 1949. Most of the subjects are posing for portraits, displaying both their individual style and an interpretation of the fashions of the time.