
20 Anni di Vogue 1964-1984 is the catalogue published to accompany an exhibition of the same name celebrating 20 years of Vogue Italia. The catalogue is an extensive dictionary of all the photographers who have contributed to the pages of Vogue Italia, with a short text and examples of their work - including Richard Avedon, Bruce Weber, David Bailey, Cecil Beaton, Guy Bourdin, Peter Lindbergh, Ugo Mulas, Herb Ritts, Paolo Roversi, Snowdon, Deborah Turbeville and so many more in between.

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

Carnival: A Photographic and Testimonial History of the Notting Hill Carnival captures the heart of London's largest street festival through powerful images and personal stories. From its roots in Caribbean resistance to its role as a beacon of culture and community, this book is a vibrant tribute to the people, music, and spirit that make Notting Hill Carnival.

Exhibition catalogue of the work of John Piper – a pivotal 20th-century British artist celebrated for his evocative landscapes, churches, and monuments, bridging English Romanticism with modernism, abstraction, and surrealism, working across painting, printmaking, stained glass, theatre sets, and textile design.

In a series of stunning black and white images, Tocororo: A Cuban Tale follows the creation of Carlos Acosta's first piece of dance theatre as choreographer and star, from its rehearsals and world premiere in Cuba to its sell-out debut at London's Sadlers Wells theatre.

This is the catalogue from Prospectiva 74 – a groundbreaking 1974 exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art at the University of São Paulo in Brazil, curated by Walter Zanini, showcasing conceptual art, video art, mail art, and new media, crucial for introducing global avant-garde practices and challenging traditional art forms in Brazil during the military dictatorship


A catalogue of different designs for platform shoes.

This book comprises a vivid series of photographs of wartime India, taken by Cecil Beaton when sent to the Far East during World War II for the Ministry of Information. The photographs depict a village school writing lesson, mountain coolies, the north west frontier, and a military hospital in Coiaba, Bombay, among other scenes.

Artist, photographer and sculptor Peter Schlesinger was at the heart of fashionable London in the late 1960s and early 1970s. This is a compendium of photographs chronicling the circles in which he moved during the 1960s and 1970s.

Surveying 30 years of work, this monograph on Henry Taylor captures his bold, improvisational practice across painting, sculpture, and installation. Blending portraits, found objects, and cultural symbols, Taylor transforms everyday materials into layered reflections on Black life, identity, and community, producing work that is both intimate and expansively human.


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.

Photographs of everyday objects recall alphabet shapes.

Catalogue for the first major posthumous exhibition on the work of Ulises Carrión.

Tillmans’s now iconic artist’s book consists of 62 color photographs of the Concorde airplane—taking off, landing or in flight, and sometimes as just a tiny, birdlike silhouette in the sky.

This book covers materials, forming methods, surface decoration, glazing, and firing techniques of clay. The third edition expands technical guidance, includes colour charts of clay and glaze combinations, outlines historical developments in ceramics, and provides references to key resources and museums, supporting both introductory study and advanced practice.
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Catalogue published inconjunction with the British Museum, showing pieces from their collections alongside artworks by Paolozzi to explore the connection between primitive and modern art.

On 4 May 1968, as protests shook Paris, the exhibition 50 Years Bauhaus opened at the Württembergischer Kunstverein, becoming the most influential post-war show on the Bauhaus. Fifty years later, the Kunstverein reassessed it, examining Bauhaus figures’ ties to National Socialism and links between avant-gardes and the military-industrial complex, while broadening its context beyond West Germany and the US.
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This book, the title of which translates to, "The Novel of François Truffaut", is a collective work published shortly after the director's death. Across 239 pages book, you will find black and white photographs of the director, his films along with essays.

In the late 1960s, Tadanori Yokoo explored mysticism and psychedelia, influenced by travels in India. Though often compared to Andy Warhol or Peter Max, his layered imagery was deeply autobiographical and original. Internationally recognized, he appeared in MoMA’s 1968 “Word & Image” show, and in 1972 the Museum of Modern Art held a solo exhibition of his graphic work.

A large format publication documenting graffiti through the lenses of Mervyn Kurlansky and Jon Narr.

Richard Kern’s classic and long out of print book of black and white photographs of young women was published by a Tokyo Gallery in 1996 as a way to get some of his erotic images from the book New York Girls past the censors in Japan. This book, published early in Kern’s career, features nude photos of girls he knew and worked with from New York’s downtown art and music scene.

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.

Material Man: Masculinity, Sexuality, Style examines masculine images in fashion and the media, attempting to answer the question of what it means to be a man in the contemporary world – contains images from films, television, magazines and the fine arts, along with essays.

A collection of Cecil Beaton's fashion photographs shot throughout his career.

Chasity in Focus explores the catalogues of British Lingerie designer Janet Reger.

This translated volume examines the unruly, deliberately anti-functionalist design of Studio Alchimia, the radical Milan-based collective that challenged modernist principles. Initially focused on experimental furniture, the group later expanded into accessories and fashion during the 1980s. Featuring a foreword by Alessandro Mendini, the book includes an index of Alchimia members and reflects their provocative, unconventional aesthetic.

Cecil Beaton was a man of dazzling charm and style, and his talents were many. At the age of twenty he sent Vogue an out-of focus snap of a college play, and for the next half-century transformed the world of fashion into high art through photographs. This book includes articles, drawings, and photographs by Beaton dating from the 1920s to the 1970s during his time shooting for Vogue – a period in which he contributed his wit, imagination, and professionalism to the magazine.

Hassan Sharif (1951–2016) was a pioneering Emirati artist who revolutionised the regional art scene in the 1970s/80s through performance, installation, and assemblage, often using discarded consumer materials to critique rapid urbanization. This book presents an intimate view of Sharif’s diverse and varied work featuring new translations from his writing.

Afro-Atlantic Histories brings together a selection of more than 400 works and documents by more than 200 artists from the 16th to the 21st centuries that express and analyze the ebbs and flows between Africa, the Americas, the Caribbean and Europe. The book is motivated by the desire and need to draw parallels, frictions and dialogues around the visual cultures of Afro-Atlantic territories--their experiences, creations, worshiping and philosophy. The so-called Black Atlantic, to use the term coined by Paul Gilroy, is geography lacking precise borders, a fluid field where African experiences invade and occupy other nations, territories and cultures.

This book showcases Isaac Julien's work from the early 1980s to the present day – from early films to large-scale, multi-screen installations which investigate the movement of peoples across different continents, times and spaces.

Aristocrats, millionaires, painters, fashion designers, choreographers, and musicians of the café society fox-trot aboard cruise liners and mingle at dazzling parties in Paris. Through archival photographs and period documents, this volume recounts in historical detail the intrigue and impact generated around the world by the stylist cafe society.
Jean Tinguely was one of a number of artists of the period who explored movement, in what became known as Kinetic art. From the mid-1950s he made strange machines, some of which involved radios, lights and motors while others relied on the viewer to turn a crank. He used everyday materials and junk to explore ideas of motion, impermanence and accident.

This book chronicles Ede's his unique vision of combining art and living at Kettle's Yard, his Cambridge home and collection, featuring poetry and photographs of the house's curated spaces, portraying how art, light, and everyday objects create a harmonious, accessible experience for visitors, inspired by his belief that art should be part of everyday life, not confined to gallerie

In this book, artists LaBelle and Le Fort present the library as an organic space and the destination of an intellectual and sensuous journey during which thoughts expand quickly beyond the books displayed on the shelves.

Sheila Metzner's unique photographic style has positioned her as a contemporary master in the worlds of fine art, fashion, portraiture, still life and landscape photography. This book contains some of a collection of her photographs, with a foreword by Ralph Lauren.

A themed collection of Araki photographs. Issue 18: Bondage

A collection of remarkable full-bleed black and white photographs of photographs taken during photographer Ikko Narahara three-year stay in Europe from 1962.

This illustrated volume by one of Japan's tea masters displays the complexities and inspirations of the tea art form. Beginning with the 12th century origins of cha-no-yu, the tea ceremony, Tanaka traces the practice to the early Seventies. With photographs by Takeshi Nishikawa.

An incredible, and huge, collection of some of Newton's most celebrated and loved photographs.
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"XL Photography 2" is the title of the second catalogue of the collection. This volume documents the acquisitions up to 2003, including works by the artists Bernd and Hilla Becher, Phillip-Lorca DiCorcia, Roni Horn, Matthias Klose, Chantal Michel, Josef Schultz, Juergen Teller, Christina Zück and more.


Remember, Be Here Now is book on spirituality, yoga, and meditation by the American yogi and spiritual teacher Ram Dass.

A facsimile of surrealist artist and poet Jındřıch Štyrský's handmade artist book from 1933 - originally published in an edition of 69 numbered examples. Contains black and white examples of surrealist photography with collage.

Where other portraitists were content to have their subjects sit for them, Philippe Halsman had his jump, an action which he felt caused the real self of his illustrious sitters to come out. Famous sitters included in the book are Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly, Brigitte Bardot and Richard Nixon.

A book about architecture

Gianni Versace's unbridled enthusiasm for the baroque finds new expression in Do Not Disturb, his playful peek behind the closed doors of the Versace homes.

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.

Full bleed colour and black and white fashion photographs of Dolce & Gabanna menswear from 1990s to 2010.

This book showcases the vibrant life and work of David Hicks, the groundbreaking British designer known for bold geometrics and daring color. Drawn from 24 personal scrapbooks, it features press clippings, sketches, textiles, and photographs of family and icons.

Marching To The Freedom Dream presents American photojournalist Dan Budnik’s significant body of work documenting three seminal marches of the civil rights movement. It is published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and precedes the 50th anniversaries of the Selma-Montgomery March and the Voting Rights Act in 2015. A foreword to the book is written by prolific civil rights activist, Harry Belafonte.

The Houston, Texas, neighborhoods of Fifth Ward, Third Ward and South Park have grown to be hallowed ground for modern rap culture, populated with celebrities, entrepreneurs, support networks and a micro-economy of their own. Photographer Peter Beste and writer Lance Scott Walker spent nine years documenting the most influential style in twenty-first-century hip hop and the vibrant inner city culture from which it stems. Houston Rap, edited by Johan Kugelberg, profiles noted artists such as alongside reflections on the lives of departed legends such as DJ Screw, Pimp C and Big Hawk.

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.

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.

A behind the scenes look at the creation of one of Bruce Oldfield's Winter collections, from initial designs to catwalk.

As We Rise brings together over 100 powerful photographs celebrating African diasporic culture. Featuring Black artists from Africa, the Caribbean, North and South America, and Great Britain, the collection offers a vibrant and timely exploration of Black identity, creativity, and lived experience across both sides of the Atlantic.

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.

Catalogue edited by Celant comprising the work of 74 German and Italian artists in the fields of architecture, art, cinema and film, design, fashion, graphics, photography and theatre.

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.



London/Wales brings together two distinct bodies of work to reveal a new understanding of Franks contribution to the history of photography. Juxtaposing the world of money and the world of work in post-war England, Frank photographed London bankers, workers, and children, and Welsh coal miners and their families. Featuring 90 black and white photographs, London/Wales tells a timeless story of cities, people, and institutions in transition through emotional, evocative images while revealing Franks struggle to forge a new form of poetic narrative photography.


A socialist journal of the social services. Special issue on the Black community.

From Coco Chanel's final show to Galliano's graduation, supermodels to showstoppers, McQueen to Versace and more Catwalking presents the definitive catwalk highlights captured by the photographer who has seen and shot it all.

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.

A socialist journal of the social services. In this issue: social planning; women, class and struggle; children's education.

The Lithuanian filmmaker and chronicler of the American underground movement, Jonas Mekas, wrote down his dreams between August 1978 and June 1979. All these events and characters, combined with memories of his childhood in the Lithuanian fields and snow, are transformed and filtered through the absurd logic and advenutures of dreams.

Documenta 6 complete catalogue including: Volume I painting / plastic environment / performance; Volume II photography / film / video; Volume III hand drawings / utopian design / books. Featuring the work of almost every important artist ever, including Chantal Akerman, Pierre Alechinsky, Robert Altman, Diane Arbus, Cecil Beaton, Joseph Beuys, Brassaï, Fellini, Agnes Martin, Man Ray, Mapplethorpe and so many more.

Ed Templeton captures the intimacy and awkwardness of young love.

As the title suggests, this book features never-before-published pictures of horses and dogs by William Eggleston, who is widely regarded as the most influential figure in contemporary color photography.

Kitchen Table Series is the first publication dedicated solely to this early and important body of work by the American artist Carrie Mae Weems. The 20 photographs and 14 text panels that make up Kitchen Table Series tell a story of one woman’s life, as conducted in the intimate setting of her kitchen.

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.

This book surveys 1,800 recent print publications that operate outside the international book trade. Lacking ISBNs and produced on paper, they range from photocopied flyers to handcrafted editions and hardcovers. Created largely by young artists, these works highlight independent, experimental publishing, with illustrations chosen to reflect the expressive energy of contemporary art-driven print culture.

1996-2001 / 2001-2006 is the first book to be released by printings.jp, featuring internationally-sourced garments as presented by the designer throughout a decade of his career.

Through his own work, David Hicks offers examples of how to decorate bathrooms.

The first book of images from Champion Studios, famous for quality color images of handsome, athletic young men from the late 1950's and early '60's. This book brings together 345 photographs of scantily athletes - packed with amusing props and costumes.


An intimate behind-the-scenes look at London designer fashion over the last fifteen years, edited by Tania Fares and Sarah Mower. The book profiles 50 leading London fashion designers, from Paul Smith and Stella McCartney to Erdem and Simone Rocha.

Art Kane was a fashion photographer known for his innovative use of colour and sense of composition. He worked across fashion and music photographing the likes of Bob Dylan, Jefferson Airplane, Aretha Franklin, Frank Zappa, Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin. This book presents his images of women, many of which are nudes, to create a captivating and thrilling portfolio.

Leah Gordon has been photographing Jacmel Carnival and recording oral histories with its participants since 1995. Her photographs in ‘Kanaval’ are stripped of kinesis and exuberance. She uses a sixty-year-old Rolleicord medium-format twin-lens-reflex camera, and shoots onto black and white negative film. A consensual reciprocity between the photographer and the sitter arises which leaves behind the commotion of the street and enters the more tranquil territory of a portrait studio.

A collection of 160 photographs of people at the famous Love parade in Berlin in 1996.

This book presents a focused visual and textual study of the solitary buildings of Mies van der Rohe, created through decades of engagement by Werner Blaser. Using consistent duotone photography and carefully organized materials, it objectively documents Mies’ architectural legacy, including previously unpublished images, while encouraging critical reflection on the enduring roots and principles of good architecture.

Steve Schapiro travelled throughout America taking photographs during one of the nation's most revolutionary periods. Working in the classic mode of Walker Evans and Diane Arbus, he covered everything from the two Kennedy assassinations to Andy Warhol's Factory to race riots. With an essay by Dave Hickey, this book includes unforgettable images of the poor and the working class, as well as celebrities such as Nixon, Brando, and Janis Joplin.

From the most avant-garde jazz musicians, visual artists and poets to architects, philosophers and writers, Black Ivy: A Revolt in Style charts a period in American history when Black men across the country adopted the clothing of a privileged elite and made it their own. It shows how a generation of men took the classic Ivy Look and made it cool, edgy and unpredictable in ways that continue to influence today's modern menswear.


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

Dubbed an “It Girl” by Yves Saint Laurent in the early 1970s, Marisa Berenson is the original modern muse-inspiring fashion designers, photographers, stylists, and fashion editors for over thirty years. This captivating collection of fashion editorials, magazine covers, film stills, and candid photos were captured by the leading photographers and filmmakers of the day, including Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, David Bailey, Hiro, Helmut Newton, Henry Clarke, Norman Parkinson, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Steven Meisel, among many others.

David Hicks explores all aspects of interior decoration and design.

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.

Josie Borain carried a camera throughout her career as one of the top models of the 1980s. This book brings together these fascinating, intimate photographs to build a portrait of Borain outside of fashion.

From Disneyland to Detroit, Spokane to Scotland, Hairdos of Defiance highlights Templeton’s encounters with iconic punk-rock plumage across two decades and two continents.


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.

While Haring's career involved a diverse range of art making—painting, drawing, performance, video, murals, and art merchandising, he drew over 5,000 chalk drawings over a 5 year period, from 1980 to 1985, in New York City subway stations. These have become his most well known and celebrated works, and this book present them together.

Drawings by Hockney and essays by twenty-seven distinguished writers--among them, Oates, Murdoch, Theroux, Vidal, Mailer, Sontag, and Miller.


A collection of painterly images of women in sexual relationships, accompanied by poetry. Portraits of intimacy, tenderness and love between women.
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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