
PYMCA (The Photographic Youth Music Culture Archive) is the first photographic archive dedicated to youth culture. Includes images documenting subcultures ranging from New Romantics at Taboo, to Punks at the Roxy in '77, Summer of Love ravers to Travellers, Protestors and festival goers – and all have been taken by people deeply embedded in the subcultures that they documented.

Focusing on the near-fifty-year period in which abortion was legal in the United States (1973–2022), The Last Safe Abortion recognises the care, advocacy, and community-building of abortion workers. Artist Carmen Winant draws from over a dozen personal, organisational, and institutional archives from across Midwest America. The photographs themselves are surprisingly regular. In centring the tender, quotidian, and routine acts that inform this healthcare work, Winant works to counter the ways anti-choice activists have weaponised photography by proposing a visuality that attends to abortion care. The Last Safe Abortion presents a selection of this vast collection of photographs, accompanied by a text by Winant.


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This book is an extenstion of a photography exhibition that took place at The Corcoran Gallery of Art in 1996.Featuring photographs by Jim Goldberg, Nan Goldin, Sally Mann, Jack Radcliffe, and Kathy Vargas, the images explore and communicate to the public the experience and meaning of hospice care. The approaches of the five artists vary substantially in their style and subject matter, ranging from dark and intense to images of smiles and loved ones.

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.

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.

A collection of rarely seen photographs that provide an entirely fresh perspective on male friendship in the 19th century. The poignant images in more than 100 early photographs, drawn from both public and private collections, suggest a surprisingly broad-minded attitude towards physical intimacy between men, challenging the conventional view of the Victorian era.

Photographs of renowned photographers across the world taken by Peggy Jarrell Kaplan including Merce Cunningham, Eiko, David Gordon, Trisha Brown, Michael Clark, Pina Bausch

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.
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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.

This book is a collection of photographs of the painter Georgia O'Keeffe by Alfred Stieglitz. The two met in 1916 and married in 1924, and these several hundred portraits made over twenty-something years is an image of a life and a love. O'Keeffe claimed: "When I look over the photographs Stieglitz took of me . . . I wonder who that person is. It is as if in my one life I have lived many lives."

In this book, over 60 years of work by designer, artist, critic and theoretician Ezno Mari is documented through projects, drawings, unpublished materials, essays, interviews and tributes by internationally renowned artists and designers.


A themed collection of Araki photographs.

Lost Dreams details the youth clubs of East London from 2005 to '07, these clubs provided the foundations for aspiring musicians some of whom are now well recognised in the grime scene and beyond. If you're at all familiar with Wheatley's previous book on the heydays of Grime, you'll know the depths of his access to the subject and his attention to detail photographically.

A monograph of the work of architect Richard Rogers

The story of Christian Dior's rise to fame as a fashion designer is told through a survey of the House's major collections from 1947 to 1957.

Mario Casilli's photographs defined the fabulous and outrageous entertainment industry in the 1980s. This book shows his larger than life portraits, featuring his trademark backlighting and bright color palette. Including everyone from Joan Collins in blinding jewels, Dolly Parton in perfectly coiffed grandeur and the Bee Gees in sleeveless leather.

For her first solo exhibition in an Italian museum, Between Art and Life, curated by Alberto Salvadori, Andrea Zittel is celebrated in a monographic catalogue by Mousse, highlighting her innovative and influential practice within international contemporary art.

For more than twenty years, Jefferson Hack has pioneered the idea of magazines as communities through his co-founding editorial of Dazed & Confused, AnOther Magazine and Another Man. Featuring contributions from cultural provocateurs Tilda Swinton, Rankin, Douglas Coupland, Björk, Aimee Mullins, and many more, We Can't Do This Alone: Jefferson Hack the System re-defines the purpose of alternative media in the 21st century drawing on a wealth of innovative projects to artfully map out a bright future for radical publishing.

John Waters: Pope of Trash was published in tandem with the first comprehensive exhibition dedicated to the artist’s contributions to cinema. The book delves into his filmmaking process, key themes, and unmatched style.

With over 200 images of t-shirt 'messages', A Typology of T-shirts looks at those individuals who stand out in a crowd through their choice of the message on their back.

Published to accompany exhibition held at the Palazzo Strozzi, Florence in September 1992 tracing the history of Italian fashion.

128 duo-toned b&w plates of American teenagers in the early 1960's taken by Joseph Sterling, with an accompanying essay by David Travis.

An issue of Architecture and Urbanism on the work of Richard Rogers
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Madonna’s Sex book is one of the most iconic and resounding art projects conceived by the pop star. The photographs by Steven Meisel feature open-minded erotic imagery and sexual fantasies.

A collection of Jenny Holzer's projection works.

Mapplethorpe's photographs for Jan Fabre's internationally performed Power of Theatrical Madness were taken during his 1985 stay in Antwerp, Belgium. The photos are interspersed in this volume with Fabre's working drawings for the performance. Approaching similar themes through different mediums, "Mapplethorpe and Fabre metamorphose their subject matter, photographed or staged, so that the body is `compromised' in a sublimation of itself. With an introduction by Kathy Acker.

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

Untitled is the only volume devoted to a single project by Diane Arbus, drawn from photographs taken in residences for people with developmental disabilities between 1969 and 1971, during the final years of her life. Largely unpublished until this edition, the images reveal a lyrical, emotionally direct vision that Arbus herself described as “finally what I’ve been searching for.” More mythic than documentary, the work reflects her unflinching engagement with reality and affirms the individuality and shared humanity of her subjects.

Athens Love presents poet and photographer Hang’s works taken in Athens and the Attica region of Greece in April 2015, during his participation in an artist residency and exhibition curated by Vassilis Zidianakis, titled "Occupy Atopos". The photographs in Athens Love feature Ren Hang's signature style of minimalist, vibrant, and erotically charged images of his friends, often nude and posed in unusual ways, but set against the backdrop of the Greek natural environment – beaches, woods, cliffs, and apartments.

This book introduces the writing of Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier

Fashioning Fiction in Photography Since 1990 presents a selection of high-profile fashion photographs influenced by two aesthetic strategies: cinema and the amateur photograph. Featuring works by by photographers such as Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Cedric Buchet, Glen Luchford, Tina Barney, Juergen Teller, Nan Goldin and Larry Sultan, among others.


Fragments Segments Vestiges is a book to accompany a film installation of the same name. The film and book are divided into 10 chapters, each responding to a prose poem. They are an allegorical take on everyday moments, some that would otherwise be forgotten. Each part of the film is an observation of the mundane, led by a silent narrative. On the cover is a fragment of the negative on which the project was shot.

The Japan A.U. Mail Art Book II, part of a three part series, is a rare, important compilation documenting the Japanese mail art movement in the early 1980s, featuring artworks, texts, and collages from global artists serving as vital records of conceptual art exchange.

Richly reproduced colour illustrations alongside interviews that explore multiple dimensions of female sexuality. Through a blend of visual and textual material, the book offers an in-depth, reflective examination of intimacy, identity, and representation within contemporary photographic and cultural discourse.

A periodical book on modern houses from around the globe. Featuring work of architects Mies v.d. ROhe, R. Meier, MLTW, K. Roche & J. Dinkeloo, M. Brewer

Issue on the work of Frank Lloyd Wright

Through essays, illustrations and an extensive abecedarium, On the Necessity of Gardening reflects on the garden as an abiding metaphor for society and culture.

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This is the first book to be published on the leading London architecture firm Gumuchdjian Architects whose widely published first project the Think Tank established their reputation for sensitive, contextual work.

Known for subverting the conventions of fashion and celebrity photography, Teller here turns his iconoclastic eye to the two-Michelin-starred food of chef Antonio Guida in Eating at Il Pellicano. Eleven menus of five courses encapsulate the unique, offhanded chic of the Hotel Il Pellicano, in Teller’s second photographic collaboration with this exclusive Italian retreat.

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A collection of black and white images of 1950s London people and landmarks.

A mid-career retrospective of the work of María Magdalena Campos-Pons who has become one of the most important and influential contemporary Afro-Cuban artists. Her multimedia work explores themes of memory, the African diaspora, gender, and Afro-Cuban spirituality (Santería).

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Provoke, with its subtitle of Provocative Materials for Thought, was an experimental, small-press Japanese photography magazine founded in 1968 by critic/photographers Kōji Taki and Takuma Nakahira, photographer Yutaka Takanashi, and writer Takahiko Okada. Daidō Moriyama joined from the second issue. The magazine itself was printed through techniques like the "are-bure-boke" style, which embraced grain, blur, and high contrast to convey a sense of immediacy and raw energy. The printing process was considered a crucial part of the work, often using techniques that increased grain and contrast, with photos printed edge-to-edge without margins to make them appear to bleed into one another.

A unique story of people protecting a park in Berkeley California and the city's retaking of it.

Over a period of two years, writer-photographer Kyoichi Tsuzuki visited a hundred apartments, condos and suburban homes, and lovingly documented what he saw.

This book explores William Pope. L's impact on American art and culture. It contains sections on practices, body, performance, dialogue, consumption, and a selection of the artist's writings and a chronology.

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.

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.

A series of photographs of women from the late 50's to 80's taken by Norman Parkinson.

This book is Hiller's response to Sigmund Freud's personal art collection, library and famous couch. Inside, it presents a series of archaeological collection boxes, and through turning the pages the reader embarks on a personal journey to disclose the secrets of each box.

A themed collection of Araki photographs. Issue 12: Dramatic Shooting and Fake Reportage

Archive is the first book by Sofia Coppola, covering the entirety of her singular and influential career in film. Constructed from Coppola’s personal collection of photographs and ephemera, including early development work, reference collages, influences, annotated scripts, and unseen behind-the-scenes documentation, it offers a detailed account of all eight of her films to date.


Issue on houses and interiors in Southern Europe

A collection of photographs and essays exploring the nude body from Jain Kelly Bravo, Manuel Alvarez, Harry Callaghan, Lucien Clergue, Ralph Gibson, Kenneth Josephson, Andre Kertesz, Duane Michals and Helmut Newton.
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Outsider Art refers to the mesmerizing creations of those who live and work at a distance from prevailing notions about mainstream artistic trends, individuals who are frequently unaware of themselves as artists or their works as art. This book presents and discusses some of the 20th century's most significant examples of Outsider Art artists from around the world, including Gedewon, a cleric from Ethiopia who made unique and psychedelic talismans; William Hawkins, an African-American self-taught artist with a unique pop sensibility; and more.


European Diary 1983. 1984 is a collection of works by Keizo Kitajima, a photographer representing postwar Japan.

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Featuring the work of architects Atelier Bow-Wow, David Adjaye, Sou Fujimoto, Zaha Hadid, Herzog and De Meuron, Ai Weiwei and more for various pavilions around the world.

A socialist journal of the social services. Special issue on labour and human services.
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Designed while Man Ray was living in Hollywood and published in December 1948, Alphabet for Adults was printed by pioneering California lithographer Lynton R. Kistler Man Ray illustrated it with reproductions of 39 fanciful cartoon drawings representing the letters of the alphabet.

Originally published by Doubleday and Company in 1970, N.H. Pritchard's The Matrix was one of a tiny handful of books of concrete poetry published in America by a major publishing house. Forcing the reader to straddle the line between reading and viewing, the book features visual poems that predate the experiments of the Language poets, including words that are exploded into their individual letters, and columns of text that ride the edge of the page.

An extensive history of ties.

Suburbia is a sociological dissection of the Northern California suburban sprawl of the late sixties and early seventies, one of the great American photography books of the last quarter of the 20th Century.

A collection of photographs depicting the female nude.

Covered with inventive, unfurling doodles, hand-drawn lettering, and image of sexy figures and party animals, the flyers reproduced here are created from drawings, tracing, photocopies, photographs, cutouts, and collages. They look back to the flyers inspired by the cut-and-paste era of the late 1980s but are given inspirational new form in the current scene.

Examining some of the many parallels between visual art, dance and music in the 20th century, this issue of Art & Design brings together an enormous diversity of material: from the pure saturated colours and blue-black voids of Anish Kapoor's art, to the choreographic notations of Merce Cunningham; to the musical scores and edible drawings of John Cage.

This book presents cross-cultural means of how to understand the reality which lies in dreams.

Beautifully reproduced in duo-tone, this collection of winter photographs shot in the Alphs, the majority of which are published here for the first time, reiterate Lartigue's position as one of the great masters of twentieth-century photography.

A collection of photographs of Londoners in various stages of undress.

Created by Kate Moss herself, in collaboration with creative director Fabien Baron, Jess Hallett, and Jefferson Hack, this book is a highly personal retrospective of Kate Moss’s career, tracing her evolution from “new girl with potential” to one of the most iconic models of all time.

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Avedon Fashion 1944-2000 encompasses seven decades of extraordinary images by Richard Avedon, the most influential fashion photographer of the 20th century.This comprehensive volume offers a definitive survey, from Avedon's groundbreaking early photographs for Harper's Bazaar through his constantly inventive contributions to Vogue, Egoiste, and The New Yorker.

An homage to contemporary hairstylists including, Serge Normant, John Sahag and Orlando Pita.

Since the early 1980s, Grace Lau has explored sexuality, gender identity, and BDSM subcultures through photography. This book traces her work from early male nudes to immersive studies of Skin Two events, dominatrix spaces, and cross-dressing, reflecting evolving ideas of desire and identity.

Founded in 1947, the Living Theatre is the oldest experimental theatre group still existing in the U.S. Inside this book, the Living Theatre's point-of-view is expressed in words and photographs alternating between daily life and the stage, including poetic and political statements.
Vintage Fashion is an encyclopedic visual journey through women’s fashion that features more than 1,000 of the most remarkable vintage items ever sold on the resale market. Classified by decade and accompanied by the history of each item’s creation, the 850 articles of clothing and 150 bags depicted in this book offer a panoramic look across the evolution of style.

Hanoos Hanoos was born in Iraq in 1958, where he studied at the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad. He moved to Madrid, Spain, in 1984 where he obtained his PhD and has lived ever since. This book looks at his print makings, paintings and collage works.

A photographic showcase of a dazzling top model who embodied haute couture in the 1950s.

A captivating look at the career of social and style revolutionary Vidal Sassoon. A visionary hairstylist who became a household name, Vidal Sassoon was an instrument of change during the cultural shifts of the 1960s.

AM I is a publication created on the occasion of Tavares Strachan's desert neon installation in the desert outside Palm Springs unveiling during Desert X.

This book tells the story of the first ten years of Sportsbanger – the anarchic, genre-bending cult fashion house. It charts the rise of the brand from an underground bootlegging operation to an all-inclusive, internationally recognized DIY fashion house, record label and socially conscious satirist.

This publication consists of 930 photographs taken by Daido Moriyama in the first twenty years of his career. Starting with the oldest existing print from 1960 and ending around the publication of Moriyama’s photobook “Light and Shadow” in 1982, the book allows an unprecedented insight into the work – including many previously unpublished images – of one of Japan’s greatest photographers.
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VILE magazine was published between 1974 and 1983 by the mail artists Anna Banana and Bill Gaglione. The inside contents of VILE featured a wide array of texts & manifestoes, letters, performance documentation, articles on individual artists & their projects, detourned mass media advertisements as well as art works from mail artists in different countries.

Haraka Baraka is the second book published by SkatePal, a non-profit organisation that supports young people in Palestine through skateboarding. Since 2013, they have been building skateparks, providing equipment and teaching skate classes to young people across the West Bank. This book is the result of a collaboration between SkatePal and Lebanese designer Samar Maakaroun. Over 224-pages, Haraka Baraka gives a unique introduction to the Arabic language explored through a collection of expressions, ranging from simple everyday phrases shouted in the street, to more complex proverbs steeped in history.

Born in Iran and based in Berlin, German artist Nairy Baghramian explores and reflects on formal languages of both modernism and post-minimalism. This book provides an overview of the work of Nairy Baghramian, with texts that explore the sculptor’s creative process.

This publication presents the Bill Brandt's entire oeuvre, with special emphasis on his investigation of life in 1930s during war-time London, and his innovative late nudes.
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Beginning with his early days in London's East End, this book follows the life and work of David Bailey from the 1950s up until the late 1960 – from his first photographic experiences as an assistant to John French; his early years with Vogue; his close relationship with the stars of rock music; and his friendships and love affairs.

In Spring 2015, the photographer Joel Meyerowitz sat at the work table in Giorgio Morandi's Bologna home, in the exact spot where the painter had sat for over 40 years making his quiet, sublime still lifes. Here Meyerowitz looked at, touched, studied and connected with the more than 250 objects that Morandi painted. Using only the warm natural light in the room, he photographed Morandi's objects: vases, shells, pigment-filled bottles, silk flowers, tins, funnels, watering cans.

The book contains over 250 previously unpublished photographs of Warhol's famous friends and anecdotes. The subjects include Mick Jagger, Bianca Jagger, Truman Capote, Jackie Onassis, Liza Minnelli, Halston, Calvin Klein, Muhammad Ali, Diana Vreeland, and Yves Saint Laurent among others.

An exploration of the unique world of British fashion, including established names and the work of new British designers. All aspects are covered including tailoring, fabrics, branding and accessories while special features highlight the work of key designers and influential trends – including the work of Alexander McQueen and Vivienne Westwood.

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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.
Our librarians are always on hand to serve as research assistants but you can also email us with your interests and project brief and we can prepare a selection of works in advance of your visit.
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