
This book detailing the development of Breivik's sculptural work, which involved materials like wood and fibers.


Superb photographs, by Richard Young, of the famous, the glamorous, the ambitious and the tastless as they party, and relax in chic Mayfair environs. The celebrities captured on camera include, Warhol, Divine, Francis Bacon, Bianca Jagger, Keith Moon, Zandra Rhodes, Elton John, Grace Jones, Britt Ekland and a host of others. Christopher Wilson’s text captures in wry and studied prose the antics of the famous and infamous.

Commissioned by 180 Studios, Ijó follows a group of young ballet dancers in Lagos, Nigeria, exploring common themes within Moses’ work through the intersections of art, family and culture.

Curated by editor Jacqueline de Jong, the issue explicitly explores the topological problem of rings, interlaced rings, and chains across mathematics, poetry, and art. Featuring essays, images, poetry, drawings and photo-collages by French artist Max Bucaille.

The teenage athletes in Luke Smalley's pictures seem inhabitants of some time or place other than the northwestern Pennsylvania towns where the photographer recently found and photographed them. For the past ten years the photographer has painstakingly coordinated the creation of the work presented here, often making his own athletic equipment, props, and costumes.

This book presents Schmidt's portrait of a still-divided Berlin: it brings together surprising combinations of high-contrast, black-and-white images to express a generation's dystopian sense of life shortly before the fall of the Wall.

This book compiles Dash Snow's famous Polaroids. Opening with scenes of friends crashed on beds and couches, floors and even the street, it records hazily snatched glimpses of sex, hard drugs and hanging out; adventures in cars, baths, pools, subway cars, friends’ apartments, on boardwalks and rooftops.

In his epitaph to the age of conspicuous consumption and wealth, Luxury features Martin Parrs photographs over five years of watching the rich and fabulous at international champagne-fuelled gatherings.


The Dazed & Confused collected interviews provide a definitive insight into the style culture of the 1990s, forming a unique and singular portrait of a generation of young artists alongside their more established antecedents. With up to 40 interviews with artists & celebrities including – Damien Hirst, Jean Baudrillard, Kate Moss, Terry Southern, Isaac Hayes, Noam Chomsky, Bjork and Stockhausen, Lou Reed and Paul Auster, Harmony Korine.

A comprehensive history of Prada, featuring editorials, shop fronts, behind the scenes of designing and more.

This book presents the complex work of the Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda, who explores the links between mathematics, code and visual installations.

A catalouge of photographs and drawings by Paul Outerbridge between 1921 and 1941.

Publication to accompnay the exhibition Women, Art and Social Change: The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise.

In 1978, photographer Nathan Farb found his away into Soviet Russian to document the people living in Nowosibirsk, Siberia. This book presents these portraits of everyday people, presenting their fashions and expressions.

Coco Chanel’s passion for fabulous jewels, for exceptional stones, and for improbable marvels produced pieces that were unparalleled in their insistence on luxury and refinement. Drawing inspiration from tradition, Chanel was never the slave of everyday formulas or market values. Yet she reinvented tradition in the most arresting and modern jewelry pieces, based on her love of colour and her assured command of austere classical beauty. This book is the first to present the remarkable jewellery work of Chanel.

Ronald Traeger was an American commercial photographer, painter and graphic designer who also took a range of experimental photographs. The monograph Ronald Traeger New Angles (1999) pays tribute to his short-lived photographic career in London (1961-7) with a memoir by his wife, fellow photographer Tessa Traeger.


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.

In this book, photographer Graciela Iturbide documents the matriarchal culture of the Zapotec women in Juchitán, Mexico.

An incredible, and huge, collection of some of Newton's most celebrated and loved photographs.

Issue on the work of Frank Lloyd Wright
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Isa Genzken is arguably one of the most important and influential female artists of the past 30 years, yet the breadth of her achievement–which spans sculptures, paintings, photographs, collages, drawings, artist’s books, films, installations, and public works–is still largely unknown in the United States. Published in conjunction with the first comprehensive retrospective of the artist’s epically diverse body of work.
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In 1970, Trasov assumed the identity of Mr. Peanut, donning a handmade paper mâché replica of the mascot of the Planters Peanut Company. Soon after, he produced The Mr. Peanut Mayoralty Campaign of 1974, a twenty-day performance developed in collaboration with members of the Vancouver arts community. The legume quickly became Trasov’s cipher and central component of his practice. Mr. Peanut Drawings collects nearly a hundred of Trasov’s Peanut drawings together with a text by Nancy Tousley.

London as one of the global fashion capitals has produced such outstanding designers as John Galliano, Alexander McQueen, Hussein Chalayan and Stella McCartney. Style City tells, for the first time, the story of how that came about, describing how fashion developed in Britain from the early 1970s, when designer fashion scarcely existed, to the present day.

A collection of black and white photographs by Herbert List that portray a dramatic interplay between light and shadow across different Greek landscapes.

Joseph Beuys: Multiples includes some 600 pieces of Beuys work, annotated lists of the major collections where they can be found, essays from significant curators and scholars and an interview with the artist.

The Nazi is an assortment of 164 photographs portraying actors – from Marlon Brando and Michael Caine to Clint Eastwood, Anthony Hopkins and Donald Pleasence – who appeared as Nazis in a variety of cinematic productions. This series is as much about history as it is about the industry of entertainment.

In the wake of the Second World War, aiming to occupy the children rampaging streets and parks, the City of Amsterdam founded Jongensland, a space where boys (and the occasional, officially disallowed girl) could play, build, create, and destroy, largely without supervision. Located on an island accessible only by rowboat, Jongensland grew into a sprawling settlement built experimentally from scrap materials by its young inhabitants. Here, children would cook food, raise animals, build fires, and trade with each other. Without adult intervention, they relied on shared resourcefulness and collaborative ingenuity. This book presents Schulz-Dornburg’s largely unseen series alongside an extended alongside an extended essay by architectural historian Tom Wilkinson reflecting on the architectural themes and lessons Jongensland continues to offer.
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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.

A book on the work of Xavier Corberó (1935-2017) – one of the most important Spanish artists of the last century. His sculptures in rough-hewn stone, marble, and bronze gave form to ideas running through a circle of contemporary surrealist artists, including Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, and Joan Miró, but with pieces distinctly his own.

A study of prehistoric art.

Future Art Ecosystems 3: Art × Decentralise (FAE3) explores how decentralised technologies—often termed web3, crypto, and the dweb—could reshape cultural infrastructure. Through interviews with specialists across art, technology, and policy, the publication examines new models for creative production, distribution, and funding, proposing strategies for cultural organisations to build interoperable systems that support innovation and resilient democratic societies.

Examining the use of strong visual images for architectural and product design, this source book for designers features 100 objects from Future System's personal collection, drawn from the diverse worlds of nature and technology - plants/organic formations, and the car/boat/aerospace industries.

Aspen, published between 1965 and 1971, was a multimedia “magazine in a box” created by Phyllis Johnson. Each issue broke from traditional print by being curated by different artists and designers, including diverse materials such as booklets, vinyl records, film reels, and posters, showcasing avant-garde movements like pop art, Fluxus, and conceptual art. The third issue of volume one is the renowned "Pop Art Issue" designed by Andy Warhol and David Dalton. This multimedia "magazine in a box" acts as a 1960s time capsule – featuring a dayglo detergent box cover, a Velvet Underground flexi-disc, and Warhol’s Kiss film flip-book.

An illustrated history of fashion in skateboarding.



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.

To celebrate its fifteenth anniversary, this volume brings together the best in fashion, art, and culture from Purple’s illustrious history. Purple revolutionised fashion photography in the nineties by commissioning fine artists to shoot fashion editorials. What resulted was a raw, improvisational aesthetic, which continues to exert its power today. Includes work from Terry Richardson, Juergen Teller, Jack Pierson, Richard Prince, John Currin, and Vanessa Beecroft.

A portrait of the Andes mountain range in South America. Across 131 photographs and text contributions, Claude Arthaud andFrancois Herbert-Stevens present this extraordinary country of cold heights with startling immediacy.

An impressive, as ever, collection of 81 black-and-white photographs of model (and his wife at the time) Marie Helvin by David Bailey.

Photographs, essays, anecdotes following the live and career of The Rolling Stones.

In his photographic practice, Irish photographer Wood pursued the goal of opening a window onto one specific piece of reality in the great pictorial swell of our media world, a piece that seems familiar, yet which we see for the first time. Wood’s artist vision tears away from reality the veil that has been thrown over it by the media, creating deeply intimate portraits.

With photographs spanning Sam McKnight s entire career, this book is a dramatic anthology of looks from retro to androgynous, romantic to sexy, red to platinum all from the master hairstylist's deft hand. Featured are some of the most iconic images in popular culture. Richly illustrated, it features photographs by leading fashion photographers and styles commissioned by Vivienne Westwood, Balmain, Chanel, and many others.

Showing Elderfield's distinct view of South Philadelphia, this book documents a big scope of "street life", ranging from snapshots to carefully composed pictures. These beautiful black and white photographs strike the eye because of their lyrical quality, which is enhanced and complemented by contemporary poems.

The self-portraits in this book were taken by visitors in the summer 1976 at an American cultural exchange visit, Photography USA, in Kiev. Here, photographer David Attie set up his large format camera in a studio with a shutter release for Russian visitors to take their portraits – from couples to children, youth, old people and families.

Making & Being draws upon the lived experience of Susan Jahoda and Caroline Woolard, visual arts educators who have developed a framework for teaching art with the collective BFAMFAPhD that emphasizes contemplation, collaboration, and political economy.

‘Rain Time’ is a large collection of photographs found at a flea market in London documenting the self-portraiture of one woman’s penchant for deep-sea submersion via the burgeoning world of rubber fetishism. The collage works in the collection precede by at least 15 years what would become the cut n’ paste aesthetic of punk, devising and framing new identities culled from images in the daily papers, on the spectrum from Sophia Loren to Mrs Mills. 'Rain Time’ reveals a hitherto unseen world of exploratory erotic investigation taking place for personal satisfaction behind the net curtains of suburban Britain. It is so called for the catalogue of rubber wear accompanying the archive, one subsequently employed by Vivienne Westwood for her revolutionary Kings Road ‘Sex’ shop a decade later.

Images and documentations taken by French volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft during their expeditions.

Double Game is the a book of work by Sophie Calle and the fiction of Paul Auster. We see the pieces both as they're described in their fictional context and as Calle's own interpretation of the descriptions from Auster's novel. The book delves deeper into Calle's world, with a sequence of Calle's seminal narrative and abstract works in texts and images that were in turn appropriated by the fictional Maria in Leviathan.

Where is ‘69” Shinjuku Kaminari Zoku has taken on cult status in Japan and is almost impossible to find. The book contains numerous gritty black and white photographs documenting the Japanese biker gangs of Shinjuku in the late sixties. Fukuda has done an incredible job of capturing the life style surrounding this slice of pop history

A socialist journal of the social services. In this issue: Day care and the regulation of women's workforce participation, evaluating a welfare reform, the current state of British social work, the politics of human liberation.

A photographic document of a Mexican bull fight in 1961.
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Beat Streuli: New York City 2000–2002 presents a striking portrait of urban life at the turn of the millennium through the lens of Swiss photographer Beat Streuli. Focusing on the anonymous passersby who populate New York's bustling streets, Streuli captures fleeting expressions, gestures, and glances that reflect the energy and diversity of the city. His large-format, candid photographs offer an unfiltered view of the everyday—poised between intimacy and detachment—revealing the quiet drama and individuality found within the urban crowd.

Shame Space is an artist book that explores the possibilities of narrative and identity. The book collects a selection of journal writings by Syms from 2015-2017 in which she attempts to capture her shadow self alongside a selection of image stills from the recent video project Ugly Plymouths (2020). The diaristic commentary in Shame Space is gathered into fifteen chapters that stage narrative as a process of being in the making.

With photographs and texts, this book focus on the vvernauclar North Carolina potters bring to their materials, tools, techniques and history.

A large poster of a photograph by Burkinabe photographer Sanlé Sory from 1972, which inspired Wales Bonner's Spring/Summer 2022 collection.

A book of the work of George Ohr – an American ceramic artist and the self-proclaimed "Mad Potter of Biloxi" in Mississippi. In recognition of his innovative experimentation with modern clay forms from 1880 to 1910, some consider him a precursor to the American Abstract-Expressionism movement.

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.

Between 1916 and 1925 Paul Klee (1879-1940) made some 50 hand puppets for his son, Felix, of which 30 are still in existence. These figures become reminiscent of Klee's relationships with his family, and beautifully illustrative of the artistic and social developments of the time.


Scottish photographer Jane Stockdale's first publication I Predict a Riot documents the now notorious G20 demonstrations that took place in London in April 2009. Hyped in the British media as "The Summer of Rage" and "Meltdown in the City," the events of that summer are here recorded from the midst of the action, in photographs and interspersed captions.

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.

A collection of black and white images of 1950s London people and landmarks.
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L'abito per pensare explores the designs of Versace from the late 1970s until 1989. It is packed full with text, archival images, fashion photographs and illustrations, and photographed details of the clothes. The book was published to accompany an exhibition at the Castello Sforzesco in Milan. There are fashion photographs by Bruce Weber, Richard Avedon, Peter Lindbergh, Deborah Turbeville, Albert Watson, Helmut Newton, and many others.


Two volume set of Herb Ritts' photographs of nude men and women.

Indian Circus is documentary photography at its finest. Mary Ellen Marks' photographs are not only compelling portraits of the performers, but also eloquent and poetic narratives about life in the Indian circus.

A book on embroidery and stiching.

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 collection of photographic works by George Orwell presented in a special edition supplement of The Sunday Times.

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.

Published in conjunction with the 2010 exhibition Compost Pictures at the Charleston art centre in East Sussex, this artist’s book by Shafran continues his long-standing interest in the domestic environment as subject matter. Focusing on food waste collected in a kitchen compost bowl, the images reveal accidental arrangements of vegetables and utensils that resemble sculptural or installation-like compositions. This small, limited-edition, signed publication highlights the artist’s sharp observational eye and understated sense of humour.

A book on the work of design studio Hipgnosis.

In the early sixties, Marilyn Stafford spent over a year in Lebanon and became fascinated with the country and its people. She travelled extensively, journeying to the most remote villages and recording scenes of everyday life. This album is a selection of 140 of these outstanding photographs. Although there are some architectural scenes and views of towns and villages, the main focus is on the Lebanese people and their way of life.

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.

This exhibition catalogue weaves the thread between sculpture, fashion photography and art. Featuring an essay by Sarah Mower and an interview with Jonathan Anderson.

Fashion Photography 1950-1975 is a book by German photographer F.C. Gundlach that showcases his iconic work during that period. His photos are known for blending social commentary with fashion, reflecting the spirit of the times and influencing fashion perception in Germany and beyond.

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

A Meaningful Order by OK-RM is a 328-page exploration of design’s distributed realities, shaped through dialogue, exhibition, and industrial production. Structured A–Z, it presents sixteen years of work via experimental lithography and designerly writing. Blending archive, interview, and reflection, it examines how designed objects generate meaning through form, context, culture, and conversation beyond academe.

Through the eyes and words of fashion photographers and writers, The Idealising Vision recognises the enduring value of fashion photography by showcasing images from around the world, images of clothing, beauty, style, and still life.

A themed collection of Araki photographs. Issue 19: A's Lovers

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

The photographs in Eye For A Sty, Tooth For The Roof served as the source material from which Danny Fox based his series of paintings included in his current solo show at Alexander Berggruen, Danny Fox: The Sweet and Burning Hills (January 12-February 26, 2021).

Horst Portraits celebrates the portraits of Horst P. Horst - one of the great master photographers of the twentieth century and the creator of some of the most elegant, glamorous, and stylish images in photographic history. It is the first book specifically devoted to his signature portraits.The photographs are all reproduced in full-page plates. For anyone interested in photography, fashion, or celebrity, some of the most fascinating faces of the twentieth century are to be found in the pages of this book.

This book presents Gillian Wearing's most seminial public artwork in which she invited members of the public to write what was on their mind on a sign. With their permission, she then photographed them holding their written statement. 'Queer and Happy', 'I'm Desperate', 'I Really Love Regents Park', 'Convenience causes apathy', are just a few of the responses. The images presented interrupt the logic of documentary photography, and present an engineering of self representation.

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 book on design and advertising in Britain.

If music fans and musicians carry a composite image in their head of The Rolling Stones' street-fighting dandy look in the '60s, they were all taken by revered British photographer Mankowitz. This book presents the classic shots, as well as images from the thousands of lesser-known photos in his Stones archives.

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.

Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name, this accordion fold book reproduces Gysin's epic work (1640 cm long) inspired by hieroglyphics and calligraphy.

This monograph sheds light on Man Ray's photographic genius. Photographs feature many of his techniques including solarisations and rayographs, and unconventional portraits and sensual nudes.

In 1996, Alexander McQueen took over the Hawksmoor masterpiece Christ Church in London’s East End to present Dante – the seminal collection that would resonate throughout the young designer's career. This book features unique photographs shot behind the scenes, with raw, unseen pictures of the designer, models and clothes. The fashion creatives who worked with McQueen to make the show such a success recall this pivotal time in the designer’s career and reflect on what made the collection so groundbreaking.

This book contains research cinto the development of writing and the use of the broad pen by the medieval scribe, the theory and development of manuscript illustration, and the practical importance of lettering.

Shot over four years, ‘Drifting in Paradise’ is a photo series that documents the grassroots car culture of Barbados, captured through the lens of Ollie Trenchard, a London-based photographer of Barbadian descent who spent much of his youth on the island.

Exploring themes of perception, vision, & insight, this book focuses on the most astonishing pieces from a special collection of spectacles -- over 200 original works of art by noted designers & artists from around the world.

For over a decade, Robert Bergman journeyed through America’s Rust Belt and East Coast, capturing striking color portraits of everyday people who deeply moved him. Using simple equipment but extraordinary vision, he created a powerful portrait of the American spirit. A Kind of Rapture presents the first selection from this epic project, showcasing images reproduced with unprecedented artistic fidelity and care.

This issue contains 33 lithographs of artworks provided by 33 international roster of avant-garde and surrealist-leaning artists, including Asger Jorn, Roberto Matt, Guido Biasi, José Gamarra, Lea Lublin, Cristina Martinez and more.
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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