
A collection of Nozolino's images of the Arab world taken on numerous trips through Egypt, Syria, Morocco, Yemen, Mauritania, Jordan and Lebanon. His images explore the Arabic culture's struggle between ancient desert villages and overcrowded, polluted cities.


The third in the Photoworks Monograph series, a publication displaying the work by Irish photographer Gareth McConnell.

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

Portraits taken of visitors to Amsterdam's Paradiso club in the early 80s.

Edited by Yvonne Rainer, this selection of texts and images by Rainer and various authors offers a retrospective portrait of her work, focusing on some of her most notable performances and projects

A collection of exclusive, behind-the-scenes and fittings images of Pieter Mulier’s shows at Alaïa. Captured through Seklaoui’s unfiltered photography, this limited-edition book explores the intensity of the crucial moments leading up to a collection presentation, revealing the Maison’s creative process in its purest form. Born from the intimate collaboration between Pieter Mulier and Anthony Seklaoui, Alaïa by Seklaoui was built upon their shared obsession with the idea of raw beauty.

Published to coincide with an exhibition in the Canon Photography Gallery at the V&A, this book looks at the work of key British photographers, art directors and stylists who changed the face of fashion photography in the 1990s. The illustrations show how the distinctions between editorial and advertising, photography and fine art and commercial styles became blurred while the growth in the number of magazines and the rise of the internet increased the scope and availability of fashion imagery. Through interviews and photographs, a style of photography emerges which has a harder edge and challenges previously accepted stereotypes of fashion and glamour.

An illustrated exploration of the history of panoramas, dioramas, and similar immersive visual entertainments.

In 1969, Winogrand documented a number of public events. The photographs depict our emerging dependence on the media as well as how the media changes and sometimes even creates the event itself.

This incredible album is a testimony to the magnificent minerals collected in what was known as the Katanga Province in Congo.

A book about architecture


The definitive retrospective of America's preeminent photographer. This book reveals for the first time Penn's own view of his extraordinary and diverse career. Accompanied by his fascinating and insightful commentaries and examples of his portraits, still lifes, and fashion drawings.
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Wegman is known for his photography and video art, which evolved from his early conceptual work in the 1970s. He frequently uses a large format 20x24 inch Polaroid camera, a medium that inspired much of his color photography.

A comprehensive study of the work of photographer Bill Brandt, and a catalogue to an exhibition at the Barbican Centre in London in 1993. Brandt is perhaps best known for his sequence of ever more abstracted studies of the nude, but his telling portrayals of artists from the same period remain immediate and perceptive decades later. This book explores, on a large scale, all the different aspects of Brandt's work.

Works by design studio Hipgnosis for rock bands.

Begun in 2014, Njideka Akunyili Crosby's ongoing series, The Beautyful Ones is comprised of portraits of Nigerian children, including members of the artist's family, derived from personal photographs and, more recently, from images taken during her frequent visits to Nigeria, where Akunyili Crosby lived until the age of sixteen.

Eikoh Hosoe is one of Japan's most iconic post-war photographers, recognized for his legendary collaborations and impeccable aesthetics. Ordeal by Roses is an extended photographic portrait of his work in collaboration with celebrated author Yukio Mishima. The series features Mishima in a variety of poses, proudly showing off his muscular physique, the result of many years of dedicated bodybuilding. The photographs—taken from autumn 1961 to spring 1962, mostly at the writer’s home in the Magome district of Tokyo—encapsulated Mishima’s self-image and brought it to vivid life in photographs that used a variety of sophisticated techniques to create an astonishing world of provocative sensuality.

This striking series of photographs by Irving Penn was inspired by the exhibition The 10s, 20s, 30s at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1973, curated by Diana Vreeland. The clothes in the exhibition were so exquisite in their detail and richness that Penn felt compelled to photograph them and produce a book of his images. A studio was erected for him in The Met and the clothes were placed upon a mannequin. The resulting images bear the hallmark of Penn's finest studio portraits, but here the clothes, rather than the person, are the subject.

A themed collection of Araki photographs. Issue 18: Bondage


In a photographic career that spanned only seventeen years, Jack Robinson created an extraordinary body of work that captured both the faces and the fashions of the 1960s - a defining period of twentieth-century popular arts. When he died in 1977 at age 69, few people would have guessed that this reclusive artist had been at the center of the glitterati in the Swinging Sixties and was acknowledged by his peers as one of the preeminent photographers in the business.

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.

The emerging 1980s hip hop and underground music scene in Bristol, UK, including members of the Wild Bunch (who later formed Massive Attack)

Bones, objects and ideas are equally subjected to the passage of time. The exhibition Tongue Stones explores legacies past, present and future through a constellation of histories and imminent possibilities. The works in this exhibition include experiments in research, reenactment, distribution, sampling, circulation, documentation and reanimation.

A pictorial celebration of the clothing and accessories that dominated the American male dress code from 1955 to 1965.

Published for an exhibition at the Centre de la Vieille Charité, this catalogue explores ceramics and glass by the Memphis Group. Featuring essays and illustrations, it highlights works by designers including Ettore Sottsass, Michele de Lucchi, Andrea Branzi, and Nathalie du Pasquier, alongside a bibliography and exhibition history.

Ray Johnson (1927–1995) was an influential American artist known as the "father of mail art" and a key figure in early Pop Art and Neo-Dada. He founded the New York Correspondence School, sending collages and letters through the mail to friends and acquaintances. Known as "New York's most famous unknown artist," he specialized in, surreal, text-heavy collages.

In An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar (2007), Simon compiles an inventory of what lies hidden and out-of-view within the borders of the United States. She examines a culture through the documentation of subjects from domains including: science, government, medicine, entertainment, nature, security, and religion.

Semina was a mail-art magazine founded by Wallace Berman that connected the disparate artistic, literary, music, and film scenes of Los Angeles and San Francisco. Its nine issues between 1955 and 1964 contain original works by the likes of John Altoon, Charles Brittin, William Burroughs, Jean Cocteau, Allen Ginsberg, Taylor Mead and more. This book is a reproduction of the full run of Semina, containing annotations and texts by Johan Kugelberg, Adam Davis, Tosh Berman, Shirley Berman, Philip Aarons and Andrew Roth.

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


A selection of photographs of one of the most distinguished practitioners of portrait and fashion photography. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, this catalogue was the first comprehensive retrospective of Irving Penn's work.

This book accompanies the Parrworld exhibition at ","Haus der Kunst","Munich, Germany"], showcasing examples from Martin Parr’s extensive collection of 20,000 postcards. Featuring 750 cards across 21 themed chapters, it includes an essay on the history of postcards and their influential role in shaping Parr’s photographic practice.

Known as the poet of glamour and the man who adores women, Peter Lindbergh has been a driving force in the world of fashion and the evolution of the supermodel. This book features not only Lindberghs print photo campaigns but also the outtakes, Polaroids, and scouting photos of the photographers little films that have redefined fashion photography with their compelling realism and depth of emotion. The 250 color and duotone photos feature never-before-published images of Milla Jovovich, Kate Moss, Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell, Helena Christensen, Cindy Crawford, and Amber Valletta.

Craig explains traditional and modern production techniques and shows designers how to master these new technologies by understanding how they work.
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This book an art project and book by British artist Suzanne Treister (2018–2019). It explores speculative narratives, mapping journeys from a survivor persona through a "black hole spacetime" (BHST) framework, often using diagrams, drawings, and, in this case, a book format that connects different conceptual, often fictional, personas and spaces.

A survey on Japanese package design.

Woven and embroidered works selected by Marianne Straub for the travelling exhbition in 1981.

A report identifying the causes of urban declinein England and the recommended practical solutions to bring people back into cities, towns and urban neighbourhoods.

In this book, freedom of expression is exhibited at its most casual, with political, commercial, and populist signage jostling for attention in the social landscape, dissecting the current disenchantment that has become American civic life.

The thousands of portraits that Keïta took form an outstanding record of Malian society between the end of the Forties and the early Sixties. His photographs have become - in addition to their sociological value - works of art, free from tricks, eccentricity, or any attempt at illusion. As such they have acquired an objective character and a timeless dimension. Through his quest for accuracy, Seydou Keïta seems intuitively to have reinvented the art of the portrait.

Fashion Now profiles the work of the 150 most important designers around the globe, focusing on both established and emerging talent. With A to Z designer entries that include exclusive interviews, biographical information, photos of recent designs by today's leading photographers, and current catwalk shots, Fashion Now is a comprehensive reference book to all things fashion.
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It’s Urgent! is a project curated by Hans-Ulrich Obrist, which began in 2019 in Denmark. During the elections for the European Parliament in 2019, artists were invited to think about the present and the future with an exhibition of posters on billboards in the city of Copenhagen. The idea then was to make the artists’ works available to the public, inserting them into public life and the community.

In the 1980s, Peter Lindbergh invented a new way of photographing and interpreting fashion. Considered as one of the great masters of black and white photography, he is best known for his brilliantly posed images of women of stiking beauty. Using fashion photography as the key to his era, Lindbergh creates scenes which are immediately recognisable and forceful in their modernity. This book celebrates the essential and fruitful relationship between Lindbergh's photographs and their primary destination, the magazine page, presenting a selection of his work from 1996-1998 as it appeared in publications such as "Vogue", "W Magazine" and the "New Yorker".

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.


Altars presents Mapplethorpe's colour work together with his final work, which were unique prints, elaborately framed and mounted on multiple coloured panels. The final work was the culmination of his creation of the unique photographic object, and it places Mapplethorpe outside the realm of photography and firmly in the world of contemporary art.

A captivating look at the glamorous, jet-setting lifestyles of those who frequent the legendary Hotel Il Pellicano, overlooking a secluded bay in Tuscany's Porto Ercole. One of the most beautiful destinations in the world, the chic Hotel Il Pellicano, located on the Argentario, is a hangout for many from the design, fashion, and art worlds.

This book offers a comprehensive visual survey of Donald Judd’s living and working spaces in New York and Texas. Featuring unpublished photographs and essays, it explores his buildings at 101 Spring Street and in Marfa, including Ayala de Chinati. The volume reveals Judd’s concept of permanent installation, integrative living, architectural preservation, and rigorous attention to function, design, and landscape.

After years of research in artists’ studios as well as in private and public collections, this book depicts a rich period when the Italian artists figured among the most influential interprets of the transformation in the visual languages. This book displays more than 300 works of art by major figures of the Italian scene, including Giovanni Anselmo, Alighiero Boetti, Luigi Ghirri, Jannis Kounellis, Piero Manzoni, Mario Merz and more.
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Through exquisite reproductions presented in a unique accordion fold-out format, Diane Arbus: The Libraries showcases books and other objects from the artist’s collection as displayed in the international museum retrospective, Diane Arbus: Revelations.

Ghosts Don’t Walk in Straight Lines, a book and film collaboration between Saskia de Brauw and Vincent van de Wijngaard, follows a journey through the streets of New York by foot, walking from North to South in one full day. This slow walk along Manhattan’s old Broadway was documented along with stories and encounters from the Broadway Bridge to Battery Park. The walk took de Brauw on a journey through Manhattan, crossing different neighbourhoods, sparking meetings, observations, thoughts and memories.

Features stunningdesigns of kosode used in Japanese Noh theater, including many edo works of the patchwork style.

A lush visual celebration of Pulp’s sixth album, This Is Hardcore, featuring unseen photography, behind-the-scenes interviews and revealing visuals.

A book of the furniture design work by Thomas Rietveld.

The Rock and Roll Circus starring the Rolling Stones has long been regarded as a long-lost treasure of rock film history. This book collects full-bleed production stills during rehearsals and filming – featuring 100 black and white portraits of costume shots, performance stills, and intimate backstage details.

An incredible style reference courtesy of photographer Kazuo Ohishi who covered all the shows for Paris fashion week. Ohishi photographs the runway collections of Ann Demeulemeester, Alaia, Chloe, Comme des Garcons, Dries Van Noten, Helmut Lang, Galliano, Margiela, Kenzo, Martine Sitbon and many more.

A book about workshop traditions which have been handed down by Koreans and Japanese from the greatest period of Chinese ceramics in Sung dynasty.

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.

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.

Berlin-based photographer Michael Schmidt is among the most important photographers of post-war German photography. In his long out-of-print artist's book "Ein-heit" (Unity), Schmidt explores the universal symbolism of political systems and their image of humanity. In his uncompromising view of reality, he combines photographs already mediated by the media with his own photographic works.

Between 1978 and 1982, in a departure from the collaborative conceptual work that he had become known for, Larry Sultan photographed people learning to swim in public pools in San Francisco.

The Work of Tsuguya Inoue 1981–2024 is a comprehensive collector’s edition surveying 503 works, including new projects, by influential Japanese art director Tsuguya Inoue. Spanning over four decades, it highlights his dynamic graphic design for clients such as Parco and Comme des Garçons, tracing a bold, evolving visual career across 696 full-color pages.


This artist’s book by Richard Prince features The Entertainers (1982–83), an early series of photographs inspired by the nightclubs, theaters, and restaurants of New York’s Times Square.

This book, published to coincide with an exhibition at MoMA, is a comprehensive overview of the work of Garry Winogrand. Grouped under the following titles—Eisenhower Years, The Street, Women, The Zoo, On the Road, The Sixties, Etc, The Fort Worth Fat Stock Show and Rodeo, Airport, and Unfinished Work—many of the 179 plates are works that had never before been published.

This book is a celebration of the Yves Saint Laurent look, a combination of elegance and sophisticated artistry. It is also a book in which the premiere fashion photography of our time is represented, and a book in which "the subject and the object blend because each one is a work of art."

Born in Iran and currently living in the US, Shirin Neshat's work sits at the centre of two very different cultural universes. This book documents all of her activity, including her first black and white photographic work in which she gave voices to Iranian women by tracing onto their faces, hands, and naked feet the verses of ancient Persian poets.

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

This book presents the work of fashion designer Norman Hartnell, who was a major personality in the world of fashion. By the mid 1930s, Hartnell's meteoric rise to fame resulted in London becoming a centre of style that closely rivalled Paris. Known for glamorous evening clothes, Hartnell augmented his early design successes by creating a series of stunning wedding dresses for his younger society clientele. His bridal extravaganzas culminated in the romantic 1947 wedding of HRH Princess Elizabeth to HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

Images is David Lych's debut monograph offering a rare insight into his visual obsessions that came to build what we know to be the Lynchian universe. Containing photography, painting, sketches, and storyboards, the book expands upon themes Lynch was preoccupied with both on and off screen – from industrial decay, fragmented bodies to dreamlike spaces. With production materials from Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, and Dune.

This 528-page monograph celebrates twenty years of work by M/M (Paris), founded by Michaël Amzalag and Mathias Augustyniak. Arranged alphabetically from “M” to “M,” it documents hundreds of projects spanning graphic design, fashion, music, art, film, and interiors. Featuring major collaborations and interviews, the book reveals their dialogic, cross-disciplinary approach and lasting influence on contemporary visual culture.

An extensive history of ties.

Dennis Morris: Music + Life is the first in-depth career retrospective of the trailblazing photographer, designer, and art director. Although Dennis Morris is celebrated for his iconic portraits of reggae superstar Bob Marley, this monograph also shines a light on Morris's documentary work, which explores questions of race and cultural identity as it draws on his experiences as a Black teenager in 1970s Britain. Supported by an international touring exhibition, Dennis Morris unveils a trove of previously unseen images, offering new insight into the image-maker's visual language.

This book brings together a wealth of research and an expansive selection of photographs found at a New York Flea Market to create an enduring account of America's first known trans network, Casa Susanna.

Colorful look at the short lived but vivid design movement from the 1980s, with many color examples of furniture, objects and other pieces of designs.
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This book presents over forty leading designers and companies using innovative packaging and graphic design to address environmental challenges. Through global case studies, it shows how thoughtful graphics and sustainable packaging can reduce environmental impact while also encouraging improvements in product formulation, demonstrating design’s growing role in promoting responsible production and consumption

A timely exploration of political organising, publishing, design and distribution in 1970s Detroit.

Simultaneous Soloists is an artist's book emerging from the exhibition Anthony McCall: Solid Light Works and its accompanying performance series Four Simultaneous Soloists, organised by David Grubbs. It documents these ephemeral events through multiple means: an extensive conversation between McCall and Grubbs detailing a decade of working together. Simultaneous Soloists considers from a plurality of perspectives the challenge of combining McCall's visual art with sound in live performance.

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

This book explores the connection between dance and visual arts in the work of choreographer and dancer Trisha Brown.

Black and white photographs of New York City coupled with nude bodies by photographer Arthur Tress.

Chéri Samba (born 1956) is a renowned Congolese painter known for his "popular painting" style, which merges vivid, humorous, and critical imagery with textual commentary to address social, political, and daily life in Kinshasa.
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This book is a journey into the film of Morvern Callar directed by Lynne Ramsay. A collection of impressions and behind the scenes shots.

In this publication, Tiane Doan na Champassak curates his collection of Parkett magazine (1984–2017), focusing on double-spread gallery advertisements from its first five years. Treating these ads as artworks, the book highlights the primacy of text in conceptual art, tracing an alternative history of postmodern and contemporary practice and recurring figures such as Marcel Broodthaers, Louise Bourgeois, Cindy Sherman, and others.
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Special supplement to influential eighties men’s magazine Per Lui which featured the work of many well known fashion photographers through its time: Bruce Weber, Mario Testino, Herb Ritts, Steven Meisel amongst them. In this extended 80-page editorial, Bruce Weber and crew based out of the Shangri La Hotel in Los Angeles photographs a summer at the beach.

In 1973, photographer David Bailey did all his major fashion shoots for British Vogue with actress and, at that time, occasional model, Anjelica Huston. This irresistible volume chronicles the duo's fiery photographic collaboration.

Building on his first monograph, Jock Sturges presents us with a new body of work that strikes the same chords of beauty and evolution that we find in his earlier images, but with a more intense dramatic and metaphoric intention.

This book features selections from over a dozen albums, many never-before-seen, and includes Shabazz's earliest photographs as well as images taken inside Rikers Island, all accompanied by essays that situate Shabazz's work within the broader history of photography.

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.

Crucifixion on Caulaincourt is a series of black and white diaristic images by Kingsley Ifill.

Body Architecture explores Lucy Orta's historic works, Refuge Wear, Nexus Architecture and Connector Body Architecture, to reveal ways in which the perceptions of space plays a crucial role in the construction of personal and collective identity.

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

This book traces the five-year construction of Plumtree Court, Goldman Sachs' new headquarters in Central London, through Juergen Teller's inimitable vision. Teller relished immersing himself in such a long-term project, one thrillingly different to the fashion world he knows so well.

A comprehensive collection of photographs of garments made for the greatest Vivienne Westwood and Malcom McLaren collections, compiled from the archives of Hiroshi Fujiwara and Jun Takahashi – featuring clothing from Let It Rock, Sex, Seditionaries and World's End collections.

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.


Lee Miller is arguably the 20th century's most famous woman photographer. During her extraordinary life, she came into contact with a wide range of people including many of the most celebrated and influential artists, writers, actors, fashion designers and socialites of the last century. This book is a comprehensive collection of these photographs, while exploring the relationship between photography and Lee Miller's life.
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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