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

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This book reflects intangibles-atmosphere, light, space, the effects of form and material, the interaction of nature and man, and the concepts that bind these in physical and psychological reality.

A catalogue of Southern American pottery.

A Period of Juvenile Prosperity by Mike Brodie is a vivid photographic chronicle of American rail-riding subculture, capturing a life of movement, risk, and fleeting freedom. Beginning as a teenager who unexpectedly discovered train hopping in Florida, Brodie went on to document nomadic journeys across the United States using a second-hand 35mm camera. His portraits of fellow travellers carry an unexpected warmth and intimacy, balancing hardship with a quiet sense of camaraderie. Widely acclaimed upon publication, the work has been recognised as one of the defining photobooks of its time.

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

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This book showcases extraordinary cars, with a standout section on Lamborghini. Featuring period photos of Bertone designs like the Marzal, Bravo, and Athon, it highlights iconic the design of many iconic cars.

This book presents 250 film posters from the pre-Stalin Soviet Union (1920s–1930s), showcasing a vibrant era of visual and graphic experimentation before Soviet Realism dominated. Drawn from Susan Pack’s private collection, it highlights 27 artists whose bold, dynamic designs reject Hollywood glamour in favor of striking compositions, unusual perspectives, and inventive cinematic expression.

Fred Astaire is best known for a number of highly successful musical comedy films in which he starred with Ginger Rogers. He is regarded by many as the greatest popular-music dancer of all time.

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

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.

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.

After Butler’s Wharf: Essays on a Working Building is a collaborative project by the 2013 MA Critical Writing in Art & Design graduates at the Royal College of Art. Combining thirteen critical, historical, and fictional perspectives, it examines the landmark London wharf through archival material, interviews—including Derek Jarman and Kevin Atherton—performance documentation, and rare photographs, exploring its evolution from Victorian industry to 1970s art hub, mid-century decline, and present-day gentrificatio

Tsuguya Inoue, renowned Japanese graphic designer, showcases a dynamic series centered on the theme of “dragon.” Through striking photographs capturing geckos, mantises, and water drops, he creates playful, visually compelling graphics. The book highlights his signature humor and design skill, featuring recent projects for clients like Comme des Garçons, Morisawa, Parco, Suntory, and Asahi Shimbun.

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Brother's in Clay tells the story of Georgia's rich folk pottery tradition – the hisotrycal forces that shapes it and the families and individual artisans who continue to keep it alive,

Ahmed Morsi: A Dialogic Imagination discusses the places, people, texts, ideas, and materials that have shaped the unique practice of the New York–based Egyptian artist Ahmed Morsi.

This book features a collection of never-before-seen personal photographs, artworks, poems, lyrics, notes and ephemera collated by musician, artist and activist Lizzi Bougatsos.

This book explores the impact of fifty iconic vehicles on British design, from the 1908 Ford Model T to the 1998 Smart Car. Each entry provides a concise appraisal, highlighting how these cars achieved lasting influence and earned a significant place in design history.

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This is the first monograph of Gabriel Moses, filled with lusciously colored images that capture Moses' eye for beauty and talent for storytelling.

Richard Rogers explores modern architecture

For two months before the coup and counter-coup, photographer David Turnley explored the breadth of the Soviet Union. The result is a portrait of a nation that in its most dramatic of times.

In this book, American documentary photographer Susan Meiselas captures the Nicaraguan Revolution of the 1970s.

Although it was closed by the Nazis after only 14 years, the Bauhaus significantly shaped the history of modernism. This book explores the ideas and ideals of the art school , which championed absolute artistic freedom and the fusion of art and technology .

Nothing Personal is Avedon's classic photobook depicting 1950s America. Here, the photographer moves away from the glitz of fashion photography and presents a series of political portraits documenting the power and the weaknesses of mid-century USA. Featured are portraits of Allen Ginsberg, Brother Malcom X, Arthur Miller, Marilyn Monroe and more.

Max Ernst (1891-1976) remains one of the most famous names to be associated with Surrealism. This book is a definitive adocument of the painter and the creative processes and influences behind his work, enhanced by testaments by many of his friends including fellow Surrealists André Breton, Paul Éluard, Roberto Matta and Hans Arp.

Dutch filmmaker and visual artist Guido van der Werve built up an extraordinary oeuvre around timeless and universal themes focused on the human condition. This book brings together a collection of his works.

Punk gives voice to the punk generation 25 years on, remembering the mad, frenzied and often incoherent world of 1975-1979. The cultural movement that burrowed through Andy Warhol's Factory and the early 1970s New York underground, emerging triumphant, kicking and screaming at the top of the British pop charts. With nearly 100 contributors – including specially commissioned interviews with members and managers of the Sex Pistols, the Clash, the Ramones, the Heartbreakers, Siouxsie and the Banshees and many others.

American conceptual artist Pacifico Silano’s practice is rooted in excavating the printed ephemera of gay culture to create new images that comment on loss, longing and queer melancholy. In particular, Silano uses the gestures of framing, cropping and layering vintage gay erotica to comment on the HIV/AIDS crisis and its reverberations on queer lives, which included the loss of the artist's uncle at the height of the epidemic.

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.

In the small mountain town of Heber Springs, the Arkansas artist known as Disfarmer captured the lives and emotions of the people of rural America between 1939-1945.

The book is the intended outcome of the Royal Mail Millennium Stamps project and is a wonderful celebration of British art and design.

Poster for Bollywood action film C.I.D

Issue on apartment interiors.

This collection of seven folders celebrating Lloyd's Bank's milestone building in the City of London designed by Richard Rogers. Each folder contains photographs and text detailing concept development, architectural details, history of Lloyds' and its buildings.

Every Street by Nik Hartley was photographed over three days in March 2014, in Nelson, North-East Lancashire. A former cotton mill town with a high British-Asian population, the roads are lined with terraced, former mill-worker cottages.

Through personal effort and relentless struggle, Hamed Abdalla created a new school of Egyptian painting with its own identity, laws, and philosophy. Born in Cairo in 1917, he drew inspiration from popular neighbourhoods before gaining recognition in Europe in the 1950s. Reviving ancient Egyptian art through folk, sacred, and calligraphic abstraction, Abdalla opposed dictatorship and the commercialisation of art. This book is a collection of some of his work.

This publication accompanies Sharjah Art Foundation's 2018 exhibition of artist Zineb Sedira – a London-based Franco-Algerian feminist photographer and video artist, best known for work exploring the human relationship to geography.

A scarce, incredible publication documenting the women's liberation movement in Japan and worldwide. This rich work begins with intimate portraiture, documenting the lives of inspiring women activists, including a feature that spends time with Yoko Ono. Photographed over an eight-year period this is a unique portrayal of radical women in Japan beautifully depicting communal living and political organising.

This book presents two decades of Beverly Pepper's bold sculptural statements – from the highly polished stainless-steel works of the 1960s to the earthbound geometrics of the 1970s to the more recent monoliths.

A photographic history of women's lingerie.

From 1983 to 1986 Niki de Saint Phalle wrote and illustrated AIDS: You Can’t Catch It Holding Hands working with Swiss immunologist and AIDS specialist Prof. Silvio Barandun. Written in the form of a letter to her son Philip, she used her joyous style to deliver straightforward information about the transmission of HIV from unprotected sex and needle-sharing by intravenous drug us.

Günther Uecker (1930–2025) was a renowned German painter, sculptor, and installation artist, famous for his pioneering kinetic art and iconic, tactile nail reliefs. As a key member of the post-war ZERO group, he explored light, space, and movement, using rhythmic, repetitive hammering to create dynamic, meditative structures that interact with the viewer. This book is a collection fo some of his nail paintings and watercolours.

Jan Kaplický (1937-2009) was a visionary architect with a passion for drawing. It was his way of discovering, describing and constructing; and through drawing he presented beguiling architectural imagery of the highest order. Many of his sketches, cutaway drawings and photomontages are brought together and celebrated in Jan Kaplický Drawings. These drawings date from the early years of his independent practice, Future Systems, in the 1970s, to his final ink drawings, executed in the mid-1990s.

A themed collection of Araki photographs. Issue 3: Yoko (Ono)

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This book explores the history and character of retail settings since the Middle Ages, including shops, arcades, market halls, co-operative stores, department stores, multiples, supermarkets, precincts, and malls.

This comprehensive monograph contains a selection of emblematic works by Sengalese-born artist Issa Samb aka Joe Ouakam. The publication follows Samb's first solo exhibition in Europe, curated by Koyo Kouoh, entitled “WORD! WORD? WORD!".

Edward Thomas Allington was a British artist and sculptor, best known for his part in the 1980s New British Sculpture movement.

Featuring more than 800 stunning images, from photographers such as Larry Clark, Ari Marcopoulos, and David Sims, this book gives behind-the-scenes content to Supreme – from t-shirt collections to collaborations with Nan Goldin, Comme de Garçons, and Nike, to name a few. The book also features a curated section of lookbooks and an index of T-shirts released since Supreme's Spring/Summer 2010 collections. With textual contributions by Carlo McCormick and film director Harmony Korine.

The Queer Tree of Life traces international queer LGBTQ publishing from 1880 to 2019. Featuring over 400 examples, it explores how print—once clandestine—shaped identity and visual culture. From fanzines and self-publishing to academic texts, pornography, and artist books, it highlights publishing as a catalyst for non-heteronormative self-understanding and community formation.

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Biba brought the cutting-edge of couture to the masses. Brigitte Bardot, Yoko Ono and Princess Anne shopped there, whilst Sonny and Cher. This lavishly illustrated book is for those interesting in the graphic design and fashion of the 1960s and 1970s.

Rineke Dijkstra’s Beach Portraits presents adolescents standing alone against the sea, captured in striking, full-length frontal compositions. Marked by clarity and formal restraint, the images echo a typological approach associated with August Sander and Thomas Ruff, while also carrying a more intimate, Arbus-like sensitivity. Together, the series forms a collective portrait of adolescent vulnerability, existential uncertainty, and unexpected beauty.

'Here Comes Everybody' is a phrase that echoes through James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. It aptly captures the intense poetry of this collection of photographs taken by Chris Killiip over repeated trips to Ireland between 1993 and 2005 where heattended the annual pilgrimages at Croagh Patrick and Máméan, places of wild beauty and ancient spirituality.

Top Symbols & Trademarks of the World was the efforts of Franco Maria Ricci & Corinna Ferrari, and Italian publisher Deco Press. The series, published in 1973 was an unprecedented initiative to catalogue many of the finest examples of trademark design of the time. What marks this series out is both the format and the approach Ricci and Ferrari took. The second volume in the series looks at Canada.

This book accompanies Sharjah Biennial 14: Leaving The Echo Chamber. This book charts a non-chronological time-space (dis-) continuum between the Americas and the Emirates, building unexpected trans-oceanic and multi-diasporic bridges for a global history. This volume provides interpretative, discursive, poetic, political, and theoretical tools to compare and contrast modes of migration, production, extraction, and exploitation through a series of 30 newly commissioned context-specific works and critical texts.

Food and surrealism make perfect bedfellows: sex and lobsters, collage and cannibalism, the meeting of a swan and a toothbrush on a pastry case. The opulent dinner parties thrown by Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) and his wife and muse, Gala (1894-1982) were the stuff of legend. Luckily for us, Dalí published a cookbook in 1973, Les diners de Gala, which reveals some of the sensual, imaginative, and exotic elements that made up their notorious gatherings.

Original exhibition catalogue for architect and writer Theo Crosby’s exhibition involving architects, artists, designers and theorists which took place at the Whitechapel in 1956 in collaboration with members of the Independent Group. The theme was the ‘modern’ way of living and the exhibition was based on a model of collaborative art practice. The 38 participants formed 12 groups, which worked towards producing one artwork. The outcome transformed the Whitechapel Gallery into a vibrant interactive space of installations.

Miguel Milá: A Life in Design is a detailed look back through most emblematic works of interior designer Miguel Milá, produced between 1956 and 2021, with archival photos and drawings, as well as original photos shot at Milá’s Barcelona home by Nacho Alegre.

Middle East Archive: From the Collection of Fouad ElKoury is the debut book by Middle East Archive, expanding its digital curatorial project into print. The platform brings its spirit of simplicity and hope into the physical world through a collaboration with Lebanese photographer Fouad ElKoury. The book features photographs taken between 1980 and 1997 in Oman, Palestine, Egypt, and Lebanon. Accompanied by interviews with B 018 founder Naji Gebran, contemporary Omani photographer Mahmood Najali, and a historical overview of Egyptian cinema’s golden age, the images are recontextualized within a broader cultural landscape.

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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.

In this closely observed sequence of photographs, Dorothy Bohm has captured her vision of London as it appeared to her in the late 1960s.

From fashion and food to literature and music, the Beats heralded a new way of living, and a new mode of recording their lives. There is hardly a part of American culture today that is untouched by their work. Fred and Gloria McDarrah lived and worked in the heart of the Beat scene. Astute observers and participants, they faithfully recorded what they saw in word and picture. Besides their own thoughts and images, they amassed a collection of authentic Beat writings, all in the author's own hand or typed by them. Now reproduced for the first time, these writings complement the photographs and memories in giving a full picture of what it was like to be a Beat. With over 240 photographs, this work promises to be a landmark document of the Beats, their lives, and times.

Ed Ruscha is widely regarded as one of the world’s most important artists with a career spanning six decades from the early 1960s until the present day. His use of imagery and techniques seen in commerical art, such as advertising and his interest in popular culture and the everyday, connects him directly with pop art. This book thoroughly traces Ruscha's engagement with photography and reveals how his photographic works shed new light on his career as a whole.

Ronda Goyesca presents the newest work of Spanish photographer Aitor Lara (born 1974), documenting the astounding Corrida Goyesca – a legendary bullfight that takes place every year in the Andalusian city of Ronda, the oldest bull ring in Spain.

This book is a collection of portraits of women in France by Daniel Frasnay. Frasney, born in 1928 in Paris, was a French landscape and portrait photographer who belonged to the humanist movement.

Finding Thoughts is a diary of sorts, combining portraits and still life images with many handwritten contemplations.

A collection of Bill Brandt's portraits of actors, poets, musicians, philosophers, and artists of all kinds.

A sweet life full of pleasure and indulgence, 'La Dolce Vita' was a phrase that entered popular usage following the success of the 1960 film La Dolce Vita written and directed by Federico Fellini and starring Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg and Anouk Aimee. As a phrase it has come to sum up the Golden Age of stylish sophistication in Italy that spanned the years 1958 to 1964. This beautifully illustrated book features over 300 surprisingly candid and revealing photographs from this remarkable era, and captures an era of effortless cool and glamorous style.

Disobedient Objects explores the art and design of global protest from 1980 to today, showing how creative activism challenges authority. Featuring works by groups such as Bread and Puppet Theater and ACT UP, it presents posters, banners, games, and symbolic objects that demonstrate how social movements inspire collective ingenuity and political change.

Scenes varying from parties to beach hangouts – all featuring beer drinkers.

Things As They Are tells the story of modern photojournalism – from the heyday of Life magazine in 1955 to the era of the camera-phone seen today. With 120 picture essays, this book reveals how the events of the world, the art of photographers.and interests of the press have converged onto the printed page to portray an ever changing world. Includes photographs from artists such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Nan Goldin, Mary Ellen Clark and Walker Evans.

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.

This survey of the work of photographer Jeanloup Sieff covers 40 years of photography, encounters and memories. It collects together his major photographs, and shows how Sieff has left his mark on his generation, and how he continues to work in fashion, advertising and portraiture.

Deidi von Schaewen’s ‘Walls’ documents hand painted advertising on walls in the 1960s and 1970s.  It’s geographical coverage is noteworthy with examples from Berlin, London, New York, Paris and elsewhere in France.

The Paper Snake is an essential work in Ray Johnson’s oeuvre and the second title published by Dick Higgins’ Something Else Press in 1965. Johnson describes the book as "all my writings, rubbings, plays, things that I had mailed to [Higgins] or brought to him in cardboard boxes or shoved under his door, or left in his sink, or whatever, over a period of years."

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

A collection of photographs depicting the female nude.

Top Symbols & Trademarks of the World was the efforts of Franco Maria Ricci & Corinna Ferrari, and Italian publisher Deco Press. The series, published in 1973 was an unprecedented initiative to catalogue many of the finest examples of trademark design of the time. What marks this series out is both the format and the approach Ricci and Ferrari took. The sixth volume in the series looks at Switzerland, West Germany and Austria.

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Top photographers Bruce Weber, Richard Avedon, and Herb Ritts interpret Gianni Versace's kaleidoscopic vision of men's fashion. Whether at ease by the sea, or dressed for business in New York or Milan, the Versace man radiates self-assurance and defines contemporary taste. The Versace man - a man without ties - is drawn to Gianni Versace's timeless elegance.

Carolee Schneemann (1939–2019) was one of the most experimental artists of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. This book traces six decades of the feminist icon’s diverse, transgressive and interdisciplinary expression through Schneemann’s experimental early paintings, sculptural assemblages and kinetic works; rarely seen photographs of her radical performances; her pioneering films; and groundbreaking multi-media installations.

A book of the work of Richard Rogers and Anne Power

Bruce Weber’s first monograph, published by Twelvetrees Press in 1983, was his breakthrough collection, a powerful sampling of images from his early career that are still considered among his most iconic. The book is divided into eight sections: “Brothers”; “Matt Dillon,” a series of photographs drawn from several sittings with the young actor; “Notebook,” an eclectic sampling of early editorial and personal work; “Lifeguards;” “Clammers;” “Hall of Fame” and “Jeff,” both photo-essays of Jeff Aquilon, a championship swimmer and star of many of Bruce’s early GQ editorials. Now among the rarest of his collections, this book set the standard for all of Bruce’s future publications.

Full Scale False Scale is a study of a site-specific installation for the Museum of Modern Art, created for its 2019 reopening. Blending reader and collage, the book assembles research materials—spanning color theory, politics, and architectural motifs—into a constructed, subjective archive mirroring the installation itself.

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The stylish and extravagant world of the "Bright Young Things" of 1920s and '30s London, seen through the eye of renowned British photographer Cecil Beaton.

Dorothy Sing Zhang unveils a compelling portrayal of humanity’s vulnerable state during sleep. The scene is set in the bedrooms of others. One is asked to be asleep, a squeeze cable release is placed under the pillow. The chance of one’s unconscious body rolling over and triggering the camera results in an exposure. Like Someone Alive expands these boundaries by withdrawing the traditional relationships between the photographer, the object and the camera.

In this book, film critic Michel Ciment provides an insightful examination of Kubrick's thirteen films-including such favorites as Lolita, A Clockwork Orange, and Full Metal Jacket-alongside an assemblage of more than four hundred photographs that form a complementary photo essay.

This is a collection of studio pictures - stills, portraits and staged "off-set" publicity photographs - which celebrate exotic matinee idols of the silent era such as Rudolph Valentino, through to today's international superstars, including Clint Eastwood and Harrison Ford. The complementary text encapsulates each star's special appeal and looks at how perceptions of the male hero have changed over the last 80 years.

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A collection of photographic remnants from the 20p photobooth.

This typography book examined modern graphic design influences, from William Morris and Bauhaus to Dada and De Stijl, with trends, layout methods and more.

Herbert List was fascinated by the ”artificial humans“—life-size figures moulded in wax—on display at the Panoptikum in Vienna’s Prater. In 1944, he photographed these waxworks, depicting them as “corpses set in position and daubed with make-up—frozen in poses of the utmost intensity, they are inhabitants of a Sleeping Beauty castle.” List took a string of fairytale scenes, historical tableaux, and medical subjects and combined them with a trenchant text to create an illustrated book published here for the first time, more than seventy-five years later, in a bibliophile edition based on List’s original draft.

Once a month a horse fair is held at Smithfield in north Dublin. In the almost medieval atmosphere, kids from the tough Dublin estates can buy ponies for the price of a pair of trainers. The pony kids now exist in defiance of moves to licence such trading, portrayed here in portraits by Perry Ogden.