A brilliantly humorous collection of incredible black and white photographs of people on the toilet by Leni van Dinther.

Portraits of American women by Macadams including Patti Smith, Laurie Anderson, Margie Beals, Marisol Escobar, Laurel Wise, Michelle Phillip and more.

A photo album chronicling the world of John Cassavetes, Gena Rowlands, and their collaborators for the film Love Streams. Shot by Sam and Larry Shaw, this first edition offers a candid, intimate portrait of Cassavetes’ creative circle.

Volume three of Raad’s series of artist's books includes recent work that focuses on the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982 and on the ammunition trade during Lebanon’s civil war. Raad produces performances, videos and photographs; in 1999, he founded The Atlas Group, a fictitious archive that documents the contemporary history of Lebanon

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.

By using the medium of dress, Evolution & Revolution explores the dramatic cultural, social, economic and political changes which have occurred in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan over the past three centuries. This history is revealed through the luxury court robes of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911); the tight-fitting, side-slitted East-West cheungsam; the ubiquitous Mao suit, symbol of Communist ideology; and the bold new directions of contemporary designers.

New York Living Rooms is the first instalment in Dominique Nabokov’s holy trinity of interior photography works, re-issued by Apartamento Publishing more than two decades after it was first published in 1998. Originally commissioned as a photo essay for the New Yorker in 1995, it offers a frank and intimate study of the interior living spaces of some of the city’s most fabled cultural figures, including Susan Sontag, Norman Mailer, Louise Bourgeois, Francesco Clemente, Allen Ginsberg, and Joan Didion.

This book presents the photographic work of Karl Lagerfeld. In full-bleed plates Lagerfeld presents the different forms of nature, alongside elements of the human body.

Published alongside an exhibition series on American poster art, this book celebrates the creativity and cultural power of posters. Opening essays by leading critics and designers explore their artistic significance, while the bulk of the volume showcases vivid, full-color reproductions. An extensive bibliography further supports the study of poster design and its role in visual culture.

An exhibition catalogue to accompany the MAN RAY/BAZAAR YEARS: A Fashion Retrospective exhibition presenting Man Ray's fashion photographs for Harper's Bazaar.

From 1965-67, Gered Mankowitz was the photographer, friend and travelling companion of The Rolling Stones. Masons Yard to Primrose Hill captures the unguarded moments; the decadent, classic-era Rolling Stones in the full glory of swinging London.

Beginning in 1970, Anni Albers filled her graph-paper notebook regularly until 1980. This rare and previously unpublished document of her working process contains intricate drawings for her large body of graphic work, as well as studies for her late knot drawings.

The Independent Group, or the IG, as it was called, is best known for having launched Pop Art. But the young artists, architects, and critics who met informally at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts in the early 1950s were actually embarked on a far more subversive and constructive mission than the founding of an art movement. This book presents exhibitions, discussions, art and writings of IG members, showing the ways in which they established a new aesthetic horizon.

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.

The script of Under the Skin includes Glazer’s never-before-published director’s statement, an original essay by Hari Nef, and writing and set photography by Niall O’Brien.

Howard Dearstyne was an architect who studied at the Bauhaus from 1928 to 1933. This book offers an his insider look at the Bauhaus movement, and discusses the courses, workshops, and teachers.

Mime artist Marcel Marceau takes us on a journey through numbers in his theatrical body poses.

This catalogue accompanied the eleventh iteration of Sharjah Biennial. Re:Emerge Towards a New Cultural Cartography brought together artists, architects and musicians to reflect on themes of identity, migration, trade, cultural influence and synthesis.

Long Shot Volume 15 was published in 1993 and contains contributions by Allen Ginsberg, Jack Micheline, Larry Clark, Robert DeNiro, Larry Rivers, Charles Bukowski a.o.

This book is a journey into the film of Morvern Callar directed by Lynne Ramsay. A collection of impressions and behind the scenes shots.

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.

A socialist journal of the social services. In this issue: uses of homelessness; housing policy in Cubal; organising social services (The Yugoslav Experience); book reviews and more.

Memories of Myself collects together Danny Lyon's expansive body of work – from sensual images of girls in a barrio of Colombian brothels, to stunning portraits of young local boys in 1965 Chicago, from his most famous bodies of work to never before published projects.

A visual guidebook for photographing women.

Portraits shot on film of teenage smokers – an image of youthful rebellion.

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 book presents necklaces, rings, bracelets, pendants, earrings, and cuff links designed by sixteen modern architect, with brief interviews with each about their work. Includes postmodern jewelry by Mario Bellini, Ettore Sottsass, Peter Shire, Marco Zanini, Michele de Luccchi et al.

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.

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 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.

Dressed to Kill is an interesting look at the ways in which clothing, and its symbol as a from of status and power, has developed over time. Looking at the influences of sexuality and gender, this book presents how fashion is a means of looking at ourselves and the society.

Figures of Speech is 500-page user’s manual to Abloh's genre-bending work in art, fashion and design.The first section features essays and an interview that examine Abloh’s oeuvre through the lenses of contemporary art history, architecture, streetwear, high fashion and race, to provide insight into a prolific and impactful career that cuts across mediums, connecting visual artists, musicians, graphic designers, fashion designers, major brands and architects.

Issue on apartment interiors.

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.

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

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

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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.

Mutations, a joint project of Rem Koolhaas OMA and the Harvard Project on the City, explores the unstable urban conditions around the world at the turn of the 21st century, a tipping point at which the world's city-dwellers began to outnumber those in rural areas.

Echoes: A Vision of the American Southwest captures the vision of a French photographer Jean Meziere experiencing colour and light in the boundless expanse of the Amercian Southwest.

Four volume set of The Best Of Ikebana, contains the a whole history of the art of Ikebana.

This book co-published by the documents the 14th Sharjah Biennial, featuring contributions from over 30 artists to explore contemporary art's response to environmental, political, and technological shifts.

This book is a round up of all forms of aesthetic taste in America – from politics, to religion, to home decoration and advertising.

The inaugural Future Art Ecosystems report examines emerging infrastructures supporting artistic practices engaged with advanced technologies. Drawing on research by the Serpentine Galleries, it includes insights from artists such as Hito Steyerl, James Bridle, Ian Cheng, and Jakob Kudsk Steensen. Through interviews with creatives, technologists, and researchers—including Refik Anadol and teamLab—the publication explores how art, technology, and innovation are shaping future cultural ecosystems.

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 monograph presents a comprehensive overview of Metzger's oeuvre. An illustrated chronology outlines the artist's activities within the historical and political context in which they originated. Thus, the book presents Metzger not just as an artist, but also as an activist.

An effective signing and graphics system functions not as a separate entity but as an integral part of its environment. This highly illustrated handbook contains practical information needed to create a total signing and graphics system for any environment. It investigates ways to integrate signing into architecture and establishes guidelines for solving aesthetic and functional problems.

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

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

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

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.

Inside the Bum documents the making of Harmony Korine’s film ‘The Beach Bum’ – starring Matthew McConaughey, Jonah Hill, Isla Fisher, Snoop Dogg, and Zac Efron. In October 2017, the Lebon brothers were invited onto the set of the film for six weeks. Given the freedom to wander the set as they pleased, the Lebons received unrestricted access and a privileged insight into the filmmaking process of Korine - a long-time inspiration for both brothers.

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Photographs of parties and balls.

In preparation for shooting the film Paris, Texas in late 1983, director Wim Wenders traveled the West equipped with a 5 x 6 medium format camera searching out subjects and locations that would bring that desolate landscape to life. This book brings together the photographs he took.

6+ Antwerp explores the international success story of Antwerp fashion – through the designers Ann Demeulemeester, Dries Van Noten, Walter Van Beirendonck, Dirk Van Saene, Dirk Bikkembergs and Marina Yee, additionally Margiela who is referred to by the plus sign in the title.

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

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Traces the development of modern graphic design, and shares the comments of top American designers

In this book, Munkacsi's images from across the entireity of his oeuvre have been brought together – from portraits of Hollywood stars such as Jean Harlow to private snapshots of the artist's life.

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

A variation of scenes shot on the beach.

In 1996, Johnnie Shand Kydd began taking photographs of young British artists and their friends, dealers and critics at the centre of the art world. This collection of portraits is the result; a record of over 70 artists including Dinos and Jake Chapman, Damien Hurst and Gary Hume.

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.

Living Trust is the first monograph by American artist Buck Ellison. LA-based Ellison’s work broadly investigates the language of privilege through meticulously researched images, often executed through staged settings and performative interventions into the visual language of photography.

Shot in Taos, New Mexico, where Hopper was based following the production of Easy Rider in the late 60s, this series was taken with disposable cameras and developed in drugstore photo labs.

Alexey Brodovitch’s Ballet is a legend – one of the most influential and coveted works in the history of the photobook. Brodovitch’s aim was to capture dance in the spontaneous, living present. Free of all artistic preconceptions and working with a sense of existential imperative, he immersed himself over a span of five years in the final performances of the Ballets Russes on tour in America. In Ballet, Brodovitch engaged the image and the book form in ways that continue to fascinate and his methods of printing played an equally decisive role in his experiment.

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

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This book explores the origins of Roger's thinking and the wide ranging interests that informed his design process

Published on the occasion of Tillmans’s exhibition at David Zwirner in Hong Kong in 2018, this fully bilingual catalogue juxtaposes pictures of intimacy and friendship with views and angles of the world at large.

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

Released on the 40th anniversary of Debbie Harry’s debut solo album KooKoo (1981), this book and exhibition collect a rarely seen and unpublished body of photographs by Chris Stein capturing the alchemy of the collaboration between artist H.R. Giger and the Blondie frontwoman and lead vocalist.

Photographs of everyday objects recall alphabet shapes.

The comprehensive book on the visionary Hussein Chalayan, one of the most innovative, experimental, and conceptual fashion designers working today. Internationally acclaimed, Hussein Chalayan is known for his inventive use of materials and integration of new technology into his designs. He is also celebrated for putting the creative process itself on view.

Portraits of composers and musicians from 1940-1979.

In 1985, photographer Jamie Morgan and stylist Ray Petri created their duo Buffalo – a movement that would become a phenomenon, defining the look, feel and attitude of 80s fashion photography. Collaborators include the likes of Naomi Campbell and Kate Moss in the very early days of their careers, at only fifteen and fourteen years old, both now integral to British fashion history. This book presents photographs taken by Jamie Morgan, presenting a legacy of an uncompromisingly urban style that has inspired designers & image makers the world over.‍

Brick Index celebrates the overlooked artistry of UK bricks, showcasing the textures, colors, and maker’s marks stamped into their “frogs.” Featuring 155 actual-size photographs with an index detailing time, place, and maker, the book includes an introduction by brick historian David Kitching and an essay by design critic Rick Poynor, with photography by Inge Clemente.

An informative A-Z guide to over 300 makers, schools and styles of ceramics from around the world.

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.

Between 2006 and 2007, photographer Ian Macdonald lived as part of the Eton College community as an artist-in-residence. Ian taught during this placement alongside making a photographic response to his new environment. In this photobook, Ian's social documentary photography presents an insight into Eton College as well as his personal reflections on his time there.

This book shows some of Miyake’s most famous pieces in beautiful detail photographed on clean white backdrops with bright light to capture the pleat pattern, shot by Irving Penn.

While working as projectionish in a porn cinema in the 1980s, Bob Mazzer began photographing on the tube during his daily commute, creating irresistibly joyous pictures alive with humour and humanity. His pictures are published here for the first time.

In Israel, Palestinian-Christian burial sites are often found vandalized and desecrated by members of other religious groups. Artist Dor Guez, founder of the Christian Palestinian Archive, has used his work to tell the stories of this minority group, their religious practices, and the discrimination waged against them for their heritage and beliefs. His exhibition 40 Days featured photographs from the Archive as well as video installations to narrate the losses of the Christian-minority families affected by this violence.

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.

Dance Perspectives was published quarterly from 1959-1976, and was a collection of writings on dance, art, costume and theatre. This issue focuses on Dance in Ghana.

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Lee Miller (1907-1977) began her artistic career in 1929 as a Surrealist photographer in Paris. She produced images, often in collaboration with Man Ray, in which she alienated motifs by means of tight framing and experimental techniques, and in doing so rendering visible a paradoxical reality. The publication provides renewed access to her best works, including early Surrealist compositions as well as travel photos that later came to shape her photography oeuvre.

In 1925 the Siberian immigrant Anatol Josepho had an idea for a small curtain-enclosed booth where people could take affordable portraits anonymously and automatically. The photobooth was born. Within 20 years there were more than 30,000 in the United States alone, an explosive growth due largely to World War II, as soldiers and loved ones exchanged photos. Photobooth presents over 700 photographs taken in the photobooth from the last 75 years – images that are spontaneous, inhibited, and touching. It is a captivating portrait of every day people and a testament to the ongoing fascination with the process and the photography.

This richly illustrated volume showcases over 800 color photographs of perfume bottles, spanning exquisite flacons by René Lalique, Baccarat, and Lucien Guillard, as well as figural and novelty bottles. Including original packaging, catalogs, and advertising images, it serves as an essential reference for collectors and enthusiasts of decorative perfume design.

Street Art captures and explores the works and philosophies of the most prominent street artists of today, often in their own voices, revealing what is behind these familiar images —from the influence of Christo's early public projects to Keith Haring's chalk drawings.

Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925–2006) was an influential Scottish poet, artist, and gardener renowned for blending classical poetry with visual art, sculpture, and landscape design. This publication was published on the occassion of his works exhibited at La Fondation Cartier.

This is a collection of the early drawings and watercolours of Joseph Beuys. Drawing and painting with watercolors was a form of exploring a spiritual world of images which provided him with the fundamental relationships and terms for his later work as a politically active artist.

Postwar Package Design: 1945–1965 by Jerry Jankowski showcases over 150 color images of packaging from the booming postwar era. From Salvador Dali perfume bottles to Brillo pads and early Frisbees, the book highlights bold graphics, quirky humor, and cultural commentary, offering a vivid visual record of consumer culture, social trends, and the playful optimism of mid‑20th-century America.

“Shifting Cosey Fanni Tutti from noun to verb” & “discussing and theorising Cosey as methodology,” this book follows the one-day event conceived by Maria Fusco, in collaboration with Richard Birkett, at ICA London, on March 27, 2010.

In this collection of classic work from the 1980s, Bailey abstains from any comment or explanation but shows the reader the world of a mature photographer whose vision has been sharpened by time.

Berlin Living Rooms (2017) is a photography book by Dominique Nabokov, capturing the personal living spaces of artists, writers, and creative residents in Berlin without them present.

Spanning five key years from 2016 to 2021, this monograph is dedicated to Tobias Spichtig’s work presents a high-definition snapshot of the Swiss artist’s aesthetic vision. Published by KALEIDOSCOPE, the pages present a variety of the artist's works – from oil, acrylic, graphite, diamond dust, and photographic prints on canvas – alongside essays.

Born and raised in Belgrade, Boogie first began photographing during the Yugoslav Wars, which ravaged the Serbian territory throughout the 1990s. Growing up during these wars ignited Boogie’s attraction to the darker side of human existence; his distinctive photographs often focuses on rebellion, unrest, and the disenfranchised. In this book, he documents the people of Moscow – people sculpted by a brutal, concrete landscape, fighting to survive.

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

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A collection of works by conceptual artist Bruno Mouron made from trash.

A book detailing the exquisite textiles and wallpaper patterns throughout the interiors of the iconic Hotel Okura in Tokyo which was built two years ahead of the Tokyo Olympics in 1964 by a diverse team of designers including architects Yoshiro Taniguchi and Hideo Kosaka, folk artist Shiko Munakata and potter Kenkichi Tomimoto. The design of the building adopted a modern aesthetic that would still reference the traditional colours, shapes and crafts of Japan. The Okura was demolished, so this book is testament to a lost relic of Japanese modernism.