
Hashiguchi’s We Can’t Stay Anywhere – Wild Teens of the World was his first major publication following his 1981 Taiyō Photography Award. The book documents disaffected youth subcultures across the globe, beginning in Tokyo and moving through Nuremberg, Berlin, London, Liverpool, and New York. Capturing the rise of 1980s youth movements—from punk to emerging hip-hop—it reveals how style, uniform, and attitude express shared unrest across cultures.

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.

Eamonn Doyle employs a unique approach to photographing Dubliners in the streets—from a close but respectful distance, his views of the city’s solitary figures reveal a quiet reverence and respect for these old souls. This book contains full bleed black and white photographs, cinematic and dramatic in their execution, of people in Dublin.

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 book about architecture

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.

A themed collection of Araki photographs. Issue 11: In Ruins

The 99th publication by Temporary Services, Records as Portable Exhibitions and Interactive, Participatory Objects, serves as a catalog and a playful exploration of records as visual and interactive objects.

Lee Miller in Fashion gives us a wide lens view on Miller’s fashion photography. Set against the fast-changing landscapes of New York, Paris, and London, the book shows the story of how Miller challenged the boundaries of fashion photography of the day. Using unpublished photographs and archival research, Conekin shows how Miller’s fashion photographs were a brilliant combination of sharp wit, high art and modernist edge.

Eric Kroll’s cult 1977 book is an unflinching study of the marginalised mid-seventies American sex worker. Focusing on women who worked at roadside sex shops, massage parlours or live peep shows, Kroll’s poignant portraits sit alongside matter-of-fact interviews conducted with each subject. Kroll travelled from Iowa to California and to Texas, photographing 50 women in total and interviewing over 100.

For almost 60 years the Rolling Stones have helped shape popular culture around the world. Unzipped traces their impact and influence on rock music, art, design, fashion, photography, and filmmaking. Packed with evocative archive photos, artworks, outtakes, and memorabilia, this book immerses readers in the world of the Stones.

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

Keiichi Tanaami (born 1936) was a protagonist of Japan's postwar avant-garde, and one of the first Japanese artists to successfully blend art and commerce. Including collage, painting, silkscreen prints and animation, this volume constitutes a catalogue raisonné of Tanaami's early work of the 60s and 70s.

The book was published on the occasion of the inauguration of the A.M. Qattan Foundation’s new building, Subcontracted Nations was a group exhibition that questions differing concepts of nation.

Alexey Brodovitch was a Russian-born American designer, photographer, and educator known for revolutionising graphic design and art direction, particularly during his long tenure as Art Director of Harper's Bazaar. He is celebrated for introducing the avant-garde European aesthetic to American design, using dramatic layouts, bold typography, and generous white space, and for mentoring a new generation of influential photographers like Richard Avedon and Irving Penn. This book presents a look into his work as one of the most important graphic designers and photographers of the 20th century.

In Jamaica, Clarks the ruling name in footwear. Including current and historic photographs, interviews and previously unseen material from the Clarks archive, and with particular focus on the musicians who have worn and sung about Clarks through the years, this book explores how footwear made by a Quaker firm in the quiet English village of Street, Somerset came to be the most popular shoes in Jamaica.

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.

Twenty years of Versace by Avedon, this collection of beautifully produced photographs from the advertising campaigns of Gianni Versace features images of some of the most beautiful women in the world, including Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell, and Linda Evangelista,

A photographic reminiscence of the 1987 Glyndebourne dance season.

A book detailing the development of the tin plate model car from the 1890s until 1939.

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.

Inspired by found objects, personal archives and poetic experiences, Lebanese artists and filmmakers Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige invent a unique way of to navigate between art and film. Their documentaries, fictional films, photography, art installations, texts and performances develop narratives and images around stories kept secret, acting as a resistance to official history.

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 book gathers the conversations between curator Hans Ulrich Obrist and leading contemporary artist Gerhard Richter. Here, Richter reveals rare insights inot his thinking and his art.

A pictorial dictionary of racing colours; as much a work of graphic art as a reference book. Each page contains a grid of 30 line drawings of a jockey shirt and cap with the colours and names of the owners. Nearly 10,000 registered owners' racing colours are depicted.

Steve Schapiro travelled throughout America taking photographs during one of the nation's most revolutionary periods. Working in the classic mode of Walker Evans and Diane Arbus, he covered everything from the two Kennedy assassinations to Andy Warhol's Factory to race riots. With an essay by Dave Hickey, this book includes unforgettable images of the poor and the working class, as well as celebrities such as Nixon, Brando, and Janis Joplin.

We Have No Place To Be sees Joji Hashiguchi turn his lens towards a generation of young people seeking refuge on the streets across 6 different cities. Liverpool, London, Nuremberg, Berlin, New York and Tokyo, Hashiguchi documents the social discord within each of these locations through the youths that had taken to their streets. Featuring more than 100 images, this book is as a valuable artefact of the complexities of youth in an era mired in the fallout from war, austerity, unemployment and challenging leadership.

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.

Representing Jean-Paul Goude's life and work from the late 1960s up to the present, the book spans Goude's years at Esquire; his revolutionary work with Grace Jones, his videos for MTV and for Azzedine Alaia; his advertising work for Chanel, and more.

This publication consists of 930 photographs taken by Daido Moriyama in the first twenty years of his career. Starting with the oldest existing print from 1960 and ending around the publication of Moriyama’s photobook “Light and Shadow” in 1982, the book allows an unprecedented insight into the work – including many previously unpublished images – of one of Japan’s greatest photographers.

A study of prehistoric art.

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 fourth volume in the series looks at Great Britain, Ireland and Benelux.

A collection of the winning books from the Most Beautiful Swiss Book Awards of 2022.

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.

This book is a photographic celebration of the Hajj pilgrimage – an annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, the holiest city for Muslims. Newsha Tavakolian's remarkable photography is reproduced here with full captions that detail the events and rituals that form part of the pilgrimage.


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

Still, Life is a cookbook by British artist Joe Sweeney that blend his personal response to the restrictions of the 2020 pandemic with the tradition of still life in art

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.

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.

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Mondialité features visual artworks and environments, documentary film and songs, dramaturgical structures and archival material by Edouard Glissant for an exhibition at Fondation Boghossian.


‘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.

ONE BLOOD is the first monograph by photographer Frank Lebon. Borne out of loosely applied yet technically defined approaches to portraiture, ONE BLOOD showcases multiple photographic series taken between 2020 and 2023. The practice of photographing loved ones is taken to its extreme both in process and form. In this book, Lebon searches across scales and through layers for photographic evidence of unity and similitude across the people in his family, his life, and his city, London.

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.

A documentation of the history of the bikini in photographs and magazine clippings

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

Founded in 1947, the Living Theatre is the oldest experimental theatre group still existing in the U.S. Inside this book, the Living Theatre's point-of-view is expressed in words and photographs alternating between daily life and the stage, including poetic and political statements.

Drawn from a career spanning seven decades, Irving Penn Portraits presents thirty photographs of renowned personalities by one of the most distinguished photographers of the 20th century

With its evocative images, this book immerses us in a world of dolce vita, youthful enthusiasm, the joy and beauty of Italian holidays – an atmosphere filled with young girls' laughter, stifling heat, the sounds of crashing surf and the playful cat-and-mouse games of the sexes.

A book about architecture

Gianni Versace's unbridled enthusiasm for the baroque finds new expression in Do Not Disturb, his playful peek behind the closed doors of the Versace homes.

A history of rings and jewels.


The latest collection of work by Talia Chetrit riffs insouciantly on themes of life, death, and birth through a variety of visual languages. In JOKE, Chetrit brings together family photos, street photography, still lives, selections from the artist’s teenage archive, and expansive self-portraits involving a cast of characters who feature as both engaged and unwitting collaborators.

This book explores propaganda posters from the early decades of the People’s Republic of China, portraying Mao Zedong as a heroic, guiding figure within idealized socialist scenes. Drawn from Max Gottschalk’s extensive collection, it presents rare artworks that reveal how visual culture promoted unity, moral conduct, and faith in a communist utopia through powerful imagery and carefully staged representations of everyday life.

Get Rid of Meaning is a comprehensive compendium on the work, life, and legacy of Kathy Acker, one of the most influential figures in transgressive autofiction. Situating her writing within postwar experimental traditions, the volume explores her radical blend of literature, theory, and visual culture. It includes archival material, cut-up notebooks, correspondence, and essays that trace her connections to avant-garde art scenes in New York and California, as well as her lasting influence on contemporary writers and thinkers.

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

Rising Goddess presents photographs of the female body in relation to the woman as an "archetype of the Great Mother". The black and white, almost surrealist, images depict women in various natural landscapes from mountains to deserts to lakes.

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.

Wim Wenders is a promimet film maker known for his role in the New German Cinema Movement. He has directed Paris, Texas, The State of Things, Wings of Desire, Pina and more. His visually distinctive films that often explore themes of identity, displacement, and the nature of reality.
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Edited by Dick Higgins and Wolf Vostell, Fantastic Architecture is an artist’s book/anthology explores the boundaries between pop art and architecture through writings and projects by key artists and thinkers of the 1960s and earlier—from John Cage and Buckminster Fuller to Kurt Schwitters and Joseph Beuys

This publication accompanies Sharjah Art Foundation's exhibition of Lebanese photographer and film maker Akram Zaatari’s work, on view from 27 September 2019 to 10 January 2020 at SAF venues Galleries 3 and 4 in Al Mureijah Square, Sharjah.

Visual and textual documentation of fans before, during and after an American Football game – including photography, text and interviews by David L. Brown.

Sidney D. Gamble (1890-1968), an avid amateur photographer, began taking pictures in China during his first trip to the country with his family in 1908. He returned three more times between 1917 to 1932 and continued photographing the daily life of Chinese citizens. A sociologist and renowned China scholar, he traveled throughout the country to collect data for social-economic surveys and to photograph urban and rural life, public events, architecture, religious statuary, and the countryside.

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

Art Kane was a fashion photographer known for his innovative use of colour and sense of composition. He worked across fashion and music photographing the likes of Bob Dylan, Jefferson Airplane, Aretha Franklin, Frank Zappa, Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin. This book presents his images of women, many of which are nudes, to create a captivating and thrilling portfolio.

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 first volume in the series looks at the United States.

This title presents a handbook of the potent skinhead cult. It traces the development of the skinhead movement in England, describes the characteristics and behaviour of these gangs, and explains their attitudes towards school, the police, and the government.

This book is a photographic chronicle of the Ausserland tradition of building a woodpile.

A themed collection of Araki photographs. Issue 20: Sentimental May

A collection of photographs documenting New York's Soho in the Eighties.

In this book, Moholy-Nagy's efforts to have photography and filmmaking recognized as art forms on the same level as painting are propounded and explained at length. The artist makes the case for a radical rethinking of the visual arts and the further development of photographic design to keep pace with a radically changing technological modernity.

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.

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

A collection of 500+ American matchbooks from the collection of Jason Sturgill.

David Hicks explores all aspects of interior decoration and design.

Callahan's work embodies the expressive and structural potential of photography. This book brings together personal and social documentary photographs - from images of his family to pedestrians on Chicago Streets, or the beaches of Cape Cod.

Merci la nuit documents European rave culture from the 1990s to today, highlighting its DIY energy and creative communities. The book features posters and flyers from 90s raves, including the fanzine Musique du diable, curated by Mö, a free-party DJ and activist, offering a vibrant visual record of underground music, art, and countercultural expression.

This book explores topics such as the morals of city planning and affordable housing, rehabilitation and education, public vs private space, and the desire to strengthen inner-city communities.

Women in Concrete Poetry: 1959-1979 is an expansive anthology focused on concrete poetry written by women in the groundbreaking movement’s early history. It features 50 writers and artists from Europe, Japan, Latin America, and the United States selected by editors Alex Balgiu and Mónica de la Torre.

Satellites is the culmination of a seven-year photographic journey that takes viewers through the countries and enclaves once held in orbit by the immense gravity of Moscow, the nucleus of the Soviet empire. The photographs reveal the often grim circumstances in these half-forgotten regions, uniformly poor and often politically unstable.

"This book is a pictorial and practical guide to the psychology of the woman interested in lingereis which expose her real character". A collection of photographs shot from the lowest angle inside the skirts of women, revealing what they're wearing below.

These Are Situationist Times! explores the radical 1960s magazine The Situationist Times, tracing its six inventive issues and their challenge to cultural conventions. It examines situationism, experimental publishing, and artist-led production, while reassessing contemporary relevance. The book also revisits unpublished material developed with Hans Brinkman for a planned seventh issue centered on pinball, enriched by rare archival discoveries.

Linder Sterling's work had its first exposure in the punk fanzine The Secret Public and as art for the sleeve of the Buzzcocks' first single, "Orgasm Addict." Linder's multidisciplinary work, work that has led observers to call her the missing link between Yoko Ono and Tracey Emin. This first book, a rediscovery and a debut at once, includes contributions from writers and cultural figures including Philip Hoare, Jon Savage, Andrew Renton, Lynne Tillman, Paul Bailey and Morrissey.

This updated edition brings back to life an era of Paris' history, seen through Nabokov’s original Polaroid photos, together with the original introduction by the late interior designer Andrée Putman.

In this book, Salisbury set out to recapture the memories of childhood and the vagaries unique to place. Inscribed with the loss of his brother and the history of six generations before him, he has relived the past vicariously, photographing his cousins, Drew and Jimmy, as they grew to manhood. Delineated by the seasons and the intimacy of small town life, the results suggest nothing less than a Gothic portrait of boyhood in rural America.

A selection of works by T. Secchiaroli who worked on film sets at Cinecittà with Federico Fellini.


Seydou Keita and Malick Sidibe, two important and widely known commercial photographers from Mali, took mesmerising photographs of members of their communities during the decades before and after the country's independence from France in 1960. This book presents a range of these portraits, as well as excerpts of recent interviews with the artists and an essay placing the photographers within the context of the history of portrait photography in West Africa since its beginnings in the 1840s.

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.

A collection of writings, poems, plays, games, and correspondence culled from the notebooks of George Brecht and Robert Filliou. The two artists lived in France and ran an a storefront gallery and research space, La Cédille Qui Sourit (the Smiling Cedilla). Operating on the principles of a gift economy, it presented the works and ideas of an international network of friends and collaborators and is a prime example of the collective, anti-commercial Fluxus activities of the 1960s.

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

The pillboxes of Britain and Ireland are among the most important military structures employed in the history of the defence of these islands. This work presents the first thorough study and classification of pillboxes and related structures, including selection posts, Seagull and concrete trenches, gun-houses and turrets, battle headquarters and spigot-mortar emplacements. The author traces the use of small, free-standing defence structures from ancient times to the present, placing the pillbox within a historical continuum and identifying its course of development.

Skinhead: An Archive, is a landmark publication and exhibition exploring one of the most controversial, misunderstood and radical subcultures. Designed by Jamie Reid and published by Ditto, with printed material curated by Toby Mott, the book examines this multi-faceted culture through the filter of printed material, zines, posters and films. Divided into sub-sections looking at the original iteration of skinhead, the fascist interpretation, the socialist counterpoint, queer skinhead culture, exploitation literature, skin girls, and everything in between.
An homage to women on the range.

This book documents the collaborative furniture design work of architects Lina Bo Bardi and Giancarlo Palanti in Brazil between 1948 and 1951.

Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999) is undoubtedly one of the most significant figures in 20th-century interior design. This is the first monograph of her works.

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.
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