A variation of scenes shot on the beach.

A book documenting kids playing on the streets of New York.

In 1968, Magnum photographer Dennis Stock took a 5-week road trip along the California highways, documenting the height of the counterculture hippie scene. These black and white photos were compiled to create California Trip and have become an emblem of the free love movement that continued to inspire throughout the decades.

Provoke, with its subtitle of Provocative Materials for Thought, was an experimental, small-press Japanese photography magazine founded in 1968 by critic/photographers Kōji Taki and Takuma Nakahira, photographer Yutaka Takanashi, and writer Takahiko Okada. Daidō Moriyama joined from the second issue. The magazine itself was printed through techniques like the "are-bure-boke" style, which embraced grain, blur, and high contrast to convey a sense of immediacy and raw energy. The printing process was considered a crucial part of the work, often using techniques that increased grain and contrast, with photos printed edge-to-edge without margins to make them appear to bleed into one another.

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This is the catalogue from Prospectiva 74 – a groundbreaking 1974 exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art at the University of São Paulo in Brazil, curated by Walter Zanini, showcasing conceptual art, video art, mail art, and new media, crucial for introducing global avant-garde practices and challenging traditional art forms in Brazil during the military dictatorship

Theatre Arts Magazine, sometimes titled Theatre Arts or Theatre Arts Monthly, was a magazine published from November 1916 to January 1964.

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A themed collection of Araki photographs. Issue 6: Tokyo Novel

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.

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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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.

In Cowboy Kate, a lyrical tale of the triumph of youth played out by cowgirls of the old west, Haskins reinvented the genre of the nude with stunningly well-executed photographs, a cinematic approach, and a subtly engaging narrative.

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.

Hannah Wilke was a radical feminist artist working across painting, sculpture, performance art, photography and video. She developed a multifaceted practice that challenged dialogues around art and gender, often using her own body to provoke these dialogues. This book presents nearly 80 works of Wilke's.

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.

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.

The magazine Apparel Arts was launched in 1931 in the United States as a men's fashion magazine, until 1958 when it rebranded at Gentlemen's Quarterly (GQ)

Tacita Dean is considered among the most important living British artists. Best known for her filmmaking, which has taken her all over the world, she is a passionate defender of analogue methods. This authoritative publication brings together her writings with a complete filmography

Sory documented the fast evolution of Bobo-Dioulasso, then Burkina Faso's cultural and economic capital, portraying the city's inhabitants with wit, energy and passion. His work conveys a youthful exuberance in the wake of the first decades of African independence.

Chris Killip’s 1980s photographic study of the Pirelli tyre factory, documenting the process of industrial manufacture using only the available light.

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.

L'Armour Fou explores the crucial role photography did in fact play in the Surrealist movement, featuring photographic works from artists including Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, André Breton, Brassaï, Salvador Dalí, André Kertész, and Hans Bellmer.

A history of women's underwear.

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

What's In My Library is a series of Prince's photographs put to a list of Prince's most loved books from his personal collection. Published in 2009 by the Journal and Sadie Coles, it is yet another highly collectable book from Prince and one that features his rare photography work.

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

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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.

Cindy Sherman: The Early Works, 1975-1977 gathers all of the artist's work from moment in which Sherman was formulating her conceptions of gender and identity construction, gathering her toolkit of props (wigs, makeup, costumes) and becoming friends with artists such as Robert Longo (with whom she would establish the Hallwalls gallery in New York).

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.

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.

Published in 2001, "Alive" was Mario Testino’s third book in which the photographer shares moments from all his travels to exotic locales from magnificent cities by night. filled with models, celebrities and friends.

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.

A guide on how to make movies at home.

This book presents some of most extravagant and ingenious images ever created in art and in haute couture – the fruits of the love affair between fashion and Surrealism. Containts an incredible collection of designers and their designs – from Elsa Schiaparelli's collaboration with Salvador Dali; to the images of Rene Magritte and Max Ernst; to the designs of Vivienne Westwood, Marc Jacobs and Olivier Guilleman who incorperated Surrealism imagery into the 1980s fashion.

Juergen Teller’s most cult book documents a year from May 1998 to May 1999 of casting sessions outside his studio in West London. The mythical, intimate and vulnerable process of a go-see is put under a microscope, revealing raw documentary-style images of models at the start of their career. Amongst the new faces are Debra Shaw (with her dad in the car behind her), Mariacarla Boscono, Adrianna Lima and Devon Aoki.

This book contains a collection of letters that the famous brothers Jonas and Adolfas Mekas sent from America to Semeniškiai village, Biržai district, Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic. They were all addressed to the most important addressee of their lives – their mother, Elzbieta Mekienė.

Red, green, and blue, these three colour-coded issues chart the artistic journey of Zineb Sedira, culminating in her presentation for the French Pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia 2022. Replete with artistic, cinematic, musical, archival, and political references, the three issues shed light on Zineb Sedira’s artistic practice, the processes that underpin her work, and the inspirations that have nourished it.

Bikers is a fascinating look at bike culture through the photographs of German photographer Andreas Endemann who spent a summer following UK bikers as they travelled from meet to meet, throughout the country.

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.

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.

This vividly illustrated tribute celebrates the radical design of Memphis Group, founded in Milan in 1981 by Ettore Sottsass. Rejecting functionalism and modern “good taste,” the group created sculptural furniture, bold colors, and playful forms, proposing an emotional, artistic vision of everyday objects that reshaped postmodern design.

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By visually examining the ways in which gender is dressed, made up and culturally enforced, Sherman has for many become an icon of feminism and postmodernism. More than 270 images show the breadth of Sherman's body of work, from the Untitled Film Stills of the 1970s to series such as Centrefolds, Fashion, Disasters, Fairy Tales and History Portraits, as well as photographs influenced by surrealist artists. Also included are intriguing excerpts from Sherman's notebooks, selections from her contact sheets and numerous Polaroid studies, all of which shed light on the artist's process.

David Hockney's examination of his interest in photography, his thoughts on the influence of Picasso and Rembrandt and of Eastern conventions of perspective and their relevance to his work.

Stile in Progress is a celebration of thirty years of L'Uomo Vogue and brings together 100s of the best fashion photographs from its pages. The photographers featured over the three decades include Steven Meisel, Oliviero Toscani, Albert Watson, Bruce Weber, Paolo Roversi, Mario Testino, Arthur Elgort, Snowdon, Ellen von Unwerth, Peter Lindbergh, and more.

Celebrating 30 years of Dazed’s boundary-pushing storytelling at the forefront of youth culture, this book reveals the past, present, and future of Dazed through its bold cover designs and manifesto-like headlines.

This luxurious volume celebrates twenty years of an incomparable partnership, drawing together their most significant moments in fashion. It is a collection of memories and iconic images which marks every step of their evolution, featuring the work of photographers such as Steven Meisel, Mario Sorrenti and Ferdinando Scianna, and models including Gisele, Linda Evangelista, Isabella Rossellini and Marpessa.

A themed collection of Araki photographs. Issue 5: Chrysalis.

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.

This explores the overlooked textile work of Henry Moore. Initiated in 1943 under Zika Ascher’s guidance and later commissioned by David Whitehead Fabrics, Moore created 28 designs for silk squares, upholstery, and wall hangings. Using vibrant colors and modern materials, his textiles aimed to bring art into daily life, documented here with previously unpublished designs and illustrations.

Richard Prince is a prominent American conceptual artist who takes existing images from mass media and recontextualises them to critique American consumerism, desire, sex, and power. Adult, Comedy, Action, Drama is a visual "autobiography through words and pictures," utilising a DIY scrapbook aesthetic. It contains 235 color illustrations, juxtaposing Prince's own artwork with images he has collected from consumer culture.

The people of New Guina have little art in the form of objects – instead, their art takes form through self decoration. Birds of paradise plumes, animal furs, ochre plants, leaves and grasses are their props of choice. This book documents and describes the styles of decoration in the Mountain Hagen area, and the variations expressive of individuality.

Published to accompany the 1996 mid-career survey at the Whitney Museum of American Art, I'll Be Your Mirror remains the most comprehensive and critically praised publication on the work of photographer Nan Goldin. Covering two decades of her life and art, from her time in Boston in the 1970s through her move to downtown New York City and her subsequent and stratospheric rise in the art world, Goldin's most memorable work is collected here. Amongst the many powerful images are photographs of friends and lovers sometimes in pain, sometimes in repose; self portraits taken during an abusive relationship, from The Ballad of Sexual Dependency; the transvestite and transgendered kings and queens of The Other Side; and more.

This superbly produced book covers the period 1969-71, and features the photo session in and around Syd Barrett's London flat that produced the cover for his first solo album, The Madcap Laughs; it also features images Mick shot for the now famous Rolling Stone interview in 1971, which became the last photos Syd ever posed for.

A periodical book on modern houses from around the globe. Featuring work of architects Mies v.d. ROhe, R. Meier, MLTW, K. Roche & J. Dinkeloo, M. Brewer

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

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A collection of paintings by American painter Lois Dodd known for her deceptively simple, observant paintings of everyday life, capturing landscapes, windows, and interiors with a unique, almost abstract clarity, often painting outdoors on small panels, and co-founding the influential Tanager Gallery in the 1950s.

In My Room: Teenagers in their Bedrooms, photographer Adrienne Salinger has been allowed to enter the private lives of forty-three teens. Her images, taken over a two-year period, offer an intimate glimpse into these intimate escapes and the adolescents who have made them their own.

A periodical book on modern houses from around the globe. Featuring work of architects Luis Barragán, Venturi and Rauch, MLTW/Moore, Lyndon and Richard Meier.

This catalogue was published to coincide with an exhibition at The Art Institute of Chicago featureing established and emerging Dutch photographers – including Rineke Dijkstra, Bertien van Manen, Hans van der Meer, Celine van Balen, Koos Breukel, Juul Hondius, Hellen van Meene, and more.

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

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In this magnificent collection, the lost world of Eastern Europe's Jewish communities once again comes to life. Between 1936 and 1939, Roman Vishniac travelled through the Jewish settlements of Carpathian Ruthenia, Slovakia, and Poland, passionately documenting a rich and vital culture that would soon cease to exist.

A pioneer in the art and science of photography, Eadweard Muybridge developed the use of multiple cameras to capture motion too quick for the eye to detect. This remarkable collection of his famous stopped-action photographs features 166 photographic sequences, in which men and women, mostly nude, perform a variety of motions—running, jumping, lifting, and other activities. This book is essential for artists, illustrators, and flash animators.

Concentrating mainly on the 19th and 20th centuries, this is a study of the necklace as an emblem of wealth and status, shaped and reshaped throughout the centuries by successive fashions, techniques and materials, from the Egyptian broad collar to the diamond chokers of the 1920s.

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.

A comprehensive book published to accompany the exhibition held at the Hamburg Kunsthalle and the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, focusing on understanding the artist who communicated with people by photographing them.

Daniel Jack Lyons’ debut monograph continues the American artist’s long-term commitments to visualising the social and political rights of under-represented communities. Like a River is anthropological exploration of identity, transformation and coming-of-age amongst marginalised communities in the heart of the Amazon.

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

Released on the 50th anniversary of the publication of Penny Slinger's iconic artists’ book 50% The Visible Woman, this edition presents Slinger’s series of surrealist photomontage works and poetry unabridged for the first time, following the hand-constructed snakeskin-bound book from 1969, and the out-of-print abridged edition from 1971.

Having entered the New York underground in the 1960s while still a teenager, filmmaker Barbara Rubin quickly became one of its key figures. Her pioneering 1963 double-projection film Christmas on  Earth was both sexually provocative and aesthetically innovative. She worked regularly with Jonas Mekas and Andy Warhol, introduced Bob Dylan to Allen Ginsberg, and connected Warhol with The Velvet Underground. During an intense period of activity and travel, Rubin wrote passionate letters about film and the underground to Mekas. This special eightieth issue of the magazine Film Culture features her previously unpublished letters to Mekas, as well as interviews and extended scripts.

Long recognized for her clothing line, Run, Cianciolo’s boundless creativity is evident throughout her multifaceted practice, which includes designing books, theatre costumes, films and forms of ephemera that defy the categorizations of fashion, craft and art.

A periodical book on modern houses from around the globe. Featuring work of architects Le Corbusier, Atelier 5, Taller de Arquitectura, Carlo Aymonino/Aldo Rossi, Ralph Erskine.

An encyclopedic collection of all known Becher industrial studies, arranged by building type.

Examining some of the many parallels between visual art, dance and music in the 20th century, this issue of Art & Design brings together an enormous diversity of material: from the pure saturated colours and blue-black voids of Anish Kapoor's art, to the choreographic notations of Merce Cunningham; to the musical scores and edible drawings of John Cage.

A book exploring Roger's belief in the regenerative social potential of architecture

A tongue-in-cheek subcultural dictionary illustrated with black and white photographs throughout. Divided into sections, this guide covers various subcultures’ slang and style. Sections include punk, nightclub culture, mod, cholo, rasta, and skateboarding scenes.

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.

A book about architecture

An incredible photo reference on interiors. Beautiful design examples for each room as well as details of interior architecture looking at everything from floors, walls and furnishings to private spaces and children's play areas. The book gives attention to the relationship between exterior and interior architecture. With work included by an array of important designers including Sori Yanagi, Shiro Kuramata, Shigeru Uchida, Awatsuji Expo, Shigeo Fukuda, Jiro Takamatsu and Shinya Fujiwara amongst others.

Men of Consequences follows on from Jane Brown's Women of Consequence, and offers a rich visual collection of black and white portraits of men.

A photographic showcase of a dazzling top model who embodied haute couture in the 1950s.

Norman Parkinson (1913-1990), along with Avedon and Penn, largely invented fashion photography was a pioneer of fashion photography, influencing the ways in which we know it today. This book illustrates fifty years of his work – including his work for Vogue and portraits of the British Royal Family.

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.

This visually opulent book displays the inspiring work of make-up artist Yasmin Heinz. From her vast archive and featuring the work of other influential artists this beautiful volume shows that make-up can be an exciting form of art.

A collection of rarely seen photographs that provide an entirely fresh perspective on male friendship in the 19th century. The poignant images in more than 100 early photographs, drawn from both public and private collections, suggest a surprisingly broad-minded attitude towards physical intimacy between men, challenging the conventional view of the Victorian era.

This book presents the history of Japan's fine pottery and porcelains.

Ann Bonfoey Taylor (1910-2007) was a pioneering female flight instructor during World War II, was a member of the US Olympic Ski Squad in 1939, competed in tennis at Wimbledon and was accomplished at riding and shooting. This book serves as a celebration of Taylor’s extraordinary wardrobe of couture and custom-designed sporting ensembles.

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

Brassai became interested in the marginal art form of graffiti in the 1930s, seeing it as a form of outsider art that could open the door to new forms of artistic expression. His atmospheric photographs capture the essence of this unfettered creation. Stark contrasts of black and white alternate with softer shades of grey that meld into one another, smoothing the harsh gouges typical of graffiti.

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

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.

Tek Hod is a contemporary photographic response to an ancient tradition: Cumberland and Westmorland Wrestling. Documenting a legacy of romanticism on one hand and industrialisation on the other, David Ellison's photo series speaks to the complexity of the landscape's tradition via costume and archive as well as the influence of the Arts and Crafts movement.

Following on from the enormous success of Fruits, Fresh Fruits features the latest from Tokyo based Fruits Magazine. Fresh Fruits uncovers how street fashion has changed in the downtown districts of Tokyo as seen through the eye of Japanese fashion photographer Shoichi Aoki. Sublime in its simplicity, Fresh Fruits captures the strange and often ‘surreal’ fashion sense of Japanese teenagers

The art of Louise Bourgeois stages a dynamic encounter between modern art and psychoanalysis. From Bourgeois's formative struggle with the male dominated surrealist movement, to her galvanising role in the feminist art movement of the 1970s, to her subsequent emergence as a leading voice in postmodernism, this book explores the artist's responses to war, dislocation, and motherhood, to the predicament of the woman artist and the politics of sexual and social liberation, as a dialogue with psychoanalysis.

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.

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.

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.

Beginning with his early days in London's East End, this book follows the life and work of David Bailey from the 1950s up until the late 1960 – from his first photographic experiences as an assistant to John French; his early years with Vogue; his close relationship with the stars of rock music; and his friendships and love affairs.

A collection of works by American sculpture Alexander Calder.

Jim Goldberg’s seminal project, Rich and Poor, was shot between 1977 and 1985 of people acorss San Francisco. As the title suggests, the wealthy and comfortable are juxtaposed with those who are living in poverty. All the pictures were taken in the same West Coast city but the difference in circumstances makes them seem worlds apart. Inviting more intimacy into the photographs, Goldberg invited the people he photographed to reflect on their portraits and the lives that they depict. Their accounts range from devastating edicts of hopelessness to affirmations of self-satisfaction. One man writes “I am doomed to be in this place, I have no future” while another woman comments “My life is luxurious and my taste is refined.”

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