Martin Munkacsi changed the look and style of fashion photography in the 1930's. The legendary Harper's Bazzar photographer set new standards for fashion photography. Models ran on beaches, perched on rooftops and catapulted into the air. He was the first to take models out of the studio, photograph the rain and use dramatic angle shots. This book is the result of four years of research into the photographer and his work.

A guide to travelling across Europe.

Hans-Peter Feldmann was a German conceptual artist known for his obsessive collecting, archiving, and rearranging of everyday images and objects to explore themes of memory and time. This monograph contains a number of his works from the late 1960s.

In early 1986, Consumers Union commissioned esteemed photographer Eugene Richards to travel across the country to document the dimensions of American poverty. In 144 unforgettable photographs and 14 essays, Richards captures the hoplessness of urban youth, the struggle of Midwestern farmers, the squalor of day-to-day existence for Mexican-American immigrants living in Texas border towns.

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.

A book exploring trends and theories of school planning.

Chasity in Focus explores the catalogues of British Lingerie designer Janet Reger.

Designed as a companion book to his critically-acclaimed monograph South Central, Mark Steinmetz here turns his focus to Athens and Atlanta, New Orleans, Memphis and East Tennessee, and the roads between.

This comprehensive new monograph on the influential British artist-filmmaker John Smith —renown for his playful and formally ingenious subversion of the everyday world—contains a fully illustrated filmography spanning 84 pages, with images and synopses from nearly fifty film and video works made between 1972 and 2012.

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.

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.

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.

Photographic documentations of war across USA, Afghanistan and Iraq. With contributions by Christopher Anderson, Alexandra Boulat, Ron Haviv, Gary Knight, Antonin Kratocvil, Christopher Morris, James Nachtwey and John Stanmeyer.

A collectio of photographs of brides, by various photographers including Eve Arnold, Jean Ber, Bruce Davidson, Nan Goldin, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Ricardo Kalver and more.

London Fashion Week has been opening its doors to young designers since its inception in 1984. It has introduced many brands to the world as an incubator, such as John Galliano, Alexander McQueen, Hussein Chalayan and more. These footprints are presented through interviews with 83 designers from 72 brands and catwalk photographs. The book is constructed with consists of archive articles by Mina Wakatski, who has covered Fashion Week for over 30 years, and photographs by Chris Moore, one of the world's leading catwalk photographers. It also includes several articles on the transition of London Fashion Week and projects to support newcomers.

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A periodical book on modern houses from around the globe. Featuring work of architects Alvar Aalto, Le Corbusier, Eero Saarinen, Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Meier & Associates

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.

128 duo-toned b&w plates of American teenagers in the early 1960's taken by Joseph Sterling, with an accompanying essay by David Travis.

In Heaven is a Prison, McKnight describes a queer otherworld that is at once utopic and purgatorial. Divided into chapters, the poetic sequences in this book oscillate between the literal and the figurative, between distance and communion, and between violence and affection.

Catalogue for a Fluxus-influenced travelling exhibition showcased alongside international exponents of Fluxus: Ian Breakwell, George Brecht, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Robin Crozier, Mick Gibbs, Joseph Beuys, Marcel Alocco, The Guerilla Art Action Group, Carolee Schneeman and more.

The interdisciplinary and experimental educational ideas espoused by Black Mountain College founded in North Carolina in 1933, made it one of the most innovative schools in the first half of the twentieth century. Visual arts, economics, physics, dance, architecture, and music were all taught here on an equal footing, and teachers and students lived together in a democratically organized community. This book traces the key moments in the history of this legendary school.

Manhole Covers documents this singular form of urban industrial art and its place in American culture.

This comprehensive volume presents the works of the Swedish photographer, and includes five essays which analyse different aspects of Frank's photographs, films and videos.

The X Directore presents a collection of 601 “kink” cards gathered from London telephone booths between 1984 and 1994. Documenting the secretive, eclectic world of Bizarre Madams, Old Colonial Schoolboys, and cross-dressers, the book preserves a disappearing ephemera culture—once ephemeral due to cheap color printing and now nearly unimaginable in the digital age.

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Auto-Destructive Art revisits Gustav Metzger’s radical 1965 lecture, presenting art as both creative practice and revolutionary social action. Republished 50 years later, this facsimile edition renews Metzger’s powerful critique of war, technological domination, and society’s fixation on destruction—issues that remain strikingly relevant today.

Lee Miller's work for Vogue from 1941-1945 sets her apart as a photographer. The quality of her photography from the period has long been recognized as outstanding, and its full range is shown here starting with her first report from a field hospital soon after D-Day. Nearly 160 photographs are shown, portraying war-ravaged cities, buildings and landscapes, as well as war-resilient people - soldiers, leaders, medics, evacuees, prisoners of war, the wounded, the villains and the heroes.

Three of the best-known artists from the YBA group come together in an exhibition of their work and ideas. This book offers their personal communications with each other, providing a unique insight into their creative processes.

A charming, historically-important, and well-produced book from 1975 that highlights the work of about 50 denim artists.

Curated by connoisseurs of vintage clothing, the Vintage Showroom is a vast collection of rare 20th-century pieces that fashion designers and stylists pay to view, using the cut and detailing of individual garments as inspiration for their own work. Offering one-of-a-kind access, Vintage Menswear now makes this unique resource available in book form.

The Heartbeat of Fashion presents photographs from the FC Gundlach collection from 1860 to 2006 and features photography that documents the image of people through their external appearance: fashions, poses, facial expression and gestures - featuring works from Diane Arbus, Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Guy Bourdin, Robert Mapplethorpe, Peter Lindbergh, Wolfgang Tillmans, and more.

Unseen Vogue goes beyond the cliches and often repeated "greatest hits" of fashion photography and tells a completely new story. Drawn from the archives of British Vogue, the book presents hundreds of images never seen before— rejects and outtakes—to form a fresh, new history of fashion photography.

This book looks at the work of King and Miranda who industrially manufactured prodcuts from machines to photocopiers to lighting and furniture.

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.

This book describes a variety of chairs, sofas, tables, beds, bookcases, dressers, and other functional furniture designed by contemporary American artists.

Football explores the deep-rooted presence of the game across the Middle East and North Africa, where it transcends sport and becoming an integral part of the region’s daily life. The publication is motivated by a love of the game and a desire to showcase an underrepresented football culture in the MENA region. The book includes photographs taken between late 1980s up to 2023, in Morocco, Algeria, Iraq, Tunisia, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Egypt, Oman, Yemen, UAE, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Kurdistan, and other countries in the region.

The book features a variety of photographers including Abbas, Nikos Economopoulos, Karim Sahib, Jinane Ennasri, Marco Di Lauro, Alex Webb, and Salah Malkawi.

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Stoumen's four decade documentation of Times Square solidifies its legendary reputation as a crossroads of the world.

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

The Afterimage Reader collects writings from the independent British film journal Afterimage (1970–1987), which chronicled radical cinema in a period of intense cultural and political change. Featuring texts by critics Noël Burch, B. Ruby Rich, and filmmakers Jean-Luc Godard, Derek Jarman, and Jan Švankmajer, along with interviews with Hollis Frampton and Raúl Ruiz, the collection—edited by Mark Webber with contributions from Simon Field and Ian Christie—offers an essential record of avant-garde, Latin American, and visionary cinema.

Over a period of two years, writer-photographer Kyoichi Tsuzuki visited a hundred apartments, condos and suburban homes, and lovingly documented what he saw.

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

955,000 refers to a seminal 1970 conceptual art exhibition curated by the influential critic and writer Lucy R. Lippard, and featured featured over 60 pioneering conceptual, minimalist, and land artists from North America and Europe. The show waas an exploration into the "dematerialization" of art. Instead of a traditional book, the catalogue consists of a manila envelope containing roughly 130 to 150 loose 4 × 6 inch index cards. Each participating artist was invited to design their own card to represent their work. Bruce Nauman, Sol Lewitt, On Kawara, Eva Hesse, Richard Serra, Jeff Wall, Vito Acconci were among the artists involved.

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Jessica Madavo and Phoenix Yemi for Ayvan Black Star is about immersing yourself in the unknown. The photography, along with the poems scattered throughout the book, are a testament to opening your heart to the present moment. Taken during the artist's time in Senegal, the images encapsulate the transformative experience of movement, discovery and unfamiliarity.

This book is one of only two non-fiction works by American author and screenwriter Mario Puzo, and offers an in-depth behind the scenes look at the world of gambling in Las Vegas.

This book is the first to feature the work of the Brazilian photographer Alair de Oliveira Gomes. A philosopher, art critic and university professor, Gomes (1921-92) was in his 50s when he began to develop a body of photographic work, focusing almost exclusively on the athletic young men to be found on the beach at Rio de Janeiro. This book presents a collection of these images.

Monika Günther and Ruedi Schill began contributing to the development, promotion and dissemination of performance art in the 1980s. Their archive is compiled into this book for the first time, a large selection of photographs and essays serve recreates the physical presence of the participants and the atmosphere of their performances.

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In Broken Spectre, photographer Richard Mosse pushes the boundaries of photography to raise an urgent warning over the devastation in the Amazon rainforest. In an attempt to render the scale and urgency of the Amazon’s extensive, impending collapse, Richard Mosse’s most ambitious work to date employs a dazzling array of photographic techniques – from inky, fluorescent microscopic imagery describes the interdependent complexity of the Amazonian biome in scientific detail, while cinematic monochrome infrared scenes track illegal mining, logging and burning, industrial agriculture and indigenous activism.

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Cindy Sherman's Untitled Film Stills, a series of 69 black-and-white photographs created between 1977 and 1980, is widely seen as one of the most original and influential achievements in recent art. Witty, provocative and searching, this lively catalogue of female roles inspired by the movies crystallises widespread concerns in our culture, examining the ways we shape our personal identities and the role of the mass media in our lives.

A substantial selection of Stanley's fiction over the past ten years or so, this book shows a contemporary master of the micro narrative. Apocalyptic, funny, unsettling and hallucinogenic in their intensity, Stanley Donwood's stories present a series of haunting episodes in a world drained of meaning, sense and consequence.

Issue on interior design in Latin America.

Early in life, American fashion photographer George Platt Lynes developed a close friendship with the publisher Monroe Wheeler and with writer Glenway Wescott. This collection presents the photographs the three took travelling together over seventy years ago, and a glimpse into their intertwined intimate three-way relationship. A travel album of their trips around Europe.

Nan Goldin's The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is a visual diary chronicling the struggles for intimacy and understanding among the friends and lovers whom Goldin describes as her "tribe". These photographs described a lifestyle that was visceral, charged and seething with a raw appetite for living, and the book soon became the swan song for an era that reached its peak in the early 1980s.

David Hicks explores al aspects of interior decoration and design in the home.

This is the accompanying publication for Die Cuts, a film installation exhibited at Frieze No.9 Cork Street from November 2–4, 2022. The installation featured a 14-minute looping film by Tyrone Lebon alongside the album Die Cuts by Dom Maker of Mount Kimbie. The film and album were presented together but looped independently. This publication records every hand-animated frame from the film.

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Foote abandoned a successful fashion photographer career to wander the back alleys, scrub land and bars of Memphis portrayed in this book. With textual contributions by photographer William Eggleston and film director Bernardo Bertolucc

Achter Glas, translating to Behind Glass, is an early photobook by acclaimed Dutch photographer Joan van der Keuken. It presents a lyrical visual narrative tracing the coming of age of twin sisters Georgette and Yvonne. Accompanied by text from poet Remco Campert, the book blends photography and storytelling into a poetic photo novel.

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

Born in the 70’s, Dumbo grew up in the southern suburbs of Milan and came into contact with the world of graffiti in the early 90’s. In a short time he became one of the foremost writers on the European scene. This book is an unprecedented photographic voyage, the actual backstage dynamics of the irrepressible obsession to tattoo the city’s skin.

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.

Monograph of the work by Abdoulaye Konaté, an artist who primarily takes the form of textile-based installations to explore socio-political and environmental issues, as well as foregrounding his aesthetic concerns and formal language.

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.

Roderick Buchanan is a Scottish artist working in the fields of installation, film and photography. This first monographic publication dedicated to Buchanan’s work, including illustrations of works made between 1990 and 2000.

he late sixties and early seventies were times of extraordinary creative output in fashion, music and design. The place where it was 'happening' was undoubtedly Britain - and London in particular. It was there that a magazine was born that both captured and fired the imagination of the fashionable set. This magazine above all others came to epitomise the mood and style of the times. It was called Nova. Like many original creations, Nova's success was not planned, but rather the result of coincidences of timing, place and the coming together of a particular band of talented people. Nova's conception was to provide an alternative to traditional women's magazines. But it soon developed into something more, and something that had never been seen before, a mixture of daring and artistic imagery with unconstrained writing that were always at the edge of current taste and acceptability. Nova 1965-1975 is primarily a celebration of the magazine's visual impact and influence. The book has been compiled by David Hillman, Nova's art director from 1969 until it closed in 1975, and Harri Peccinotti. the magazine's first art directon

This book presents a dialogue between Shoji Hamada and Bernard Leach, exploring the aesthetics, techniques, and philosophy of one of the 20th century’s most influential craftsmen. It offers insights into their creative processes and the distinctive lifestyle shaped by dedication to traditional and studio pottery.

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.

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

Artist, photographer and sculptor Peter Schlesinger was at the heart of fashionable London in the late 1960s and early 1970s. This is a compendium of photographs chronicling the circles in which he moved during the 1960s and 1970s.

Pierre Huyghe is known for creating complex, self-evolving ecosystems and immersive, time-based installations that blur the line between reality and fiction. This publication follows the course of the development of Huyghe’s practice in the last ten years.

Bordertown by Barry Gifford is a gritty, lyrical collection of photos, stories, drawings, poems, news clippings, and odd ephemera set along the blurred edges of the U.S.-Mexico border—a place where cultures collide, identities shift, and the line between law and outlaw is paper-thin. With his signature noir-infused prose, Gifford introduces a cast of drifters, dreamers, and desperados navigating lives of danger, desire, and displacement. Atmospheric and sharply observed, Bordertown captures the raw poetry of life on the margins, offering a vivid portrait of a land and its people caught between worlds.

A collection of 160 photographs of people at the famous Love parade in Berlin in 1996.

In the late 1960s, Tadanori Yokoo explored mysticism and psychedelia, influenced by travels in India. Though often compared to Andy Warhol or Peter Max, his layered imagery was deeply autobiographical and original. Internationally recognized, he appeared in MoMA’s 1968 “Word & Image” show, and in 1972 the Museum of Modern Art held a solo exhibition of his graphic work.

Catalogue published inconjunction with the British Museum, showing pieces from their collections alongside artworks by Paolozzi to explore the connection between primitive and modern art.

A book published from the exhibition of the same name held May 22 - June 16, 1976 of women artists from Paris. Features works by Bour, Hessie, Janicot, Maglione, and a collective work by Aballea, Blum, Croiset, Mimi, and Yalter.

Louise Bourgeois: To Unravel a Torment accompanies the first exhibition of the artist's work at Glenstone Museum, and features more than 30 major works drawn from the museum's collection. From her early wooden Personages to her large hanging sculptures, from suites of drawings and prints to textile works and her immersive Cells, To Unravel a Torment surveys Bourgeois' career through selected examples from her enormous body of work.

A socialist journal of the social services. Special issue on labour and human services.

A collection of photographs of British fairgrounds during the 1970s by Dick Scott-Stewart.

Edited by Mark Williams.

Michael Cooper (1941–1973) was a British photographer who is remembered for his photographs of leading rock musicians of the 1960s and early 1970s, most notably the many photos he took of The Rolling Stones from 1963 to 1973. This book collect some of his photographs shot during the 1960s in London.

This book presents a detailed account of manned space programmes of the US and the USSR as well as an account of the non-American and non-Soviet astronauts.

When Maxime Gaillard opened a small bistro at 3 rue Royale, his restaurant was soon discovered by the star socialite of the moment, Irma de Montigny, who launched it as a center of Parisian nightlife. A masterpiece of Art Nouveau architecture and design, Maxim's remains faithful to this period and continues to be a symbol of Parisian luxury life. In this book, Jean-Pascal Hesse tells us the fascinating story of this legendary place along with also the restaurant most successful recipes, with accompanying illustrations.

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Witness the birth of UNA across a wild documentation of images, graphics, and potent messages. This limited edition 200-page, perfect-bound, soft-cover book features contributions from our Total Luxury Spa extended family, team, and of course UNA.

Forty years of catwalk photography featuring seventy groundbreaking collections from the inimitable Vivienne Westwood--over 1,000 looks as they originally appeared in Westwood's iconic shows

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.

H.R. Giger (1940–2014) was a Swiss surrealist artist famous for his dark, "biomechanical" art style that seamlessly fused human bodies with machines. He is best known for designing the iconic Xenomorph creature and the nightmarish extraterrestrial landscapes in Ridley Scott's 1979 sci-fi horror film Alien. This book is striking monograph presenting Giger’s iconic vision and its lasting impact on science fiction art and cinematic design for contemporary visual culture today still relevant.

During a Jack Kerouac-inspired road trip that lasted nine years, the photographer William Eggleston documented working-class towns, rest stop diners, dilapidated gas stations, and barren stretches of land in the American South and Southwest. For thirty years following Eggleston’s trip, the images sat in a warehouse as he focused on other work, many of them unseen. In 2002, Eggleston’s journey finally reached its destination when the resurfaced snapshots were published in Los Alamos.

A books 160 unique street photographs of 1980s London by Johnny Johnny Stiletto – portraying the style, music, politics and fashion of the era.

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 is the ultimate celebration of the shoe – an insight into the the world of the bespoke shoemaker, following the rise of mass manufacture with highlights of great designers past and present.

For this book, the Dutch designer Annelys de Vet invited Palestinian artists, photographers and designers to map their country of Palestine as they see it. Given their closeness to the subject, this has resulted in unconventional, very human impressions of the landscape and the architecture, the cuisine, the music and the poetry of thought and expression.

This publication presents the Bill Brandt's entire oeuvre, with special emphasis on his investigation of life in 1930s during war-time London, and his innovative late nudes.

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.

In Cities for a Small Planet, Sir Richard Rogers, one of the world's leading architects and the designer of the Pompidou centre in Paris, demonstrates how future cities could provide the springboard for restoring humanity's harmony with its environment.

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.

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.

While Haring's career involved a diverse range of art making—painting, drawing, performance, video, murals, and art merchandising, he drew over 5,000 chalk drawings over a 5 year period, from 1980 to 1985, in New York City subway stations. These have become his most well known and celebrated works, and this book present them together.

In the space of three days in 1956, Roger Mayne photographed children at play in a street in North Kensington. The photographs of Southam Street became the evidence of a community and a way of life which vanished under the eyes of developers and politicians; the street itself was demolished. Mayne's work is the evidence of a vanished age, yet works as more than a social document.

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.