Before the crack epidemic devastated inner-city families, communities thrived with pride, style, and vibrant culture. Renowned photographer Jamel Shabazz captures this vanished New York City era from the mid-seventies to the mid-eighties. A Time Before Crack is a powerful visual diary revealing the extraordinary people, poses, and spirit of the streets.

Photographs of fans of The Rolling Stones.

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.

First Son is an extraordinary collection of photographs by C.D. Hoy (1883-1973), a Chinese-Canadian photographer whose startling, evocative portraits of First Nations, Chinese, and Caucasian subjects in small-town British Columbia, taken between 1909 and 1920, form an important historical and cultural document about the roots of "otherness" in Canada.

The Centro de Arte y Comunicación was an arts organization based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, that was instrumental in creating an international arts movement based on the ideas of systems art within conceptual art.

Black and white photos focusing on the changing shape of "The Mannequin" through the twentieth century.

Making & Being draws upon the lived experience of Susan Jahoda and Caroline Woolard, visual arts educators who have developed a framework for teaching art with the collective BFAMFAPhD that emphasizes contemplation, collaboration, and political economy.

A book on street art and graffiti.

This witty and authoritative account traces the story of the New Romantics from the moment Steve Strange and Rusty Egan began their legendary Bowie Nights at Billyâs in Soho, through the move to Blitz, and the growth of the Birmingham scene.

Provoke was first published in November 1968 as a dojin-shi, or self-published magazine. It was originally conceived by art critic Koji Taki (1928-2011) and photographer Takuma Nakahira (1938-2015), with poet Takahiko Okada (1939-1997) and photographer Yutaka Takanashi as dojin members. The subtitle for the magazine was “Provocative Materials for Thought”, and each issue was composed of photographs, essays and poems.

Catalog of Biennale di Firenze 1996 curated by Germano Celant, Luigi Settembrini, and Ingrid Sishy. The book includes a vast assortment of photo archive materials about both art and fashion. Artists who focus on clothes and designers include Vito Acconci, Azzedine Alaïa, Giorgio Armani, Nigel Atkinson, Manolo Blahnik, David Bowie, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Tony Cragg, Ann Demeulemeester, and more.

The photographers Harry Shunk (German, 1924–2006) and János Kender (Hungarian, 1937–2009) worked together under the name Shunk-Kender from the late 1950s to the early 1970s, based first in Paris and then in New York. Shunk-Kender photographed artworks, events, and landmark exhibitions of avant-garde movements of the era, from Nouveau réalisme to Earth art. They were connected with a vibrant art scene that they captured through portraits of artists and participated in through collaborative projects. This nearly 500-page volume from Xavier Barral accompanied the first Shunk-Kender retrospective, held at the Centre Pompidou, and is based on a selection of more than 10,000 vintage prints.

Issue on the work of Frank Lloyd Wright.

This intimate book of drawings by Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, which wed the cosmic patterning of traditional Islamic geometry with the rhythms of modern Western geometric abstraction, is interwoven with an extended interview by Obrist with Farmanfarmaian, Etel Adnan, and Frank Stella that tells the story behind these crafted works on paper that play a central role in the artist’s principles of repetition and progression.

A Following the release of the first seven volumes of Top Symbols and Trademarks, the editors returned to the project in 1977 with a series of four yearly annuals, 1977, 1978, 1979/80 & 1981/82. This is volume 9 looking at the year 1978.

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.

An exploration of the evolution at street fashion from 1940 to today.

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

Issey Miyake: East Meets West features an impressive contrast of designs influenced by both Eastern and Western cultures. East Meets West was the first ever monograph that was created about the living fashion designer, and its importance is unquestionable. With over 200 pages of full bleed color images featuring some of Issey Miyake’s colorful clothing, the book truthfully depicts the designer’s passion for design, culture, and authenticity. Featuring editorial photos shot by the likes of Noriaki Yokosuka to the capturing of runway spectacles that combine movement with clothing.

A photographic document of a Mexican bull fight in 1961.

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.

The inaugural volume in the All-American series features numerous projects by Bruce Weber, including profiles of photographer Pirkle Jones, football legend Cy Ellsworth, mountaineer Bradford Washburn, and Montana rancher John Hoiland. Also features drawings by Paul Stone.

Raised By Wolves, published in 1995, followed California street kids as they fumbled through lives coloured by addiction, abuse, and violence.

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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.

A socialist journal of the social services. In this issue: problems of pyschotherapy in corperate capitalism; the culture of poverty; feminising the welfare state; communuty organising.

An important early gathering of the work of Wallace Berman, an enigmatic figure whose work blends music and poetry to explore everyday life. He was hugely influential on a group of artists and poets to emerge from the legacy of the Beat generation in the late 1950s and 1960s.

This magnificent survey of Calvin Klein is illustrated with era-defining photographs by the most distinguished names in fashion photography, from Irving Penn and Richard Avedon to Bruce Weber, and Patrick Demarchelier—among others. In it, the world’s most iconic models like Christy Turlington and Kate Moss, are captured in images that would define their careers. Every image was chosen by Calvin Klein to narrate his evolution as a designer—from couture to jeans, underwear, and fragrance—all categories in which he redefined what was chic and essential.

A book showcasing the jewellery made by Dali.

This book presents examples of graphic design, emblems, interior design, signs, book jackets, labels, and logos by Pentagram.

This exhibition catalogue weaves the thread between sculpture, fashion photography and art. Featuring an essay by Sarah Mower and an interview with Jonathan Anderson.

This book offers a snapshot of American sculpture at the start of the 1980s, showcasing diverse artists and styles of the time.

The Free People is a photo essay about a new generation of young people and the quality of openness and sharing that permeates their life. It is a book about their music, their work, their mobility, what they read and what they buy, their styles, about why they are free people and how they live.

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

This book was published to accompany the first retrospective of designer Yves Saint Laurent at the Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Musuem of Art. Inside features over two hundred of Saint Lauren't Couture designs - with photography by Duane Michals, Pierre Boulat and Nicholas Vreeland, Richard Avedon, Irving Penn and Neal Barr.

PÒTOPRENS: The Urban Artists of Port-au-Prince is at once a portrait of Haiti's capital, a celebration of its arts, and a visionary re-mapping of culture in the world's first Black republic. The exhibition, and this accompanying book, showcases thevibrant, complex urban art using found objects, Voodoo traditions, and street life, moving beyond rural folklore to map Haiti's dynamic culture

Merry Alpern is known for her controversial oeuvre and utilisation of surveillance photography. Her acclaimed series Dirty Windows (1995), presented here in this book, contains voyeuristic black and white images of men and women engaging in sex, doing drugs, and dressing or undressing at a low-rent brothel near Wall Street in Manhattan. “Although the notion of the ‘female gaze’ has never really interested me, as a woman I could project some of my own experiences onto the pantomime in the window,” the artist remarked on the series.

In more than three decades, Kentridge has produced an oeuvre spanning diverse media including animated film, drawings, prints and rare books, stage production and sculpture. A Poem That Is Not Our Own aims to create a link between his early drawings and films from the 1980s and 1990s and his most recent work.

Aspen, published between 1965 and 1971, was a multimedia “magazine in a box” created by Phyllis Johnson. Each issue broke from traditional print by being curated by different artists and designers, including diverse materials such as booklets, vinyl records, film reels, and posters, showcasing avant-garde movements like pop art, Fluxus, and conceptual art. This issue features Carrol Baker, David T. Bazelan, James Blue, Robert Blumofe, Faubion Bowers, John Burchard, Peggy Clifford, Norman Corwin and more.

Ultimate Angels is a striking exploration of transgender identity in all its isolation, expression, and glory.

A collection of Jenny Holzer's projection works.

Spawned by a commission from fashion designer Marc Jacobs for an advertising campaign, "Ohne Titel" is a collection of largely unpublished images of Juergen Teller and Cindy Sherman. Marc Jacobs' ads have often reflected his close relationships with artists, and in this instance he invited Cindy Sherman to work with Teller. Both artists are known for blurring boundaries: film and fashion, advertising and art, public and private, real and fictitious – and this collaboration solidifies their similarities.

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.

The Devil’s Playground presents a major collection of photographs by Nan Goldin (b.1953). Since the 1980s, Goldin has consistently created photographs that are intimate and compelling: they tell personal stories of relationships, friendships and identity, while chronicling different eras and exposing the passage of time.

A collection of archival memorial photography in America – a popular postmortem practice to remember the dead, a form of mourning and memorialisation. This book presents a chronological arrangement of postmortem photography from 1840 - 1930, presenting the image of death from the Puritan journey for a sinner to the late Victorian beautifaction of death and its interpretation as the soul's restful sleep.

This highly illustrated book is a complete monograph on the Leigh Bowery, and includes previously unpublished photographs and ephemera from the artists' personal archive.

‍The Airport Pictures of Garry Winogrand assembles 86 of the photographer's most compelling, never-before published images of travellers, flight attendants, airport waiting rooms, airplanes on runways and all the people and places in between.

This is the first major publication by multidisciplinary designer Samuel Ross, showcasing his work for A-COLD-WALL* and his studio SR_A. Featuring over 300 images, previously unpublished materials, and essays by figures such as Virgil Abloh, Takashi Murakami, and Hans Ulrich Obrist, it provides a comprehensive study of Ross’ contributions to fashion, art, and design.

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

Published to coincide with an exhibition at the Imperial War Museum, Lee Miller: A Woman’s War tells the story beyond the battlefields of the Second World War by way of Miller’s extraordinary photographs of the women whose lives were affected. The photographs in this volume, many previously unpublished, are accompanied by extended captions that place the images within the context of women’s roles within the landscape of war.

Colour and black and white images of boys mainly shot in Puerto Rico during the filming of "Lord of the Flies".

This richly illustrated volume presents the first comprehensive photographic study of Soviet military uniforms from the Revolution through the Second World War. Featuring hundreds of detailed colour images of original uniforms alongside period photographs, it offers a rare visual record of Soviet military history, from decorated marshals to ordinary soldiers.

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

The book is a significant historical record of Tokyo's sex industry through the photographs by Nobuyoshi Araki, which are raw, candid and explicit images documenting the behind the scenes of sex work in Japan.

Published in 1983 as a companion piece to the hugely popular Sloane Ranger’s Handbook, authors Ann Barr and Peter York expanded the satirical take on the upper classes by providing a definitive guide to the Sloane year.

A themed collection of Araki photographs. Issue No.9: Private Diary 1999

Part of the generation of photographers that included Juergen Teller and Terry Richardson, Marcelo Krasilcic captured the style of the 90s in situ, outside of the studio, and his photographs of people like Maurizio Cattelan, Chloe Sevigny were immediately absorbed by the most influential magazines of the era, including Purple, Dazed & Confused, Self-Service and Visionaire to name a few. At more than 300 pages, this oversize, slipcased, clothbound, two-volume publication features only the work for which Krasilcic first became known: his era-defining photographs from the 1990s.

In oversized photos and full colour, this lavish book presents a stunning collection of clothing designs by Dolce & Gabbana, providing a comprehensive view of the Houses' best work – with anecdotes from famous fans of D&G including Isabella Rossellini, Cindy Crawford, Madonna, and Demi Moore.

Known for subverting the conventions of fashion and celebrity photography, Teller here turns his iconoclastic eye to the two-Michelin-starred food of chef Antonio Guida in Eating at Il Pellicano. Eleven menus of five courses encapsulate the unique, offhanded chic of the Hotel Il Pellicano, in Teller’s second photographic collaboration with this exclusive Italian retreat.

After Life is the debut photobook by London-based, Italian photographer Michele Baron. Known for his spontaneous and punchy photographic style, Baron captures the underground queer communities and techno clubbing scenes of London, Paris, and Berlin. Through intimate portrayals of friends, lovers, and vibrant subcultures, After Life presents one of the largest selections of Baron’s impressive archive and offers an unflinching visual diary of these marginalised yet dynamic worlds.

This catalogue presents the prints of Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein, who created more than 350 graphic works over a span of 50 years. Inside are reproductions of the original prints as well as posters, book and magazine illustrations, announcements and more.

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.

The Time Is Out Of Joint is a multi-space project; this two-volume publication is one of its manifestations that adopt spatial and temporal strategies inspired by the idea of time as a fluid space and space as frozen time. Structured in four chapters: BAGHDAD, TBC, CHINA and EQUATOR. These chapters are concepts extended from the contexts of three events in an exhibition project that took place in Beirut, Sharjah and Gwangju.

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

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In South African Township Barbershops and Salons, Simon Weller presents his vivid photographs of these places, their signage and their patrons alongside interviews with the proprietors, customers and the sign makers.

Notes From a Revolution chronicles the San Francisco Diggers, a radical 1966 Haight-Ashbury collective formed by members of San Francisco Mime Troupe. Led by activists including Peter Coyote, they fused anarchism, street theater, and direct action, distributing provocative broadsides while providing free food and services, capturing the spirit of early counterculture.

Over 300 striking images reflecting Knight's extraordinary vision and fearless experimentation, presenting his landmark career spanning both photography and fashion.

Sound Postcards is an interesting compilation CD coming with italian Uovo magazine’s Sound Postcards issue – compiling a collection of varied sound art and audio works.

Exploring themes of perception, vision, & insight, this book focuses on the most astonishing pieces from a special collection of spectacles -- over 200 original works of art by noted designers & artists from around the world.

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.

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

In this book, freedom of expression is exhibited at its most casual, with political, commercial, and populist signage jostling for attention in the social landscape, dissecting the current disenchantment that has become American civic life.

During the 1970s and 80s, Lynne Cohen turned her view-camera toward classrooms, science laboratories, testing facilities, waiting rooms, and other interior spaces where function triumphs over aesthetics. In cool, functional offices, futuristic reception areas, lifeless party rooms, and escapist motel rooms, Cohen surveys a society of surface, contradiction, and social engineering.

This book follows the traces of Britian's ancient landscape – exploring folklore, the seasons and nature toward an optimisim for the future.

Dieter Roth (1930–1998) was a highly diverse and influential artist, known for his work as a poet, sculptor, graphic designer, and musician. He associated with the Fluxus movement and explored the boundaries between material and intellect in his work, often using unconventional and even perishable items in his art. This book is characteristic of Roth's experimental approach to art and publishing, with a mix of letterpress texts, drawings, and rubber-stamp pictures, with German and English texts included.

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.

A survey of enamel street signs and advertisements of the 1970s.

The Centro de Arte y Comunicación was an arts organization based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, that was instrumental in creating an international arts movement based on the ideas of systems art within conceptual art.

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

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.

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

Paolo Gasparini, although was born in Italy, grew up in Venezuela is his adopted home. He has spent his life documenting the cities and people of Latin America, his lace tracing the contradictions of modernity across the continent. His work evolved within the confluence of European postwar realism and the political awakening of Latin American cities, and this book presents some of his remarkable photographs in full bleed.

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

A intriguing look into Maholy Nagy's photographs and photograms.

Published for McQueen’s solo exhibition at Pirelli HangarBicocca, this comprehensive survey features several of the artist’s most iconic films from the past two decades, as well as an in-depth exploration of his new work.

In the 1930s, Herbert List's photography focused on an idealised and escapist vision of life, featuring young men and Mediterranean landscapes, influenced by Surrealism and a desire to escape the rising political turmoil in Germany. As a gay man of Jewish heritage, he fled Nazi Germany in 1936 to Paris, then Greece, where he captured images of what he termed the "magical essence" of the world. His work from this period, often shot in Italy, Germany, and Greece, contrasts the turbulent political climate with personal freedom and the beauty of youth

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.

Black and white portraits of Japanese fathers in their workplaces and homes, with textual information to accompany them.

An impressive collection of photographs and essays portraying the intricate work of jewellery designers – from the world famous to the lesser known. A variety of topics are covered: from technical aspects of jewellery work to general views on the way jewellery design is developing.

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.

A guide to typography.

Reading Basquiat considers the ways in which Basquiat constructed large parts of his identity--as a black man, as a musician, as a painter, and as a writer--via the manipulation of texts in his own library.

Richly reproduced colour illustrations alongside interviews that explore multiple dimensions of female sexuality. Through a blend of visual and textual material, the book offers an in-depth, reflective examination of intimacy, identity, and representation within contemporary photographic and cultural discourse.

A book of accidental streetstyle photos of women getting on buses or loitering around bus stops, spanning the sixties to the eighties – an unintended streetstyle book of gold.

With photographs and texts, this book focus on the vvernauclar North Carolina potters bring to their materials, tools, techniques and history.

Joseph Beuys: Multiples includes some 600 pieces of Beuys work, annotated lists of the major collections where they can be found, essays from significant curators and scholars and an interview with the artist.

Male Nudes by Women, edited by Peter Weiermair, brings together contemporary female photographers engaging with the male body. The anthology examines and challenges long-established gender roles and visual clichés, while also exploring the artists’ own erotic perspectives and imaginative responses to representation, identity, and the history of the nude in art. With photographs by Karin Rosenthal, Marsha Burns, Nan Goldin, Lynn Davis, Jacqueline Livingstone, Jaschi Klein, and more.