For 25 years, Tom Wood lived in New Brighton, just across the river Mersey from Liverpool. He became known locally as "photieman" because everyday he was out on the streets with his camera. Most of the pictures collected in this book were taken within a five-minute walk from Wood's home. The work focuses on the inhabitants of the town and its regular visitors – youths, friends, lovers, fathers, mothers and babies to provide insight into the area.

The photo book of Kim Jones' debut menswear collection shot by Luke Smalley – a collaboration that followed after came across a copy of Smalley's 'Gymnasium' work.

This book contains the most eminent and interesting examples of fashion photographer Helmut Newton’s work for magazines across Europe and the United States. Facsimiles of more than 500 original spreads from the likes of Elle, Amica, and, above all, Vogue follow Newton’s ongoing ability to break the boundaries of his genre and explore the interaction of his unique, daring, pictures with typography and layout. In lively personal anecdotes alongside the spreads, Newton talks through the inspirations and informal moments behind some of his most memorable images.

Eudora Welty’s Photographs, originally published in 1989, serves as the definitive book of the critically acclaimed writer’s photographs. Her camera’s viewfinder captured deep compassion and her artist’s sensibilities. Photographs is a deeply felt documentation of 1930s Mississippi taken by a keenly observant photographers.

Casting director Jennifer Venditti’s process relies on ‘chance encounters with random strangers’ who capture her imagination. She usually engages them with a simple opener: ‘Can I ask you a question?’ This book is a thorough exploration of Venditti’s uncommon casting process that brings real life to narrative films and series including Good Time, Uncut Gems, and Euphoria.

In Love with Beauty offers an unprecedented chronological overview of the legendary Walter Pfeiffer, spanning four decades of photographic eroticism and wit, classical serenity and ornamental playfulness, artifice and immediacy. Initially a painter, draughtsman and graphic designer, Pfeiffer used photographs as aide-memoirs for large-scale Photorealist pencil drawings, but quickly developed a genuine passion for photography and, inspired by a Warholesque cast of handsome drifters and stylish women, began to evolve a trademark style.

Photographs by Young British Photographers from Blitz Magazine 1980-1987.

This book brings together a selection of images from all the campaigns into a collection that marks how significant this collaboration between Teller and Jacobs has been in both fashion and visual culture.

A survey of decorative arts and crafts.

A periodical book on modern houses from around the globe. Featuring work of architects Jørn Utzon, Hans Scharoun, John Portman & Associates, Cesar Pelli/Gruen Associates

Tillmans’s now iconic artist’s book consists of 62 color photographs of the Concorde airplane—taking off, landing or in flight, and sometimes as just a tiny, birdlike silhouette in the sky.

A collection of seventy-three images from the career of the pioneering photographer features portraits of artist Georgia O'Keeffe and early twentieth-century New York City.

A lush visual celebration of Pulp’s sixth album, This Is Hardcore, featuring unseen photography, behind-the-scenes interviews and revealing visuals.

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.

A collection of pavillions featured at Serpentine. Featuring work by: Zaha Hadid, Daniel Libeskind, Toyoito, Oscard Niemeyer, MVRDV, Alvaro Siza & Eduardo Souto De Moura, Rem Koolhaus & Cecil Balmond, Olafur Elisasson & Kjketil Thorsen, Frank O. Gehry, Sanaa, Jean Nouvel

A collection of images taken by Lee Friedlander of his wife Maria and his family from 1960 to the 1990s, accompanied by an interview with the photographer.

This book explores the connection between dance and visual arts in the work of choreographer and dancer Trisha Brown.

Aristocrats, millionaires, painters, fashion designers, choreographers, and musicians of the café society fox-trot aboard cruise liners and mingle at dazzling parties in Paris. Through archival photographs and period documents, this volume recounts in historical detail the intrigue and impact generated around the world by the stylist cafe society.

The Teddy Boys were a flashily dressed, rebellious and sometimes violent youth movement that originated in Britain in the ’50s. The three-quarter-length Edwardian jacket with velvet collar, drainpipe trousers and quiff became a focus of male fashion which still holds cult status today. The Teds combines image and text to tell their story—a fascinating tale spanning three decades.

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.

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

The year in which photographer Jillian Edelstein turned 40 she came across an image of her great aunt Minna, of whose existence she had been unaware. The photograph of Minna became the catalyst for a journey to unearth her family history and the discovery of an unknown branch of her family living in Ukraine. Here and There documents Edelstein’s family odyssey and expands to encompass photographs made throughout her career, inextricably linked by the thread of human displacement.

Bruce Davidson's groundbreaking Subway, first published by Aperture in 1986, has garnered critical acclaim both as a documentation of a unique moment in the cultural fabric of New York City and for its phenomenal use of extremes of color and shadow set against flash-lit skin.

The book explores the daily lives and experiences of Black people in Paris during the early 1980 through the photographs of Nicolas Silatsa.

Issue on houses and interiors in Southern Europe

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.

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.

Sifting through the prosthetic memory of our contemporary time, the ADDPM Program aims to scale a collective human legacy. The book becomes encyclopedia on the cultural and cognitive flattening of human networked recollections.

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Hiromix’s glamorous renditions of Keita Maruyama’s entire 2001 collection are splashed, fashion magazine style, onto thick glossy paper. As the year unfolds, back stage shots, Spring/Summer, Autumn/Winter as well as one-off photo shoots present the quirky sophistication of this young Japanese designer.

Across three decades the American artist and cinematographer, Arthur Jafa (b. 1960, Tupelo, USA) has developed a dynamic, multidisciplinary practice ranging from films and installations to lecture-performances and happenings that tackle, challenge and question prevailing cultural assumptions about identity and race. This book was published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name at Serpentine.

Works collects the best of Japanese photographer Hiromix’s commercial work from 1995-2000.

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

For nearly two decades, Lichtenstein has worked in varied subgenres within photography’s historical archetypes: marginalised contemporary landscapes, refracted still life, performance-based portraiture and process-oriented abstraction. In Recorder, Lichtenstein embarks on an ambitious three-part series of images that recycle and reorient themselves within the limits of technology and photographic vision.

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

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

Afro-Atlantic Histories brings together a selection of more than 400 works and documents by more than 200 artists from the 16th to the 21st centuries that express and analyze the ebbs and flows between Africa, the Americas, the Caribbean and Europe. The book is motivated by the desire and need to draw parallels, frictions and dialogues around the visual cultures of Afro-Atlantic territories--their experiences, creations, worshiping and philosophy. The so-called Black Atlantic, to use the term coined by Paul Gilroy, is geography lacking precise borders, a fluid field where African experiences invade and occupy other nations, territories and cultures.

Wegman is known for his photography and video art, which evolved from his early conceptual work in the 1970s. He frequently uses a large format 20x24 inch Polaroid camera, a medium that inspired much of his color photography.

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

An issue of Architecture and Urbanism on the work of Richard Rogers

Toto Frima reached recognition in the 80's with her Polaroid (SX70) selfportraits, also known as 50x60, photographic works created on her own using a remote shutter release. The small, often erotically charged images rapidly captivated the whole of Europe. One of the reasons for her success was that the works perfectly matched the at the time ongoing socio-cultural developments: women worked without undergoing competition with men. Through the lens, Toto exhibited herself in different ways, either playing a role or using different attributes. However, in all cases, she keeps referring to her own person, which could as well be someone else.

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As a young man who had just moved from the countryside to the metropolis of Osaka, Suzuki Yoshihiro started a new life as a company worker by treating himself to a Minolta SRI single-lens reflex camera. Suzuki refers to himself as an ”amateur photographer,“ and his story is representative of the strong amateur photography movement in post-war Japan, which is for the most part unknown to the public, unlike the work of professional photographers who have been exhibited worldwide. Suzuki’s early photographs came to light by pure coincidence: his son’s wife discovered the negatives and developed them as contact sheets. More than fifty years after Suzuki’s photographs were taken, they are now finally being published as a photobook.

This book was published to accompnay the exhibition "Couture/Sculpture" which presented the parallels between the great couturier Azzedine Alaïa and the Greco-Roman-inspired sculptures that are exhibited in the gallery of the Borghese villa.The sensuality of feminine haute couture is exposed in the midst of the naked bodies of Bernini and other prestigious sculptors.

Originally published in 1971, A Documentary HerStory of Women Artists in Revolution documents the efforts of W.A.R., a loose group of women artists, filmmakers, writers and cultural workers organized around advancing the place of women in the art world.

A socialist journal of the social services. In this issue: social planning; women, class and struggle; children's education.

Living Rooms celebrates the central role of family life and hospitality across the Middle East and North Africa, focusing on the communal spaces where connections are made, traditions upheld, and stories shared. Through a curated collection of archival and contemporary photography, the book explores the rich interplay of design, culture, and identity reflected in these spaces. From intricate textiles and low seating arrangements to gold accents and elaborate décor, these rooms embody the pride and character of the families who inhabit them.

The book features the work of 41 photographers, spanning archival and contemporary collections. Contributors include Olivia Arthur, Miriam Stanke, Abbas, Sabiha Çimen, Olgaç Bozalp, Mariam El Gendy, Sakir Khader, Aly Saab, Lara Chahine, Nariman El Mofty, Rena Effendi, and others.

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This entry into the Gwent College of Higher Education's 'Newport Survey' series takes an eye towards the domestic. Featuring photographic essays on employment, the area's Muslim community and conditions in housing estates, this is a vital piece of ephemera for those interested in the Welsh experience of the turbulemt 1980s.

Colorful look at the short lived but vivid design movement from the 1980s, with many color examples of furniture, objects and other pieces of designs.

This book captures the essence of Parisian living, showcasing a range of styles from the opulent to the understated, featuring works by designers like Jacques Grange and Madeleine Castaing.

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

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 book chronicles Ede's his unique vision of combining art and living at Kettle's Yard, his Cambridge home and collection, featuring poetry and photographs of the house's curated spaces, portraying how art, light, and everyday objects create a harmonious, accessible experience for visitors, inspired by his belief that art should be part of everyday life, not confined to gallerie

We Have No Place to Be (originally published by Soshisha in 1982) launched Hashiguchi’s illustrious 40-year career, and remains widely regarded as one of the photographer’s seminal early works. This new edition from Session Press, supervised and edited by Hashiguchi himself, is comprised of 139 b&w photographs, including more than 30 previously unpublished images.

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.

This richly illustrated book, created to accompany the traveling exhibition of the same name, provides a fascinating critical overview of Ant Farm, the radical architecture collective eager to bring to its practice a revolutionary spirit more consistent with the times.

An exploration of the unique world of British fashion, including established names and the work of new British designers. All aspects are covered including tailoring, fabrics, branding and accessories while special features highlight the work of key designers and influential trends – including the work of Alexander McQueen and Vivienne Westwood.

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.

This book explores the impact of fifty iconic vehicles on British design, from the 1908 Ford Model T to the 1998 Smart Car. Each entry provides a concise appraisal, highlighting how these cars achieved lasting influence and earned a significant place in design history.

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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 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 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.

A periodical book on modern houses from around the globe. Featuring work of architects F.L. Wright, Le Corbusier, A. Aalto, C. Scarpa

Covering the full span of David Hockney's career, this book includes early studies and a selection of his acclaimed California sketched, as well as portraits of such figures as Christopher Isherwood and W. H. Auden.

Through exquisite reproductions presented in a unique accordion fold-out format, Diane Arbus: The Libraries showcases books and other objects from the artist’s collection as displayed in the international museum retrospective, Diane Arbus: Revelations.

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

This book features photographs of the pre-fame Beatles taken in Hamburg in 1961 along with pictures of German and French Rock'n'Roll fans from the years 1961 to 1964. The photos are complemented by a fascinating account by Jurgen Vollmer of his friendship with the Liverpool band and his sometimes dangerous encounters with Rockers.

A collection of images showing how the modern world, between 1943 and 1959, was shaped in America's image. It contains photographs of momentous historical events like the Yalta Conference, the liberation of the concentration camps, the Atomic Test programme and the beginnings of the Space Race; the dominant political figures of the era - Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin; and contemporary icons such as Marilyn Monroe, Brigitte Bardot, Audrey Hepburn and Joe Di Maggio.

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In the wake of the suburban riots that rocked France in late 2005, Simon Wheatley found himself in the small town of Blois in the Loire Valley, on the edge of which stood France’s fourth biggest banlieue where almost half the population were lumped in a world far removed from the bourgeois town centre with its pretty postcard view. Always and Forever there / Toujours et Encore là - with bilingual texts - is an attempt to make sense of that experience and do justice to a rare body of work that was widely published in magazines at the time but never to his satisfactio

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.

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.

A socialist journal of the social services. In this issue: the housing movement, the social theory of Wilhelm Reich, An alternative tradition to social work, Radical Social Work.

Feldmann has become increasingly noted for his commentary on the way we archive photos, sending up the everyday from a very personal perspective. Accordingly, apart from the title page, this photo album contains no text. Even the frontispiece is a photograph of boxes from Feldmann's picture archive--amassed over many years and comprising images from magazines, advertising supplements, photography books, postcards and collectibles.

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Encompassing photography, installation, print media, video and more, this publication is a comprehensive account of Tillmans' wide-ranging career. Featuring everything from trenchant documents of social movements to windowsill still lifes, ecstatic images of nightlife to cameraless abstractions, sensitive portraits to architectural studies, astronomical phenomena to intimate nudes.

Scenes varying from parties to beach hangouts – all featuring beer drinkers.

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.

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.

This work, subtly homoerotic, draws from themes of the past rather than the present, resulting in an overall quality that is unbounded by the constraints of time. As Nan Goldin says on the back cover: "David has always used photography as a seductive device, a sublimation of his desire. His pictures of people feel so tactile because one senses his desire to touch but never in an aggressive or insistent way...He is intensely aware of the delicate balance of form in the shapes, the light, the relationship between person and place."

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

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.

Stutter was Kingsley Ifill’s debut solo show, an exhibition of striking composite works curated by filmmaker and photographer Tom Beard. Excavating defunct technologies and commandeering outmoded techniques, Ifill’s distinctively analogue style generates a startling effect in a world characterised by the faultless and infinitely repeatable replica. Although the abandoned or out-dated processes he appropriates were themselves created to allow the production of multiple images, Ifill rejects the principle of mass-reproduction and insists on unique, one-off editions produced at large scale.

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Master photographer Larry Fink offers a surreal window into the fashion world, from Milan to New York, focusing on the major players, behind-the-scenes preparations, and strange industry doings that constitute the runway scene.

Fashion: Photography of the Nineties is a compilation of over two hundred images culled from the worlds of art and fashion. A chronicle of the fashion iconography of the Nineties, it places images familiar from magazines and style journals alongside their wilder, darker counterparts. In these photographs the body and its gestures report on the defining characteristics of a decade. Featuring work from Juergen Teller, Steven Meisel, Mario Sorrenti, Wolfgang Tillmans, Corinne Day, Nick Knight, Araki, Nan Goldin and more.

I Can Make You Feel Good, is a 206-page celebration of photographer and filmmaker Tyler Mitchell is distinctive vision of a Black utopia, portraying the young Black men and women with intimacy and optimism

The definitive retrospective of America's preeminent photographer. This book reveals for the first time Penn's own view of his extraordinary and diverse career. Accompanied by his fascinating and insightful commentaries and examples of his portraits, still lifes, and fashion drawings.

This book explores contemporary pharmacy design as a distinctive branch of commercial architecture. In a tightly regulated market where price and products offer little differentiation, pharmacies compete through spatial atmosphere and customer experience. Featuring selected examples, it highlights sophisticated, modern, and hygienic designs that foster trust and loyalty, redefining pharmacies beyond traditional chemists’ interiors into welcoming, functional environments.

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

Marking the 100th anniversary of the First Manifesto of Surrealism and the founding of the Bureau of Surrealist Research in Paris in 1924, Archive of Dreams is dedicated to the surrealist movement as well as the networks it engendered and the artistic stimuli it provided in the 20th century. The publication shows how the practices of the avant-gardes blurred the boundaries between dream and reality, between the traditional, passive notion of the archive and the idea of active, innovative artistic experiment.

The Secret History Of Kate Bush is an entertaining and original book, tracing back the family and folk history of Kate Bush – from her Saxon Roots to her spectacular rise to fame.

African artist El Anatsui is best known for shimmering tapestries made from liquor bottle tops, which are part of the permanent collections of many of the world's great museums. This book offers a uniquely personal perspective on Anatsui and provides the first penetrating study of his artworks.

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.

In Hackney Flowers, Stephen Gill continues to use his east London surroundings as the inspiration for his work. He collected material objects, such as flowers, seeds, berries and other found items from various locations in Hackney, pressed them in his studio, and photographed them alongside his own photographs. Some of the base photographs were also buried in Hackney Wick, and the consequent decay has left its imprint upon the images, stressing the collaboration with place.

A themed collection of Araki photographs. Issue 19: A's Lovers

In The Experimenters, Eva Díaz reexamines Black Mountain College as a crucible of postwar artistic innovation. Focusing on Josef Albers, John Cage, and R. Buckminster Fuller, she argues their experimental, process-based teaching reshaped modern art, redefining creativity, chance, and design for subsequent generations.

Where other portraitists were content to have their subjects sit for them, Philippe Halsman had his jump, an action which he felt caused the real self of his illustrious sitters to come out. Famous sitters included in the book are Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly, Brigitte Bardot and Richard Nixon.

Observations is Richard Avedon's first book – a striking collection of portraits of artists, authors, musicians, and performers, with accompanying text by Capote.

Life is Space 4 was a one day seminar held at Studio Olafur Eliasson where invited artists, scientists, scholars, dancers, theorists, spatial practitioners and movement experts gathered to share, discuss, present, and experiment with ideas loosely based around the theme of Life and Space.

Simultaneous Soloists is an artist's book emerging from the exhibition Anthony McCall: Solid Light Works and its accompanying performance series Four Simultaneous Soloists, organised by David Grubbs. It documents these ephemeral events through multiple means: an extensive conversation between McCall and Grubbs detailing a decade of working together. Simultaneous Soloists considers from a plurality of perspectives the challenge of combining McCall's visual art with sound in live performance.