
A collection of poetry written in the form of Bhakti Poems in the ancient romantic Indian tradition, exploring the Jungian relationship between the animus and anima.


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

A large format publication documenting graffiti through the lenses of Mervyn Kurlansky and Jon Narr.

This phootgraphic anthology brings together the groundbreaking work of Black women photographs active in the UK during the 1980s and 1990s. Seen through the lens of Britain’s sociopolitical and cultural contexts, the publication draws on both lived experience and historical investigation to explore the communities, experiments, collaborations, and complexities that defined the decades. Includes the works of Maxine Walker, Ingrid Pollard, Claudette Holmes, Mohini Chandra, Carole Wright, Sutapa Biswas, Maud Sulter, Brenda Agard, Anita McKenzie, and more.

In this book, Somali-British architect Rashid Ali and British photographer Andrew Cross present a fresh and uncommon portrait of the Somalian city, revealing how its architecture has reshaped and defined it--from colonisation to independence and from antiquity to modernism--as one of the most important cities in the Horn of Africa.

Look at Me: Fashion and Photography in Britain 1960-1997 was published to accompany a traveling exhibition curated by writer/curator Val Williams and Brett Rogers, director of The Photographers' Gallery. Through editorials, advertisements, and street snaps, this book explores the evolution of fashion style and fashion photography from the 1960s to the late 1990s. Featuring the works of Juergen Teller, Helmut Newton, Wolfgang Tillmans, Nigel Shafran, Hannah Starkey, Corine Day, Elaine Constatine and more.

Fast Forward: Growing Up in the Shadow of Hollywood documents the experience of growing up in Los Angeles, and the ways children are influenced by the values of Hollywood. The quest for "fame," the preoccupation with trends, the culture of materialism, and the obsession with image that characterises Hollywood is reflected in the everyday lives and rituals of L.A. youth.

Anselm Kiefer is a highly influential German painter and sculptor known for his monumental, textured artworks that confront Germany's complex post-war history, the Holocaust, mythology, and mysticism, using materials like straw, lead, ash, and clay to explore memory, cultural identity, and the weight of the past. The High Priestess, begun in 1985, consists of two enormous steel bookcases, containing almost 200 gigantic lead books.

Weaving the World is the first substantial monograph on the Swedish-born, Norwegian modernist textile artist Hannah Ryggen (1894–1970), presenting works from her entire oeuvre, emphasizing her politcal tapestries from the 1930s. Six of these were presented at Documenta 13 in 2012.

This book combines the very best of the punk press photographs and the most interesting pictures of primitive peoples resplendent in their ritual adornments.

The teenage athletes in Luke Smalley's pictures seem inhabitants of some time or place other than the northwestern Pennsylvania towns where the photographer recently found and photographed them. For the past ten years the photographer has painstakingly coordinated the creation of the work presented here, often making his own athletic equipment, props, and costumes.

This subtle yet powerful book of photographs blends evocative scenes from the many subcultures of Iturbide's native Mexico with the artist's own deeply personal, and oftentimes Surrealistic, vision.

A large poster of a photograph by Burkinabe photographer Sanlé Sory from 1972, which inspired Wales Bonner's Spring/Summer 2022 collection.

This is book published to accompany the exhibition Diary at the Seibu Museum, Tokyo, Japan in 1993. it includes extracts of Peter Beard's diary made of various collage of photographs, texts, newspaper clippings and paintings.

George Dureau, The Photographs is an album of the great photographic portraits made throughout the forty years of Dureau’s artistic career―a New Orleans romance between the photographer and his subjects. All of Dureau’s exquisite photographs, many of them nudes, were made in his studio in the French Quarter of New Orleans, or on the city’s streets.
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Shot over the period of 5 months in 2017, Yodo Hito documents the communities and individuals who have built their homes or congregate along the concrete oodplains of the Yodogawa River in Osaka city, Japan.

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.

Privatise the Mandem is a manifesto and blueprint detailing how members of inner-city communities can acquire the freehold of their buildings through legislative tools such as ‘CollectiveEnfranchisement’ and the ‘Right-to-Buy/Acquire‘. The work argues the necessity of collective ownership of the ends as well as detailing the consequences of delivering on the vision.

A technical anthology on the use of contact sheets, with examples and commentary from 43 contemporary photographers – including Robert Adams, Elliot Erwitt, Charles Gatewood, Eikoh Hosoe, Robert Mapplethorpe and more.

A catalogue from an exhibition exploring 'post-object art' – featuring works by Vito Acconci, John Baldessari, Mel Bochner, Michael Findlay, Dan Graham, Peter Hutchinson, Ray Johnson, Joseph Kosuth, Les Levine, Billy Adler, John Margolies, Bruce Nauman, Dennis Oppenhiem, Michael Snow, John Van Saun, Bernar Venet, Robert Smithson.

This book is a celebration of the Yves Saint Laurent look, a combination of elegance and sophisticated artistry. It is also a book in which the premiere fashion photography of our time is represented, and a book in which "the subject and the object blend because each one is a work of art."


A periodical book on modern houses from around the globe. Featuring work of architects Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Ludiwig Mies van der Rohe, Richard Neutra, Alvar Aalto.

PYMCA (The Photographic Youth Music Culture Archive) is the first photographic archive dedicated to youth culture. Includes images documenting subcultures ranging from New Romantics at Taboo, to Punks at the Roxy in '77, Summer of Love ravers to Travellers, Protestors and festival goers – and all have been taken by people deeply embedded in the subcultures that they documented.

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.
Vintage Fashion is an encyclopedic visual journey through women’s fashion that features more than 1,000 of the most remarkable vintage items ever sold on the resale market. Classified by decade and accompanied by the history of each item’s creation, the 850 articles of clothing and 150 bags depicted in this book offer a panoramic look across the evolution of style.

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.

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.

The inaugural Future Art Ecosystems report examines emerging infrastructures supporting artistic practices engaged with advanced technologies. Drawing on research by the Serpentine Galleries, it includes insights from artists such as Hito Steyerl, James Bridle, Ian Cheng, and Jakob Kudsk Steensen. Through interviews with creatives, technologists, and researchers—including Refik Anadol and teamLab—the publication explores how art, technology, and innovation are shaping future cultural ecosystems.

Photographs and texts by critic Germano Celant about selected works considered as Arte Povera – an Italian art movement from the late 1960s and 1970s that used "poor" or commonplace materials to challenge the commercialised art world. Includes the works of Joseph Beuys, Lawrence Weiner, Alighiero Boetti, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Hans Haacke, Eva Hesse, Jan Dibbets, Carl Andre, and more.

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.


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

A collection of black and white photographic portraits by Laon Maybanke presenting the many expressions, gestures and faces of humanity.

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,

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.

Once a month a horse fair is held at Smithfield in north Dublin. In the almost medieval atmosphere, kids from the tough Dublin estates can buy ponies for the price of a pair of trainers. The pony kids now exist in defiance of moves to licence such trading, portrayed here in portraits by Perry Ogden.

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

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

A socialist journal of the social services. In this issue: visions from the left on the human services.


At the vanguard of fashion, design and art, AnOther Magazine has, over the past decade, become known for its signature fusion of fashion photography and classic portraiture. Another Portrait Book includes a stellar selection of these celebrity shots—Nicole Kidman, Jodie Foster, Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow among them, as well as portraits of figures from the worlds of music, literature and art, such as Gore Vidal, Björk, Lucian Freud, Patti Smith, Marianne Faithful and Kate Moss, captured by the world’s most iconoclastic photographers.

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.

Between 2007 and 2017, across the hours of 8:30 and 9:30am, Danish photographer stood with his camera at the southern corner of 42nd Street and Vanderbilt Avenue in New York City. In narrowing the infinite opportunities New York City has to offer an artist, Funch brings to the surface the minutiae contained within a fragment of our daily routine.

Hanoos Hanoos was born in Iraq in 1958, where he studied at the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad. He moved to Madrid, Spain, in 1984 where he obtained his PhD and has lived ever since. This book looks at his print makings, paintings and collage works.

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

A captivating look at the glamorous, jet-setting lifestyles of those who frequent the legendary Hotel Il Pellicano, overlooking a secluded bay in Tuscany's Porto Ercole. One of the most beautiful destinations in the world, the chic Hotel Il Pellicano, located on the Argentario, is a hangout for many from the design, fashion, and art worlds.

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.

Leafing through a wealth of private photo albums and personal archives, Lee Radziwill offers a unique perspective of happy times: from the first trip to Europe and the Bouvier sisters to fond memories of Christmas in Palm Beach with President Kennedy. Through anecdotes and pictures, personal notes and drawings, Happy Times offers readers a very personal perspective on a highly publicized life.

The 408-page collection of Grace Coddington's greatest work as a fashion stylist and sittings editor is not just a monograph of her first 30 years at Vogue, it is also a visual reminiscence of 30 years of British and American Vogue's best work. The photographers whose work is included: Irving Penn, Cecil Beaton, Helmut Newton, Guy Bourdin, Norman Parkinson, Ellen von Unwerth, Bruce Weber, Mario Testino, Steven Meisel, Steven Klein, Annie Leibovitz, Sarah Moon, Peter Lindbergh, and more.

A socialist journal of the social services. In this issue: social welfare in a capitalist society, radical therapy.

This book makes an argument for photography as the definitive art form of the twentieth century by presenting whole series of works by the medium's pioneers, instead of isolated individual photographs. Arranged thematically rather chronologically, the connections between seemingly disparate bodies of work are made clear. Cindy Sherman's early film stills sit easily across the page from Lee Friedlander's sly shadow self portraits; Robert Adams' desolate suburban sprawls lead a path to Larry Clark's strung-out dopers in Tulsa several pages later; and more.

EverWonderful is Jeano Edwards’ first photobook, and is a tender love story dedicated to his homeland of Jamaica.

A photographic history of women's lingerie.

Photographs by Man Ray and text by Jean Cocteau.

While working as projectionish in a porn cinema in the 1980s, Bob Mazzer began photographing on the tube during his daily commute, creating irresistibly joyous pictures alive with humour and humanity. His pictures are published here for the first time.


This book brings together a distinguished group of authros to reflect on Adjaye's practice as an architect.

An effective signing and graphics system functions not as a separate entity but as an integral part of its environment. This highly illustrated handbook contains practical information needed to create a total signing and graphics system for any environment. It investigates ways to integrate signing into architecture and establishes guidelines for solving aesthetic and functional problems.

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.

This book features 44 of Odundo's vessels alongside a large selection of museological and contemporary objects that reveal the wide range of global references that have informed her practice. The book object comprises a series of interleaved sections presenting an organic flow of content which pairs and juxtaposes the historic and the contemporary, featuring works by Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Lucie Rie, Jean Arp, as well as ancient vessels from around the world.

A timely exploration of political organising, publishing, design and distribution in 1970s Detroit.

This lavishly illustrated volume explores the history of the Paisley Pattern, tracing its origins over 2,000 years and its European popularity in 18th-century shawls. Highlighting Paisley as the leading producer, the book reproduces 150 designs from the Paisley Museum collection, including original pattern books, providing historical context and inspiration for textile historians, designers, and students.

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.

This iconic book presents a selection of 138 photos taken at the Coney Island from 1952 to 1977.

Otherworldly presents avant-garde garments, styling, fashion photography, and young designers who are reimagining fashion through new design technologies – from wearables to the utter transfiguration of the human silhouette. Otherworldly showcases a fashion avantgarde between futurism and fetish.

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The year 2000 marked the issue 200 and year 20 for i-D Magazine. Blending fashion and social documentation, early issues of i-D (now major collector's items) were presented as 40 pages stapled together. 'Smile i-D' incorporates a single spread from each issue of the magazine up until then.

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.

Canal Zone postage stamps were specialized stamps issued from 1904 to 1978 for use in the U.S.-governed Panama Canal Zone. These stamps, collected in this book, served to facilitate mail during the construction and operation of the canal.


An homage to contemporary hairstylists including, Serge Normant, John Sahag and Orlando Pita.

Volume two of the monograph on M/M (Paris) traces the duo’s radical, cross-disciplinary practice since 1992. Featuring over 850 images arranged A–Z from “M” to “M,” it highlights collaborations across fashion, music, art, and publishing. Interviews and essays from leading creatives frame their influential visual atlas, completing the definitive Thames & Hudson edition.

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

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.

Portraits of students at Cheletenham Ladies college by British Photographer Sue Packer.

I Can't Stand to See You Cry is an exploration of Texas and the surrounding states, as well as the people who are fixed within its complex landscape. Fortune analyses relationships between family, friends and strangers, all caught in a flood of health and environmental issues while working to maintain grace.

This book examines nine pioneers who shaped American graphic design from the 1930s to the 1950s, including Lester Beall and Paul Rand. Through over 200 illustrations, the book explores their education, philosophies, client work, and problem-solving, revealing the foundations of modern American visual communication.

Bosnian War Posters presents a powerful visual history of the Bosnian War (1992–1995) through political posters, archival images, and contemporary photographs. Collected across Bosnia and the former Yugoslavia, these graphics capture lived experiences of conflict, nationalism, and propaganda.

Photographer Jonathan Torgovnik explores the beloved pastime of an Indian population of over one billion – Bollywood Cinema.
The American photographer Leonard Freed travelled to Germany for the first time in 1954. He observed the people in their social surroundings, at work, at street festivals, in public parks, in the streets and against the industrial backdrop of the Ruhr Valley.


Squatting the real story is a 1980 compendium of articles about squatting in the United Kingdom, mainly based on projects in London. With written contribitions by Piers Corbyn, Ann Pettitt, Steve Platt and Colin Ward, among others.

Swiss performance artist, Manon, was a pioneer of body and performance art in the 1970s. In her ambivalent depiction of female identity, she deliberately affirmed gender roles as well as their subversion. Through a series of photographic images, this book illustrates the artist’s interest in personal redefinition, through taking up her own body as both medium and metaphor.

Beautiful London by Helmut Gernsheim is a captivating photographic tribute to the city in the early 20th century, capturing London’s elegance, charm, and architectural splendor before the upheavals of World War II. Published in 1939, this rare collection showcases Gernsheim’s keen eye for composition and atmosphere, blending documentary precision with artistic vision

A survey of enamel street signs and advertisements of the 1970s.
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A collection of self portraits by 60 female artists and photographs, offering a glimpse into the (caucasian) female experience and concerns in the late 1970s after the Women's Liberation Movement.

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.

An incredible style reference courtesy of photographer Kazuo Ohishi who covered all the shows for Paris fashion week. Ohishi photographs the runway collections of Ann Demeulemeester, Alaia, Chloe, Comme des Garcons, Dries Van Noten, Helmut Lang, Galliano, Margiela, Kenzo, Martine Sitbon and many more.

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 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.

Another Art Book, the final volume celebrating the archives of AnOther Magazine, revisits groundbreaking art commissions published since 2001. Featuring artists including Damien Hirst and Yayoi Kusama, it highlights the magazine’s bold integration of contemporary art into fashion publishing, culminating in collaborative projects that fused designers and artists, reshaping the relationship between both creative worlds.

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.

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.

The Other Story: Afro-Asian Artists in Post-War Britain is a seminal 1989 exhibition catalogue published by the Hayward Gallery/Southbank Centre, London, edited and curated by artist Rasheed Araeen. This scarce book documents the first major survey of African, Caribbean, and Asian artists' contributions to British post-war modernism.

In this unusual archive, Rose Salane documents 64,000 NYC MTA “slug” coins—counterfeit tokens collected from 2017–2019. Categorized by patterns of Faith, Place, Chance, Imitation, and Blank, the coins reveal fragments of commuter histories and urban movement. The work honors the everyday circulation of New Yorkers, transforming overlooked fare tokens into a reflection on time, place, and collective experience.

Dionysus in 69 was created by The Performance Group and played in the Group’s theater, The Performing Garage, from June 6, 1968 to July 27, 1969. The play text of Dionysus in 69 is based on group improvisation, composition by members of The Performance Group, and the William Arrowsmith translation of Euripides’ The Bacchae.

An Island Is A Circle spans the various bodies of work Gabriel Orozco created whilst living in Bali, Indonesia. The book's design was closely overseen by the artist himself and is profusely illustrated with images of drawings, paintings and the limestone Dés sculptures made in collaboration with professional artisans in Bali.

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.
The Library
Our Library is the heart of Reference Point and from where all other elements take their philosophy and context. An evolving and growing collection of rare books, ephemera and printed matter focused on Post-War Radical Art, Architecture, Design, Fashion and Culture. The library exists to create inspiration and conversation, and provide creatives of all stages and disciplines reference points for their projects.
Our librarians are always on hand to serve as research assistants but you can also email us with your interests and project brief and we can prepare a selection of works in advance of your visit.
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