In his photographic practice, Irish photographer Wood pursued the goal of opening a window onto one specific piece of reality in the great pictorial swell of our media world, a piece that seems familiar, yet which we see for the first time. Wood’s artist vision tears away from reality the veil that has been thrown over it by the media, creating deeply intimate portraits.

S.M.S., founded in New York by William Copley with Dmitri Petrov, was a subscription-based “art in a box” series distributing small, often playful works by mail. Inspired by Marcel Duchamp, it mixed famous and emerging artists across disciplines, all paid equally. Designed to bypass the traditional art market, it fostered accessibility and a collaborative, communal creative environment. Contributors to issue #1 include Su Braden, James Byars, Christo, Walter de Maria, Richard Hamilton, Julien Levy, Kasper König, Sol Mednick, Irving Petlin, Nancy Reitkopf, La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela.

Spanning five key years from 2016 to 2021, this monograph is dedicated to Tobias Spichtig’s work presents a high-definition snapshot of the Swiss artist’s aesthetic vision. Published by KALEIDOSCOPE, the pages present a variety of the artist's works – from oil, acrylic, graphite, diamond dust, and photographic prints on canvas – alongside essays.

In this book, Munkacsi's images from across the entireity of his oeuvre have been brought together – from portraits of Hollywood stars such as Jean Harlow to private snapshots of the artist's life.

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

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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.

Crucifixion on Caulaincourt is a series of black and white diaristic images by Kingsley Ifill.

The definitive book on the legendary photographer's life in New York City, with many never-before-seen images and reminiscences by his closest friends and confidants. From the 1930s, when he helped revolutionize fashion journalism, through the 1960s, when he launched headlong into the Pop art era, London-based photographer Cecil Beaton brought to New York City his own perspective--aristocratic, sexually ambiguous, and theatrical

Willy Vanderperre is one of the pre-eminent fashion photographers of his generation. Hailing from Belgium, he has established a 20-year body of work that spans campaigns for Prada, Raf Simons, Calvin Klein and Christian Dior, and more. This book, created in collaboration with IDEA books is an experimental compliation of Vanderperre's Instagram feed – edited in just 10 days – over 220 pages.

This book is part of a four part series exploring the work of four influential designers. This volume explores the work of Pierre Bernard, an influential French graphic designer known for his social, political, and cultural design work, most notably as a founder of the collective Grapus

A book of the exhibition curated by Johan Jugelburg that celebrated 40 years of the Velvet Underground and Nico album. Featuring newspaper clippings, photographs, texts.

Offering the reader a privileged glimpse into the artistic process used by top fashion photographer Tim Walker, 'Pictures' provides a comprehensive overview of his work which brings us deep inside his world of glamour and adventure – including sketches, pages from his notebooks, polaroids, and contact sheets.

American bioacoustician and musician Bernie Krause has recorded over 5,000 hours of natural soundscapes since the 1970s. Both poetic and scientific, his archive reveals the musical harmony and orchestral structure of nature. This book presents an immersive installation created in 2016 by Krause and United Visual Artists for the Fondation Cartier in Paris. It traces the transformation of Krause’s field recordings into a three-dimensional audiovisual experience that blends art, technology, and ecology.

Despite his exceedingly premature death at the age of 32, Davis’s paintings have deeply influenced the rise of figurative and representational painting in the twenty-first century. Davis’s emotionally charged work places him firmly in the canon of great American painting. Compiled through the unique relationship between Davis and Helen Molesworth, this monograph tells the story of a brilliant artist and cultural force through the eyes of his friends and collaborators.

A collection of photographs of activist graffiti by feminist guerrilla groups often sprayed over advertising boards in the 1980s and 1990s.

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

This issue contains 33 lithographs of artworks provided by 33 international roster of avant-garde and surrealist-leaning artists, including Asger Jorn, Roberto Matt, Guido Biasi, José Gamarra, Lea Lublin, Cristina Martinez and more.

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.

A socialist journal of the social services. In this issue: Psychotherapy, racism, classism and welfare, capitalistic origins of mental distress, critical theory and social work practice, social values and psychotherapy.

Yaya Coulibaly is an artist who has created  dynamic puppet theatre performances that draw from the ancient traditions of puppetry in West Africa. His performances incorporate traditional folk tales and legends and episodes from Mali's great epics, as well as colonial history and commentary on contemporary life in Mali.

Photographs of people in their place of work – accompanied by  humorous, heartbreaking and insightful quotes about the experience of work itself.

Nightswimming is a photographic history of discotheques, told in a subjective, partial way, but always with a clear purpose in mind: the analysis of space. The history of dance clubs is undoubtedly an anthropological as well as architectural phenomenon. The cultural and economic evolution of society progressively transformed the idea of entertainment, and consequently the spaces in which it is formed and shaped.

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.

A themed collection of Araki photographs. Issue 4: New York.

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.

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Original film poster for Bollywood action/drama film Suryaa.

The story of Christian Dior's rise to fame as a fashion designer is told through a survey of the House's major collections from 1947 to 1957.

A periodical book on modern houses from around the globe. Featuring work of architects Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates, Mies van der Rohe, Carlo Scarpa, Louis I. Khan, Piano + Rogers Architects.

This book offers brief profiles of important designers, architects, engineers, graphic artists, movements, and manufacturers, and shows influential designs in automobiles, furniture, fabrics, fashions, and products.

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With many never-before-published photographs taken by the artist, as well as paintings, drawings, sculptures, prints, and films, this volume offers an unparalleled examination of Pablo Picasso’s relationship to photography.

Unusual Sounds traces the full history of library music through interviews with its composers, producers, and musicians, appearing amid renewed interest and major-label reissues. Originally created as low-cost stock soundtracks for television and genre films, library records evolved into a thriving industry. Behind many anonymous releases were leading late-20th-century composers, whose inventive work flourished within commercial constraints.

This book offers design ideas for housing, inspired by the homes of various architects.

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

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A booklet for an exhibition at the 1976 Venice Biennale surveying improvements in city planning in the Netherlands, based on the concept that good living environments go beyond shelter.

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

Untitled is the only volume devoted to a single project by Diane Arbus, drawn from photographs taken in residences for people with developmental disabilities between 1969 and 1971, during the final years of her life. Largely unpublished until this edition, the images reveal a lyrical, emotionally direct vision that Arbus herself described as “finally what I’ve been searching for.” More mythic than documentary, the work reflects her unflinching engagement with reality and affirms the individuality and shared humanity of her subjects.

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.

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

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Top Symbols & Trademarks of the World was the efforts of Franco Maria Ricci & Corinna Ferrari, and Italian publisher Deco Press. The series, published in 1973 was an unprecedented initiative to catalogue many of the finest examples of trademark design of the time. What marks this series out is both the format and the approach Ricci and Ferrari took. The sixth volume in the series looks at Switzerland, West Germany and Austria.

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Notting Hill in the Sixties attempts to capture the exuberance and vivacity of the people in one of London's most famous neighbourhoods. Phillips photographs present a pictorial documentary of the area of North Kensington which, from the fifties, became the spiritual home of Britain's Afro-Caribbean community. His pictures are both affectionate personal portraits of friends and neighbours, and a social commentary which evokes the flavour of the period and the locality.

London/Wales brings together two distinct bodies of work to reveal a new understanding of Franks contribution to the history of photography. Juxtaposing the world of money and the world of work in post-war England, Frank photographed London bankers, workers, and children, and Welsh coal miners and their families. Featuring 90 black and white photographs, London/Wales tells a timeless story of cities, people, and institutions in transition through emotional, evocative images while revealing Franks struggle to forge a new form of poetic narrative photography.

Avedon Fashion 1944-2000 encompasses seven decades of extraordinary images by Richard Avedon, the most influential fashion photographer of the 20th century.This comprehensive volume offers a definitive survey, from Avedon's groundbreaking early photographs for Harper's Bazaar through his constantly inventive contributions to Vogue, Egoiste, and The New Yorker.

A visual collection of rock star tattoos.

From David Beckham to Princess Diana, Michael Jackson to Madonna: few have escaped the lens of Richard Young. This book collects works from his career that spanned three decades.

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.

Eric Kroll’s cult 1977 book is an unflinching study of the marginalised mid-seventies American sex worker. Focusing on women who worked at roadside sex shops, massage parlours or live peep shows, Kroll’s poignant portraits sit alongside matter-of-fact interviews conducted with each subject. Kroll travelled from Iowa to California and to Texas, photographing 50 women in total and interviewing over 100.

This comprehensive monograph contains a selection of emblematic works by Sengalese-born artist Issa Samb aka Joe Ouakam. The publication follows Samb's first solo exhibition in Europe, curated by Koyo Kouoh, entitled “WORD! WORD? WORD!".

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.

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.

As a photographer George Platt Lynes was a brilliant craftsman and master of composition, whether it be in one of his many portraits of the famous and the legendary, or in his stunningly vivid documentations of the New York City Ballet. This book breaks down his body of work into distinct sections, featuring portraits include such luminaries of twentieth century art and society as Thomas Mann, Igor Stravinsky, Countess Bismarck and Gertrude Stein, as well as fellow lens-men Cecil Beaton and Henri Cartier-Bresson.

This is the only book to thoroughly document the world's finest examples of Brutalist architecture. More than 850 buildings - existing and demolished, classic and contemporary - are organised geographically into nine continental regions.

This publication consists of 930 photographs taken by Daido Moriyama in the first twenty years of his career. Starting with the oldest existing print from 1960 and ending around the publication of Moriyama’s photobook “Light and Shadow” in 1982, the book allows an unprecedented insight into the work – including many previously unpublished images – of one of Japan’s greatest photographers.

The Bikeriders explores firsthand the stories and characters of the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club.

Source Books in Architecture No.14: Rem Koolhaas / OMA + AMO Spaces for Prada is the most recent volume in the Source Books in Architecture series. Among the topics discussed in the book are the long-standing relationship with Prada and how the early objectives in that relationship have both maintained and shifted

This book explores the versatility and playful nature of rubber, tracing its forms, uses, and transformations in everyday objects, art, fashion, and design—from toys and clothing to surreal works like Dali’s melting clocks. Its textured rubberized cover enhances the tactile experience, celebrating rubber’s creativity, diversity, and sensory appeal.

The Queer Tree of Life traces international queer LGBTQ publishing from 1880 to 2019. Featuring over 400 examples, it explores how print—once clandestine—shaped identity and visual culture. From fanzines and self-publishing to academic texts, pornography, and artist books, it highlights publishing as a catalyst for non-heteronormative self-understanding and community formation.

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

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Featuring more than 800 stunning images, from photographers such as Larry Clark, Ari Marcopoulos, and David Sims, this book gives behind-the-scenes content to Supreme – from t-shirt collections to collaborations with Nan Goldin, Comme de Garçons, and Nike, to name a few. The book also features a curated section of lookbooks and an index of T-shirts released since Supreme's Spring/Summer 2010 collections. With textual contributions by Carlo McCormick and film director Harmony Korine.

Lippard’s classic text from 1973 documents the emergence of conceptual art and related experimental artistic practices. Experimental in itself, this book details various artworks by their chronological context rather than by artist.

Exhibition catalogue published to coincides with the exhibition by British Sculpture Gavin Turk, In Search of Ariadne, at The Heong Gallery at Downing College.

A collection of the most desired, envied, and debonair men in history. From the frock coats of Gainsborough's portraits to city workers' two-piece suits, men and their fashion have made a vital contribution to our collective notion of style.

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.

Whilst most Fashion photographers were out the front at the catwalk photographing the glitz and the glamour, Rennie Ellis, more often than not, could be found out the back, in the dressing rooms amongst the fan fare and flashes of flesh.

The Independent Group, or the IG, as it was called, is best known for having launched Pop Art. But the young artists, architects, and critics who met informally at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts in the early 1950s were actually embarked on a far more subversive and constructive mission than the founding of an art movement. This book presents exhibitions, discussions, art and writings of IG members, showing the ways in which they established a new aesthetic horizon.

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

Horst Portraits celebrates the portraits of Horst P. Horst - one of the great master photographers of the twentieth century and the creator of some of the most elegant, glamorous, and stylish images in photographic history. It is the first book specifically devoted to his signature portraits.The photographs are all reproduced in full-page plates. For anyone interested in photography, fashion, or celebrity, some of the most fascinating faces of the twentieth century are to be found in the pages of this book.

A cult book that influenced the 'Ivy Style' craze among students in the Ginza shopping district of Tokyo in the late 1960s. Take Ivy is a collection of candid photographs shot on the campuses of America's elite, Ivy League universities. An important study of classic menswear and the Prep style.

This retrospective of Japanese photographer Masahisa Fukase whose deeply introspective and cinematc photography illustrated his intense and occasionally violent life. This book provides an overview of one of the most radical and important photographers of his generation. Edited by Simon Baker, the Tate’s first photography curator, and Tomo Kosuga, director of the Masahisa Fukase Archives, the comprehensive book showcases 26 of the artist’s series, including many previously unpublished works, on more than 400 pages.

This Will Not End Well is the first book to present a comprehensive overview of Nan Goldin’s work as a filmmaker. The book draws from the nearly dozen slideshows and films Goldin has made from thousands of photographs, film sequences, audio tapes and music tracks. The stories told range from the trauma of her family history to the portrayal of her bohemian friends, to a journey into the darkness of addiction. By focusing exclusively on slideshows and video installations, This Will Not End Well aims to fully embrace Goldin's vision of how her work should be experienced.

Gallant began his professional career in fashion as a hairdresser, working at Bergdorf Goodman department store in New York as one of the city's top colourists. This new book tracing Gallant's life and career is edited by David Wills and features photographs by Richard Avedon plus a foreword by Anjelica Huston.

Street photographs of scenes in Shanghai.

Part of a lineage of 20th artists who created a French humanist tradition, Israel ‘Izis’ Biderman's study of the circuses position him as one of the most adept, astute, and empathetic photographers of his age. Avoiding the typical voyueristic tropes of circus documenters of the time, Biderman was gentle and warm without being sentimental, bringing a truth to the circus performers he photographed. Each image is rich in humanity and Biderman never strays from his goal to show real people.

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

Clifford Coffin is known by many as the greatest of Vogue's "lost" photographers – an artist who was ahead of his time. His innovative an intriguing fashion photographs of the 1940s and 1950s for renowned magazines including Vogue, Glamour and Jardin des Modes challenged the standards of the day. This is the first monograph of his work, published to coincide with an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery and includes a rare collection of over 100 full colour and duotone photographs – many of which were previously unpublished.

The Rock and Roll Circus starring the Rolling Stones has long been regarded as a long-lost treasure of rock film history. This book collects full-bleed production stills during rehearsals and filming – featuring 100 black and white portraits of costume shots, performance stills, and intimate backstage details.

This monograph presents the work of Vito Acconci, one of the most influential of the last 30 years. His experiments with performance, audio and video, sculpture, and architecture from the late 1960s through the present have become points of reference for younger artists. The overriding concerns throughout his work have been self-analysis and interpersonal relationships, themes he has explored in many different ways.

Dictator Banknotes explores the symbolism of absolute power through a curated collection by Jonathan Mott. Designed like an album, it features sixteen genuine banknotes from authoritarian regimes, each paired with commentary recounting the rulers’ brutality, excesses, and eccentricities—revealing how currency can serve as both propaganda and a stark reflection of dictatorship.

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For ten years - from 1984 until 1995 - Newton published his best photographs in his own magazine, Helmut Newton's Illustrated. During this period, four editions appeared: No. 1 "Sex and Power," No. 2 "Pictured from an Exhibition," No. 3 "I was there" and No. 4 "Dr. Phantasme." This edition brings them all together.

Philippe Garner’s absorbing book describes the way in which the talented and opportunistic Cowan carved himself a very specific niche in the fast flowing maelstrom that was sixties fashion photography.

A collection of Nozolino's images of the Arab world taken on numerous trips through Egypt, Syria, Morocco, Yemen, Mauritania, Jordan and Lebanon. His images explore the Arabic culture's struggle between ancient desert villages and overcrowded, polluted cities.

Herbert List was fascinated by the ”artificial humans“—life-size figures moulded in wax—on display at the Panoptikum in Vienna’s Prater. In 1944, he photographed these waxworks, depicting them as “corpses set in position and daubed with make-up—frozen in poses of the utmost intensity, they are inhabitants of a Sleeping Beauty castle.” List took a string of fairytale scenes, historical tableaux, and medical subjects and combined them with a trenchant text to create an illustrated book published here for the first time, more than seventy-five years later, in a bibliophile edition based on List’s original draft.

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

Alexey Brodovitch was a Russian-born American designer, photographer, and educator known for revolutionising graphic design and art direction, particularly during his long tenure as Art Director of Harper's Bazaar. He is celebrated for introducing the avant-garde European aesthetic to American design, using dramatic layouts, bold typography, and generous white space, and for mentoring a new generation of influential photographers like Richard Avedon and Irving Penn. This book presents a look into his work as one of the most important graphic designers and photographers of the 20th century.

Jean Cocteau: Metamorphosis (2018) was a major exhibition and accompanying book, curated by Ioannis Kontaxopoulos, that highlighted the French artist’s perpetual self-transformation across various media, including film, drawing, and ceramics. It showcased over 250 works, often from the Musée Jean Cocteau in Menton, tracing his lifelong, multidisciplinary, and deeply personal creative evolution.

From the most avant-garde jazz musicians, visual artists and poets to architects, philosophers and writers, Black Ivy: A Revolt in Style charts a period in American history when Black men across the country adopted the clothing of a privileged elite and made it their own. It shows how a generation of men took the classic Ivy Look and made it cool, edgy and unpredictable in ways that continue to influence today's modern menswear.

Jocks and Nerds: Men's Style in the Twentieth Century offers a visual history of the way men have dressed in the twentieth century, tracing twelve social roles that have formed fashion and fashion leaders.

A book on the architecture of Scotland from prehistoric times to present day.

This book explores furniture from ancient Egypt to 400 BC, emphasising style, construction, and detailed measured drawings. It presents continuity of design across centuries, showcasing features like animal-hoof chair legs evolving from cattle to lions, and decorative motifs such as pine cones, offering a thorough study of early craftsmanship and aesthetic development in ancient furniture.

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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.

In 2022, Jamaica Society Leeds staged the Rebellion to Romance exhibition as part of the Out of Many Festival marking 60 years of Jamaica independence. The exhibition, and subsequent book, explored the lives of second-generation West Indians in the 1970s and 80s Leeds and the impact of Jamaican ulture.

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New Age: Stonehenge to Jungle is a visual chronicle of UK rave, jungle, and warehouse party culture from the early 1970s to 2000. Drawn from Toby Mott’s extensive Mott Collection, the book features 575 flyers and ephemera, tracing a generation of youth rebellion and the imaginative visual language that defined British party culture and its global influence.

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.

A collection of stamps from the People's Republic of China between 1949 - 1954, supplement to China Reconstructs Issue 4 1955

S.M.S., founded in New York by William Copley with Dmitri Petrov, was a subscription-based “art in a box” series distributing small, often playful works by mail. Inspired by Marcel Duchamp, it mixed famous and emerging artists across disciplines, all paid equally. Designed to bypass the traditional art market, it fostered accessibility and a collaborative, communal creative environment. Contributors to issue #2 include Nicolas Calas, Bruce Conner, Marcel Duchamp, Marcia Herscovitz, Alain Jacquet, Ray Johnson, Lee Lozano, Meret Oppenheim, Bernard Pfriem, George Reavey, and Clovis Trouille.

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This book includes over 200 portraits, still lives, landscapes and dirty realism by photographerWolfgang Tillmans.

Sportscape tells the story of how sport has been shown by photographers over a period of 100 years, focusing on the beauty and interest of the photographs and what they can tell us about the development of sport.

British Women Go to War documents the vital contributions of British women during the Second World War, covering their work in the armed forces, industry, the Women Land Army, and the Women's Voluntary Services. Featuring striking colour photographs by percy Hennel that show women in various roles during this period.

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A perfectly encapsulated visual documentation Parisian youth & their subcultures.