A book on the film and video work of Robert Frank.

In this essential and revelatory book, Susan Sontag confronts important questions surrounding the power dynamics between photographer and subject, the blurred boundary between lived events and recreated images, and the desires that lead us to record our lives.

This photobook presents Stephen Gill's seminal work Hackney Wick. The photographer iscovered Hackney Wick Market in East London in 2002. The vast market took place on a Sunday in an old Greyhound/Speedway stadium where sellers sold mostly scrap and junk. Stephen bought a plastic camera with no controls there for 50P and shot the market until it was closed in 2003, to be demolished for the London Olympics. Alongside the traders he shot a hidden and now lost natural world of canals, rivers and secret allotments.

This book explores the most influential printed books in Western history, tracing how print shaped science, politics, religion, and culture, and documenting the transformative impact of publishing on the development of Western civilization.

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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.

Exhibition ephemera for Land Art exhibition organised by centro de arte y communicacion in 1974.

Rasha Kahil documents her friend Gems, to create an intimate and honest portrait of female friendship.

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.

Between 1998 and 2010, Simon Wheatley photographed a train line that ran across London’s northern inner-suburbs. Initially intrigued by the social polarisation of neighbourhoods along the line, the story became a meandering one with seemingly no end - until the Kodachrome film with which I shot it was discontinued. The work has emerged into this book as a reflection of the emptiness of the Blair years, and a tacit indictment of rail privatisation.

Including over 200 of Vinca Petersen’s photographs, diary entries and ephemera, No System is a party book that one can also read like an alternative family album. This publication tells the story of a 10-year journey around Europe in the 1990’s that Petersen did in a van, following illegal free parties and techno festivals. Images of rave parties, the road and intimate portraits of friends and strangers compose the series. If nostalgia for this free-spirited bygone era and this alternative lifestyle certainly arise in the book, one can also read it as a necessary manifesto for our current times under surveillance.

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In this book, Mayall identified the dangers and difficulties created for machine operators by the increasing complexity of modern machines and examined the development of the "machine aesthetic" against social, technical and marketing factors. He also believed that organizing machines into coherent visual fields would help prevent accidents.

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

When Bruce Weber opened the Tokyo iteration of his “Filmography” exhibition in 2005, he collaborated with the distributor Kinetique to release a limited-edition catalogue of the show. Drawing extensively from imagery related to each of his feature films and shorts, this book celebrates the fantasies and aspirations of cinema. In addition to showcasing his own film work, Bruce celebrates the talents of directors and actors who inspire him, everyone from Michelangelo Antonioni and Pedro Almodovar to Benicio del Toro and Vanessa Redgrave. The book includes an essay Bruce wrote in tribute to the late, great actor, River Phoenix, the subject of a film he never got to make. In this essay, and in each of these photographs, Bruce presents the elusive dreamworld of the big screen as a space of freedom, innocence and the possibility of personal expression.

An issue dedicated to the work of architect Louis I.Khan – a profoundly influential Estonian-born American architect based in Philadelphia, renowned for creating monumental, timeless, and emotionally expressive buildings. Often blending modern materials like concrete with ancient, geometric forms, his work is characterized by dramatic use of light, a deep sense of order, and a focus on "servant" and "served" spaces.

A book of surreal and eccentric architecture.

The Fundamental Picture is a series of thirty-nine works by English artists Gilbert & George that was exhibited simultaneously at the Lehmann Maupin and Sonnabend Galleries from 3 May through 28 June 1997.

A zine about The Black People’s Day Of Action of 3rd March 1981.

Camera in London by Bill Brandt is a landmark photographic exploration of London’s people and places in the 1930s and beyond. With a keen eye for social contrasts, Brandt captures the city’s vibrant spirit—from the gritty working-class neighbourhoods to the elegant streets of the wealthy elite.

This book is an expansive look into the Surrealist movements on both sides of the Atlantic from the 1940s to the present alongside the social and political factors that influenced the movement as well as the psychological investigations of Freud and Jung that inspired much of its pictorial repertory.

Provoke, with its subtitle of Provocative Materials for Thought, was an experimental, small-press Japanese photography magazine founded in 1968 by critic/photographers Kōji Taki and Takuma Nakahira, photographer Yutaka Takanashi, and writer Takahiko Okada. Daidō Moriyama joined from the second issue. The magazine itself was printed through techniques like the "are-bure-boke" style, which embraced grain, blur, and high contrast to convey a sense of immediacy and raw energy. The printing process was considered a crucial part of the work, often using techniques that increased grain and contrast, with photos printed edge-to-edge without margins to make them appear to bleed into one another.

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Making Things explores in detail Miyake's approach to clothing, in which imagination and comfort go hand in hand with the most innovative technology. Wedding beauty and function, Issey Miyake’s highly sophisticated compositions match form and texture to create a fundamental design that takes on a new dimension which foreshadows the twenty-first century.

A book about the patterns and fabrics of Juergen Lehl, a German designer who worked in Tokyo since starting a company there in 1972

Photographer Chantal Regnault spent many years capturing the emergent underground gay ballroom scene in Harlem at the end of the 1980s, from where Voguing emerged. A riot of fashion, image, poly-sexuality and a radical subversion of style, sexuality and race is vividly captured in the hundreds of amazing, never before seen, photographs in this deluxe book. The book also features interviews with key figures from the movement, essays, flyers and documents from this momentous era.

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.

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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A periodical book on modern houses from around the globe. Featuring work of architects Mies v.d. ROhe, R. Meier, MLTW, K. Roche & J. Dinkeloo, M. Brewer

A documentation of Black style through portraits of people on the streets of Chicago.

Created by artist Antoni Miralda and chef Montse Guillén, El Internacional (1984–1986) was a legendary Tribeca restaurant that introduced Spanish tapas to New York City. Merging food with installation art, it became an 1980s cultural icon. It combined the social ritual of eating with installation and performance art, blurring the boundaries between food, art, design, architecture and mass media. This richly illustrated volume documents its vibrant history through recipes and personal memories.

Long before Fotografias, Peter Fischli and David Weiss were already known for undermining distinctions between high and low art, as Nancy Spector observed. This collection of underexposed black-and-white photographs reimagines low-end figurative imagery as murky, atmospheric snapshots, transforming familiar landscapes, historical scenes, animals, mythological figures, and female subjects into subtly reframed works of fine art.

L'Armour Fou explores the crucial role photography did in fact play in the Surrealist movement, featuring photographic works from artists including Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, André Breton, Brassaï, Salvador Dalí, André Kertész, and Hans Bellmer.

Made during the building of her Tarot Garden, this beautiful little book is de Saint Phalle’s explanation of her audacious and brilliant project, illustrated with her knowingly naive hand. Everything she touches is desperately romantic, endlessly alluring, perpetually profound.

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Concentrating mainly on the 19th and 20th centuries, this is a study of the necklace as an emblem of wealth and status, shaped and reshaped throughout the centuries by successive fashions, techniques and materials, from the Egyptian broad collar to the diamond chokers of the 1920s.

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.

Brassai became interested in the marginal art form of graffiti in the 1930s, seeing it as a form of outsider art that could open the door to new forms of artistic expression. His atmospheric photographs capture the essence of this unfettered creation. Stark contrasts of black and white alternate with softer shades of grey that meld into one another, smoothing the harsh gouges typical of graffiti.

In a series of stunning black and white images, Tocororo: A Cuban Tale follows the creation of Carlos Acosta's first piece of dance theatre as choreographer and star, from its rehearsals and world premiere in Cuba to its sell-out debut at London's Sadlers Wells theatre.

A socialist journal of the social services. In this issue: The crisis of the international capitalist order, class struggle, the welfare state, psychotherapy and radical politics and more.

From Playboy's classic archives comes a trilogy of stocking-stuffer-sized volumes, each devoted to a certain hair colour – this one is dedicated to redheads.

Tokyo Love is the photographic collaboration between Nan Goldin and Nobuyoshi Araki, made at a time when orthodox social structures were breaking down. Goldin captures the desperation beneath the bravado and self-conscious sexuality of young people in today's consumerist societies, and chose for this book to photograph young lovers in the bars and nightclubs of Tokyo. Araki chose to do portraits of teenage girls in studio. Their combination is striking and erotic, a portait of Tokyo Youth.

This book presents an overview of Nauman's career from 1965 through 1988 and separate chapters devoted to his drawings, writings, films, videotapes, and performances.

Jamaican artist Deborah Anzinger (born 1978) works at the intersection of Black feminist thought, geography and space to create sculptures, videos, paintings and installations combining synthetic and living materials. An Unlikely Birth compiles her material and conceptual experiments.

Since the early 1980s, Grace Lau has explored sexuality, gender identity, and BDSM subcultures through photography. This book traces her work from early male nudes to immersive studies of Skin Two events, dominatrix spaces, and cross-dressing, reflecting evolving ideas of desire and identity.

Samba Samba Brazil is the only large-format photography book Miki Jun published during his lifetime. It is a superb record of Brazil during the 60s. Dark photogravures capture the amazing energy of the people and the optimism of the country. Parts of the new capital of Brazil had just been built by Oscar Niemeyer and Lucio Costa and their grand architectural vision is documented in a series of impressive black-white images.

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

his is the brilliant 30 Anni Di Vogue - a visual history of Italian Vogue edited by Franca Sozzani, including fashion photographs of high fashion models from the likes of Claudia Schiffer by Herb Ritts to Veruschka by Steven Meisel.

This book presents some of the most ingenious residential lofts in London, New York, Berlin, Los Angeles, Paris, Chicago and Milan

Fashion photographer Bob Richardson (1928-2005) first began to publish his powerful, transgressive and emotionally charged black-and-white images in the high-fashion press of the 1960s, highlighting the new freedoms and attendant disillusions of the era in a distinctive, maverick style. This highly-anticipated, beautifully-produced volume is the first ever dedicated to Richardson's oeuvre. Put together by his son, the equally renowned photographer Terry Richardson, it collects what remains of the original work, much of which was destroyed over the course of Richardson's career.

“Shifting Cosey Fanni Tutti from noun to verb” & “discussing and theorising Cosey as methodology,” this book follows the one-day event conceived by Maria Fusco, in collaboration with Richard Birkett, at ICA London, on March 27, 2010.

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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Temporary Pleasure traces the evolution of nightclub culture across America and Europe since the 1960s, revealing constant reinvention. From psychedelic New York and radical Italian clubs to disco, house, rave, Ibiza retreats, and Berlin techno, each chapter explores a defining scene. Through interviews, design analysis, and vivid photography, John Leo Gillen captures nightlife’s shifting cultural and architectural identities.

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

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)

Set amongst the reggae scene of late 70s Jamaica, the film Rockers achieved instant cult status among music and cinema fans. This book brings together unseen images of behind the scenes.

In Cowboy Kate, a lyrical tale of the triumph of youth played out by cowgirls of the old west, Haskins reinvented the genre of the nude with stunningly well-executed photographs, a cinematic approach, and a subtly engaging narrative.

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

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.

Flashpoint! is an collection of protest photography in print from the 1950s to today. Surveying over 245 photobooks, zines, posters, and alternative journals, it examines how photography functions as both activist tool and historical document. Organised thematically, it highlights resistance movements worldwide, revealing how printed images shape, record, and amplify political struggle.

A socialist journal of the social services. In this issue: class strugge, research and writing for radical social work, welfare, a class analysis of education.

Fashion has a dark side – a preoccupation with representations of death, trauma, alienation, and decay. This intriguing book looks closely at this strand of fashion design in the 1990s, exploring what its disturbing themes tell us about consumer culture and contemporary anxieties. Fashion at the Edge considers a range of cutting-edge contemporary fashion in unprecedented depth and detail, including the work of such current designers as John Galliano, Alexander McQueen, Hussein Chalayan, and Viktor & Rolf. Contrasting images by photographers like Steven Meisel, Nick Knight, and Juergen Teller are also reviewed

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.

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Control: The Ian Curtis Film biopic is Anton Corbijn's is one of the directors most famous projects that followed the troubled life of post-punk Joy Division lead musician Ian Curtis. This book is a document of the process of making the film – a visual diary with annotations, drawings, and a wealth of photographs detailing the creative process from pre-production to first screenings.

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.

A book of the work of Austrailian architect Harry Seidler.

A wonderful monograph of the great British photographer, Cecil Beaton.

A series of photographs of women from the late 50's to 80's taken by Norman Parkinson.

This updated edition brings back to life an era of Paris' history, seen through Nabokov’s original Polaroid photos, together with the original introduction by the late interior designer Andrée Putman.

This book explores the dynamic relationship between fashion and graphic design, revealing how clothing draws on visual communication and graphic language. Spanning streetwear, ready-to-wear, and haute couture, it showcases diverse international styles to demonstrate how typography, imagery, and layout shape contemporary fashion aesthetics and identity across global design cultures.

The photographers from the renowned photo agency Magnum have worked with movie-makers since the agency was established. These momentous partnerships are properly celebrated for the first time ever in a book containing powerful images of such legends as Clint Eastwood, Marilyn Monroe, Ingrid Bergman, James Dean, Clark Gable and many others.

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 collection of Jenny Holzer's projection works.

This is an exploration in photographs of the world of underwear, looking beneath the surface of our clothes, as seen through the lenses of top photographers. The book explores all aspects of the body – with mages by Henri Lartigue, Richard Avedon, Man Ray, David Bailey, David Hockney, Bruce Weber, Bob Carlos Clarke and Robert Mapplethorpe.

An unprecedented publication showcasing Gucci as never before, including thought-provoking essays, commentaries, and authoritative anecdotes along with previously unpublished contemporary and archival photographs.

A monograph of the work of architect Richard Rogers

Catalog of Tom Sachs Space Program: Europa exhibition at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 2016.

In this book, Takashi Homma uses fragments collected in camera obscura constructed in metropolitan areas of Japan and the US to build a city image by image.

An encyclopedic collection of all known Becher industrial studies, arranged by building type.

Superhumanity seeks to explore and challenge our understanding of “design” by engaging with and departing from the concept of the “self.” This volume brings together more than fifty essays by leading scientists, artists, architects, designers, philosophers, historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists.

A document of Los Angeles told in photographs and prose.

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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Over the past eleven years, the photographer and filmmaker Bruce Weber and his partner Nan Bush have published the book series All-American featuring works by artists, photographers, essayists, poets, and personalities whose lives and accomplishments they wish to celebrate. This edition features a portfolio of elephant photographs by Bruce Weber, Kennedy family portraits by Betty Kuhner, and Marlon Brando, as seen by Sam Shaw. Also included are Gilles Larrain, Phil Ochs, Mary Lloyd Estrin, Mary Randlett, Joel Sternfeld, Ranee Flynn, paintings by Forrest Bess, and Joe Coleman collages.

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Brilliantly useful for all things disco, filled with illustrated instructions for basic disco moves.

First monograph examining the work of Proctor and Matthews Architects

In London, photographer Alex Hütte takes a typological approach to a building form that was largely ignored by local photographers before he turned his camera upon it--the social housing blocks built at various times during the twentieth century to house London's working class citizens. Hütte concentrates on two particular periods of mass social housing: the blocks built around the beginning of the twentieth century...and the now discredited tower blocks of the 1960s and 1970s.

A book exploring the photographic worlds of surrealist artists Picasso, Miró, Dalí, and Tàpies.

Filled with compelling images from revered photographers of the past and present, this book sheds light on marginalised communities who have traditionally shied away from the cameras. Works by critically acclaimed photographers including Bruce Davidson, Paz Errazuriz, Jim Goldberg, Danny Lyon, Mary Ellen Mark, Boris Mikhailov, Daido Moriyama, and Dayanita Singh cast a compassionate, unflinching eye on the worlds inhabited by transsexuals, hookers, hustlers, bikers, junkies, circus performers, gang members, survivalists, petty criminals, and others who live in the shadows, on the streets, and out of the public eye.

Suburbia is a sociological dissection of the Northern California suburban sprawl of the late sixties and early seventies, one of the great American photography books of the last quarter of the 20th Century.

Since 1988, Larry Sultan photographed on porn sets in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles. The result is a dense series of pictures of middle-class homes invaded by the porn industry. His lens focuses on pedestrian details – a piece of half-eaten pie, dirty linens in a heap, "actors" taking a break – that offer clues to a bizarre other-world. The lush and intricate images adroitly play with artifice and reality, adding up to rich, elliptical narratives that circle around the concepts of "home" and "desire.

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.

This book contains over 150 pages of 200 photographs of London in the late sixties taken by German photographer Juergen Seuss.

Exhibition catalogue of works by Roland Freeman, capturing the daily life in black American culture during its transition from rural to urban settings.

In Stedelijk Architecture, which features photos by internationally renowned photographer Iwan Baan as well as floor plans, cross sections and details of the new Stedelijk Museum, architecture critic Hans Ibelings relates the museum’s history from the 1895 inauguration of the old building, designed by architect Adriaan Weissman,

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This book showcases the vibrant life and work of David Hicks, the groundbreaking British designer known for bold geometrics and daring color. Drawn from 24 personal scrapbooks, it features press clippings, sketches, textiles, and photographs of family and icons.

Concrete is one of the most innovative agencies of the moment and has acquired worldwide fame for its startling interior designs. This book is a project realised in collaboration with a diversity of leading authors, designers, artists and photographers.

A history of women's underwear.

This book explores topics such as the morals of city planning and affordable housing, rehabilitation and education, public vs private space, and the desire to strengthen inner-city communities.

In this book, through searing images evoked in paintings, photographs, performances and texts, David Wojnarowicz exposes the duplicity and soullessness of an illusory "one-tribe nation" promoted by media, government and organised religion.

This book shows some of Miyake’s most famous pieces in beautiful detail photographed on clean white backdrops with bright light to capture the pleat pattern, shot by Irving Penn.