
This is the first major publication by multidisciplinary designer Samuel Ross, showcasing his work for A-COLD-WALL* and his studio SR_A. Featuring over 300 images, previously unpublished materials, and essays by figures such as Virgil Abloh, Takashi Murakami, and Hans Ulrich Obrist, it provides a comprehensive study of Ross’ contributions to fashion, art, and design.
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Madonna’s Sex book is one of the most iconic and resounding art projects conceived by the pop star. The photographs by Steven Meisel feature open-minded erotic imagery and sexual fantasies.

The Mechanical Hand: Artists' Projects at Paupers Press focuses on the work of Paupers Press, a fine art print studio that concentrates on etching, lithography and relief printing. The studio has worked with many of the leading contemporary artists working in collaboration with the artists to produce limited edition and unique prints, books and portfolio collections. The book examines the collaborative relationship of the studio and the contemporary artists they work with.


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

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.

With its evocative images, this book immerses us in a world of dolce vita, youthful enthusiasm, the joy and beauty of Italian holidays – an atmosphere filled with young girls' laughter, stifling heat, the sounds of crashing surf and the playful cat-and-mouse games of the sexes.

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.

With a decades-long career in photography and film, Brian Griffin is considered one of the UK's most celebrated photographers alongside Martin Parr, John Davies, and others. Work is a seminal book in the history of photography, featuring portraits of people at work in the 1980s - ranging from middle management to construction workers.

An exhibition catalogue to accompany the exhibition of the same name at Getty Gallery 2006. This collection includes images of globally renowned actors and musicians, drawn from Agius's vast and acclaimed body of work dating from the mid-1990.

Photographer Vivian Cherry began her career in the early 1940s while working as a dancer in Broadway shows and nightclubs. At the end of World War II, New York City went through a period of transformation, as war rations gave way to prosperity, loved ones were reunited, and babies were born into a new era. Her work from this period, collected here for the first time in Helluva Town, provides lively vignettes of our collective memory, suffusing gritty street scenes with warmth and gentleness alongside social consciousness and history.

Weighted with heavy, nineteenth-century camera equipment, Vittorio Sella climbed some of the world's most mysterious, perilous peaks and photographed them, many for the first time. His strikingly elegant photographs offer groundbreaking scientific and documentary information.

This book focuses on Hicks' use of fabric; his treatment of curtains, upholstery, bed-hangings, fabric-covered walls and other soft furnishings
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A survey of Armani menswear from 1975 to 1985 masterfully shot by Aldo Fallai. From tailoring, natural coloured separates, sportswear and 1940s influences, to clothing design for the films American Gigolo, The Untouchables and Raiders of the Lost Ark.

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


Günther Uecker (1930–2025) was a renowned German painter, sculptor, and installation artist, famous for his pioneering kinetic art and iconic, tactile nail reliefs. As a key member of the post-war ZERO group, he explored light, space, and movement, using rhythmic, repetitive hammering to create dynamic, meditative structures that interact with the viewer. This book is a collection fo some of his nail paintings and watercolours.

After years of covering wars and conflicts around the globe, British photographer Don McCullin – one of the most celebrated photojournalists of his generation – returned home in the hopes discovering who he was and where he came from. The resulting photographs are as much as portrait of England as they are of McCullin himself.

Home Economics explores the frontline of British domestic architecture in response to Alejandro Aravena’s theme Reporting from the Front. Curated by Shumi Bose, Jack Self, and Finn Williams, it features immersive full-scale projects by established and emerging designers proposing innovative models for contemporary homes.

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.

Known and recognized for the elegance as much as for the insolence of her creations, Chantel Thomass imposed a style that has become, over time, synonymous with refinement and freedom for countless women. This book reveals all the richness and breadth of a partly ignored artistic universe.

A book about architecture

This is the catalogue for Wolfgang Tillmans' exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery in London in 2010. After 20 years of working in London, Tillmans reflects on his relationship with the city, both through his past work and the new work produced for this exhibition.

Eamonn Doyle employs a unique approach to photographing Dubliners in the streets—from a close but respectful distance, his views of the city’s solitary figures reveal a quiet reverence and respect for these old souls. This book contains full bleed black and white photographs, cinematic and dramatic in their execution, of people in Dublin.

This book presents a survey of fabric works by Swiss artist Caro Niederer. Her starting point is often a snapshot taken while traveling abroad or at home. By transferring her source imagery into other media such as paintings, silk prints or woodcuts, Niederer plays with subtle shifts of form and meaning.

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

Art Kane was a fashion photographer known for his innovative use of colour and sense of composition. He worked across fashion and music photographing the likes of Bob Dylan, Jefferson Airplane, Aretha Franklin, Frank Zappa, Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin. This book presents his images of women, many of which are nudes, to create a captivating and thrilling portfolio.

This visually opulent book displays the inspiring work of make-up artist Yasmin Heinz. From her vast archive and featuring the work of other influential artists this beautiful volume shows that make-up can be an exciting form of art.

Published to accompany the 1996 mid-career survey at the Whitney Museum of American Art, I'll Be Your Mirror remains the most comprehensive and critically praised publication on the work of photographer Nan Goldin. Covering two decades of her life and art, from her time in Boston in the 1970s through her move to downtown New York City and her subsequent and stratospheric rise in the art world, Goldin's most memorable work is collected here. Amongst the many powerful images are photographs of friends and lovers sometimes in pain, sometimes in repose; self portraits taken during an abusive relationship, from The Ballad of Sexual Dependency; the transvestite and transgendered kings and queens of The Other Side; and more.

From Disneyland to Detroit, Spokane to Scotland, Hairdos of Defiance highlights Templeton’s encounters with iconic punk-rock plumage across two decades and two continents.

A photographic survey of Metropolitan architecture by David Adjaye

A reprint of David Wojnarowicz’s fractured scrapbook of dream journals, political critique and collage—a document of 1980s New York subculture.

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A themed collection of Araki photographs. Issue 20: Sentimental May

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

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


Mondialité features visual artworks and environments, documentary film and songs, dramaturgical structures and archival material by Edouard Glissant for an exhibition at Fondation Boghossian.
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Catalogue published on the occassion of the 2002 German museum exhibition "For the Benefit of All the Races of Mankind An Exhibition of Artifacts, Remnants, and Effluvia EXCAVATED from the Black Heart of a Negress" by African-American artist Kara Walker.

Publication to accompnay the exhibition Women, Art and Social Change: The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise.

Mapplethorpe's photographs for Jan Fabre's internationally performed Power of Theatrical Madness were taken during his 1985 stay in Antwerp, Belgium. The photos are interspersed in this volume with Fabre's working drawings for the performance. Approaching similar themes through different mediums, "Mapplethorpe and Fabre metamorphose their subject matter, photographed or staged, so that the body is `compromised' in a sublimation of itself. With an introduction by Kathy Acker.
Perhaps the most famous and significant fashion model of the 1960s, the muse to Richard Avedon and star of Antioni's Blow Up, 'Veruschka' was the alter ego of a young German art student called Versa Con Lehndorff and, after a decade as the subject, she gave up modelling to become the canvas. Working in collaboration with the painter Holger Trülzsch, she disappears in images with her body as the canvas, becoming a stone, a wall, a factory floor, or a man, a worker, an aged queen.

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

Gaz’s Rockin’ Blues celebrates London’s longest-running one-nighter club. The book chronicles three decades of the legendary night through its original flyers and posters, alongside photos and anecdotes. It offers a vibrant visual and cultural history of this much-loved institution and its lasting impact on London’s music scene.

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

A book investigating the relationship of art and society through the works of eight German artists: Albrecht D., Joseph Beuys, KP Brehmer, Hans Haacke, Dieter Hacker, Gustav Metzger and more.

From fashion and food to literature and music, the Beats heralded a new way of living, and a new mode of recording their lives. There is hardly a part of American culture today that is untouched by their work. Fred and Gloria McDarrah lived and worked in the heart of the Beat scene. Astute observers and participants, they faithfully recorded what they saw in word and picture. Besides their own thoughts and images, they amassed a collection of authentic Beat writings, all in the author's own hand or typed by them. Now reproduced for the first time, these writings complement the photographs and memories in giving a full picture of what it was like to be a Beat. With over 240 photographs, this work promises to be a landmark document of the Beats, their lives, and times.

The eighth volume of the Villages and Towns series explores vernacular architecture across the Iberian Peninsula. With texts by Fernando Higueras Díaz and photographs by Yukio Futagawa, it examines landscape, climate, community harmony, environmental preservation, and natural light, highlighting shared regional principles that create enduring architectural diversity.

London Fashion Week has been opening its doors to young designers since its inception in 1984. It has introduced many brands to the world as an incubator, such as John Galliano, Alexander McQueen, Hussein Chalayan and more. These footprints are presented through interviews with 83 designers from 72 brands and catwalk photographs. The book is constructed with consists of archive articles by Mina Wakatski, who has covered Fashion Week for over 30 years, and photographs by Chris Moore, one of the world's leading catwalk photographers. It also includes several articles on the transition of London Fashion Week and projects to support newcomers.

A themed collection of Araki photographs. Issue No.16: Erotos

This publication accompanies Sharjah Art Foundation's exhibition of Lebanese photographer and film maker Akram Zaatari’s work, on view from 27 September 2019 to 10 January 2020 at SAF venues Galleries 3 and 4 in Al Mureijah Square, Sharjah.

Fashion Now profiles the work of the 150 most important designers around the globe, focusing on both established and emerging talent. With A to Z designer entries that include exclusive interviews, biographical information, photos of recent designs by today's leading photographers, and current catwalk shots, Fashion Now is a comprehensive reference book to all things fashion.

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

Aisha is Yemeni Egyptian American photographer and filmmaker Yumna Al-Arashi’s first artist’s book. This powerful, delicate publication, inspired by Al-Arashi’s great-grandmother, Aisha, is an homage to the lineage of women that she descends from; women of the multidimensional and many-layered landscapes of the MENA region.
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An exploration of the captivating work and mystical outlook of the modern artist Remedios Varo, focusing on her years in Mexico City.

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

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.

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.

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.

Made in the UK: The Music of Attitude, 1977–1983 documents a time when British music pushed every boundary. Beckman began her career working for Melody Maker, one of London’s premier weekly music papers. She soon had extraordinary access to the musicians topping the UK charts—icons of an era when music had an agenda—including The Clash, The Sex Pistols, The Jam, The Undertones, The Specials, The Beat, The Police.

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.

Through the eyes and words of fashion photographers and writers, The Idealising Vision recognises the enduring value of fashion photography by showcasing images from around the world, images of clothing, beauty, style, and still life.

Fred Astaire is best known for a number of highly successful musical comedy films in which he starred with Ginger Rogers. He is regarded by many as the greatest popular-music dancer of all time.

This book explores the mid-1960s boom in West German underground and self-published works, produced with hectographs, mimeographs, and offset printing. Embracing DIY experimentation, creators combined typescripts, handwriting, collages, comics, and photography to forge a radical new aesthetic. Published alongside a Weserburg Bremen exhibition, it situates these works internationally and reconsiders today’s independent publishing and risograph revival.

Unseen Vogue goes beyond the cliches and often repeated "greatest hits" of fashion photography and tells a completely new story. Drawn from the archives of British Vogue, the book presents hundreds of images never seen before— rejects and outtakes—to form a fresh, new history of fashion photography.

Featuring previously unseen photographs, While you Were Sleeping is a rich and comprehensive visual document of ’90s nightlife and subculture and grants special access to an underground world, providing genuine insights of one of the most memorable era for British fashion, music and youth culture.

Cindy Sherman's Untitled Film Stills, a series of 69 black-and-white photographs created between 1977 and 1980, is widely seen as one of the most original and influential achievements in recent art. Witty, provocative and searching, this lively catalogue of female roles inspired by the movies crystallises widespread concerns in our culture, examining the ways we shape our personal identities and the role of the mass media in our lives.

This book surveys the history and cultural meaning of funeral practices and corpse disposal. It examines how different societies have managed death through burial, cremation, sea burial, preservation, and exposure to the elements. Considering both ritual and practical concerns, it explores the symbolism of earth, air, fire, and water as enduring agents in human responses to mortality.

This major monograph looks at the work of seminal Palestinian artist Abdul Hay Mosallam Zarara, who used his work to decry the violent suppression of his homeland and promote international solidarity worldwide.

INTRA-VENUS is Hannah Wilke’s last work before she passed away 1993 of complications from Lymphoma. During the later stages of her illness, she collaborated with her husband, Donald Goddard, on a series of photographs documenting the realities of her physical and mental transformation.

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

The interdisciplinary and experimental educational ideas espoused by Black Mountain College founded in North Carolina in 1933, made it one of the most innovative schools in the first half of the twentieth century. Visual arts, economics, physics, dance, architecture, and music were all taught here on an equal footing, and teachers and students lived together in a democratically organized community. This book traces the key moments in the history of this legendary school.

Ernest Cole, a Black South African man, photographed the underbelly of apartheid in the 1950s and ’60s, often at great personal risk. He methodically captured the myriad forms of violence embedded in everyday life for the Black majority under the apartheid system—picturing its miners, its police, its hospitals, its schools. In 1966, Cole fled South Africa and smuggled out his negatives; House of Bondage was published the following year with his writings and first-person account. This edition retains the powerful story of the original while adding new perspectives on Cole’s life and the legacy of House of Bondage, remaining a visually powerful and politically incisive document of the apartheid era.

A book exploring trends and theories of school planning.

This book is a documentation of Daria Pyshna’s hometown, Kyiv, and the area known as Obolon, where she lived until she was 12. Most of the photographs depict static metal beams used for anti-tank defense, and were taken in the surrounding area of Pyshna's primary school.

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

Seydou Keita and Malick Sidibe, two important and widely known commercial photographers from Mali, took mesmerising photographs of members of their communities during the decades before and after the country's independence from France in 1960. This book presents a range of these portraits, as well as excerpts of recent interviews with the artists and an essay placing the photographers within the context of the history of portrait photography in West Africa since its beginnings in the 1840s.

This book is one of only two non-fiction works by American author and screenwriter Mario Puzo, and offers an in-depth behind the scenes look at the world of gambling in Las Vegas.


Showing Elderfield's distinct view of South Philadelphia, this book documents a big scope of "street life", ranging from snapshots to carefully composed pictures. These beautiful black and white photographs strike the eye because of their lyrical quality, which is enhanced and complemented by contemporary poems.

Twenty years of Versace by Avedon, this collection of beautifully produced photographs from the advertising campaigns of Gianni Versace features images of some of the most beautiful women in the world, including Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell, and Linda Evangelista,

The pillboxes of Britain and Ireland are among the most important military structures employed in the history of the defence of these islands. This work presents the first thorough study and classification of pillboxes and related structures, including selection posts, Seagull and concrete trenches, gun-houses and turrets, battle headquarters and spigot-mortar emplacements. The author traces the use of small, free-standing defence structures from ancient times to the present, placing the pillbox within a historical continuum and identifying its course of development.

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

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

For nearly two thousand years, Japanese women living in coastal fishing villages made a remarkable livelihood hunting the ocean for oysters and abalone, a sea snail that produces pearls. They are known as Ama, and they make their living (well into their 90s) by filling their lungs with air and diving for long periods of time deep into the Pacific ocean, with nothing more than a mask and flippers. This book is a document to the lives of these women.

A collection of Henry Moore's writings and spoken words.

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.

A book about workshop traditions which have been handed down by Koreans and Japanese from the greatest period of Chinese ceramics in Sung dynasty.

This exhibition catalogue was published to coincide with the J Street Project exhibition held at Compton Verney between September and October 2005. At Compton Verney, Hiller showed The J-Street Project; a complex study documenting every street in Germany whose name contains a reference to Jews. The resulting installation contained both video and photographic works, mapping the whole of Germany and containing an extraordinary 303 place names. The images are haunting, often sparse yet dramatic, some occupied with people; others empty.

Through his camera, Genevan photographer Charles Weber documented Iconstases – minature chapels adored with icons found along the roads of Greece. His pictures that deliberately reject the romantic question: what is preserved of the divine in the midst of ever-changing landscapes?

The iconic black-and-white photographs of Hamburg-born photographer Frank Habicht displayed in this book reflect the spirit of the Swinging Sixties in London. In the 1960s, the conservative postwar years in England gave way to a period of upheaval, with a younger generation dreaming of an unconstrained life, peace and harmony. On the streets of the British capital, Habicht began photographing the profound social and political changes that were underway.

A collection of 50 photographs taken by Arnold Newman presented at the National Portrait Gallery on the occassion of an exhibition of the same name, sponsered by Sunday Times. Striking black and white portraits of artists and figures including Francis Bacon, William Armstrong, Cecil Beaton, Janet Baker, and more.

A comprehensive collection of essays on dance.

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.

This book is Hiller's response to Sigmund Freud's personal art collection, library and famous couch. Inside, it presents a series of archaeological collection boxes, and through turning the pages the reader embarks on a personal journey to disclose the secrets of each box.

Maximilian Stejskal (1906-1991), an ethnologist and gymnastics teacher from Helsinki, carried out a study for his PhD thesis on “folk athletic” contests amongst Finland’s Swedish-speaking male rural population in the early 20th century. This book comprises his research – handwritten pages of travelogs, descriptions of exercises, tables, sketches, musical and phonetic recordings and photographs.

Dutch filmmaker and visual artist Guido van der Werve built up an extraordinary oeuvre around timeless and universal themes focused on the human condition. This book brings together a collection of his works.

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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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!".
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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.
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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