Fashion Photography 1950-1975 is a book by German photographer F.C. Gundlach that showcases his iconic work during that period. His photos are known for blending social commentary with fashion, reflecting the spirit of the times and influencing fashion perception in Germany and beyond.

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In reaction to--as Nick Waplington puts it--'the grainy, downtrodden, black-and-white interpretation of working-class life' one generally sees, Living Room offers lushly colored glimpses of the communal spirit, fired by the joys, mishaps, and adventures of family life.

This book is seeped in social history, fact and trivia, art and artifacts surrounding the drug of choice for nineteenth-century poets – absinthe.

A collection of 500+ American matchbooks from the collection of Jason Sturgill.

The Rolling Stones: 365 Days follows the Stones from their explosion on the English scene in 1963 to their status as living legends today. The band's offstage and backstage antics, iconic performances (including Hyde Park, Altamont, and the Ed Sullivan Show), their many girlfriends and wives, infamous brushes with the law, and more are all represented here.

Sory documented the fast evolution of Bobo-Dioulasso, then Burkina Faso's cultural and economic capital, portraying the city's inhabitants with wit, energy and passion. His work conveys a youthful exuberance in the wake of the first decades of African independence.

Contextualising Anni Albers' early career at the Bauhaus, and her teaching years at Black Mountain College, this showcases major commissioned works, wall hangings, designs for commercial use, preparatory drawings, jewellery designed and made by Albers and a selection of her prints.

This book is a photographic celebration of the Hajj pilgrimage – an annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, the holiest city for Muslims. Newsha Tavakolian's remarkable photography is reproduced here with full captions that detail the events and rituals that form part of the pilgrimage.

Peter Saville is perhaps the most influential graphic designer of his generation. Best known for his seminal record covers for Joy Division and New Order, Saville has also art directed catalogues and advertisements for fashion brands such as Yohji Yamamoto and Dior. This book includes a comprehensive interview by Christopher Wilson as well as essays by style guru Peter York, music critics Paul Morley and Miranda Sawyer, and design critics Rick Poynor, Emily King and Peter Hall.

This book presents the archive of Vogue Paris' covers from 1920 to 2009 – each of which record the history and trends in fashion and design, as well as the month-to-month whims of popular culture. Among the covers are creations by some of the greatest artists of their era: distinguished illustrators such as Lepape, Gruau, and Benito, and photographers like Man Ray, Steichen, Newton, Bourdin, and Testino. Here, too, are iconic faces: Twiggy, Audrey Hepburn, Brigitte Bardot, Kate Moss, and more.

Cornelius Cardew cofounded the Scratch Orchestra in 1969 with Howard Skempton and Michael Parsons. The orchestra was a culmination of the ideals expressed in Cardew's own innovative and experimental music through the 1960s. Scratch Music is a collection of the repertory the Scratch Orchestra created. Brought back into print with a new preface by John Harries and Sharon Gal, this reissued edition of a classic work makes a key title in sound studies available to new audiences.

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.

Michael Cooper (1941–1973) was a British photographer who is remembered for his photographs of leading rock musicians of the 1960s and early 1970s, most notably the many photos he took of The Rolling Stones from 1963 to 1973. This book collect some of his photographs shot during the 1960s in London.

Indian Circus is documentary photography at its finest. Mary Ellen Marks' photographs are not only compelling portraits of the performers, but also eloquent and poetic narratives about life in the Indian circus.

After years of research in artists’ studios as well as in private and public collections, this book depicts a rich period when the Italian artists figured among the most influential interprets of the transformation in the visual languages. This book displays more than 300 works of art by major figures of the Italian scene, including Giovanni Anselmo, Alighiero Boetti, Luigi Ghirri, Jannis Kounellis, Piero Manzoni, Mario Merz and more.

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.

Shot over four years, ‘Drifting in Paradise’ is a photo series that documents the grassroots car culture of Barbados, captured through the lens of Ollie Trenchard, a London-based photographer of Barbadian descent who spent much of his youth on the island.

In 1968, Magnum photographer Dennis Stock took a 5-week road trip along the California highways, documenting the height of the counterculture hippie scene. These black and white photos were compiled to create California Trip and have become an emblem of the free love movement that continued to inspire throughout the decades.

Juergen Teller spent a year carrying out a study of the Reichsparteitagsgelande, the site of the notorious N rnberg rallies, and a place he used to visit in his youth. The book combines these works with self-portraits and family photographs through the same period, adding the perspective of the personal and quotidian life cycle to a site that has world-historical importance.

This publication documents the creative contribution of OMA/AMO Rem Koolhaas to the Prada stores in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

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

A book of the work of Richard Rogers and Anne Power

Athens Love presents poet and photographer Hang’s works taken in Athens and the Attica region of Greece in April 2015, during his participation in an artist residency and exhibition curated by Vassilis Zidianakis, titled "Occupy Atopos". The photographs in Athens Love feature Ren Hang's signature style of minimalist, vibrant, and erotically charged images of his friends, often nude and posed in unusual ways, but set against the backdrop of the Greek natural environment – beaches, woods, cliffs, and apartments.

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.

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

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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.

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

Hans-Peter Feldmann was a German conceptual artist known for his obsessive collecting, archiving, and rearranging of everyday images and objects to explore themes of memory and time. This monograph contains a number of his works from the late 1960s.

Two volume set of Herb Ritts' photographs of nude men and women.

A book of surreal and eccentric architecture.

Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999) is undoubtedly one of the most significant figures in 20th-century interior design. This is the first monograph of her works.

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An intimate behind-the-scenes look at London designer fashion over the last fifteen years, edited by Tania Fares and Sarah Mower. The book profiles 50 leading London fashion designers, from Paul Smith and Stella McCartney to Erdem and Simone Rocha.

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.

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.

This collection of seven folders celebrating Lloyd's Bank's milestone building in the City of London designed by Richard Rogers. Each folder contains photographs and text detailing concept development, architectural details, history of Lloyds' and its buildings.

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

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

Notes From a Revolution chronicles the San Francisco Diggers, a radical 1966 Haight-Ashbury collective formed by members of San Francisco Mime Troupe. Led by activists including Peter Coyote, they fused anarchism, street theater, and direct action, distributing provocative broadsides while providing free food and services, capturing the spirit of early counterculture.

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.

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

In this book, Moholy-Nagy's efforts to have photography and filmmaking recognized as art forms on the same level as painting are propounded and explained at length. The artist makes the case for a radical rethinking of the visual arts and the further development of photographic design to keep pace with a radically changing technological modernity.

Batia Suter's work intuitively situates found images in new contexts to provoke surprising reactions and significative possibilities. This volume follows on from the first Parallel Encyclopedia, published originally in 2007. Underlying themes of Suter's practice are the "iconification" of old images, and the circumstances by which they become charged with new associative values.

In more than three decades, Kentridge has produced an oeuvre spanning diverse media including animated film, drawings, prints and rare books, stage production and sculpture. A Poem That Is Not Our Own aims to create a link between his early drawings and films from the 1980s and 1990s and his most recent work.

This witty and authoritative account traces the story of the New Romantics from the moment Steve Strange and Rusty Egan began their legendary Bowie Nights at Billyâs in Soho, through the move to Blitz, and the growth of the Birmingham scene.

Looks is the definitive guide to the looks designed and, in these photographs, worn by Leigh Bowery. One of Britain's most heroically ambitious designers and performance artists, Bowery remains an inspiration to many fashion designers today.

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.

During the summer of 1959, Bruce Davidson followed a loosely knit "gang" of teenagers around Brooklyn, New York. His camera captured the youth of the James Dean generation in both private and public moments at the soda fountain, the tattoo parlor, Coney Island, and late night basement dance parties.

A themed collection of Araki photographs. Issue 5: Chrysalis.

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

The Dazed & Confused collected interviews provide a definitive insight into the style culture of the 1990s, forming a unique and singular portrait of a generation of young artists alongside their more established antecedents. With up to 40 interviews with artists & celebrities including – Damien Hirst, Jean Baudrillard, Kate Moss, Terry Southern, Isaac Hayes, Noam Chomsky, Bjork and Stockhausen, Lou Reed and Paul Auster, Harmony Korine.

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.

Fashion Forever is a unique account of the aesthetic choices of British youth and a comprehensive guide to three decades of style driven subcultures. This book also presents a unique collection of portraits of distinctive individuals, their looks, their styles and their very personal statements.

A survey of enamel street signs and advertisements of the 1970s.

This comprehensive volume documents the design history of Braun, covering consumer electronics, photography equipment, watches, calculators, lighters, flashlights, personal care products, and household appliances. Richly illustrated with photographs, it traces Braun’s influential industrial design approach and its lasting impact on modern product aesthetics and functional innovation.

This book is an insight into the idiosyncratic flourishes which make a house into a home. Photographer Bruce Weber takes the reader around the world, looking at how creative individuals' homes reflect their own particular personalities.

A book of accidental streetstyle photos of women getting on buses or loitering around bus stops, spanning the sixties to the eighties – an unintended streetstyle book of gold.

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

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On 4 May 1968, as protests shook Paris, the exhibition 50 Years Bauhaus opened at the Württembergischer Kunstverein, becoming the most influential post-war show on the Bauhaus. Fifty years later, the Kunstverein reassessed it, examining Bauhaus figures’ ties to National Socialism and links between avant-gardes and the military-industrial complex, while broadening its context beyond West Germany and the US.

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 fourth volume in the series looks at Great Britain, Ireland and Benelux.

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Everyday Things, White City Generation 88-97 is a photobook that attempts to answer two pivotal questions; what is the everyday and what our are our everyday things? This photobook is compromised by a series of photographs made with a familial group of young Black adults living in White City, Shepherd's Bush, West London. Throughout the photobook, annotative reflections exploring what it was like to grow up in and live the area, are shared by the familial group alongside their perceptions of White City’s historical and contemporary representations.

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Rowing Blazers looks at the authentic striped, piped, trimmed and badged blazers that are still worn by oarsmen and women around the world today, and at the elaborate rituals, elite athletes, prestigious clubs and legendary races associated with them.

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

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.

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

In this innovative take on early video art, Ina Blom considers the widespread notion that analog video was endowed with lifelike memory and agency. Reversing standard accounts of artistic uses of video, she follows the reflexive unfolding of a technology that seemed to deploy artists and artistic frameworks in the creation of new technical and social realities.

A book of Japanese shop displays.

A book about architecture

In London at the start of the 1980s, three new style magazines emerged to define an era. It was a time of change: after Punk, before the digital age, and at the dawn of a hedonistic club scene that saw the birth of the New Romantics. On the pages of BLITZ, The Face and i-D, a new breed of young iconoclasts hoped to inspire revolution. As BLITZ magazine's fashion editor from 1982-87, Iain R. Webb was at the centre of this world. His images manipulated fashion to explore ideas of transformation, beauty, glamour and sex. The magazine's arresting, subversive fashion pages, and its profiles of disparate designers and creative types, let the imagination run free. Lavishly presented here are over 100 BLITZ fashion stories, with unseen archive content and original.

A collection of photographs by David Hockney, published in 1982 for the exhibition of the same name at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

This book presents a dialogue between Shoji Hamada and Bernard Leach, exploring the aesthetics, techniques, and philosophy of one of the 20th century’s most influential craftsmen. It offers insights into their creative processes and the distinctive lifestyle shaped by dedication to traditional and studio pottery.

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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This book follows the traces of Britian's ancient landscape – exploring folklore, the seasons and nature toward an optimisim for the future.

Chéri Samba (born 1956) is a renowned Congolese painter known for his "popular painting" style, which merges vivid, humorous, and critical imagery with textual commentary to address social, political, and daily life in Kinshasa.

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Mysore Style contains photographs and quotes about the yoga teacher and guru, Sri K Pattabhi Jois and his students in Mysore, South India.

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

A book of fashion and jewelry made from metal tabs pulled from beverage cans.

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.

Stoumen's four decade documentation of Times Square solidifies its legendary reputation as a crossroads of the world.

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

Gianni Versace's unbridled enthusiasm for the baroque finds new expression in Do Not Disturb, his playful peek behind the closed doors of the Versace homes.

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Published to coincide with the Standard Bank Young Artist Award 2015, Kemang Wa Lehulere's first comprehensive monograph traces his work from 2005 to 2015. Images of Wa Lehulere's drawings, performances, videos and installations are interspersed with various forms of texts by the artist, including poetry and scripts for performance,

This is the first book to be published on the leading London architecture firm Gumuchdjian Architects whose widely published first project the Think Tank established their reputation for sensitive, contextual work.

This illustrated guide focuses on collectible military watches and clocks, detailing over 150 models issued over the past century to global armed forces.

Among the significant projects of the last year of his life, Richard Avedon (1923–2004) completed a book of his photographs of women – ranging from celebrities (Marilyn Monroe), artists (Marguerite Duras, June Leaf), and high-fashion models (Suzy Parker, Dovima) to anonymous people that simply drew his attention.

Through essays, illustrations and an extensive abecedarium, On the Necessity of Gardening reflects on the garden as an abiding metaphor for society and culture.

Shapeshifting is a contemplation and reflection of the experience of dance. Molly through fragmented poetry and prose, Evan through photography. Dancing with his camera, he surrendered his body to the moment – becoming it, rather than observing it. In this way, the camera became an extension of his subconscious. The resulting long exposure photographs become visual abstractions of dance as a feeling.

This beautifully illustrated book draws together for the first time the work of French artist Claude Cahun (1894–1954) and British contemporary artist Gillian Wearing (b. 1963). Although they were born almost a century apart, their work shares similar themes—gender, identity, masquerade, and performance.

Ultimate Angels is a striking exploration of transgender identity in all its isolation, expression, and glory.

In his second book, Luke Smalley revisits the themes and ideas that resonated throughout his 2002 monograph Gymnasium. Smalley returns to his native Pennsyvania to investigate the small-town interiors and landscapes which are the settings for his portraits of young atheletes. Color photographs, inspired by a more innocent era, depict exercises which combine whimsy with the inexplicable.

If music fans and musicians carry a composite image in their head of The Rolling Stones' street-fighting dandy look in the '60s, they were all taken by revered British photographer Mankowitz. This book presents the classic shots, as well as images from the thousands of lesser-known photos in his Stones archives.

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A collection of Bill Brandt's portraits of actors, poets, musicians, philosophers, and artists of all kinds.

In the Name of God highlights Western misconceptions around Islam and showcasing the faith’s peaceful nature. Set against the backdrop of rising Islamophobia in France, it underscores the importance of accurate representation. The book celebrates the cultural and religious life of the Muslim diaspora in France, highlighting their resilience and devotion through photography. It portrays daily expressions of faith, communal practices, and the integrated blend of tradition and modernity, aiming to reshape perceptions and celebrate the beauty of Islam and its ummah.

The Ecstasy of Things explores twentieth-century objects, from handmade to mass-produced, as symbols of beauty, innovation, and cultural identity. Featuring nearly 500 photographs from global archives, it examines how product photography captured emotional and symbolic qualities, reflecting changing tastes and aesthetics. The book serves as both a design compendium and a visual history of material culture.

In early 1986, Consumers Union commissioned esteemed photographer Eugene Richards to travel across the country to document the dimensions of American poverty. In 144 unforgettable photographs and 14 essays, Richards captures the hoplessness of urban youth, the struggle of Midwestern farmers, the squalor of day-to-day existence for Mexican-American immigrants living in Texas border towns.

Every Street by Nik Hartley was photographed over three days in March 2014, in Nelson, North-East Lancashire. A former cotton mill town with a high British-Asian population, the roads are lined with terraced, former mill-worker cottages.