
Issue on houses and interiors in Southern Europe

A collection of Jenny Holzer's projection works.

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

Eva Hesse: Sculpture is the exhibition catalogue of the same name held at Whitechapel Gallery in 1979 that introduced her groundbreaking, post-minimalist sculptural work, often using fragile materials like latex and cheesecloth, to UK audiences, cementing her legacy and exploring themes of the body, ephemerality, and female experience.

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.

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of the Masahisa Fukase Archives, the comprehensive book showcases 26 of the artist’s series, including many previously unpublished works, on more than 400 pages.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 book brings together a distinguished group of authors to reflect on Adjaye's practice as an architect.

From Coco Chanel's final show to Galliano's graduation, supermodels to showstoppers, McQueen to Versace and more Catwalking presents the definitive catwalk highlights captured by the photographer who has seen and shot it all.

A collection of writings, poems, plays, games, and correspondence culled from the notebooks of George Brecht and Robert Filliou. The two artists lived in France and ran an a storefront gallery and research space, La Cédille Qui Sourit (the Smiling Cedilla). Operating on the principles of a gift economy, it presented the works and ideas of an international network of friends and collaborators and is a prime example of the collective, anti-commercial Fluxus activities of the 1960s.

The Castle is a meticulous record of refugee camps located across mass migration routes from the Middle East and Central Asia into the European Union via Turkey. Using a thermal video camera intended for long-range border enforcement, Mosse films the camps from high elevations to draw attention to the ways in which each interrelates with, or is divorced from, adjacent citizen infrastructure.

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

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

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

This artist’s book by Richard Prince features The Entertainers (1982–83), an early series of photographs inspired by the nightclubs, theaters, and restaurants of New York’s Times Square.

A collection of black and white male nudes taken between 1940-1970 by Bruce of Los Angeles.

This book makes an argument for photography as the definitive art form of the twentieth century by presenting whole series of works by the medium's pioneers, instead of isolated individual photographs. Arranged thematically rather chronologically, the connections between seemingly disparate bodies of work are made clear. Cindy Sherman's early film stills sit easily across the page from Lee Friedlander's sly shadow self portraits; Robert Adams' desolate suburban sprawls lead a path to Larry Clark's strung-out dopers in Tulsa several pages later; and more.
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The bilingual, colour illustrated book entitled "XL Photography - Art Collection Deutsche Börse" presents the first acquisitions for the collection, including works by the artists Araki, Anna and Bernhard Blume, David Weiss, Axel Hütte, Martin Liebschenr, Beat Streuli and more.

This volume features the Spring/Summer 2022 collection designed by John Galliano for Maison Margiela. Leafing through the book, you will find a spool with a measuring tape hidden in the middle of the pages.

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.

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.

Skinhead: An Archive, is a landmark publication and exhibition exploring one of the most controversial, misunderstood and radical subcultures. Designed by Jamie Reid and published by Ditto, with printed material curated by Toby Mott, the book examines this multi-faceted culture through the filter of printed material, zines, posters and films. Divided into sub-sections looking at the original iteration of skinhead, the fascist interpretation, the socialist counterpoint, queer skinhead culture, exploitation literature, skin girls, and everything in between.

This publication presents the Bill Brandt's entire oeuvre, with special emphasis on his investigation of life in 1930s during war-time London, and his innovative late nudes.

This monograph sheds light on Man Ray's photographic genius. Photographs feature many of his techniques including solarisations and rayographs, and unconventional portraits and sensual nudes.

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


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Richard Rogers explores modern architecture

A themed collection of Araki photographs.

Images is David Lych's debut monograph offering a rare insight into his visual obsessions that came to build what we know to be the Lynchian universe. Containing photography, painting, sketches, and storyboards, the book expands upon themes Lynch was preoccupied with both on and off screen – from industrial decay, fragmented bodies to dreamlike spaces. With production materials from Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, and Dune.

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.

Issue on houses in the Northern Europe.

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.

European Diary 1983. 1984 is a collection of works by Keizo Kitajima, a photographer representing postwar Japan.

This monumental collection brings together some of August Sander’s most impressive work collected here in 7 volumes, subdivided according to the various social categories investigated by the author. Hundreds of beautiful portraits of ordinary people: office workers, artists, farmers, lawyers, nurses, and more.

A collection of Alice O'Malley's book of portraits of people in New York's Lower East Side.

PARIS + KLEIN gathers together hundreds of photographs shot by Klein from the time he first picked up a camera in the 1960s until he put it down, momentarily, to put together this book. In his signature colour and black-and-white compositions, his photographs depict men in the street, celebrities, demonstrations, fashion, the police, politics, races, the metro, football, death. The whole life of a capital seen through the lively, melancholic and moving eyes of William Klein.

Dennis Morris: Music + Life is the first in-depth career retrospective of the trailblazing photographer, designer, and art director. Although Dennis Morris is celebrated for his iconic portraits of reggae superstar Bob Marley, this monograph also shines a light on Morris's documentary work, which explores questions of race and cultural identity as it draws on his experiences as a Black teenager in 1970s Britain. Supported by an international touring exhibition, Dennis Morris unveils a trove of previously unseen images, offering new insight into the image-maker's visual language.

In one decade, Tom Ford transformed a label known for providing clothing for traditional socialites into the sexiest, most decadent line imaginable. Sales exploded at Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent, creating the powerful luxury goods conglomerate that the Gucci Group is today. This book is a celebration of Tom Ford's design work for both Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent from 1994 to 2004, created with the designer’s full cooperation.

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.

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.

Arthur Elgort, renowned fashion photographer, and top fashion models such as Cindy Crawford, Veronica Webb and Christy Turlington collaborated to create this photo-filled Models Manual – contains interviews with heads of modelling agencies, stylists, make-up artists, fashion editors, and the models themselves.

Photographer Jonathan Torgovnik explores the beloved pastime of an Indian population of over one billion – Bollywood Cinema.

This book presents the work of fashion designer Norman Hartnell, who was a major personality in the world of fashion. By the mid 1930s, Hartnell's meteoric rise to fame resulted in London becoming a centre of style that closely rivalled Paris. Known for glamorous evening clothes, Hartnell augmented his early design successes by creating a series of stunning wedding dresses for his younger society clientele. His bridal extravaganzas culminated in the romantic 1947 wedding of HRH Princess Elizabeth to HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

A book of the exhibition curated by Issey Miyake that explores the relationship between human body and the way things are made as a platform for considering how things will be made in the future.

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

Richard Billingham's Ray's a Laugh is considered one of the most important contemporary photobooks from Britain. Centered around Billingham's working-class family who live in a cramped Birmingham high-rise tenement apartment and his father Ray - a chronic alcoholic - these candid snapshots describe their daily lives in a visual diary that is raw, intimate, touching and often uncomfortably humorous.

This book is a celebration of the Yves Saint Laurent look, a combination of elegance and sophisticated artistry. It is also a book in which the premiere fashion photography of our time is represented, and a book in which "the subject and the object blend because each one is a work of art."
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Since the beginning of her career in Belgrade during the early 1970s, Marina Abramovic has pioneered the use of performance as a visual art form. This book is a collection of some of her most influential works.

Jessica Madavo and Phoenix Yemi for Ayvan Black Star is about immersing yourself in the unknown. The photography, along with the poems scattered throughout the book, are a testament to opening your heart to the present moment. Taken during the artist's time in Senegal, the images encapsulate the transformative experience of movement, discovery and unfamiliarity.

A collection of photographs depicting London characters, scenes and children, plus the countryside and country types.

A charming, historically-important, and well-produced book from 1975 that highlights the work of about 50 denim artists.

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

This series celebrates the Bodleian Library’s acquisition of Tom Phillips’s archive of over 50,000 photographic postcards. This book presents postcards of men in all manner of outfits, whether formal, practical or casual, dating from around 1900 up to 1949. Most of the subjects are posing for portraits, displaying both their individual style and an interpretation of the fashions of the time.

he late sixties and early seventies were times of extraordinary creative output in fashion, music and design. The place where it was 'happening' was undoubtedly Britain - and London in particular. It was there that a magazine was born that both captured and fired the imagination of the fashionable set. This magazine above all others came to epitomise the mood and style of the times. It was called Nova. Like many original creations, Nova's success was not planned, but rather the result of coincidences of timing, place and the coming together of a particular band of talented people. Nova's conception was to provide an alternative to traditional women's magazines. But it soon developed into something more, and something that had never been seen before, a mixture of daring and artistic imagery with unconstrained writing that were always at the edge of current taste and acceptability. Nova 1965-1975 is primarily a celebration of the magazine's visual impact and influence. The book has been compiled by David Hillman, Nova's art director from 1969 until it closed in 1975, and Harri Peccinotti. the magazine's first art directon

A beautifully printed first edition of striking black and white photographs of skiers in the mountains. All photographs are taken with a Leica camera, and this book was published as a means of displaying the camera's capabilities at capturing such scenes.

Photographer and filmmaker Michael Grecco was in the thick of things during the punk and post-punk eras, documenting a scene which would eventually morph into New Wave and influence pop/rock music in the subsequent decades. Featuring iconic bands such as The Sex Pistols, Blondie, Talking Heads, Human Sexual Response, Elvis Costello, Joan Jett, The Ramones and many others, Grecco’s black-and-white photography captures the raw energy, sweat and antics that characterised the alternative music scene in Boston and New York during the 1970s, 80s and early 90s.

A varied collection of photographs made throughout history by various artists – a historical account of the photograph.

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 humorous visual book is based on the culture of football clubs and the language of "fanzines". The "fanzine", the most popular of which has a circulation of 70,000, provides a refreshing alternative to the views and interests of the football elite.

Ever Since Night Falls looks at the adventures and misadventures of lost artworks throughout history: records of bad luck, disappearance or deliberation. This publication gives a glimpse into works that have vanished from the reaches of humanity in one form or another — stemming from motivations that encompass human error, greed, ideology and passion.

A photographic study of cockroaches.

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.


This survey of the work of photographer Jeanloup Sieff covers 40 years of photography, encounters and memories. It collects together his major photographs, and shows how Sieff has left his mark on his generation, and how he continues to work in fashion, advertising and portraiture.

This publication accompanies Sharjah Art Foundation's 2018 exhibition of artist Zineb Sedira – a London-based Franco-Algerian feminist photographer and video artist, best known for work exploring the human relationship to geography.

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.

In this photographic scrapbook, fashion photographer Stan Shaffer share his extraordinary life at the nexus of art, fashion and cinema. Over his career as icon maker, Shaffer hung out with everyone from Andy Warhol to Jerry Hall, Carla Bruni to Uma Thurman. With his fine-tuned intuition, this trendsetting photographer reveals the real person beyond these public facades.

Shame Space is an artist book that explores the possibilities of narrative and identity. The book collects a selection of journal writings by Syms from 2015-2017 in which she attempts to capture her shadow self alongside a selection of image stills from the recent video project Ugly Plymouths (2020). The diaristic commentary in Shame Space is gathered into fifteen chapters that stage narrative as a process of being in the making.

Fragments Segments Vestiges is a book to accompany a film installation of the same name. The film and book are divided into 10 chapters, each responding to a prose poem. They are an allegorical take on everyday moments, some that would otherwise be forgotten. Each part of the film is an observation of the mundane, led by a silent narrative. On the cover is a fragment of the negative on which the project was shot.

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.

The Japan A.U. Mail Art Book II, part of a three part series, is a rare, important compilation documenting the Japanese mail art movement in the early 1980s, featuring artworks, texts, and collages from global artists serving as vital records of conceptual art exchange.

Alison Laurie examines how clothes are a form of signal, a means of expressing identify sex, age and class as well as occupation, geographical origin, personality, opinions, tastes, sexual desires and current mood.

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.

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)

In this magnificent collection, the lost world of Eastern Europe's Jewish communities once again comes to life. Between 1936 and 1939, Roman Vishniac travelled through the Jewish settlements of Carpathian Ruthenia, Slovakia, and Poland, passionately documenting a rich and vital culture that would soon cease to exist.


Memories of Myself collects together Danny Lyon's expansive body of work – from sensual images of girls in a barrio of Colombian brothels, to stunning portraits of young local boys in 1965 Chicago, from his most famous bodies of work to never before published projects.

David Hockney's examination of his interest in photography, his thoughts on the influence of Picasso and Rembrandt and of Eastern conventions of perspective and their relevance to his work.

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

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

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

Cecil Beaton was a man of dazzling charm and style, and his talents were many. At the age of twenty he sent Vogue an out-of focus snap of a college play, and for the next half-century transformed the world of fashion into high art through photographs. This book includes articles, drawings, and photographs by Beaton dating from the 1920s to the 1970s during his time shooting for Vogue – a period in which he contributed his wit, imagination, and professionalism to the magazine.

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.

First Son is an extraordinary collection of photographs by C.D. Hoy (1883-1973), a Chinese-Canadian photographer whose startling, evocative portraits of First Nations, Chinese, and Caucasian subjects in small-town British Columbia, taken between 1909 and 1920, form an important historical and cultural document about the roots of "otherness" in Canada.

This book accompaniesdan exhibition at the Antwerp Fashion museum, from 30 March 2017 until 27 August 2017, surveying the avant-garde and cutting edge work of Margiela.

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.

A collection of remarkable full-bleed black and white photographs of photographs taken during photographer Ikko Narahara three-year stay in Europe from 1962.
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Between 2006 and 2007, photographer Ian Macdonald lived as part of the Eton College community as an artist-in-residence. Ian taught during this placement alongside making a photographic response to his new environment. In this photobook, Ian's social documentary photography presents an insight into Eton College as well as his personal reflections on his time there.

The art of Louise Bourgeois stages a dynamic encounter between modern art and psychoanalysis. From Bourgeois's formative struggle with the male dominated surrealist movement, to her galvanising role in the feminist art movement of the 1970s, to her subsequent emergence as a leading voice in postmodernism, this book explores the artist's responses to war, dislocation, and motherhood, to the predicament of the woman artist and the politics of sexual and social liberation, as a dialogue with psychoanalysis.

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

Richard Rogers explores modern architecture

Red, green, and blue, these three colour-coded issues chart the artistic journey of Zineb Sedira, culminating in her presentation for the French Pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia 2022. Replete with artistic, cinematic, musical, archival, and political references, the three issues shed light on Zineb Sedira’s artistic practice, the processes that underpin her work, and the inspirations that have nourished it.

Ray Johnson was a renowned maker of meticulous collages whose works influenced movements including Pop Art, Fluxus, and Conceptual Art. Drawing on the vast collection of Johnson’s work at the Art Institute of Chicago, this volume gives new shape to our understanding of his artistic practice and features hundreds of pieces that include artist’s books, collages, drawings, mail art, and performance documentation.

The book was published on the occasion of the inauguration of the A.M. Qattan Foundation’s new building, Subcontracted Nations was a group exhibition that questions differing concepts of nation.

Focusing on the near-fifty-year period in which abortion was legal in the United States (1973–2022), The Last Safe Abortion recognises the care, advocacy, and community-building of abortion workers. Artist Carmen Winant draws from over a dozen personal, organisational, and institutional archives from across Midwest America. The photographs themselves are surprisingly regular. In centring the tender, quotidian, and routine acts that inform this healthcare work, Winant works to counter the ways anti-choice activists have weaponised photography by proposing a visuality that attends to abortion care. The Last Safe Abortion presents a selection of this vast collection of photographs, accompanied by a text by Winant.

1996-2001 / 2001-2006 is the first book to be released by printings.jp, featuring internationally-sourced garments as presented by the designer throughout a decade of his career.

Lee Miller is arguably the 20th century's most famous woman photographer. During her extraordinary life, she came into contact with a wide range of people including many of the most celebrated and influential artists, writers, actors, fashion designers and socialites of the last century. This book is a comprehensive collection of these photographs, while exploring the relationship between photography and Lee Miller's life.

Issue on interior design in Latin America.

Fashioning Fiction in Photography Since 1990 presents a selection of high-profile fashion photographs influenced by two aesthetic strategies: cinema and the amateur photograph. Featuring works by by photographers such as Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Cedric Buchet, Glen Luchford, Tina Barney, Juergen Teller, Nan Goldin and Larry Sultan, among others.
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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