A socialist journal of the social services. In this issue: Day care and the regulation of women's workforce participation, evaluating a welfare reform, the current state of British social work, the politics of human liberation.

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 third volume in the series looks at Japan, Spain and Latin America.

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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 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.

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.

An illustrated history of fashion in skateboarding.

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

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

A collection of autobiographical stories, I Need More is the chronicle of musician Iggy Pop. From his childhood in Ann Arbor, Michigan to the inception and evolution of the seminal rock band, the Stooges, Pop vividly recalls his tales of reckless abandon in his own frank and indomitable manner and confirms his rightful position as a cultural iconoclast and one of rock music's true innovators.

First monograph examining the work of Proctor and Matthews Architects

Over a period of two years, writer-photographer Kyoichi Tsuzuki visited a hundred apartments, condos and suburban homes, and lovingly documented what he saw.

This book features photographs of the pre-fame Beatles taken in Hamburg in 1961 along with pictures of German and French Rock'n'Roll fans from the years 1961 to 1964. The photos are complemented by a fascinating account by Jurgen Vollmer of his friendship with the Liverpool band and his sometimes dangerous encounters with Rockers.

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,

Erotic exploration of the artistic work of enfant terrible photographer Jean Paul Goude, featuring Kellie the Evangelist Stripper, Grace Jones, Toukie and The Eighth Avenue Sex Circus. With the original iconic dust-jacket featuring his partner and muse Grace Jones.

Pearls is a photographic record of Simryn Gill's ongoing bead-making project, that was begun in 1999, in which she makes books into bead necklaces. This book brings together over sixty sets of beads, each one unique and particular to the specific volume from which it has been created.

Drawing from those same impulses that compel us all to take pictures of our family, this book considers the entirely unique response of photographers to their family and the significance of this work in the broader context of their photography. Family is a collection of 175 photographs by a wide range of photographers that consciously reflect on the experience of family.

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.

A guide to travelling across Europe.

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

Featuring the work of architects Atelier Bow-Wow, David Adjaye, Sou Fujimoto, Zaha Hadid, Herzog and De Meuron, Ai Weiwei and more for various pavilions around the world.

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.

This is the accompanying publication for Die Cuts, a film installation exhibited at Frieze No.9 Cork Street from November 2–4, 2022. The installation featured a 14-minute looping film by Tyrone Lebon alongside the album Die Cuts by Dom Maker of Mount Kimbie. The film and album were presented together but looped independently. This publication records every hand-animated frame from the film.

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

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.

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.

In the 1960s and 1970s, the artist Ed Ruscha created a series of small photo-conceptual artist's books, among them Twentysix Gas Stations, Various Small Fires, Every Building on the Sunset Strip, Thirtyfour Parking Lots, Real Estate Opportunities, and A Few Palm Trees. This book collects ninety-one of these projects, showcasing the cover and sample layouts from each along with a description of the work. It also includes selections from Ruscha's books and an appendix listing all known Ruscha book tributes.

Modern typography, established primarily in Switzerland during the 1950s, flourished as a free and diversified American typography in the 1960s before greatly influenced the Japanese typography. This book examines the history of typography after the war.

A monograph dedicated to the oil paintings of London-based artist Somaya Critchlow. Drawing upon her expansive knowledge of picture-making traditions ranging from the Renaissance to the Rococo, Critchlow’s mix of miniature and medium-sized portraits of voluptuous, nonchalant Black women raise questions about sexuality, feminism, pornography, beauty and power.

A collection of photographs of British fairgrounds during the 1970s by Dick Scott-Stewart.

Edited by Mark Williams.

This book featuring 136 historically inspired, high-quality paint samples for decorative work. The collection was divided into curated themes—including Egypt, Pompeian, Wedgwood, and various Tapestry/Oriental colors—and remained in print until the early 1960

Issue on the work of Frank Lloyd Wright.

This anthology presents Parisian fashion show invitations from 1983–84 to 1993–94, showcasing ephemeral yet highly creative graphic works. Featuring designers such as Yves Saint Laurent, Thierry Mugler, Yohji Yamamoto, Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld, and others, the book documents these miniature artworks as a vital record of design, creativity, and collectible artistry in fashion culture.

Ancient and Modern is a collection of photographs chosen from Eggleston's earliest photographs taken in the American South, Africa and England. The photographs depict subjects and objects from everyday life and it is Eggleston's unique ability to find beauty, and striking displays of colour, in ordinary scenes that make him one of the greats.

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.

Issue on houses in the Northern Europe.

The Houston, Texas, neighborhoods of Fifth Ward, Third Ward and South Park have grown to be hallowed ground for modern rap culture, populated with celebrities, entrepreneurs, support networks and a micro-economy of their own. Photographer Peter Beste  and writer Lance Scott Walker spent nine years documenting the most influential style in twenty-first-century hip hop and the vibrant inner city culture from which it stems. Houston Rap, edited by Johan Kugelberg, profiles noted artists such as alongside reflections on the lives of departed legends such as DJ Screw, Pimp C and Big Hawk.

Full Scale False Scale is a study of a site-specific installation for the Museum of Modern Art, created for its 2019 reopening. Blending reader and collage, the book assembles research materials—spanning color theory, politics, and architectural motifs—into a constructed, subjective archive mirroring the installation itself.

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Broken Music is an essential compendium for records created by visual artist and focuses on recordings, record-objects, artwork for records, and record installations made by thousands of artists between WWII and 1989. Artists featured include: Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, Joseph Beuys, William Burroughs, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Marcel Duchamp, Allen Ginsberg, Philip Glass, Allan Kaprow, John Lennon, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Frank O’Hara, Yoko Ono, Michael Snow, Nam June Paik and more.

Celebrating 30 years of Dazed’s boundary-pushing storytelling at the forefront of youth culture, this book reveals the past, present, and future of Dazed through its bold cover designs and manifesto-like headlines.

A collection of portrait photographs of Mexican Lucha Libre Superheros.

The X Directore presents a collection of 601 “kink” cards gathered from London telephone booths between 1984 and 1994. Documenting the secretive, eclectic world of Bizarre Madams, Old Colonial Schoolboys, and cross-dressers, the book preserves a disappearing ephemera culture—once ephemeral due to cheap color printing and now nearly unimaginable in the digital age.

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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.

In Heaven is a Prison, McKnight describes a queer otherworld that is at once utopic and purgatorial. Divided into chapters, the poetic sequences in this book oscillate between the literal and the figurative, between distance and communion, and between violence and affection.

An exhibition catalogue of works from the Bauhaus housed at the Busch Reisinger Musuem Collection.

The publication presents selected works between 1998–2008 from Vodder’s oeuvre – spanning painting, drawing, collage, book-objects, and multiples. Her works explore tensions between abstract images and images that depict or carry meaning. Titles, distinct yet understated, are integral, opening a space between word and image. The result is a poetic, conceptual play between language, material, and visual perception.

A History of Men's Fashion is divided into four parts that follow the sartorial evolution of the male wardrobe from the era of Beau Brummell, which created the model of the gentlemen and the dandy, to the "anti-fashion" trends of the early 1990s.

Farm is a view of Africa outside the language of photojournalism and the previous depictions of the glories of tribal culture.

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.

Craig explains traditional and modern production techniques and shows designers how to master these new technologies by understanding how they work.

For this collection, Tillmans edited his previous four books with into a single work examining life at the turn of the millennium.

This book explores the origins of Roger's thinking and the wide ranging interests that informed his design process

The Way We Wore: Styles of the 1930's and '40's and Our World Since Then illustrates the fashion of the 1930s and '40s – discussing fabrics, colors, and prices from each era – and outlines what changed in from the 50s onwards.

The Group of Thirteen (Grupo de los Trece) was a prominent Argentine conceptual art collective from the Centro de Arte y Comunicación (CAYC) in Buenos Aires, known for its "systems art" (conceptual, ecological, performance art) challenging art's role in society, notably winning the top prize at the 1977 São Paulo Biennial with their installation Signs in Artificial Ecosystems, featuring artists like Jorge Glusberg, Luis Benedit, Victor Grippo, Leopoldo Maler, Vicente Marotta, Luis Pazos, and Clorindo Testa.

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.

This book, with over 150 photographs, presents everything a man would need to know about style, grooming and self presentation.

Published alongside her first solo exhibition, also titled Contrasts, at London’s Hamiltons Gallery in September 1985, this volume encapsulates Stark’s fascination with light and shadow, juxtaposition and nuance.

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

The rare catalogue for an exhibition at the Fondation Pierre Bergé - Yves Saint Laurent examining the fashion relationship between Saint Laurent and Nan Kempner. Kempner was one of the best-dressed women in America during the second half of the twentieth century. As muse and patron of Saint Laurent she amassed a vast collection of his couture pieces. These are photographed here, alongside archival images of Kempner wearing Saint Laurent designs.

128 duo-toned b&w plates of American teenagers in the early 1960's taken by Joseph Sterling, with an accompanying essay by David Travis.

An illustrated guide to the principles and practice of hairdressing.

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.

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

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Iconic British fashion designer, Jean Muir (1928-1995) was the doyenne of dressmaking. Her signature style married a distinctive purity of line with a soft fluidity on the body, to create the sensuous deceptively simple clothes that became her trademark, epitomised by her work in matte jersey, and in particular her jersey dresses, which brought her legendary status in an internationally-renowned career that spanned four decades. This book presents Muir's career across every aspect of the fashion world – including many of her sketches, as well as photography by Norman Parkinson, David Bailey, Eric Boman, and Deborah Turbeville.

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

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.

In this remarkable visual survey, internationally acclaimed photographer Sebastiaao Salgado documents traditional methods of sustainable coffee farming across the globe, revealing rituals deeply steeped in history and pride.

Written to mark the silver jubilee of the Design Research Unit, this book surveys the progress of industrial design since World War II. Using DRU as a case study rather than producing a conventional company history, it examines how major postwar trends shaped design practice—and how design, in turn, influenced industry and society.

A catalogue of different designs for platform shoes.

The Atlas Group: Volume 2, officially titled My Neck Is Thinner Than A Hair, is a publication by Lebanese artist Walid Raad and his art project The Atlas Group, functioning as part of a fictional archive exploring Lebanon's civil war through documents, installations, and lectures, focusing here on the pervasive car bombings (1975-1991) and challenging historical narratives of conflict and memory.

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.

Leonor Antunes is an artist making “sculptures created in space”. Her work addresses complex relationships between sculpture, architecture, design, light and the body. She dedicates special attention to the materials she uses, which are often natural or organic, and to the effects left on them by time and their use. This is the most comprehensive publication on the artist to date, spanning her entire career, and it accompanies exhibition.

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.

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

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Merry Alpern is known for her controversial oeuvre and utilisation of surveillance photography. Her acclaimed series Dirty Windows (1995), presented here in this book, contains voyeuristic black and white images of men and women engaging in sex, doing drugs, and dressing or undressing at a low-rent brothel near Wall Street in Manhattan. “Although the notion of the ‘female gaze’ has never really interested me, as a woman I could project some of my own experiences onto the pantomime in the window,” the artist remarked on the series.

From 1965-67, Gered Mankowitz was the photographer, friend and travelling companion of The Rolling Stones. Masons Yard to Primrose Hill captures the unguarded moments; the decadent, classic-era Rolling Stones in the full glory of swinging London.

New York Living Rooms is the first instalment in Dominique Nabokov’s holy trinity of interior photography works, re-issued by Apartamento Publishing more than two decades after it was first published in 1998. Originally commissioned as a photo essay for the New Yorker in 1995, it offers a frank and intimate study of the interior living spaces of some of the city’s most fabled cultural figures, including Susan Sontag, Norman Mailer, Louise Bourgeois, Francesco Clemente, Allen Ginsberg, and Joan Didion.

This magnificent survey of Calvin Klein is illustrated with era-defining photographs by the most distinguished names in fashion photography, from Irving Penn and Richard Avedon to Bruce Weber, and Patrick Demarchelier—among others. In it, the world’s most iconic models like Christy Turlington and Kate Moss, are captured in images that would define their careers. Every image was chosen by Calvin Klein to narrate his evolution as a designer—from couture to jeans, underwear, and fragrance—all categories in which he redefined what was chic and essential.

Material Man: Masculinity, Sexuality, Style examines masculine images in fashion and the media, attempting to answer the question of what it means to be a man in the contemporary world – contains images from films, television, magazines and the fine arts, along with essays.

This book is the ultimate celebration of the shoe – an insight into the the world of the bespoke shoemaker, following the rise of mass manufacture with highlights of great designers past and present.

War Without Heroes is a book of black and white photographs by David Douglas Duncan of soldiers during the Vietnam war – capturing moments of both comradeship and tragedy.

A behind the scenes look at the creation of one of Bruce Oldfield's Winter collections, from initial designs to catwalk.

A Following the release of the first seven volumes of Top Symbols and Trademarks, the editors returned to the project in 1977 with a series of four yearly annuals, 1977, 1978, 1979/80 & 1981/82. This is volume 9 looking at the year 1978.

Deborah Turbeville is remembered today as a pioneering figure in fashion photography, known for her melancholic, dreamlike imagery that diverged from conventional standards. However, after working with Harper's Bazar, he soon lost interest in conventional editorial work, turning instead to photography as an outlet for artistic expression and experimentation. Les Amoureuses Du Temps Passe, translated to Lovers of Time Passing, is a collection of some of her best images in fashion and beyond.

W is an award-winning publication, one of the world’s greatest and best-known fashion magazines. It was founded in 1971 as a sister publication to Women's Wear Daily and was owned by Fairchild Publications until it was purchased by Condé Nast in 1999. This book celebrates its 40th anniversary and is divided into three sections; Who, Where, and Wow.

Postwar Package Design: 1945–1965 by Jerry Jankowski showcases over 150 color images of packaging from the booming postwar era. From Salvador Dali perfume bottles to Brillo pads and early Frisbees, the book highlights bold graphics, quirky humor, and cultural commentary, offering a vivid visual record of consumer culture, social trends, and the playful optimism of mid‑20th-century America.

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.

This book, the title of which translates to, "The Novel of François Truffaut", is a collective work published  shortly after the director's death. Across 239 pages book, you will find black and white photographs of the director, his films along with essays.

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.

Iain R Webb's Postcards from the Edge of the Catwalk is a personal photographic portfolio spanning three decades that documents the glittering brouhaha surrounding the ready-to-wear and haute couture fashion collections in New York, London, Milan and Paris.

Afro-Atlantic Histories brings together a selection of more than 400 works and documents by more than 200 artists from the 16th to the 21st centuries that express and analyze the ebbs and flows between Africa, the Americas, the Caribbean and Europe. The book is motivated by the desire and need to draw parallels, frictions and dialogues around the visual cultures of Afro-Atlantic territories--their experiences, creations, worshiping and philosophy. The so-called Black Atlantic, to use the term coined by Paul Gilroy, is geography lacking precise borders, a fluid field where African experiences invade and occupy other nations, territories and cultures.

Couple by Joji Hashiguchi presents 103 frontal portraits of couples photographed between 1990 and 1992, from Okinawa to Tokyo. Continuing the approach of his earlier works Seventeen’s Map and Father, the series examines relationships, individuality, and social context. Hashiguchi’s structured yet intimate fieldwork reveals the shifting dynamics of identity within contemporary Japanese society.

A themed collection of Araki photographs. Issue 18: Bondage

A guide to typography.

In the world of fashion, 'The well' is industry terminology for the main image section of a magazine. For influential British photographer Nigel Shafran, The Well is a space to critique and reflect the worlds of fashion from the inside,  a place for unexpected creativity, subversive critique and wry commentary. This chronicles both Shafran’s commercial and non-commercial approach to photography, along with interviews and reflections between Shafran and his peers threaded throughout.

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