Beautiful London by Helmut Gernsheim is a captivating photographic tribute to the city in the early 20th century, capturing London’s elegance, charm, and architectural splendor before the upheavals of World War II. Published in 1939, this rare collection showcases Gernsheim’s keen eye for composition and atmosphere, blending documentary precision with artistic vision

Photobook of youth culture

Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with a show held June 6 - August 19, 1990.

Containing poetry, drawings, pressed flowers, photographs, excerpts from scripts and notes, Derek Jarman’s sketchbooks are part autobiography and part social history, bursting with the energy and creativity of this groundbreaking artist.

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.

Near East documents photographer and designer Cecil Beaton's wartime assignment for the Ministry of Information in the Middle East during World War II. The book combines his photographs, including images of soldiers and ancient sites in Egypt, Palestine, Syria and Iraq along with his journalistic text that provides a unique pictorial history of the region during the conflict.

In this book, over 60 years of work by designer, artist, critic and theoretician Ezno Mari is documented through projects, drawings, unpublished materials, essays, interviews and tributes by internationally renowned artists and designers.

Children of a Vanished World presents 70 intimate photographs of Jewish children living in Eastern European shtetlekh between 1935 and 1938. Paired with traditional Yiddish nursery rhymes, songs, and poems in both Yiddish and English, the book offers a poignant glimpse into a vibrant world soon lost.

This vividly illustrated tribute celebrates the radical design of Memphis Group, founded in Milan in 1981 by Ettore Sottsass. Rejecting functionalism and modern “good taste,” the group created sculptural furniture, bold colors, and playful forms, proposing an emotional, artistic vision of everyday objects that reshaped postmodern design.

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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.

Wim Wenders is a promimet film maker known for his role in the New German Cinema Movement. He has directed Paris, Texas, The State of Things, Wings of Desire, Pina and more. His visually distinctive films that often explore themes of identity, displacement, and the nature of reality.

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Contemporary Hyloshapes establishes a relationship between contemporary sculpture (produced over the last 25 years) and typography, as an exercise of translating visual language from a medium to another, between scales, collaborators and methodologies.

This book documents the collaborative furniture design work of architects Lina Bo Bardi and Giancarlo Palanti in Brazil between 1948 and 1951.

A large-format illustrated booklet produced by the New Zealand Government Publicity Production to inform visitors about the indigenous Maori people of New Zealand.

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Not just a guidebook, this book creates a multifaceted image of 1970s America in narraitve and poems, drawings and over 150 photographs

Three idiosyncratically macabre cabaret-restaurants in Monmartre, each with its own grotesque portrayal of the afterworlds of Hell, Heaven, and Nothingness. From 1892 until 1954, three cabaret-restaurants in the Montmartre district of Paris captivated tourists with their grotesque portrayals of death. Presenting original images and drawings from contemporary journals, postcards, tourist brochures, and menus, Mel Gordon leads a tour of these idiosyncratically macabre institutions.

This book is a collection of photographs and texts of the friendship between photographer Kei Orihara and Jana, a woman he met in New York.

Brush Fires in the Social Landscape is a powerful and evocative retrospective collection of Wojnarowicz life. It includes a collection of his paintings, photographs, and writings also includes essays by Nan Goldin, Kiki Smith, Fran Lebowitz, and Karen Finley, among others.

A 1969 artists’ book by one of the all time greats, this is de Saint Phalle’s love letter to Jean Tinguely, at once erotically charged and extraordinarily innocent. It is pure love, rendered in De Saint Phalle’s unmistakable hand - as good a book as artwork as there ever was.

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This book collects Brassai's iconic scenes of nocturnal Paris with its prostitutes and thugs, its night workers, cafes, dance halls, and theatres; fog-shrouded streets, monuments, and bridges; the literary and artistic elite of the Parisian avant-garde, whom Brassai counted among his friends.

This illustrated volume by one of Japan's tea masters displays the complexities and inspirations of the tea art form. Beginning with the 12th century origins of cha-no-yu, the tea ceremony, Tanaka traces the practice to the early Seventies. With photographs by Takeshi Nishikawa.

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.

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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.

Black and white portraits of Japanese fathers in their workplaces and homes, with textual information to accompany them.

This lavishly illustrated volume explores the history of the Paisley Pattern, tracing its origins over 2,000 years and its European popularity in 18th-century shawls. Highlighting Paisley as the leading producer, the book reproduces 150 designs from the Paisley Museum collection, including original pattern books, providing historical context and inspiration for textile historians, designers, and students.

Catalogue of the First Papers of Surrealism exhibition held at the Whitelaw Reid Mansion from 7 to 14 November 1942. Designed by André Breton, this catalogue features works by Chirico, Duchamp, Ernst, Masson, Matta, Tanguy, etc.

Stutter was Kingsley Ifill’s debut solo show, an exhibition of striking composite works curated by filmmaker and photographer Tom Beard. Excavating defunct technologies and commandeering outmoded techniques, Ifill’s distinctively analogue style generates a startling effect in a world characterised by the faultless and infinitely repeatable replica. Although the abandoned or out-dated processes he appropriates were themselves created to allow the production of multiple images, Ifill rejects the principle of mass-reproduction and insists on unique, one-off editions produced at large scale.

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A history of pottery in Britain.

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.

A book containing essays on boxing, illustrated by the remarkable photographs of Charles Hoff, one of the leading photographers of the 1940s and 50s.

Publication accompanying an exhibition at the Jerwood Gallery, showcasing the unique, often dark and macabre, artistic style of painter Paula Rego.

A football calling card archive featuring over 40 infamous 80-90’s UK hooligan/casual firms.

While working as projectionish in a porn cinema in the 1980s, Bob Mazzer began photographing on the tube during his daily commute, creating irresistibly joyous pictures alive with humour and humanity. His pictures are published here for the first time.

This book is document of the centennial history of the The University of California containing more than 100 rich photogravures of university life by Ansel Adams.

A large format publication documenting graffiti through the lenses of Mervyn Kurlansky and Jon Narr.

A survey of decorative arts and crafts.

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

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A cookbook with over 100 vegetarian recipes for the home cook from the studio kitchen of world-renowned artist Olafur Eliasson.

Published in late 1968, Aspen Magazine No. 6a, "Manipulations," was an avant-garde, multimedia box focused on New York’s performative and conceptual art scene. It featured contributions from artists including Nam June Paik and Carolee Schneemann, highlighting the experimental, multi-part nature of the periodical.

In this anthology, curator and director Catherine de Zegher compiles 25 influential essays on women artists from the numerous books she has written and edited throughout her career. Like many of de Zegher’s previous projects and books, Women’s Work Is Never Done promotes the feminine principle, showcasing the work of female artists from across the world. Featured artists include Martha Rossler, Anna Maria Maiolino, Anna Atkins, Hilma af Klint, Agnes Martin, Eva Hesse, Judith Wright, Simryn Gill and more.

Catalog of Biennale di Firenze 1996 curated by Germano Celant, Luigi Settembrini, and Ingrid Sishy. The book includes a vast assortment of photo archive materials about both art and fashion. Artists who focus on clothes and designers include Vito Acconci, Azzedine Alaïa, Giorgio Armani, Nigel Atkinson, Manolo Blahnik, David Bowie, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Tony Cragg, Ann Demeulemeester, and more.

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.

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Shot in Taos, New Mexico, where Hopper was based following the production of Easy Rider in the late 60s, this series was taken with disposable cameras and developed in drugstore photo labs.

This book celebrates modern Japanese poster design, showcasing works that combine tradition, bold experimentation, and visual sophistication. Highlighting the concept of kirei, the collection demonstrates how Japanese posters blend classical elegance with inventive, self-contained visual messages, creating striking, memorable imagery that transcends conventional advertising and reflects a unique, independent creative spirit.

Sportscape tells the story of how sport has been shown by photographers over a period of 100 years, focusing on the beauty and interest of the photographs and what they can tell us about the development of sport.

The book is a significant historical record of Tokyo's sex industry through the photographs by Nobuyoshi Araki, which are raw, candid and explicit images documenting the behind the scenes of sex work in Japan.

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.

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.

A book about architecture

Wilfred Thesiger’s portraits of tribes have earned him worldwide recognition as a photographer. Using a simple box camera which had belonged to his father, Thesiger began his photographic career during a short hunting trip in Ethiopia in 1930 and used the same camera to photograph Danakil tribesmen when he returned three years later to explore the Awash river. This book presents portraits taken over decades of travel in some of the remotest areas on the planet, documenting the slowly vanishing tribal communities across the globe.

Annotated in his wry, inimitable voice, Juergen Teller presents over three decades of fashion and editorial work in a groundbreaking volume that combines photography, collage, and candid (and often humorous) autobiography.

A themed collection of Araki photographs. Issue 13: Xeroxed Photo Albums

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Cape Light by Joel Meyerowitz captures the serene beauty of Cape Cod’s landscapes and seascapes in the early days of color photography.

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.

Shigeo Fukuda (1932-2009) was a highly influential Japanese graphic designer and sculptor celebrated for his witty, minimalist, and illusion-based visual communication. A pioneer in using optical illusions and simple forms, he was the first Japanese designer inducted into the New York Art Directors Club Hall of Fame in 1987.

A richly illustrated, comprehensive study of fashion under socialism, from state-sponsored prototypes to unofficial imitations of Paris fashion.The idea of fashion under socialism conjures up images of babushka headscarves and black market blue jeans.

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.

Comrade Sisters tells the story of the women of the Black Panther Party. The book contains 100 photographs by photographer Stephen Shames along with text contributions.

Jonas Mekas in conversation film makers – including Andy Warhol, Nico Papatakis, Albert and David Maysles, Peter Kubelka, Agnes Varda, Harry Smith, John Cassavetes, Stan Brakhage.

This book brings together a distinguished group of authors to reflect on Adjaye's practice as an architect.

First in the Song Reader series from A24, Emile Mosseri's Minari score gets the visual treatment in this illustrated 9x12" box set.

Dance Perspectives was published quarterly from 1959-1976, and was a collection of writings on dance, art, costume and theatre.

In the wake of the suburban riots that rocked France in late 2005, Simon Wheatley found himself in the small town of Blois in the Loire Valley, on the edge of which stood France’s fourth biggest banlieue where almost half the population were lumped in a world far removed from the bourgeois town centre with its pretty postcard view. Always and Forever there / Toujours et Encore là - with bilingual texts - is an attempt to make sense of that experience and do justice to a rare body of work that was widely published in magazines at the time but never to his satisfactio

In oversized photos and full colour, this lavish book presents a stunning collection of clothing designs by Dolce & Gabbana, providing a comprehensive view of the Houses' best work – with anecdotes from famous fans of D&G including Isabella Rossellini, Cindy Crawford, Madonna, and Demi Moore.

The latest collection of work by Talia Chetrit riffs insouciantly on themes of life, death, and birth through a variety of visual languages. In JOKE, Chetrit brings together family photos, street photography, still lives, selections from the artist’s teenage archive, and expansive self-portraits involving a cast of characters who feature as both engaged and unwitting collaborators.

Pictures From Home is a landmark visual memoir and photography book by artist Larry Sultan, first published in 1992. It combines contemporary photographs, film stills from 1950s/1960s home movies, and text to explore the complexities of his parents' lives in suburban Southern California and the myth of the American Dream.

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 documentation of students Rossville High School by photographer Jim Richardson.

This book is the brass ring of stories and photographs that trace the lavish history of merry-go-rounds.

After picking up a camera in the 1973 to document the graffiti art that dominated New York City, Ernest Paniccioli started his journey of whole-heartedly capturing the scene during the most fertile years of hip-hop. Always armed with a 35mm camera, he successfully photographed nearly every rapper of note since the genre's inception. This book is a selection of these photographs, celebrating over 40 years of swag in one of the most crucial movements in American music.

In Spring 2015, the photographer Joel Meyerowitz sat at the work table in Giorgio Morandi's Bologna home, in the exact spot where the painter had sat for over 40 years making his quiet, sublime still lifes. Here Meyerowitz looked at, touched, studied and connected with the more than 250 objects that Morandi painted. Using only the warm natural light in the room, he photographed Morandi's objects: vases, shells, pigment-filled bottles, silk flowers, tins, funnels, watering cans.

Originally published in 1971, A Documentary HerStory of Women Artists in Revolution documents the efforts of W.A.R., a loose group of women artists, filmmakers, writers and cultural workers organized around advancing the place of women in the art world.

A periodical book on modern houses from around the globe. Featuring work of architects Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates, Mies van der Rohe, Carlo Scarpa, Louis I. Khan, Piano + Rogers Architects.

PÒTOPRENS: The Urban Artists of Port-au-Prince is at once a portrait of Haiti's capital, a celebration of its arts, and a visionary re-mapping of culture in the world's first Black republic. The exhibition, and this accompanying book, showcases thevibrant, complex urban art using found objects, Voodoo traditions, and street life, moving beyond rural folklore to map Haiti's dynamic culture

Though it began as a military uniform, the trench coat has become a cornerstone of the twenty-first century wardrobe, a kind of chic yet classic envelope that perfectly balances form and function. From linen to leather, The Trench Book explores the stylish evolution of this outerwear icon in design and fashion.

A cult book that influenced the 'Ivy Style' craze among students in the Ginza shopping district of Tokyo in the late 1960s. Take Ivy is a collection of candid photographs shot on the campuses of America's elite, Ivy League universities. An important study of classic menswear and the Prep style.

Photographs by Young British Photographers from Blitz Magazine 1980-1987.

Chicks on Speed is a feminist music-art ensemble formed by Melissa Logan, Kiki Moorse and Alex Murray-Leslie. This publication, contained inside of a cloth bag, captures their sense of freedom. It is divided into periods of their lives: 'Fake Band:, 'Pressing the Press', 'Sell Out;, and so on. Die-cut, over-printed, and assembled from many different paper stocks, this book approximates a scrapbook, full of press clippings, personal mementos, printed ephemera, and merch.

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Over 300 striking images reflecting Knight's extraordinary vision and fearless experimentation, presenting his landmark career spanning both photography and fashion.

David Hicks explores all aspects of interior decoration and design.

This book is a pictorial survey presenting seven decades of women's footwear as illustrated in Vogue.

Visual and textual documentation of fans before, during and after an American Football game – including photography, text and interviews by David L. Brown.

For her first solo exhibition in an Italian museum, Between Art and Life, curated by Alberto Salvadori, Andrea Zittel is celebrated in a monographic catalogue by Mousse, highlighting her innovative and influential practice within international contemporary art.

Jocks and Nerds: Men's Style in the Twentieth Century offers a visual history of the way men have dressed in the twentieth century, tracing twelve social roles that have formed fashion and fashion leaders.

Universally acclaimed as the world's greatest mime, Marcel Marceau takes us on a visual journey through the alphabet.

A themed collection of Araki photographs. Issue No.15 Death: Elegy

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.

Published to accompany a retrospective at the Kunsthalle Dusseldorf as the first large scale monograph on Andreas Gursky's photographic work since 1984.

This book showcases Isaac Julien's work from the early 1980s to the present day – from early films to large-scale, multi-screen installations which investigate the movement of peoples across different continents, times and spaces.

The publication is the catalogue of the exhibition On Failure, which examined and reconsidered the connotations of failure – repositioning the concept as an intentional outcome or state of being, often via an interrogation of what cost this approach comes at. Featuring artists Olivia Erlanger, Cash Frances, Jordan/Martin Hell, Kelsey Isaacs, Maren Karlson, Sam Lipp, Chris Lloyd and Narumi Nekpenekpen.

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A collection of images showing how the modern world, between 1943 and 1959, was shaped in America's image. It contains photographs of momentous historical events like the Yalta Conference, the liberation of the concentration camps, the Atomic Test programme and the beginnings of the Space Race; the dominant political figures of the era - Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin; and contemporary icons such as Marilyn Monroe, Brigitte Bardot, Audrey Hepburn and Joe Di Maggio.

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The actual, original programme to the 1969 Woodstock music festival, featuring artist profiles, essays, and photos from everyone who was scheduled to play. In shockingly good condition, this is a proper slice of cultural history, beautifully designed.

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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.