Skateistan: The Tale of Skateboarding in Afghanistan shares the strange and beautiful intersection of traditional Afghan society and a new generation of Afghan skateboarders and artists. It features the innovative Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) 'Skateistan,' which since 2007 has taught skateboarding and creative arts to youth in Kabul, Afghanistan.

In this first major monograph chronicling the entirety of the artist’s career, McGinley’s work is considered by three extraordinary figures: Chris Kraus, novelist and critic; John Kelsey, writer, artist and activist; and Gus Van Sant, the auteur filmmaker. Each attends—through the lens of their own rich insights—to various aspects of the artist’s work and creative process, offering in-depth and unique perspectives on McGinley’s work and import.

Black and white photos focusing on the changing shape of "The Mannequin" through the twentieth century.

A comprehensive history of couture designers.

This volume explores the immeasurable impact of Black subculture on British streets, dance floors, wardrobes and beauty parlours over the past three decades. It gives unique visual expression to the energy and innovation of a range of fashion trends and musical subcultures, with photographs by Dennis Morris and David Swindells.

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.

Flashpoint! is an collection of protest photography in print from the 1950s to today. Surveying over 245 photobooks, zines, posters, and alternative journals, it examines how photography functions as both activist tool and historical document. Organised thematically, it highlights resistance movements worldwide, revealing how printed images shape, record, and amplify political struggle.

Issue on interior design in America.

Three of the best-known artists from the YBA group come together in an exhibition of their work and ideas. This book offers their personal communications with each other, providing a unique insight into their creative processes.

A collection of photographs shot mainly in Bristol in the mid 80s documenting the rise of Massive Attack. It also includes shots of them performing at the dug out club, the infamous red house jam and at St Pauls Carnival.

Drawings by Hockney and essays by twenty-seven distinguished writers--among them, Oates, Murdoch, Theroux, Vidal, Mailer, Sontag, and Miller.

The International Hairstyle Index presents the works of leading and innovative hairdressers and stylists from all over the world.

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

A children's book parody of the landmark 1913 Armory Show that first introduced many Americans to the conceptual artwork of Picasso, Duchamp, Matisse told through the alphabet.

This book presents Bruce Davidsons personal selections from his lesser-known colour archive. Ranging from a period of fifty-six years and counting, these images are representative of the photographers color career – ranging from work with magazines and on his travels.

A comprehensive history of furniture design including works by Michael Thonet, Otto Wagner, Alvar Aalto, Victor Horta, Henry van de Velde, Peter Behrens, Marcel Breuer, Charles Eames, Eero Saarinin, Hans Wegner, Joe Colombo, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Josef Hoffmann, George Nelson

The Rock and Roll Circus starring the Rolling Stones has long been regarded as a long-lost treasure of rock film history. This book collects full-bleed production stills during rehearsals and filming – featuring 100 black and white portraits of costume shots, performance stills, and intimate backstage details.

This entry into the Gwent College of Higher Education's 'Newport Survey' series takes an eye towards the domestic. Featuring photographic essays on employment, the area's Muslim community and conditions in housing estates, this is a vital piece of ephemera for those interested in the Welsh experience of the turbulemt 1980s.

Black and white photographs of New York City coupled with nude bodies by photographer Arthur Tress.

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

A comprehensive collection of photographs of garments made for the greatest Vivienne Westwood and Malcom McLaren collections, compiled from the archives of Hiroshi Fujiwara and Jun Takahashi – featuring clothing from Let It Rock, Sex, Seditionaries and World's End collections.

A guide to the work of Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto

A collection of male nudes of one male model in many different costumes, shot by Charlotte March.

Sheila Metzner's unique photographic style has positioned her as a contemporary master in the worlds of fine art, fashion, portraiture, still life and landscape photography. This book contains some of a collection of her photographs, with a foreword by Ralph Lauren.

Wonderful and expressive full page black and white photographs of American actor Steve McQueen taken by William Caxton.

This book detailing the development of Breivik's sculptural work, which involved materials like wood and fibers.

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.

Elegant and instructional, this book is a celebration of beauty and a remarkable showcase of the talents of an artist  ho has defined the look of the '90s.

A themed collection of Araki photographs. Issue 3: Yoko (Ono)

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EverWonderful is Jeano Edwards’ first photobook, and is a tender love story dedicated to his homeland of Jamaica.

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.

Drawing into Film: Directors Drawings is a 1993 book published alongside an exhibition showcasing the personal sketches, storyboards, and other drawings of various film directors, such as Alfred Hitchcock, Sergei Eisenstein, and David Lynch. Curated by Marc Glimcher and Mark Pollard for the Pace Gallery, it demonstrates how drawing is an integral part of a director's creative process for visualising ideas, from scripts and storyboards to character and set design

This book showing the nuances that defined Minimalism in its various phases, as characterized by the inflected object, the disintegrated object, the ironic object ­then the transition from the object to architecture, space, landscape, cityscape, body, performance, and conceptual art.

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.

In this book, Salisbury set out to recapture the memories of childhood and the vagaries unique to place. Inscribed with the loss of his brother and the history of six generations before him, he has relived the past vicariously, photographing his cousins, Drew and Jimmy, as they grew to manhood. Delineated by the seasons and the intimacy of small town life, the results suggest nothing less than a Gothic portrait of boyhood in rural America.

Following Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Curating* *But Were Afraid to Ask, this second volume in the series on international curator Hans Ulrich Obrist presents a selection of his key writings from the past two decades, which elaborate on the manifold thinkers, curators, and events that influence his interdisciplinary practice of exhibition making.

It’s Urgent! is a project curated by Hans-Ulrich Obrist, which began in 2019 in Denmark. During the elections for the European Parliament in 2019, artists were invited to think about the present and the future with an exhibition of posters on billboards in the city of Copenhagen. The idea then was to make the artists’ works available to the public, inserting them into public life and the community.

Look at Me: Fashion and Photography in Britain 1960-1997 was published to accompany a traveling exhibition curated by writer/curator Val Williams and Brett Rogers, director of The Photographers' Gallery. Through editorials, advertisements, and street snaps, this book explores the evolution of fashion style and fashion photography from the 1960s to the late 1990s. Featuring the works of Juergen Teller, Helmut Newton, Wolfgang Tillmans, Nigel Shafran, Hannah Starkey, Corine Day, Elaine Constatine and more.

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.

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)

Recognized as a pioneer of American colour photography since the 1970s, Webb has consistently created photographs characterized by intense color and light. This book is the first comprehensive monograph charting his career, gathering some of his most iconic images.

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.

20 Anni di Vogue 1964-1984 is the catalogue published to accompany an exhibition of the same name celebrating 20 years of Vogue Italia. The catalogue is an extensive dictionary of all the photographers who have contributed to the pages of Vogue Italia, with a short text and examples of their work - including Richard Avedon, Bruce Weber, David Bailey, Cecil Beaton, Guy Bourdin, Peter Lindbergh, Ugo Mulas, Herb Ritts, Paolo Roversi, Snowdon, Deborah Turbeville and so many more in between.

Middle East Archive: From the Collection of Fouad ElKoury is the debut book by Middle East Archive, expanding its digital curatorial project into print. The platform brings its spirit of simplicity and hope into the physical world through a collaboration with Lebanese photographer Fouad ElKoury. The book features photographs taken between 1980 and 1997 in Oman, Palestine, Egypt, and Lebanon. Accompanied by interviews with B 018 founder Naji Gebran, contemporary Omani photographer Mahmood Najali, and a historical overview of Egyptian cinema’s golden age, the images are recontextualized within a broader cultural landscape.

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‘Rain Time’ is a large collection of photographs found at a flea market in London documenting the self-portraiture of one woman’s penchant for deep-sea submersion via the burgeoning world of rubber fetishism. The collage works in the collection precede by at least 15 years what would become the cut n’ paste aesthetic of punk, devising and framing new identities culled from images in the daily papers, on the spectrum from Sophia Loren to Mrs Mills. 'Rain Time’ reveals a hitherto unseen world of exploratory erotic investigation taking place for personal satisfaction behind the net curtains of suburban Britain. It is so called for the catalogue of rubber wear accompanying the archive, one subsequently employed by Vivienne Westwood for her revolutionary Kings Road ‘Sex’ shop a decade later.

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Workbooks is an extensive book that gathers together a creative lifetime of collecting, imagining, sketching and recording by British artist Nigel Shafran from 1984-2024. These working documents are informal books that predated Shafran's published work. Each is filled with drawings, notes and everyday ephemera as well as photographs, and each has a particularcharacteristic of Shafran’s intuitive organising principles and working process.

This book contains over 330 Namio Harukawa illustrations, a short manga, seven unfinished sketches, two photos of his atelier, and essays by Shigeru Kashima.

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

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 first volume in the series looks at the United States.

Provoke, with its subtitle of Provocative Materials for Thought, was an experimental, small-press Japanese photography magazine founded in 1968 by critic/photographers Kōji Taki and Takuma Nakahira, photographer Yutaka Takanashi, and writer Takahiko Okada. Daidō Moriyama joined from the second issue. The magazine itself was printed through techniques like the "are-bure-boke" style, which embraced grain, blur, and high contrast to convey a sense of immediacy and raw energy. The printing process was considered a crucial part of the work, often using techniques that increased grain and contrast, with photos printed edge-to-edge without margins to make them appear to bleed into one another.

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.

In this publication, Tiane Doan na Champassak curates his collection of Parkett magazine (1984–2017), focusing on double-spread gallery advertisements from its first five years. Treating these ads as artworks, the book highlights the primacy of text in conceptual art, tracing an alternative history of postmodern and contemporary practice and recurring figures such as Marcel Broodthaers, Louise Bourgeois, Cindy Sherman, and others.

This book presents 250 film posters from the pre-Stalin Soviet Union (1920s–1930s), showcasing a vibrant era of visual and graphic experimentation before Soviet Realism dominated. Drawn from Susan Pack’s private collection, it highlights 27 artists whose bold, dynamic designs reject Hollywood glamour in favor of striking compositions, unusual perspectives, and inventive cinematic expression.

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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This book uses Thierry Ardouin’s striking images of seeds to explore their form, history, and symbolic link to human origins. Originating from an idea by Xavier Barral, it presents a collaborative project with artists, botanists, and scientists, addressing ecological concerns while highlighting seeds as “great travellers” that connect nature, culture, and our shared roots.

From liposuction to lip implants, this book explores all the ins and outs of body sculpting, focusing on the artistry of aesthetic surgery.

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

Ed Templeton captures the intimacy and awkwardness of young love.

A comprehensive collection of images photographer Herbert List shot from 1930s to 1970s – including everything from his landscapes of Greece to people in the streets of Germany street, all shotin his usual surrealist way.

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

Rasha Kahil documents her friend Gems, to create an intimate and honest portrait of female friendship.

Sound Postcards is an interesting compilation CD coming with italian Uovo magazine’s Sound Postcards issue – compiling a collection of varied sound art and audio works.

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

This book was published to accompnay the exhibition "Couture/Sculpture" which presented the parallels between the great couturier Azzedine Alaïa and the Greco-Roman-inspired sculptures that are exhibited in the gallery of the Borghese villa.The sensuality of feminine haute couture is exposed in the midst of the naked bodies of Bernini and other prestigious sculptors.

Marching To The Freedom Dream presents American photojournalist Dan Budnik’s significant body of work documenting three seminal marches of the civil rights movement. It is published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and precedes the 50th anniversaries of the Selma-Montgomery March and the Voting Rights Act in 2015. A foreword to the book is written by prolific civil rights activist, Harry Belafonte.

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.

Alexey Brodovitch was a Russian-born American designer, photographer, and educator known for revolutionising graphic design and art direction, particularly during his long tenure as Art Director of Harper's Bazaar. He is celebrated for introducing the avant-garde European aesthetic to American design, using dramatic layouts, bold typography, and generous white space, and for mentoring a new generation of influential photographers like Richard Avedon and Irving Penn. This book presents a look into his work as one of the most important graphic designers and photographers of the 20th century.

All-American: Short Stories features Bruce Weber photos of Pietro and Andrea Clemente and a profile of Elizabeth Taylor at home. This edition also includes the interior drawings of Jeremiah Goodman, Kentucky photos by William Gedney, figure studies by George Daniell, and a chapter of poetry by James Schuyler.

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.

A book exploring Roger's belief in the regenerative social potential of architecture

The Paper Snake is an essential work in Ray Johnson’s oeuvre and the second title published by Dick Higgins’ Something Else Press in 1965. Johnson describes the book as "all my writings, rubbings, plays, things that I had mailed to [Higgins] or brought to him in cardboard boxes or shoved under his door, or left in his sink, or whatever, over a period of years."

A collection of objects designed by architects varying from teapots to tables; hardware to chairs; radios to dressers to sofas; all the way to jewellery.

Life is Space 4 was a one day seminar held at Studio Olafur Eliasson where invited artists, scientists, scholars, dancers, theorists, spatial practitioners and movement experts gathered to share, discuss, present, and experiment with ideas loosely based around the theme of Life and Space.

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

A publication to accompany the British Pavilion’s exhibition of the same name at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale, explores an island as a place of refuge and exile. With contributions from artist John Akomfrah, poet and musician Kate Tempest and Museu Calouste Gulbenkian director Penelope Curtis.

A book on the design and wear of ties.

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A monograph of the work of architect Richard Rogers

In the South Bronx of America is a work which, through documentary photographs, counterpointed with statements by residents and by newspaper reports and statistical information, offers both an intimate view of life in this neighbourhood and a context for understanding accelerated social decay.

The American photographer Leonard Freed travelled to Germany for the first time in 1954. He observed the people in their social surroundings, at work, at street festivals, in public parks, in the streets and against the industrial backdrop of the Ruhr Valley.

Drawn from a career spanning seven decades, Irving Penn Portraits presents thirty photographs of renowned personalities by one of the most distinguished photographers of the 20th century

People of the Mud is a powerful new series by Berlin-based US-Dominican artist Luis Alberto Rodriguez, made collaboratively amongst the communities of County Wexford in Ireland, where ancient tradition and modern life rub shoulders daily.

Gianni Versace catalogue of the Spring/Summer 1985 collection, published as a supplement in L'uomo Vogue.

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American bioacoustician and musician Bernie Krause has recorded over 5,000 hours of natural soundscapes since the 1970s. Both poetic and scientific, his archive reveals the musical harmony and orchestral structure of nature. This book presents an immersive installation created in 2016 by Krause and United Visual Artists for the Fondation Cartier in Paris. It traces the transformation of Krause’s field recordings into a three-dimensional audiovisual experience that blends art, technology, and ecology.

A collection of portraits of students in a Sixties high school.

This book captures the essence of Parisian living, showcasing a range of styles from the opulent to the understated, featuring works by designers like Jacques Grange and Madeleine Castaing.

An impressive collection of photographs and essays portraying the intricate work of jewellery designers – from the world famous to the lesser known. A variety of topics are covered: from technical aspects of jewellery work to general views on the way jewellery design is developing.

Visual collection of art from artists of the New Wave movement – a French film movement (La Nouvelle Vague) that began in the late 1950s, characterized by a rejection of traditional filmmaking to embrace experimental techniques, auteur theory, and unconventional storytelling.

From David Beckham to Princess Diana, Michael Jackson to Madonna: few have escaped the lens of Richard Young. This book collects works from his career that spanned three decades.

The definitive retrospective of America's preeminent photographer. This book reveals for the first time Penn's own view of his extraordinary and diverse career. Accompanied by his fascinating and insightful commentaries and examples of his portraits, still lifes, and fashion drawings.

A collection of photographs depicting the female nude.

The Nazi is an assortment of 164 photographs portraying actors – from Marlon Brando and Michael Caine to Clint Eastwood, Anthony Hopkins and Donald Pleasence – who appeared as Nazis in a variety of cinematic productions. This series is as much about history as it is about the industry of entertainment.

This book captures the spirit of the 1960s through a vibrant visual survey of cinema, reflecting a decade of upheaval in art, fashion, music, politics, and philosophy. Filled with iconic images, it celebrates the ethos, cultural shifts, and legendary figures that defined a transformative era in both film and society.

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.

The people of New Guina have little art in the form of objects – instead, their art takes form through self decoration. Birds of paradise plumes, animal furs, ochre plants, leaves and grasses are their props of choice. This book documents and describes the styles of decoration in the Mountain Hagen area, and the variations expressive of individuality.

A books 160 unique street photographs of 1980s London by Johnny Johnny Stiletto – portraying the style, music, politics and fashion of the era.

This lavishly illustrated book contains over 100 photographs tracing the development of Robert Redford's extensive film career. Together with text written by David Downing, the book presets stills from all of his major roles – from Barefoot in the Park to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and All the President's Men – as well as  discussions of his debut as a film director. In his time on and off-screen, he made some of the best movies that reflected, with power and subtlety, Western society in retreat from both the overblown aspirations of the 1960s and the raging despair of the 1970s. While other actors and directors setting for either commerical or artistic success, Redford at somewhere between the two.

Patti Smith is known most widely as a musical artist and a poet, but her creative energies are not limited to those genres. This book offers a chance to explore the photography of the punk poetess. Published to accompany an exhibition at the Fondation Cartier Pour L'Art Contemporain in Paris, it presents hundreds of Polaroids and black-and-white photographs, plus commentaries by the artist.

Monika Günther and Ruedi Schill began contributing to the development, promotion and dissemination of performance art in the 1980s. Their archive is compiled into this book for the first time, a large selection of photographs and essays serve recreates the physical presence of the participants and the atmosphere of their performances.

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