
Paolo Gasparini, although was born in Italy, grew up in Venezuela is his adopted home. He has spent his life documenting the cities and people of Latin America, his lace tracing the contradictions of modernity across the continent. His work evolved within the confluence of European postwar realism and the political awakening of Latin American cities, and this book presents some of his remarkable photographs in full bleed.

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

This book explores the quirky, anarchic world of photocopied ephemera from the archive of Jamie Reid. Celebrated for his iconic Sex Pistols album covers—Never Mind the Bollocks, Anarchy in the UK, and God Save the Queen—Reid’s work captures the rebellious, irreverent spirit of punk through Xeroxed flyers, zines, and playful visual experimentation.

Marin is a unique album of the great Navy family – the strength, the solitude and solidarity, the open faces of reunions, the serious looks of great departures.

An examination of costume, sex and symbolism – from high-heeled shoes and French knickers, to uniforms and bondage gear, to wedding dresses, tail coats and jeans.

A collection of photographs and essays exploring the nude body from Jain Kelly Bravo, Manuel Alvarez, Harry Callaghan, Lucien Clergue, Ralph Gibson, Kenneth Josephson, Andre Kertesz, Duane Michals and Helmut Newton.

This educational photopack published by the Minority Rights Group of the 1980s describes Britain's Traveller population and the ways in which they are affected by marginalisation and a lack of laws. The book aims to educate the wider British society about these communities through photographs and text.
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Part of the generation of photographers that included Juergen Teller and Terry Richardson, Marcelo Krasilcic captured the style of the 90s in situ, outside of the studio, and his photographs of people like Maurizio Cattelan, Chloe Sevigny were immediately absorbed by the most influential magazines of the era, including Purple, Dazed & Confused, Self-Service and Visionaire to name a few. At more than 300 pages, this oversize, slipcased, clothbound, two-volume publication features only the work for which Krasilcic first became known: his era-defining photographs from the 1990s.

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This book – part manual, part inventory, part research file – includes the complete list of Michael Landy's possessions, drawings, photographs, a collage of research materials as well as a section of photographs from the installation of the work in Oxford Street in London, February 2001.

A collection of photographs of activist graffiti by feminist guerrilla groups often sprayed over advertising boards in the 1980s and 1990s.

A themed collection of Araki photographs. Issue 6: Tokyo Novel

Designed in Cuba: Cold War Graphics presents the work of 33 designers and artists such as Alfredo Rostgaard and Emory Douglas whose provocative and politically charged work transmitted a message of revolution to millions across the globe.

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.

Eudora Welty’s Photographs, originally published in 1989, serves as the definitive book of the critically acclaimed writer’s photographs. Her camera’s viewfinder captured deep compassion and her artist’s sensibilities. Photographs is a deeply felt documentation of 1930s Mississippi taken by a keenly observant photographers.

Objects of Desire looks at the appearance of consumer goods in the 200 years since the introduction of mechanized production, whether in Josiah Wedgewood's use of neo-classicism for his industrially manufactured pottery or the development of appropriate forms for wirelesses. The argument is illustrated with examples ranging from penknives to computers and from sewing machines to railway carriages.

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.

Weighted with heavy, nineteenth-century camera equipment, Vittorio Sella climbed some of the world's most mysterious, perilous peaks and photographed them, many for the first time. His strikingly elegant photographs offer groundbreaking scientific and documentary information.

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

INTRA-VENUS is Hannah Wilke’s last work before she passed away 1993 of complications from Lymphoma. During the later stages of her illness, she collaborated with her husband, Donald Goddard, on a series of photographs documenting the realities of her physical and mental transformation.

The inaugural volume in the All-American series features numerous projects by Bruce Weber, including profiles of photographer Pirkle Jones, football legend Cy Ellsworth, mountaineer Bradford Washburn, and Montana rancher John Hoiland. Also features drawings by Paul Stone.

AFROSURF is the first book to capture and celebrate the surfing culture of Africa. This unprecedented collection is compiled by Mami Wata, a Cape Town surf company that fiercely believes in the power of African surf.

As the title suggests, this book features never-before-published pictures of horses and dogs by William Eggleston, who is widely regarded as the most influential figure in contemporary color photography.

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

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.

Enghelab Street, Revolution Street explores Tehran’s iconic book district through Iranian artist Hannah Darabi’s collection of photographic and propaganda publications from 1979–1983. Covering a brief period of relative free expression between the Shah’s fall and the Islamic government’s rise, the book presents a visual essay with critical commentary by Chowra Makaremi, revealing rare printed materials from a transformative cultural moment

This compendium includes the most creative and innovative of the celebrated fashion illustrator Lopez's step into camerawork. Most of these instamatics, spanning the 1970s, were previously unpublished prior to the release of this book.

A nuanced profile, in image and text, of the great Black Power leader at the exhilarating moment of the movement's ascendancy.

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

This book is an extenstion of a photography exhibition that took place at The Corcoran Gallery of Art in 1996.Featuring photographs by Jim Goldberg, Nan Goldin, Sally Mann, Jack Radcliffe, and Kathy Vargas, the images explore and communicate to the public the experience and meaning of hospice care. The approaches of the five artists vary substantially in their style and subject matter, ranging from dark and intense to images of smiles and loved ones.

A photographic exploration of the confluence of art, fashion and fetish in the cult of high heels swooping down fashion show runways and city streets. With photographic contributions by Glen Luchford, Robert Mapplethorpe, Martin Parr, Guy Bourdin, Juergen Teller, Araki, Bruce Gilden, Peter Hujar, et al.

In the late 1950's Weinberger started to develop an obsessive interest in the nascent biker culture and its proud and self-confident celebration of the body, embarking on a longtime study of their lifestyle. Weinberger's photographs are a unique document both of pre-Stonewall gay culture and postwar youth culture and its cycles, imbued with a mischievous sense of humour that makes them as vibrant and vital today as they were when they were first taken.

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.

Black in White America 1963-1965 is an expanded edition of Leonard Freed’s 1969 publication, Black in White America, published by Reel Art Press. Here, Michael D. Shulman, Magnum’s director of publishing and the book’s co-editor, introduces how the title was produced in consultation with the Freed Estate, providing an overview of the project’s striking images and their relevancy today.

This manual offers an in-depth look at the further evolution of IBM’s house style in the 1970s and ’80s, from logotypes, fonts, numerals, and type specimens, to highly detailed information on imprinting binders, signage, packaging, and related material.

A collection of photographs from the Italian interior design magazine Casa Vogue.

Scarcity of resources as a stimulator for of innovation, inspiration, and ingenuity: reflections, poems, visual essays, and dialogues contributed by 60 scholars and practitioners of architecture from across the Global South

This book is a testament to the fascination of books themselves. From the early days of ancient Roman stone carvings to today's explosion of Internet information, Ex Libris chronicles the written record, offering a new interpretation of the signs, letter forms, shapes, and images used to document human history. Featuring images from the world's greatest book collections and libraries, including the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris; the British Museum; the New York Public Library; the Pierpont Morgan Library; and the Cairo Museum.

Satellites is the culmination of a seven-year photographic journey that takes viewers through the countries and enclaves once held in orbit by the immense gravity of Moscow, the nucleus of the Soviet empire. The photographs reveal the often grim circumstances in these half-forgotten regions, uniformly poor and often politically unstable.

Portraits in Life and Death is the only book of photographs published by Peter Hujar during his lifetime. The twenty-nine portraits of creative people―ranging from William Burroughs, Susan Sontag, and John Waters to Larry Ree―possess a haunting beauty and degree of psychological examination that is both offbeat and riveting. Following the portraits come eleven images that can only be described as devastating: pictures of semi-preserved, clothed bodies of nineteenth-century Sicilians found in the arid catacombs beneath a church in Palermo.

As We Rise brings together over 100 powerful photographs celebrating African diasporic culture. Featuring Black artists from Africa, the Caribbean, North and South America, and Great Britain, the collection offers a vibrant and timely exploration of Black identity, creativity, and lived experience across both sides of the Atlantic.

Christopher Felver's photographs testify to the spirit's vitality in late-twentieth-century America. In Angels, Anarchists & Gods, Felver assembles a community of individuals whose lives and work nourish America's historic dream of freedom, justice, and human decency.

This unparalleled collection traces the development of modern trademarks and sheds light on forgotten designs and early versions of famous logos.

An Exhibition Always Hides Another Exhibition is a collective portrait of Hans Ulrich Obrist composed by friends, collaborators, admirers, and inquisitors. From personal anecdotes to analytic estimations to visual representations, the contributions respond to the questions that frame the book: Who is HUO? What does HUO do? What has HUO done?

An insider's history of the "Beat" movement and its personalities through the personal photographs of one of its principle figures – Allen Ginsberg. Pointing his camera randomly at the counterculture around him, the poet created a unique visual record of his friends and companions covering a period of almost forty years. His subjects include Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Neal Cassady, Robert Frank, Paul Bowles, Timothy Leary, dozens of other writers, painters, and friends, and several revealing self-portraits. Beneath each photograph are Ginsberg's handwritten reminiscences of the circumstances, people, and places relating to the photograph.

A collection of black and white photographic portraits by Laon Maybanke presenting the many expressions, gestures and faces of humanity.

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

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

Mediascape brings together the mulit-media visual works of renowned multimedia artists such as Marie-Jo Lafontaine, Bruce Nauman, Nam June Paik, and Bill Viol.

Documenta 6 complete catalogue including: Volume I painting / plastic environment / performance; Volume II photography / film / video; Volume III hand drawings / utopian design / books. Featuring the work of almost every important artist ever, including Chantal Akerman, Pierre Alechinsky, Robert Altman, Diane Arbus, Cecil Beaton, Joseph Beuys, Brassaï, Fellini, Agnes Martin, Man Ray, Mapplethorpe and so many more.

This book presents over 700 original scans of printed ephemera and memorabilia, capturing the visual energy and cultural impact of the punk and post-punk movements, with posters signed by designers Sebastian Conran and Malcolm Garrett.


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.

In 2022, Jamaica Society Leeds staged the Rebellion to Romance exhibition as part of the Out of Many Festival marking 60 years of Jamaica independence. The exhibition, and subsequent book, explored the lives of second-generation West Indians in the 1970s and 80s Leeds and the impact of Jamaican ulture.

The Sinking Bear was a brilliantly chaotic 1960s mimeo zine that arose from a loose circle of artists associated with various downtown New York scenes, particularly the circle around the poetry newsletter Floating Bear, edited by Diane Di Prima and Leroi Jones. Born from Diane Di Prima’s sublet apartment, this "bitch-zine" parodied Di Prima’s Floating Bear newsletter with amphetamine-fueled gossip, vitriolic ridicule, and artistic contributions from collagist Ray Johnson.

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

A socialist journal of the social services. In this issue: Bertha Reynolds as Educator, Sport and Community Organising, Independent Unionism, The Democratic Party.

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.

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.

A photographic survey of Metropolitan architecture by David Adjaye

An exhibition catalogue to accompany the MAN RAY/BAZAAR YEARS: A Fashion Retrospective exhibition presenting Man Ray's fashion photographs for Harper's Bazaar.

Punk in Print 1976–80 presents over 500 artifacts from Britain’s punk scene, curated from The Mott Collection. Featuring zines, gig posters, flyers, and badges, it captures punk’s raw, strident aesthetic and rebellious attitude. Beyond music, the book documents shifts in British society, class, and visual culture, offering a vivid portrait of a transformative subcultural movement.

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Covering more than five decades, this publication gives a dazzling review of the great enfant terrible of French fashion, Jean Paul Gaultier (born 1952). Displaying Gaultier's oeuvre alphabetically--including iconic pieces such as Madonna's corsets and Kylie Minogue's stage costumes--Jean Paul Gaultier: From A to Z examines the designer's singular aesthetic from all angles while exploring his different influences: from cinema to dance, from Frida Kahlo to sailors.

An exhibition catalogue published by The Redfern Gallery documenting new work by the British painter. Featuring contributions from Wes Lang and Reba Maybury, it highlights his shift toward narrative-driven, observational painting, influenced by his time in St. Ives and the US.

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

Men of Consequences follows on from Jane Brown's Women of Consequence, and offers a rich visual collection of black and white portraits of men.

A periodical book on modern houses from around the globe. Featuring work of architects Luis Barragán, Venturi and Rauch, MLTW/Moore, Lyndon and Richard Meier.

This is book published to accompany the exhibition Diary at the Seibu Museum, Tokyo, Japan in 1993. it includes extracts of Peter Beard's diary made of various collage of photographs, texts, newspaper clippings and paintings.

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.

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

An insightful sociological typology, this work presents documentary black-and-white portraits of Japanese seventeen-year-olds taken between March 1987 and January 1988. Through a restrained, observational approach, it captures a nuanced portrait of adolescence during a specific cultural moment, rendered with clarity and quiet documentary precision.

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.

African artist El Anatsui is best known for shimmering tapestries made from liquor bottle tops, which are part of the permanent collections of many of the world's great museums. This book offers a uniquely personal perspective on Anatsui and provides the first penetrating study of his artworks.

This is a collection of the early drawings and watercolours of Joseph Beuys. Drawing and painting with watercolors was a form of exploring a spiritual world of images which provided him with the fundamental relationships and terms for his later work as a politically active artist.

S.M.S., founded in New York by William Copley with Dmitri Petrov, was a subscription-based “art in a box” series distributing small, often playful works by mail. Inspired by Marcel Duchamp, it mixed famous and emerging artists across disciplines, all paid equally. Designed to bypass the traditional art market, it fostered accessibility and a collaborative, communal creative environment. Contributors to issue #2 include Nicolas Calas, Bruce Conner, Marcel Duchamp, Marcia Herscovitz, Alain Jacquet, Ray Johnson, Lee Lozano, Meret Oppenheim, Bernard Pfriem, George Reavey, and Clovis Trouille.

For nearly two decades, Lichtenstein has worked in varied subgenres within photography’s historical archetypes: marginalised contemporary landscapes, refracted still life, performance-based portraiture and process-oriented abstraction. In Recorder, Lichtenstein embarks on an ambitious three-part series of images that recycle and reorient themselves within the limits of technology and photographic vision.

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

A visual collection of rock star tattoos.

Curated by Peter Weiermair for an exhibition at Kunsthalle Vienna, this collection of photographs documents the social landscape of American from 1940-2006. Featuring works by Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Larry Clark, Bruce Davidson, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Peter Hujar, Helen Levitt, Ryan McGinley, Gordon Parks, Rosalind Solomon, Ed Templeton and Burk Uzzle.

This book presents photographs of some of the Swinging Sixties characters across Paris, London and New York shot by David Bailey.

This book collects long-lost images of family and friends from the late 1970s by Tina Barney, the acclaimed portraitist and chronicler of domesticity.

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.

For Miles Aldridge Acid Candy' refers to the hard boiled sweets he had as a kid. But this spirit is also found in the photographic dreams he constructs using a bright, almost plastic, coloured palette in order to illustrate fashions for potential buyers. In admiration, David Lynch describes his work as 'a colour coordinated, graphically pure, hard-edged reality'. This book presents 70 full page, colour photographs created for leading fashion magazines such as Vogue, Numero and Paradis.

A collection of pavillions featured at Serpentine. Featuring work by: Zaha Hadid, Daniel Libeskind, Toyoito, Oscard Niemeyer, MVRDV, Alvaro Siza & Eduardo Souto De Moura, Rem Koolhaus & Cecil Balmond, Olafur Elisasson & Kjketil Thorsen, Frank O. Gehry, Sanaa, Jean Nouvel

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

This book is a sincere visual exploration and celebration of love in the Middle East and North Africa.

Back in the Days documents the emerging Hip Hop scene from 1980-1989-before it became what is today's multi-million-dollar multinational industry.

The Situationist Times #1 contains a diverse mix of essays, legal defense transcripts, political manifestos, avant-garde comics, and musical scores. Co-edited by Jacqueline de Jong and French pataphysician Noël Arnaud, the issue spans 30 leaves (64 pages) printed on multi-coloured paper stocks.

This book presents the history of Japan's fine pottery and porcelains.

A collection of paintings by American painter Lois Dodd known for her deceptively simple, observant paintings of everyday life, capturing landscapes, windows, and interiors with a unique, almost abstract clarity, often painting outdoors on small panels, and co-founding the influential Tanager Gallery in the 1950s.


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.

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.

Contains a vast panorama of boxing history, from bare-knuckle fighting to the adoption of the Marquis of Queensberry rules which laid the foundation of modern boxing, to the present day.

Founded in 1947, the Living Theatre is the oldest experimental theatre group still existing in the U.S. Inside this book, the Living Theatre's point-of-view is expressed in words and photographs alternating between daily life and the stage, including poetic and political statements.

Photographs by Man Ray and text by Jean Cocteau.

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

Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender, Resistance explores the history of resistance movements and alternative forms of living from a gendered perspective, grounded in intersectional queer and feminist thinking. Spanning the 19th century to today, the exhibition & its subsequent catalogue pays attention to a range of scales – from domestic to mass uprisings, moving away from the notion of 'waves' of feminism and towards a more fluid attempt to unite ideas and bodies.

Photographs of parties and balls.
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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