In the early 1990s Collier Schorr began working on and off in Southern Germany, compiling a documentary and fictional portrait of a small town inhabited by historical apparitions. Combining the overlapping roles of war photographer, traveling portraitist, anthropologist, and family historian, Schorr tells the interwoven stories of a place and time determined by memory, nationalism, war, emigration, and family through polaroid photography.
Showing Elderfield's distinct view of South Philadelphia, this book documents a big scope of "street life", ranging from snapshots to carefully composed pictures. These beautiful black and white photographs strike the eye because of their lyrical quality, which is enhanced and complemented by contemporary poems.
Lindokuhle Sobekwa began this project after finding a family portrait with his sister Ziyanda’s face cut out. He describes her as a secretive, rebellious, and recalls the dark day when she chased him and he was hit by a car: she disappeared hours later and returned only a decade later, ill. Employing a scrapbook aesthetic with handwritten notes, I Carry Her photo with Me is a means for Sobekwa to engage both with the memory of his sister and the wider implications of such disappearances – a troubling part of South Africa’s history. The book complements his wider work on fragmentation, poverty, and the long-reaching ramifications of apartheid and colonialism across all levels of South African society.
Fred Astaire is best known for a number of highly successful musical comedy films in which he starred with Ginger Rogers. He is regarded by many as the greatest popular-music dancer of all time.
A collection of Henry Moore's writings and spoken words.
Over the past decade, the fashion industry has witnessed a renaissance of the classic khakis that have been the casual pant of choice of such prominent historical figures as James Dean, Albert Einstein, John F. Kennedy, and Picasso. Produced in conjunction with Dockers "RM" Khakis, Khaki: Cut from the Original Cloth is a compilation of over 100 historical and contemporary images, creating a veritable photographic history of khakis. Included in this fascinating fashion retrospective are Hollywood film stills, historical snapshots, and recent fashion and celebrity images by such acclaimed photographers as Annie Leibovitz, Peter Beard, Duane Michals, Cecil Beaton, David Bailey, and more.
Seven Years is a series of photographs that deconstruct the trope of family photography by meticulously mimicking it. In the series, the title of which refers to the age gap between the artist and her elder sister.
A catalogue of Southern American pottery.
The story of Christian Dior's rise to fame as a fashion designer is told through a survey of the House's major collections from 1947 to 1957.
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In this book, German photographer Thomas Struth explores the social space and mental state of the modern metropolis. Strangers & Friends covers the entire trajectory of Struth's career and his work in several subject matters, including his restrained and rigorous architectural photographs, intimate family portraits, and frenzied museum interiors.
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.
This monograph presents a comprehensive overview of Metzger's oeuvre. An illustrated chronology outlines the artist's activities within the historical and political context in which they originated. Thus, the book presents Metzger not just as an artist, but also as an activist.
In this book, Mayall identified the dangers and difficulties created for machine operators by the increasing complexity of modern machines and examined the development of the "machine aesthetic" against social, technical and marketing factors. He also believed that organizing machines into coherent visual fields would help prevent accidents.
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.
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.
Ronald Traeger was an American commercial photographer, painter and graphic designer who also took a range of experimental photographs. The monograph Ronald Traeger New Angles (1999) pays tribute to his short-lived photographic career in London (1961-7) with a memoir by his wife, fellow photographer Tessa Traeger.
A photo-book by Luis Venegas made specially for the J.W. Anderson Workshop in Shoreditch – presenting the designer's collections, from archive pieces to present ones.
In the wake of the Second World War, aiming to occupy the children rampaging streets and parks, the City of Amsterdam founded Jongensland, a space where boys (and the occasional, officially disallowed girl) could play, build, create, and destroy, largely without supervision. Located on an island accessible only by rowboat, Jongensland grew into a sprawling settlement built experimentally from scrap materials by its young inhabitants. Here, children would cook food, raise animals, build fires, and trade with each other. Without adult intervention, they relied on shared resourcefulness and collaborative ingenuity. This book presents Schulz-Dornburg’s largely unseen series alongside an extended alongside an extended essay by architectural historian Tom Wilkinson reflecting on the architectural themes and lessons Jongensland continues to offer.
For more than twenty years, Jefferson Hack has pioneered the idea of magazines as communities through his co-founding editorial of Dazed & Confused, AnOther Magazine and Another Man. Featuring contributions from cultural provocateurs Tilda Swinton, Rankin, Douglas Coupland, Björk, Aimee Mullins, and many more, We Can't Do This Alone: Jefferson Hack the System re-defines the purpose of alternative media in the 21st century drawing on a wealth of innovative projects to artfully map out a bright future for radical publishing.
In his second book, Luke Smalley revisits the themes and ideas that resonated throughout his 2002 monograph Gymnasium. Smalley returns to his native Pennsyvania to investigate the small-town interiors and landscapes which are the settings for his portraits of young atheletes. Color photographs, inspired by a more innocent era, depict exercises which combine whimsy with the inexplicable.
A themed collection of Araki photographs. Issue 8: Private Diary 1980-1995
This book presents the history of Japan's fine pottery and porcelains.
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Over the past eleven years, the photographer and filmmaker Bruce Weber and his partner Nan Bush have published the book series All-American featuring works by artists, photographers, essayists, poets, and personalities whose lives and accomplishments they wish to celebrate. This edition features a portfolio of elephant photographs by Bruce Weber, Kennedy family portraits by Betty Kuhner, and Marlon Brando, as seen by Sam Shaw. Also included are Gilles Larrain, Phil Ochs, Mary Lloyd Estrin, Mary Randlett, Joel Sternfeld, Ranee Flynn, paintings by Forrest Bess, and Joe Coleman collages.
While Joseph Beuys, Marcel Broodthaers, Robert Rauschenberg, and Andy Warhol are not a “group” in the formal sense, they are tightly connected through postwar avant-garde art, especially the shift from modernism to conceptual, media-aware, and socially engaged art in the 1950s–70s. This is a catalogue of their works from a show presented at Galerie Isy Brachot in Paris.
Lee Miller (1907-1977) began her artistic career in 1929 as a Surrealist photographer in Paris. She produced images, often in collaboration with Man Ray, in which she alienated motifs by means of tight framing and experimental techniques, and in doing so rendering visible a paradoxical reality. The publication provides renewed access to her best works, including early Surrealist compositions as well as travel photos that later came to shape her photography oeuvre.
Foote abandoned a successful fashion photographer career to wander the back alleys, scrub land and bars of Memphis portrayed in this book. With textual contributions by photographer William Eggleston and film director Bernardo Bertolucc
From liposuction to lip implants, this book explores all the ins and outs of body sculpting, focusing on the artistry of aesthetic surgery.
Yaya Coulibaly is an artist who has created dynamic puppet theatre performances that draw from the ancient traditions of puppetry in West Africa. His performances incorporate traditional folk tales and legends and episodes from Mali's great epics, as well as colonial history and commentary on contemporary life in Mali.
This book illustrates David Hicks' vast range of interior designs.
This publication documents the creative contribution of OMA/AMO Rem Koolhaas to the Prada stores in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
David Hicks explores all aspects of interior decoration and design.
A socialist journal of the social services. Special volume on issues concerning lesbian and gay communities.
Rowing Blazers looks at the authentic striped, piped, trimmed and badged blazers that are still worn by oarsmen and women around the world today, and at the elaborate rituals, elite athletes, prestigious clubs and legendary races associated with them.
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.
Born in Iran and based in Berlin, German artist Nairy Baghramian explores and reflects on formal languages of both modernism and post-minimalism. This book provides an overview of the work of Nairy Baghramian, with texts that explore the sculptor’s creative process.
Rising Goddess presents photographs of the female body in relation to the woman as an "archetype of the Great Mother". The black and white, almost surrealist, images depict women in various natural landscapes from mountains to deserts to lakes.
GA Document is a Global Architecture focusing on contemporary international architecture and design projects.
As a follow-up to his crazy successful, fashion and pop culture-influencing book of Hip Hop's early days, Back In The Days, photographer Jamel Shabazz takes a sharp turn in bringing to light a vastly original - and under-documented--emerging subculture in Last Sunday In June. Drawing from an enormous cast of eye-catching characters, Shabazz showcases an extraordinary collection of luscious lesbians, tasteful transsexuals, and dramatic drag queens done up in their Sunday best to celebrate Gay Pride.
Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925–2006) was an influential Scottish poet, artist, and gardener renowned for blending classical poetry with visual art, sculpture, and landscape design. This publication was published on the occassion of his works exhibited at La Fondation Cartier.
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.
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.
A periodical book on modern houses from around the globe. Featuring work of architects Alvar Aalto, Le Corbusier, Eero Saarinen, Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Meier & Associates
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.
With photographs spanning Sam McKnight s entire career, this book is a dramatic anthology of looks from retro to androgynous, romantic to sexy, red to platinum all from the master hairstylist's deft hand. Featured are some of the most iconic images in popular culture. Richly illustrated, it features photographs by leading fashion photographers and styles commissioned by Vivienne Westwood, Balmain, Chanel, and many others.
This book collects long-lost images of family and friends from the late 1970s by Tina Barney, the acclaimed portraitist and chronicler of domesticity.
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.
The incomparable Isabella Blow always pushed boundaries in the fashion world, often using her personality as her most offensive weapon. Famous for discovering talents such as Philip Treacy, Alexander McQueen, Sophie Dahl and Hussein Chalayan, she also nurtured and inspired many artists and designers across the industry. Personal letters written exclusively for this book have been contributed by legendary names in fashion – from Valentino and Anna Wintour to Manolo Blahník and Naomi Campbell alongside portraits by the greatest photographers in fashion, including Mario Testino, Rankin, Donald McPherson and Richard Burbridge.
Eve Babitz offers a great insider survey of the fashion phenomenon that was Fiorucci in the late seventies.
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.
Art News Annual XXXIV is a collection of thirteen illustrated essays tracing the history of the avant-garde from France in the 19th century to Pop Art; contributors include: Linda Nochlin, Michel Butor, Meyer Schapiro, Harold Rosenberg, John Ashbery and Ron Padgett.
Arthur Tress is known for his staged surrealism and exposition of the human body. Theater of the Mind explores adult fantasies and marked the introduction in Tress's work of overtly erotic imagery. As Tress explained, he sought to make "photographs [that] attempt to make explicit . . . sexual passions and ironies," albeit with spiritual dimensions.
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"XL Photography 2" is the title of the second catalogue of the collection. This volume documents the acquisitions up to 2003, including works by the artists Bernd and Hilla Becher, Phillip-Lorca DiCorcia, Roni Horn, Matthias Klose, Chantal Michel, Josef Schultz, Juergen Teller, Christina Zück and more.
Through personal effort and relentless struggle, Hamed Abdalla created a new school of Egyptian painting with its own identity, laws, and philosophy. Born in Cairo in 1917, he drew inspiration from popular neighbourhoods before gaining recognition in Europe in the 1950s. Reviving ancient Egyptian art through folk, sacred, and calligraphic abstraction, Abdalla opposed dictatorship and the commercialisation of art. This book is a collection of some of his work.
This monograph of the Jamaican self-taught artist John Dunkley offers a generously illustrated overview of his powerful work. Reproducing the intricate details and somber palette that characterise John Dunkley's paintings, this book situates the artist's oeuvre within its historical context.
During the 1970s and 80s, Lynne Cohen turned her view-camera toward classrooms, science laboratories, testing facilities, waiting rooms, and other interior spaces where function triumphs over aesthetics. In cool, functional offices, futuristic reception areas, lifeless party rooms, and escapist motel rooms, Cohen surveys a society of surface, contradiction, and social engineering.
In Cowboy Kate, a lyrical tale of the triumph of youth played out by cowgirls of the old west, Haskins reinvented the genre of the nude with stunningly well-executed photographs, a cinematic approach, and a subtly engaging narrative.
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with a show held June 6 - August 19, 1990.
Magnum photographer Chien-Chi Chang photographed pairs of some 700 psychiatric inmates who are chained together and forced to tend one million chickens on a large farm in Taiwan.
A comprehensive study of the work of photographer Bill Brandt, and a catalogue to an exhibition at the Barbican Centre in London in 1993. Brandt is perhaps best known for his sequence of ever more abstracted studies of the nude, but his telling portrayals of artists from the same period remain immediate and perceptive decades later. This book explores, on a large scale, all the different aspects of Brandt's work.
A document of an important time for popular music, Lynn relates personal stories about many of the stars she has photographed. From intimate accounts about her friends and lovers, including Bruce Springsteen, Sting, Bob Dylan, David Byrne, and Patti Smith.
A book showcasing the jewellery made by Dali.
Weaving the World is the first substantial monograph on the Swedish-born, Norwegian modernist textile artist Hannah Ryggen (1894–1970), presenting works from her entire oeuvre, emphasizing her politcal tapestries from the 1930s. Six of these were presented at Documenta 13 in 2012.
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.
If David Bailey was the quintessential London photographer during the Swinging Sixties, the photographs he produced in the 1970s reflect a radical reorientation. This volume collects images from his 1970s fashion sittings as well as his portraits of subjects ranging from Salvador Dali and Mick Jagger to Margaret Thatcher and Mother Teresa. His acclaimed television documentaries on Andy Warhol, Cecil Beaton and Luchino Visconti provided yet more opportunities for compelling stills.
A collection of works by American sculpture Alexander Calder.
This book present and discusses some of the twentieth century's most significant examples of Outsider Art in America.
Work 1961–73 chronicles the years when Rainer found herself and her work at the heart of a revolution in dance, performance and art. Written in Rainer’s wonderful frank, funny and perceptive prose, and illustrated with photographs, handwritten scores, sketches, press articles and ephemera, Work 1961–73 is a period document and an instruction manual, an archive and a manifesto.
A book of surreal and eccentric architecture.
Featuring more than 800 stunning images, from photographers such as Larry Clark, Ari Marcopoulos, and David Sims, this book gives behind-the-scenes content to Supreme – from t-shirt collections to collaborations with Nan Goldin, Comme de Garçons, and Nike, to name a few. The book also features a curated section of lookbooks and an index of T-shirts released since Supreme's Spring/Summer 2010 collections. With textual contributions by Carlo McCormick and film director Harmony Korine.
Gold & Ashes is a visual series on the Grenfell Community by bereaved family member Feruza Afewerki. It features a collection of photo stories of the local community of survivors and bereaved, documented over 3 years, in hopes of highlighting the humanity and courage of the Grenfell residents, honour the memories of their loved ones lost and bring dignity to those directly impacted by the tragedy.
This book explores fascinating life and designs of Valentino.
This book presents photographs of some of the Swinging Sixties characters across Paris, London and New York shot by David Bailey.
This three-volume book looks back on Supreme's T-shirt archives from the year 1994 to now. Each volume is dedicated to a different time and period, providing an introspective look into every T-Shirt that the New York imprint has released throughout its 30-year history
Notting Hill in the Sixties attempts to capture the exuberance and vivacity of the people in one of London's most famous neighbourhoods. Phillips photographs present a pictorial documentary of the area of North Kensington which, from the fifties, became the spiritual home of Britain's Afro-Caribbean community. His pictures are both affectionate personal portraits of friends and neighbours, and a social commentary which evokes the flavour of the period and the locality.
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.
A history of lingerie – includes photographs, sketches and design developments.
This exhibition catalogue weaves the thread between sculpture, fashion photography and art. Featuring an essay by Sarah Mower and an interview with Jonathan Anderson.
This book features previously unpublished drawings and photographs from the extraordinary archives of Danzig Baldaev and Sergei Vasiliev documenting a disappearing subculture of tattooed criminals.
In 1968, Magnum photographer Dennis Stock took a 5-week road trip along the California highways, documenting the height of the counterculture hippie scene. These black and white photos were compiled to create California Trip and have become an emblem of the free love movement that continued to inspire throughout the decades.
This book offers a unique guide to the style and design of the furniture of this century.
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.
David Hicks explores al aspects of interior decoration and design in the home.
GA Document is a Global Architecture focusing on contemporary international architecture and design projects.
From Playboy's classic archives comes a trilogy of stocking-stuffer-sized volumes, each devoted to a certain hair colour – this one is dedicated to redheads.
A collection of the most desired, envied, and debonair men in history. From the frock coats of Gainsborough's portraits to city workers' two-piece suits, men and their fashion have made a vital contribution to our collective notion of style.
In this closely observed sequence of photographs, Dorothy Bohm has captured her vision of London as it appeared to her in the late 1960s.
This mesmerizing collection of photography, drawing, and sculpture showcases the work of Birgit Jürgenssen, an Austrian avant-garde artist. Birgit Jürgenssen (1949 - 2003) was a strong feminist and fierce advocate for women in the arts. Her early vibrant illustrations and surrealist, dreamlike photographs explored gender and societal restraints, and blurred the lines between humans, plants, and animals.
A cult publication documenting Helmut Lang pieces from archival collections consisting of over 800 pages over two volumes. The privately owned garments were photographed piece by piece over several months – resulting in an important documentation of Lang's sharp silhouettes and cutting edge fabrics that trace his career between 1986 and 2005. The book is particularly significant given Lang famously destroyed 6,000 pieces of work for his exhibition Make it Hard exhibition.
John Waters: Pope of Trash was published in tandem with the first comprehensive exhibition dedicated to the artist’s contributions to cinema. The book delves into his filmmaking process, key themes, and unmatched style.
An homage to Japanese street style bible Kerouac's monthly feature, Hair Wars documents dyes, bangs and cuts on the streets of a post-pandemic London in all its glory. Shot by William E. Wright (editor of fanzine Street Flash), the project frames experimental hair as a self-made antidote to the latest fashion movements, something that can be "as democratic as a box of dye, a couple of clips and the willingness to be creative.
A socialist journal of the social services. In this issue: social welfare in a capitalist society, radical therapy.
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.