A captivating look at the glamorous, jet-setting lifestyles of those who frequent the legendary Hotel Il Pellicano, overlooking a secluded bay in Tuscany's Porto Ercole. One of the most beautiful destinations in the world, the chic Hotel Il Pellicano, located on the Argentario, is a hangout for many from the design, fashion, and art worlds.

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

The inaugural Future Art Ecosystems report examines emerging infrastructures supporting artistic practices engaged with advanced technologies. Drawing on research by the Serpentine Galleries, it includes insights from artists such as Hito Steyerl, James Bridle, Ian Cheng, and Jakob Kudsk Steensen. Through interviews with creatives, technologists, and researchers—including Refik Anadol and teamLab—the publication explores how art, technology, and innovation are shaping future cultural ecosystems.

AnOther Magazine's launch in 2001 heralded a new chapter in magazine publishing. Its blend of high fashion and world-class photography with intelligent features on the arts, politics and literature.

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Exhibition ephemera for Land Art exhibition organised by centro de arte y communicacion in 1974.

Born in 1955 in a poor district of São Paulo, Ismael Ivo became one of the world’s most famous and successful dancers. This book presents his movements in black and white imagery, paired with poetic musings.

Aspen Issue 8 is widely known as "The Fluxus Issue". Edited by artist Dan Graham, this issue marked a shift toward conceptual art and information science. Rather than a traditional magazine, it took the form of a multimedia portfolio containing 14 unbound sections. Contains works David Antin, Terry Atkinson, Michael Baldwin, Philip Glass, Jackson Mac Low, La Monte Young, Steve Reich, Richard Serra, Yvonne Rainer, Dennis Oppenheim, Robert Morris, and Ed Ruscha.

Examples of American experimental film from 1939-1979.

Another Art Book, the final volume celebrating the archives of AnOther Magazine, revisits groundbreaking art commissions published since 2001. Featuring artists including Damien Hirst and Yayoi Kusama, it highlights the magazine’s bold integration of contemporary art into fashion publishing, culminating in collaborative projects that fused designers and artists, reshaping the relationship between both creative worlds.

This is a collection of studio pictures - stills, portraits and staged "off-set" publicity photographs - which celebrate exotic matinee idols of the silent era such as Rudolph Valentino, through to today's international superstars, including Clint Eastwood and Harrison Ford. The complementary text encapsulates each star's special appeal and looks at how perceptions of the male hero have changed over the last 80 years.

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

Special supplement to influential eighties men’s magazine Per Lui which featured the work of  many well known fashion photographers through its time: Bruce Weber, Mario Testino, Herb Ritts, Steven Meisel amongst them. In this extended 80-page editorial, Bruce Weber and crew based out of the Shangri La Hotel in Los Angeles photographs a summer at the beach.

In this book, Somali-British architect Rashid Ali and British photographer Andrew Cross present a fresh and uncommon portrait of the Somalian city, revealing how its architecture has reshaped and defined it--from colonisation to independence and from antiquity to modernism--as one of the most important cities in the Horn of Africa.

A book detailing the exquisite textiles and wallpaper patterns throughout the interiors of the iconic Hotel Okura in Tokyo which was built two years ahead of the Tokyo Olympics in 1964 by a diverse team of designers including architects Yoshiro Taniguchi and Hideo Kosaka, folk artist Shiko Munakata and potter Kenkichi Tomimoto. The design of the building adopted a modern aesthetic that would still reference the traditional colours, shapes and crafts of Japan. The Okura was demolished, so this book is testament to a lost relic of Japanese modernism.

A collection of the winning books from the Most Beautiful Swiss Book Awards of 2022.

A themed collection of Araki photographs. Issue No.16: Erotos

Tulsa is a collection of black-and-white photographs by Larry Clark of the life of young people in Tulsa, Oklahom. Taken between 1963 and 1968, the images document a youth culture progressively overwhelmed by self-destruction.

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

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.

This book introduces the writing of Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier

This book presents some of the most remarkable manifestations of the idiosyncratc, eccentric glory of the human imagination.

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.

Issue on houses and interiors in Southern Europe

Issue on houses in the U.S.A.

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.

Carnival: A Photographic and Testimonial History of the Notting Hill Carnival captures the heart of London's largest street festival through powerful images and personal stories. From its roots in Caribbean resistance to its role as a beacon of culture and community, this book is a vibrant tribute to the people, music, and spirit that make Notting Hill Carnival.

Issue on apartment interiors.

The Smell of Calpol on a Warm Summer's Night blurs the line between reality and fiction. Framed like paintings, each image is a cinematic tableau of Suburbia, with a warm glow of neon light reminiscent of hazy evenings spent in front of TV screens. Carlos Clarke presents a glance into others' living rooms and domestic environments, offering an eerie portrayal of twilight.

During 1929, Herbert List began to photograph the young men he knew and traveled with throughout Greece, Italy, and Germany. He captured the innocence of their beauty and physical prowess before Hitler's politics commandeered those qualitie. The relationship, in List's mind, of these young men to Greek statues is emphasised by the occasional juxtaposition of nude or semi-nude figures with fragments of Greek statues.

Superb photographs, by Richard Young, of the famous, the glamorous, the ambitious and the tastless as they party, and relax in chic Mayfair environs. The celebrities captured on camera include, Warhol, Divine, Francis Bacon, Bianca Jagger, Keith Moon, Zandra Rhodes, Elton John, Grace Jones, Britt Ekland and a host of others. Christopher Wilson’s text captures in wry and studied prose the antics of the famous and infamous.

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

A themed collection of Araki photographs. Issue 7: Sentimental Travelogue

A reflective photographic project by Tina Enghoff exploring childhood, identity, and memory. It considers what is lost in leaving childhood behind—imagination, emotional fluidity, and a fairy-tale sense of perception. Enghoff suggests that while childhood becomes distant and fragmented, its memories persist as an obscured but foundational emotional presence shaping adult life

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.

Camera in Paris by Brassaï is a captivating photographic journey through the streets of 1930s Paris, revealing the city’s hidden nocturnal life with striking intimacy and poetic depth. Known as the “Eye of Paris,” Brassaï captures the city’s shadowy corners, bustling nightlife, and everyday moments.

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South African artist William Kentridge's drawings, films, books, installations, and collaborations with opera and theater companies have established him as a world-class star in contemporary art. In this book, Jane Taylor, Kentridge's friend and frequent collaborator, invites us to take an extraordinary behind-the-scenes look at his work.

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 fourth volume in the series looks at Great Britain, Ireland and Benelux.

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First published in 1967 by Nothing Doing in London, Karma Circuit brings together Harold Norse’s work from his years in Italy, Paris, Athens, and Hydra with photographs of vibratory phenomena by Hans Peter Widmer.

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.

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This book covers materials, forming methods, surface decoration, glazing, and firing techniques of clay. The third edition expands technical guidance, includes colour charts of clay and glaze combinations, outlines historical developments in ceramics, and provides references to key resources and museums, supporting both introductory study and advanced practice.

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

Outsider Art refers to the mesmerizing creations of those who live and work at a distance from prevailing notions about mainstream artistic trends, individuals who are frequently unaware of themselves as artists or their works as art. This book presents and discusses some of the 20th century's most significant examples of Outsider Art artists from around the world, including Gedewon, a cleric from Ethiopia who made unique and psychedelic talismans; William Hawkins, an African-American self-taught artist with a unique pop sensibility; and more.

Collection of paparazzi photographs of celebrities caught off guard – on holiday, at the market, kissing in a doorway.

Red, green, and blue, these three colour-coded issues chart the artistic journey of Zineb Sedira, culminating in her presentation for the French Pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia 2022. Replete with artistic, cinematic, musical, archival, and political references, the three issues shed light on Zineb Sedira’s artistic practice, the processes that underpin her work, and the inspirations that have nourished it.

This collection of seven folders celebrating Lloyd's Bank's milestone building in the City of London designed by Richard Rogers. Each folder contains photographs and text detailing concept development, architectural details, history of Lloyds' and its buildings.

During the summer of 1959, Bruce Davidson followed a loosely knit "gang" of teenagers around Brooklyn, New York. His camera captured the youth of the James Dean generation in both private and public moments at the soda fountain, the tattoo parlor, Coney Island, and late night basement dance parties.

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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This book presents necklaces, rings, bracelets, pendants, earrings, and cuff links designed by sixteen modern architect, with brief interviews with each about their work. Includes postmodern jewelry by Mario Bellini, Ettore Sottsass, Peter Shire, Marco Zanini, Michele de Luccchi et al.

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.

A book investigating the relationship of art and society through the works of eight German artists: Albrecht D., Joseph Beuys, KP Brehmer, Hans Haacke, Dieter Hacker, Gustav Metzger and more.

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.

Issue 5 of IL was dedicated to convertible roofs. Contributions by Dieter Blumel, Rainer Graefe, Jurgen Hennicke,  Friedmann Kugel, Uta Pankoke, Frei Otto, Hans-Joachim Schock, Jorg Wagner. Texts in German and English.

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Exhibition catalogue of works by Roland Freeman, capturing the daily life in black American culture during its transition from rural to urban settings.

An illustrated history of fashion in skateboarding.

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.

Nan Goldin's The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is a visual diary chronicling the struggles for intimacy and understanding among the friends and lovers whom Goldin describes as her "tribe". These photographs described a lifestyle that was visceral, charged and seething with a raw appetite for living, and the book soon became the swan song for an era that reached its peak in the early 1980s.

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.

Published for an exhibition at the Centre de la Vieille Charité, this catalogue explores ceramics and glass by the Memphis Group. Featuring essays and illustrations, it highlights works by designers including Ettore Sottsass, Michele de Lucchi, Andrea Branzi, and Nathalie du Pasquier, alongside a bibliography and exhibition history.

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

This publication presents the Bill Brandt's entire oeuvre, with special emphasis on his investigation of life in 1930s during war-time London, and his innovative late nudes.

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

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.

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.

This book is an insight into Japanese post-war design.

A themed collection of Araki photographs. Issue 14: Obscenities and Strange Black Ink Stories

This book presents the work of British artist Bruce McLean, known for his work across disciplines from sculpture, performance art to painting and ceramics, to books and film.

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.

A collection of scripts, pictures, documents, scenes and notes from from The Tin Drum directed by Volker Schlöndorff based on the novel by Günter Grass.

A collection of Alice O'Malley's book of portraits of people in New York's Lower East Side.

A reproduction of (a, b, c) in which Ulises Carrión presents one if his early linguistic exercises in English, originally handwritten in green ink in 1972.

Aisha is Yemeni Egyptian American photographer and filmmaker Yumna Al-Arashi’s first artist’s book. This powerful, delicate publication, inspired by Al-Arashi’s great-grandmother, Aisha, is an homage to the lineage of women that she descends from; women of the multidimensional and many-layered landscapes of the MENA region.

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

This book showcases dutch counter-culture.

The year in which photographer Jillian Edelstein turned 40 she came across an image of her great aunt Minna, of whose existence she had been unaware. The photograph of Minna became the catalyst for a journey to unearth her family history and the discovery of an unknown branch of her family living in Ukraine. Here and There documents Edelstein’s family odyssey and expands to encompass photographs made throughout her career, inextricably linked by the thread of human displacement.

Born in Iran and currently living in the US, Shirin Neshat's work sits at the centre of two very different cultural universes. This book documents all of her activity, including her first black and white photographic work in which she gave voices to Iranian women by tracing onto their faces, hands, and naked feet the verses of ancient Persian poets.

Beginning with his early days in London's East End, this book follows the life and work of David Bailey from the 1950s up until the late 1960 – from his first photographic experiences as an assistant to John French; his early years with Vogue; his close relationship with the stars of rock music; and his friendships and love affairs.

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 sixth volume in the series looks at Scandinavia and Socialist Countries.

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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.

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.

In this collection of classic work from the 1980s, Bailey abstains from any comment or explanation but shows the reader the world of a mature photographer whose vision has been sharpened by time.

Designers are rethinking material futures as human activity reshapes the planet and natural resources decline. This book profiles 30 innovators who transform waste into primary material, alongside essays exploring the cultural and environmental stakes of their work, revealing an emerging design ethos rooted in reuse and regeneration.

For 25 years, Tom Wood lived in New Brighton, just across the river Mersey from Liverpool. He became known locally as "photieman" because everyday he was out on the streets with his camera. Most of the pictures collected in this book were taken within a five-minute walk from Wood's home. The work focuses on the inhabitants of the town and its regular visitors – youths, friends, lovers, fathers, mothers and babies to provide insight into the area.

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.

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

This book is a study of fashion and the body which aims to establish the relations between codes and systems of clothing and the conduct of everyday life.

Photographer Jo Spence challenges the assumptions of conventional photography in this groundbreaking visual autobiography, which traces her journey from self-censorship to self-healing.

This book explores propaganda posters from the early decades of the People’s Republic of China, portraying Mao Zedong as a heroic, guiding figure within idealized socialist scenes. Drawn from Max Gottschalk’s extensive collection, it presents rare artworks that reveal how visual culture promoted unity, moral conduct, and faith in a communist utopia through powerful imagery and carefully staged representations of everyday life.

A book about architecture

This book presents the photographic work of Karl Lagerfeld. In full-bleed plates Lagerfeld presents the different forms of nature, alongside elements of the human body.

Haraka Baraka is the second book published by SkatePal, a non-profit organisation that supports young people in Palestine through skateboarding. Since 2013, they have been building skateparks, providing equipment and teaching skate classes to young people across the West Bank. This book is the result of a collaboration between SkatePal and Lebanese designer Samar Maakaroun. Over 224-pages, Haraka Baraka gives a unique introduction to the Arabic language explored through a collection of expressions, ranging from simple everyday phrases shouted in the street, to more complex proverbs steeped in history.

A socialist journal of the social services. In this issue: visions from the left on the human services.

A documentation of students Rossville High School by photographer Jim Richardson.