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 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.

"This book is a pictorial and practical guide to the psychology of the woman interested in lingereis which expose her real character". A collection of photographs shot from the lowest angle inside the skirts of women, revealing what they're wearing below.

Richard Kern’s classic and long out of print book of black and white photographs of young women was published by a Tokyo Gallery in 1996 as a way to get some of his erotic images from the book New York Girls past the censors in Japan. This book, published early in Kern’s career, features nude photos of girls he knew and worked with from New York’s downtown art and music scene.

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

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.

A variation of scenes shot on the beach.

William Eggleston's Guide was the first one-man show of colour photographs ever presented at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Museum's first publication of colour photography. Shot between 1969 and 1971, the photographs displayed in the exhibition and in this publication present a deceptively casual look at the surrounding world – with photographs of people, landscapes and odd little moments in and around Eggleston's home town of Memphis.

A socialist journal of the social services. In this issue; Marxian theory and social work practice; the economic context of day care policy debates; conselling in crisis; focus on peace from the archives; plus book reviews.

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Designed as a companion book to his critically-acclaimed monograph South Central, Mark Steinmetz here turns his focus to Athens and Atlanta, New Orleans, Memphis and East Tennessee, and the roads between.

This book showcases extraordinary cars, with a standout section on Lamborghini. Featuring period photos of Bertone designs like the Marzal, Bravo, and Athon, it highlights iconic the design of many iconic cars.

The Dazed & Confused collected interviews provide a definitive insight into the style culture of the 1990s, forming a unique and singular portrait of a generation of young artists alongside their more established antecedents. With up to 40 interviews with artists & celebrities including – Damien Hirst, Jean Baudrillard, Kate Moss, Terry Southern, Isaac Hayes, Noam Chomsky, Bjork and Stockhausen, Lou Reed and Paul Auster, Harmony Korine.

Tir a'Mhurain is a collection of photographs that reflects the impressions gathered by Paul Strand and his wife Hazel during their 3-month visit to the Hebrides in 1945. Juxtaposing people and landscape, Strand's beautifully sequenced photographs depict the perfect complicity he saw between nature and habitation in their wild terrain.

Malick Sidibe has gained an international reputation for his documentation of an important period in the history of Bamako. His portraits document the social life in of this region, especially the youth culture. Images of people gathering outside of a club; couples performing the Mali twist in a disco; African fashions; the beauty of havng fun in the street. Sidibe's photographs oscillating between the traditional tribal life and urban survival in the West African city of Bamako.

Ahmed Morsi: A Dialogic Imagination discusses the places, people, texts, ideas, and materials that have shaped the unique practice of the New York–based Egyptian artist Ahmed Morsi.

Kazuo Ohno was a Japanese performance artist and leading exponent of Butoh, a Japanese dance-theatre movement in which formal technique is eschewed and primal sexuality and the grotesque are explored. Throughout his life, Kazuo Ohno has been captured on film by many photographers and what is produced is an image of his body but photographs cannot show what is hidden within the body.

Material Man: Masculinity, Sexuality, Style examines masculine images in fashion and the media, attempting to answer the question of what it means to be a man in the contemporary world – contains images from films, television, magazines and the fine arts, along with essays.

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.

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Leading civil rights attorneys Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck of The Innocence Project commissioned photographer Taryn Simon to travel across the United States photographing and interviewing individuals who were convicted of heinous crimes of which they were innocent. Simon photographed these innocents at sites of particular significance to their illegitimate conviction: the scene of the crime, misidentification, arrest, or alibi. Simon’s portraits are accompanied by a commentary by Neufeld and Scheck.

Filled with compelling images from revered photographers of the past and present, this book sheds light on marginalised communities who have traditionally shied away from the cameras. Works by critically acclaimed photographers including Bruce Davidson, Paz Errazuriz, Jim Goldberg, Danny Lyon, Mary Ellen Mark, Boris Mikhailov, Daido Moriyama, and Dayanita Singh cast a compassionate, unflinching eye on the worlds inhabited by transsexuals, hookers, hustlers, bikers, junkies, circus performers, gang members, survivalists, petty criminals, and others who live in the shadows, on the streets, and out of the public eye.

Tek Hod is a contemporary photographic response to an ancient tradition: Cumberland and Westmorland Wrestling. Documenting a legacy of romanticism on one hand and industrialisation on the other, David Ellison's photo series speaks to the complexity of the landscape's tradition via costume and archive as well as the influence of the Arts and Crafts movement.

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.

This book traces the five-year construction of Plumtree Court, Goldman Sachs' new headquarters in Central London, through Juergen Teller's inimitable vision. Teller relished immersing himself in such a long-term project, one thrillingly different to the fashion world he knows so well.

An incredible photo reference on interiors. Beautiful design examples for each room as well as details of interior architecture looking at everything from floors, walls and furnishings to private spaces and children's play areas. The book gives attention to the relationship between exterior and interior architecture. With work included by an array of important designers including Sori Yanagi, Shiro Kuramata, Shigeru Uchida, Awatsuji Expo, Shigeo Fukuda, Jiro Takamatsu and Shinya Fujiwara amongst others.

Street photographs of scenes in Shanghai.

Born in the 70’s, Dumbo grew up in the southern suburbs of Milan and came into contact with the world of graffiti in the early 90’s. In a short time he became one of the foremost writers on the European scene. This book is an unprecedented photographic voyage, the actual backstage dynamics of the irrepressible obsession to tattoo the city’s skin.

A socialist journal of the social services. Special issue on the Black community.

This is the first book to document the short yet prolific artistic career of fashion photographer and filmmaker Tom Kublin, and a celebration of his creative union with Cristóbal Balenciaga during the fashion house’s postwar heyday in Paris. More than 140 photographs and film stills by Kublin capture the golden age of Balenciaga couture in the 1950s and 1960s, from the impeccable elegance of the collection shoots – including exclusive film footage of Balenciaga himself at work – to striking covers and editorials for high-profile magazines.

An Island Is A Circle spans the various bodies of work Gabriel Orozco created whilst living in Bali, Indonesia. The book's design was closely overseen by the artist himself and is profusely illustrated with images of drawings, paintings and the limestone Dés sculptures made in collaboration with professional artisans in Bali.

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.

The photographers Harry Shunk (German, 1924–2006) and János Kender (Hungarian, 1937–2009) worked together under the name Shunk-Kender from the late 1950s to the early 1970s, based first in Paris and then in New York. Shunk-Kender photographed artworks, events, and landmark exhibitions of avant-garde movements of the era, from Nouveau réalisme to Earth art. They were connected with a vibrant art scene that they captured through portraits of artists and participated in through collaborative projects. This nearly 500-page volume from Xavier Barral accompanied the first Shunk-Kender retrospective, held at the Centre Pompidou, and is based on a selection of more than 10,000 vintage prints.

A collection of Cecil Beaton's fashion photographs shot throughout his career.

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

Made in the UK: The Music of Attitude, 1977–1983 documents a time when British music pushed every boundary. Beckman began her career working for Melody Maker, one of London’s premier weekly music papers. She soon had extraordinary access to the musicians topping the UK charts—icons of an era when music had an agenda—including The Clash, The Sex Pistols, The Jam, The Undertones, The Specials, The Beat, The Police.

Slim Aarons: A Place in the Sun is a visual journey through the lens of legendary photographer Slim Aarons, who famously captured "attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places." This iconic collection showcases the golden age of leisure, luxury, and affluence from the 1940s through the 1980s, featuring glamorous socialites, Hollywood stars, and European aristocrats in sun-drenched settings around the world. With vibrant imagery and candid elegance, A Place in the Sun is both a nostalgic escape and a timeless celebration of style and privilege.

In Heaven is a Prison, McKnight describes a queer otherworld that is at once utopic and purgatorial. Divided into chapters, the poetic sequences in this book oscillate between the literal and the figurative, between distance and communion, and between violence and affection.

A behind the scenes look at the creation of one of Bruce Oldfield's Winter collections, from initial designs to catwalk.

This translated volume examines the unruly, deliberately anti-functionalist design of Studio Alchimia, the radical Milan-based collective that challenged modernist principles. Initially focused on experimental furniture, the group later expanded into accessories and fashion during the 1980s. Featuring a foreword by Alessandro Mendini, the book includes an index of Alchimia members and reflects their provocative, unconventional aesthetic.

This book is an insight into the idiosyncratic flourishes which make a house into a home. Photographer Bruce Weber takes the reader around the world, looking at how creative individuals' homes reflect their own particular personalities.

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

Exhibition catalogue published to coincides with the exhibition by British Sculpture Gavin Turk, In Search of Ariadne, at The Heong Gallery at Downing College.

Bruce Weber’s second eponymous monograph is a multidimensional exploration of masculinity. These photographs present a wide array of shifting archetypes and myths that inform society's sense of the masculine – the tough guy, the wild man, the heroic athlete, the courageous soldier, the pensive artist, the family man, the sensitive troubadour, the object of desire.

A collection of 177 annotated photographs of Eton offering an intimate and personal insight into the school, the area and its people.

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Published to coincide with an exhibition in the Canon Photography Gallery at the V&A, this book looks at the work of key British photographers, art directors and stylists who changed the face of fashion photography in the 1990s. The illustrations show how the distinctions between editorial and advertising, photography and fine art and commercial styles became blurred while the growth in the number of magazines and the rise of the internet increased the scope and availability of fashion imagery. Through interviews and photographs, a style of photography emerges which has a harder edge and challenges previously accepted stereotypes of fashion and glamour.

This book presents a collection of works taken between 1966 and 1992 by photographer Esther Kroon. Kroon mainly photographed street children, with the streets and the neighbourhoods forming the background of the images. Her photos are moving but never move into cliché territory, which often happens with photographs of children. The images are characterised by honesty and openness. The children pictured are both curious and hesitant. The hard flash and the often low perspective create penetrating photos and give the images a rather dark and ominous feeling, bringing to mind the photos of Diane Arbus.

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For three years, Dennis Feldman (born 1946) repeatedly walked an eight-block stretch from Hollywood and Vine to the Chinese Theater, called the Walk of Fame, where people flocked to gaze at a sidewalk full of terrazzo stars inlaid with the names of famous (and no longer famous) entertainers. Hollywood Boulevard compiles the photographer's large-format, black-and-white portraits into a painfully human character study of social identity and performance.

Taryn Simon: A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters, I-XVIII was produced over a four-year period (2008-2011), during which Simon travelled the world researching and recording bloodlines and their related stories. In each of the eighteen "chapters" that make up the work, the external forces of territory, power, circumstance, or religion collide with the internal forces of psychological and physical inheritance. Her subjects feuding families in Brazil, victims of genocide in Bosnia and the living dead in India.

Two volume set of Herb Ritts' photographs of nude men and women.

This book presents an overview of the developments in the use and planning of public spaces, and offers a detailed description of 9 cities and 39 selected public space projects from all parts of the World.

The mysterious and ethereal fashion work of Sarah Moon is gathered together in monograph from 1981 – featuring images made for Marie-Claire, Carita, Vogue, French Vogue, Italian Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Cacharel, The Sunday Times of London, Nova, Pentax, Arkitektur and Wohnen.

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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A catalouge of photographs and drawings by Paul Outerbridge between 1921 and 1941.

In Praise of Still Boys showcases exclusive stills and poetry from JulianKnxx’s acclaimed short film, In Praise of Still Boys (2021) – a striking testament to this very process of an ongoing reconciliation and a kind of healing.

In 1966, Yves Saint Laurent designed his first tuxedo and continued to create different versions of it up until 2002. In that time, the tuxedo has come to symbolize female liberation. This book was published to accompany an exhibition that presented the long history of this garment. Illustrations include numerous couture sketches and photo plates throughout, some in color and some in B&W, many full-page.

This book presents a detailed account of manned space programmes of the US and the USSR as well as an account of the non-American and non-Soviet astronauts.

Vivienne Westwood is one of the icons of our age. Fashion designer, activist, co-creator of punk, global brand and grandmother. Her career has successfully spanned five decades and her work has influenced millions of people across the world. This is the first and only biography written by Westwood in collaboration with award-winning biographer Ian Kelly, to describe the events, people and ideas that have shaped her extraordinary life.

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

A photographic reminiscence of the 1987 Glyndebourne dance season.

We Have No Place To Be sees Joji Hashiguchi turn his lens towards a generation of young people seeking refuge on the streets across 6 different cities. Liverpool, London, Nuremberg, Berlin, New York and Tokyo, Hashiguchi documents the social discord within each of these locations through the youths that had taken to their streets. Featuring more than 100 images, this book is as a valuable artefact of the complexities of youth in an era mired in the fallout from war, austerity, unemployment and challenging leadership.

A collection of archival memorial photography in America – a popular postmortem practice to remember the dead, a form of mourning and memorialisation. This book presents a chronological arrangement of postmortem photography from 1840 - 1930, presenting the image of death from the Puritan journey for a sinner to the late Victorian beautifaction of death and its interpretation as the soul's restful sleep.

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.

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

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.

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 guide to the work of Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto

Photographs of Steve McQueen by William Claxton.

This book tells the story of the first ten years of Sportsbanger – the anarchic, genre-bending cult fashion house. It charts the rise of the brand from an underground bootlegging operation to an all-inclusive, internationally recognized DIY fashion house, record label and socially conscious satirist.

W is an award-winning publication, one of the world’s greatest and best-known fashion magazines. It was founded in 1971 as a sister publication to Women's Wear Daily and was owned by Fairchild Publications until it was purchased by Condé Nast in 1999. This book celebrates its 40th anniversary and is divided into three sections; Who, Where, and Wow.

Unseen Vogue goes beyond the cliches and often repeated "greatest hits" of fashion photography and tells a completely new story. Drawn from the archives of British Vogue, the book presents hundreds of images never seen before— rejects and outtakes—to form a fresh, new history of fashion photography.

Ed Templeton captures the intimacy and awkwardness of young love.

Portraits of American women by Macadams including Patti Smith, Laurie Anderson, Margie Beals, Marisol Escobar, Laurel Wise, Michelle Phillip and more.

Published in 1983 as a companion piece to the hugely popular Sloane Ranger’s Handbook, authors Ann Barr and Peter York expanded the satirical take on the upper classes by providing a definitive guide to the Sloane year.

Leah Gordon has been photographing Jacmel Carnival and recording oral histories with its participants since 1995. Her photographs in ‘Kanaval’ are stripped of kinesis and exuberance. She uses a sixty-year-old Rolleicord medium-format twin-lens-reflex camera, and shoots onto black and white negative film. A consensual reciprocity between the photographer and the sitter arises which leaves behind the commotion of the street and enters the more tranquil territory of a portrait studio.

Between 1998 and 2010, Simon Wheatley photographed a train line that ran across London’s northern inner-suburbs. Initially intrigued by the social polarisation of neighbourhoods along the line, the story became a meandering one with seemingly no end - until the Kodachrome film with which I shot it was discontinued. The work has emerged into this book as a reflection of the emptiness of the Blair years, and a tacit indictment of rail privatisation.

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

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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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Excellent compilation of swimming pool photographs from William Klein, Shomei Tomatsu, Helmut Newton, Claude Nori, Josef Koudelka or Mary Ellen, among others.

This book is a collection of works by Australian artist Glenn Sorensen who creates watercolors and paintings of flowers that are remarkably personal and sensitive.

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

A book about architecture

In South African Township Barbershops and Salons, Simon Weller presents his vivid photographs of these places, their signage and their patrons alongside interviews with the proprietors, customers and the sign makers.

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

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.

In the practice of Dr. X - a dermatologist in Lyon in the early thirties - surface rugged men with bizarre life stories: Foreign Legionnaires, ex-convicts, artists and sailors. They are all tattooed all over their bodies. The doctor and amateur photographer, who liked to take photos of flowers and landscapes on the weekends, was fascinated by the skin illustrations he saw, not as clinical cases but as "secret" works of art. This book presents a collection of these works.

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.

A study of prehistoric art.

What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women, 1843 - 1999, is an anthology of an ongoing examination of photobook history with a specific focus on photobooks created by women – from photography's beginnings to the dawn of the 21st century

Tokyo Love is the photographic collaboration between Nan Goldin and Nobuyoshi Araki, made at a time when orthodox social structures were breaking down. Goldin captures the desperation beneath the bravado and self-conscious sexuality of young people in today's consumerist societies, and chose for this book to photograph young lovers in the bars and nightclubs of Tokyo. Araki chose to do portraits of teenage girls in studio. Their combination is striking and erotic, a portait of Tokyo Youth.

Helmut Newton: Work spans an impressive stretch of Newton’s career, including some of his most striking shots from the ’60s through to his golden heyday. From shadowy street to hotel boudoir, it’s a collection that showcases Newton’s suggestive storytelling throughout his fashion, editorial, or personal pictures.

Photographs of parties and balls.

In One Day, Something Happens: Paintings of People the celebrated writer, art critic and co-editor of Frieze magazine, Jennifer Higgie, illuminates her fascination for the figure in modern British painting through the works of 40 diverse artists from the past century.

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

Jean Cocteau: Metamorphosis (2018) was a major exhibition and accompanying book, curated by Ioannis Kontaxopoulos, that highlighted the French artist’s perpetual self-transformation across various media, including film, drawing, and ceramics. It showcased over 250 works, often from the Musée Jean Cocteau in Menton, tracing his lifelong, multidisciplinary, and deeply personal creative evolution.

This visually opulent book displays the inspiring work of make-up artist Yasmin Heinz. From her vast archive and featuring the work of other influential artists this beautiful volume shows that make-up can be an exciting form of art.

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

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An incredible, and huge, collection of some of Newton's most celebrated and loved photographs.

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)

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