
The year 2000 marked the issue 200 and year 20 for i-D Magazine. Blending fashion and social documentation, early issues of i-D (now major collector's items) were presented as 40 pages stapled together. 'Smile i-D' incorporates a single spread from each issue of the magazine up until then.

Photographs of renowned photographers across the world taken by Peggy Jarrell Kaplan including Merce Cunningham, Eiko, David Gordon, Trisha Brown, Michael Clark, Pina Bausch

A themed collection of Araki photographs. Issue 11: In Ruins

Having entered the New York underground in the 1960s while still a teenager, filmmaker Barbara Rubin quickly became one of its key figures. Her pioneering 1963 double-projection film Christmas on Earth was both sexually provocative and aesthetically innovative. She worked regularly with Jonas Mekas and Andy Warhol, introduced Bob Dylan to Allen Ginsberg, and connected Warhol with The Velvet Underground. During an intense period of activity and travel, Rubin wrote passionate letters about film and the underground to Mekas. This special eightieth issue of the magazine Film Culture features her previously unpublished letters to Mekas, as well as interviews and extended scripts.

A themed collection of Araki photographs. Issue 18: Bondage

Brother's in Clay tells the story of Georgia's rich folk pottery tradition – the hisotrycal forces that shapes it and the families and individual artisans who continue to keep it alive,

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 is the accompanying publication for Die Cuts, a film installation exhibited at Frieze No.9 Cork Street from November 2–4, 2022. The installation featured a 14-minute looping film by Tyrone Lebon alongside the album Die Cuts by Dom Maker of Mount Kimbie. The film and album were presented together but looped independently. This publication records every hand-animated frame from the film.
Adrien Mesko spent three months with the dancers of La.Horde directed National Ballet de Marseille. Each day, he would visi the studio to observe, document their training, perfomances, dedication to the physical demands of their craft and the quiet moments of intimacy in between.

Hassan Sharif (1951–2016) was a pioneering Emirati artist who revolutionised the regional art scene in the 1970s/80s through performance, installation, and assemblage, often using discarded consumer materials to critique rapid urbanization. This book presents an intimate view of Sharif’s diverse and varied work featuring new translations from his writing.

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.

Beautifully reproduced in duo-tone, this collection of winter photographs shot in the Alphs, the majority of which are published here for the first time, reiterate Lartigue's position as one of the great masters of twentieth-century photography.


This book features photographs of the pre-fame Beatles taken in Hamburg in 1961 along with pictures of German and French Rock'n'Roll fans from the years 1961 to 1964. The photos are complemented by a fascinating account by Jurgen Vollmer of his friendship with the Liverpool band and his sometimes dangerous encounters with Rockers.

A themed collection of Araki photographs. Issue 10: Chiro, Araki and 2 Lovers.

Welcome Aboard! Photographs 1980–2000 is, at the same time, a monograph on Pfeiffer’s photographic work and an artist’s book, a photo-novel all of its own. With simple means Pfeiffer creates intelligent and classic images of beauty and bliss, imbued with a wistful awareness of their artifice. Stylish, suggestive, and erotic, his images are an encyclopaedia of desire.

When Maxime Gaillard opened a small bistro at 3 rue Royale, his restaurant was soon discovered by the star socialite of the moment, Irma de Montigny, who launched it as a center of Parisian nightlife. A masterpiece of Art Nouveau architecture and design, Maxim's remains faithful to this period and continues to be a symbol of Parisian luxury life. In this book, Jean-Pascal Hesse tells us the fascinating story of this legendary place along with also the restaurant most successful recipes, with accompanying illustrations.
This reference work presents Gus Van Sant's filmmaker's artistry (photography, painting and music) through the optic of his films. It is an original work combining all facets of his creation for the first time, bringing a fresh vision of his cinematographic work.

Photographs and text documenting life at the Bauhaus.

A collection of photographs depicting the female nude.

Steve Schapiro travelled throughout America taking photographs during one of the nation's most revolutionary periods. Working in the classic mode of Walker Evans and Diane Arbus, he covered everything from the two Kennedy assassinations to Andy Warhol's Factory to race riots. With an essay by Dave Hickey, this book includes unforgettable images of the poor and the working class, as well as celebrities such as Nixon, Brando, and Janis Joplin.

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 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.

Control: The Ian Curtis Film biopic is Anton Corbijn's is one of the directors most famous projects that followed the troubled life of post-punk Joy Division lead musician Ian Curtis. This book is a document of the process of making the film – a visual diary with annotations, drawings, and a wealth of photographs detailing the creative process from pre-production to first screenings.

Coco Chanel’s passion for fabulous jewels, for exceptional stones, and for improbable marvels produced pieces that were unparalleled in their insistence on luxury and refinement. Drawing inspiration from tradition, Chanel was never the slave of everyday formulas or market values. Yet she reinvented tradition in the most arresting and modern jewelry pieces, based on her love of colour and her assured command of austere classical beauty. This book is the first to present the remarkable jewellery work of Chanel.

Roderick Buchanan is a Scottish artist working in the fields of installation, film and photography. This first monographic publication dedicated to Buchanan’s work, including illustrations of works made between 1990 and 2000.

This book presents the work of five artists – Chris Killip, Graham Smith, John Davies, Martin Parr, and Paul Graham – who each are represented a new approach to social documentary photography.

A collection of Nozolino's images of the Arab world taken on numerous trips through Egypt, Syria, Morocco, Yemen, Mauritania, Jordan and Lebanon. His images explore the Arabic culture's struggle between ancient desert villages and overcrowded, polluted cities.
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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.

Inspired by found objects, personal archives and poetic experiences, Lebanese artists and filmmakers Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige invent a unique way of to navigate between art and film. Their documentaries, fictional films, photography, art installations, texts and performances develop narratives and images around stories kept secret, acting as a resistance to official history.

This work, subtly homoerotic, draws from themes of the past rather than the present, resulting in an overall quality that is unbounded by the constraints of time. As Nan Goldin says on the back cover: "David has always used photography as a seductive device, a sublimation of his desire. His pictures of people feel so tactile because one senses his desire to touch but never in an aggressive or insistent way...He is intensely aware of the delicate balance of form in the shapes, the light, the relationship between person and place."

A study of man's expression of the symbol in the city.

A comprehensive book published to accompany the exhibition held at the Hamburg Kunsthalle and the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, focusing on understanding the artist who communicated with people by photographing them.

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



Photographs of young people across different cities – punks, ravers, squatters and various tribes of youth.

Toto Frima reached recognition in the 80's with her Polaroid (SX70) selfportraits, also known as 50x60, photographic works created on her own using a remote shutter release. The small, often erotically charged images rapidly captivated the whole of Europe. One of the reasons for her success was that the works perfectly matched the at the time ongoing socio-cultural developments: women worked without undergoing competition with men. Through the lens, Toto exhibited herself in different ways, either playing a role or using different attributes. However, in all cases, she keeps referring to her own person, which could as well be someone else.

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.

Yellows arises from Akira Gomi's nearly obsessional documentation of body-types. His Post-Modern approach to the concept of "types" combines an ironic catalogue of data. What can we tell from a naked body, its form, posture, and expression, and what do we project? Yellows is a brilliant exploration of the non-sexual nude and an interesting peek into the obscenity restrictions of the Japanese publishing industry.


From 1936 until the end of the 20th century, the photographers of LIFE magazine travelled the globe to chronicle in pictures every aspect of the human condition. This book is a testament a living history - the history of our times, as seen by the photographers who captured and immortalized it.

This monograph presents the work of Vito Acconci, one of the most influential of the last 30 years. His experiments with performance, audio and video, sculpture, and architecture from the late 1960s through the present have become points of reference for younger artists. The overriding concerns throughout his work have been self-analysis and interpersonal relationships, themes he has explored in many different ways.

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

This book presents a focused visual and textual study of the solitary buildings of Mies van der Rohe, created through decades of engagement by Werner Blaser. Using consistent duotone photography and carefully organized materials, it objectively documents Mies’ architectural legacy, including previously unpublished images, while encouraging critical reflection on the enduring roots and principles of good architecture.

Leonor Antunes is an artist making “sculptures created in space”. Her work addresses complex relationships between sculpture, architecture, design, light and the body. She dedicates special attention to the materials she uses, which are often natural or organic, and to the effects left on them by time and their use. This is the most comprehensive publication on the artist to date, spanning her entire career, and it accompanies exhibition.

This book illustrates David Hicks' vast range of interior designs.

This book explores the central role of posters in defining punk culture in Britain. Curated by Toby Mott, the exhibition and book feature over 1,000 artifacts—including fanzines, flyers, and ephemera—by iconic artists like Jamie Reid and Linder Sterling, as well as anonymous creators. It documents punk’s aesthetics, political engagement, and its dialogue with events such as Rock Against Racism and the Queen’s Silver Jubilee.

Photographic documentations of war across USA, Afghanistan and Iraq. With contributions by Christopher Anderson, Alexandra Boulat, Ron Haviv, Gary Knight, Antonin Kratocvil, Christopher Morris, James Nachtwey and John Stanmeyer.

A mid-career retrospective of the work of María Magdalena Campos-Pons who has become one of the most important and influential contemporary Afro-Cuban artists. Her multimedia work explores themes of memory, the African diaspora, gender, and Afro-Cuban spirituality (Santería).

The 99th publication by Temporary Services, Records as Portable Exhibitions and Interactive, Participatory Objects, serves as a catalog and a playful exploration of records as visual and interactive objects.
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This unique photo journal provides a firsthand look at what life was like with Lennon on a day-to-day basis during his years in New York.

The Castle is a meticulous record of refugee camps located across mass migration routes from the Middle East and Central Asia into the European Union via Turkey. Using a thermal video camera intended for long-range border enforcement, Mosse films the camps from high elevations to draw attention to the ways in which each interrelates with, or is divorced from, adjacent citizen infrastructure.

Set amongst the reggae scene of late 70s Jamaica, the film Rockers achieved instant cult status among music and cinema fans. This book brings together unseen images of behind the scenes.

Body Architecture explores Lucy Orta's historic works, Refuge Wear, Nexus Architecture and Connector Body Architecture, to reveal ways in which the perceptions of space plays a crucial role in the construction of personal and collective identity.

A socialist journal of the social services. Special volume on issues concerning lesbian and gay communities.

Double Game is the a book of work by Sophie Calle and the fiction of Paul Auster. We see the pieces both as they're described in their fictional context and as Calle's own interpretation of the descriptions from Auster's novel. The book delves deeper into Calle's world, with a sequence of Calle's seminal narrative and abstract works in texts and images that were in turn appropriated by the fictional Maria in Leviathan.

This publication accompanies Sharjah Art Foundation's 2018 exhibition of artist Zineb Sedira – a London-based Franco-Algerian feminist photographer and video artist, best known for work exploring the human relationship to geography.

Erotic exploration of the artistic work of enfant terrible photographer Jean Paul Goude, featuring Kellie the Evangelist Stripper, Grace Jones, Toukie and The Eighth Avenue Sex Circus. With the original iconic dust-jacket featuring his partner and muse Grace Jones.

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.

In the 1960s and 1970s, the artist Ed Ruscha created a series of small photo-conceptual artist's books, among them Twentysix Gas Stations, Various Small Fires, Every Building on the Sunset Strip, Thirtyfour Parking Lots, Real Estate Opportunities, and A Few Palm Trees. This book collects ninety-one of these projects, showcasing the cover and sample layouts from each along with a description of the work. It also includes selections from Ruscha's books and an appendix listing all known Ruscha book tributes.

Self Publish, Be Happy explores the recent revolution in self-published photobooks. Blending manifesto, practical manual, and survey, Bruno Ceschel highlights key success stories, case studies, and artist testimonies. With insight from Museum of Modern Art librarian David Senior, it situates today’s DIY photobook movement within a broader artistic legacy.

Camera in London by Bill Brandt is a landmark photographic exploration of London’s people and places in the 1930s and beyond. With a keen eye for social contrasts, Brandt captures the city’s vibrant spirit—from the gritty working-class neighbourhoods to the elegant streets of the wealthy elite.

In this book, film critic Michel Ciment provides an insightful examination of Kubrick's thirteen films-including such favorites as Lolita, A Clockwork Orange, and Full Metal Jacket-alongside an assemblage of more than four hundred photographs that form a complementary photo essay.


Horst Portraits celebrates the portraits of Horst P. Horst - one of the great master photographers of the twentieth century and the creator of some of the most elegant, glamorous, and stylish images in photographic history. It is the first book specifically devoted to his signature portraits.The photographs are all reproduced in full-page plates. For anyone interested in photography, fashion, or celebrity, some of the most fascinating faces of the twentieth century are to be found in the pages of this book.

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.

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 book explores the history of fashion photography from 1945, placing it in the main stream of popular culture and it links the imagery to the art of photography itself by drawing on such influential figures as Robert Frank and Walker Evans. It also charts the rise of the magazines and the influence of the great art directors and editors of the time. The book was published to accompany an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum exhibiting work from Richard Avedon to Irving Penn to Bruce Weber.

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.

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.

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.

This is the first title a new series of books published by Casa Africa, aimed at promoting the most outstanding African women photographers, specifically those who have won the Casa Africa Award at the Bamako African Photography Biennial. This iteration focuses on the work of Zanele Muholi – a South African artist and visual activist working in photography, video, and installation exploring Black identity, sexuality and queerness.

In My Room: Teenagers in their Bedrooms, photographer Adrienne Salinger has been allowed to enter the private lives of forty-three teens. Her images, taken over a two-year period, offer an intimate glimpse into these intimate escapes and the adolescents who have made them their own.

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

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.

In this magnificent collection, the lost world of Eastern Europe's Jewish communities once again comes to life. Between 1936 and 1939, Roman Vishniac travelled through the Jewish settlements of Carpathian Ruthenia, Slovakia, and Poland, passionately documenting a rich and vital culture that would soon cease to exist.

his is the brilliant 30 Anni Di Vogue - a visual history of Italian Vogue edited by Franca Sozzani, including fashion photographs of high fashion models from the likes of Claudia Schiffer by Herb Ritts to Veruschka by Steven Meisel.

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 book explores the history and character of retail settings since the Middle Ages, including shops, arcades, market halls, co-operative stores, department stores, multiples, supermarkets, precincts, and malls.

This book is a pictorial survey presenting seven decades of women's footwear as illustrated in Vogue.
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Seen/Unseen is a monograph documenting Strachan’s 2011 survey exhibition “Seen/Unseen,” installed in an undisclosed New York City location and deliberately made inaccessible to the general public. Navigating through the polarising dichotomies of presence and absence, visibility and invisibility, and man and nature, Tavares Strachan has engineered a multidisciplinary artistic practice that mobilises our visual, intellectual, and emotional faculties.

The Afterimage Reader collects writings from the independent British film journal Afterimage (1970–1987), which chronicled radical cinema in a period of intense cultural and political change. Featuring texts by critics Noël Burch, B. Ruby Rich, and filmmakers Jean-Luc Godard, Derek Jarman, and Jan Švankmajer, along with interviews with Hollis Frampton and Raúl Ruiz, the collection—edited by Mark Webber with contributions from Simon Field and Ian Christie—offers an essential record of avant-garde, Latin American, and visionary cinema.

Photographs taken behind the scenes of Nollywood films.


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.

Book detailing the practice of architectural training at the Bauhau based on the lecture notes made by the Dutch ex-Bauhaus student and architect J.J. van der Linden of the Mies van der Rohe curriculum.

The latest collection of work by Talia Chetrit riffs insouciantly on themes of life, death, and birth through a variety of visual languages. In JOKE, Chetrit brings together family photos, street photography, still lives, selections from the artist’s teenage archive, and expansive self-portraits involving a cast of characters who feature as both engaged and unwitting collaborators.

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.

A photographic document of a Mexican bull fight in 1961.

A book by London-based fashion photographer Valerie Phillips, in which she documents Swedish artist, photographer, model and online celebrity Arvida Byström, known for her colourful images, including countless self-portraits shared though social media and blogs.

Confine documents the black and white photographs the Neapolitan artist Marialba Russo.

Working closely with her subjects on setting, lighting, and pose, photographer Deana Lawson creates intimate depictions of Black bodies interacting in both public and private spaces. The resulting images are formally rigorous in terms of composition—every detail is meticulous and motivated—as well as suggestive of Lawson’s personal connection with those she photographs. Deana Lawson: An Aperture Monograph features forty beautifully reproduced photographs that portray the personal and the powerful in black life.

This vividly illustrated tribute celebrates the radical design of Memphis Group, founded in Milan in 1981 by Ettore Sottsass. Rejecting functionalism and modern “good taste,” the group created sculptural furniture, bold colors, and playful forms, proposing an emotional, artistic vision of everyday objects that reshaped postmodern design.

A visual survey of various cars.

Paul Rand's Thoughts on Design is considered by many to be the definitive manifesto of modern graphic design, articulating his vision that all design should seamlessly integrate form and function.

Shigeo Fukuda (1932-2009) was a highly influential Japanese graphic designer and sculptor celebrated for his witty, minimalist, and illusion-based visual communication. A pioneer in using optical illusions and simple forms, he was the first Japanese designer inducted into the New York Art Directors Club Hall of Fame in 1987.

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.

British Women Go to War documents the vital contributions of British women during the Second World War, covering their work in the armed forces, industry, the Women Land Army, and the Women's Voluntary Services. Featuring striking colour photographs by percy Hennel that show women in various roles during this period.

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.
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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