
An important early gathering of the work of Wallace Berman, an enigmatic figure whose work blends music and poetry to explore everyday life. He was hugely influential on a group of artists and poets to emerge from the legacy of the Beat generation in the late 1950s and 1960s.

Edited by Yvonne Rainer, this selection of texts and images by Rainer and various authors offers a retrospective portrait of her work, focusing on some of her most notable performances and projects
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This book presents over forty leading designers and companies using innovative packaging and graphic design to address environmental challenges. Through global case studies, it shows how thoughtful graphics and sustainable packaging can reduce environmental impact while also encouraging improvements in product formulation, demonstrating design’s growing role in promoting responsible production and consumption

This series celebrates the Bodleian Library’s acquisition of Tom Phillips’s archive of over 50,000 photographic postcards. This book presents postcards of men in all manner of outfits, whether formal, practical or casual, dating from around 1900 up to 1949. Most of the subjects are posing for portraits, displaying both their individual style and an interpretation of the fashions of the time.

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

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

In this book, Japanese photographer Joji Hashiguchi (also known as George Hashiguchi) documents subcultures and youth seeking freedom and self-expression in various cities, including 1980s Tokyo and Berlin.

This book includes over 200 portraits, still lives, landscapes and dirty realism by photographerWolfgang Tillmans.

In this anthology, curator and director Catherine de Zegher compiles 25 influential essays on women artists from the numerous books she has written and edited throughout her career. Like many of de Zegher’s previous projects and books, Women’s Work Is Never Done promotes the feminine principle, showcasing the work of female artists from across the world. Featured artists include Martha Rossler, Anna Maria Maiolino, Anna Atkins, Hilma af Klint, Agnes Martin, Eva Hesse, Judith Wright, Simryn Gill and more.

Issue on houses and interiors in Southern Europe

Photographs of fugitive and performance artist CS Leigh.

Images is David Lych's debut monograph offering a rare insight into his visual obsessions that came to build what we know to be the Lynchian universe. Containing photography, painting, sketches, and storyboards, the book expands upon themes Lynch was preoccupied with both on and off screen – from industrial decay, fragmented bodies to dreamlike spaces. With production materials from Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, and Dune.

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

Despite his exceedingly premature death at the age of 32, Davis’s paintings have deeply influenced the rise of figurative and representational painting in the twenty-first century. Davis’s emotionally charged work places him firmly in the canon of great American painting. Compiled through the unique relationship between Davis and Helen Molesworth, this monograph tells the story of a brilliant artist and cultural force through the eyes of his friends and collaborators.

In 1975, photographer Mary Ellen Mark was assigned by The Pennsylvania Gazette to produce a story on the making of Milos Forman's film of Ken Kesey's 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, shot on location at the Oregon State Hospital, a mental institution. While on set, Mark met the women of Ward 81, the only locked hospital security ward for women in the state. The result is a compelling, intimate and haunting collection of portraits of vulnerable women.

The Free People is a photo essay about a new generation of young people and the quality of openness and sharing that permeates their life. It is a book about their music, their work, their mobility, what they read and what they buy, their styles, about why they are free people and how they live.

Juergen Teller’s most cult book documents a year from May 1998 to May 1999 of casting sessions outside his studio in West London. The mythical, intimate and vulnerable process of a go-see is put under a microscope, revealing raw documentary-style images of models at the start of their career. Amongst the new faces are Debra Shaw (with her dad in the car behind her), Mariacarla Boscono, Adrianna Lima and Devon Aoki.

A zine about The Black People’s Day Of Action of 3rd March 1981.

A book about architecture

Publication accompanying an exhibition at the Jerwood Gallery, showcasing the unique, often dark and macabre, artistic style of painter Paula Rego.

This incredible album is a testimony to the magnificent minerals collected in what was known as the Katanga Province in Congo.

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.


Fashion photographer Bob Richardson (1928-2005) first began to publish his powerful, transgressive and emotionally charged black-and-white images in the high-fashion press of the 1960s, highlighting the new freedoms and attendant disillusions of the era in a distinctive, maverick style. This highly-anticipated, beautifully-produced volume is the first ever dedicated to Richardson's oeuvre. Put together by his son, the equally renowned photographer Terry Richardson, it collects what remains of the original work, much of which was destroyed over the course of Richardson's career.

6+ Antwerp explores the international success story of Antwerp fashion – through the designers Ann Demeulemeester, Dries Van Noten, Walter Van Beirendonck, Dirk Van Saene, Dirk Bikkembergs and Marina Yee, additionally Margiela who is referred to by the plus sign in the title.

A book on the work of architect, designer and artist Ugo La Pietra.

This book explores the career of Yoko Ono, include her work in all media, including film and music. An introductory essay by Alexandra Munroe explores Ono's life, her relationship to international avant-garde movements in America and Japan, and the aspects of her art and thought that have guided her prolific production over four decades.

Between 1916 and 1925 Paul Klee (1879-1940) made some 50 hand puppets for his son, Felix, of which 30 are still in existence. These figures become reminiscent of Klee's relationships with his family, and beautifully illustrative of the artistic and social developments of the time.

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.

This book aims to collect and present a comprehensive overview of the work of Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt. The book presents her typewritings series, all produced between the early 1970s (some of the earliest works are dated 1972) and 1989. Mail Art was her way to be in contact with the world outside the GDR, otherwise impossible to reach. After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Reunification, the artist stopped producing any art: she felt her involvement was no longer “needed”.

Eikoh Hosoe is one of Japan's most iconic post-war photographers, recognized for his legendary collaborations and impeccable aesthetics. Ordeal by Roses is an extended photographic portrait of his work in collaboration with celebrated author Yukio Mishima. The series features Mishima in a variety of poses, proudly showing off his muscular physique, the result of many years of dedicated bodybuilding. The photographs—taken from autumn 1961 to spring 1962, mostly at the writer’s home in the Magome district of Tokyo—encapsulated Mishima’s self-image and brought it to vivid life in photographs that used a variety of sophisticated techniques to create an astonishing world of provocative sensuality.

Jan Kaplický (1937-2009) was a visionary architect with a passion for drawing. It was his way of discovering, describing and constructing; and through drawing he presented beguiling architectural imagery of the highest order. Many of his sketches, cutaway drawings and photomontages are brought together and celebrated in Jan Kaplický Drawings. These drawings date from the early years of his independent practice, Future Systems, in the 1970s, to his final ink drawings, executed in the mid-1990s.

Catalogue issued on the occasion of the 1973 Italian visual and concrete poetry exhibition held at the Finch College Museum in New York, U.S.A., and at the Civic Gallery in Turin, Italy.

A limited edition booklet published in conjunction with the 2009 Tate Triennial. It functions as a companion guide, featuring contributions that explore the "Altermodern" concept—a term coined by curator Nicolas Bourriaud to describe art made as a reaction against standardisation and commercialism.

The Rolling Stones: 365 Days follows the Stones from their explosion on the English scene in 1963 to their status as living legends today. The band's offstage and backstage antics, iconic performances (including Hyde Park, Altamont, and the Ed Sullivan Show), their many girlfriends and wives, infamous brushes with the law, and more are all represented here.

The International Hairstyle Index presents the works of leading and innovative hairdressers and stylists from all over the world.

In the Jpegs series, German photographer Thomas Ruff exploits this imprecision in digital technology, locating online jpegs and enlarging them until the pixels emerge in a chessboard pattern of near abstraction.

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.

This book is one of only two non-fiction works by American author and screenwriter Mario Puzo, and offers an in-depth behind the scenes look at the world of gambling in Las Vegas.

Dawn of New Mesopotamia: The People of Iraq is the third Japan Press Photo Report. It is a collection of photographs to portray the Iraq in it's process of building a new era after its monarchy fell in 1958. Through photographs and texts, the book references the civilisations of Mesopotamia and Islam, as well details on the history of the the land.

Ann Bonfoey Taylor (1910-2007) was a pioneering female flight instructor during World War II, was a member of the US Olympic Ski Squad in 1939, competed in tennis at Wimbledon and was accomplished at riding and shooting. This book serves as a celebration of Taylor’s extraordinary wardrobe of couture and custom-designed sporting ensembles.

This book focuses on Ulises Carrión's personal and groundbreaking approach, managing to illustrate all aspects of his artistic and intellectual work. This includes books, magazines, videos, films, sound pieces, mail art, public projects, and performances, along with Carrión's initiatives as curator, editor, distributor, lecturer, archivist, art theorist, and write

The Art of Bollywood explores the vibrant hand-painted posters of India’s Bollywood, tracing their evolution since the early 20th century. Showcasing original artworks, rare street publicity, and cinema displays, the book highlights the skill of key poster artists, restoring a neglected visual tradition and revealing Bollywood’s distinctive, highly collectible graphic language.

This comprehensive volume presents the works of the Swedish photographer, and includes five essays which analyse different aspects of Frank's photographs, films and videos.

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.

Colour and black and white images of boys mainly shot in Puerto Rico during the filming of "Lord of the Flies".

London Fashion Week has been opening its doors to young designers since its inception in 1984. It has introduced many brands to the world as an incubator, such as John Galliano, Alexander McQueen, Hussein Chalayan and more. These footprints are presented through interviews with 83 designers from 72 brands and catwalk photographs. The book is constructed with consists of archive articles by Mina Wakatski, who has covered Fashion Week for over 30 years, and photographs by Chris Moore, one of the world's leading catwalk photographers. It also includes several articles on the transition of London Fashion Week and projects to support newcomers.
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This book is a journey into the film of Morvern Callar directed by Lynne Ramsay. A collection of impressions and behind the scenes shots.

Günther Uecker (1930–2025) was a renowned German painter, sculptor, and installation artist, famous for his pioneering kinetic art and iconic, tactile nail reliefs. As a key member of the post-war ZERO group, he explored light, space, and movement, using rhythmic, repetitive hammering to create dynamic, meditative structures that interact with the viewer. This book is a collection fo some of his nail paintings and watercolours.

For this book, the Dutch designer Annelys de Vet invited Palestinian artists, photographers and designers to map their country of Palestine as they see it. Given their closeness to the subject, this has resulted in unconventional, very human impressions of the landscape and the architecture, the cuisine, the music and the poetry of thought and expression.

Decaying with the Speed of Spring follows a woman who encounters multiple versions of herself, observing them until the experience becomes overwhelming. Blending photography and illustration, it unfolds like a cinematic fairy tale exploring self-acceptance, growth, and release. Inspired by depersonalisation-derealisation, project reflects healing through confronting fractured identity and collaboration.

This book was published on the occasion of the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in 2003, which was awarded to West African photographer Malick Sidibé. Sidibé was Bamako's first photojournalist, capturing the energy of that city's youth at parties and social gatherings. Studio Malick became a central meeting place for this new generation, and Sidibé's striking portraits reveal an exuberance for photography that matched the spirit emblematic of post-colonial West Africa in the late 1950s through the mid-1970s.

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.

20 Anni di Vogue 1964-1984 is the catalogue published to accompany an exhibition of the same name celebrating 20 years of Vogue Italia. The catalogue is an extensive dictionary of all the photographers who have contributed to the pages of Vogue Italia, with a short text and examples of their work - including Richard Avedon, Bruce Weber, David Bailey, Cecil Beaton, Guy Bourdin, Peter Lindbergh, Ugo Mulas, Herb Ritts, Paolo Roversi, Snowdon, Deborah Turbeville and so many more in between.

A history of women's underwear.

Best known for her provocative SEX/Seditionaries boutique on Kings Road, and then perhaps her runway shows. This is the first book to gather Westwood's shoe designs, from 1973 to present day, every one of them - 140 examples, including the infamous platform that felled Naomi Campbell. Includes a biography and chronology.

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 retrospective of Japanese photographer Masahisa Fukase whose deeply introspective and cinematc photography illustrated his intense and occasionally violent life. This book provides an overview of one of the most radical and important photographers of his generation. Edited by Simon Baker, the Tate’s first photography curator, and Tomo Kosuga, director of the Masahisa Fukase Archives, the comprehensive book showcases 26 of the artist’s series, including many previously unpublished works, on more than 400 pages.

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.

A book of the exhibition curated by Johan Jugelburg that celebrated 40 years of the Velvet Underground and Nico album. Featuring newspaper clippings, photographs, texts.

Few artists have succeeded in creating a body of work as uncompromisingly honest and tender as Goldin’s. Couples and Loneliness presents a collection of images gathered from across her photographic ouevre – represents the thematic reoccurances of love, loss, sexuality, intoxication, pain, and her ongoing obsession with the documentation of those around her. Alongside images, this book contains a narrative commentary by Goldin adding further anecdotal insight into her world.

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.

A scarce, incredible publication documenting the women's liberation movement in Japan and worldwide. This rich work begins with intimate portraiture, documenting the lives of inspiring women activists, including a feature that spends time with Yoko Ono. Photographed over an eight-year period this is a unique portrayal of radical women in Japan beautifully depicting communal living and political organising.

This volume features the Spring/Summer 2022 collection designed by John Galliano for Maison Margiela. Leafing through the book, you will find a spool with a measuring tape hidden in the middle of the pages.

A periodical book on modern houses from around the globe. Featuring work of architects C.R. Mackintosh, O.Wagner, L.H.Sullivan, F.L. Wright, W.M. Dudok

This Will Not End Well is the first book to present a comprehensive overview of Nan Goldin’s work as a filmmaker. The book draws from the nearly dozen slideshows and films Goldin has made from thousands of photographs, film sequences, audio tapes and music tracks. The stories told range from the trauma of her family history to the portrayal of her bohemian friends, to a journey into the darkness of addiction. By focusing exclusively on slideshows and video installations, This Will Not End Well aims to fully embrace Goldin's vision of how her work should be experienced.

Male Nudes by Women, edited by Peter Weiermair, brings together contemporary female photographers engaging with the male body. The anthology examines and challenges long-established gender roles and visual clichés, while also exploring the artists’ own erotic perspectives and imaginative responses to representation, identity, and the history of the nude in art. With photographs by Karin Rosenthal, Marsha Burns, Nan Goldin, Lynn Davis, Jacqueline Livingstone, Jaschi Klein, and more.

Abramovic defines "Inbetween" as the place between departure and arrival—or the space one inhabits while in transit. The sketches, hastily written notes, collages made from found and accumulated scraps, and photographs that are included in this bookwork are a chronicle of her visit to this temporal resting-place. Part diary, part work notebook, we are offered an intimate glimpse of Abramovic’s observations and thoughts during her residency in Japan. Printed on a heavy printmaking stock.

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.

A socialist journal of the social services. In this issue: problems of pyschotherapy in corperate capitalism; the culture of poverty; feminising the welfare state; communuty organising.

A guide to the work of Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto

This book accompanies the Parrworld exhibition at ","Haus der Kunst","Munich, Germany"], showcasing examples from Martin Parr’s extensive collection of 20,000 postcards. Featuring 750 cards across 21 themed chapters, it includes an essay on the history of postcards and their influential role in shaping Parr’s photographic practice.

This interactive, experimental book offers 140 contributions—drawings, recipes, activist guides, and meditative exercises—encouraging readers to engage creatively with a worldview where humans and the planet are inseparable. Featuring artists and thinkers such as Olafur Eliasson, Vivienne Westwood, Jane Fonda, Judy Chicago, and others, it invites hands-on participation, reflection, and environmental consciousness.
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During a Jack Kerouac-inspired road trip that lasted nine years, the photographer William Eggleston documented working-class towns, rest stop diners, dilapidated gas stations, and barren stretches of land in the American South and Southwest. For thirty years following Eggleston’s trip, the images sat in a warehouse as he focused on other work, many of them unseen. In 2002, Eggleston’s journey finally reached its destination when the resurfaced snapshots were published in Los Alamos.

Collection of nudes, portraits and still life photographs documenting queer nightlife.
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L'abito per pensare explores the designs of Versace from the late 1970s until 1989. It is packed full with text, archival images, fashion photographs and illustrations, and photographed details of the clothes. The book was published to accompany an exhibition at the Castello Sforzesco in Milan. There are fashion photographs by Bruce Weber, Richard Avedon, Peter Lindbergh, Deborah Turbeville, Albert Watson, Helmut Newton, and many others.

Edward Thomas Allington was a British artist and sculptor, best known for his part in the 1980s New British Sculpture movement.

This richly illustrated volume showcases over 800 color photographs of perfume bottles, spanning exquisite flacons by René Lalique, Baccarat, and Lucien Guillard, as well as figural and novelty bottles. Including original packaging, catalogs, and advertising images, it serves as an essential reference for collectors and enthusiasts of decorative perfume design.

Martin Munkacsi changed the look and style of fashion photography in the 1930's. The legendary Harper's Bazzar photographer set new standards for fashion photography. Models ran on beaches, perched on rooftops and catapulted into the air. He was the first to take models out of the studio, photograph the rain and use dramatic angle shots. This book is the result of four years of research into the photographer and his work.

Chris Killip’s 1980s photographic study of the Pirelli tyre factory, documenting the process of industrial manufacture using only the available light.

The photographs in Eye For A Sty, Tooth For The Roof served as the source material from which Danny Fox based his series of paintings included in his current solo show at Alexander Berggruen, Danny Fox: The Sweet and Burning Hills (January 12-February 26, 2021).

In his epitaph to the age of conspicuous consumption and wealth, Luxury features Martin Parrs photographs over five years of watching the rich and fabulous at international champagne-fuelled gatherings.

Published by Ediciones Era, this volume presents the work of British-born surrealist Leonora Carrington, encompassing painting, drawing, and sculpture. Based in Mexico City after her early association with Max Ernst and the European surrealist circle, Carrington developed a singular visual mythology blending mysticism, dream imagery, and feminist symbolism across multiple media.

Both sacred and profane, Mountain Ecstasy is the cult book by Penny Slinger and her partner at the time, Nik Douglas. Working with found images – many from Slinger’s own collection of erotica – and poetry, the resulting book is a hyperreal celebration of the Tantric world.

Issue on the Pompidou Centre, Paris 1972-1977

This book was published to accompany the first retrospective of designer Yves Saint Laurent at the Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Musuem of Art. Inside features over two hundred of Saint Lauren't Couture designs - with photography by Duane Michals, Pierre Boulat and Nicholas Vreeland, Richard Avedon, Irving Penn and Neal Barr.


With photographs and texts, this book focus on the vvernauclar North Carolina potters bring to their materials, tools, techniques and history.

Emerges from the innovative minds of Theseus Chan, Werk, and Comme Des Garçons. This edition, known for its distinctive torched flambé cover, marks a unique chapter in the collaboration between the avant-garde fashion label and its global guerrillastores. The magazine documents the revolutionary retail concept by Comme des Garçons, which allowed partners worldwide to open a store, manage expenses, and offer CDG merchandise on a sale or return basis for one year.

Street photographs of scenes in Shanghai.

Exhibition catalogue of the work of John Piper – a pivotal 20th-century British artist celebrated for his evocative landscapes, churches, and monuments, bridging English Romanticism with modernism, abstraction, and surrealism, working across painting, printmaking, stained glass, theatre sets, and textile design.

Mime artist Marcel Marceau takes us on a journey through numbers in his theatrical body poses.

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

Commissioned by 180 Studios, Ijó follows a group of young ballet dancers in Lagos, Nigeria, exploring common themes within Moses’ work through the intersections of art, family and culture.

A history of female swimwear.

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

A collection of remarkable full-bleed black and white photographs of photographs taken during photographer Ikko Narahara three-year stay in Europe from 1962.

Shame Space is an artist book that explores the possibilities of narrative and identity. The book collects a selection of journal writings by Syms from 2015-2017 in which she attempts to capture her shadow self alongside a selection of image stills from the recent video project Ugly Plymouths (2020). The diaristic commentary in Shame Space is gathered into fifteen chapters that stage narrative as a process of being in the making.

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.

Ed Ruscha is widely regarded as one of the world’s most important artists with a career spanning six decades from the early 1960s until the present day. His use of imagery and techniques seen in commerical art, such as advertising and his interest in popular culture and the everyday, connects him directly with pop art. This book thoroughly traces Ruscha's engagement with photography and reveals how his photographic works shed new light on his career as a whole.
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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