A technical anthology on the use of contact sheets, with examples and commentary from 43 contemporary photographers – including Robert Adams, Elliot Erwitt, Charles Gatewood, Eikoh Hosoe, Robert Mapplethorpe and more.
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.
This book explores fascinating life and designs of Valentino.
Published to accompany the 1996 mid-career survey at the Whitney Museum of American Art, I'll Be Your Mirror remains the most comprehensive and critically praised publication on the work of photographer Nan Goldin. Covering two decades of her life and art, from her time in Boston in the 1970s through her move to downtown New York City and her subsequent and stratospheric rise in the art world, Goldin's most memorable work is collected here. Amongst the many powerful images are photographs of friends and lovers sometimes in pain, sometimes in repose; self portraits taken during an abusive relationship, from The Ballad of Sexual Dependency; the transvestite and transgendered kings and queens of The Other Side; and more.
This book explores the bold, colorful world of Bollywood movie posters found across the streets of Mumbai. Blending popular art with energetic cinema, the posters showcase a striking mix of color, dramatic imagery, and expressive typography that reflects the spirit of Bollywood.
Studies in leather and sadomasochism.
This photobook by Hervé Guibert, The Only Face, is not a novel in the traditional sense but is nonetheless filled with characters, settings and mystery. It starts with bodies--their faces either eclipsed or out of frame--before unleashing a bravura sequence of portraits: friends, lovers, family and Guibert himself. As the book approaches its finale, his subjects are obscured and then disappear completely, leaving behind the objects they touched, until even those vanish, leaving only light.
An homage to Japanese street style bible Kerouac's monthly feature, Hair Wars documents dyes, bangs and cuts on the streets of a post-pandemic London in all its glory. Shot by William E. Wright (editor of fanzine Street Flash), the project frames experimental hair as a self-made antidote to the latest fashion movements, something that can be "as democratic as a box of dye, a couple of clips and the willingness to be creative.
GA Document is a Global Architecture focusing on contemporary international architecture and design projects.
Abloh-isms is a collection of essential quotations from American fashion designer, DJ, and stylist Virgil Abloh, who was a major creative figure in the worlds of pop culture and art.
An illustrated study of the development of twentieth century Russian theatre up until 1932.
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.
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.
This book celebrates Mugler's fashion, imagination and style, combining his own sketches with images from some of the world's top photographers.
A socialist journal of the social services. In this issue: Washington Heights Health Action Project; business ideology; the myth of workfare; people's health in Chile.
A catalogue of different designs for platform shoes.
Recognized as a pioneer of American colour photography since the 1970s, Webb has consistently created photographs characterized by intense color and light. This book is the first comprehensive monograph charting his career, gathering some of his most iconic images.
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 third volume in the series looks at Japan, Spain and Latin America.
A collection of Alice O'Malley's book of portraits of people in New York's Lower East Side.
Mime artist Marcel Marceau takes us on a journey through numbers in his theatrical body poses.
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.
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.
A periodical book on modern houses from around the globe. Featuring work of architects F.L. Wright, Le Corbusier, A. Aalto, C. Scarpa
Mapplethorpe's photographs for Jan Fabre's internationally performed Power of Theatrical Madness were taken during his 1985 stay in Antwerp, Belgium. The photos are interspersed in this volume with Fabre's working drawings for the performance. Approaching similar themes through different mediums, "Mapplethorpe and Fabre metamorphose their subject matter, photographed or staged, so that the body is `compromised' in a sublimation of itself. With an introduction by Kathy Acker.
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.
“Zoo York” reflects New York’s extravagance of the 1980s, when individual freedoms, sexual in particular, became relatively unrestricted and openly expressed in the streets of New York. Nagasaki’s title for this photobook could sound critical of NY’s flamboyant lifestyle, but in fact, as he explains in the introduction, “New York is a zoo, not because the people here are animals, but because, as in any zoo, they are interesting and worth examining. We do not visit a zoo with a sense of judgement or superiority. We go for a better understanding of a different way of life…Here people have freedom to choose their own lifestyles: how they want to live.”
Constructed Narratives brings together essays and several recently completed buildings by David Adjaye, in the United States and elsewhere. In the essays, Adjaye shows how his approach to the design of temporary pavilions and furniture, private houses, and installations at the 2015 Venice Biennale feeds into his designs for public buildings.
As with the other volumes in the series, the ninth volume draws directly from the archives of the Renzo Piano Building Workshop, and uses previously unpublished material on the history of his Centre Pompidou architecture project in collaboration with Richard Rogers. The history of the project is presented chronologically, using sketches and notes, from the first inspection of the site to the official opening of the building. The stories of Piano and Rogers time working together are meticulously reproduced in their own words andthus the book is a true journal of the creation of this extraordinary architectural adventure.
Illustrations and text are combined to give a comprehensive history of the use of tartan in fashion and dress.
In this book, Moholy-Nagy's efforts to have photography and filmmaking recognized as art forms on the same level as painting are propounded and explained at length. The artist makes the case for a radical rethinking of the visual arts and the further development of photographic design to keep pace with a radically changing technological modernity.
Photographs tracing the evolution of the T Shirt.
ONE BLOOD is the first monograph by photographer Frank Lebon. Borne out of loosely applied yet technically defined approaches to portraiture, ONE BLOOD showcases multiple photographic series taken between 2020 and 2023. The practice of photographing loved ones is taken to its extreme both in process and form. In this book, Lebon searches across scales and through layers for photographic evidence of unity and similitude across the people in his family, his life, and his city, London.
A collection of photographs shot mainly in Bristol in the mid 80s documenting the rise of Massive Attack. It also includes shots of them performing at the dug out club, the infamous red house jam and at St Pauls Carnival.
Each summer, thousands of Juggalos from around the world congregate at a privately owned campground on the Illinois border of the Ohio River to party. This intimate portrait of the Gathering presents Daniel Cronin's images of men, women, and children sitting in tents and cars, swimming in a brackish lake, painting each other's faces and, often, staring back at the camera communicating their defiance and pride.
Conversations with the Dead provides an extraordinary photographic record of life inside six Texas prisons and the relationships.
Sound Postcards is an interesting compilation CD coming with italian Uovo magazine’s Sound Postcards issue – compiling a collection of varied sound art and audio works.
No Mundo Maravilhoso do Futebol, which translates to 'the wonderful world of football' is a book photographs taken by children at Favela do Cascalho in Brazil.
This book gathers the conversations between curator Hans Ulrich Obrist and leading contemporary artist Gerhard Richter. Here, Richter reveals rare insights inot his thinking and his art.
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.
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We Have No Place to Be (originally published by Soshisha in 1982) launched Hashiguchi’s illustrious 40-year career, and remains widely regarded as one of the photographer’s seminal early works. This new edition from Session Press, supervised and edited by Hashiguchi himself, is comprised of 139 b&w photographs, including more than 30 previously unpublished images.
Biba was a famous fashion brand during the 1960s and 1970s started by Polish-born designer Barbara Hulanicki. Initially, it started out as a mail order business advertising in the national newspapers. This is an original copy of a mail order catalogue from the mid 1960s – beautifully crafted and featuring full length lookbook shots.
A collection of seventy-three images from the career of the pioneering photographer features portraits of artist Georgia O'Keeffe and early twentieth-century New York City.
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.
Yaya Coulibaly is an artist who has created dynamic puppet theatre performances that draw from the ancient traditions of puppetry in West Africa. His performances incorporate traditional folk tales and legends and episodes from Mali's great epics, as well as colonial history and commentary on contemporary life in Mali.
A double-sided concertina alphabet book made up of 26 pop-up capital letters.
Robert Frank was a Swiss-American photographer and filmmaker best known for his influential book The Americans (1958), which presented a raw, outsider’s perspective on U.S. society and transformed modern photography. His work is distinguished by its emotional intensity and focus on themes such as identity, loss, and the complexities of American life. Frank later expanded into filmmaking and experimenting with altered photographs and video art. This publication established his autobiographical, sometimes confessional, approach to bookmaking. This structure itself mirrors the rhythm of Frank’s life – featuring short personal texts, diary entries, and photographs that fully bring his voice into the book.
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.
A themed collection of Araki photographs. Issue No.16: Erotos
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.
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Between 2006 and 2007, photographer Ian Macdonald lived as part of the Eton College community as an artist-in-residence. Ian taught during this placement alongside making a photographic response to his new environment. In this photobook, Ian's social documentary photography presents an insight into Eton College as well as his personal reflections on his time there.
A book of fashion and jewelry made from metal tabs pulled from beverage cans.
45 RPM celebrates the design and cultural impact of 7-inch single record sleeves. These small cardboard covers, popular with DJs and collectors since 1949, became iconic elements of Top 40 music culture. The book presents over 200 sleeves arranged chronologically, highlighting inventive graphic design across genres and featuring legendary artists such as the Beatles, Elvis Presley, the Rolling Stones, and many others.
Eva Hesse: Sculpture is the exhibition catalogue of the same name held at Whitechapel Gallery in 1979 that introduced her groundbreaking, post-minimalist sculptural work, often using fragile materials like latex and cheesecloth, to UK audiences, cementing her legacy and exploring themes of the body, ephemerality, and female experience.
In 1968, Magnum photographer Dennis Stock took a 5-week road trip along the California highways, documenting the height of the counterculture hippie scene. These black and white photos were compiled to create California Trip and have become an emblem of the free love movement that continued to inspire throughout the decades.
A themed collection of Araki photographs. Issue 10: Chiro, Araki and 2 Lovers.
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.
François Truffaut was a French film director, one of the founders of the French New Wave movement, known for his personal, intimate films that explored themes of human fragility, outsiders, and the struggles of growing up. His work is characterizsd by its humanist approach, detailed character studies, and a blend of melancholy and humour.
A book on street art and graffiti.
Willy Vanderperre is one of the pre-eminent fashion photographers of his generation. Hailing from Belgium, he has established a 20-year body of work that spans campaigns for Prada, Raf Simons, Calvin Klein and Christian Dior, and more. This book, created in collaboration with IDEA books is an experimental compliation of Vanderperre's Instagram feed – edited in just 10 days – over 220 pages.
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.
Photographs of life on the French Riviera by Edward Quinn.
This book chronicles Ede's his unique vision of combining art and living at Kettle's Yard, his Cambridge home and collection, featuring poetry and photographs of the house's curated spaces, portraying how art, light, and everyday objects create a harmonious, accessible experience for visitors, inspired by his belief that art should be part of everyday life, not confined to gallerie
A intriguing look into Maholy Nagy's photographs and photograms.
This publication brings together approximately 6,000 trademarks, focused on the period 1940–1980, to examine how modernist attitudes and imperatives gave birth to corporate identity.
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.
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Fashion: Photography of the Nineties is a compilation of over two hundred images culled from the worlds of art and fashion. A chronicle of the fashion iconography of the Nineties, it places images familiar from magazines and style journals alongside their wilder, darker counterparts. In these photographs the body and its gestures report on the defining characteristics of a decade. Featuring work from Juergen Teller, Steven Meisel, Mario Sorrenti, Wolfgang Tillmans, Corinne Day, Nick Knight, Araki, Nan Goldin and more.
A Following the release of the first seven volumes of Top Symbols and Trademarks, the editors returned to the project in 1977 with a series of four yearly annuals, 1977, 1978, 1979/80 & 1981/82. This is volume 9 looking at the year 1978.
A periodical book on modern houses from around the globe. Featuring work of architects Frank Lloyd Wright, Philip Johnson, Bruce Goff, Le Corbusier and Marcel Breuer.
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.
Brick Index celebrates the overlooked artistry of UK bricks, showcasing the textures, colors, and maker’s marks stamped into their “frogs.” Featuring 155 actual-size photographs with an index detailing time, place, and maker, the book includes an introduction by brick historian David Kitching and an essay by design critic Rick Poynor, with photography by Inge Clemente.
Norman Parkinson (1913-1990), along with Avedon and Penn, largely invented fashion photography was a pioneer of fashion photography, influencing the ways in which we know it today. This book illustrates fifty years of his work – including his work for Vogue and portraits of the British Royal Family.
Issue on houses and interiors in Southern Europe
In this innovative take on early video art, Ina Blom considers the widespread notion that analog video was endowed with lifelike memory and agency. Reversing standard accounts of artistic uses of video, she follows the reflexive unfolding of a technology that seemed to deploy artists and artistic frameworks in the creation of new technical and social realities.
A collection of male nudes of one male model in many different costumes, shot by Charlotte March.
A collection of street photographs with interviews on the contents of the subjects’ bags. Photographs of the items and brief explanations of what they carry and what it says about them.
In The Experimenters, Eva Díaz reexamines Black Mountain College as a crucible of postwar artistic innovation. Focusing on Josef Albers, John Cage, and R. Buckminster Fuller, she argues their experimental, process-based teaching reshaped modern art, redefining creativity, chance, and design for subsequent generations.
Original film poster for Bollywood action/drama film Suryaa.
This book brings together a selection of images from all the campaigns into a collection that marks how significant this collaboration between Teller and Jacobs has been in both fashion and visual culture.
Photography - A Queer History examines how photography has been used by artists to capture, create and expand the category 'Queer'. It bookmarks different thematic concerns central to queer photography, forging unexpected connections to showcase the diverse ways the medium has been used to fashion queer identities and communities. Featuring the works of 84 photographers past and present – including Nan Goldin, Robert Mapplethorpe, Wolfgang Tillmans, Zanele Muholi, Libuse Jarcovjakova, Sunil Gupta, Peter Hujar, Lola Flash and more.
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The bilingual, colour illustrated book entitled "XL Photography - Art Collection Deutsche Börse" presents the first acquisitions for the collection, including works by the artists Araki, Anna and Bernhard Blume, David Weiss, Axel Hütte, Martin Liebschenr, Beat Streuli and more.
Long recognized for her clothing line, Run, Cianciolo’s boundless creativity is evident throughout her multifaceted practice, which includes designing books, theatre costumes, films and forms of ephemera that defy the categorizations of fashion, craft and art.
This book brings together, for the first time, the entire Private Scenes photographic series in which we discover a new dimension of the work of Masahisa Fukase, that of the artist struggling with his medium. This singular corpus is made up of images in which the artist inserts himself. The series is made up of two sets: “Letters from Journeys” which presents photographs taken in 1989 in different cities around the world (Paris, London, Brussels, Antwerp, etc.), and “Private Scenes '92” which focuses on his daily life in Tokyo, where now each print is enhanced with colour paints, thus becoming a unique work.
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.
Through eighty-three photographs taken across the country, Frank unveiled an America that had gone previously unacknowledged—confronting its people with an underbelly of racial inequality, corruption, injustice, and the stark reality of the American dream. Frank’s point of view—at once startling and tenacious—is imbued with humanity and lyricism, painting a poignant and incomparable portrait of the nation at a turning point in history.
Johny Pitts presents an ongoing visual documentation of the lives and cultures of Black Europeans bringing together twenty years of photography, notebooks and ephemera. Adding new layers of understanding of the Black experience in Europe, and spanning cities such as Paris, Berlin, Lisbon, Brussels, Amsterdam and Stockholm, Pitts delves even deeper into the lives, histories, and cultures of Afropeans.
Rising Goddess presents photographs of the female body in relation to the woman as an "archetype of the Great Mother". The black and white, almost surrealist, images depict women in various natural landscapes from mountains to deserts to lakes.
This book is a documentation of Daria Pyshna’s hometown, Kyiv, and the area known as Obolon, where she lived until she was 12. Most of the photographs depict static metal beams used for anti-tank defense, and were taken in the surrounding area of Pyshna's primary school.
A beautifully printed first edition of striking black and white photographs of skiers in the mountains. All photographs are taken with a Leica camera, and this book was published as a means of displaying the camera's capabilities at capturing such scenes.
Lippard’s classic text from 1973 documents the emergence of conceptual art and related experimental artistic practices. Experimental in itself, this book details various artworks by their chronological context rather than by artist.
Fashion Forever is a unique account of the aesthetic choices of British youth and a comprehensive guide to three decades of style driven subcultures. This book also presents a unique collection of portraits of distinctive individuals, their looks, their styles and their very personal statements.
In Love with Beauty offers an unprecedented chronological overview of the legendary Walter Pfeiffer, spanning four decades of photographic eroticism and wit, classical serenity and ornamental playfulness, artifice and immediacy. Initially a painter, draughtsman and graphic designer, Pfeiffer used photographs as aide-memoirs for large-scale Photorealist pencil drawings, but quickly developed a genuine passion for photography and, inspired by a Warholesque cast of handsome drifters and stylish women, began to evolve a trademark style.
This book accompaniesdan exhibition at the Antwerp Fashion museum, from 30 March 2017 until 27 August 2017, surveying the avant-garde and cutting edge work of Margiela.
From 11 December 2011 to 6 May 2012, the Groninger Museum presented the exhibition entitled Azzedine Alaia 2001 - 2011: displaying the most fantastic Alaïa fashion creations of the last ten years. This book is an accompaniment to this exhibition, featuring full page photographs of the House's creations.
Ewen Spencer's photographic exploration into the East London Grime scene.
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.
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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.
Männer Vogue was Germany's leading men's fashion magazine. During its golden age between 1984 and 1989, Swiss-born Beda Achermann was the magazine's creative director and commissioned young photographers like Mario Testino, Ellen von Unwerth and Max Vadukul, along with established talents including Herb Ritts, Peter Lindbergh and Helmut Newton, Achermann set a new benchmark in fashion editorial.
Aspen, published between 1965 and 1971, was a multimedia “magazine in a box” created by Phyllis Johnson. Each issue broke from traditional print by being curated by different artists and designers, including diverse materials such as booklets, vinyl records, film reels, and posters, showcasing avant-garde movements like pop art, Fluxus, and conceptual art. The fourth issue of volume one is "Marshall McLuhan Issue," designed by Quentin Fiore. Known as a 3D multimedia magazine, this issue explores media theory, famously packaged in a white box with black/red geometric designs, featuring recordings, texts, and advertisements