The book is the intended outcome of the Royal Mail Millennium Stamps project and is a wonderful celebration of British art and design.
In 1925 the Siberian immigrant Anatol Josepho had an idea for a small curtain-enclosed booth where people could take affordable portraits anonymously and automatically. The photobooth was born. Within 20 years there were more than 30,000 in the United States alone, an explosive growth due largely to World War II, as soldiers and loved ones exchanged photos. Photobooth presents over 700 photographs taken in the photobooth from the last 75 years – images that are spontaneous, inhibited, and touching. It is a captivating portrait of every day people and a testament to the ongoing fascination with the process and the photography.
Long Shot was a notable underground literary journal founded in New Brunswick, New Jersey, that published poetry, prose, and art focused on social issues.
A intriguing look into Maholy Nagy's photographs and photograms.
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.
Stylists are some of the most influential people working within the fashion industry. This book covers styling for commercial ad campaigns, catwalk shows and fashion editorial, as well as looking inside the business of retail itself, featuring the hugely successful brands and designers for whom the ‘super stylists’ consult. Featuring stunning imagery and entertaining interviews with some of the biggest names in the field, including Lady Gaga's stylist Nicola Formichetti, Marc Jacob's collaborator Katie Grand and Melanie Ward of Harper's Bazaar, this is an essential book for any aspiring stylist or fashion student.
This book present and discusses some of the twentieth century's most significant examples of Outsider Art in America.
This book examines the cultural implications of the emerging metaverse, exploring how 21st-century institutions can shape digital worlds and hybrid forms of presence. Drawing on contributions from artists and industry figures the publication brings together voices from art, gaming, film, and technology to address the opportunities and challenges of the metaverse.
Images and documentations taken by French volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft during their expeditions.
“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.”
Two volume set of Herb Ritts' photographs of nude men and women.
Cindy Sherman's Untitled Film Stills, a series of 69 black-and-white photographs created between 1977 and 1980, is widely seen as one of the most original and influential achievements in recent art. Witty, provocative and searching, this lively catalogue of female roles inspired by the movies crystallises widespread concerns in our culture, examining the ways we shape our personal identities and the role of the mass media in our lives.
A reflection of the extraordinary transformation in sports clothes from the voluminous to the minimal, since 1910 as presented in Vogue.
Shapeshifting is a contemplation and reflection of the experience of dance. Molly through fragmented poetry and prose, Evan through photography. Dancing with his camera, he surrendered his body to the moment – becoming it, rather than observing it. In this way, the camera became an extension of his subconscious. The resulting long exposure photographs become visual abstractions of dance as a feeling.
Published for McQueen’s solo exhibition at Pirelli HangarBicocca, this comprehensive survey features several of the artist’s most iconic films from the past two decades, as well as an in-depth exploration of his new work.
Originally completed in 1968, Kent’s Signal Code Alphabet is a series of 26 kaleidoscopic serigraphs combining scripture, typography, imagery, iconography, and International Code of Signals flags.
In this book, artists LaBelle and Le Fort present the library as an organic space and the destination of an intellectual and sensuous journey during which thoughts expand quickly beyond the books displayed on the shelves.
This richly illustrated volume presents the first comprehensive photographic study of Soviet military uniforms from the Revolution through the Second World War. Featuring hundreds of detailed colour images of original uniforms alongside period photographs, it offers a rare visual record of Soviet military history, from decorated marshals to ordinary soldiers.
Over the course of eight days in December 2021, Danny Fox and Kingsley Ifill travelled across the length of the British Isles and back again. Composed of a series of fifty collaborative works on paper which bring together photography by Ifill and paintings by Fox, Holy Island is a visual travelogue of their time spent together: an exploration into the cross-section of rural and urban fabric that makes up Britain today.
This book presents Hockney's designs for costumes, masks, and sets in an exploration of the artist's approach to working with ballets and operas.
A booklet for an exhibition at the 1976 Venice Biennale surveying improvements in city planning in the Netherlands, based on the concept that good living environments go beyond shelter.
Rowing Blazers looks at the authentic striped, piped, trimmed and badged blazers that are still worn by oarsmen and women around the world today, and at the elaborate rituals, elite athletes, prestigious clubs and legendary races associated with them.
This book presents the archive of Vogue Paris' covers from 1920 to 2009 – each of which record the history and trends in fashion and design, as well as the month-to-month whims of popular culture. Among the covers are creations by some of the greatest artists of their era: distinguished illustrators such as Lepape, Gruau, and Benito, and photographers like Man Ray, Steichen, Newton, Bourdin, and Testino. Here, too, are iconic faces: Twiggy, Audrey Hepburn, Brigitte Bardot, Kate Moss, and more.
Curated by connoisseurs of vintage clothing, the Vintage Showroom is a vast collection of rare 20th-century pieces that fashion designers and stylists pay to view, using the cut and detailing of individual garments as inspiration for their own work. Offering one-of-a-kind access, Vintage Menswear now makes this unique resource available in book form.
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
A cookbook with over 100 vegetarian recipes for the home cook from the studio kitchen of world-renowned artist Olafur Eliasson.
Photographer Jo Spence challenges the assumptions of conventional photography in this groundbreaking visual autobiography, which traces her journey from self-censorship to self-healing.
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.
A guide on how to make movies at home.
A collection of black and white male nudes taken between 1940-1970 by Bruce of Los Angeles.
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To mark the twentieth anniversary of Obrist's landmark project 'do it', this publication presents the history of this ambitious enterprise and gives new impetus to its future. It includes an archive of artists' instructions, essays contextualizing Do It, documentation from the history of the exhibition and instructions by 200 artists from all over the world selected by Obrist,
Daniel Jack Lyons’ debut monograph continues the American artist’s long-term commitments to visualising the social and political rights of under-represented communities. Like a River is anthropological exploration of identity, transformation and coming-of-age amongst marginalised communities in the heart of the Amazon.
The book contains over 250 previously unpublished photographs of Warhol's famous friends and anecdotes. The subjects include Mick Jagger, Bianca Jagger, Truman Capote, Jackie Onassis, Liza Minnelli, Halston, Calvin Klein, Muhammad Ali, Diana Vreeland, and Yves Saint Laurent among others.
Since the early 1980s, Grace Lau has explored sexuality, gender identity, and BDSM subcultures through photography. This book traces her work from early male nudes to immersive studies of Skin Two events, dominatrix spaces, and cross-dressing, reflecting evolving ideas of desire and identity.
Featuring the work of Frank Lloyd Wright
A catalouge of photographs and drawings by Paul Outerbridge between 1921 and 1941.
Artist’s book by appropriation artist Richard Prince and art dealer Colin de Land, inspired by Bob Crane, the star of the 1960s television show "Hogan's Heroes."
Josie Borain carried a camera throughout her career as one of the top models of the 1980s. This book brings together these fascinating, intimate photographs to build a portrait of Borain outside of fashion.
Rat Piece is a compendium of documents regarding Kim Jones’ infamous piece of performance art on February 17, 1976; in which he lit three live rats on fire in a cage, causing their torture and consequent death. The piece, performed in front of 30 students on the California State University Campus in Los Angeles, caused an enormous public backfire, initiating dialogue about the ethical limitations of action done in the name of “conceptual art”.
Collection of store signs.
This book is the first to feature the work of the Brazilian photographer Alair de Oliveira Gomes. A philosopher, art critic and university professor, Gomes (1921-92) was in his 50s when he began to develop a body of photographic work, focusing almost exclusively on the athletic young men to be found on the beach at Rio de Janeiro. This book presents a collection of these images.
Conversations with the Dead provides an extraordinary photographic record of life inside six Texas prisons and the relationships.
A themed collection of Araki photographs. Issue 2: Bodyscapes.
The comprehensive book on the visionary Hussein Chalayan, one of the most innovative, experimental, and conceptual fashion designers working today. Internationally acclaimed, Hussein Chalayan is known for his inventive use of materials and integration of new technology into his designs. He is also celebrated for putting the creative process itself on view.
A themed collection of Araki photographs. Issue 14: Obscenities and Strange Black Ink Stories
Renowned and highly regarded for his experiments with literature, painting, film, and music, William S. Burroughs was also a prolific photographer. This book reproduces some of his rarely seen works, accompanied by texts.
A book about architecture
The Secret History Of Kate Bush is an entertaining and original book, tracing back the family and folk history of Kate Bush – from her Saxon Roots to her spectacular rise to fame.
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.
A children's book parody of the landmark 1913 Armory Show that first introduced many Americans to the conceptual artwork of Picasso, Duchamp, Matisse told through the alphabet.
The book is a significant historical record of Tokyo's sex industry through the photographs by Nobuyoshi Araki, which are raw, candid and explicit images documenting the behind the scenes of sex work in Japan.
This book is the brass ring of stories and photographs that trace the lavish history of merry-go-rounds.
Alison Laurie examines how clothes are a form of signal, a means of expressing identify sex, age and class as well as occupation, geographical origin, personality, opinions, tastes, sexual desires and current mood.
This is the first comprehensive monograph on acclaimed painter Amy Sherald, whose distinctive style of simplified realist portraiture features African American subjects rendered against colourful monochrome backdrops or in everyday settings.
Designed in Cuba: Cold War Graphics presents the work of 33 designers and artists such as Alfredo Rostgaard and Emory Douglas whose provocative and politically charged work transmitted a message of revolution to millions across the globe.
Maximilian Stejskal (1906-1991), an ethnologist and gymnastics teacher from Helsinki, carried out a study for his PhD thesis on “folk athletic” contests amongst Finland’s Swedish-speaking male rural population in the early 20th century. This book comprises his research – handwritten pages of travelogs, descriptions of exercises, tables, sketches, musical and phonetic recordings and photographs.
This book contains the transcript of David Bailey and Andy Warhol's TV documentary, with taken by David Bailey. Featuring Leo Castelli, Jane Forth, Jane Holzer, Brigid Polk, Henry Geldzahler, Pat Aast, Mrs Warhol, Dale McConarthy, Richard Bernstein, Paul Morrissey, Madame Duchamp, Philip Johnson.
Photographer Philip-Lorca diCorcia is best known for his elaborately staged scenes made to look like real life, in which he meticulously plans every element of a shot-lighting, pose, etc, before taking the photograph, creating the "ur" moment. This is conceptual photography with the veneer of the documentary. Heads is a departure from this method. Turning his lens onto New York City, diCorcia took unstaged pictures of passers by that follow in the street photography tradition of Paul Strand, Walker Evans, Harry Callahan and Robert Frank.
A comprehensive collection of essays on dance.
GA Document is a Global Architecture focusing on contemporary international architecture and design projects.
Examining some of the many parallels between visual art, dance and music in the 20th century, this issue of Art & Design brings together an enormous diversity of material: from the pure saturated colours and blue-black voids of Anish Kapoor's art, to the choreographic notations of Merce Cunningham; to the musical scores and edible drawings of John Cage.
Top Symbols & Trademarks of the World was the efforts of Franco Maria Ricci & Corinna Ferrari, and Italian publisher Deco Press. The series, published in 1973 was an unprecedented initiative to catalogue many of the finest examples of trademark design of the time. What marks this series out is both the format and the approach Ricci and Ferrari took. The sixth volume in the series looks at Scandinavia and Socialist Countries.
Yangon Fashion 1979 offers a unique insight into the photographs that brought a spark of free expression to Yangon’s fashionable youth in the late 1970s. Photography studios around Yangon University and downtown attracted large numbers of young clients posing in elegant outfits, some of which were even customised for the occasion. The resulting images resembled an old-school Facebook – an exchange of physical images, as photos were usually shared with friends.
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.
After Butler’s Wharf: Essays on a Working Building is a collaborative project by the 2013 MA Critical Writing in Art & Design graduates at the Royal College of Art. Combining thirteen critical, historical, and fictional perspectives, it examines the landmark London wharf through archival material, interviews—including Derek Jarman and Kevin Atherton—performance documentation, and rare photographs, exploring its evolution from Victorian industry to 1970s art hub, mid-century decline, and present-day gentrificatio
A comprehensive history of furniture design including works by Michael Thonet, Otto Wagner, Alvar Aalto, Victor Horta, Henry van de Velde, Peter Behrens, Marcel Breuer, Charles Eames, Eero Saarinin, Hans Wegner, Joe Colombo, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Josef Hoffmann, George Nelson
A collection of powerful images by seminal photographers, realist painters and sculptors exhibited at The Saatchi Gallery – including Tierney Gearon, Nan Goldin, Andreas Gursky, Cindy Sherman and Andy Warhol.
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 artist’s book by Richard Prince features The Entertainers (1982–83), an early series of photographs inspired by the nightclubs, theaters, and restaurants of New York’s Times Square.
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.
Marin is a unique album of the great Navy family – the strength, the solitude and solidarity, the open faces of reunions, the serious looks of great departures.
Unusual Sounds traces the full history of library music through interviews with its composers, producers, and musicians, appearing amid renewed interest and major-label reissues. Originally created as low-cost stock soundtracks for television and genre films, library records evolved into a thriving industry. Behind many anonymous releases were leading late-20th-century composers, whose inventive work flourished within commercial constraints.
Chicks on Speed is a feminist music-art ensemble formed by Melissa Logan, Kiki Moorse and Alex Murray-Leslie. This publication, contained inside of a cloth bag, captures their sense of freedom. It is divided into periods of their lives: 'Fake Band:, 'Pressing the Press', 'Sell Out;, and so on. Die-cut, over-printed, and assembled from many different paper stocks, this book approximates a scrapbook, full of press clippings, personal mementos, printed ephemera, and merch.
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.
A collection of male nudes of one male model in many different costumes, shot by Charlotte March.
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.
In 2022, Jamaica Society Leeds staged the Rebellion to Romance exhibition as part of the Out of Many Festival marking 60 years of Jamaica independence. The exhibition, and subsequent book, explored the lives of second-generation West Indians in the 1970s and 80s Leeds and the impact of Jamaican ulture.
Prison Notebook is a powerful visual memoir by pioneering Sudanese modernist artist Ibrahim El-Salahi, documenting his wrongful imprisonment in Khartoum's Kober Prison in 1975 through delicate pen-and-ink drawings, Arabic prose, and poetry, offering a personal account of his surreal experiences and enduring hope, published as a book featuring facsimiles, translations, and critical essays.
This book provides a 30-year overview of the collaborations between American artist Anthony Aziz (born 1961) and Italian artist Sammy Cucher (born 1958), pioneers in the field of digital art. Synthesizing reality and fiction, their work highlights pathologies associated with unfettered globalization and posthuman conditions.
GA Document is a Global Architecture focusing on contemporary international architecture and design projects.
This book showcases the vibrant life and work of David Hicks, the groundbreaking British designer known for bold geometrics and daring color. Drawn from 24 personal scrapbooks, it features press clippings, sketches, textiles, and photographs of family and icons.
Over 300 striking images reflecting Knight's extraordinary vision and fearless experimentation, presenting his landmark career spanning both photography and fashion.
Superhumanity seeks to explore and challenge our understanding of “design” by engaging with and departing from the concept of the “self.” This volume brings together more than fifty essays by leading scientists, artists, architects, designers, philosophers, historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists.
This is an exploration in photographs of the world of underwear, looking beneath the surface of our clothes, as seen through the lenses of top photographers. The book explores all aspects of the body – with mages by Henri Lartigue, Richard Avedon, Man Ray, David Bailey, David Hockney, Bruce Weber, Bob Carlos Clarke and Robert Mapplethorpe.
Not just a guidebook, this book creates a multifaceted image of 1970s America in narraitve and poems, drawings and over 150 photographs
From fashion and food to literature and music, the Beats heralded a new way of living, and a new mode of recording their lives. There is hardly a part of American culture today that is untouched by their work. Fred and Gloria McDarrah lived and worked in the heart of the Beat scene. Astute observers and participants, they faithfully recorded what they saw in word and picture. Besides their own thoughts and images, they amassed a collection of authentic Beat writings, all in the author's own hand or typed by them. Now reproduced for the first time, these writings complement the photographs and memories in giving a full picture of what it was like to be a Beat. With over 240 photographs, this work promises to be a landmark document of the Beats, their lives, and times.
A themed collection of Araki photographs.
An exhibition catalogue to accompany the exhibition of the same name at Getty Gallery 2006. This collection includes images of globally renowned actors and musicians, drawn from Agius's vast and acclaimed body of work dating from the mid-1990.
A long interview between René Denizot and Robert Barry, with with numerous visuals and exhibition views.
Long Shot Volume 15 was published in 1993 and contains contributions by Allen Ginsberg, Jack Micheline, Larry Clark, Robert DeNiro, Larry Rivers, Charles Bukowski a.o.
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.
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.
Nightswimming is a photographic history of discotheques, told in a subjective, partial way, but always with a clear purpose in mind: the analysis of space. The history of dance clubs is undoubtedly an anthropological as well as architectural phenomenon. The cultural and economic evolution of society progressively transformed the idea of entertainment, and consequently the spaces in which it is formed and shaped.
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 book is part of a four part series exploring the work of four influential designers. This volume explores the work of Pierre Bernard, an influential French graphic designer known for his social, political, and cultural design work, most notably as a founder of the collective Grapus
The people of New Guina have little art in the form of objects – instead, their art takes form through self decoration. Birds of paradise plumes, animal furs, ochre plants, leaves and grasses are their props of choice. This book documents and describes the styles of decoration in the Mountain Hagen area, and the variations expressive of individuality.
A wonderful monograph of the great British photographer, Cecil Beaton.