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

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.

Photographer Joseph Szabo's subject is adolescence; his rare gift is capturing the spirit of his students at Malverne High School, caught between puberty and the precipice of adulthood. Taken in the 70s and 80s, the photographs in Teenage represent a remarkable evocation of that period, and yet there is something timeless and endlessly compelling about Szabo's portrait of almost-adulthood.

From the most avant-garde jazz musicians, visual artists and poets to architects, philosophers and writers, Black Ivy: A Revolt in Style charts a period in American history when Black men across the country adopted the clothing of a privileged elite and made it their own. It shows how a generation of men took the classic Ivy Look and made it cool, edgy and unpredictable in ways that continue to influence today's modern menswear.

Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty examines the full breadth of the designer’s career, from the start of his fledgling label to the triumphs of his own world-renowned London house. It features his most iconic and radical designs, revealing how McQueen adapted and combined the fundamentals of Savile Row tailoring, the specialized techniques of haute couture, and technological innovation to achieve his distinctive aesthetic.

A mosaic of life, projects and ideas for a better society by architect Richard Rogers

Jean Tinguely was one of a number of artists of the period who explored movement, in what became known as Kinetic art. From the mid-1950s he made strange machines, some of which involved radios, lights and motors while others relied on the viewer to turn a crank. He used everyday materials and junk to explore ideas of motion, impermanence and accident.

In early 1986, Consumers Union commissioned esteemed photographer Eugene Richards to travel across the country to document the dimensions of American poverty. In 144 unforgettable photographs and 14 essays, Richards captures the hoplessness of urban youth, the struggle of Midwestern farmers, the squalor of day-to-day existence for Mexican-American immigrants living in Texas border towns.

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.

The photographers from the renowned photo agency Magnum have worked with movie-makers since the agency was established. These momentous partnerships are properly celebrated for the first time ever in a book containing powerful images of such legends as Clint Eastwood, Marilyn Monroe, Ingrid Bergman, James Dean, Clark Gable and many others.

Collection of paparazzi photographs of celebrities caught off guard – on holiday, at the market, kissing in a doorway.

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.

American bioacoustician and musician Bernie Krause has recorded over 5,000 hours of natural soundscapes since the 1970s. Both poetic and scientific, his archive reveals the musical harmony and orchestral structure of nature. This book presents an immersive installation created in 2016 by Krause and United Visual Artists for the Fondation Cartier in Paris. It traces the transformation of Krause’s field recordings into a three-dimensional audiovisual experience that blends art, technology, and ecology.

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.

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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 brilliantly humorous collection of incredible black and white photographs of people on the toilet by Leni van Dinther.

An incredible style reference courtesy of photographer Kazuo Ohishi who covered all the shows for Paris fashion week. Ohishi photographs the runway collections of Ann Demeulemeester, Alaia, Chloe, Comme des Garcons, Dries Van Noten, Helmut Lang, Galliano, Margiela, Kenzo, Martine Sitbon and many more.

In the 1980s, Peter Lindbergh invented a new way of photographing and interpreting fashion. Considered as one of the great masters of black and white photography, he is best known for his brilliantly posed images of women of stiking beauty. Using fashion photography as the key to his era, Lindbergh creates scenes which are immediately recognisable and forceful in their modernity. This book celebrates the essential and fruitful relationship between Lindbergh's photographs and their primary destination, the magazine page, presenting a selection of his work from 1996-1998 as it appeared in publications such as "Vogue", "W Magazine" and the "New Yorker".

For two months before the coup and counter-coup, photographer David Turnley explored the breadth of the Soviet Union. The result is a portrait of a nation that in its most dramatic of times.

A documentation of Black style through portraits of people on the streets of Chicago.

A history of women's underwear.

A portrait of the Andes mountain range in South America. Across 131 photographs and text contributions, Claude Arthaud andFrancois Herbert-Stevens present this extraordinary country of cold heights with startling immediacy.

Part of a lineage of 20th artists who created a French humanist tradition, Israel ‘Izis’ Biderman's study of the circuses position him as one of the most adept, astute, and empathetic photographers of his age. Avoiding the typical voyueristic tropes of circus documenters of the time, Biderman was gentle and warm without being sentimental, bringing a truth to the circus performers he photographed. Each image is rich in humanity and Biderman never strays from his goal to show real people.

Collection of nudes, portraits and still life photographs documenting queer nightlife.

128 duo-toned b&w plates of American teenagers in the early 1960's taken by Joseph Sterling, with an accompanying essay by David Travis.

London's Lost Riverscape is a unique photographic record of the River Thames, commissioned in 1937 by the Port of London Authority. Showing in a continious line both the north and south banks of the River from London Bridge to Greenwich, the photographs were al taken from the river itself before the bombing of WWII dramatically altered its appearance.

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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.

A selection of rings from the Ghysels collection and a complete monography about the different topologies, shapes, materials and functions of rings in the history and culture of different peoples and countries in the world.

Wonderful and expressive full page black and white photographs of American actor Steve McQueen taken by William Caxton.

A book on street art and graffiti.

George Dureau, The Photographs is an album of the great photographic portraits made throughout the forty years of Dureau’s artistic career―a New Orleans romance between the photographer and his subjects. All of Dureau’s exquisite photographs, many of them nudes, were made in his studio in the French Quarter of New Orleans, or on the city’s streets.

Yousuf Karsh was one of the premier portrait photographers of the 20th century. Among the personalities portrayed in this volume are Marian Anderson, Pablo Casals, Marc Chagall, Winston Churchill, Albert Einstein, Queen Elizabeth, Robert Frost, Ernest Hemingway, Helen Keller, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King.

Although it was closed by the Nazis after only 14 years, the Bauhaus significantly shaped the history of modernism. This book explores the ideas and ideals of the art school , which championed absolute artistic freedom and the fusion of art and technology .

Beady Minces is David Bailey's iconic 1973 photography monograph, capturing the energy and glamour of the Swinging Sixties and early '70s. Featuring roughly 100 black-and-white portraits and travel images, the book includes fashion models, celebrities, and cultural figures of the era, with a foreword by Terence Donovan. It includes Bailey's striking images of Penelope Tree, Jean Shrimpton, Andy Warhol, and others.

Funerary art has many expressions, but seldom is it as eye-catching and surprising as among the Ga, the dominant people of Accra and the surrounding region. Here a remarkable folk art of coffin-building has developed, combining remembrance, respect, humor and celebration. In this book, photographer and reporter Thierry Secretan's record a wide variety of these sculptural masterpieces in superb colour photographs.

Merry Alpern is known for her controversial oeuvre and utilisation of surveillance photography. Her acclaimed series Dirty Windows (1995), presented here in this book, contains voyeuristic black and white images of men and women engaging in sex, doing drugs, and dressing or undressing at a low-rent brothel near Wall Street in Manhattan. “Although the notion of the ‘female gaze’ has never really interested me, as a woman I could project some of my own experiences onto the pantomime in the window,” the artist remarked on the series.

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.

Punk gives voice to the punk generation 25 years on, remembering the mad, frenzied and often incoherent world of 1975-1979. The cultural movement that burrowed through Andy Warhol's Factory and the early 1970s New York underground, emerging triumphant, kicking and screaming at the top of the British pop charts. With nearly 100 contributors – including specially commissioned interviews with members and managers of the Sex Pistols, the Clash, the Ramones, the Heartbreakers, Siouxsie and the Banshees and many others.

Julio Mario Santo Domingo was a collector and visionary related to the subjects of drugs, sex, magic, and rock and roll. A library of more than 50,000 items, it contained everything from rare manuscripts and photos to posters, bottles, letters, opium pipes, and pinball machines. Exploring the innumerable influences of mind-enhancing drugs on art, science, and politics over the centuries, Santo Domingo's collection contained work by diverse figures including Andy Warhol, Timothy Leary, Sigmund Freud, Allen Ginsberg, the Rolling Stones, Aleister Crowley, and many more.

A selection of works by T. Secchiaroli who worked on film sets at Cinecittà with Federico Fellini.

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.

The publication presents selected works between 1998–2008 from Vodder’s oeuvre – spanning painting, drawing, collage, book-objects, and multiples. Her works explore tensions between abstract images and images that depict or carry meaning. Titles, distinct yet understated, are integral, opening a space between word and image. The result is a poetic, conceptual play between language, material, and visual perception.

This books contains the many lives of Lee Miller – intimately recorded by her son, Anthony Penrose. From the archives, this book collates a rich selection of her best work – including portraits of her friends Picasso, Braque, Ernst, Eluard, Miró.

Steve was the co-owner of ‘Cuts’ the cult London hairdressers founded by James Lebon in Kensington Market in 1978. These casual triptychs were displayed as enlarged 35mm black and white contact sheets in the window on the Soho shop, replaced only when the next roll was developed and then they were forgotten. Rediscovered by Sarah Lewis, CUTS is a valuable record of the institution and its Soho clientele from a significant era in London's cultural history.

This book explores the time capsule projects of seminal media art and architecture group Ant Farm and their contemporary successors, LST.

An homage to contemporary hairstylists including, Serge Normant, John Sahag and Orlando Pita.

This comprehensive volume documents the design history of Braun, covering consumer electronics, photography equipment, watches, calculators, lighters, flashlights, personal care products, and household appliances. Richly illustrated with photographs, it traces Braun’s influential industrial design approach and its lasting impact on modern product aesthetics and functional innovation.

Monika Günther and Ruedi Schill began contributing to the development, promotion and dissemination of performance art in the 1980s. Their archive is compiled into this book for the first time, a large selection of photographs and essays serve recreates the physical presence of the participants and the atmosphere of their performances.

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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 collection of photographs of famous celebrities from the 1970s and 1980s, many caught in off-the-guard moments by the camera of Richard Young.

Biba brought the cutting-edge of couture to the masses. Brigitte Bardot, Yoko Ono and Princess Anne shopped there, whilst Sonny and Cher. This lavishly illustrated book is for those interesting in the graphic design and fashion of the 1960s and 1970s.

This collection of seven folders celebrating Lloyd's Bank's milestone building in the City of London designed by Richard Rogers. Each folder contains photographs and text detailing concept development, architectural details, history of Lloyds' and its buildings.

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.

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

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American Polychronic presents the first comprehensive catalogue of Roe Ethridge’s work from 1999 to 2022, comprised of two interlocking threads of his celebrated photographic practice – a postmodernist approach exploring the plastic nature photography exploring how pictures can be easily replicated to create new visual experiences.

Gianni Versace's unbridled enthusiasm for the baroque finds new expression in Do Not Disturb, his playful peek behind the closed doors of the Versace homes.

For Gary Winogrand, the street was a stage which revealed humanity through a spectrum of candid dramas. This comprehensive monograph spans three and a half decades, concentrating on the kinetic street pictures that form the core of Winogrand’s vision, capturing a 1970s New York.

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.

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.

Athens Love presents poet and photographer Hang’s works taken in Athens and the Attica region of Greece in April 2015, during his participation in an artist residency and exhibition curated by Vassilis Zidianakis, titled "Occupy Atopos". The photographs in Athens Love feature Ren Hang's signature style of minimalist, vibrant, and erotically charged images of his friends, often nude and posed in unusual ways, but set against the backdrop of the Greek natural environment – beaches, woods, cliffs, and apartments.

A history of female swimwear.

A collection of objects designed by architects varying from teapots to tables; hardware to chairs; radios to dressers to sofas; all the way to jewellery.

The Way We Wore: Styles of the 1930's and '40's and Our World Since Then illustrates the fashion of the 1930s and '40s – discussing fabrics, colors, and prices from each era – and outlines what changed in from the 50s onwards.

Born and raised in Belgrade, Boogie first began photographing during the Yugoslav Wars, which ravaged the Serbian territory throughout the 1990s. Growing up during these wars ignited Boogie’s attraction to the darker side of human existence; his distinctive photographs often focuses on rebellion, unrest, and the disenfranchised. In this book, he documents the people of Moscow – people sculpted by a brutal, concrete landscape, fighting to survive.

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.

The Sitwells were an aristocratic British literary family consisting of three siblings—Dame Edith Sitwell (poet), Sir Osbert Sitwell (writer and critic), and Sacheverell Sitwell (art and music historian)—who, along with their family, were influential cultural figures in the 20th century, known for their avant-garde tastes, eccentricity, and patronage of the arts, particularly in the 1920s and 1930s London scene. This illustrated biography of the Sitwell family accompanies a major 1994 exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery.

Juergen Teller spent a year carrying out a study of the Reichsparteitagsgelande, the site of the notorious N rnberg rallies, and a place he used to visit in his youth. The book combines these works with self-portraits and family photographs through the same period, adding the perspective of the personal and quotidian life cycle to a site that has world-historical importance.

Sebastian Riemer’s Press Paintings series looks at the waste paper produced in the last century by the press photo industry. He examines numerous images, analysing the manual work that went into editing them, a primitive process from today’s perspective. The works, produced in the period since 2013, blur the boundary between photography and painting, between the documentary and its opposite.

Exploring themes of perception, vision, & insight, this book focuses on the most astonishing pieces from a special collection of spectacles -- over 200 original works of art by noted designers & artists from around the world.

Over three years in the making, BREAK DOWN is one Michael Landy’s most extreme projects in which he made an inventory of his life. This book compiles the list of all his possessions.

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

Theatre Arts Magazine, sometimes titled Theatre Arts or Theatre Arts Monthly, was a magazine published from November 1916 to January 1964.

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Through the eyes and words of fashion photographers and writers, The Idealising Vision recognises the enduring value of fashion photography by showcasing images from around the world, images of clothing, beauty, style, and still life.

Black and white photographs of babies and infants taken by Sue Packer taken in 1980s.

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Published to coincide with the Standard Bank Young Artist Award 2015, Kemang Wa Lehulere's first comprehensive monograph traces his work from 2005 to 2015. Images of Wa Lehulere's drawings, performances, videos and installations are interspersed with various forms of texts by the artist, including poetry and scripts for performance,

Drawing from those same impulses that compel us all to take pictures of our family, this book considers the entirely unique response of photographers to their family and the significance of this work in the broader context of their photography. Family is a collection of 175 photographs by a wide range of photographers that consciously reflect on the experience of family.

Things As They Are tells the story of modern photojournalism – from the heyday of Life magazine in 1955 to the era of the camera-phone seen today. With 120 picture essays, this book reveals how the events of the world, the art of photographers.and interests of the press have converged onto the printed page to portray an ever changing world. Includes photographs from artists such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Nan Goldin, Mary Ellen Clark and Walker Evans.

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.

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A socialist journal of the social services. In this issue: Day care and the regulation of women's workforce participation, evaluating a welfare reform, the current state of British social work, the politics of human liberation.

Miguel Milá: A Life in Design is a detailed look back through most emblematic works of interior designer Miguel Milá, produced between 1956 and 2021, with archival photos and drawings, as well as original photos shot at Milá’s Barcelona home by Nacho Alegre.

Dance Magazine was a monthly dance publication covering modern dance and ballet, as well as other forms of dance, including jazz, that ran from 1927 to 2001.

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A photographic showcase of a dazzling top model who embodied haute couture in the 1950s.

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

Broken Music is an essential compendium for records created by visual artist and focuses on recordings, record-objects, artwork for records, and record installations made by thousands of artists between WWII and 1989. Artists featured include: Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, Joseph Beuys, William Burroughs, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Marcel Duchamp, Allen Ginsberg, Philip Glass, Allan Kaprow, John Lennon, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Frank O’Hara, Yoko Ono, Michael Snow, Nam June Paik and more.

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.

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Thames Log by British photographer and film-maker Chloe Dewe Mathews examines the ever-changing nature of our relationship to water – from ancient pagan festivities through to the rituals of modern life.

During 1929, Herbert List began to photograph the young men he knew and traveled with throughout Greece, Italy, and Germany. He captured the innocence of their beauty and physical prowess before Hitler's politics commandeered those qualitie. The relationship, in List's mind, of these young men to Greek statues is emphasised by the occasional juxtaposition of nude or semi-nude figures with fragments of Greek statues.

This book is the ultimate celebration of the shoe – an insight into the the world of the bespoke shoemaker, following the rise of mass manufacture with highlights of great designers past and present.

A book on the work of Xavier Corberó (1935-2017) – one of the most important Spanish artists of the last century. His sculptures in rough-hewn stone, marble, and bronze gave form to ideas running through a circle of contemporary surrealist artists, including Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, and Joan Miró, but with pieces distinctly his own.

A comprehensive collection of essays on dance.

This book contains a collection of letters that the famous brothers Jonas and Adolfas Mekas sent from America to Semeniškiai village, Biržai district, Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic. They were all addressed to the most important addressee of their lives – their mother, Elzbieta Mekienė.

Begun in 2014, Njideka Akunyili Crosby's ongoing series, The Beautyful Ones is comprised of portraits of Nigerian children, including members of the artist's family, derived from personal photographs and, more recently, from images taken during her frequent visits to Nigeria, where Akunyili Crosby lived until the age of sixteen.

In 1996, five years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Boris Mikhailov began making portraits of the outcasts in his hometown, Kharkov, Ukraine, where he was born in 1938.This body of work, comprised of 431 photographs, explores the oppression, devastating poverty, and the deeply troubling everyday reality of a marginalised community who had been left homeless by the rise of a new capitalist oligarchy.

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.

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