
A collection of 50 photographs taken by Arnold Newman presented at the National Portrait Gallery on the occassion of an exhibition of the same name, sponsered by Sunday Times. Striking black and white portraits of artists and figures including Francis Bacon, William Armstrong, Cecil Beaton, Janet Baker, and more.

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.
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Shot over the period of 5 months in 2017, Yodo Hito documents the communities and individuals who have built their homes or congregate along the concrete oodplains of the Yodogawa River in Osaka city, Japan.

A socialist journal of the social services. In this issue: Psychotherapy, racism, classism and welfare, capitalistic origins of mental distress, critical theory and social work practice, social values and psychotherapy.

Modern Fighting Men: Uniforms and Equipment since World War II offers a detailed survey of the evolution of military personnel and their equipment in the post–Second World War era. Through extensive visual material, it traces how the appearance, gear, and role of the modern soldier have transformed across changing doctrines and conflicts.
Vintage Fashion is an encyclopedic visual journey through women’s fashion that features more than 1,000 of the most remarkable vintage items ever sold on the resale market. Classified by decade and accompanied by the history of each item’s creation, the 850 articles of clothing and 150 bags depicted in this book offer a panoramic look across the evolution of style.

Another Art Book, the final volume celebrating the archives of AnOther Magazine, revisits groundbreaking art commissions published since 2001. Featuring artists including Damien Hirst and Yayoi Kusama, it highlights the magazine’s bold integration of contemporary art into fashion publishing, culminating in collaborative projects that fused designers and artists, reshaping the relationship between both creative worlds.

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

This frenetic collection of satirical material by the contemporary American writer includes excerpts from his most popular novel, a candid interview with Paul Krassner, and a play recalling the Beat Generation

The portrait is central to Fazal Sheikhs work. Often these have been people in crisis: displaced from their homes and their countries, at risk from violence, poverty and prejudice. This book takes in the full range of Fazal Sheikhs work, from his earliest portraits taken in African refugee camps, through long-term projects in Afghanistan and Northern Pakistan, Somalia and Kenya, to more recent work in South America and in India.
This book contains over 330 Namio Harukawa illustrations, a short manga, seven unfinished sketches, two photos of his atelier, and essays by Shigeru Kashima.
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In this book, German photographer Thomas Struth explores the social space and mental state of the modern metropolis. Strangers & Friends covers the entire trajectory of Struth's career and his work in several subject matters, including his restrained and rigorous architectural photographs, intimate family portraits, and frenzied museum interiors.

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

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

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

The Atlas Group: Volume 2, officially titled My Neck Is Thinner Than A Hair, is a publication by Lebanese artist Walid Raad and his art project The Atlas Group, functioning as part of a fictional archive exploring Lebanon's civil war through documents, installations, and lectures, focusing here on the pervasive car bombings (1975-1991) and challenging historical narratives of conflict and memory.

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

What's In My Library is a series of Prince's photographs put to a list of Prince's most loved books from his personal collection. Published in 2009 by the Journal and Sadie Coles, it is yet another highly collectable book from Prince and one that features his rare photography work.

Ultimate Angels is a striking exploration of transgender identity in all its isolation, expression, and glory.

A book about the creative life of Britain and the first attempt since the Festival of Britain to document the popular and folk art of the present day. Organised by Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane, Folk Archive: Contemporary Popular Art from the UK, presents a personal selection of objects and actions, containing elements of ambition, humour, pathos and resistance, which present us with invaluable evidence of creative life in Britain today

Collection of store signs.


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.

Pretty Hurts by the London-based photographer Rosie Marks is a mosaic of eleven vignettes that feature an exploration of contemporary notions of beauty and glamour. Oddities and curiosities take center stage as Marks allows her subjects to freely exist in their individually constructed–or reconstructed–worlds. From London to Los Angeles, we meet personalities from all walks of life in search of betterment and beauty, no matter what the costs

A socialist journal of the social services. Special issue on the Black community.

The Airport Pictures of Garry Winogrand assembles 86 of the photographer's most compelling, never-before published images of travellers, flight attendants, airport waiting rooms, airplanes on runways and all the people and places in between.

Bruce Davidson's groundbreaking Subway, first published by Aperture in 1986, has garnered critical acclaim both as a documentation of a unique moment in the cultural fabric of New York City and for its phenomenal use of extremes of color and shadow set against flash-lit skin.


From three-piece suits to two-piece pajamas, classic men's clothes are steeped in history, practicality and tradition and are characterized by subtle details in style, tailoring and color.

Squatting the real story is a 1980 compendium of articles about squatting in the United Kingdom, mainly based on projects in London. With written contribitions by Piers Corbyn, Ann Pettitt, Steve Platt and Colin Ward, among others.

Made in the UK: The Music of Attitude, 1977–1983 documents a time when British music pushed every boundary. Beckman began her career working for Melody Maker, one of London’s premier weekly music papers. She soon had extraordinary access to the musicians topping the UK charts—icons of an era when music had an agenda—including The Clash, The Sex Pistols, The Jam, The Undertones, The Specials, The Beat, The Police.

A book about architecture

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

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

Issue on houses in the Northern Europe.

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.

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.

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

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

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.


Part of the "Vision + Value Series" and was published by Studio Vista in 1966.

War Without Heroes is a book of black and white photographs by David Douglas Duncan of soldiers during the Vietnam war – capturing moments of both comradeship and tragedy.

Marching To The Freedom Dream presents American photojournalist Dan Budnik’s significant body of work documenting three seminal marches of the civil rights movement. It is published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and precedes the 50th anniversaries of the Selma-Montgomery March and the Voting Rights Act in 2015. A foreword to the book is written by prolific civil rights activist, Harry Belafonte.

As a young man who had just moved from the countryside to the metropolis of Osaka, Suzuki Yoshihiro started a new life as a company worker by treating himself to a Minolta SRI single-lens reflex camera. Suzuki refers to himself as an ”amateur photographer,“ and his story is representative of the strong amateur photography movement in post-war Japan, which is for the most part unknown to the public, unlike the work of professional photographers who have been exhibited worldwide. Suzuki’s early photographs came to light by pure coincidence: his son’s wife discovered the negatives and developed them as contact sheets. More than fifty years after Suzuki’s photographs were taken, they are now finally being published as a photobook.

This phootgraphic anthology brings together the groundbreaking work of Black women photographs active in the UK during the 1980s and 1990s. Seen through the lens of Britain’s sociopolitical and cultural contexts, the publication draws on both lived experience and historical investigation to explore the communities, experiments, collaborations, and complexities that defined the decades. Includes the works of Maxine Walker, Ingrid Pollard, Claudette Holmes, Mohini Chandra, Carole Wright, Sutapa Biswas, Maud Sulter, Brenda Agard, Anita McKenzie, and more.

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.

Ever Since Night Falls looks at the adventures and misadventures of lost artworks throughout history: records of bad luck, disappearance or deliberation. This publication gives a glimpse into works that have vanished from the reaches of humanity in one form or another — stemming from motivations that encompass human error, greed, ideology and passion.

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

Across three decades the American artist and cinematographer, Arthur Jafa (b. 1960, Tupelo, USA) has developed a dynamic, multidisciplinary practice ranging from films and installations to lecture-performances and happenings that tackle, challenge and question prevailing cultural assumptions about identity and race. This book was published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name at Serpentine.
Adrien Mesko spent three months with the dancers of La.Horde directed National Ballet de Marseille. Each day, he would visi the studio to observe, document their training, perfomances, dedication to the physical demands of their craft and the quiet moments of intimacy in between.
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Seen/Unseen is a monograph documenting Strachan’s 2011 survey exhibition “Seen/Unseen,” installed in an undisclosed New York City location and deliberately made inaccessible to the general public. Navigating through the polarising dichotomies of presence and absence, visibility and invisibility, and man and nature, Tavares Strachan has engineered a multidisciplinary artistic practice that mobilises our visual, intellectual, and emotional faculties.

In this photographic scrapbook, fashion photographer Stan Shaffer share his extraordinary life at the nexus of art, fashion and cinema. Over his career as icon maker, Shaffer hung out with everyone from Andy Warhol to Jerry Hall, Carla Bruni to Uma Thurman. With his fine-tuned intuition, this trendsetting photographer reveals the real person beyond these public facades.

This major monograph looks at the work of seminal Palestinian artist Abdul Hay Mosallam Zarara, who used his work to decry the violent suppression of his homeland and promote international solidarity worldwide.
This reference work presents Gus Van Sant's filmmaker's artistry (photography, painting and music) through the optic of his films. It is an original work combining all facets of his creation for the first time, bringing a fresh vision of his cinematographic work.

Twenty years of Versace by Avedon, this collection of beautifully produced photographs from the advertising campaigns of Gianni Versace features images of some of the most beautiful women in the world, including Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell, and Linda Evangelista,

This book is seeped in social history, fact and trivia, art and artifacts surrounding the drug of choice for nineteenth-century poets – absinthe.

Photographs taken behind the scenes of Nollywood films.


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

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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.

The renowned and influential book artist Hedi Kyle shows you step–by–step how to create her unique designs using folding techniques. Presents bookbinding and paper craft projects include flag books, blizzard books, the fishbone fold, and nesting boxes.

This book is a comprehensive guide to skateboarding – including information on history, safety, maintenance, instructions and glossary terms.

This book the concept of modularity as a general principle of order in the universe and its application in various fields, including architecture, plastic arts, and music.

Composed of found images and videos, the work of Arthur Jafa revolves around Black American culture, the history of slavery, and ongoing structural and physical violence against Black Americans. This essential overview presents Jafa's best-known works, such as Love is the Message, the Message is Death and its 2018 follow-up piece The White Album, alongside never-before-seen projects and essays by notable scholars.

With over 200 images of t-shirt 'messages', A Typology of T-shirts looks at those individuals who stand out in a crowd through their choice of the message on their back.

Berberry is a book of photographs obsessively collected by Toby Leigh over a ten year period. From mass produced clothing, to birthday cakes, tattoos and even whole apartment blocks, this hilarious and fascinating study exposes how one distinctive tartan pattern has become a global symbol of pseudo-luxury and faux British heritage.

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

In Jamaica, Clarks the ruling name in footwear. Including current and historic photographs, interviews and previously unseen material from the Clarks archive, and with particular focus on the musicians who have worn and sung about Clarks through the years, this book explores how footwear made by a Quaker firm in the quiet English village of Street, Somerset came to be the most popular shoes in Jamaica.

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

Hiromix’s glamorous renditions of Keita Maruyama’s entire 2001 collection are splashed, fashion magazine style, onto thick glossy paper. As the year unfolds, back stage shots, Spring/Summer, Autumn/Winter as well as one-off photo shoots present the quirky sophistication of this young Japanese designer.

By using the medium of dress, Evolution & Revolution explores the dramatic cultural, social, economic and political changes which have occurred in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan over the past three centuries. This history is revealed through the luxury court robes of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911); the tight-fitting, side-slitted East-West cheungsam; the ubiquitous Mao suit, symbol of Communist ideology; and the bold new directions of contemporary designers.

I colori del ferro blends industrial materials and contemporary art, combining photographers by renowned photographers with technical macro shots of steel and industrial scenes. An essay by Umberto Eco and captions by engineer Gino Papuli provide aesthetic, technical, and conceptual insights, creating a sophisticated dialogue between industry and art.


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

Jeans documents the personal obsession of self-taught photographer Karlheinz Weinberger. In his stark, posed photographs of these young rebels, Weinberger focuses on individual figures, exploring both a personal erotic obsession and the cultural symbolism of blue jeans, whose scarcity in post war Switzerland implied not just a fashion statement but a badge of pride

Otherworldly presents avant-garde garments, styling, fashion photography, and young designers who are reimagining fashion through new design technologies – from wearables to the utter transfiguration of the human silhouette. Otherworldly showcases a fashion avantgarde between futurism and fetish.


A collection of images taken by Lee Friedlander of his wife Maria and his family from 1960 to the 1990s, accompanied by an interview with the photographer.

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Edited by Dick Higgins and Wolf Vostell, Fantastic Architecture is an artist’s book/anthology explores the boundaries between pop art and architecture through writings and projects by key artists and thinkers of the 1960s and earlier—from John Cage and Buckminster Fuller to Kurt Schwitters and Joseph Beuys

A history of lingerie – includes photographs, sketches and design developments.

Cindy Sherman: The Early Works, 1975-1977 gathers all of the artist's work from moment in which Sherman was formulating her conceptions of gender and identity construction, gathering her toolkit of props (wigs, makeup, costumes) and becoming friends with artists such as Robert Longo (with whom she would establish the Hallwalls gallery in New York).

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 offers brief profiles of important designers, architects, engineers, graphic artists, movements, and manufacturers, and shows influential designs in automobiles, furniture, fabrics, fashions, and products.

At the vanguard of fashion, design and art, AnOther Magazine has, over the past decade, become known for its signature fusion of fashion photography and classic portraiture. Another Portrait Book includes a stellar selection of these celebrity shots—Nicole Kidman, Jodie Foster, Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow among them, as well as portraits of figures from the worlds of music, literature and art, such as Gore Vidal, Björk, Lucian Freud, Patti Smith, Marianne Faithful and Kate Moss, captured by the world’s most iconoclastic photographers.

This is the only book to thoroughly document the world's finest examples of Brutalist architecture. More than 850 buildings - existing and demolished, classic and contemporary - are organised geographically into nine continental regions.

A book about architecture

Gaz’s Rockin’ Blues celebrates London’s longest-running one-nighter club. The book chronicles three decades of the legendary night through its original flyers and posters, alongside photos and anecdotes. It offers a vibrant visual and cultural history of this much-loved institution and its lasting impact on London’s music scene.

A periodical book on modern houses from around the globe. Featuring work of architects Alvar Aalto, Le Corbusier, Eero Saarinen, Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Meier & Associates

In 1966, Yves Saint Laurent designed his first tuxedo and continued to create different versions of it up until 2002. In that time, the tuxedo has come to symbolize female liberation. This book was published to accompany an exhibition that presented the long history of this garment. Illustrations include numerous couture sketches and photo plates throughout, some in color and some in B&W, many full-page.

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.

In the Name of God highlights Western misconceptions around Islam and showcasing the faith’s peaceful nature. Set against the backdrop of rising Islamophobia in France, it underscores the importance of accurate representation. The book celebrates the cultural and religious life of the Muslim diaspora in France, highlighting their resilience and devotion through photography. It portrays daily expressions of faith, communal practices, and the integrated blend of tradition and modernity, aiming to reshape perceptions and celebrate the beauty of Islam and its ummah.

This book explores propaganda posters from the early decades of the People’s Republic of China, portraying Mao Zedong as a heroic, guiding figure within idealized socialist scenes. Drawn from Max Gottschalk’s extensive collection, it presents rare artworks that reveal how visual culture promoted unity, moral conduct, and faith in a communist utopia through powerful imagery and carefully staged representations of everyday life.

Between 2007 and 2017, across the hours of 8:30 and 9:30am, Danish photographer stood with his camera at the southern corner of 42nd Street and Vanderbilt Avenue in New York City. In narrowing the infinite opportunities New York City has to offer an artist, Funch brings to the surface the minutiae contained within a fragment of our daily routine.

For more than twenty years, Jefferson Hack has pioneered the idea of magazines as communities through his co-founding editorial of Dazed & Confused, AnOther Magazine and Another Man. Featuring contributions from cultural provocateurs Tilda Swinton, Rankin, Douglas Coupland, Björk, Aimee Mullins, and many more, We Can't Do This Alone: Jefferson Hack the System re-defines the purpose of alternative media in the 21st century drawing on a wealth of innovative projects to artfully map out a bright future for radical publishing.


This is a chronicle of Nan Goldin and David Armstrong's friends, loves, and lives over 20 years. The book is both a visual dialogue between two artists, friends and lovers who together create a portrait of a generation whose hopes and aspirations have been scarred by drugs, AIDS and sexual harassment. The parallel paths of their lives are represented in this book in the juxtaposition of styles - Goldin's colour photography set against Armstrong's more austere black-and-white imagery
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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