Tacita Dean is considered among the most important living British artists. Best known for her filmmaking, which has taken her all over the world, she is a passionate defender of analogue methods. This authoritative publication brings together her writings with a complete filmography

This book presents some of the striking images that have established Hunter's reputation. These startling, sometimes tragic, stories are retold in carefully staged photographs, whose compositions are frequently derived from paintings in the National Gallery's collection.

This book examines the full range of textiles produced by William Morris and his firm, Morris & Co.. The revised edition expands earlier research with updated scholarship and photography, detailing embroideries, printed and woven fabrics, carpets, and tapestries, alongside analysis of design development, production methods, and Morris’s workshop practices.

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

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.

A collection of Niki de Saint Phalle's of surreal illustrations exploring various complex family dynamics.

The photo book of Kim Jones' debut menswear collection shot by Luke Smalley – a collaboration that followed after came across a copy of Smalley's 'Gymnasium' work.

This book brings together key writings on the interrelationship of Britain and the English-speaking Caribbean nations, focusing specifically on the art of the Caribbean diaspora in Britain from the 1920s to today.

Composed of paintings, sculptures and nature specimens that intrigue, amuse or confuse Ruscha, this exhibition and catalogue offers a portrait of the artist's taste and thought in response to Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum's call out for artist's to make work in reference to their collection.

This book focuses on Hicks' use of fabric; his treatment of curtains, upholstery, bed-hangings, fabric-covered walls and other soft furnishings

Focusing on the near-fifty-year period in which abortion was legal in the United States (1973–2022), The Last Safe Abortion recognises the care, advocacy, and community-building of abortion workers. Artist Carmen Winant draws from over a dozen personal, organisational, and institutional archives from across Midwest America. The photographs themselves are surprisingly regular. In centring the tender, quotidian, and routine acts that inform this healthcare work, Winant works to counter the ways anti-choice activists have weaponised photography by proposing a visuality that attends to abortion care. The Last Safe Abortion presents a selection of this vast collection of photographs, accompanied by a text by Winant.

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.

Green called upon long-term collaborator Jack Davison to photograph his SS21 Collection. Man and nature became one harmonious image in the striking black and white photographs, which have been reproduced in this book.

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.

This explores the overlooked textile work of Henry Moore. Initiated in 1943 under Zika Ascher’s guidance and later commissioned by David Whitehead Fabrics, Moore created 28 designs for silk squares, upholstery, and wall hangings. Using vibrant colors and modern materials, his textiles aimed to bring art into daily life, documented here with previously unpublished designs and illustrations.

A book about architecture

This monograph presents a comprehensive overview of Metzger's oeuvre. An illustrated chronology outlines the artist's activities within the historical and political context in which they originated. Thus, the book presents Metzger not just as an artist, but also as an activist.

This book showcases dutch counter-culture.

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 first volume in the series looks at the United States.

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

Published to accompany exhibition held at the Palazzo Strozzi, Florence in September 1992 tracing the history of Italian fashion.

Marking the 100th anniversary of the First Manifesto of Surrealism and the founding of the Bureau of Surrealist Research in Paris in 1924, Archive of Dreams is dedicated to the surrealist movement as well as the networks it engendered and the artistic stimuli it provided in the 20th century. The publication shows how the practices of the avant-gardes blurred the boundaries between dream and reality, between the traditional, passive notion of the archive and the idea of active, innovative artistic experiment.

This book presents Bruce Davidsons personal selections from his lesser-known colour archive. Ranging from a period of fifty-six years and counting, these images are representative of the photographers color career – ranging from work with magazines and on his travels.

Madonna’s Sex book is one of the most iconic and resounding art projects conceived by the pop star. The photographs by Steven Meisel feature open-minded erotic imagery and sexual fantasies.

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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.

BLINK. presents the work of 100 of the world's most exciting contemporary photographers, selected by 10 internationally acclaimed critics, curators and creative directors. An exhibition in a book, BLINK. showcases up-and-coming talent from all parts of the world, enabling the reader to stay one step ahead of emerging trends in the fast-changing world of photography.

An impressive collection of photographs and essays portraying the intricate work of jewellery designers – from the world famous to the lesser known. A variety of topics are covered: from technical aspects of jewellery work to general views on the way jewellery design is developing.

Since the beginning of her career in Belgrade during the early 1970s, Marina Abramovic has pioneered the use of performance as a visual art form. This book is a collection of some of her most influential works.

Helmut Newton: Work spans an impressive stretch of Newton’s career, including some of his most striking shots from the ’60s through to his golden heyday. From shadowy street to hotel boudoir, it’s a collection that showcases Newton’s suggestive storytelling throughout his fashion, editorial, or personal pictures.

This book presents examples of graphic design, emblems, interior design, signs, book jackets, labels, and logos by Pentagram.

Book of works from the artist's solo exhibition at Eighteen gallery.

From 1965-67, Gered Mankowitz was the photographer, friend and travelling companion of The Rolling Stones. Masons Yard to Primrose Hill captures the unguarded moments; the decadent, classic-era Rolling Stones in the full glory of swinging London.

A socialist journal of the social services. Special volume on issues concerning lesbian and gay communities.

Alexey Brodovitch’s Ballet is a legend – one of the most influential and coveted works in the history of the photobook. Brodovitch’s aim was to capture dance in the spontaneous, living present. Free of all artistic preconceptions and working with a sense of existential imperative, he immersed himself over a span of five years in the final performances of the Ballets Russes on tour in America. In Ballet, Brodovitch engaged the image and the book form in ways that continue to fascinate and his methods of printing played an equally decisive role in his experiment.

A book investigating the relationship of art and society through the works of eight German artists: Albrecht D., Joseph Beuys, KP Brehmer, Hans Haacke, Dieter Hacker, Gustav Metzger and more.

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.

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

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

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DOMESTIC is grounded in research on the food production industry, and focuses on relationships between humans and animals, eaters and eaten. The project stems from a batch of found 16mm agricultural and advertising footage shot in America in the 1960's; a poignant time for industrial and technological change in agriculture. As the found 16mm film aged over time, portions became pierced by the 16mm projector needing to be snipped off bit by bit. Hand printing these isolated strips in the darkroom form a basis of DOMESTIC's visual narrative, with positive to negative and negative to positive transitioning.

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We Have No Place To Be sees Joji Hashiguchi turn his lens towards a generation of young people seeking refuge on the streets across 6 different cities. Liverpool, London, Nuremberg, Berlin, New York and Tokyo, Hashiguchi documents the social discord within each of these locations through the youths that had taken to their streets. Featuring more than 100 images, this book is as a valuable artefact of the complexities of youth in an era mired in the fallout from war, austerity, unemployment and challenging leadership.

A collection of archival memorial photography in America – a popular postmortem practice to remember the dead, a form of mourning and memorialisation. This book presents a chronological arrangement of postmortem photography from 1840 - 1930, presenting the image of death from the Puritan journey for a sinner to the late Victorian beautifaction of death and its interpretation as the soul's restful sleep.

Designers are rethinking material futures as human activity reshapes the planet and natural resources decline. This book profiles 30 innovators who transform waste into primary material, alongside essays exploring the cultural and environmental stakes of their work, revealing an emerging design ethos rooted in reuse and regeneration.

Canal Zone postage stamps were specialized stamps issued from 1904 to 1978 for use in the U.S.-governed Panama Canal Zone. These stamps, collected in this book, served to facilitate mail during the construction and operation of the canal.

Following Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Curating* *But Were Afraid to Ask, this second volume in the series on international curator Hans Ulrich Obrist presents a selection of his key writings from the past two decades, which elaborate on the manifold thinkers, curators, and events that influence his interdisciplinary practice of exhibition making.

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

Published alongside an exhibition series on American poster art, this book celebrates the creativity and cultural power of posters. Opening essays by leading critics and designers explore their artistic significance, while the bulk of the volume showcases vivid, full-color reproductions. An extensive bibliography further supports the study of poster design and its role in visual culture.

This book provides the blueprint for an ‘ecocritical art history’, one that is prepared to meet the challenges of the Anthropocene, climate change and global warming. Without ignoring its own histories, the book looks beyond – politics, posthumanism, new materialism, feminism, queer theory and critical animal studies – invigorating the art-historical practices of the future.

Hannah Wilke was a radical feminist artist working across painting, sculpture, performance art, photography and video. She developed a multifaceted practice that challenged dialogues around art and gender, often using her own body to provoke these dialogues. This book presents nearly 80 works of Wilke's.

For this collection, Tillmans edited his previous four books with into a single work examining life at the turn of the millennium.

A themed collection of Araki photographs. Issue 14: Obscenities and Strange Black Ink Stories

Lindokuhle Sobekwa began this project after finding a family portrait with his sister Ziyanda’s face cut out. He describes her as a secretive, rebellious, and recalls the dark day when she chased him and he was hit by a car: she disappeared hours later and returned only a decade later, ill. Employing a scrapbook aesthetic with handwritten notes, I Carry Her photo with Me is a means for Sobekwa to engage both with the memory of his sister and the wider implications of such disappearances – a troubling part of South Africa’s history. The book complements his wider work on fragmentation, poverty, and the long-reaching ramifications of apartheid and colonialism across all levels of South African society.

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 fourth volume in the series looks at France and Italy.

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This book explores William Pope. L's impact on American art and culture. It contains sections on practices, body, performance, dialogue, consumption, and a selection of the artist's writings and a chronology.

This book showing the nuances that defined Minimalism in its various phases, as characterized by the inflected object, the disintegrated object, the ironic object ­then the transition from the object to architecture, space, landscape, cityscape, body, performance, and conceptual art.

Source Books in Architecture No.14: Rem Koolhaas / OMA + AMO Spaces for Prada is the most recent volume in the Source Books in Architecture series. Among the topics discussed in the book are the long-standing relationship with Prada and how the early objectives in that relationship have both maintained and shifted.

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.

The British Isles is an account of thirteen years of life across the United Kingdom, as seen through the lens of Jamie Hawkesworth. In this sprawling sequence of portraits and landscapes, Hawkesworth surveys the characters and terrains that make up the everyday fabric of his home country: schoolchildren and shopworkers, markets and estates, priests and professionals, cities and construction sites.

Observations is Richard Avedon's first book – a striking collection of portraits of artists, authors, musicians, and performers, with accompanying text by Capote.

Throughout his travels, Bruce Chatwin took thousands of photographs and completed a number of notebooks, featuring such subjects as Nouakchott shanty towns and Moorish travellers. This book presents a collection of these documentations.

On 4 May 1968, as protests shook Paris, the exhibition 50 Years Bauhaus opened at the Württembergischer Kunstverein, becoming the most influential post-war show on the Bauhaus. Fifty years later, the Kunstverein reassessed it, examining Bauhaus figures’ ties to National Socialism and links between avant-gardes and the military-industrial complex, while broadening its context beyond West Germany and the US.

In this book, Somali-British architect Rashid Ali and British photographer Andrew Cross present a fresh and uncommon portrait of the Somalian city, revealing how its architecture has reshaped and defined it--from colonisation to independence and from antiquity to modernism--as one of the most important cities in the Horn of Africa.

A history of fashion, society and the arts, as seen through "Vogue" magazine, from 1916 to 1990.

A collection 200 black-and-white photos taken by Harold Chapman, British photographer and resident of the legendary 'Beat Hotel' in Paris during its heyday as a residence for members of the Beat Poetry movement. With forwards by William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin, plus Chapman's own account of his first visit to the hotel.

With a decades-long career in photography and film, Brian Griffin is considered one of the UK's most celebrated photographers alongside Martin Parr, John Davies, and others. Work is a seminal book in the history of photography, featuring portraits of people at work in the 1980s - ranging from middle management to construction workers.

This book comprises a timely and controversial assertion of beauty as vital to the energy of contemporary art, from Gilbert & George as supreme aesthetes to contemporary artists as varied in their practice as Isa Genzken, Kai Althoff, Lucy McKenzie, Lukas Duwenhögger, Berkeley Hendricks and Wolfgang Tillmans, to whom are added Lana del Rey and Andy Warhol

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Echoes: A Vision of the American Southwest captures the vision of a French photographer Jean Meziere experiencing colour and light in the boundless expanse of the Amercian Southwest.

S.M.S., founded in New York by William Copley with Dmitri Petrov, was a subscription-based “art in a box” series distributing small, often playful works by mail. Inspired by Marcel Duchamp, it mixed famous and emerging artists across disciplines, all paid equally. Designed to bypass the traditional art market, it fostered accessibility and a collaborative, communal creative environment. Contributors to Issue #5 include Angus MacLise, Edward Fitzgerald, Diane Wakoski, Mel Ramos, Bruce Nauman, Yoko Ono, Wall Batterton, Lawrence Weiner, Robert Rohm, William Schwedler and William Nelson Copley.

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Inside the Bum documents the making of Harmony Korine’s film ‘The Beach Bum’ – starring Matthew McConaughey, Jonah Hill, Isla Fisher, Snoop Dogg, and Zac Efron. In October 2017, the Lebon brothers were invited onto the set of the film for six weeks. Given the freedom to wander the set as they pleased, the Lebons received unrestricted access and a privileged insight into the filmmaking process of Korine - a long-time inspiration for both brothers.

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Elegant and instructional, this book is a celebration of beauty and a remarkable showcase of the talents of an artist  ho has defined the look of the '90s.

This catalogue was published on the occasion of the exhibition Young Blood: Noah Davis, Kahlil Joseph, The Underground Museum. Celebrating the life and legacy of painter, curator, and visionary artist Noah Davis (1983–2015), Young Blood places Davis’ work in the context of an ongoing visual dialogue with his elder brother, artist and filmmaker Kahlil Joseph.

This subtle yet powerful book of photographs blends evocative scenes from the many subcultures of Iturbide's native Mexico with the artist's own deeply personal, and oftentimes Surrealistic, vision.

Home Economics explores the frontline of British domestic architecture in response to Alejandro Aravena’s theme Reporting from the Front. Curated by Shumi Bose, Jack Self, and Finn Williams, it features immersive full-scale projects by established and emerging designers proposing innovative models for contemporary homes.

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”.

PARIS + KLEIN gathers together hundreds of photographs shot by Klein from the time he first picked up a camera in the 1960s until he put it down, momentarily, to put together this book. In his signature colour and black-and-white compositions, his photographs depict men in the street, celebrities, demonstrations, fashion, the police, politics, races, the metro, football, death. The whole life of a capital seen through the lively, melancholic and moving eyes of William Klein.

Dedicated to Samuel Fosso’s early studio photographs in the 1980’s, this artist’s book tells the story of photographer Samuel Fosso’s fascinating Bangui studio images a few decades before his recognition as a major African artist.

Known and recognized for the elegance as much as for the insolence of her creations, Chantel Thomass imposed a style that has become, over time, synonymous with refinement and freedom for countless women. This book reveals all the richness and breadth of a partly ignored artistic universe.

Skateistan: The Tale of Skateboarding in Afghanistan shares the strange and beautiful intersection of traditional Afghan society and a new generation of Afghan skateboarders and artists. It features the innovative Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) 'Skateistan,' which since 2007 has taught skateboarding and creative arts to youth in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Mysore Style contains photographs and quotes about the yoga teacher and guru, Sri K Pattabhi Jois and his students in Mysore, South India.

Photographs and texts by critic Germano Celant about selected works considered as Arte Povera – an Italian art movement from the late 1960s and 1970s that used "poor" or commonplace materials to challenge the commercialised art world. Includes the works of Joseph Beuys, Lawrence Weiner, Alighiero Boetti, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Hans Haacke, Eva Hesse, Jan Dibbets, Carl Andre, and more.

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.

Ray Johnson was a renowned maker of meticulous collages whose works influenced movements including Pop Art, Fluxus, and Conceptual Art. Drawing on the vast collection of Johnson’s work at the Art Institute of Chicago, this volume gives new shape to our understanding of his artistic practice and features hundreds of pieces that include artist’s books, collages, drawings, mail art, and performance documentation.

Born in Hungary, Ata Kando worked in Paris where she married Ed van der Elsken and later settled in the Netherlands. She may be best known for her hard hitting photojournalistic work on Hungarian children refugees from WWII photographed with Violette Cornelius. In this book of photographs she uses her children as models and can be seen as an escapist fantasy from those grim wartime years.

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

This catalogue presents the prints of Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein, who created more than 350 graphic works over a span of 50 years. Inside are reproductions of the original prints as well as posters, book and magazine illustrations, announcements and more.

Published alongside the 2014 Araki Teller Teller Araki exhibition at OstLicht Gallery in Vienna, this first jointly conceived book by Nobuyoshi Araki and Juergen Teller presents over 300 photographs, including previously unpublished works. Bringing together two of contemporary photography’s most influential figures, the publication reflects their shared radical vision and relentless pursuit of images as expressions of personal experience.

A comprehensive collection of essays on dance.

Original film poster for Ankohm Mein Tum Ho.

Encompassing photography, installation, print media, video and more, this publication is a comprehensive account of Tillmans' wide-ranging career. Featuring everything from trenchant documents of social movements to windowsill still lifes, ecstatic images of nightlife to cameraless abstractions, sensitive portraits to architectural studies, astronomical phenomena to intimate nudes.

A book of the exhibition curated by Issey Miyake that explores the relationship between human body and the way things are made as a platform for considering how things will be made in the future.

This book surveys 1,800 recent print publications that operate outside the international book trade. Lacking ISBNs and produced on paper, they range from photocopied flyers to handcrafted editions and hardcovers. Created largely by young artists, these works highlight independent, experimental publishing, with illustrations chosen to reflect the expressive energy of contemporary art-driven print culture.

In one decade, Tom Ford transformed a label known for providing clothing for traditional socialites into the sexiest, most decadent line imaginable. Sales exploded at Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent, creating the powerful luxury goods conglomerate that the Gucci Group is today. This book is a celebration of Tom Ford's design work for both Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent from 1994 to 2004, created with the designer’s full cooperation.

This book is a photographic chronicle of the Ausserland tradition of building a woodpile.

This book explores the paradoxical relationship between sound and silence: silence shapes what we hear, yet may never truly exist. Inspired by John Cage’s groundbreaking 4’33” (1952), this book brings together new essays, artworks, scores, and Cage’s own later variations, examining absence, perception, longing, and the limits of silence

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

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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.

Sory documented the fast evolution of Bobo-Dioulasso, then Burkina Faso's cultural and economic capital, portraying the city's inhabitants with wit, energy and passion. His work conveys a youthful exuberance in the wake of the first decades of African independence.

Eric Kroll’s cult 1977 book is an unflinching study of the marginalised mid-seventies American sex worker. Focusing on women who worked at roadside sex shops, massage parlours or live peep shows, Kroll’s poignant portraits sit alongside matter-of-fact interviews conducted with each subject. Kroll travelled from Iowa to California and to Texas, photographing 50 women in total and interviewing over 100.

A collection of autobiographical stories, I Need More is the chronicle of musician Iggy Pop. From his childhood in Ann Arbor, Michigan to the inception and evolution of the seminal rock band, the Stooges, Pop vividly recalls his tales of reckless abandon in his own frank and indomitable manner and confirms his rightful position as a cultural iconoclast and one of rock music's true innovators.

A periodical book on modern houses from around the globe. Featuring work of architects Le Corbusie, James Stirling, Louise I. Kahn, I.M. Pei & Partners