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Photographs by Man Ray and text by Jean Cocteau.
Nan Goldin's The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is a visual diary chronicling the struggles for intimacy and understanding among the friends and lovers whom Goldin describes as her "tribe". These photographs described a lifestyle that was visceral, charged and seething with a raw appetite for living, and the book soon became the swan song for an era that reached its peak in the early 1980s.
Photographs of fugitive and performance artist CS Leigh.
A study of prehistoric art.
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.
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.
Bobby Baker is one of the most widely acclaimed and popular performance artists working today. This book brings together for the first time an account of Baker’s career as an artist with critical commentary by reviewers; transcripts of Baker's performances; and other originial materials.
The book explores the daily lives and experiences of Black people in Paris during the early 1980 through the photographs of Nicolas Silatsa.
The Free People is a photo essay about a new generation of young people and the quality of openness and sharing that permeates their life. It is a book about their music, their work, their mobility, what they read and what they buy, their styles, about why they are free people and how they live.
First book to bring together a representative collection of the influential work of photographer Paul Jasmin. Jasmin had a long career as a fashion and art photographer, was had previously painted and acted. His images of real and imagined American dreamers evoke a sensual and glamorous ideal while firmly rooted in reality.
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.
This book is an insight into Japanese post-war design.
A book about architecture
Suburbia is a sociological dissection of the Northern California suburban sprawl of the late sixties and early seventies, one of the great American photography books of the last quarter of the 20th Century.
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.
A socialist journal of the social services. Special issue on the Black community.
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 Switzerland, West Germany and Austria.
Making & Being draws upon the lived experience of Susan Jahoda and Caroline Woolard, visual arts educators who have developed a framework for teaching art with the collective BFAMFAPhD that emphasizes contemplation, collaboration, and political economy.
This book chronicles Ede's his unique vision of combining art and living at Kettle's Yard, his Cambridge home and collection, featuring poetry and photographs of the house's curated spaces, portraying how art, light, and everyday objects create a harmonious, accessible experience for visitors, inspired by his belief that art should be part of everyday life, not confined to gallerie
To Evelyn collects local entertainer posters from a Yorkshire pit village working men’s club, originally gathered in the 1990s by Evelyn Short and now curated by her grandson, David. Pre-dating the internet and social media, these posters celebrated alternate identities and weekend personas, offering a glimpse into local culture, national identity, and the imaginative freedom to transform into anyone or anything.
This exhibition catalogue weaves the thread between sculpture, fashion photography and art. Featuring an essay by Sarah Mower and an interview with Jonathan Anderson.
Images and documentations taken by French volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft during their expeditions.
American conceptual artist Pacifico Silano’s practice is rooted in excavating the printed ephemera of gay culture to create new images that comment on loss, longing and queer melancholy. In particular, Silano uses the gestures of framing, cropping and layering vintage gay erotica to comment on the HIV/AIDS crisis and its reverberations on queer lives, which included the loss of the artist's uncle at the height of the epidemic.
Photography - A Queer History examines how photography has been used by artists to capture, create and expand the category 'Queer'. It bookmarks different thematic concerns central to queer photography, forging unexpected connections to showcase the diverse ways the medium has been used to fashion queer identities and communities. Featuring the works of 84 photographers past and present – including Nan Goldin, Robert Mapplethorpe, Wolfgang Tillmans, Zanele Muholi, Libuse Jarcovjakova, Sunil Gupta, Peter Hujar, Lola Flash and more.
Not Dead Or Famous Enough Yet is a 600-page book that celebrates 10 years of a studio built independently from the ground up by two friends following their own path.
Stile in Progress is a celebration of thirty years of L'Uomo Vogue and brings together 100s of the best fashion photographs from its pages. The photographers featured over the three decades include Steven Meisel, Oliviero Toscani, Albert Watson, Bruce Weber, Paolo Roversi, Mario Testino, Arthur Elgort, Snowdon, Ellen von Unwerth, Peter Lindbergh, and more.
This comprehensive volume presents the works of the Swedish photographer, and includes five essays which analyse different aspects of Frank's photographs, films and videos.
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.
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Philippe Garner’s absorbing book describes the way in which the talented and opportunistic Cowan carved himself a very specific niche in the fast flowing maelstrom that was sixties fashion photography.
This book offers a comprehensive visual survey of Donald Judd’s living and working spaces in New York and Texas. Featuring unpublished photographs and essays, it explores his buildings at 101 Spring Street and in Marfa, including Ayala de Chinati. The volume reveals Judd’s concept of permanent installation, integrative living, architectural preservation, and rigorous attention to function, design, and landscape.
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.
This experimental volume reimagines what a book can be by inviting over thirty leading artists and writers to reinvent its traditional parts. Endpapers, footnotes, page numbers, even the ribbon bookmark become individual artworks. The result is a playful, collaborative object that blurs boundaries between literature and visual art, celebrating creativity, surprise, and the book as medium itself in inventive ways.
Modern typography, established primarily in Switzerland during the 1950s, flourished as a free and diversified American typography in the 1960s before greatly influenced the Japanese typography. This book examines the history of typography after the war.
Eudora Welty’s Photographs, originally published in 1989, serves as the definitive book of the critically acclaimed writer’s photographs. Her camera’s viewfinder captured deep compassion and her artist’s sensibilities. Photographs is a deeply felt documentation of 1930s Mississippi taken by a keenly observant photographers.
An illustrated guide to the principles and practice of hairdressing.
Part of the "Vision + Value Series" and was published by Studio Vista in 1966.
Ed Ruscha is widely regarded as one of the world’s most important artists with a career spanning six decades from the early 1960s until the present day. His use of imagery and techniques seen in commerical art, such as advertising and his interest in popular culture and the everyday, connects him directly with pop art. This book thoroughly traces Ruscha's engagement with photography and reveals how his photographic works shed new light on his career as a whole.
First monograph examining the work of Proctor and Matthews Architects
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.
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A collection of self portraits by 60 female artists and photographs, offering a glimpse into the (caucasian) female experience and concerns in the late 1970s after the Women's Liberation Movement.
Originally published by Doubleday and Company in 1970, N.H. Pritchard's The Matrix was one of a tiny handful of books of concrete poetry published in America by a major publishing house. Forcing the reader to straddle the line between reading and viewing, the book features visual poems that predate the experiments of the Language poets, including words that are exploded into their individual letters, and columns of text that ride the edge of the page.
Ahmed Morsi: A Dialogic Imagination discusses the places, people, texts, ideas, and materials that have shaped the unique practice of the New York–based Egyptian artist Ahmed Morsi.
he late sixties and early seventies were times of extraordinary creative output in fashion, music and design. The place where it was 'happening' was undoubtedly Britain - and London in particular. It was there that a magazine was born that both captured and fired the imagination of the fashionable set. This magazine above all others came to epitomise the mood and style of the times. It was called Nova. Like many original creations, Nova's success was not planned, but rather the result of coincidences of timing, place and the coming together of a particular band of talented people. Nova's conception was to provide an alternative to traditional women's magazines. But it soon developed into something more, and something that had never been seen before, a mixture of daring and artistic imagery with unconstrained writing that were always at the edge of current taste and acceptability. Nova 1965-1975 is primarily a celebration of the magazine's visual impact and influence. The book has been compiled by David Hillman, Nova's art director from 1969 until it closed in 1975, and Harri Peccinotti. the magazine's first art directon
An exploration of the unique world of British fashion, including established names and the work of new British designers. All aspects are covered including tailoring, fabrics, branding and accessories while special features highlight the work of key designers and influential trends – including the work of Alexander McQueen and Vivienne Westwood.
The magazine Apparel Arts was launched in 1931 in the United States as a men's fashion magazine, until 1958 when it rebranded at Gentlemen's Quarterly (GQ)
Black and white photographs of babies and infants taken by Sue Packer taken in 1980s.
Issue on the work of Frank Lloyd Wright
This book is a celebration of the Yves Saint Laurent look, a combination of elegance and sophisticated artistry. It is also a book in which the premiere fashion photography of our time is represented, and a book in which "the subject and the object blend because each one is a work of art."
An illustrated study of the development of twentieth century Russian theatre up until 1932.
This anthology presents Parisian fashion show invitations from 1983–84 to 1993–94, showcasing ephemeral yet highly creative graphic works. Featuring designers such as Yves Saint Laurent, Thierry Mugler, Yohji Yamamoto, Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld, and others, the book documents these miniature artworks as a vital record of design, creativity, and collectible artistry in fashion culture.
Richard Rogers explores modern architecture
A cult book that influenced the 'Ivy Style' craze among students in the Ginza shopping district of Tokyo in the late 1960s. Take Ivy is a collection of candid photographs shot on the campuses of America's elite, Ivy League universities. An important study of classic menswear and the Prep style.
In the late 1960s, Tadanori Yokoo explored mysticism and psychedelia, influenced by travels in India. Though often compared to Andy Warhol or Peter Max, his layered imagery was deeply autobiographical and original. Internationally recognized, he appeared in MoMA’s 1968 “Word & Image” show, and in 1972 the Museum of Modern Art held a solo exhibition of his graphic work.
John Cage: A Mycological Foray draws readers across the idiosyncratic, mushroom-suffused, innermost landscape of celebrated American composer John Cage. Upon the remarkable journey with Cage, one encounters assorted photographs, compositions, and contemplations; all in the very same unexpected fashion one encounters various flora and fungi species while mushroom foraging.
"This book is a pictorial and practical guide to the psychology of the woman interested in lingereis which expose her real character". A collection of photographs shot from the lowest angle inside the skirts of women, revealing what they're wearing below.
Over 300 striking images reflecting Knight's extraordinary vision and fearless experimentation, presenting his landmark career spanning both photography and fashion.
This book comprises a vivid series of photographs of wartime India, taken by Cecil Beaton when sent to the Far East during World War II for the Ministry of Information. The photographs depict a village school writing lesson, mountain coolies, the north west frontier, and a military hospital in Coiaba, Bombay, among other scenes.
The X Directore presents a collection of 601 “kink” cards gathered from London telephone booths between 1984 and 1994. Documenting the secretive, eclectic world of Bizarre Madams, Old Colonial Schoolboys, and cross-dressers, the book preserves a disappearing ephemera culture—once ephemeral due to cheap color printing and now nearly unimaginable in the digital age.
Issey Miyake: East Meets West features an impressive contrast of designs influenced by both Eastern and Western cultures. East Meets West was the first ever monograph that was created about the living fashion designer, and its importance is unquestionable. With over 200 pages of full bleed color images featuring some of Issey Miyake’s colorful clothing, the book truthfully depicts the designer’s passion for design, culture, and authenticity. Featuring editorial photos shot by the likes of Noriaki Yokosuka to the capturing of runway spectacles that combine movement with clothing.
Paintings by Harley Weir presents images made as a form of digression from her traditional photographic practice. Presented as short, rhythmical sequences, Paintings moves across the page like a melody, linking rhythm, colour and form through surface studies made consistently throughout the last three years.
Photographer Jo Spence challenges the assumptions of conventional photography in this groundbreaking visual autobiography, which traces her journey from self-censorship to self-healing.
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.
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
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 Following the release of the first seven volumes of Top Symbols and Trademarks, the editors returned to the project in 1977 with a series of four yearly annuals, 1977, 1978, 1979/80 & 1981/82. This is volume 9 looking at the year 1978.
In this remarkable visual survey, internationally acclaimed photographer Sebastiaao Salgado documents traditional methods of sustainable coffee farming across the globe, revealing rituals deeply steeped in history and pride.
Eden is a Magic World is a story of obsession. The central figure of Calderón’s book is Flor Eduarda, a former child actress in her native Mexico. After Carrusel (the hugely successful telenovela she appeared in as an infant) began screening around the world, Eduarda started to receive letters from a besotted admirer, Choi Chun Moon, an 18 year old student based in Seoul, Korea.
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."
This book reflects intangibles-atmosphere, light, space, the effects of form and material, the interaction of nature and man, and the concepts that bind these in physical and psychological reality.
The self-portraits in this book were taken by visitors in the summer 1976 at an American cultural exchange visit, Photography USA, in Kiev. Here, photographer David Attie set up his large format camera in a studio with a shutter release for Russian visitors to take their portraits – from couples to children, youth, old people and families.
To celebrate its fifteenth anniversary, this volume brings together the best in fashion, art, and culture from Purple’s illustrious history. Purple revolutionised fashion photography in the nineties by commissioning fine artists to shoot fashion editorials. What resulted was a raw, improvisational aesthetic, which continues to exert its power today. Includes work from Terry Richardson, Juergen Teller, Jack Pierson, Richard Prince, John Currin, and Vanessa Beecroft.
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.
This monumental collection brings together some of August Sander’s most impressive work collected here in 7 volumes, subdivided according to the various social categories investigated by the author. Hundreds of beautiful portraits of ordinary people: office workers, artists, farmers, lawyers, nurses, and more.
Bosnian War Posters presents a powerful visual history of the Bosnian War (1992–1995) through political posters, archival images, and contemporary photographs. Collected across Bosnia and the former Yugoslavia, these graphics capture lived experiences of conflict, nationalism, and propaganda.
A series black-and-white photographs of natural elements—water, sand, and wood—rendered in a highly graphic, abstract style. Published in 1967, the images transform natural textures into evocative, almost painterly compositions. Accompanied by a preface by sculptor François Stahly and poems by Anne de Staël, the work combines photography and poetry in a reflective dialogue with nature.
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.
Sidney D. Gamble (1890-1968), an avid amateur photographer, began taking pictures in China during his first trip to the country with his family in 1908. He returned three more times between 1917 to 1932 and continued photographing the daily life of Chinese citizens. A sociologist and renowned China scholar, he traveled throughout the country to collect data for social-economic surveys and to photograph urban and rural life, public events, architecture, religious statuary, and the countryside.
As a photographer George Platt Lynes was a brilliant craftsman and master of composition, whether it be in one of his many portraits of the famous and the legendary, or in his stunningly vivid documentations of the New York City Ballet. This book breaks down his body of work into distinct sections, featuring portraits include such luminaries of twentieth century art and society as Thomas Mann, Igor Stravinsky, Countess Bismarck and Gertrude Stein, as well as fellow lens-men Cecil Beaton and Henri Cartier-Bresson.
The publication is the catalogue of the exhibition On Failure, which examined and reconsidered the connotations of failure – repositioning the concept as an intentional outcome or state of being, often via an interrogation of what cost this approach comes at. Featuring artists Olivia Erlanger, Cash Frances, Jordan/Martin Hell, Kelsey Isaacs, Maren Karlson, Sam Lipp, Chris Lloyd and Narumi Nekpenekpen.
A book of the work of Austrailian architect Harry Seidler.
A book on the people who came to America told through objects, prints and photographs at the Smithsonian Institution.
In An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar (2007), Simon compiles an inventory of what lies hidden and out-of-view within the borders of the United States. She examines a culture through the documentation of subjects from domains including: science, government, medicine, entertainment, nature, security, and religion.
Over a period of two years, writer-photographer Kyoichi Tsuzuki visited a hundred apartments, condos and suburban homes, and lovingly documented what he saw.
Theatre Arts Magazine, sometimes titled Theatre Arts or Theatre Arts Monthly, was a magazine published from November 1916 to January 1964.
This book accompaniesdan exhibition at the Antwerp Fashion museum, from 30 March 2017 until 27 August 2017, surveying the avant-garde and cutting edge work of Margiela.
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 .
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.
Superb photographs, by Richard Young, of the famous, the glamorous, the ambitious and the tastless as they party, and relax in chic Mayfair environs. The celebrities captured on camera include, Warhol, Divine, Francis Bacon, Bianca Jagger, Keith Moon, Zandra Rhodes, Elton John, Grace Jones, Britt Ekland and a host of others. Christopher Wilson’s text captures in wry and studied prose the antics of the famous and infamous.
A guide on how to make movies at home.
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.
Ronald Traeger was an American commercial photographer, painter and graphic designer who also took a range of experimental photographs. The monograph Ronald Traeger New Angles (1999) pays tribute to his short-lived photographic career in London (1961-7) with a memoir by his wife, fellow photographer Tessa Traeger.
A unique story of people protecting a park in Berkeley California and the city's retaking of it.
The mysterious and ethereal fashion work of Sarah Moon is gathered together in monograph from 1981 – featuring images made for Marie-Claire, Carita, Vogue, French Vogue, Italian Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Cacharel, The Sunday Times of London, Nova, Pentax, Arkitektur and Wohnen.
A socialist journal of the social services. In this issue: Juvenile Institutions and lesbian youth; a theory of institutional abuse; women and mental health; restructuring political organisations for the Eighties; burnout as a political issue.
By visually examining the ways in which gender is dressed, made up and culturally enforced, Sherman has for many become an icon of feminism and postmodernism. More than 270 images show the breadth of Sherman's body of work, from the Untitled Film Stills of the 1970s to series such as Centrefolds, Fashion, Disasters, Fairy Tales and History Portraits, as well as photographs influenced by surrealist artists. Also included are intriguing excerpts from Sherman's notebooks, selections from her contact sheets and numerous Polaroid studies, all of which shed light on the artist's process.