A comprehensive history of couture designers.

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

As with the other volumes in the series, the ninth volume draws directly from the archives of the Renzo Piano Building Workshop, and uses previously unpublished material on the history of his Centre Pompidou architecture project in collaboration with Richard Rogers. The history of the project is presented chronologically, using sketches and notes, from the first inspection of the site to the official opening of the building. The stories of Piano and Rogers time working together are meticulously reproduced in their own words andthus the book is a true journal of the creation of this extraordinary architectural adventure.

A comprehensive book published to accompany the exhibition held at the Hamburg Kunsthalle and the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, focusing on understanding the artist who communicated with people by photographing them.

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.

A collection of powerful images by seminal photographers, realist painters and sculptors exhibited at The Saatchi Gallery – including Tierney Gearon, Nan Goldin, Andreas Gursky, Cindy Sherman and Andy Warhol.

Woven and embroidered works selected by Marianne Straub for the travelling exhbition in 1981.

This book offers a snapshot of American sculpture at the start of the 1980s, showcasing diverse artists and styles of the time.

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.

Following the evolution of fashion from the beginning of the twentieth century to its culmination, this volume takes in all the diversions, influxes and crossroads along the way. A decade by decade account of all the prevailing fashion for the period and its most influential designers.

Rasha Kahil documents her friend Gems, to create an intimate and honest portrait of female friendship.

Hilla and Bernd Becher's cool, objective photographs of industrial structures have earned them a special position in international photography. The Bechers' 224 photographs of watertowers comprise a unique, single minded, even obsessive mission. They were taken from as many as 8 angles, over a period of 25 years, with a stylistic approach so consistent that photographs juxtaposed from the 1950s and 1980s suggest a minute to minute account deadpan portraits of unadorned metal, concrete, and wooden structures.

A comprehensive collection of images photographer Herbert List shot from 1930s to 1970s – including everything from his landscapes of Greece to people in the streets of Germany street, all shotin his usual surrealist way.

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For almost 60 years the Rolling Stones have helped shape popular culture around the world. Unzipped traces their impact and influence on rock music, art, design, fashion, photography, and filmmaking. Packed with evocative archive photos, artworks, outtakes, and memorabilia, this book immerses readers in the world of the Stones.

In this book, artists LaBelle and Le Fort present the library as an organic space and the destination of an intellectual and sensuous journey during which thoughts expand quickly beyond the books displayed on the shelves.

A book on the architecture of Scotland from prehistoric times to present day.

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.

Sifting through the prosthetic memory of our contemporary time, the ADDPM Program aims to scale a collective human legacy. The book becomes encyclopedia on the cultural and cognitive flattening of human networked recollections.

After years of covering wars and conflicts around the globe, British photographer Don McCullin – one of the most celebrated photojournalists of his generation – returned home in the hopes discovering who he was and where he came from. The resulting photographs are as much as portrait of England as they are of McCullin himself.

A witty, candid, and revealing autobiographical account of the artist's early life, from his childhood in Bradford to his time at the Royal College of Art and sojourns in California and Paris. It contains a wealth of reproductions of his work, including 434 illustrations.

The interdisciplinary and experimental educational ideas espoused by Black Mountain College founded in North Carolina in 1933, made it one of the most innovative schools in the first half of the twentieth century. Visual arts, economics, physics, dance, architecture, and music were all taught here on an equal footing, and teachers and students lived together in a democratically organized community. This book traces the key moments in the history of this legendary school.

This book presents necklaces, rings, bracelets, pendants, earrings, and cuff links designed by sixteen modern architect, with brief interviews with each about their work. Includes postmodern jewelry by Mario Bellini, Ettore Sottsass, Peter Shire, Marco Zanini, Michele de Luccchi et al.

A richly illustrated, comprehensive study of fashion under socialism, from state-sponsored prototypes to unofficial imitations of Paris fashion.The idea of fashion under socialism conjures up images of babushka headscarves and black market blue jeans.

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

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.

Born in 1929 in Ghana, James Barnor has left an incisive mark on the history of photography. From the establishment of his Ever Young photo studio in Accra in the 1950s, to international assignments for the influential magazine Drum, he captured societies in transition: a burgeoning Ghana, marching toward independence, and Swinging Sixties London growing into a multicultural metropolis. This book is the first monograph of his work – from the late 1940s to his pioneering work in colour of the 1970s.

Dubbed an “It Girl” by Yves Saint Laurent in the early 1970s, Marisa Berenson is the original modern muse-inspiring fashion designers, photographers, stylists, and fashion editors for over thirty years. This captivating collection of fashion editorials, magazine covers, film stills, and candid photos were captured by the leading photographers and filmmakers of the day, including Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, David Bailey, Hiro, Helmut Newton, Henry Clarke, Norman Parkinson, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Steven Meisel, among many others.

The Group of Thirteen (Grupo de los Trece) was a prominent Argentine conceptual art collective from the Centro de Arte y Comunicación (CAYC) in Buenos Aires, known for its "systems art" (conceptual, ecological, performance art) challenging art's role in society, notably winning the top prize at the 1977 São Paulo Biennial with their installation Signs in Artificial Ecosystems, featuring artists like Jorge Glusberg, Luis Benedit, Victor Grippo, Leopoldo Maler, Vicente Marotta, Luis Pazos, and Clorindo Testa.

Exhibition catalogue of the work of John Piper – a pivotal 20th-century British artist celebrated for his evocative landscapes, churches, and monuments, bridging English Romanticism with modernism, abstraction, and surrealism, working across painting, printmaking, stained glass, theatre sets, and textile design.

This catalogue accompanied the eleventh iteration of Sharjah Biennial. Re:Emerge Towards a New Cultural Cartography brought together artists, architects and musicians to reflect on themes of identity, migration, trade, cultural influence and synthesis.

A periodical book on modern houses from around the globe. Featuring work of architects Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates, Mies van der Rohe, Carlo Scarpa, Louis I. Khan, Piano + Rogers Architects.

In 1925 the Siberian immigrant Anatol Josepho had an idea for a small curtain-enclosed booth where people could take affordable portraits anonymously and automatically. The photobooth was born. Within 20 years there were more than 30,000 in the United States alone, an explosive growth due largely to World War II, as soldiers and loved ones exchanged photos. Photobooth presents over 700 photographs taken in the photobooth from the last 75 years – images that are spontaneous, inhibited, and touching. It is a captivating portrait of every day people and a testament to the ongoing fascination with the process and the photography.

Spanning five key years from 2016 to 2021, this monograph is dedicated to Tobias Spichtig’s work presents a high-definition snapshot of the Swiss artist’s aesthetic vision. Published by KALEIDOSCOPE, the pages present a variety of the artist's works – from oil, acrylic, graphite, diamond dust, and photographic prints on canvas – alongside essays.

Guido Palau pioneered the radical unstructured styles made famous by his subjects (the likes of Kate Moss and Stella Tennant) reacting against slick salon styles, to enhance, rather than hide, people's idiosyncrasies. This book presents 100 classics shot by fashion photographers David Sims, Steven Klein and Paul Wetherell.

This book was published to accompany the first retrospective of designer Yves Saint Laurent at the Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Musuem of Art. Inside features over two hundred of Saint Lauren't Couture designs - with photography by Duane Michals, Pierre Boulat and Nicholas Vreeland, Richard Avedon, Irving Penn and Neal Barr.

Chéri Samba (born 1956) is a renowned Congolese painter known for his "popular painting" style, which merges vivid, humorous, and critical imagery with textual commentary to address social, political, and daily life in Kinshasa.

A collection of photographs of activist graffiti by feminist guerrilla groups often sprayed over advertising boards in the 1980s and 1990s.

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Published alongside her first solo exhibition, also titled Contrasts, at London’s Hamiltons Gallery in September 1985, this volume encapsulates Stark’s fascination with light and shadow, juxtaposition and nuance.

This is the catalogue for Wolfgang Tillmans' exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery in London in 2010. After 20 years of working in London, Tillmans reflects on his relationship with the city, both through his past work and the new work produced for this exhibition.

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.

The Devil’s Playground presents a major collection of photographs by Nan Goldin (b.1953). Since the 1980s, Goldin has consistently created photographs that are intimate and compelling: they tell personal stories of relationships, friendships and identity, while chronicling different eras and exposing the passage of time.

The Mechanical Hand: Artists' Projects at Paupers Press focuses on the work of Paupers Press, a fine art print studio that concentrates on etching, lithography and relief printing. The studio has worked with many of the leading contemporary artists working in collaboration with the artists to produce limited edition and unique prints, books and portfolio collections. The book examines the collaborative relationship of the studio and the contemporary artists they work with.

A collection of black and white photographic portraits by Laon Maybanke presenting the many expressions, gestures and faces of humanity.

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.

Altars presents Mapplethorpe's colour work together with his final work, which were unique prints, elaborately framed and mounted on multiple coloured panels. The final work was the culmination of his creation of the unique photographic object, and it places Mapplethorpe outside the realm of photography and firmly in the world of contemporary art.

A remarkable collection of photographs taken by Dennis Hopper before he directed Easy Rider, this is a portrait of the decade made from Hopper's unique position within the art and entertainment world of the time.

In his epitaph to the age of conspicuous consumption and wealth, Luxury features Martin Parrs photographs over five years of watching the rich and fabulous at international champagne-fuelled gatherings.

In Broken Spectre, photographer Richard Mosse pushes the boundaries of photography to raise an urgent warning over the devastation in the Amazon rainforest. In an attempt to render the scale and urgency of the Amazon’s extensive, impending collapse, Richard Mosse’s most ambitious work to date employs a dazzling array of photographic techniques – from inky, fluorescent microscopic imagery describes the interdependent complexity of the Amazonian biome in scientific detail, while cinematic monochrome infrared scenes track illegal mining, logging and burning, industrial agriculture and indigenous activism.

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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.

Volume three of Raad’s series of artist's books includes recent work that focuses on the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982 and on the ammunition trade during Lebanon’s civil war. Raad produces performances, videos and photographs; in 1999, he founded The Atlas Group, a fictitious archive that documents the contemporary history of Lebanon

An exploration of the evolution at street fashion from 1940 to today.

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.

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.

Long recognized for her clothing line, Run, Cianciolo’s boundless creativity is evident throughout her multifaceted practice, which includes designing books, theatre costumes, films and forms of ephemera that defy the categorizations of fashion, craft and art.

Covering more than five decades, this publication gives a dazzling review of the great enfant terrible of French fashion, Jean Paul Gaultier (born 1952). Displaying Gaultier's oeuvre alphabetically--including iconic pieces such as Madonna's corsets and Kylie Minogue's stage costumes--Jean Paul Gaultier: From A to Z examines the designer's singular aesthetic from all angles while exploring his different influences: from cinema to dance, from Frida Kahlo to sailors.

A themed collection of Araki photographs. Issue 4: New York.

Chez Walti reveals Pfeiffer’s importance as a pioneer of contemporary photography and laid the foundation for his rise from a classic “artist’s artist” to a world-renowned artist who went on to work for international magazines like Vogue and shoot campaigns for luxury brands like Bottega Veneta.

Issue on houses in the U.S.A.

In a series of stunning black and white images, Tocororo: A Cuban Tale follows the creation of Carlos Acosta's first piece of dance theatre as choreographer and star, from its rehearsals and world premiere in Cuba to its sell-out debut at London's Sadlers Wells theatre.

A scarce, incredible publication documenting the women's liberation movement in Japan and worldwide. This rich work begins with intimate portraiture, documenting the lives of inspiring women activists, including a feature that spends time with Yoko Ono. Photographed over an eight-year period this is a unique portrayal of radical women in Japan beautifully depicting communal living and political organising.

Photographs of fans of The Rolling Stones.

This book is a documentation of Daria Pyshna’s hometown, Kyiv, and the area known as Obolon, where she lived until she was 12. Most of the photographs depict static metal beams used for anti-tank defense, and were taken in the surrounding area of Pyshna's primary school.

A book about architecture

A pictorial celebration of the clothing and accessories that dominated the American male dress code from 1955 to 1965.

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.

This book looks at the work of King and Miranda who industrially manufactured prodcuts from machines to photocopiers to lighting and furniture.

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.

Männer Vogue was Germany's leading men's fashion magazine. During its golden age between 1984 and 1989, Swiss-born Beda Achermann was the magazine's creative director and commissioned young photographers like Mario Testino, Ellen von Unwerth and Max Vadukul, along with established talents including Herb Ritts, Peter Lindbergh and Helmut Newton, Achermann set a new benchmark in fashion editorial.

In the early 1970s, Gabriele and Helmut Nothhelfer began taking photographs of people in public spaces. After studying photography at Lette School in Berlin followed by two semesters at Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, they moved back to West Berlin. Mainly on their weekends, they visited large gatherings such as fairs or public festivals and photographed people in their leisure time who were trying to escape the bleakness of everyday life by finding distraction and entertainment. Separately, they roamed through the crowds until somebody caught their attention and they pressed the shutter button. Sometimes they realised afterwards that they had both photographed the same person independently of each other.

This book explores topics such as the morals of city planning and affordable housing, rehabilitation and education, public vs private space, and the desire to strengthen inner-city communities.

Monograph of the work by Abdoulaye Konaté, an artist who primarily takes the form of textile-based installations to explore socio-political and environmental issues, as well as foregrounding his aesthetic concerns and formal language.

A technical anthology on the use of contact sheets, with examples and commentary from 43 contemporary photographers – including Robert Adams, Elliot Erwitt, Charles Gatewood, Eikoh Hosoe, Robert Mapplethorpe and more.

Illustrations and text are combined to give a comprehensive history of the use of tartan in fashion and dress.

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.

Clifford Coffin is known by many as the greatest of Vogue's "lost" photographers – an artist who was ahead of his time. His innovative an intriguing fashion photographs of the 1940s and 1950s for renowned magazines including Vogue, Glamour and Jardin des Modes challenged the standards of the day. This is the first monograph of his work, published to coincide with an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery and includes a rare collection of over 100 full colour and duotone photographs – many of which were previously unpublished.

A report identifying the causes of urban declinein England and the recommended practical solutions to bring people back into cities, towns and urban neighbourhoods.

A book about architecture

This is the first comprehensive monograph on acclaimed painter Amy Sherald, whose distinctive style of simplified realist portraiture features African American subjects rendered against colourful monochrome backdrops or in everyday settings.

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Frida by Ishiuchi is the first photographic documentation ever published of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo's personal attire and belongings, as portrayed by Japanese artist Miyako Ishiuchi. The victim of a nearly fatal bus accident as a young woman, Kahlo used fashion to channel her resulting physical difficulties into courageous statements of heritage, strength and beauty.

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.

A photographic exploration of the confluence of art, fashion and fetish in the cult of high heels swooping down fashion show runways and city streets. With photographic contributions by Glen Luchford, Robert Mapplethorpe, Martin Parr, Guy Bourdin, Juergen Teller, Araki, Bruce Gilden, Peter Hujar, et al.

Celebrating 30 years of Dazed’s boundary-pushing storytelling at the forefront of youth culture, this book reveals the past, present, and future of Dazed through its bold cover designs and manifesto-like headlines.

From the twilight of the Romanov dynasty through les annees folles of Art Deco Paris to the jet-set seventies, Bals explores the nine most exceptional private costume parties of the twentieth century.

The American photographer Leonard Freed travelled to Germany for the first time in 1954. He observed the people in their social surroundings, at work, at street festivals, in public parks, in the streets and against the industrial backdrop of the Ruhr Valley.

Fast Forward: Growing Up in the Shadow of Hollywood documents the experience of growing up in Los Angeles, and the ways children are influenced by the values of Hollywood. The quest for "fame," the preoccupation with trends, the culture of materialism, and the obsession with image that characterises Hollywood is reflected in the everyday lives and rituals of L.A. youth.

From his illustrations for "Nadja" by André Breton, to "Le Gros Orteil" and "Les Mouches" published in Documents magazine, the photographer Jacques-André Boiffard (1902-1961) brought some of the most emblematic pictures into the Surrealist iconography – which are gathered in this book.

Provoke, with its subtitle of Provocative Materials for Thought, was an experimental, small-press Japanese photography magazine founded in 1968 by critic/photographers Kōji Taki and Takuma Nakahira, photographer Yutaka Takanashi, and writer Takahiko Okada. Daidō Moriyama joined from the second issue. The magazine itself was printed through techniques like the "are-bure-boke" style, which embraced grain, blur, and high contrast to convey a sense of immediacy and raw energy. The printing process was considered a crucial part of the work, often using techniques that increased grain and contrast, with photos printed edge-to-edge without margins to make them appear to bleed into one another.

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In this unusual archive, Rose Salane documents 64,000 NYC MTA “slug” coins—counterfeit tokens collected from 2017–2019. Categorized by patterns of Faith, Place, Chance, Imitation, and Blank, the coins reveal fragments of commuter histories and urban movement. The work honors the everyday circulation of New Yorkers, transforming overlooked fare tokens into a reflection on time, place, and collective experience.

Pearls is a photographic record of Simryn Gill's ongoing bead-making project, that was begun in 1999, in which she makes books into bead necklaces. This book brings together over sixty sets of beads, each one unique and particular to the specific volume from which it has been created.

Mario Casilli's photographs defined the fabulous and outrageous entertainment industry in the 1980s. This book shows his larger than life portraits, featuring his trademark backlighting and bright color palette. Including everyone from Joan Collins in blinding jewels, Dolly Parton in perfectly coiffed grandeur and the Bee Gees in sleeveless leather.

A comprehensive exploration of the work of visual artist-activist Zanele Muholi, presenting images from the key series Muholi has produced over the past twenty years, as well as never-before-published and recent works, presenting the full breadth of Muholi's photographic and activist practice like never before.

Edited by Yvonne Rainer, this selection of texts and images by Rainer and various authors offers a retrospective portrait of her work, focusing on some of her most notable performances and projects

This book presents Schmidt's portrait of a still-divided Berlin: it brings together surprising combinations of high-contrast, black-and-white images to express a generation's dystopian sense of life shortly before the fall of the Wall.

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