Looks is the definitive guide to the looks designed and, in these photographs, worn by Leigh Bowery. One of Britain's most heroically ambitious designers and performance artists, Bowery remains an inspiration to many fashion designers today.

New Age: Stonehenge to Jungle is a visual chronicle of UK rave, jungle, and warehouse party culture from the early 1970s to 2000. Drawn from Toby Mott’s extensive Mott Collection, the book features 575 flyers and ephemera, tracing a generation of youth rebellion and the imaginative visual language that defined British party culture and its global influence.

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

Released on the 40th anniversary of Debbie Harry’s debut solo album KooKoo (1981), this book and exhibition collect a rarely seen and unpublished body of photographs by Chris Stein capturing the alchemy of the collaboration between artist H.R. Giger and the Blondie frontwoman and lead vocalist.

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.

Fashion Forever is a unique account of the aesthetic choices of British youth and a comprehensive guide to three decades of style driven subcultures. This book also presents a unique collection of portraits of distinctive individuals, their looks, their styles and their very personal statements.

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.

In this first major monograph chronicling the entirety of the artist’s career, McGinley’s work is considered by three extraordinary figures: Chris Kraus, novelist and critic; John Kelsey, writer, artist and activist; and Gus Van Sant, the auteur filmmaker. Each attends—through the lens of their own rich insights—to various aspects of the artist’s work and creative process, offering in-depth and unique perspectives on McGinley’s work and import.

A visual survey of various cars.

In London, photographer Alex Hütte takes a typological approach to a building form that was largely ignored by local photographers before he turned his camera upon it--the social housing blocks built at various times during the twentieth century to house London's working class citizens. Hütte concentrates on two particular periods of mass social housing: the blocks built around the beginning of the twentieth century...and the now discredited tower blocks of the 1960s and 1970s.

The art of Louise Bourgeois stages a dynamic encounter between modern art and psychoanalysis. From Bourgeois's formative struggle with the male dominated surrealist movement, to her galvanising role in the feminist art movement of the 1970s, to her subsequent emergence as a leading voice in postmodernism, this book explores the artist's responses to war, dislocation, and motherhood, to the predicament of the woman artist and the politics of sexual and social liberation, as a dialogue with psychoanalysis.

This series of portraits by Julian Germain began in northeast England in 2004 and he has subsequently visited schools in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Southeast Asia. His photographs are packed with detail, inciting curosity and wonder for what the future holds.

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

For her first solo exhibition in an Italian museum, Between Art and Life, curated by Alberto Salvadori, Andrea Zittel is celebrated in a monographic catalogue by Mousse, highlighting her innovative and influential practice within international contemporary art.

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.

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

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This book features previously unpublished drawings and photographs from the extraordinary archives of Danzig Baldaev and Sergei Vasiliev documenting a disappearing subculture of tattooed criminals.

Michael Cooper (1941–1973) was a British photographer who is remembered for his photographs of leading rock musicians of the 1960s and early 1970s, most notably the many photos he took of The Rolling Stones from 1963 to 1973. This book collect some of his photographs shot during the 1960s in London.

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.

In 1970, Trasov assumed the identity of Mr. Peanut, donning a handmade paper mâché replica of the mascot of the Planters Peanut Company. Soon after, he produced The Mr. Peanut Mayoralty Campaign of 1974, a twenty-day performance developed in collaboration with members of the Vancouver arts community. The legume quickly became Trasov’s cipher and central component of his practice. Mr. Peanut Drawings collects nearly a hundred of Trasov’s Peanut drawings together with a text by Nancy Tousley.

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.

A captivating look at the career of social and style revolutionary Vidal Sassoon. A visionary hairstylist who became a household name, Vidal Sassoon was an instrument of change during the cultural shifts of the 1960s.

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

This book explores the mid-1960s boom in West German underground and self-published works, produced with hectographs, mimeographs, and offset printing. Embracing DIY experimentation, creators combined typescripts, handwriting, collages, comics, and photography to forge a radical new aesthetic. Published alongside a Weserburg Bremen exhibition, it situates these works internationally and reconsiders today’s independent publishing and risograph revival.

This book presents two decades of Beverly Pepper's bold sculptural statements – from the highly polished stainless-steel works of the 1960s to the earthbound geometrics of the 1970s to the more recent monoliths.

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.

A book of the work of Richard Rogers and Anne Power

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.

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

This book presents 250 film posters from the pre-Stalin Soviet Union (1920s–1930s), showcasing a vibrant era of visual and graphic experimentation before Soviet Realism dominated. Drawn from Susan Pack’s private collection, it highlights 27 artists whose bold, dynamic designs reject Hollywood glamour in favor of striking compositions, unusual perspectives, and inventive cinematic expression.

This book presents a focused visual and textual study of the solitary buildings of Mies van der Rohe, created through decades of engagement by Werner Blaser. Using consistent duotone photography and carefully organized materials, it objectively documents Mies’ architectural legacy, including previously unpublished images, while encouraging critical reflection on the enduring roots and principles of good architecture.

This is the catalogue from Prospectiva 74 – a groundbreaking 1974 exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art at the University of São Paulo in Brazil, curated by Walter Zanini, showcasing conceptual art, video art, mail art, and new media, crucial for introducing global avant-garde practices and challenging traditional art forms in Brazil during the military dictatorship

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

Howard Dearstyne was an architect who studied at the Bauhaus from 1928 to 1933. This book offers an his insider look at the Bauhaus movement, and discusses the courses, workshops, and teachers.

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.

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

Beat Streuli: New York City 2000–2002 presents a striking portrait of urban life at the turn of the millennium through the lens of Swiss photographer Beat Streuli. Focusing on the anonymous passersby who populate New York's bustling streets, Streuli captures fleeting expressions, gestures, and glances that reflect the energy and diversity of the city. His large-format, candid photographs offer an unfiltered view of the everyday—poised between intimacy and detachment—revealing the quiet drama and individuality found within the urban crowd.

A catalogue of Southern American pottery.

An examination of costume, sex and symbolism – from high-heeled shoes and French knickers, to uniforms and bondage gear, to wedding dresses, tail coats and jeans.

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.

From the Caribbean to Italy and Mexico to Monaco, Poolside with Slim Aarons whisks the reader away to an exclusive club where taste, style, luxury and grandeur prevail.

The Fundamental Picture is a series of thirty-nine works by English artists Gilbert & George that was exhibited simultaneously at the Lehmann Maupin and Sonnabend Galleries from 3 May through 28 June 1997.

Studies in leather and sadomasochism.

Photographs, essays, anecdotes following the live and career of The Rolling Stones.

A book about architecture

This book is a collection of photographs and texts of the friendship between photographer Kei Orihara and Jana, a woman he met in New York.

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.

This book presents a parade of millinery marvels – from the sweeping feather and lace confections of the Edwardians to the minimal pillboxes of the late seventies. These captivating high fashion photographs demonstrate the Vogue adage that nothing in nature or art is so magically transforming as a hat.

Photographs of life on the French Riviera by Edward Quinn.

A unique album of photographs featuring Peter Johnson, an athlete turned muse Weber discovered on location at a wrestling camp in Iowa. Taken over four consecutive years, the photographs show the evolution from adolescence to manhood, as Johnson is seen in various states of dress and undress, in diverse locations around the world. Includes brief texts by Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, T.E. Lawrence, Shel Silverstein, and Bruce Springsteen.

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.

Catalogue for the first major posthumous exhibition on the work of Ulises Carrión.

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.

European Diary 1983. 1984 is a collection of works by Keizo Kitajima, a photographer representing postwar Japan.

African artist El Anatsui is best known for shimmering tapestries made from liquor bottle tops, which are part of the permanent collections of many of the world's great museums. This book offers a uniquely personal perspective on Anatsui and provides the first penetrating study of his artworks.

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.

Where other portraitists were content to have their subjects sit for them, Philippe Halsman had his jump, an action which he felt caused the real self of his illustrious sitters to come out. Famous sitters included in the book are Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly, Brigitte Bardot and Richard Nixon.

A variation of scenes shot on the beach.

A socialist journal of the social services. In this issue: Washington Heights Health Action Project; business ideology; the myth of workfare; people's health in Chile.

Showboat traces the interplay of punk and sexuality from 1972 to the present through posters, flyers, record covers, photographs, and ephemera from The Mott Collection. Complemented by essay, the book offers a vivid exploration of punk’s provocative, subversive visual and cultural legacy.

Since the mid-1950s, Eikoh Hosoe has been at the forefront of photographic practice in Japan: as an image-maker encompassing a broad range of subjects; a curator introducing works of master European and American photographers to Japan in 1968; a teacher informing the careers of numerous distinguished photographers, such as Daido Moriyama. This book features Hosoe’s major photographic series but also reveals his lesser-known collaborative works with writers, critics, dancers, and artists, including Yayoi Kusama, in portraiture and beyond.

Portraits in Life and Death is the only book of photographs published by Peter Hujar during his lifetime. The twenty-nine portraits of creative people―ranging from William Burroughs, Susan Sontag, and John Waters to Larry Ree―possess a haunting beauty and degree of psychological examination that is both offbeat and riveting. Following the portraits come eleven images that can only be described as devastating: pictures of semi-preserved, clothed bodies of nineteenth-century Sicilians found in the arid catacombs beneath a church in Palermo.

Living Trust is the first monograph by American artist Buck Ellison. LA-based Ellison’s work broadly investigates the language of privilege through meticulously researched images, often executed through staged settings and performative interventions into the visual language of photography.

The most refined of the costume, the glove follows the shape of the hand and keeps its imprint. In symbolic language, it has come to designate the entire hand. Instrument of action and execution, the hand holds within it the promise of all gestures. From the gloves of the Renaissance and even older to the gloves of fashion designers through sports or protective gloves, this book offers a comprehensive overview of the art of the glove. This book presents all the uses and symbols of the glove.

The Teddy Boys were a flashily dressed, rebellious and sometimes violent youth movement that originated in Britain in the ’50s. The three-quarter-length Edwardian jacket with velvet collar, drainpipe trousers and quiff became a focus of male fashion which still holds cult status today. The Teds combines image and text to tell their story—a fascinating tale spanning three decades.

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.

William Eggleston's Guide was the first one-man show of colour photographs ever presented at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Museum's first publication of colour photography. Shot between 1969 and 1971, the photographs displayed in the exhibition and in this publication present a deceptively casual look at the surrounding world – with photographs of people, landscapes and odd little moments in and around Eggleston's home town of Memphis.

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)

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 second volume in the series looks at Canada.

Set amongst the reggae scene of late 70s Jamaica, the film Rockers achieved instant cult status among music and cinema fans. This book brings together unseen images of behind the scenes.

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.

A book of fashion and jewelry made from metal tabs pulled from beverage cans.

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.

Examples of American experimental film from 1939-1979.

This volume compiles and annotates the extensive correspondence of Marcel Duchamp, offering insights into his personality, creative process, and groundbreaking projects—including the “ready-made” that reshaped 20th‑century art. Curated over 20 years by Francis Naumann, the book translates, contextualizes, and introduces each correspondent, making Duchamp’s life and ideas accessible to both scholars and general art enthusiasts.

A collection of black and white images by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy documenting life in 1940s Eton.

A collection of conversations from David Bailey, Anthony Barboza, Arthur Elgort, Horst, Erica Lennard, Jimmy Moore, Jean Pagliuso and Chris Von Wangenheim, accompanying numerous fashion shoots from the 60’s and 70’s, some of which were previously unpublished. An insight into the work of the fashion photographer.

A collection of portraits of students in a Sixties high school.

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 is a pictorial survey presenting seven decades of women's footwear as illustrated in Vogue.

Covered with inventive, unfurling doodles, hand-drawn lettering, and image of sexy figures and party animals, the flyers reproduced here are created from drawings, tracing, photocopies, photographs, cutouts, and collages. They look back to the flyers inspired by the cut-and-paste era of the late 1980s but are given inspirational new form in the current scene.

Photographer Vivian Cherry began her career in the early 1940s while working as a dancer in Broadway shows and nightclubs. At the end of World War II, New York City went through a period of transformation, as war rations gave way to prosperity, loved ones were reunited, and babies were born into a new era. Her work from this period, collected here for the first time in Helluva Town, provides lively vignettes of our collective memory, suffusing gritty street scenes with warmth and gentleness alongside social consciousness and history.

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.

This manual offers an in-depth look at the further evolution of IBM’s house style in the 1970s and ’80s, from logotypes, fonts, numerals, and type specimens, to highly detailed information on imprinting binders, signage, packaging, and related material.

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.

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.

This book presents some of the most remarkable manifestations of the idiosyncratc, eccentric glory of the human imagination.

This book presents the work of British artist Bruce McLean, known for his work across disciplines from sculpture, performance art to painting and ceramics, to books and film.

Bauhaus Imaginista marks the centenary of the Bauhaus, founded by Walter Gropius, highlighting its global influence across art, design, and architecture. Featuring figures like Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, László Moholy-Nagy, and Josef Albers, it traces the school’s international reception and enduring impact amid twentieth-century geopolitical change.

David Hockney's examination of his interest in photography, his thoughts on the influence of Picasso and Rembrandt and of Eastern conventions of perspective and their relevance to his work.

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

No Mundo Maravilhoso do Futebol, which translates to 'the wonderful world of football' is a book photographs taken by children at Favela do Cascalho in Brazil.

Press photographer Emil Brunner was not only a widely traveled reporter, he also retained an eye for the close-up. During the Second World War, he photographed people, especially children, in eleven communities in the Graubünden Oberland. He portrayed them in a touching yet detached way that allowed each person to retain their individuality. A selection from this unique portrait series, comprising around 1,700 photographs, is now being shown for the first time: impressive visual documents from a distant social reality, beyond the idealized world of Heidi, Switzerland.

First in the Song Reader series from A24, Emile Mosseri's Minari score gets the visual treatment in this illustrated 9x12" box set.

Heavyweight studies the contemporary, violent visual culture using the Dutch underworld as its source. Pouria's introduction offers insight into the violent world of cocaine smuggling in the Netherlands.