A collection of photographs from the Italian interior design magazine Casa Vogue.
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
Dark Rooms takes five interconnected series of photographs by Nigel Shafran and weaves them together with the common thread of domestic scenes. There is a constant sense of forward movement that is sometimes overt, as in the photographs of supermarket checkouts or underground escalators; sometimes implicit and more emotionally charged. Each image carries the inevitability of change and the psychological undertow of time passing.
In/sight: African Photographers, 1940 to the Present was a major exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in 1996 that showcased the work of 30 African photographers, covering the period from the beginning of decolonization to the modern era. The exhibition, and this accompanying book, presented a diverse range of photography, from 1940s studio portraits by artists like Seydou Keita to contemporary art by photographers such as Samuel Fosso and Zarina Bhimji, and explored themes of identity, representation, and cultural transformation.
Issue on apartment interiors.
A collection of scripts, pictures, documents, scenes and notes from from The Tin Drum directed by Volker Schlöndorff based on the novel by Günter Grass.
From Disneyland to Detroit, Spokane to Scotland, Hairdos of Defiance highlights Templeton’s encounters with iconic punk-rock plumage across two decades and two continents.
This book brings together, for the first time, the entire Private Scenes photographic series in which we discover a new dimension of the work of Masahisa Fukase, that of the artist struggling with his medium. This singular corpus is made up of images in which the artist inserts himself. The series is made up of two sets: “Letters from Journeys” which presents photographs taken in 1989 in different cities around the world (Paris, London, Brussels, Antwerp, etc.), and “Private Scenes '92” which focuses on his daily life in Tokyo, where now each print is enhanced with colour paints, thus becoming a unique work.
Donald Judd Furniture surveys over one hundred furniture pieces created by Donald Judd between 1970 and 1991 for his spaces at 101 Spring Street in New York and in Marfa, Texas. Through drawings and photographs, the book highlights Judd’s minimalist forms, functional clarity, material precision, and his thoughtful response to mass production and design.
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.
Accompanying the first retrospective of Shoji Hamada, this collection of essays and illustrations examines his work at Mashiko and St. Ives, as well as his visits to Ditchling. It highlights Hamada’s craft, techniques, and influence on studio pottery, offering insights into his role in bridging Japanese and Western ceramic traditions.
In this book, film critic Michel Ciment provides an insightful examination of Kubrick's thirteen films-including such favorites as Lolita, A Clockwork Orange, and Full Metal Jacket-alongside an assemblage of more than four hundred photographs that form a complementary photo essay.
This book explores the history of fashion photography from 1945, placing it in the main stream of popular culture and it links the imagery to the art of photography itself by drawing on such influential figures as Robert Frank and Walker Evans. It also charts the rise of the magazines and the influence of the great art directors and editors of the time. The book was published to accompany an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum exhibiting work from Richard Avedon to Irving Penn to Bruce Weber.
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Sheila Metzner's unique photographic style has positioned her as a contemporary master in the worlds of fine art, fashion, portraiture, still life and landscape photography. This book contains some of a collection of her photographs, with a foreword by Ralph Lauren.
This photobook presents Stephen Gill's seminal work Hackney Wick. The photographer iscovered Hackney Wick Market in East London in 2002. The vast market took place on a Sunday in an old Greyhound/Speedway stadium where sellers sold mostly scrap and junk. Stephen bought a plastic camera with no controls there for 50P and shot the market until it was closed in 2003, to be demolished for the London Olympics. Alongside the traders he shot a hidden and now lost natural world of canals, rivers and secret allotments.
Seydou Keita and Malick Sidibe, two important and widely known commercial photographers from Mali, took mesmerising photographs of members of their communities during the decades before and after the country's independence from France in 1960. This book presents a range of these portraits, as well as excerpts of recent interviews with the artists and an essay placing the photographers within the context of the history of portrait photography in West Africa since its beginnings in the 1840s.
Featuring sixteen of fashion's top tastemakers, Stylist focuses of fashion insiders whose precocious sense of style often results in trends of global proportions. Featuring the photography of such luminaries as Cecil Beaton, Richard Avedon, Steven Meisel, and Annie Leibovitz among others, this book documents the work and contributions of each stylist through photographs of their creative output and inspirations, and illustrates their distinctive taste, individual flair, and talent for igniting global fashion fervor.
An incredible and compelling collection ofimages shot by British photographer Tom Wood spanning twenty years of travel on the Merseyside buses. The result is a long-lasting portrait of Liverpool – it's people, familial relationships, changing fashions and landscapes throughout the 1980s to the 2000s.
during 20 years of travel on the buses of Merseyside. The images provide a visual impression of Liverpool's population, the changing fashions and the changing faces of the city throughout the 1980s and 1990s.
Liz Rideal is an artist, writer, and Professor of Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. Working across a variety of media including photography, printmaking, and painting, Rideal explores themes of drapery, portraiture and pilgrimage in her work.
This book co-published by the documents the 14th Sharjah Biennial, featuring contributions from over 30 artists to explore contemporary art's response to environmental, political, and technological shifts.
In My Room: Teenagers in their Bedrooms, photographer Adrienne Salinger has been allowed to enter the private lives of forty-three teens. Her images, taken over a two-year period, offer an intimate glimpse into these intimate escapes and the adolescents who have made them their own.
GA Document is a Global Architecture focusing on contemporary international architecture and design projects.
By using the medium of dress, Evolution & Revolution explores the dramatic cultural, social, economic and political changes which have occurred in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan over the past three centuries. This history is revealed through the luxury court robes of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911); the tight-fitting, side-slitted East-West cheungsam; the ubiquitous Mao suit, symbol of Communist ideology; and the bold new directions of contemporary designers.
This is the third book in Sam Haskin's 1960s trilogy of books containing evocative female nudes, following on from Five Girls and Cowboy Kate.
Twenty years of Versace by Avedon, this collection of beautifully produced photographs from the advertising campaigns of Gianni Versace features images of some of the most beautiful women in the world, including Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell, and Linda Evangelista,
Berlin Living Rooms (2017) is a photography book by Dominique Nabokov, capturing the personal living spaces of artists, writers, and creative residents in Berlin without them present.
The Houston, Texas, neighborhoods of Fifth Ward, Third Ward and South Park have grown to be hallowed ground for modern rap culture, populated with celebrities, entrepreneurs, support networks and a micro-economy of their own. Photographer Peter Beste and writer Lance Scott Walker spent nine years documenting the most influential style in twenty-first-century hip hop and the vibrant inner city culture from which it stems. Houston Rap, edited by Johan Kugelberg, profiles noted artists such as alongside reflections on the lives of departed legends such as DJ Screw, Pimp C and Big Hawk.
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 themed collection of Araki photographs. Issue 20: Sentimental May
Iconic British fashion designer, Jean Muir (1928-1995) was the doyenne of dressmaking. Her signature style married a distinctive purity of line with a soft fluidity on the body, to create the sensuous deceptively simple clothes that became her trademark, epitomised by her work in matte jersey, and in particular her jersey dresses, which brought her legendary status in an internationally-renowned career that spanned four decades. This book presents Muir's career across every aspect of the fashion world – including many of her sketches, as well as photography by Norman Parkinson, David Bailey, Eric Boman, and Deborah Turbeville.
In this book, Japanese photographer Joji Hashiguchi (also known as George Hashiguchi) documents subcultures and youth seeking freedom and self-expression in various cities, including 1980s Tokyo and Berlin.
A socialist journal of the social services. In this issue: The crisis of the international capitalist order, class struggle, the welfare state, psychotherapy and radical politics and more.
A collection of portraits of students in a Sixties high school.
This major monograph looks at the work of seminal Palestinian artist Abdul Hay Mosallam Zarara, who used his work to decry the violent suppression of his homeland and promote international solidarity worldwide.
This 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.
A book about architecture
A catalogue from an exhibition exploring 'post-object art' – featuring works by Vito Acconci, John Baldessari, Mel Bochner, Michael Findlay, Dan Graham, Peter Hutchinson, Ray Johnson, Joseph Kosuth, Les Levine, Billy Adler, John Margolies, Bruce Nauman, Dennis Oppenhiem, Michael Snow, John Van Saun, Bernar Venet, Robert Smithson.
In this book, Takashi Homma uses fragments collected in camera obscura constructed in metropolitan areas of Japan and the US to build a city image by image.
L'Armour Fou explores the crucial role photography did in fact play in the Surrealist movement, featuring photographic works from artists including Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, André Breton, Brassaï, Salvador Dalí, André Kertész, and Hans Bellmer.
A photographic survey of Metropolitan architecture by David Adjaye
Photographic documentations of war across USA, Afghanistan and Iraq. With contributions by Christopher Anderson, Alexandra Boulat, Ron Haviv, Gary Knight, Antonin Kratocvil, Christopher Morris, James Nachtwey and John Stanmeyer.
For a decade, Alessandra Sanguinetti returning to the small town of Black River Falls in Wisconsin to create the photographs that would come to form this stark and elliptical series. Inspire by the 1800s photographs of Charles Van Schaick found in Wisconsin Death Trip, Some Say Ice is a humane look at bleack and melancholic realities of those that inhabit Black River Falls.
This book documents the collaborative furniture design work of architects Lina Bo Bardi and Giancarlo Palanti in Brazil between 1948 and 1951.
A collection of photographs of British fairgrounds during the 1970s by Dick Scott-Stewart.
Edited by Mark Williams.
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.
Photographs and text documenting life at the Bauhaus.
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.
Hanoos Hanoos was born in Iraq in 1958, where he studied at the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad. He moved to Madrid, Spain, in 1984 where he obtained his PhD and has lived ever since. This book looks at his print makings, paintings and collage works.
A book of the work of Richard Rogers and Anne Power
The stylish and extravagant world of the "Bright Young Things" of 1920s and '30s London, seen through the eye of renowned British photographer Cecil Beaton.
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.
Mutations, a joint project of Rem Koolhaas OMA and the Harvard Project on the City, explores the unstable urban conditions around the world at the turn of the 21st century, a tipping point at which the world's city-dwellers began to outnumber those in rural areas.
Published to coincide with an exhibition at the Imperial War Museum, Lee Miller: A Woman’s War tells the story beyond the battlefields of the Second World War by way of Miller’s extraordinary photographs of the women whose lives were affected. The photographs in this volume, many previously unpublished, are accompanied by extended captions that place the images within the context of women’s roles within the landscape of war.
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.
A book exploring Roger's belief in the regenerative social potential of architecture
This book is a round up of all forms of aesthetic taste in America – from politics, to religion, to home decoration and advertising.
A periodical book on modern houses from around the globe. Featuring work of architects Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Ludiwig Mies van der Rohe, Richard Neutra, Alvar Aalto.
This title presents a handbook of the potent skinhead cult. It traces the development of the skinhead movement in England, describes the characteristics and behaviour of these gangs, and explains their attitudes towards school, the police, and the government.
Not a Toy: Fashioning Radical Characters examines the growing influence of character design in fashion and art. Edited by ATOPOS cvc and Vassilis Zidianakis, it features avant-garde fashion, costumes, and hairstyles from a range of designers and artists, and explores how they reinvent the human form and the role of identity in fashion.
In preparation for shooting the film Paris, Texas in late 1983, director Wim Wenders traveled the West equipped with a 5 x 6 medium format camera searching out subjects and locations that would bring that desolate landscape to life. This book brings together the photographs he took.
A pictorial dictionary of racing colours; as much a work of graphic art as a reference book. Each page contains a grid of 30 line drawings of a jockey shirt and cap with the colours and names of the owners. Nearly 10,000 registered owners' racing colours are depicted.
Ann Bonfoey Taylor (1910-2007) was a pioneering female flight instructor during World War II, was a member of the US Olympic Ski Squad in 1939, competed in tennis at Wimbledon and was accomplished at riding and shooting. This book serves as a celebration of Taylor’s extraordinary wardrobe of couture and custom-designed sporting ensembles.
Photographs by Man Ray and text by Jean Cocteau.
AFROSURF is the first book to capture and celebrate the surfing culture of Africa. This unprecedented collection is compiled by Mami Wata, a Cape Town surf company that fiercely believes in the power of African surf.
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Emerges from the innovative minds of Theseus Chan, Werk, and Comme Des Garçons. This edition, known for its distinctive torched flambé cover, marks a unique chapter in the collaboration between the avant-garde fashion label and its global guerrillastores. The magazine documents the revolutionary retail concept by Comme des Garçons, which allowed partners worldwide to open a store, manage expenses, and offer CDG merchandise on a sale or return basis for one year.
A collection of works by conceptual artist Bruno Mouron made from trash.
This book presents some of most extravagant and ingenious images ever created in art and in haute couture – the fruits of the love affair between fashion and Surrealism. Containts an incredible collection of designers and their designs – from Elsa Schiaparelli's collaboration with Salvador Dali; to the images of Rene Magritte and Max Ernst; to the designs of Vivienne Westwood, Marc Jacobs and Olivier Guilleman who incorperated Surrealism imagery into the 1980s fashion.
Featuring the work of architects Atelier Bow-Wow, David Adjaye, Sou Fujimoto, Zaha Hadid, Herzog and De Meuron, Ai Weiwei and more for various pavilions around the world.
A facsimile of surrealist artist and poet Jındřıch Štyrský's handmade artist book from 1933 - originally published in an edition of 69 numbered examples. Contains black and white examples of surrealist photography with collage.
Erotic exploration of the artistic work of enfant terrible photographer Jean Paul Goude, featuring Kellie the Evangelist Stripper, Grace Jones, Toukie and The Eighth Avenue Sex Circus. With the original iconic dust-jacket featuring his partner and muse Grace Jones.
Cape Light by Joel Meyerowitz captures the serene beauty of Cape Cod’s landscapes and seascapes in the early days of color photography.
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.
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.
Both sacred and profane, Mountain Ecstasy is the cult book by Penny Slinger and her partner at the time, Nik Douglas. Working with found images – many from Slinger’s own collection of erotica – and poetry, the resulting book is a hyperreal celebration of the Tantric world.
A collection of different designs of Rock band T-shirts.
American Surrealist Dorothea Tanning (1910–2012) worked for seven decades across painting, sculpture, printmaking, installation, and writing, creating one of the twentieth century’s most enigmatic bodies of work. Her art evokes dreamlike worlds between figuration and abstraction, forging a prismatic language still resonant today. This illustrated catalog focuses on works from the 1950s–90s, tracing her stylistic evolution through twenty key paintings, scholarly essays, and her 1986 manifesto “To Paint.”
Lee Miller's work for Vogue from 1941-1945 sets her apart as a photographer. The quality of her photography from the period has long been recognized as outstanding, and its full range is shown here starting with her first report from a field hospital soon after D-Day. Nearly 160 photographs are shown, portraying war-ravaged cities, buildings and landscapes, as well as war-resilient people - soldiers, leaders, medics, evacuees, prisoners of war, the wounded, the villains and the heroes.
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Look at Me: Fashion and Photography in Britain 1960-1997 was published to accompany a traveling exhibition curated by writer/curator Val Williams and Brett Rogers, director of The Photographers' Gallery. Through editorials, advertisements, and street snaps, this book explores the evolution of fashion style and fashion photography from the 1960s to the late 1990s. Featuring the works of Juergen Teller, Helmut Newton, Wolfgang Tillmans, Nigel Shafran, Hannah Starkey, Corine Day, Elaine Constatine and more.
Published in 1999, the first edition of Future Systems presents a selection of ground-breaking and original work by this pioneering architectural and design practice from the end of the 20th century.
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.
A unique story of people protecting a park in Berkeley California and the city's retaking of it.
In his photographic practice, Irish photographer Wood pursued the goal of opening a window onto one specific piece of reality in the great pictorial swell of our media world, a piece that seems familiar, yet which we see for the first time. Wood’s artist vision tears away from reality the veil that has been thrown over it by the media, creating deeply intimate portraits.
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.
The book contains over 250 previously unpublished photographs of Warhol's famous friends and anecdotes. The subjects include Mick Jagger, Bianca Jagger, Truman Capote, Jackie Onassis, Liza Minnelli, Halston, Calvin Klein, Muhammad Ali, Diana Vreeland, and Yves Saint Laurent among others.
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.
Through the layte 1960s and early 1970s, the John Hinde Studio based in Ireland produced a seires of postcards to be sold at Butlin's holiday camps throughout Britain. This book celebrates John Hinde's vision, the wonderful photographs that set the standard for postcards of their day and the holiday entertainment of phenomenon of Butlin's at its peak. With photography from Elmar Ludwig, Edmund Nägele, David Noble.
In this ongoing project, Anthony Hernandez documents the haunts of the world's homeless, proceeds to international sites and finds similar scenes.
Composed of found images and videos, the work of Arthur Jafa revolves around Black American culture, the history of slavery, and ongoing structural and physical violence against Black Americans. This essential overview presents Jafa's best-known works, such as Love is the Message, the Message is Death and its 2018 follow-up piece The White Album, alongside never-before-seen projects and essays by notable scholars.
This is the first title a new series of books published by Casa Africa, aimed at promoting the most outstanding African women photographers, specifically those who have won the Casa Africa Award at the Bamako African Photography Biennial. This iteration focuses on the work of Zanele Muholi – a South African artist and visual activist working in photography, video, and installation exploring Black identity, sexuality and queerness.
Building on his first monograph, Jock Sturges presents us with a new body of work that strikes the same chords of beauty and evolution that we find in his earlier images, but with a more intense dramatic and metaphoric intention.
In the Jpegs series, German photographer Thomas Ruff exploits this imprecision in digital technology, locating online jpegs and enlarging them until the pixels emerge in a chessboard pattern of near abstraction.
In the 1960s men's fashion witnessed an extraordinary rebirth that led to lasting social, cultural and commercial change - what media commentators came to coin the Peacock Revolution. "The Day of the Peacock" takes a fascinating look at the shops, celebrity photographers, tailors and fashionable dressers who made up the scene - all illustrated with photographs, outfits and ephemera drawn from the V&A's archive.
A book documenting the works produced by the Italian design movement Memphis, known for bold colors and geometric shapes.
Over 300 striking images reflecting Knight's extraordinary vision and fearless experimentation, presenting his landmark career spanning both photography and fashion.
Alexey Brodovitch was a Russian-born American designer, photographer, and educator known for revolutionising graphic design and art direction, particularly during his long tenure as Art Director of Harper's Bazaar. He is celebrated for introducing the avant-garde European aesthetic to American design, using dramatic layouts, bold typography, and generous white space, and for mentoring a new generation of influential photographers like Richard Avedon and Irving Penn. This book presents a look into his work as one of the most important graphic designers and photographers of the 20th century.