This book showcases Isaac Julien's work from the early 1980s to the present day – from early films to large-scale, multi-screen installations which investigate the movement of peoples across different continents, times and spaces.

Three of the best-known artists from the YBA group come together in an exhibition of their work and ideas. This book offers their personal communications with each other, providing a unique insight into their creative processes.

A periodical book on modern houses from around the globe. Featuring work of architects F.L. Wright, Le Corbusier, A. Aalto, C. Scarpa

A book on design and advertising in Britain.

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.

This illustrated guide focuses on collectible military watches and clocks, detailing over 150 models issued over the past century to global armed forces.

This lavishly illustrated book contains over 100 photographs tracing the development of Robert Redford's extensive film career. Together with text written by David Downing, the book presets stills from all of his major roles – from Barefoot in the Park to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and All the President's Men – as well as  discussions of his debut as a film director. In his time on and off-screen, he made some of the best movies that reflected, with power and subtlety, Western society in retreat from both the overblown aspirations of the 1960s and the raging despair of the 1970s. While other actors and directors setting for either commerical or artistic success, Redford at somewhere between the two.

The world's most talented photographers and prestigious models grace the pages of this classic volume that celebrates Yves Saint Laurent's illustrious career, reprinted in a smaller format on the eve of his fortieth anniversary. From pret-a-porter to haute couture, from the runway to the studio to the earth's most exotic settings, images from nearly fifty photographers, including Richard Avedon, Horst, Peter Lindbergh, Duane Michals, Helmut Newton, Irving Penn, Francesco Scavullo, Snowdon, and Bruce Weber bring YSL's renowned creations to glorious life.

This book documents Glen Luchford's iconic campaigns shot for Prada from 1996 to 1998. The huge cinematic billboards all over the world featuring Amber Valletta, Willem Dafoe, Joaquin Phoenix and many others are reproducced in their entirity and discussed at length in the book's text, a transcript of a conversation between Glen and Lou Stoppard.

Arthur Elgort, renowned fashion photographer, and top fashion models such as Cindy Crawford, Veronica Webb and Christy Turlington collaborated to create this photo-filled Models Manual – contains interviews with heads of modelling agencies, stylists, make-up artists, fashion editors, and the models themselves.

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GA Document is a Global Architecture focusing on contemporary international architecture and design projects.

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This book uses Thierry Ardouin’s striking images of seeds to explore their form, history, and symbolic link to human origins. Originating from an idea by Xavier Barral, it presents a collaborative project with artists, botanists, and scientists, addressing ecological concerns while highlighting seeds as “great travellers” that connect nature, culture, and our shared roots.

Ultimate Angels is a striking exploration of transgender identity in all its isolation, expression, and glory.

Born in 1955 in a poor district of São Paulo, Ismael Ivo became one of the world’s most famous and successful dancers. This book presents his movements in black and white imagery, paired with poetic musings.

The third in the Photoworks Monograph series, a publication displaying the work by Irish photographer Gareth McConnell.

Kara Walker is among the most complex and prolific American artists of her generation. Over the past decade, she has gained international recognition for her room-sized tableaux, which depict historical narratives haunted by sexuality, violence and subjugation.

A collection of prints from Corita Kent’s 1968 Circus print series .

This book presents the work of five artists – Chris Killip, Graham Smith, John Davies, Martin Parr, and Paul Graham – who each are represented a new approach to social documentary photography.

The book examines three distinct strands of photographic practice: the documentation of performance works; the work of photographers incorperate a performative practice; and the construction of self-identity through camera based practices. Includes the work of – Merce Cunningham, Yves Klein, Yayoi Kusama, Charles Ray, Samuel Fosso, Tomoko Sawada, Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol, Masahisa Fukase and more.

This book explores the connection between dance and visual arts in the work of choreographer and dancer Trisha Brown.

This comprehensive new monograph on the influential British artist-filmmaker John Smith —renown for his playful and formally ingenious subversion of the everyday world—contains a fully illustrated filmography spanning 84 pages, with images and synopses from nearly fifty film and video works made between 1972 and 2012.

A book of surreal and eccentric architecture.

A photo album chronicling the world of John Cassavetes, Gena Rowlands, and their collaborators for the film Love Streams. Shot by Sam and Larry Shaw, this first edition offers a candid, intimate portrait of Cassavetes’ creative circle.

A collection of photographs by David Hockney, published in 1982 for the exhibition of the same name at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

In the 1930s, Herbert List's photography focused on an idealised and escapist vision of life, featuring young men and Mediterranean landscapes, influenced by Surrealism and a desire to escape the rising political turmoil in Germany. As a gay man of Jewish heritage, he fled Nazi Germany in 1936 to Paris, then Greece, where he captured images of what he termed the "magical essence" of the world. His work from this period, often shot in Italy, Germany, and Greece, contrasts the turbulent political climate with personal freedom and the beauty of youth

This book documents 45 singles from The Mott Collection for the Kraftwerk 45RPM exhibition. Featuring iconic 45 RPM record covers, it highlights Kraftwerk’s distinctive aesthetic, capturing the tension between their analogue origins and the digital sensibilities that define their enduring influence.

This book compiles Dash Snow's famous Polaroids. Opening with scenes of friends crashed on beds and couches, floors and even the street, it records hazily snatched glimpses of sex, hard drugs and hanging out; adventures in cars, baths, pools, subway cars, friends’ apartments, on boardwalks and rooftops.

Photographs of young people across different cities – punks, ravers, squatters and various tribes of youth.

Vivienne Westwood is one of the icons of our age. Fashion designer, activist, co-creator of punk, global brand and grandmother. Her career has successfully spanned five decades and her work has influenced millions of people across the world. This is the first and only biography written by Westwood in collaboration with award-winning biographer Ian Kelly, to describe the events, people and ideas that have shaped her extraordinary life.

A book detailing the exquisite textiles and wallpaper patterns throughout the interiors of the iconic Hotel Okura in Tokyo which was built two years ahead of the Tokyo Olympics in 1964 by a diverse team of designers including architects Yoshiro Taniguchi and Hideo Kosaka, folk artist Shiko Munakata and potter Kenkichi Tomimoto. The design of the building adopted a modern aesthetic that would still reference the traditional colours, shapes and crafts of Japan. The Okura was demolished, so this book is testament to a lost relic of Japanese modernism.

Photographs of people in their place of work – accompanied by  humorous, heartbreaking and insightful quotes about the experience of work itself.

Alexander Honory belongs to the category of artists, whose work is based on the ability of gathering people – utilsing found photography and installation to provide an anthropological review of people from different parts of the globe. The work in this book is part of a series called Rekonstruktionen XII. It is described as a catalog containing photographs and texts related to Honory's work between 1990 and 1992.

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

This is the third book in Sam Haskin's 1960s trilogy of books containing evocative female nudes, following on from Five Girls and Cowboy Kate.

A socialist journal of the social services. In this issue: Sexism in social work, Health in Nicaragua, Impact of racism on the family, undergraduate social work, stress at the workplace.

Foote abandoned a successful fashion photographer career to wander the back alleys, scrub land and bars of Memphis portrayed in this book. With textual contributions by photographer William Eggleston and film director Bernardo Bertolucc

This book draws on the unparalleled collection of the Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung to explore the movement’s legacy in art and architecture. Featuring works, sketches, and models, it highlights key figures such as Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Wassily Kandinsky, and Paul Klee, while addressing its continuation in Chicago and Ulm.

The inaugural volume in the All-American series features numerous projects by Bruce Weber, including profiles of photographer Pirkle Jones, football legend Cy Ellsworth, mountaineer Bradford Washburn, and Montana rancher John Hoiland. Also features drawings by Paul Stone.

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.

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

Whilst most Fashion photographers were out the front at the catwalk photographing the glitz and the glamour, Rennie Ellis, more often than not, could be found out the back, in the dressing rooms amongst the fan fare and flashes of flesh.

A book about architecture

Back in the Days documents the emerging Hip Hop scene from 1980-1989-before it became what is today's multi-million-dollar multinational industry.

This monograph sheds light on Man Ray's photographic genius. Photographs feature many of his techniques including solarisations and rayographs, and unconventional portraits and sensual nudes.

GA Document is a Global Architecture focusing on contemporary international architecture and design projects.

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This intimate book of drawings by Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, which wed the cosmic patterning of traditional Islamic geometry with the rhythms of modern Western geometric abstraction, is interwoven with an extended interview by Obrist with Farmanfarmaian, Etel Adnan, and Frank Stella that tells the story behind these crafted works on paper that play a central role in the artist’s principles of repetition and progression.

An exploration of the captivating work and mystical outlook of the modern artist Remedios Varo, focusing on her years in Mexico City.

This book an art project and book by British artist Suzanne Treister (2018–2019). It explores speculative narratives, mapping journeys from a survivor persona through a "black hole spacetime" (BHST) framework, often using diagrams, drawings, and, in this case, a book format that connects different conceptual, often fictional, personas and spaces.

In the late 1950's Weinberger started to develop an obsessive interest in the nascent biker culture and its proud and self-confident celebration of the body, embarking on a longtime study of their lifestyle. Weinberger's photographs are a unique document both of pre-Stonewall gay culture and postwar youth culture and its cycles, imbued with a mischievous sense of humour that makes them as vibrant and vital today as they were when they were first taken.

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

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

Features stunningdesigns of kosode used in Japanese Noh theater, including many edo works of the patchwork style.

Children of a Vanished World presents 70 intimate photographs of Jewish children living in Eastern European shtetlekh between 1935 and 1938. Paired with traditional Yiddish nursery rhymes, songs, and poems in both Yiddish and English, the book offers a poignant glimpse into a vibrant world soon lost.

Hassan Sharif (1951–2016) was a pioneering Emirati artist who revolutionised the regional art scene in the 1970s/80s through performance, installation, and assemblage, often using discarded consumer materials to critique rapid urbanization. This book presents an intimate view of Sharif’s diverse and varied work featuring new translations from his writing.

Full bleed colour and black and white fashion photographs of Dolce & Gabanna menswear from 1990s to 2010.

Published for an exhibition at the Centre de la Vieille Charité, this catalogue explores ceramics and glass by the Memphis Group. Featuring essays and illustrations, it highlights works by designers including Ettore Sottsass, Michele de Lucchi, Andrea Branzi, and Nathalie du Pasquier, alongside a bibliography and exhibition history.

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.

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A Period of Juvenile Prosperity by Mike Brodie is a vivid photographic chronicle of American rail-riding subculture, capturing a life of movement, risk, and fleeting freedom. Beginning as a teenager who unexpectedly discovered train hopping in Florida, Brodie went on to document nomadic journeys across the United States using a second-hand 35mm camera. His portraits of fellow travellers carry an unexpected warmth and intimacy, balancing hardship with a quiet sense of camaraderie. Widely acclaimed upon publication, the work has been recognised as one of the defining photobooks of its time.

Life is Space 4 was a one day seminar held at Studio Olafur Eliasson where invited artists, scientists, scholars, dancers, theorists, spatial practitioners and movement experts gathered to share, discuss, present, and experiment with ideas loosely based around the theme of Life and Space.

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

This book is a collection of photographs of the painter Georgia O'Keeffe by Alfred Stieglitz. The two met in 1916 and married in 1924, and these several hundred portraits made over twenty-something years is an image of a life and a love. O'Keeffe claimed: "When I look over the photographs Stieglitz took of me . . . I wonder who that person is. It is as if in my one life I have lived many lives."

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.

This educational photopack published by the Minority Rights Group of the 1980s describes Britain's Traveller population and the ways in which they are affected by marginalisation and a lack of laws. The book aims to educate the wider British society about these communities through photographs and text.

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.

Robert Frank was a Swiss-American photographer and filmmaker best known for his influential book The Americans (1958), which presented a raw, outsider’s perspective on U.S. society and transformed modern photography. His work is distinguished by its emotional intensity and focus on themes such as identity, loss, and the complexities of American life. Frank later expanded into filmmaking and experimenting with altered photographs and video art. This publication established his autobiographical, sometimes confessional, approach to bookmaking. This structure itself mirrors the rhythm of Frank’s life – featuring short personal texts, diary entries, and photographs that fully bring his voice into the book.

Max Ernst (1891-1976) remains one of the most famous names to be associated with Surrealism. This book is a definitive adocument of the painter and the creative processes and influences behind his work, enhanced by testaments by many of his friends including fellow Surrealists André Breton, Paul Éluard, Roberto Matta and Hans Arp.

A book on the people who came to America told through objects, prints and photographs at the Smithsonian Institution.

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 unique story of people protecting a park in Berkeley California and the city's retaking of it.

A collection of works by American sculpture Alexander Calder.

A book of the furniture design work by Thomas Rietveld.

This book traces the five-year construction of Plumtree Court, Goldman Sachs' new headquarters in Central London, through Juergen Teller's inimitable vision. Teller relished immersing himself in such a long-term project, one thrillingly different to the fashion world he knows so well.

Roots to Reckoning brings together more than 100 photographs by pioneering Jamaican-born British photographers Neil Kenlock, Armet Francis, and Charlie Phillips. Spanning four decades, the images capture cultural icons, political movements, everyday life, and evolving Black identities, offering a powerful visual record of Britain’s social and cultural transformation.

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.

The book covers the foundational years of the Ferus Gallery, showcasing artists like Wallace Berman, John Altoon, Edward Kienholz, and Larry Bell. Through photographs and textual contributions, this book documents the Southern California art scene of that era.

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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.

Avedon Fashion 1944-2000 encompasses seven decades of extraordinary images by Richard Avedon, the most influential fashion photographer of the 20th century.This comprehensive volume offers a definitive survey, from Avedon's groundbreaking early photographs for Harper's Bazaar through his constantly inventive contributions to Vogue, Egoiste, and The New Yorker.

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

This book presents over 700 original scans of printed ephemera and memorabilia, capturing the visual energy and cultural impact of the punk and post-punk movements, with posters signed by designers Sebastian Conran and Malcolm Garrett.

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Berman has been long heralded as one of the most significant and influential artists to emerge in Southern California. Spiritually inclined yet steeped in popular culture and the political events of the day, his work mined the American psyche and broadcasting his ideas through mail art, publications, photographs and multilayered art works. This volume offers the first substantial survey of the entire oeuvre of Wallace Berman (1926-76) from the late 1940s until 1976.

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

A socialist journal of the social services. In this issue: the housing movement, the social theory of Wilhelm Reich, An alternative tradition to social work, Radical Social Work.

In The Experimenters, Eva Díaz reexamines Black Mountain College as a crucible of postwar artistic innovation. Focusing on Josef Albers, John Cage, and R. Buckminster Fuller, she argues their experimental, process-based teaching reshaped modern art, redefining creativity, chance, and design for subsequent generations.

First published in 1954,  Das Auge der Liebe (The Eye of Love) by the Swiss photographer René Groebli is a small book featuring images that were made during the honeymoon with his wife Rita in France.

Flashpoint! is an collection of protest photography in print from the 1950s to today. Surveying over 245 photobooks, zines, posters, and alternative journals, it examines how photography functions as both activist tool and historical document. Organised thematically, it highlights resistance movements worldwide, revealing how printed images shape, record, and amplify political struggle.

A Year of Disobedience is a beautiful photo-documentary on the demonstrations, civil disobedience, arrests, and trials of thousands of people against the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant during the one-year period between April 29, 1978 and April 28, 1979. With Photos by Joseph Daniel, text by Keith Pope, preface by Daniel Ellsberg, poetry by Allen Ginsberg.

Photographs tracing the evolution of the T Shirt.

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The first book of images from Champion Studios, famous for quality color images of handsome, athletic young men from the late 1950's and early '60's. This book brings together 345 photographs of scantily athletes - packed with amusing props and costumes.

A socialist journal of the social services. Special issue on labour and human services.

Fashion: Photography of the Nineties is a compilation of over two hundred images culled from the worlds of art and fashion. A chronicle of the fashion iconography of the Nineties, it places images familiar from magazines and style journals alongside their wilder, darker counterparts. In these photographs the body and its gestures report on the defining characteristics of a decade. Featuring work from Juergen Teller, Steven Meisel, Mario Sorrenti, Wolfgang Tillmans, Corinne Day, Nick Knight, Araki, Nan Goldin and more.

In 1966, Yves Saint Laurent designed his first tuxedo and continued to create different versions of it up until 2002. In that time, the tuxedo has come to symbolize female liberation. This book was published to accompany an exhibition that presented the long history of this garment. Illustrations include numerous couture sketches and photo plates throughout, some in color and some in B&W, many full-page.

Portraits taken of visitors to Amsterdam's Paradiso club in the early 80s.

In this book, over 60 years of work by designer, artist, critic and theoretician Ezno Mari is documented through projects, drawings, unpublished materials, essays, interviews and tributes by internationally renowned artists and designers.

Over the past decade, the fashion industry has witnessed a renaissance of the classic khakis that have been the casual pant of choice of such prominent historical figures as James Dean, Albert Einstein, John F. Kennedy, and Picasso. Produced in conjunction with Dockers "RM" Khakis, Khaki: Cut from the Original Cloth is a compilation of over 100 historical and contemporary images, creating a veritable photographic history of khakis. Included in this fascinating fashion retrospective are Hollywood film stills, historical snapshots, and recent fashion and celebrity images by such acclaimed photographers as Annie Leibovitz, Peter Beard, Duane Michals, Cecil Beaton, David Bailey, and more.

“Shifting Cosey Fanni Tutti from noun to verb” & “discussing and theorising Cosey as methodology,” this book follows the one-day event conceived by Maria Fusco, in collaboration with Richard Birkett, at ICA London, on March 27, 2010.

Julio Mario Santo Domingo was a collector and visionary related to the subjects of drugs, sex, magic, and rock and roll. A library of more than 50,000 items, it contained everything from rare manuscripts and photos to posters, bottles, letters, opium pipes, and pinball machines. Exploring the innumerable influences of mind-enhancing drugs on art, science, and politics over the centuries, Santo Domingo's collection contained work by diverse figures including Andy Warhol, Timothy Leary, Sigmund Freud, Allen Ginsberg, the Rolling Stones, Aleister Crowley, and many more.

Christopher Felver's photographs testify to the spirit's vitality in late-twentieth-century America. In Angels, Anarchists & Gods, Felver assembles a community of individuals whose lives and work nourish America's historic dream of freedom, justice, and human decency.

Shot in Taos, New Mexico, where Hopper was based following the production of Easy Rider in the late 60s, this series was taken with disposable cameras and developed in drugstore photo labs.