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

In this book, Chanarin uses the camera and the photographic encounter to speak towards, penetrate, and critique our lived experience. Drawing as much from August Sander as W. G. Sebald, Chanarin's photographic wanderings and auto-fictional experiments engage with the artist's subjectivity while querying the slippery terrain of documentary photography.

This work reflects Versace's experience in Florence. It examines the sources of the designer's inspiration and suggests that, in return, his work inspired the direction of contemporary art.

Sidney D. Gamble (1890-1968), an avid amateur photographer, began taking pictures in China during his first trip to the country with his family in 1908. He returned three more times between 1917 to 1932 and continued photographing the daily life of Chinese citizens. A sociologist and renowned China scholar, he traveled throughout the country to collect data for social-economic surveys and to photograph urban and rural life, public events, architecture, religious statuary, and the countryside.

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.

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.

In this remarkable visual survey, internationally acclaimed photographer Sebastiaao Salgado documents traditional methods of sustainable coffee farming across the globe, revealing rituals deeply steeped in history and pride.

A collection of photographs documenting New York's Soho in the Eighties.

A book of accidental streetstyle photos of women getting on buses or loitering around bus stops, spanning the sixties to the eighties – an unintended streetstyle book of gold.

By visually examining the ways in which gender is dressed, made up and culturally enforced, Sherman has for many become an icon of feminism and postmodernism. More than 270 images show the breadth of Sherman's body of work, from the Untitled Film Stills of the 1970s to series such as Centrefolds, Fashion, Disasters, Fairy Tales and History Portraits, as well as photographs influenced by surrealist artists. Also included are intriguing excerpts from Sherman's notebooks, selections from her contact sheets and numerous Polaroid studies, all of which shed light on the artist's process.

In a collection of austere portraits of personalities including Truman Capote, Rose Mary Woods, and Andy Warhol, Avedon demonstrates his aim to retain the sitter's identity and solidity of being without using illusionistic effects.

Before the crack epidemic devastated inner-city families, communities thrived with pride, style, and vibrant culture. Renowned photographer Jamel Shabazz captures this vanished New York City era from the mid-seventies to the mid-eighties. A Time Before Crack is a powerful visual diary revealing the extraordinary people, poses, and spirit of the streets.

This book explores Hockney's portraits spanning a fifty year period in all media - painting, drawing, photocollage and prints. It reveals Hockney's creative development and concerns about representation: from his iconic double portraits of the late 1960s and early 1970s to his cubist-influenced investigations of the 1980s and from his recent camera lucida drawings to his return to painting from life in oils.

This book is an insight into Japanese post-war design.

Offering the reader a privileged glimpse into the artistic process used by top fashion photographer Tim Walker, 'Pictures' provides a comprehensive overview of his work which brings us deep inside his world of glamour and adventure – including sketches, pages from his notebooks, polaroids, and contact sheets.

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.

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.

1996-2001 / 2001-2006 is the first book to be released by printings.jp, featuring internationally-sourced garments as presented by the designer throughout a decade of his career.

VILE magazine was published between 1974 and 1983 by the mail artists Anna Banana and Bill Gaglione. The inside contents of VILE featured a wide array of texts & manifestoes, letters, performance documentation, articles on individual artists & their projects, detourned mass media advertisements as well as art works from mail artists in different countries.

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 incredible photo reference on interiors. Beautiful design examples for each room as well as details of interior architecture looking at everything from floors, walls and furnishings to private spaces and children's play areas. The book gives attention to the relationship between exterior and interior architecture. With work included by an array of important designers including Sori Yanagi, Shiro Kuramata, Shigeru Uchida, Awatsuji Expo, Shigeo Fukuda, Jiro Takamatsu and Shinya Fujiwara amongst others.

Catalogue edited by Celant comprising the work of 74 German and Italian artists in the fields of architecture, art, cinema and film, design, fashion, graphics, photography and theatre.

A collection of Henry Moore's writings and spoken words.

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A collection of 177 annotated photographs of Eton offering an intimate and personal insight into the school, the area and its people.

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Gold & Ashes is a visual series on the Grenfell Community by bereaved family member Feruza Afewerki. It features a collection of photo stories of the local community of survivors and bereaved, documented over 3 years, in hopes of highlighting the humanity and courage of the Grenfell residents, honour the memories of their loved ones lost and bring dignity to those directly impacted by the tragedy.

Arthur Tress is known for his staged surrealism and exposition of the human body. Theater of the Mind explores adult fantasies and marked the introduction in Tress's work of overtly erotic imagery. As Tress explained, he sought to make "photographs [that] attempt to make explicit . . . sexual passions and ironies," albeit with spiritual dimensions.

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.

VILE magazine was published between 1974 and 1983 by the mail artists Anna Banana and Bill Gaglione. The inside contents of VILE featured a wide array of texts & manifestoes, letters, performance documentation, articles on individual artists & their projects, detourned mass media advertisements as well as art works from mail artists in different countries.

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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.

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.

Leafing through a wealth of private photo albums and personal archives, Lee Radziwill offers a unique perspective of happy times: from the first trip to Europe and the Bouvier sisters to fond memories of Christmas in Palm Beach with President Kennedy. Through anecdotes and pictures, personal notes and drawings, Happy Times offers readers a very personal perspective on a highly publicized life.

British Women Go to War documents the vital contributions of British women during the Second World War, covering their work in the armed forces, industry, the Women Land Army, and the Women's Voluntary Services. Featuring striking colour photographs by percy Hennel that show women in various roles during this period.

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An exhibition catalogue of works from the Bauhaus housed at the Busch Reisinger Musuem Collection.

Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty examines the full breadth of the designer’s career, from the start of his fledgling label to the triumphs of his own world-renowned London house. It features his most iconic and radical designs, revealing how McQueen adapted and combined the fundamentals of Savile Row tailoring, the specialized techniques of haute couture, and technological innovation to achieve his distinctive aesthetic.

This book offers a unique guide to the style and design of the furniture of this century.

The book explores the daily lives and experiences of Black people in Paris during the early 1980 through the photographs of Nicolas Silatsa.

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.

In this book, Brassai captures the nocturnal world of Paris in the 1930s, exploiting as if nobody else could the deep black tones of photogravure. Brassai's Paris is at once mysterious as it is real. It is the Pasris of seedy nightclubs and cabarets, of tramps and aristocrats, and of the nightworkers: bakers, market stall-holders, newspaper printers and patrolling policemen.

A reproduction of (a, b, c) in which Ulises Carrión presents one if his early linguistic exercises in English, originally handwritten in green ink in 1972.

Memories of Myself collects together Danny Lyon's expansive body of work – from sensual images of girls in a barrio of Colombian brothels, to stunning portraits of young local boys in 1965 Chicago, from his most famous bodies of work to never before published projects.

This book is a moving collection of sensitive and informative photos and captions documenting the African American struggle for self-definition in mid-20th century America. Through black and white photographs, Freed investigates the politics of the country in the 1960s, as well as articulates the anxiety of under represented and discriminated people.

Work 1961–73 chronicles the years when Rainer found herself and her work at the heart of a revolution in dance, performance and art. Written in Rainer’s wonderful frank, funny and perceptive prose, and illustrated with photographs, handwritten scores, sketches, press articles and ephemera, Work 1961–73 is a period document and an instruction manual, an archive and a manifesto.

This book is a study of fashion and the body which aims to establish the relations between codes and systems of clothing and the conduct of everyday life.

Carine, and her vision of French Vogue, embodies all that the world likes to think of as Parisian style. This elegant volume is a visual history of Roitfeld's fearless career throughout which she pushed the limits with her subversive styling ideas. Featuring a selection of 250 magazine tear sheets and covers from pivotal editorial shoots and advertising campaigns, as well as intimate visual ephemera.

A book about architecture

An homage to women on the range.

A collection of poetry written in the form of Bhakti Poems in the ancient romantic Indian tradition, exploring the Jungian relationship between the animus and anima.

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.

A collection of portrait photographs of Mexican Lucha Libre Superheros.

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.

Photographs of Steve McQueen by William Claxton.

Nightswimming is a photographic history of discotheques, told in a subjective, partial way, but always with a clear purpose in mind: the analysis of space. The history of dance clubs is undoubtedly an anthropological as well as architectural phenomenon. The cultural and economic evolution of society progressively transformed the idea of entertainment, and consequently the spaces in which it is formed and shaped.

A themed collection of Araki photographs. Issue No.9: Private Diary 1999

A socialist journal of the social services. In this issue: uses of homelessness; housing policy in Cubal; organising social services (The Yugoslav Experience); book reviews and more.

A reflective photographic project by Tina Enghoff exploring childhood, identity, and memory. It considers what is lost in leaving childhood behind—imagination, emotional fluidity, and a fairy-tale sense of perception. Enghoff suggests that while childhood becomes distant and fragmented, its memories persist as an obscured but foundational emotional presence shaping adult life

A huge book that holds the fashion photography career of Bruce Weber.

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.

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Keiichi Tanaami (born 1936) was a protagonist of Japan's postwar avant-garde, and one of the first Japanese artists to successfully blend art and commerce. Including collage, painting, silkscreen prints and animation, this volume constitutes a catalogue raisonné of Tanaami's early work of the 60s and 70s.

The year 2000 marked the issue 200 and year 20 for i-D Magazine. Blending fashion and social documentation, early issues of i-D (now major collector's items) were presented as 40 pages stapled together. 'Smile i-D' incorporates a single spread from each issue of the magazine up until then.

Issue on houses in the U.S.A.

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.

This is the first book to be published on the leading London architecture firm Gumuchdjian Architects whose widely published first project the Think Tank established their reputation for sensitive, contextual work.

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.

A behind the scenes look at the creation of one of Bruce Oldfield's Winter collections, from initial designs to catwalk.

A collection of remarkable full-bleed black and white photographs of photographs taken during photographer Ikko Narahara three-year stay in Europe from 1962.

A themed collection of Araki photographs. Issue 5: Chrysalis.

Book detailing the practice of architectural training at the Bauhau based on the lecture notes made by the Dutch ex-Bauhaus student and architect J.J. van der Linden of the Mies van der Rohe curriculum.

In 1996, Johnnie Shand Kydd began taking photographs of young British artists and their friends, dealers and critics at the centre of the art world. This collection of portraits is the result; a record of over 70 artists including Dinos and Jake Chapman, Damien Hurst and Gary Hume.

The Bikeriders explores firsthand the stories and characters of the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club.

A book about architecture

This book brings together Coco Capitán's recent notes, still tinged with irony and sometimes accompanied by sketches. Every day, she records her words, moods, questions, and impressions on a variety of surfaces, with an almost compulsive spontaneity. Caught in the moment or crafted as true poems, her aphorisms appear as well on a green-checked napkin as on the pristine page of a notebook.

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.

The incomparable Isabella Blow always pushed boundaries in the fashion world, often using her personality as her most offensive weapon. Famous for discovering talents such as Philip Treacy, Alexander McQueen, Sophie Dahl and Hussein Chalayan, she also nurtured and inspired many artists and designers across the industry. Personal letters written exclusively for this book have been contributed by legendary names in fashion – from Valentino and Anna Wintour to Manolo Blahník and Naomi Campbell alongside portraits by the greatest photographers in fashion, including Mario Testino, Rankin, Donald McPherson and Richard Burbridge.

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

London/Wales brings together two distinct bodies of work to reveal a new understanding of Franks contribution to the history of photography. Juxtaposing the world of money and the world of work in post-war England, Frank photographed London bankers, workers, and children, and Welsh coal miners and their families. Featuring 90 black and white photographs, London/Wales tells a timeless story of cities, people, and institutions in transition through emotional, evocative images while revealing Franks struggle to forge a new form of poetic narrative photography.

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.

Tir a'Mhurain is a collection of photographs that reflects the impressions gathered by Paul Strand and his wife Hazel during their 3-month visit to the Hebrides in 1945. Juxtaposing people and landscape, Strand's beautifully sequenced photographs depict the perfect complicity he saw between nature and habitation in their wild terrain.

An encyclopedia about documenting the Decorative Arts Movement from 1940-1980.

Decaying with the Speed of Spring follows a woman who encounters multiple versions of herself, observing them until the experience becomes overwhelming. Blending photography and illustration, it unfolds like a cinematic fairy tale exploring self-acceptance, growth, and release. Inspired by depersonalisation-derealisation, project reflects healing through confronting fractured identity and collaboration.

After Life is the debut photobook by London-based, Italian photographer Michele Baron. Known for his spontaneous and punchy photographic style, Baron captures the underground queer communities and techno clubbing scenes of London, Paris, and Berlin. Through intimate portrayals of friends, lovers, and vibrant subcultures, After Life presents one of the largest selections of Baron’s impressive archive and offers an unflinching visual diary of these marginalised yet dynamic worlds.

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.

Renowned and highly regarded for his experiments with literature, painting, film, and music, William S. Burroughs was also a prolific photographer. This book reproduces some of his rarely seen works, accompanied by texts.

Published to follow the landmark exhibition at Karma Gallery, New York, this catalog unites the works of 30 women painters who were active in New York City during the 1970s. Artists include: Emma Amos, Ida Applebroog, Jennifer Bartlett, Betty Blayton, Vivian Browne, Cynthia Carlson, Martha Diamond, Louise Fishman, Suzan Frecon, Nancy Graves, Cynthia Hawkins, Mary Heilmann, Virginia Jaramillo, Jane Kaplowitz, Harriet Korman, Lois Lane, Helen Marden, Dindga McCannon, Ree Morton, Elizabeth Murray, Ellen Phelan, Howardena Pindell, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Faith Ringgold, Dorothea Rockburne, Susan Rothenberg, Joan Semmel, Jenny Snider, Joan Snyder, Pat Steir.

Issey Miyake: East Meets West features an impressive contrast of designs influenced by both Eastern and Western cultures. East Meets West was the first ever monograph that was created about the living fashion designer, and its importance is unquestionable. With over 200 pages of full bleed color images featuring some of Issey Miyake’s colorful clothing, the book truthfully depicts the designer’s passion for design, culture, and authenticity. Featuring editorial photos shot by the likes of Noriaki Yokosuka to the capturing of runway spectacles that combine movement with clothing.

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

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.

This book was published on the occasion of the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in 2003, which was awarded to West African photographer Malick Sidibé. Sidibé was Bamako's first photojournalist, capturing the energy of that city's youth at parties and social gatherings. Studio Malick became a central meeting place for this new generation, and Sidibé's striking portraits reveal an exuberance for photography that matched the spirit emblematic of post-colonial West Africa in the late 1950s through the mid-1970s.

A themed collection of Araki photographs. Issue 11: In Ruins

This book featuring 136 historically inspired, high-quality paint samples for decorative work. The collection was divided into curated themes—including Egypt, Pompeian, Wedgwood, and various Tapestry/Oriental colors—and remained in print until the early 1960

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.

An incredible snapshot of the Drag scene during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

John Deakin (1912-1972), whose portraits are among the most significant (and amongst the most overlooked) in the history of twentieth-century photography, was a natural successor to August Sander and precursor of Diane Arbus. He phographed everyone from Hollywood stars for British Vogue in the late 1940s and early 1950s to his artist and poet friends in London's bohemia, Soho. Robin Muir, former picture editor of British Vogue, bringstogether a comprehensive collection of Deakin's most important photographs.

The definitive book on the legendary photographer's life in New York City, with many never-before-seen images and reminiscences by his closest friends and confidants. From the 1930s, when he helped revolutionize fashion journalism, through the 1960s, when he launched headlong into the Pop art era, London-based photographer Cecil Beaton brought to New York City his own perspective--aristocratic, sexually ambiguous, and theatrical

The International Hairstyle Index presents the works of leading and innovative hairdressers and stylists from all over the world.

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.

Funerary art has many expressions, but seldom is it as eye-catching and surprising as among the Ga, the dominant people of Accra and the surrounding region. Here a remarkable folk art of coffin-building has developed, combining remembrance, respect, humor and celebration. In this book, photographer and reporter Thierry Secretan's record a wide variety of these sculptural masterpieces in superb colour photographs.