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.
Material Man: Masculinity, Sexuality, Style examines masculine images in fashion and the media, attempting to answer the question of what it means to be a man in the contemporary world – contains images from films, television, magazines and the fine arts, along with essays.
Reading Basquiat considers the ways in which Basquiat constructed large parts of his identity--as a black man, as a musician, as a painter, and as a writer--via the manipulation of texts in his own library.
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.
Part memoir, part document of the DIY, punk-infused subculture of skateboarding as it came of age in the 1990s and early 2000s, Ed Templeton's Wires Crossed pulses with the raw, combustive energy of Templeton's image-making from the last twenty-plus years.
Casting director Jennifer Venditti’s process relies on ‘chance encounters with random strangers’ who capture her imagination. She usually engages them with a simple opener: ‘Can I ask you a question?’ This book is a thorough exploration of Venditti’s uncommon casting process that brings real life to narrative films and series including Good Time, Uncut Gems, and Euphoria.
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.
Peter Saville is perhaps the most influential graphic designer of his generation. Best known for his seminal record covers for Joy Division and New Order, Saville has also art directed catalogues and advertisements for fashion brands such as Yohji Yamamoto and Dior. This book includes a comprehensive interview by Christopher Wilson as well as essays by style guru Peter York, music critics Paul Morley and Miranda Sawyer, and design critics Rick Poynor, Emily King and Peter Hall.
Colorful look at the short lived but vivid design movement from the 1980s, with many color examples of furniture, objects and other pieces of designs.
Twenty young people aged 14-18 were selected to edit the School Kids Issue (Issue 28) of Oz. They were given editorial freedom, resulting in a mixture of articles and cartoon strips that communicated their view on music, sexual freedom, hypocrisy, drug use, corporal punishment, and education. It caused an outrage, and the editors were charged with obscenity and conspiring to 'debauch and corrupt the morals of young children'. However, after an outcry by supporters and anti-censorship campaigners, the verdict was overturned at appeal.
Hans-Peter Feldmann was a German conceptual artist known for his obsessive collecting, archiving, and rearranging of everyday images and objects to explore themes of memory and time. This monograph contains a number of his works from the late 1960s.
A handwritten cookbook of everything from soups to pizzas, and a guide to communal living.
Concrete is one of the most innovative agencies of the moment and has acquired worldwide fame for its startling interior designs. This book is a project realised in collaboration with a diversity of leading authors, designers, artists and photographers.
Published on the occassion of an exhibition of works by the Bauhaus created between 1919 and 1928.
Mediascape brings together the mulit-media visual works of renowned multimedia artists such as Marie-Jo Lafontaine, Bruce Nauman, Nam June Paik, and Bill Viol.
Published alongside the 2014 Araki Teller Teller Araki exhibition at OstLicht Gallery in Vienna, this first jointly conceived book by Nobuyoshi Araki and Juergen Teller presents over 300 photographs, including previously unpublished works. Bringing together two of contemporary photography’s most influential figures, the publication reflects their shared radical vision and relentless pursuit of images as expressions of personal experience.
This subtle yet powerful book of photographs blends evocative scenes from the many subcultures of Iturbide's native Mexico with the artist's own deeply personal, and oftentimes Surrealistic, vision.
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.
This book reflects intangibles-atmosphere, light, space, the effects of form and material, the interaction of nature and man, and the concepts that bind these in physical and psychological reality.
The Situationist Times No. 3 (January 1963) maps out an exhaustive visual and philosophical index of knots, spirals, and topological forms. The issue deliberately weaves scholarly critique, mathematical mapping, avant-garde illustrations, and experimental fiction.
Film poster ephemera for Bollywood action film Geraftaar directed by Prayag Raj.
A Following the release of the first seven volumes of Top Symbols and Trademarks, the editors returned to the project in 1977 with a series of four yearly annuals, 1977, 1978, 1979/80 & 1981/82. This is volume 9 looking at the year 1978.
For almost 60 years the Rolling Stones have helped shape popular culture around the world. Unzipped traces their impact and influence on rock music, art, design, fashion, photography, and filmmaking. Packed with evocative archive photos, artworks, outtakes, and memorabilia, this book immerses readers in the world of the Stones.
Lindokuhle Sobekwa began this project after finding a family portrait with his sister Ziyanda’s face cut out. He describes her as a secretive, rebellious, and recalls the dark day when she chased him and he was hit by a car: she disappeared hours later and returned only a decade later, ill. Employing a scrapbook aesthetic with handwritten notes, I Carry Her photo with Me is a means for Sobekwa to engage both with the memory of his sister and the wider implications of such disappearances – a troubling part of South Africa’s history. The book complements his wider work on fragmentation, poverty, and the long-reaching ramifications of apartheid and colonialism across all levels of South African society.
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.
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.
A visual guidebook for photographing women.
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.
A book on embroidery and stiching.
Norman Parkinson (1913-1990) has been described not only as a craftsman but also as a consummate artist who brought a dramatic glamour and bold inventiveness to the fashion portrait. Organised decade by decade and illustrated with fashion plates, portraits and contact sheets, the book features a number of previously unpublished editorial images.
This book is a testament to the fascination of books themselves. From the early days of ancient Roman stone carvings to today's explosion of Internet information, Ex Libris chronicles the written record, offering a new interpretation of the signs, letter forms, shapes, and images used to document human history. Featuring images from the world's greatest book collections and libraries, including the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris; the British Museum; the New York Public Library; the Pierpont Morgan Library; and the Cairo Museum.
Cage voices his concerns on the nature and future of music, they ways of dancers, the West's interpretation of Eastern ideas in this thought provoking collection of anecdotes and epigrams.
A book about architecture
A book published from the exhibition of the same name held May 22 - June 16, 1976 of women artists from Paris. Features works by Bour, Hessie, Janicot, Maglione, and a collective work by Aballea, Blum, Croiset, Mimi, and Yalter.
Richard Prince is a prominent American conceptual artist who takes existing images from mass media and recontextualises them to critique American consumerism, desire, sex, and power. Adult, Comedy, Action, Drama is a visual "autobiography through words and pictures," utilising a DIY scrapbook aesthetic. It contains 235 color illustrations, juxtaposing Prince's own artwork with images he has collected from consumer culture.
This book is document of the centennial history of the The University of California containing more than 100 rich photogravures of university life by Ansel Adams.
This luxurious volume celebrates twenty years of an incomparable partnership, drawing together their most significant moments in fashion. It is a collection of memories and iconic images which marks every step of their evolution, featuring the work of photographers such as Steven Meisel, Mario Sorrenti and Ferdinando Scianna, and models including Gisele, Linda Evangelista, Isabella Rossellini and Marpessa.
This book contains over 150 pages of 200 photographs of London in the late sixties taken by German photographer Juergen Seuss.
This book offers brief profiles of important designers, architects, engineers, graphic artists, movements, and manufacturers, and shows influential designs in automobiles, furniture, fabrics, fashions, and products.
Black and white photographs of babies and infants taken by Sue Packer taken in 1980s.
American bioacoustician and musician Bernie Krause has recorded over 5,000 hours of natural soundscapes since the 1970s. Both poetic and scientific, his archive reveals the musical harmony and orchestral structure of nature. This book presents an immersive installation created in 2016 by Krause and United Visual Artists for the Fondation Cartier in Paris. It traces the transformation of Krause’s field recordings into a three-dimensional audiovisual experience that blends art, technology, and ecology.
The year in which photographer Jillian Edelstein turned 40 she came across an image of her great aunt Minna, of whose existence she had been unaware. The photograph of Minna became the catalyst for a journey to unearth her family history and the discovery of an unknown branch of her family living in Ukraine. Here and There documents Edelstein’s family odyssey and expands to encompass photographs made throughout her career, inextricably linked by the thread of human displacement.
A book documenting the works produced by the Italian design movement Memphis, known for bold colors and geometric shapes.
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.
A survey of decorative arts and crafts.
Vogue: The Covers chronicles the extraordinary images that have reflected--and transformed--the world of style for more than 120 years. More than 300 of the most beautiful, provocative, and fashion-forward covers ever produced are highlighted alongside the history and stories behind the covers themselves.
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.
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.
In the wake of the suburban riots that rocked France in late 2005, Simon Wheatley found himself in the small town of Blois in the Loire Valley, on the edge of which stood France’s fourth biggest banlieue where almost half the population were lumped in a world far removed from the bourgeois town centre with its pretty postcard view. Always and Forever there / Toujours et Encore là - with bilingual texts - is an attempt to make sense of that experience and do justice to a rare body of work that was widely published in magazines at the time but never to his satisfactio
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"XL Photography 2" is the title of the second catalogue of the collection. This volume documents the acquisitions up to 2003, including works by the artists Bernd and Hilla Becher, Phillip-Lorca DiCorcia, Roni Horn, Matthias Klose, Chantal Michel, Josef Schultz, Juergen Teller, Christina Zück and more.
This book brings together a distinguished group of authors to reflect on Adjaye's practice as an architect.
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.
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.
A socialist journal of the social services. In this issue: problems of pyschotherapy in corperate capitalism; the culture of poverty; feminising the welfare state; communuty organising.
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.
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.
Constructed Narratives brings together essays and several recently completed buildings by David Adjaye, in the United States and elsewhere. In the essays, Adjaye shows how his approach to the design of temporary pavilions and furniture, private houses, and installations at the 2015 Venice Biennale feeds into his designs for public buildings.
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.
A collection of Alice O'Malley's book of portraits of people in New York's Lower East Side.
A large-format illustrated booklet produced by the New Zealand Government Publicity Production to inform visitors about the indigenous Maori people of New Zealand.
Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999) is undoubtedly one of the most significant figures in 20th-century interior design. This is the first monograph of her works.
In Spring 2015, the photographer Joel Meyerowitz sat at the work table in Giorgio Morandi's Bologna home, in the exact spot where the painter had sat for over 40 years making his quiet, sublime still lifes. Here Meyerowitz looked at, touched, studied and connected with the more than 250 objects that Morandi painted. Using only the warm natural light in the room, he photographed Morandi's objects: vases, shells, pigment-filled bottles, silk flowers, tins, funnels, watering cans.
Günther Uecker (1930–2025) was a renowned German painter, sculptor, and installation artist, famous for his pioneering kinetic art and iconic, tactile nail reliefs. As a key member of the post-war ZERO group, he explored light, space, and movement, using rhythmic, repetitive hammering to create dynamic, meditative structures that interact with the viewer. This book is a collection fo some of his nail paintings and watercolours.
Rineke Dijkstra’s Beach Portraits presents adolescents standing alone against the sea, captured in striking, full-length frontal compositions. Marked by clarity and formal restraint, the images echo a typological approach associated with August Sander and Thomas Ruff, while also carrying a more intimate, Arbus-like sensitivity. Together, the series forms a collective portrait of adolescent vulnerability, existential uncertainty, and unexpected beauty.
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.
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
Contemporary Hyloshapes establishes a relationship between contemporary sculpture (produced over the last 25 years) and typography, as an exercise of translating visual language from a medium to another, between scales, collaborators and methodologies.
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.
A catalogue of Southern American pottery.
A guide to travelling across Europe.
GA Document is a Global Architecture focusing on contemporary international architecture and design projects.
Notting Hill in the Sixties attempts to capture the exuberance and vivacity of the people in one of London's most famous neighbourhoods. Phillips photographs present a pictorial documentary of the area of North Kensington which, from the fifties, became the spiritual home of Britain's Afro-Caribbean community. His pictures are both affectionate personal portraits of friends and neighbours, and a social commentary which evokes the flavour of the period and the locality.
Bruce Weber’s first monograph, published by Twelvetrees Press in 1983, was his breakthrough collection, a powerful sampling of images from his early career that are still considered among his most iconic. The book is divided into eight sections: “Brothers”; “Matt Dillon,” a series of photographs drawn from several sittings with the young actor; “Notebook,” an eclectic sampling of early editorial and personal work; “Lifeguards;” “Clammers;” “Hall of Fame” and “Jeff,” both photo-essays of Jeff Aquilon, a championship swimmer and star of many of Bruce’s early GQ editorials. Now among the rarest of his collections, this book set the standard for all of Bruce’s future publications.
Craig explains traditional and modern production techniques and shows designers how to master these new technologies by understanding how they work.
This book examines the cultural implications of the emerging metaverse, exploring how 21st-century institutions can shape digital worlds and hybrid forms of presence. Drawing on contributions from artists and industry figures the publication brings together voices from art, gaming, film, and technology to address the opportunities and challenges of the metaverse.
This book presents some of the most remarkable manifestations of the idiosyncratc, eccentric glory of the human imagination.
An unprecedented publication showcasing Gucci as never before, including thought-provoking essays, commentaries, and authoritative anecdotes along with previously unpublished contemporary and archival photographs.
A book documenting kids playing on the streets of New York.
Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999) is undoubtedly one of the most significant figures in 20th-century interior design. This is the first monograph of her works.
In South African Township Barbershops and Salons, Simon Weller presents his vivid photographs of these places, their signage and their patrons alongside interviews with the proprietors, customers and the sign makers.
A themed collection of Araki photographs. Issue 14: Obscenities and Strange Black Ink Stories
This work, subtly homoerotic, draws from themes of the past rather than the present, resulting in an overall quality that is unbounded by the constraints of time. As Nan Goldin says on the back cover: "David has always used photography as a seductive device, a sublimation of his desire. His pictures of people feel so tactile because one senses his desire to touch but never in an aggressive or insistent way...He is intensely aware of the delicate balance of form in the shapes, the light, the relationship between person and place."
A scarce, incredible publication documenting the women's liberation movement in Japan and worldwide. This rich work begins with intimate portraiture, documenting the lives of inspiring women activists, including a feature that spends time with Yoko Ono. Photographed over an eight-year period this is a unique portrayal of radical women in Japan beautifully depicting communal living and political organising.
Marin is a unique album of the great Navy family – the strength, the solitude and solidarity, the open faces of reunions, the serious looks of great departures.
Three idiosyncratically macabre cabaret-restaurants in Monmartre, each with its own grotesque portrayal of the afterworlds of Hell, Heaven, and Nothingness. From 1892 until 1954, three cabaret-restaurants in the Montmartre district of Paris captivated tourists with their grotesque portrayals of death. Presenting original images and drawings from contemporary journals, postcards, tourist brochures, and menus, Mel Gordon leads a tour of these idiosyncratically macabre institutions.
To Evelyn collects local entertainer posters from a Yorkshire pit village working men’s club, originally gathered in the 1990s by Evelyn Short and now curated by her grandson, David. Pre-dating the internet and social media, these posters celebrated alternate identities and weekend personas, offering a glimpse into local culture, national identity, and the imaginative freedom to transform into anyone or anything.
Released on the 50th anniversary of the publication of Penny Slinger's iconic artists’ book 50% The Visible Woman, this edition presents Slinger’s series of surrealist photomontage works and poetry unabridged for the first time, following the hand-constructed snakeskin-bound book from 1969, and the out-of-print abridged edition from 1971.
Dance Perspectives was published quarterly from 1959-1976, and was a collection of writings on dance, art, costume and theatre. This issue focuses on Dance in Ghana.
Near East documents photographer and designer Cecil Beaton's wartime assignment for the Ministry of Information in the Middle East during World War II. The book combines his photographs, including images of soldiers and ancient sites in Egypt, Palestine, Syria and Iraq along with his journalistic text that provides a unique pictorial history of the region during the conflict.
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.
Monika Günther and Ruedi Schill began contributing to the development, promotion and dissemination of performance art in the 1980s. Their archive is compiled into this book for the first time, a large selection of photographs and essays serve recreates the physical presence of the participants and the atmosphere of their performances.
Lost Dreams details the youth clubs of East London from 2005 to '07, these clubs provided the foundations for aspiring musicians some of whom are now well recognised in the grime scene and beyond. If you're at all familiar with Wheatley's previous book on the heydays of Grime, you'll know the depths of his access to the subject and his attention to detail photographically.
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.
Hiromix’s glamorous renditions of Keita Maruyama’s entire 2001 collection are splashed, fashion magazine style, onto thick glossy paper. As the year unfolds, back stage shots, Spring/Summer, Autumn/Winter as well as one-off photo shoots present the quirky sophistication of this young Japanese designer.
I colori del ferro blends industrial materials and contemporary art, combining photographers by renowned photographers with technical macro shots of steel and industrial scenes. An essay by Umberto Eco and captions by engineer Gino Papuli provide aesthetic, technical, and conceptual insights, creating a sophisticated dialogue between industry and art.
Abramovic defines "Inbetween" as the place between departure and arrival—or the space one inhabits while in transit. The sketches, hastily written notes, collages made from found and accumulated scraps, and photographs that are included in this bookwork are a chronicle of her visit to this temporal resting-place. Part diary, part work notebook, we are offered an intimate glimpse of Abramovic’s observations and thoughts during her residency in Japan. Printed on a heavy printmaking stock.
Since founding Studio Orta in 1993, the Paris-based husband-and-wife team of Lucy and Jorge Orta has produced an extensive body of work that addresses universal concerns about community, shelter, migration, and sustainable development. Featuring hundreds of drawings and photographs, Lucy + Jorge Orta: Food, Water, Life presents recent works that fall into the categories offood, water, and the environment.