
Drawing from those same impulses that compel us all to take pictures of our family, this book considers the entirely unique response of photographers to their family and the significance of this work in the broader context of their photography. Family is a collection of 175 photographs by a wide range of photographers that consciously reflect on the experience of family.


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.

A themed collection of Araki photographs. Issue 8: Private Diary 1980-1995
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In this book, German photographer Thomas Struth explores the social space and mental state of the modern metropolis. Strangers & Friends covers the entire trajectory of Struth's career and his work in several subject matters, including his restrained and rigorous architectural photographs, intimate family portraits, and frenzied museum interiors.

Kraftwerk: Dance Forever documents the visual and cultural evolution of the pioneering electronic group Kraftwerk from the 1970s to today. Published alongside an exhibition launched in Detroit, the birthplace of techno, it showcases posters, photographs, recordings, sheet music, and memorabilia that capture the band’s iconic machine-music aesthetic and lasting influence on electronic and dance music culture.


This book introduces the writing of Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier

We Have No Place To Be sees Joji Hashiguchi turn his lens towards a generation of young people seeking refuge on the streets across 6 different cities. Liverpool, London, Nuremberg, Berlin, New York and Tokyo, Hashiguchi documents the social discord within each of these locations through the youths that had taken to their streets. Featuring more than 100 images, this book is as a valuable artefact of the complexities of youth in an era mired in the fallout from war, austerity, unemployment and challenging leadership.

This book explores topics such as the morals of city planning and affordable housing, rehabilitation and education, public vs private space, and the desire to strengthen inner-city communities.

Josef Koudelka: Exiles reflects the personal and profound experience of a life in exile, a theme central to Koudelka's life after he left Czechoslovakia in 1968. His photographs captures the spiritual and physical state of his nomadic and stateless life, exploring themes of alienation, disconnection, and loss.

An incredible style reference courtesy of photographer Kazuo Ohishi who covered all the shows for Paris fashion week. Ohishi photographs the runway collections of Ann Demeulemeester, Alaia, Chloe, Comme des Garcons, Dries Van Noten, Helmut Lang, Galliano, Margiela, Kenzo, Martine Sitbon and many more.

In this closely observed sequence of photographs, Dorothy Bohm has captured her vision of London as it appeared to her in the late 1960s.

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.

A collection of images taken by Lee Friedlander of his wife Maria and his family from 1960 to the 1990s, accompanied by an interview with the photographer.

A document of an important time for popular music, Lynn relates personal stories about many of the stars she has photographed. From intimate accounts about her friends and lovers, including Bruce Springsteen, Sting, Bob Dylan, David Byrne, and Patti Smith.

Begun in 2014, Njideka Akunyili Crosby's ongoing series, The Beautyful Ones is comprised of portraits of Nigerian children, including members of the artist's family, derived from personal photographs and, more recently, from images taken during her frequent visits to Nigeria, where Akunyili Crosby lived until the age of sixteen.

A book about architecture

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

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.

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

Clifford Coffin is known by many as the greatest of Vogue's "lost" photographers – an artist who was ahead of his time. His innovative an intriguing fashion photographs of the 1940s and 1950s for renowned magazines including Vogue, Glamour and Jardin des Modes challenged the standards of the day. This is the first monograph of his work, published to coincide with an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery and includes a rare collection of over 100 full colour and duotone photographs – many of which were previously unpublished.

A handwritten cookbook of everything from soups to pizzas, and a guide to communal living.

Fashion photographer Bob Richardson (1928-2005) first began to publish his powerful, transgressive and emotionally charged black-and-white images in the high-fashion press of the 1960s, highlighting the new freedoms and attendant disillusions of the era in a distinctive, maverick style. This highly-anticipated, beautifully-produced volume is the first ever dedicated to Richardson's oeuvre. Put together by his son, the equally renowned photographer Terry Richardson, it collects what remains of the original work, much of which was destroyed over the course of Richardson's career.

Dorothy Sing Zhang unveils a compelling portrayal of humanity’s vulnerable state during sleep. The scene is set in the bedrooms of others. One is asked to be asleep, a squeeze cable release is placed under the pillow. The chance of one’s unconscious body rolling over and triggering the camera results in an exposure. Like Someone Alive expands these boundaries by withdrawing the traditional relationships between the photographer, the object and the camera.

Exhibition catalogue published to coincides with the exhibition by British Sculpture Gavin Turk, In Search of Ariadne, at The Heong Gallery at Downing College.

This book is the brass ring of stories and photographs that trace the lavish history of merry-go-rounds.


A history of pottery in Britain.

PARIS + KLEIN gathers together hundreds of photographs shot by Klein from the time he first picked up a camera in the 1960s until he put it down, momentarily, to put together this book. In his signature colour and black-and-white compositions, his photographs depict men in the street, celebrities, demonstrations, fashion, the police, politics, races, the metro, football, death. The whole life of a capital seen through the lively, melancholic and moving eyes of William Klein.

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.

Between 1916 and 1925 Paul Klee (1879-1940) made some 50 hand puppets for his son, Felix, of which 30 are still in existence. These figures become reminiscent of Klee's relationships with his family, and beautifully illustrative of the artistic and social developments of the time.

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.

This major monograph was published on the occasion of a retrospective exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum,o cntaining work from over a 30-year period, including photographs from Friedlander's previous publications: Self-Portrait, The American Monument, Lee Friedlander: Photographs, Flowers and Trees, Factory Valleys, Lee Friedlander: Portraits, and Cray at Chippewa Falls.

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 a period of British design history when a new generation of designers crossde boundaries between architecture, interiors, product design, craft, and fashion to redefining avant-garde creativity.

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This is a collection of studio pictures - stills, portraits and staged "off-set" publicity photographs - which celebrate exotic matinee idols of the silent era such as Rudolph Valentino, through to today's international superstars, including Clint Eastwood and Harrison Ford. The complementary text encapsulates each star's special appeal and looks at how perceptions of the male hero have changed over the last 80 years.

A collection of Cecil Beaton's fashion photographs shot throughout his career.

Malick Sidibe has gained an international reputation for his documentation of an important period in the history of Bamako. His portraits document the social life in of this region, especially the youth culture. Images of people gathering outside of a club; couples performing the Mali twist in a disco; African fashions; the beauty of havng fun in the street. Sidibe's photographs oscillating between the traditional tribal life and urban survival in the West African city of Bamako.
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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.

Ray Johnson was a renowned maker of meticulous collages whose works influenced movements including Pop Art, Fluxus, and Conceptual Art. Drawing on the vast collection of Johnson’s work at the Art Institute of Chicago, this volume gives new shape to our understanding of his artistic practice and features hundreds of pieces that include artist’s books, collages, drawings, mail art, and performance documentation.

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

Black in White America 1963-1965 is an expanded edition of Leonard Freed’s 1969 publication, Black in White America, published by Reel Art Press. Here, Michael D. Shulman, Magnum’s director of publishing and the book’s co-editor, introduces how the title was produced in consultation with the Freed Estate, providing an overview of the project’s striking images and their relevancy today.

In this book, Mayall identified the dangers and difficulties created for machine operators by the increasing complexity of modern machines and examined the development of the "machine aesthetic" against social, technical and marketing factors. He also believed that organizing machines into coherent visual fields would help prevent accidents.

Commissioned by 180 Studios, Ijó follows a group of young ballet dancers in Lagos, Nigeria, exploring common themes within Moses’ work through the intersections of art, family and culture.

An homage to Japanese street style bible Kerouac's monthly feature, Hair Wars documents dyes, bangs and cuts on the streets of a post-pandemic London in all its glory. Shot by William E. Wright (editor of fanzine Street Flash), the project frames experimental hair as a self-made antidote to the latest fashion movements, something that can be "as democratic as a box of dye, a couple of clips and the willingness to be creative.

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

South African artist William Kentridge's drawings, films, books, installations, and collaborations with opera and theater companies have established him as a world-class star in contemporary art. In this book, Jane Taylor, Kentridge's friend and frequent collaborator, invites us to take an extraordinary behind-the-scenes look at his work.

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.

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.

This book features 44 of Odundo's vessels alongside a large selection of museological and contemporary objects that reveal the wide range of global references that have informed her practice. The book object comprises a series of interleaved sections presenting an organic flow of content which pairs and juxtaposes the historic and the contemporary, featuring works by Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Lucie Rie, Jean Arp, as well as ancient vessels from around the world.

For this collection, Tillmans edited his previous four books with into a single work examining life at the turn of the millennium.

In this essential and revelatory book, Susan Sontag confronts important questions surrounding the power dynamics between photographer and subject, the blurred boundary between lived events and recreated images, and the desires that lead us to record our lives.

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.

Martin Munkacsi changed the look and style of fashion photography in the 1930's. The legendary Harper's Bazzar photographer set new standards for fashion photography. Models ran on beaches, perched on rooftops and catapulted into the air. He was the first to take models out of the studio, photograph the rain and use dramatic angle shots. This book is the result of four years of research into the photographer and his work.

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This book is part of a four part series exploring the work of four influential designers. This volume explores the work of Pierre Bernard, an influential French graphic designer known for his social, political, and cultural design work, most notably as a founder of the collective Grapus

The book is a significant historical record of Tokyo's sex industry through the photographs by Nobuyoshi Araki, which are raw, candid and explicit images documenting the behind the scenes of sex work in Japan.

A collection of black and white male nudes taken between 1940-1970 by Bruce of Los Angeles.

A collection of black and white images of 1950s London people and landmarks.

This book brings together a distinguished group of authors to reflect on Adjaye's practice as an architect.

For nearly two decades, Lichtenstein has worked in varied subgenres within photography’s historical archetypes: marginalised contemporary landscapes, refracted still life, performance-based portraiture and process-oriented abstraction. In Recorder, Lichtenstein embarks on an ambitious three-part series of images that recycle and reorient themselves within the limits of technology and photographic vision.

Sixteen practitioners interview curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, tracing his journey from curating exhibitions in his Zurich kitchen to directing international projects at Serpentine Galleries in London. Through “production of reality conversations,” the book explores his restless practice, intellectual networks, and “protest against forgetting,” mapping the psychogeography, curiosity, and cross-disciplinary thinking that shaped his influential curatorial career

Colour and black and white images of boys mainly shot in Puerto Rico during the filming of "Lord of the Flies".

This artist’s book by Richard Prince features The Entertainers (1982–83), an early series of photographs inspired by the nightclubs, theaters, and restaurants of New York’s Times Square.

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

In 1981, the National Western Stock Show celebrated its seventy-fifth year. It was a major cultural and economic event in Denver to stage the many people and businesses who make up the cattle industry in the United States and Canada. This book presents over five years of Sandy Hume's photographic work documenting the National Western Stock show.


Tek Hod is a contemporary photographic response to an ancient tradition: Cumberland and Westmorland Wrestling. Documenting a legacy of romanticism on one hand and industrialisation on the other, David Ellison's photo series speaks to the complexity of the landscape's tradition via costume and archive as well as the influence of the Arts and Crafts movement.

Deidi von Schaewen’s ‘Walls’ documents hand painted advertising on walls in the 1960s and 1970s. It’s geographical coverage is noteworthy with examples from Berlin, London, New York, Paris and elsewhere in France.

Studies in leather and sadomasochism.

Brush Fires in the Social Landscape is a powerful and evocative retrospective collection of Wojnarowicz life. It includes a collection of his paintings, photographs, and writings also includes essays by Nan Goldin, Kiki Smith, Fran Lebowitz, and Karen Finley, among others.

Each summer, thousands of Juggalos from around the world congregate at a privately owned campground on the Illinois border of the Ohio River to party. This intimate portrait of the Gathering presents Daniel Cronin's images of men, women, and children sitting in tents and cars, swimming in a brackish lake, painting each other's faces and, often, staring back at the camera communicating their defiance and pride.

This 528-page monograph celebrates twenty years of work by M/M (Paris), founded by Michaël Amzalag and Mathias Augustyniak. Arranged alphabetically from “M” to “M,” it documents hundreds of projects spanning graphic design, fashion, music, art, film, and interiors. Featuring major collaborations and interviews, the book reveals their dialogic, cross-disciplinary approach and lasting influence on contemporary visual culture.

In Heaven is a Prison, McKnight describes a queer otherworld that is at once utopic and purgatorial. Divided into chapters, the poetic sequences in this book oscillate between the literal and the figurative, between distance and communion, and between violence and affection.

Photographs tracing the evolution of the T Shirt.

In a series of stunning black and white images, Tocororo: A Cuban Tale follows the creation of Carlos Acosta's first piece of dance theatre as choreographer and star, from its rehearsals and world premiere in Cuba to its sell-out debut at London's Sadlers Wells theatre.

Deborah Turbeville is remembered today as a pioneering figure in fashion photography, known for her melancholic, dreamlike imagery that diverged from conventional standards. However, after working with Harper's Bazar, he soon lost interest in conventional editorial work, turning instead to photography as an outlet for artistic expression and experimentation. Les Amoureuses Du Temps Passe, translated to Lovers of Time Passing, is a collection of some of her best images in fashion and beyond.

Satellites is the culmination of a seven-year photographic journey that takes viewers through the countries and enclaves once held in orbit by the immense gravity of Moscow, the nucleus of the Soviet empire. The photographs reveal the often grim circumstances in these half-forgotten regions, uniformly poor and often politically unstable.

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

Published for McQueen’s solo exhibition at Pirelli HangarBicocca, this comprehensive survey features several of the artist’s most iconic films from the past two decades, as well as an in-depth exploration of his new work.

Dawn of New Mesopotamia: The People of Iraq is the third Japan Press Photo Report. It is a collection of photographs to portray the Iraq in it's process of building a new era after its monarchy fell in 1958. Through photographs and texts, the book references the civilisations of Mesopotamia and Islam, as well details on the history of the the land.

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

In September 2020, Kim Jones was named head of Fendi’s couture and womenswear, marking a new era for the Italian brand. This publication examines Jones’s relationship to the legendary Bloomsbury Set: the early twentieth-century community of British writers, intellectuals, and artists, including Virginia Woolf, Duncan Grant, and Vanessa Bell, who inspired the collection and his creative process.

Tsuguya Inoue, renowned Japanese graphic designer, showcases a dynamic series centered on the theme of “dragon.” Through striking photographs capturing geckos, mantises, and water drops, he creates playful, visually compelling graphics. The book highlights his signature humor and design skill, featuring recent projects for clients like Comme des Garçons, Morisawa, Parco, Suntory, and Asahi Shimbun.
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Part of the generation of photographers that included Juergen Teller and Terry Richardson, Marcelo Krasilcic captured the style of the 90s in situ, outside of the studio, and his photographs of people like Maurizio Cattelan, Chloe Sevigny were immediately absorbed by the most influential magazines of the era, including Purple, Dazed & Confused, Self-Service and Visionaire to name a few. At more than 300 pages, this oversize, slipcased, clothbound, two-volume publication features only the work for which Krasilcic first became known: his era-defining photographs from the 1990s.

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.

Jean Cocteau: Metamorphosis (2018) was a major exhibition and accompanying book, curated by Ioannis Kontaxopoulos, that highlighted the French artist’s perpetual self-transformation across various media, including film, drawing, and ceramics. It showcased over 250 works, often from the Musée Jean Cocteau in Menton, tracing his lifelong, multidisciplinary, and deeply personal creative evolution.

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

Issue on houses in the U.S.A.

An unprecedented publication showcasing Gucci as never before, including thought-provoking essays, commentaries, and authoritative anecdotes along with previously unpublished contemporary and archival photographs.

Published in 1983 as a companion piece to the hugely popular Sloane Ranger’s Handbook, authors Ann Barr and Peter York expanded the satirical take on the upper classes by providing a definitive guide to the Sloane year.

From the twilight of the Romanov dynasty through les annees folles of Art Deco Paris to the jet-set seventies, Bals explores the nine most exceptional private costume parties of the twentieth century.

Herbert List was fascinated by the ”artificial humans“—life-size figures moulded in wax—on display at the Panoptikum in Vienna’s Prater. In 1944, he photographed these waxworks, depicting them as “corpses set in position and daubed with make-up—frozen in poses of the utmost intensity, they are inhabitants of a Sleeping Beauty castle.” List took a string of fairytale scenes, historical tableaux, and medical subjects and combined them with a trenchant text to create an illustrated book published here for the first time, more than seventy-five years later, in a bibliophile edition based on List’s original draft.

This book explores the impact of fifty iconic vehicles on British design, from the 1908 Ford Model T to the 1998 Smart Car. Each entry provides a concise appraisal, highlighting how these cars achieved lasting influence and earned a significant place in design history.


Following on from the enormous success of Fruits, Fresh Fruits features the latest from Tokyo based Fruits Magazine. Fresh Fruits uncovers how street fashion has changed in the downtown districts of Tokyo as seen through the eye of Japanese fashion photographer Shoichi Aoki. Sublime in its simplicity, Fresh Fruits captures the strange and often ‘surreal’ fashion sense of Japanese teenagers

In this book, photographer Graciela Iturbide documents the matriarchal culture of the Zapotec women in Juchitán, Mexico.

A selection of rings from the Ghysels collection and a complete monography about the different topologies, shapes, materials and functions of rings in the history and culture of different peoples and countries in the world.
The Library
Our Library is the heart of Reference Point and from where all other elements take their philosophy and context. An evolving and growing collection of rare books, ephemera and printed matter focused on Post-War Radical Art, Architecture, Design, Fashion and Culture. The library exists to create inspiration and conversation, and provide creatives of all stages and disciplines reference points for their projects.
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