A booklet for an exhibition at the 1976 Venice Biennale surveying improvements in city planning in the Netherlands, based on the concept that good living environments go beyond shelter.
Concentrating mainly on the 19th and 20th centuries, this is a study of the necklace as an emblem of wealth and status, shaped and reshaped throughout the centuries by successive fashions, techniques and materials, from the Egyptian broad collar to the diamond chokers of the 1920s.
Richard Billingham's Ray's a Laugh is considered one of the most important contemporary photobooks from Britain. Centered around Billingham's working-class family who live in a cramped Birmingham high-rise tenement apartment and his father Ray - a chronic alcoholic - these candid snapshots describe their daily lives in a visual diary that is raw, intimate, touching and often uncomfortably humorous.
Icon Stations is a photographic index of 300 icon stands; wayside shrines that punctuate the vast and mountainous landscape of Crete. Compiled over the course of 4 years, the collection of images is both a straight-forward, objective record and yet an intimate document of a journey – one that unravels a whole host of histories and myths woven into the fabric of their existence. It is an attempt at a loose indexing, an intuitive gathering of various forms of shrines that occupy various indeterminate spaces across the island: roads, pathways, shorelines, boundaries and thresholds. Together, these lonely reliquaries make up a symbolic geography through which memory is both conveyed and sustained.
This book explores furniture from ancient Egypt to 400 BC, emphasising style, construction, and detailed measured drawings. It presents continuity of design across centuries, showcasing features like animal-hoof chair legs evolving from cattle to lions, and decorative motifs such as pine cones, offering a thorough study of early craftsmanship and aesthetic development in ancient furniture.
The people of New Guina have little art in the form of objects – instead, their art takes form through self decoration. Birds of paradise plumes, animal furs, ochre plants, leaves and grasses are their props of choice. This book documents and describes the styles of decoration in the Mountain Hagen area, and the variations expressive of individuality.
Fashioning Fiction in Photography Since 1990 presents a selection of high-profile fashion photographs influenced by two aesthetic strategies: cinema and the amateur photograph. Featuring works by by photographers such as Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Cedric Buchet, Glen Luchford, Tina Barney, Juergen Teller, Nan Goldin and Larry Sultan, among others.
A collection of 177 annotated photographs of Eton offering an intimate and personal insight into the school, the area and its people.
A guide to the work of Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto
This humorous visual book is based on the culture of football clubs and the language of "fanzines". The "fanzine", the most popular of which has a circulation of 70,000, provides a refreshing alternative to the views and interests of the football elite.
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An exhibition catalogue of works from the Bauhaus housed at the Busch Reisinger Musuem Collection.
This is the first comprehensive monograph on acclaimed painter Amy Sherald, whose distinctive style of simplified realist portraiture features African American subjects rendered against colourful monochrome backdrops or in everyday settings.
The publication presents selected works between 1998–2008 from Vodder’s oeuvre – spanning painting, drawing, collage, book-objects, and multiples. Her works explore tensions between abstract images and images that depict or carry meaning. Titles, distinct yet understated, are integral, opening a space between word and image. The result is a poetic, conceptual play between language, material, and visual perception.
Examining some of the many parallels between visual art, dance and music in the 20th century, this issue of Art & Design brings together an enormous diversity of material: from the pure saturated colours and blue-black voids of Anish Kapoor's art, to the choreographic notations of Merce Cunningham; to the musical scores and edible drawings of John Cage.
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.
Provoke, with its subtitle of Provocative Materials for Thought, was an experimental, small-press Japanese photography magazine founded in 1968 by critic/photographers Kōji Taki and Takuma Nakahira, photographer Yutaka Takanashi, and writer Takahiko Okada. Daidō Moriyama joined from the second issue. The magazine itself was printed through techniques like the "are-bure-boke" style, which embraced grain, blur, and high contrast to convey a sense of immediacy and raw energy. The printing process was considered a crucial part of the work, often using techniques that increased grain and contrast, with photos printed edge-to-edge without margins to make them appear to bleed into one another.
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.
Confine documents the black and white photographs the Neapolitan artist Marialba Russo.
In this photographic scrapbook, fashion photographer Stan Shaffer share his extraordinary life at the nexus of art, fashion and cinema. Over his career as icon maker, Shaffer hung out with everyone from Andy Warhol to Jerry Hall, Carla Bruni to Uma Thurman. With his fine-tuned intuition, this trendsetting photographer reveals the real person beyond these public facades.
A collection of Nozolino's images of the Arab world taken on numerous trips through Egypt, Syria, Morocco, Yemen, Mauritania, Jordan and Lebanon. His images explore the Arabic culture's struggle between ancient desert villages and overcrowded, polluted cities.
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.
Works collects the best of Japanese photographer Hiromix’s commercial work from 1995-2000.
Josie Borain carried a camera throughout her career as one of the top models of the 1980s. This book brings together these fascinating, intimate photographs to build a portrait of Borain outside of fashion.
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.
This book showcases the vibrant life and work of David Hicks, the groundbreaking British designer known for bold geometrics and daring color. Drawn from 24 personal scrapbooks, it features press clippings, sketches, textiles, and photographs of family and icons.
If music fans and musicians carry a composite image in their head of The Rolling Stones' street-fighting dandy look in the '60s, they were all taken by revered British photographer Mankowitz. This book presents the classic shots, as well as images from the thousands of lesser-known photos in his Stones archives.
Featuring previously unseen photographs, While you Were Sleeping is a rich and comprehensive visual document of ’90s nightlife and subculture and grants special access to an underground world, providing genuine insights of one of the most memorable era for British fashion, music and youth culture.
A collection of works by American sculpture Alexander Calder.
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.
A collection of male nudes of one male model in many different costumes, shot by Charlotte March.
This book brings together a distinguished group of authors to reflect on Adjaye's practice as an architect.
This book explores the central role of posters in defining punk culture in Britain. Curated by Toby Mott, the exhibition and book feature over 1,000 artifacts—including fanzines, flyers, and ephemera—by iconic artists like Jamie Reid and Linder Sterling, as well as anonymous creators. It documents punk’s aesthetics, political engagement, and its dialogue with events such as Rock Against Racism and the Queen’s Silver Jubilee.
The magazine Apparel Arts was launched in 1931 in the United States as a men's fashion magazine, until 1958 when it rebranded at Gentlemen's Quarterly (GQ)
A socialist journal of the social services. In this issue: Psychotherapy, racism, classism and welfare, capitalistic origins of mental distress, critical theory and social work practice, social values and psychotherapy.
A nuanced profile, in image and text, of the great Black Power leader at the exhilarating moment of the movement's ascendancy.
A photo-book by Luis Venegas made specially for the J.W. Anderson Workshop in Shoreditch – presenting the designer's collections, from archive pieces to present ones.
Brother's in Clay tells the story of Georgia's rich folk pottery tradition – the hisotrycal forces that shapes it and the families and individual artisans who continue to keep it alive,
Known for subverting the conventions of fashion and celebrity photography, Teller here turns his iconoclastic eye to the two-Michelin-starred food of chef Antonio Guida in Eating at Il Pellicano. Eleven menus of five courses encapsulate the unique, offhanded chic of the Hotel Il Pellicano, in Teller’s second photographic collaboration with this exclusive Italian retreat.
Exploring themes of perception, vision, & insight, this book focuses on the most astonishing pieces from a special collection of spectacles -- over 200 original works of art by noted designers & artists from around the world.
Drawings by Hockney and essays by twenty-seven distinguished writers--among them, Oates, Murdoch, Theroux, Vidal, Mailer, Sontag, and Miller.
In this anthology, curator and director Catherine de Zegher compiles 25 influential essays on women artists from the numerous books she has written and edited throughout her career. Like many of de Zegher’s previous projects and books, Women’s Work Is Never Done promotes the feminine principle, showcasing the work of female artists from across the world. Featured artists include Martha Rossler, Anna Maria Maiolino, Anna Atkins, Hilma af Klint, Agnes Martin, Eva Hesse, Judith Wright, Simryn Gill and more.
Known and recognized for the elegance as much as for the insolence of her creations, Chantel Thomass imposed a style that has become, over time, synonymous with refinement and freedom for countless women. This book reveals all the richness and breadth of a partly ignored artistic universe.
Jean Tinguely was one of a number of artists of the period who explored movement, in what became known as Kinetic art. From the mid-1950s he made strange machines, some of which involved radios, lights and motors while others relied on the viewer to turn a crank. He used everyday materials and junk to explore ideas of motion, impermanence and accident.
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.
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.
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Sory documented the fast evolution of Bobo-Dioulasso, then Burkina Faso's cultural and economic capital, portraying the city's inhabitants with wit, energy and passion. His work conveys a youthful exuberance in the wake of the first decades of African independence.
This book presents examples of graphic design, emblems, interior design, signs, book jackets, labels, and logos by Pentagram.
Long recognized for her clothing line, Run, Cianciolo’s boundless creativity is evident throughout her multifaceted practice, which includes designing books, theatre costumes, films and forms of ephemera that defy the categorizations of fashion, craft and art.
A collection of objects designed by architects varying from teapots to tables; hardware to chairs; radios to dressers to sofas; all the way to jewellery.
This book features photographs of the pre-fame Beatles taken in Hamburg in 1961 along with pictures of German and French Rock'n'Roll fans from the years 1961 to 1964. The photos are complemented by a fascinating account by Jurgen Vollmer of his friendship with the Liverpool band and his sometimes dangerous encounters with Rockers.
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.
This book is a photographic chronicle of the Ausserland tradition of building a woodpile.
128 duo-toned b&w plates of American teenagers in the early 1960's taken by Joseph Sterling, with an accompanying essay by David Travis.
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.
This book brings together a distinguished group of authros to reflect on Adjaye's practice as an architect.
A collection of paintings by American painter Lois Dodd known for her deceptively simple, observant paintings of everyday life, capturing landscapes, windows, and interiors with a unique, almost abstract clarity, often painting outdoors on small panels, and co-founding the influential Tanager Gallery in the 1950s.
War Without Heroes is a book of black and white photographs by David Douglas Duncan of soldiers during the Vietnam war – capturing moments of both comradeship and tragedy.
This book is artist's book by American sound artist and visual artist Terry Fox documenting 52, out of a potentially larger set, of the symbolic, often chalked, messages used by transient individuals in America and Europe.
A survey of enamel street signs and advertisements of the 1970s.
Born in Iran and based in Berlin, German artist Nairy Baghramian explores and reflects on formal languages of both modernism and post-minimalism. This book provides an overview of the work of Nairy Baghramian, with texts that explore the sculptor’s creative process.
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.
Postwar Package Design: 1945–1965 by Jerry Jankowski showcases over 150 color images of packaging from the booming postwar era. From Salvador Dali perfume bottles to Brillo pads and early Frisbees, the book highlights bold graphics, quirky humor, and cultural commentary, offering a vivid visual record of consumer culture, social trends, and the playful optimism of mid‑20th-century America.
Full bleed colour and black and white fashion photographs of Dolce & Gabanna menswear from 1990s to 2010.
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.
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.
This book collects photographs shot by former Head of Photography at Edinburgh College of Art, in 1984 of his St Margaret’s School for Girls series.
This book is one of only two non-fiction works by American author and screenwriter Mario Puzo, and offers an in-depth behind the scenes look at the world of gambling in Las Vegas.
Men of Consequences follows on from Jane Brown's Women of Consequence, and offers a rich visual collection of black and white portraits of men.
Forty years of catwalk photography featuring seventy groundbreaking collections from the inimitable Vivienne Westwood--over 1,000 looks as they originally appeared in Westwood's iconic shows
Michael Cooper (1941–1973) was a British photographer who is remembered for his photographs of leading rock musicians of the 1960s and early 1970s, most notably the many photos he took of The Rolling Stones from 1963 to 1973. This book collect some of his photographs shot during the 1960s in London.
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.
A visual collection of rock star tattoos.
A themed collection of Araki photographs. Issue 20: Sentimental May
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 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.
Catalogue for a Fluxus-influenced travelling exhibition showcased alongside international exponents of Fluxus: Ian Breakwell, George Brecht, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Robin Crozier, Mick Gibbs, Joseph Beuys, Marcel Alocco, The Guerilla Art Action Group, Carolee Schneeman and more.
A publication to accompany the British Pavilion’s exhibition of the same name at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale, explores an island as a place of refuge and exile. With contributions from artist John Akomfrah, poet and musician Kate Tempest and Museu Calouste Gulbenkian director Penelope Curtis.
Photographs of young people across different cities – punks, ravers, squatters and various tribes of youth.
An important early gathering of the work of Wallace Berman, an enigmatic figure whose work blends music and poetry to explore everyday life. He was hugely influential on a group of artists and poets to emerge from the legacy of the Beat generation in the late 1950s and 1960s.
Across three decades the American artist and cinematographer, Arthur Jafa (b. 1960, Tupelo, USA) has developed a dynamic, multidisciplinary practice ranging from films and installations to lecture-performances and happenings that tackle, challenge and question prevailing cultural assumptions about identity and race. This book was published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name at Serpentine.
A collects portraits of talented, glamorous, controversial, or influential women such as Margot Fonteyn, Princess Anne, Indira Gandhi, Mother Teresa, and Iris Murdoch.
Shigeo Fukuda (1932-2009) was a highly influential Japanese graphic designer and sculptor celebrated for his witty, minimalist, and illusion-based visual communication. A pioneer in using optical illusions and simple forms, he was the first Japanese designer inducted into the New York Art Directors Club Hall of Fame in 1987.
“Zoo York” reflects New York’s extravagance of the 1980s, when individual freedoms, sexual in particular, became relatively unrestricted and openly expressed in the streets of New York. Nagasaki’s title for this photobook could sound critical of NY’s flamboyant lifestyle, but in fact, as he explains in the introduction, “New York is a zoo, not because the people here are animals, but because, as in any zoo, they are interesting and worth examining. We do not visit a zoo with a sense of judgement or superiority. We go for a better understanding of a different way of life…Here people have freedom to choose their own lifestyles: how they want to live.”
Joseph Beuys: Multiples includes some 600 pieces of Beuys work, annotated lists of the major collections where they can be found, essays from significant curators and scholars and an interview with the artist.
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.
Chicks on Speed is a feminist music-art ensemble formed by Melissa Logan, Kiki Moorse and Alex Murray-Leslie. This publication, contained inside of a cloth bag, captures their sense of freedom. It is divided into periods of their lives: 'Fake Band:, 'Pressing the Press', 'Sell Out;, and so on. Die-cut, over-printed, and assembled from many different paper stocks, this book approximates a scrapbook, full of press clippings, personal mementos, printed ephemera, and merch.
A unique album of photographs featuring Peter Johnson, an athlete turned muse Weber discovered on location at a wrestling camp in Iowa. Taken over four consecutive years, the photographs show the evolution from adolescence to manhood, as Johnson is seen in various states of dress and undress, in diverse locations around the world. Includes brief texts by Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, T.E. Lawrence, Shel Silverstein, and Bruce Springsteen.
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.
A themed collection of Araki photographs. Issue No.9: Private Diary 1999
This book is seeped in social history, fact and trivia, art and artifacts surrounding the drug of choice for nineteenth-century poets – absinthe.
In more than three decades, Kentridge has produced an oeuvre spanning diverse media including animated film, drawings, prints and rare books, stage production and sculpture. A Poem That Is Not Our Own aims to create a link between his early drawings and films from the 1980s and 1990s and his most recent work.
A brilliantly humorous collection of incredible black and white photographs of people on the toilet by Leni van Dinther.
Coco Chanel’s passion for fabulous jewels, for exceptional stones, and for improbable marvels produced pieces that were unparalleled in their insistence on luxury and refinement. Drawing inspiration from tradition, Chanel was never the slave of everyday formulas or market values. Yet she reinvented tradition in the most arresting and modern jewelry pieces, based on her love of colour and her assured command of austere classical beauty. This book is the first to present the remarkable jewellery work of Chanel.
Merry Alpern is known for her controversial oeuvre and utilisation of surveillance photography. Her acclaimed series Dirty Windows (1995), presented here in this book, contains voyeuristic black and white images of men and women engaging in sex, doing drugs, and dressing or undressing at a low-rent brothel near Wall Street in Manhattan. “Although the notion of the ‘female gaze’ has never really interested me, as a woman I could project some of my own experiences onto the pantomime in the window,” the artist remarked on the series.
Pharmakon brings together a sequence of subtle and disquieting photographs with a dozen compact short stories by Teju Cole.
A book detailing the development of the tin plate model car from the 1890s until 1939.