Breathtaking shots from the Himalayas to the Dolomites, via Africa, Patagonia, Alaska... with suitably lofty quotations (Dante, Byron, Austen, Nietzsche et al) alongside them.
A careful, beautiful collaboration between a former director of the Korean National Museum, a New York gallerist and a contemporary artist/photographer.
Large-format volume of photos and ephemera of YSL and his world, from 1989 to his last collection in 2002. By a renowned photographer who, as the son of YSL's right-hand woman, had unparalle... read more
The catalogue for the 2009 Bill Brandt exhibition held at the Chris Beetles Gallery: 58 black and white plates and an introductory essay by the historian David Wootton on how Brandt envision... read more
The explorer and travel writer's first photographic book draws on his travels around the world, from war zones to traditional ways of rural life, frontier existences and modern technology. H... read more
A veteran Vogue writer (and fashion addict) investigates that age-old question: why do I have so many clothes and nothing to wear? Erudite yet digestible.
Matthew Williamson made his name as a fashion designer before moving into interiors. In both careers he's been at the forefront of the anti-taupe brigade.
The thoughtful work of the well-known American photographer who is fascinated with cabinets of curiosity and the idea of the Wunderkammer: a retrospective presentation of her idiosyncratic a... read more
A curator of fashion at the V&A for most of her working life, CW uses her experience and sensitivity to clothes to explore how, in her own family's life, the secrets of clothes measure out t... read more
For old rockers and die-hards who simply refuse to gather moss... and, no doubt, for hipsters: an illustrated history of contemporary culture, through the prism of Rolling Stone magazine's c... read more
Edward Sherrif Curtis (1868-1952) spent decades photographing North America's indigenous peoples and their vanishing culture. Large format and tremendous.
A slim volume containing two dozen leaves: twelve are photographic studies by the great NM of dead leaves, "at the held, drawn-out stage of their metamorphosis", the moment when they curl in... read more
Japanese floordrobes from the 1990s: a disconcerting look inside the lives of Tokyo's most obsessed fashion collectors. In each, a 'disciple' is photographed at home, possessions spread arou... read more
Hujar's photos of his friend and lover as well as many letters and postcards between them, illuminating their relationship till they parted in the mid 1970s.
Brought up in North Carolina in the Jim Crow era, AT won a postgraduate scholarship to Brown University, worked at Warhol's Factory and volunteered for Diana Vreeland. He went on to become e... read more