Matar's photographs at sites of lethal police violence in the US and her fastidious research make for a quietly devastating critique. The formality of her images and the directness of her g... read more
To accompany the exhibition at the V&A: 150 works by Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Nan Goldin, David LaChapelle, Robert Mapplethorpe, Zanele Muholi, Helmut Newton, Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol,... read more
A very handsome, large-format limited edition book of the lost photographs of Patrick O'Higgins, best known for Madame, his memoir about Helena Rubinstein. His photographs are a fascinating... 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
Huene's family fled their home in St Petersburg during the Russian Revolution. Twenty years later, in Paris, his photographic career would dawn alongside a golden era of haute couture fashio... read more
Hurrah for the second issue of this thoughtful and hugely entertaining magazine! Contributors this time include Celia Paul, A.N. Wilson, Christopher Woodward of the Garden Museum, Henrietta ... read more
McCullin has travelled 5,000 miles in Turkey with the rambunctious and knowledgeable Rogerson as his cicerone. The result is this truly magnificent book of photographs, beautifully produced ... read more
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.
400 shoes that changed the world? Glossy and immense, with lavish images of the collection at the Fashion Institute of Technology, this weighs in at over 4 kilos: steel toecaps advised, wit... read more
The great Japanese couturier, who once said that he never finished a garment - it was only complete when it had been worn for several years. His pioneering style was modern, functional yet l... read more
The Belgian designer must have used many kilometres of silk jersey since she first created her hallmark wrap dress in 1972. Many illustrations; to accompany an exhibition at the Brussels Fas... read more
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
'Please bring no clothes: we live in a state of utmost simplicity': so wrote Virginia Woolf to T.S. Eliot in 1920. Porter looks at the Bloomsbury group through their clothes - their creativi... read more
Off-beat and highly polished images from Christie's archive, mostly taken in his halcyon years at British Vogue in the 1970s. His saturated colours, rich monotones and uncluttered compositi... read more
Described in her lifetime as 'the most famous unknown photographer in America', Hofer's work has recently been the subject of a London exhibition. This handsome production focuses on her ima... read more
A life in pictures, both public and private of the bohemian prince, historian and writer who renounced his rights to the Greek throne to marry the artist Marina Karella in 1965.
A preoccupation with stillness: a survey of Sugimoto's images, selected from his work over five decades. With textual contributions by many, including Edmund de Waal and Mami Kataoka.
Arbugaeva was born in Yakutia, Siberia, so she knows well the ghostly, desolate beauty of that part of the world and the hardships of life there. Her photographs are superb.
Street scenes, portraits, people at work, a classroom, children: this is powerful and poignant record of Kashgar as it used to be. All the photographs were taken in 1998, on the cusp of swee... read more
Stunning photos by the self-confessed philhellene: a poet's hut, a taverna in Hydra and other traditional interiors as well as grander and more spacious houses in Athens, the Peloponnese and... read more
Breathtaking photographs of desolate and mostly ruinous buildings in vast, often snow-dusted landscapes. Published earlier this year in Germany with the text in English, this is a rare treas... read more
Her sitters don't actually sit; they choose plants instead, which KF photographs in the sitter's own space - studio, home, etc. They include Piet Oudolf, Isabella Tree, Tania Compton, Margot... read more