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A re-issue of this excellent biography in which Solnit explores how the British photographer's images of high-speed movement captured in late C19th California were created on the cusp of the... read more

River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West ...

Rebecca Solnit

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Sultans In Splendour: Monarchs of the Middle East 1869-1945 ...

Philip Mansel

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Robert Doisneau’s Musicians

Robert Doisneau

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Mary Quant: My Autobiography

Mary Quant

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Lee Miller: On Both Sides of the Camera

Carolyn Burke

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What Artists Wear

Charlie Porter

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Diana Vreeland: Empress of Fashion

Amanda MacKenzie Stuart

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An icon opens his drawers.

Fry’s Ties

Stephen Fry

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It's just icon after icon. Who'd have thought this one had a lot of T-shirts tucked in his closet?

Murakami T: The T-Shirts I Love

Haruki Murakami

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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.

Life, Death and Getting Dressed: How to love your clothes… and y ...

Rebecca Willis

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Born in 1799, Atkins was the first person to illustrate a book with photographs. Her cyanotypes - of ferns, algae, parrot feathers, seaweed - are exquisite.

Anna Atkins: Blue Prints

Rolf Sachsse

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A small Taschen book of friends, lovers, landscapes, bananas...

Andy Warhol. Polaroids 1958-1987

Richard B. Woodward

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The Scent Trail: A Journey of the Senses

Celia Lyttelton

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The Fashion System

Roland Barthes

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Entertaining, gossipy, worldly diaries from Rome, speaking of luminaries such as Rothko, Princess Margaret, Gore Vidal, Iris Origo, Muriel Spark...

Just Passing Through: A Seven-Decade Roman Holiday – The Diaries ...

Milton Gendel

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Essays by the modernist photographer, in a slim, clothbound hardback. Some illustrations.

Blind Corners

Michael Collins

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Sheer chic from Luncheon Editions, the publishing arm of Luncheon Magazine. This is a slim, large-format paperback chronicling the Maison Margiela Artisanal 2024 collection.

Would you like to take a walk with me… Offline? ...

John Galliano

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A memoir from the former Editor of British Vogue, her trademark white stilettos at the ready. Shulman has been the most significant mind in British fashion for a generation.

Clothes… and other things that matter

Alexandra Shulman

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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

Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes

Claire Wilcox

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Perfumes: The A-Z Guide

Luca Turin

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Fashion Details: A Historical Sourcebook

Melissa Leventon

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Elsa Schiaparelli: A Biography

Meryle Secrest

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The Complete Fashion Sourcebook: 2,000 Illustrations Charting 20th-Cen ...

John Peacock

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The Great Nadar: The Man Behind the Camera

Adam Begley

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Looking At Pictures

Robert Walser

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The Photography Book

Jeffrey Ian

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Shamanic Regalia In The Far North

Patricia Rieff Anawalt

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Edward Weston

Terence Pitts

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Forever Saul Leiter

Margit Erb

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Francois Halard: Polaroids Italiens

Oscar Humphries

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Through the Lens of Janet Stone: Portraits, 1953-1979 ...

Ian Archie Beck

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The story of the magazine that began in a someone's spare room 125 years ago. What - and who - made it so successful?

Glossy: The inside story of Vogue

Nina-Sophia Miralles

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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

The Chiffon Trenches

Andre Leon Talley

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A candid and very entertaining memoir from the East End boy who made extremely good.

Look Again: The Autobiography

David Bailey

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Heavenly Twins: Found Photographs from the Jonathan Ross Collection ...

Jonathan Ross

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New Photo Series 1: Camera

Ansel Adams

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Blind Spot

Teju Cole

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A look at the world through the stories of linen, cotton, silk, synthetics, wool, etc from China to Cumbria.

Worn: A People’s History of Clothing

Sofi Thanhauser

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'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

Bring No Clothes: Bloomsbury and the Philosophy of Fashion ...

Charlie Porter

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Edited and designed by Ruth Guilding, Luke Edward Hall and Jack Henshall; with contributions from Howard Sooley, Rowan Williams, David Dawson, Jessica Hayns, Robert Sackville-West and others... read more

The Bible of British Taste – Issue 3

Ruth Guilding
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Dior by Dior: The Autobiography of Christian Dior

Christian Dior

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Ansel Adams’ 400 Photographs

Ansel Adams

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Rossmore's photographs of fading historic buildings, taken over a decade from the early 1960s, are now lodged in the Irish Architectural Archive. Here seventy images from the length and brea... read more

Paddy Rossmore: Photographs

Robert Byrne

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Silk is produced by moths, spiders and even molluscs... A cultural and scientific history.

Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses

Aarathi Prasad

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So many of K-S's photographs have been misattributed to Cecil Beaton that she has been neglected. She was admired by Man Ray and Paul Nash; her circle included Cocteau, Connolly and Fonteyn.

Thoroughly Modern: The Pioneering Life of Barbara Ker-Seymer, Photogra ...

Sarah Knights

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Fabric - and our hunger for it - as the mother of invention, the driver behind technology, agriculture, trade, politics, culture... it funded the Italian Renaissance and the Mughal empire. H... read more

The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World ...

Virginia Postrel

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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.

Paul Thek and Peter Hujar: Stay Away from Nothing

Paul Thek

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Silent Dialogues – Diane Arbus & Howard Nemerov ...

Mr Alexander Nemerov

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