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Real Road Test

Philippe Séclier

Imprint: Atelier EXB, 2024.

Physical Description: 128 pages; 18 x 14 cm

Binding: Softcover

Language: French, English

Catalogued: October 9, 2026

Philippe Séclier's Real Road Test repeats Ed Ruscha's photographic books of the 1960s sixty years on, travelling Route 66 from Oklahoma City to Los Angeles and returning to the places Ruscha photographed.Séclier used one method for every series....

Keywords: Photography, Ed Ruscha, Ruscha Homage, Artist's Books, Conceptual Photography, Route 66, Los Angeles, Art

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Cliff's Notes for Catcher in the Rye by Richard Prince

Eric Doeringer

Imprint: Copycat Publications, 2018.

Physical Description: 58 pages; 21 x 14.5 cm

Binding: Softcover (staple-bound)

Language: English

Catalogued: October 9, 2026

Eric Doeringer's study guide to Richard Prince's The Catcher in the Rye, made up as a Cliff's Notes booklet with "Prince" printed where Salinger's name would be.In 2011 Prince issued an almost exact facsimile of the first edition of J.D....

Keywords: Artist's Books, Appropriation Art, Conceptual Art, Richard Prince, Zines, Art

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A Real Imitation

Tommy Kha

Imprint: Aint-Bad Editions, 2015.

Physical Description: 80 pages; 24.8 x 19.7 cm

Contributors: Jon Feinstein (Introduction)

Binding: Paperback, perfect bound

Language: English

Catalogued: October 8, 2026

An early book by the Memphis-born photographer Tommy Kha (b. 1988), A Real Imitation uses staged self-portraiture to work through growing up gay and of Chinese descent in the city he still calls home....

Keywords: Photography, Self-Portraiture, Queer, Asian American, American South, Memphis, Performance, Photobook

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TR679.5 .J33 2003

Private

Alison Jackson

Imprint: Michael Joseph, 2003.

Physical Description: 160 pages; 23 cm

Contributors: Waldemar Januszczak (Essay)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: October 8, 2026

Alison Jackson's 2003 collection of staged lookalike photographs, in which doubles for David Beckham, Diana, Tony Blair and the royal family are caught in private moments that never happened.Published in London by Michael Joseph, a Penguin imprint, Private gathers the...

Keywords: Photography, Staged Photography, Celebrity, Portrait Photography, Satire, British Photography

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Esopus Magazine

Imprint: Esopus Foundation, 2010.

Physical Description: 200 pages

Binding: Magazine

Language: English

Catalogued: October 5, 2026

Esopus 14 (Spring 2010) gives the whole issue to artists: twelve commissioned projects, with no essays, interviews or archival features beside them.The projects are by Marcia Kure, Roxy Paine, Barbara Probst, Judy Pfaff, Kerry James Marshall, John O'Connor, Suzanne Bocanegra,...

Keywords: Magazines, Art, Contemporary Art

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Toilet Paper: Diamond Collection

Toilet Paper Magazine

Imprint: Damiani, 2014.

Catalogued: October 5, 2026

A limited edition of 1,000 numbered copies that pairs a Toilet Paper book with a special issue of the magazine, published by Damiani in 2014.The front cover of the book carries a lenticular image. The magazine, issued for the occasion as the Toiletpaper Diamond Magazine,...

Keywords: Magazines, Photography, Art, Contemporary Art, Limited Edition

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Imprint: Bricks from the Kiln, 2020.

Physical Description: 288 pages; 22.6 x 17.1 cm

Contributors: Helen Marten (Contributor); Sophie Collins (Contributor); Don Mee Choi (Contributor); Kate Briggs (Contributor); Florian Roithmayr (Contributor); Jen Calleja (Contributor); J.R. Carpenter (Contributor); Karen Di Franco (Contributor); James Bulley (Contributor); Saki Mafundikwa (Contributor); James Langdon (Contributor); Caroline Bergvall (Contributor); Maria Fusco (Contributor)

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Catalogued: October 5, 2026

An issue of an irregular journal on graphic design and typography. This one is organised around translation, transmission and transposition.Bricks from the Kiln #4 is a 288-page softcover with an insert....

Keywords: Art, Periodical, Graphic Design, Typography, Translation, Artists' Writing

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A Work Will Be Shown: Artist's Invitations and Announcements 1960-2025

Maurizio Nannucci

Imprint: Viaindustriae, 2025.

Physical Description: 360 pages; 18 x 10.5 cm

Contributors: Gabriele Detterer (Essay); Emanuele De Donno (Essay)

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Catalogued: October 5, 2026

A pocket-sized anthology of the printed cards artists send to announce their shows, edited by Maurizio Nannucci from the collection he has gathered since the 1960s.The book reproduces invitations and announcements in twelve thematic categories, among them "Welcome to the...

Keywords: Art, Artist Book, Exhibition Invitations, Typography, Mail Art

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Index #9: The Art and Theory Issue

e-flux

Imprint: e-flux, 2026.

Physical Description: 448 pages; 25.5 x 20 cm

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Catalogued: October 5, 2026

The ninth issue of e-flux Index is built around one theme, the relationship between art and theory today and how each informs the other.The 448-page volume is organised in two parts and eleven sections, from "Infrastructural Utopianism" to "Zhuangzi and the Butterfly," and...

Keywords: Art Theory, Contemporary Art, Criticism, Periodical, e-flux

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Tummy Ache: The Horny Issue

Tummy Ache

Imprint: Tummy Ache.

Physical Description: 116 pages; 21 x 14.8 cm

Binding: Magazine

Language: English

Catalogued: October 5, 2026

The fifth issue of the independent magazine Tummy Ache takes desire as its subject and looks at horniness as an emotional and cultural state.The issue runs to 116 pages at A5 and gathers interviews and writing on bondage, consent, fetishism, feminism, identity, intimacy and...

Keywords: Magazines, Independent Publishing, Sexuality, Desire, Contemporary Culture

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Name, Thing, Thing: A Primer in Parallel Typographies

Gerardo Madera

Imprint: Printed Matter, Inc., 2018.

Physical Description: 176 pages

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: October 5, 2026

A small hardcover from Printed Matter that treats typography as a field of cultural remapping.The book compiles thoughts, quotations and fragments in three parts. The first, Letters Are Things, is a performative text drawing on design criticism and cultural history....

Keywords: Typography, Graphic Design, Artist Books, Decolonization, Design Criticism

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Latent Bloom

Jack Latham

Imprint: Here Press, 2020.

Physical Description: 252 pages; 18 x 11 cm

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Catalogued: October 5, 2026

Latent Bloom is a photobook by Jack Latham made with a deep-learning algorithm, which was given photographs of flowers and reimagined their details into new images.Latham fed flower photographs collected during lockdown into the algorithm, which used unsupervised deep learning...

Keywords: Photography, Photobook, Artificial Intelligence, Flowers, Algorithms

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Blank Spot Cartography

Sandra Kühne

Imprint: Kodoji Press, 2014.

Physical Description: 128 pages; 17.5 x 11 cm

Binding: Softcover with dust jacket

Language: English

Catalogued: October 5, 2026

Blank Spot Cartography is a lexicon by the Zurich artist Sandra Kühne, built from 80 terms and definitions around the unmapped, the missing and the imagined in maps.Kodoji Press published it in Baden in 2014 as a softcover with dust jacket, 128 pages at 11 × 17....

Keywords: Art, Artist's Book, Cartography, Lexicon, Maps

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Slanted Magazine #47—Digital Tools

Slanted Publishers

Imprint: Slanted Publishers, 2026.

Physical Description: 224 pages; 24 x 16 cm

Binding: Magazine (Swiss brochure)

Language: English

Catalogued: October 5, 2026

Slanted Magazine #47 is the Digital Tools issue of the design magazine, a survey of the software, scripts and utilities that shape how designers and artists work.The issue covers graphic design, typography, illustration, 3D, web, generative design and creative coding....

Keywords: Magazines, Design, Typography, Digital Tools, Creative Coding

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Failed It! How to Turn Mistakes into Ideas and Other Advice for Successfully Screwing Up

Erik Kessels

Imprint: Phaidon Press, 2016.

Physical Description: 168 pages; 17.8 x 12 cm

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Catalogued: October 5, 2026

Erik Kessels's Failed It! is a pocket-sized argument for error as a working method in art and design.Kessels contends that people have become afraid of failure and that the digital undo command lets work stay too perfect to turn into anything else....

Keywords: Art, Design, Creativity, Found Imagery, Failure

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Imprint: RVB Books, 2017.

Physical Description: 54 pages; 31.5 x 22.5 cm

Binding: Softcover

Language: French, English

Catalogued: October 3, 2026

Clément Lambelet's Two Donkeys in a War Zone looks for signs of ordinary life in the drone footage that armies publish of their own strikes.The book began with a U.S. Army video on YouTube showing a drone strike on an ISIS camp....

Keywords: Photography, Photobook, Drones, War, Military, Found Footage, Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition Two, Eyeballing

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Blanche on the Lam

Spencer Stucky

Imprint: GPS Chicago, 2016.

Physical Description: 306 pages; 18.0 x 11.5 cm

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Catalogued: October 3, 2026

One of the by-products of surveillance is accountability through digital footprints, whether in the form of video footage from a CCTV camera or server logs. This book is a visual index that looks at the Wikipedia articles edited anonymously by the New York City Police Department....

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Disappearing

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Katie Burnett

Imprint: Dashwood Books, 2022.

Physical Description: 40 pages; 26 x 18.4 cm

Binding: Softcover, saddle-stitched

Language: English

Catalogued: October 1, 2026

Katie Burnett's second book: 40 stapled pages of self-portraits and collages, shot between her Brooklyn apartment and the beaches of Jamaica, in which her body shares the frame with homemade sock puppets....

Keywords: Photography, Self-Portraiture, Collage, Nude, Performance, Domestic, Black and White Photography, Dashwood Books, Brooklyn, New York, Limited Edition, Women Photographers

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Invented Magazines

Duncan Hannah

Imprint: Dashwood Books, 2022.

Physical Description: 48 pages; 21 x 15.5 cm

Contributors: Arthur Fournier (Text)

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Catalogued: October 1, 2026

A staple-bound volume of Duncan Hannah's final series of paintings: imagined covers for the film and pop magazines of his youth, published by Dashwood Books in October 2022, four months after his death.Hannah began the series in March 2020, locked down in Cornwall, Connecticut....

Keywords: Art, Artist Book, Painting, Magazines, Cinema, Pop Art, Portraiture, Dashwood Books

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Anthony Tafuro

Imprint: powerHouse Books, 2018.

Physical Description: 160 pages; 22.2 x 18.4 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: September 30, 2026

A photographic record of the Million Mask March, the annual November 5th street action held in the name of the hacktivist collective Anonymous, by the photographer Anthony Tafuro.Tafuro followed the march from 2013 to 2017, the years in which thousands gathered in cities around...

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition Two, Photography, Photobook, Anonymous, Protest, Activism, Hacktivism, Guy Fawkes, Masks, Street Photography, Documentary Photography

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Gordon Parks

Imprint: Steidl / The Gordon Parks Foundation, 2017.

Physical Description: ; 29 x 25 cm

Contributors: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Text), Deborah Willis (Text), Maurice Berger (Text), Barbara Baker Burrows (Text)

Binding: Clothbound hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 21, 2026

Catalogued: September 6, 2026

The third volume of Gordon Parks’s Collected Works, covering the decade of his civil rights reporting for Life.The volume spans 1956 to 1965. Its years include the colour photographs Parks made in Alabama in 1956, in the year after the Montgomery bus boycott, following an...

Keywords: Photography, Documentary Photography, African American Photographers, Photobooks, Civil Rights

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The Family Acid

Roger Steffens

Imprint: S U N, 2015.

Physical Description: 156 pages; 24 x 20.7 cm

Contributors: Kate Steffens (Text); Devon Steffens (Text)

Binding: Foil-stamped clothbound hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: September 5, 2026

The Family Acid is forty years of Roger Steffens' own life in colour slide film, from the Psychological Operations unit he served in during the Vietnam War to the decades of rastas, beatniks, musicians, gonzo journalists and family that followed....

Keywords: Photography, Counterculture, Vietnam War, Family, Color Photography, Archive, 1960s, 1970s

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Briner Hauser

Timothy Briner, Thomas Hauser

Imprint: S U N, 2014.

Physical Description: 88 pages; 28 x 21.6 cm

Binding: Stab-bound softcover, digital offset

Language: English

Catalogued: September 5, 2026

Briner Hauser puts the black-and-white photographs of Timothy Briner and Thomas Hauser into one sequence, where the subject that emerges is the relation between form and sexuality rather than either photographer's project....

Keywords: Photography, Black and White, Collaboration, Sexuality, Limited Edition, New York, Self-Published

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Permanent Fun

Bill Sullivan

Imprint: S U N, 2017.

Physical Description: 148 pages; 26 x 20 cm

Binding: Hand-bound softcover

Language: English

Catalogued: September 5, 2026

Permanent Fun is Bill Sullivan's account of his own studio process, following a repertoire of figurative forms from first line drawing through prints and posters to finished oil painting.The book is built as an insert-filled composition notebook, and the cover carries the...

Keywords: Art, Artist Book, Drawing, Painting, New York, Limited Edition, Self-Published

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Tupsu (V1)

Andreas Laszlo Konrath

Imprint: Pau Wau Publications, 2017.

Physical Description: 32 pages; 27.9 x 21.6 cm

Binding: Side-stapled zine, fluorescent label cover, metallic silver interior stock

Language: English

Catalogued: September 5, 2026

Tupsu (V1) is the first instalment of Andreas Laszlo Konrath's long-running portrait of a young Finnish man named Tupsu, issued as a fluorescent orange zine by Pau Wau Publications in a signed edition of 50....

Keywords: Photography, Zines, Portraits, Youth Culture, Finland, Self-Published, New York

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The Devil May Care

Aaron McElroy

Imprint: S_U_N, 2014.

Physical Description: 158 pages; 31.75 x 23 cm

Contributors: Brad Feuerhelm (Text)

Binding: French-folded softcover, digital offset

Language: English

Catalogued: September 5, 2026

The Devil May Care is Aaron McElroy's largest book. It is also the point where his diaristic nudes give way to a still life of drug paraphernalia, the body glimpsed in passing rather than held by the gaze....

Keywords: Photography, Nudes, Erotica, Still Life, Self-Published, New York

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Atlas des Régions Naturelles, Vol. 6

Eric Tabuchi, Nelly Monnier

Imprint: Poursuite Éditions, 2024.

Physical Description: 384 pages; 32 x 17 cm

Binding: Softcover

Language: French

Catalogued: September 5, 2026

Volume 6 of Atlas des Régions Naturelles, known as ARN, continues Eric Tabuchi and Nelly Monnier's survey of France's roughly 450 historical "natural regions". The project began in 2017 and treats the country as a set of repeating vernacular forms rather than as scenery....

Keywords: Photography, ARN, Landscape Photography, Documentary Photography, Typology, France, Vernacular Architecture

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Atlas des Régions Naturelles, Vol. 5

Eric Tabuchi, Nelly Monnier

Imprint: Poursuite Éditions, 2023.

Physical Description: 384 pages; 32 x 17 cm

Binding: Softcover

Language: French

Catalogued: September 5, 2026

Volume 5 of Atlas des Régions Naturelles, known as ARN, continues Eric Tabuchi and Nelly Monnier's survey of France's roughly 450 historical "natural regions". The project began in 2017 and treats the country as a set of repeating vernacular forms rather than as scenery....

Keywords: Photography, ARN, Landscape Photography, Documentary Photography, Typology, France, Vernacular Architecture

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Atlas des Régions Naturelles, Vol. 4

Eric Tabuchi, Nelly Monnier

Imprint: Poursuite Éditions, 2023.

Physical Description: 384 pages; 32 x 17 cm

Binding: Softcover

Language: French

Catalogued: September 5, 2026

Volume 4 of Atlas des Régions Naturelles, known as ARN, continues Eric Tabuchi and Nelly Monnier's survey of France's roughly 450 historical "natural regions". The project began in 2017 and treats the country as a set of repeating vernacular forms rather than as scenery....

Keywords: Photography, ARN, Landscape Photography, Documentary Photography, Typology, France, Vernacular Architecture

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Atlas des Régions Naturelles, Vol. 3

Eric Tabuchi, Nelly Monnier

Imprint: Poursuite Éditions, 2022.

Physical Description: 384 pages; 32 x 17 cm

Binding: Softcover

Language: French

Catalogued: September 5, 2026

Volume 3 of Atlas des Régions Naturelles, known as ARN, continues Eric Tabuchi and Nelly Monnier's survey of France's roughly 450 historical "natural regions". The project began in 2017 and treats the country as a set of repeating vernacular forms rather than as scenery....

Keywords: Photography, ARN, Landscape Photography, Documentary Photography, Typology, France, Vernacular Architecture

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Atlas des Régions Naturelles, Vol. 2

Eric Tabuchi, Nelly Monnier

Imprint: Poursuite Éditions, 2022.

Physical Description: 384 pages; 32 x 17 cm

Binding: Softcover

Language: French

Catalogued: September 5, 2026

Volume 2 of Atlas des Régions Naturelles, known as ARN, continues Eric Tabuchi and Nelly Monnier's survey of France's roughly 450 historical "natural regions". The project began in 2017 and treats the country as a set of repeating vernacular forms rather than as scenery....

Keywords: Photography, ARN, Landscape Photography, Documentary Photography, Typology, France, Vernacular Architecture

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Dirty Windows

Merry Alpern

Imprint: Art Pub Inc First Edition, First Printing, 1995.

Physical Description: 112 pages; 29.2 x 23.5 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: September 5, 2026

Merry Alpern's Dirty Windows reduces surveillance photography to its rawest form: forty-some black-and-white frames shot through a bathroom window, aimed at a makeshift brothel used by Wall Street traders after hours....

Keywords: New York City, prostitution, sex, sex-work downtown, Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One

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Frido Troost An Educational Archive of 2863 Slides

Frido Troost

Imprint: APE (Art Paper Editions), 2020.

Physical Description: 400 pages; 24.0 x 33.0 cm

Contributors: Text: David Campany

Binding: Paperback

Catalogued: September 5, 2026

This publication is composed of all the slides Frido Troost (1960-2013) used for his classes at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie.Troost, art historian by trade, was a pioneer in collecting photography of all sorts....

Keywords: slides-(photography), Photography, pictorial-works, history, picture-books, Archive

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Birds of the West Indies

Taryn Simon

Imprint: Hatje Cantz, 2013.

Physical Description: 440 pages; 20.5 x 30.5 cm

Contributors: Daniel Baumann (Contributor)

Binding: Hardcover

Catalogued: September 5, 2026

Taryn Simon's Birds of the West Indies traces the accidental origin of the name James Bond. Not the fictional spy, but the real ornithologist whose 1936 field guide of the same title Ian Fleming borrowed for his own creation.Simon builds the book around three parallel sequences....

Keywords: Nature, Photography, Conceptual Art

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Vanilla Partner

Torbjørn Rødland

Imprint: MACK, 2012.

Physical Description: 158 pages

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: September 5, 2026

Vanilla Partner collects a body of staged color photographs by the Norwegian artist Torbjørn Rødland, built from pairings and juxtapositions that feel simultaneously banal and quietly wrong.Rødland works in a highly controlled, almost clinical style of studio and location...

Keywords: Photography, Contemporary Art

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The Nine Eyes of Google Street View

Jon Rafman

Imprint: Jean Boîte Éditions, 2011.

Physical Description: 160 pages

Contributors: Guillaume Aubry (Text)

Binding: Softcover

Language: Bilingual (English/French)

Catalogued: September 5, 2026

The Nine Eyes of Google Street View collects hundreds of found images from Rafman's ongoing project, begun in 2008, in which he combs Google's Street View archive for scenes its roving cameras caught by accident: car crashes, animals in odd postures, masked figures, landscapes...

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Photography, Photobook, Internet Art, Appropriation

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Provoke: Complete Reprint of 3 Volumes

Provoke

Imprint: Nitesha, 2023.

Contributors: Takuma Nakahira (Photography), Yutaka Takanashi (Photography), Takahiko Okada (Text), Daido Moriyama (Photography)

Binding: Softcover, boxed set of 3 volumes plus booklet

Language: Japanese

Catalogued: September 5, 2026

Provoke reproduces, in full, the three issues of the short-lived dojin-shi (self-published magazine) that reshaped postwar Japanese photography.Founded in November 1968 by critic Koji Taki and photographer Takuma Nakahira, with poet Takahiko Okada and photographer Yutaka...

Keywords: Photography, Japanese Photography

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Photographs 1934–1973

Carlo Mollino

Imprint: Silvana Editoriale, 2018.

Binding: Paperback

Catalogued: September 5, 2026

Carlo Mollino: Photographs 1934-1973 is the fullest survey yet published of Mollino's photographic work. It spans four decades, from his earliest experiments to the images found in his studio after his death....

Keywords: Photography, Architecture, Archive, Italian Design

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Wilder Mann: The Image of the Savage

Charles Fréger

Imprint: Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2012.

Contributors: Robert McLiam Wilson (Text); Geneviève Gauckler (Illustrations)

Binding: Hardcover

Catalogued: September 5, 2026

Charles Fréger's Wilder Mann catalogues one of Europe's stranger and oldest living traditions. Men dress as beasts, straw giants, and horned spirits for winter masquerades that survive in villages from Portugal to Bulgaria....

Keywords: Photography, Portraiture, Folklore, European Photography

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Psychobuch

Beni Bischof

Imprint: Edition Patrick Frey, 2014.

Physical Description: 638 pages; 31.0 x 23.4 cm

Binding: Softcover

Catalogued: September 5, 2026

It all started when Beni Bischof began publishing laser-copied artist's magazines in 2005 as an independent means of distributing his drawings, collages, and texts.The speed of production suited his impetuous, prolific output....

Keywords: Photography

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Birds of the West Indies

Taryn Simon

Imprint: Hatje Cantz, 2013.

Physical Description: 440 pages; 20.5 x 30.5 cm

Contributors: Daniel Baumann (Contributor)

Binding: Hardcover

Catalogued: September 5, 2026

Taryn Simon's Birds of the West Indies traces the accidental origin of the name James Bond. Not the fictional spy, but the real ornithologist whose 1936 field guide of the same title Ian Fleming borrowed for his own creation.Simon builds the book around three parallel sequences....

Keywords: Nature, Photography, Conceptual Art

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Grandpa Goes to Hollywood

Brad Phillips

Imprint: de boer, 2021.

Physical Description: ; 27.9 x 21.6 cm

Binding: Linen hardcover with dust jacket

Language: English

Catalogued: September 5, 2026

Published for Brad Phillips’s first exhibition with de boer in Los Angeles, a book of paintings that treats the artist’s own life as material to be edited rather than reported.The show ran from 24 April to 29 May 2021 and was hung in two rooms....

Keywords: Painting, Portraiture, Text Art, Exhibition Catalogue, Limited Edition, Los Angeles, Canadian Art

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Photographs 1934–1973

Carlo Mollino

Imprint: Silvana Editoriale, 2018.

Binding: Paperback

Catalogued: September 5, 2026

Carlo Mollino: Photographs 1934-1973 is the fullest survey yet published of Mollino's photographic work. It spans four decades, from his earliest experiments to the images found in his studio after his death....

Keywords: Photography, Architecture, Archive, Italian Design

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You Can Count On Me

NA VA

Imprint: 205-A, 2014.

Contributors: Aaron McElroy (Photographer), Andreas Laszlo Konrath (Photographer), Ben Rayner (Photographer), Jim Mangan (Photographer), Aaron Stern (Photographer), Brian Merriam (Photographer), Samantha Casolari (Photographer), Jordan Sullivan (Photographer), Daniel Arnold (Photographer)

Binding: Softcover, zine

Language: English

Catalogued: September 5, 2026

You Can Count On Me is the zine catalogue for the group photography show that opened 205 A, the short-lived project space Aaron Stern and Jordan Sullivan ran in a vacant storefront at 205 Avenue A in the East Village in September 2014....

Keywords: Photography, Zines, Group Show, Exhibition Catalog, New York, Self-Published

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Briney Breezes

Charles Johnstone

Imprint: Sun Editions, 2015.

Physical Description: 72 pages; 28 x 21.6 cm

Contributors: Aaron McElroy

Binding: Stab-bound linen softcover, digital offset

Language: English

Catalogued: September 5, 2026

Briney Breezes pairs Charles Johnstone's black-and-white topographies with Aaron McElroy's colour interiors, and the two bodies of work together describe a place that never existed built out of one that did....

Keywords: Photography, Collaboration, Landscape, Interiors, Limited Edition, New York, Self-Published

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Wilder Mann: The Image of the Savage

Charles Fréger

Imprint: Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2012.

Contributors: Robert McLiam Wilson (Text); Geneviève Gauckler (Illustrations)

Binding: Hardcover

Catalogued: September 5, 2026

Charles Fréger's Wilder Mann catalogues one of Europe's stranger and oldest living traditions. Men dress as beasts, straw giants, and horned spirits for winter masquerades that survive in villages from Portugal to Bulgaria....

Keywords: Photography, Portraiture, Folklore, European Photography

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Tribeca 9/11/01–9/11/11

Donna Ferrato

Imprint: , 2011.

Binding: Hardcover

Catalogued: September 5, 2026

This is a self-produced photographic record Donna Ferrato made of Tribeca in the decade following September 11, framed by the title itself: 9/11/01 to 9/11/11.Ferrato lived and worked in Tribeca, the Lower Manhattan neighborhood a few blocks from the World Trade Center site, and...

Keywords: Photography, New York City, September 11

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TR653 .B679 2011

Brancusi, film, photographie: images sans fin

Constantin Brancusi

Imprint: Éditions du Centre Pompidou / Le Point du Jour, 2011.

Physical Description: 234 pages; 28 x 21 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Language: French

Catalogued: September 5, 2026

The catalogue of Images sans fin at the Centre Pompidou in 2011. It was the first exhibition to show Constantin Brancusi’s photographs and films as work in their own right, not as documentation of the sculpture....

Keywords: Photography, Film, Sculpture, Exhibition Catalogue, Artist Photography, Studio, Paris

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Wolfgang Tillmans

Imprint: Hatje Cantz, 2017.

Physical Description: 304 pages

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

This Hatje Cantz monograph, edited by Fondation Beyeler chief curator Theodora Vischer, catalogues Wolfgang Tillmans's 2017 exhibition at the Beyeler in Riehen, near Basel. It shares its bare title, Wolfgang Tillmans, with three earlier books already in this library....

Keywords: Photography, Photographers, Exhibition Catalog

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Garry Winogrand

Imprint: Twin Palms Publishers, 2024.

Physical Description: 150 pages; 30.5 x 30.5 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

Winogrand Color is the first monograph devoted entirely to Garry Winogrand's color photography, work that stood almost unseen behind the black-and-white street pictures that made his name.Between the early 1950s and late 1960s, Winogrand carried two cameras between commercial...

Keywords: Photography, Street Photography, Color Photography, American Photography, 20th Century Photography

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Weegee's New York: Photographs 1935-1960

Weegee

Imprint: Schirmer/Mosel / Grove Press, 1984.

Physical Description: 334 pages

Contributors: John Coplans (Introduction)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

Weegee's New York: Photographs 1935–1960 is a career-spanning retrospective of the New York press photographer's work, assembled by the Munich art publisher Schirmer/Mosel with an introduction by the curator and critic John Coplans....

Keywords: Photography, Street Photography, New York, Photojournalism, 20th Century Photography

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Naked City

Weegee

Imprint: Da Capo Press, 2002.

Physical Description: 256 pages; 22.9 x 15 cm

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

Naked City is the 1945 debut collection by the New York press photographer Weegee (Arthur Fellig, 1899–1968), the book most responsible for establishing tabloid crime photography as a subject fit for museums....

Keywords: Photography, Street Photography, Crime Photography, New York, Photojournalism, 20th Century Photography

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Edward Weston

Imprint: Aperture, 1988.

Physical Description: 95 pages

Contributors: R.H. Cravens (Essay)

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

Edward Weston, the seventh volume in Aperture's Masters of Photography series, is a compact survey of the career of one of the founders of American modernist photography.Over 95 pages, R.H. Cravens's essay traces Weston's move from soft-focus pictorialism toward the sharp-focus,...

Keywords: Photography, Modernist Photography, American Photography, 20th Century Photography, Landscape Photography

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The Valley

Larry Sultan

Imprint: Scalo Publishers, 2004.

Physical Description: 127 pages

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

Larry Sultan's The Valley photographs the pornography industry at work inside the same tract-house suburbs he grew up in and had already photographed his parents within, and the collision of the two subjects is the point: the Valley as both the birthplace of the American...

Keywords: Photography, Documentary Photography, California, American Art, Staged Photography

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Evidence

Larry Sultan, Mike Mandel

Imprint: D.A.P. / Distributed Art Publishers, 2003.

Physical Description: 108 pages

Contributors: Sandra S. Phillips (Introduction); Robert F. Forth (Afterword)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

Evidence is one of the founding texts of postmodern photography: a book with no photographs taken by its authors, no captions, and no explanation. It is made almost entirely from images Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel found by combing the archives of over fifty American...

Keywords: Photography, Conceptual Art, Appropriation, American Art, Photobook, Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition Two

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Hiroshi Sugimoto

Imprint: Hatje Cantz, 2005.

Physical Description: 368 pages

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

This 368-page Hatje Cantz monograph is the catalogue for the retrospective that gave Hiroshi Sugimoto his fullest institutional survey to date. It remains the standard English-language career overview of his work....

Keywords: Photography, Japanese Art, Retrospective, Exhibition Catalog, Contemporary Art

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Ponte City

Mikhael Subotzky, Patrick Waterhouse

Imprint: Steidl, 2014.

Physical Description: 192 pages

Contributors: Ivan Vladislavić (Text)

Binding: Hardcover box set

Language: English

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

Ponte Tower has stood over Johannesburg since 1975 as a monument to changing fortune. It was built as luxury apartments for the city's white elite, left to decline and gain a reputation for crime and squalor after apartheid ended, and later partially reclaimed through...

Keywords: Photography, South Africa, Architectural Photography, Documentary Photography, Johannesburg

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Imprint: Steidl, 2012.

Physical Description: 128 pages

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

The Keys to the House is Juergen Teller's record of the ground he actually stands on: his house, land, and family in Suffolk. He shoots it with the same flat directness he brings to a magazine job.Landscapes of the property sit next to portraits of family and friends....

Keywords: Photography, Fashion Photography, Photographers, Domestic Life, Portraiture

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Atlas des Régions Naturelles, Vol. 1

Eric Tabuchi, Nelly Monnier

Imprint: Poursuite Éditions, 2021.

Physical Description: 384 pages; 32 x 17 cm

Binding: Softcover

Language: French

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

Volume 1 of Atlas des Régions Naturelles, known as ARN, opens Eric Tabuchi and Nelly Monnier's survey of France's roughly 450 historical "natural regions". The project began in 2017 and treats the country as a set of repeating vernacular forms rather than as scenery to be...

Keywords: Photography, ARN, Landscape Photography, Documentary Photography, Typology, France, Vernacular Architecture

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Atlas of Forms

Eric Tabuchi

Imprint: Poursuite Éditions, 2017.

Physical Description: 255 pages

Binding: Paperback

Language: French/English

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

Atlas of Forms is a typological survey of architecture built entirely from found images, gathered online rather than shot by the artist. Eric Tabuchi assembled roughly 1,500 photographs of buildings and structures from around the world....

Keywords: Photography, Architecture, Photobook, Typology, Appropriation

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Senta Simond

Imprint: Kominek Books, 2018.

Physical Description: 100 pages

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

Senta Simond's debut photobook gathers close, unstylized portraits of young women from the Swiss photographer's own social circle, made as a deliberate counter to commercial media's packaging of youth and femininity....

Keywords: Photography, Portraiture, Photobook, Contemporary Photography

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Stephen Shore: Selected Works, 1973-1981

Stephen Shore

Imprint: Aperture, 2017.

Physical Description: 279 pages

Contributors: Wes Anderson (Text/Selection); Quentin Bajac (Text/Selection); David Campany (Text/Selection); Paul Graham (Text/Selection); Guido Guidi (Text/Selection); Takashi Homma (Text/Selection); An-My Lê (Text/Selection); Michael Lesy (Text/Selection); Hans Ulrich Obrist (Text/Selection); Francine Prose (Text/Selection); Ed Ruscha (Text/Selection); Britt Salvesen (Text/Selection); Taryn Simon (Text/Selection); Thomas Struth (Text/Selection); Lynne Tillman (Text/Selection)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

A collaborative survey of Stephen Shore's negatives from 1973 to 1981, the years that produced American Surfaces and Uncommon Places, in which fifteen artists and critics each select and comment on ten images of their own choosing....

Keywords: Photography, Color Photography, American Landscape, New Color Photography

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Stephen Shore: American Surfaces (Revised and Expanded Edition)

Stephen Shore

Imprint: Phaidon Press, 2020.

Physical Description: 256 pages

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

Phaidon's 2020 revised and expanded edition of Stephen Shore's American Surfaces is the road-trip diary of snapshot-format color photographs Shore made across the United States in 1972 and first exhibited that same year, when critics largely dismissed the work....

Keywords: Photography, Color Photography, American Landscape, Road Trip, New Color Photography

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Cindy Sherman: The Complete Untitled Film Stills

Cindy Sherman

Imprint: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2003.

Physical Description: 164 pages

Contributors: Peter Galassi (Essay)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

MoMA's dedicated volume reproduces all sixty-nine black-and-white photographs of Cindy Sherman's Untitled Film Stills (1977-1980) for the first time in their entirety and in the artist's own sequence....

Keywords: Photography, Conceptual Photography, Self-Portraiture, Staged Photography, Museum Publication

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San Francisco Berlin

Stefan Ruiz

Imprint: Boot, 2011.

Physical Description: 96 pages

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

San Francisco Berlin sets Stefan Ruiz's portraits of residents of the two title cities side by side, using an identical straight-on studio setup for both so that the comparison falls entirely on the people and what they wear, hold and signal rather than on staging....

Keywords: Photography, Portraiture, Documentary Photography, Photobook

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Faces of Photography

Tina Ruisinger

Imprint: Edition Stemmle, 1996.

Physical Description: 176 pages

Contributors: Ted Croner (Text); A. D. Coleman (Introduction)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

Faces of Photography turns the camera on photographers themselves, pairing Tina Ruisinger's portraits of major 20th-century figures in the medium with interviews in which they reflect on their own work and on photography at large....

Keywords: Photography, Portraiture, Photography History, Interviews, 1990s

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Snow and Rose & Other Tales

Marianna Rothen

Imprint: Marianna Rothen.

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

Snow and Rose & Other Tales stages women in domestic interiors, bedrooms, windows, mirrors, as figures pulled from fairy tale and 1970s film stills, in the saturated, cinematic color that has defined Marianna Rothen's photography since her breakthrough series Blonde....

Keywords: Photography, Photobook, Staged Photography, Self-Published, Contemporary Art

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White Planet Black Heart

Torbjørn Rødland

Imprint: MACK, 2020.

Physical Description: 110 pages

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

White Planet Black Heart gathers new and recent photographs by Torbjørn Rødland. It returns to the uncannily lit still lifes, portraits and staged tableaux that have made his work a touchstone for a generation of younger photographers and artists....

Keywords: Photography, Photobook, Contemporary Art, Norwegian Photography, Conceptual Photography

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The Pregnant Virgin

Torbjørn Rødland

Imprint: MACK, 2023.

Physical Description: 128 pages

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

The Pregnant Virgin takes its title from a Jungian archetype describing a stage of psychological transformation: a condition of carrying something unresolved and contradictory. It uses that archetype as a frame for a new body of Torbjørn Rødland photographs....

Keywords: Photography, Photobook, Contemporary Art, Norwegian Photography, Conceptual Photography

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Crystal Clear

Maya Rochat

Imprint: Edition Patrick Frey, 2023.

Physical Description: 320 pages

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

Crystal Clear is a dense, physically saturated survey of Maya Rochat's photographic practice, in which images of water, rock and body are pushed through chemical intervention and re-photography until they dissolve toward abstraction....

Keywords: Photography, Photobook, Abstraction, Swiss Photography, Contemporary Art

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Notorious

Herb Ritts

Imprint: Bulfinch Press, 1992.

Physical Description: 168 pages

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

Notorious gathers Herb Ritts's black-and-white portraits of the period's most photographed faces. It turns the sculptural, high-contrast studio style he built at Vogue and Rolling Stone toward the specific, self-aware theater of celebrity itself....

Keywords: Photography, Celebrity Portraiture, Fashion Photography, Black-and-White Photography, 1990s

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Iowa

Nancy Rexroth

Imprint: University of Texas Press, 2017.

Physical Description: 168 pages

Contributors: Alec Soth (Introduction); Anne Wilkes Tucker (Introduction); Mark L. Power (Introduction (original 1977 text, reprinted))

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

Nancy Rexroth's Iowa is one of the founding books of toy-camera photography: a body of blurred, square-format images that turned the Diana camera's cheap plastic lens into a deliberate tool for picturing memory and place....

Keywords: Photography, Photobook, Black-and-White Photography, American Photography, Diana Camera

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Anthill (Meteorites)

Augustin Rebetez

Imprint: RVB Books, 2015.

Physical Description: 128 pages

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

Anthill (Meteorites) documents a way of living more than a set of finished artworks. The artist's own house is studio, stage set, and subject at once.Rebetez made the book in the secluded family home in the Swiss Jura where he grew up....

Keywords: Photography, Photobook, Staged Photography, Sculpture, Switzerland, Installation Art

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The Epic Love Story of a Warrior

Peter Puklus

Imprint: SPBH Editions, 2016.

Physical Description: 468 pages

Contributors: Marina Tsvetaeva (Poem text (untitled, 1913)); Ilya Shambat (Translation)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

Peter Puklus builds twentieth-century Central and Eastern European history out of studio props, staged bodies, and one invented family. The result reads less like a photo essay than a private myth assembled from evidence....

Keywords: Photography, Photobook, Staged Photography, Family, Eastern Europe

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Margins of Excess

Max Pinckers

Imprint: De Bedoeling vzw, 2018.

Physical Description: 319 pages

Contributors: Victoria Gonzalez-Figueras (Research and text); Hans Theys (Introduction essay)

Language: English

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

Margins of Excess catches the moment personal imagination collides with what a society is willing to believe. That collision is the real subject of the post-truth era here, not a footnote to it.Pinckers made the book with writer and researcher Victoria Gonzalez-Figueras....

Keywords: Photography, Photobook, Documentary Photography, Staged Photography, United States, Post-Truth, Journalism

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Lotus

Max Pinckers, Quinten De Bruyn

Imprint: Lyre Press, 2016.

Physical Description: 152 pages

Contributors: Hans Theys (Essay)

Binding: Hardcover, linen

Language: English

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

Lotus is a young photographer's first attempt to turn the documentary picture against its own premise of neutrality. The project, built around Thailand's kathoey community, argues that every 'objective' photograph is already staged....

Keywords: Photography, Documentary Photography, Belgium, Thailand, Queer

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Archiv Peter Piller: Materialien (H) – Irrläufer

Peter Piller

Imprint: Nieves, 2017.

Physical Description: 112 pages

Binding: Softcover

Language: German

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

Irrläufer collects photographs that ended up in an archive by accident, filed and kept though no one meant to keep them.Working through roughly 100,000 press-clipping images accumulated over fifty years by the steirischer herbst festival archive in Graz, Piller pulled out the...

Keywords: Art, Photography, Found Photography, Artist Book, Archive

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Max Pam

Imprint: Éditions Bessard, 2013.

Physical Description: 356 pages; 22.9 x 19.1 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

Supertourist gathers a decade of Max Pam's field trips into a single conceptual survey. It sets newly assembled sequences against archival photographs from his travels, under four paired chapter headings....

Keywords: Photography, Travel Photography, Documentary Photography, Collage, Archive

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Ramadan in Yemen

Max Pam

Imprint: Éditions Bessard, 2011.

Physical Description: 90 pages; 22 x 16 cm

Binding: Hardcover, cloth binding with a mounted black-and-white plate and silver-stamped titling, housed in a slipcase

Language: English

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

Ramadan in Yemen is Max Pam's account of three months in Yemen during Ramadan, 1993. It stands among the most direct fusions of documentary photography and diary-keeping in his four-decade practice....

Keywords: Photography, Travel Photography, Documentary Photography, Yemen, Middle East, Artist Journal

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Duane Michals

Imprint: Editions Bessard, 2021.

Binding: Hardcover

Language: French/English (bilingual)

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

The Idiot's Delight is a bilingual artist's book in which Duane Michals stages black-and-white photographs of literal idioms and proverbs. Cut, folded, and accordion pages make his sense of visual comedy structural rather than incidental....

Keywords: Photography, Artist Books, Conceptual Photography

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Photography and Reality: 1958-1990

Duane Michals

Imprint: Olympus European Photo Gallery, 1992.

Physical Description: 157 pages

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

Photography and Reality: 1958-1990 is a compact survey of more than three decades of Duane Michals's work. Olympus's European Photo Gallery published it at a moment when Michals's staged, text-annotated images had already reshaped what a photograph could say....

Keywords: Photography, Monograph, Conceptual Photography

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Joel Meyerowitz: Where I Find Myself: A Lifetime Retrospective

Joel Meyerowitz

Imprint: Laurence King Publishing, 2018.

Physical Description: 352 pages; 32.4 x 23.5 cm

Contributors: Colin Westerbeck (Text)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

Where I Find Myself: A Lifetime Retrospective is Joel Meyerowitz's first single-volume account of his own career, published in 2018. It is arranged in reverse chronological order, starting with recent work and moving backward to the New York streets where he began photographing...

Keywords: Photography, Street Photography, Color Photography, Retrospective

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Imprint: Hunters Point Press, 2022.

Physical Description: 165 pages

Contributors: Jessica Bell Brown (Interview); Casey Gerald (Essay)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

Baldwin Lee, published by Hunters Point Press in 2022, is the first monograph of a body of work Lee made across the American South in the 1980s. It gathers 88 black-and-white photographs from that project....

Keywords: Photography, Photobook, American South, Documentary Photography, Black and White Photography

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Imprint: RVB Books, 2024.

Physical Description: 496 pages; 30 x 22 cm

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

Incomplete Encyclopedia of Touch, published by RVB Books, is a visual taxonomy built from thousands of found family photographs. Its subject is one recurring gesture: a hand placed on something, to claim it, measure it, or simply pose beside it....

Keywords: Photography, Photobook, Vernacular Photography, Found Photography, Appropriation Art

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André Kertész

Imprint: Éditions Hazan / Jeu de Paume, 2010.

Physical Description: 360 pages; 31.8 x 26.3 cm

Contributors: Michel Frizot (Essay); Annie-Laure Wanaverbecq (Essay)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

André Kertész, published by Éditions Hazan with the Jeu de Paume in 2010, surveys the full seventy-year career of the Hungarian-born photographer widely credited as a founding figure of modernist photography....

Keywords: Photography, Photobook, Exhibition Catalog, Modernism, 20th Century Photography

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Life Here Is Serious

Rob Hornstra, Arnold van Bruggen

Imprint: The Sochi Project, 2012.

Physical Description: 48 pages; 21 x 15 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

Life Here Is Serious is a small numbered volume from Rob Hornstra and Arnold van Bruggen's Sochi Project, gathering Rob Hornstra's color portraits of boys and young men training as wrestlers in the North Caucasus....

Keywords: Photography, Documentary Photography, Russia, Color Photography, Portraiture

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Lee Miller in Fashion

Becky E. Conekin

Imprint: The Monacelli Press, 2013.

Physical Description: 224 pages; 25.4 x 19 cm

Contributors: Lee Miller (Subject / Photographer)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

Lee Miller in Fashion, by the historian Becky E. Conekin, traces Lee Miller's path through the fashion industry that shaped and was shaped by her: model, muse, and eventually photographer in her own right.Miller began as a Condé Nast model in 1920s New York....

Keywords: Photography, Fashion Photography, Surrealism, 20th Century Photography, Biography

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Die Bücher

Annette Kelm

Imprint: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2022.

Physical Description: 148 pages; 32.5 x 22.5 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Language: German

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

Die Bücher ("The Books") is a single-subject photographic project by the German artist Annette Kelm. In it, books themselves, photographed straight-on against neutral grounds, become the sole subject of the series....

Keywords: Photography, Artist Book, Conceptual Art, Still Life

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The Japanese Photobook, 1912-1990

Kaneko Ryuichi, Manfred Heiting

Imprint: Steidl, 2017.

Physical Description: 576 pages

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

The Japanese Photobook, 1912-1990 is a 576-page survey of Japanese photographic book publishing, compiled from the Manfred Heiting Collection. Kaneko Ryuichi, one of the foremost historians of the Japanese photobook, edited it together with Heiting himself....

Keywords: Photography, Photobook History, Japan, Bibliography

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The Light of Coincidence: The Photographs of Kenneth Josephson

Kenneth Josephson

Imprint: University of Texas Press, 2016.

Physical Description: 344 pages; 30.5 x 27.9 cm

Contributors: Lynne Warren (Text); Gerry Badger (Foreword)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

The Light of Coincidence is the first career-spanning monograph on Kenneth Josephson (b. 1932), one of the pioneers of conceptual photography in postwar America.The book gathers work across Josephson's major series, including his best-known Images within Images photographs....

Keywords: Photography, Conceptual Art, Photographer Monograph

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Noki

Axel Hoedt

Imprint: Art Paper Editions, 2018.

Physical Description: 52 pages; 30.5 x 24.3 cm

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

Noki gathers more than a decade of photographic collaboration between Axel Hoedt and JJ Hudson, the London-based designer and performance artist who works under the name Noki. The project is built almost entirely around the improvised masks Hudson wears in place of a face....

Keywords: Photography, Portraiture, Fashion, Artist Book

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Roswitha Hecke

Imprint: Edition Patrick Frey, 2021.

Physical Description: 160 pages; 24.5 x 18 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

Irene is Roswitha Hecke's portrait of a Zurich sex worker known as Lady Shiva, made over three weeks in the late 1970s and first published in 1978 as Liebes Leben. Hecke met Irene through the director Werner Schroeter and photographed her daily routine in Zurich before...

Keywords: Photography, Photobook, Portraiture, Zurich, Black and White Photography

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Imprint: Éditions du LIC, 2014.

Physical Description: 96 pages; 26 x 21 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Language: French

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

Avec le Coeur collects Théo Gosselin's photographs of a 2012 road trip from Harlem to Venice Beach, taken when he was in his early twenties and still a student at Amiens' Arts Déco. Gosselin funded and navigated the trip largely through social media....

Keywords: Photography, Photobook, Color Photography, Contemporary Photography

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Nan Goldin: I'll Be Your Mirror

Nan Goldin

Imprint: Scalo, 1996.

Physical Description: 491 pages; 27 x 20 cm

Contributors: Elisabeth Sussman (Curator, Essay); Luc Sante (Essay); Marvin Heiferman (Essay); David Wojnarowicz (Contribution); J. Hoberman (Interview); James Fenton (Essay); Darryl Pinckney (Essay); Joachim Sartorius (Essay); Cookie Mueller (Contribution); Walter Keller (Interview)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

Nan Goldin: I'll Be Your Mirror accompanied the photographer's 1996 mid-career retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art. It was the first museum survey to present two decades of her work as a continuous visual diary....

Keywords: Photography, Portrait Photography, Exhibition Catalog, Documentary Photography, LGBTQ, AIDS

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This Will Not End Well

Nan Goldin

Imprint: Steidl / Moderna Museet, 2022.

Physical Description: 216 pages

Contributors: Vince Aletti (Text); Thomas Beard (Text); Guido Costa (Text); Marvin Heiferman (Text); Roni Horn (Text); Patrick Radden Keefe (Text); Caitlín R. Kiernan (Text); Gabor Maté (Text); Eileen Myles (Text); Cookie Mueller (Text); Alfred Pacquement (Text); Darryl Pinckney (Text); Rene Ricard (Text); Lucy Sante (Text); Sarah Schulman (Text); Anne Swärd (Text); Hala Wardé (Text and drawings); David Wojnarowicz (Text); Andrea Lissoni (Interview)

Binding: Clothbound hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

The first comprehensive book on Nan Goldin's filmmaking practice, reconstructing nearly a dozen of her slideshows and moving-image works on the page.Moderna Museet, Stockholm organized the retrospective the book was published to accompany....

Keywords: Photography, Film, Slideshow, Exhibition Catalog

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Nude

Ralph Gibson

Imprint: TASCHEN, 2021.

Physical Description: 352 pages

Contributors: Eric Fischl (Interview)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English/French/German

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

A career-spanning survey of Ralph Gibson's nude photography, collecting his best-known images of the female form alongside more recent work.Gibson's nudes work through tight cropping, hard-edged black-and-white contrast, and a fragmentary framing of the body that turns skin,...

Keywords: Photography, Photobook, Nude, Black and White

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Sex-Theater

André Gelpke

Imprint: Spector Books / cpress, 2015.

Physical Description: 216 pages

Binding: Thread-sewn hardcover

Language: German/English

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

André Gelpke's 1970s documentary series on the performers of Hamburg's St. Pauli sex theaters, reissued in an expanded edition with new texts.Working inside Hamburg's Reeperbahn sex clubs over several years, Gelpke photographed the performers between and during acts....

Keywords: Photography, Photobook, Documentary, Nude

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Rivages

Lara Gasparotto

Imprint: Lannoo, 2014.

Physical Description: 140 pages

Binding: Hardcover

Language: Dutch/English

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

Lara Gasparotto's first monograph, gathering years of unposed photographs of her friends as they grew up together in Belgium.Gasparotto began photographing her circle of friends as a teenager and kept at it into her twenties, building a body of pictures shot on the fly rather...

Keywords: Photography, Photobook, Youth, Portraiture

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The Heart Is a Sandwich

Jason Fulford

Imprint: MACK, 2023.

Physical Description: 320 pages

Binding: Embossed paperback with flaps

Language: English

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

A novel-sized paperback of twelve short, photograph-driven stories drawn from a decade of Jason Fulford's encounters in Italy.Designed to look and feel like an ordinary paperback novel, complete with title page, dedication, and colophon in their expected places, the book gathers...

Keywords: Photography, Photobook, Italy, Narrative

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Hotel Oracle

Jason Fulford

Imprint: The Soon Institute, 2013.

Physical Description: 144 pages

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

A visual meditation on the cosmos, superstition, and the sacred, threading photographs made across twelve countries into a loose meditation on belief.Hotel Oracle opens on the line "My neighbor June believes in Zeus" and proceeds from there as a sequence of pictures searching...

Keywords: Photography, Photobook, Religion, Symbolism

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Gas Stop

David Freund

Imprint: Steidl, 2017.

Physical Description: 720 pages

Binding: Four hardcover volumes in slipcase (boxed set)

Language: English

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

A four-volume boxed set gathering David Freund's survey of the American gas station, photographed between 1978 and 1981 across more than forty states.Freund drove the country with a handheld 35mm camera, photographing customers and attendants going about the ordinary business of...

Keywords: Photography, Photobook, Americana, Landscape

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Imprint: Editions Xavier Barral / Le Bal, 2016.

Physical Description: 592 pages

Contributors: Wim van Sinderen (Essay); Hripsime Visser (Essay); Francesco Zanot (Essay); Violette Gillet (Essay)

Binding: Softcover

Language: English/French

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

Gerard Petrus Fieret is the first major monograph devoted to a photographer the Dutch mostly ignored while he was alive: a self-taught obsessive who photographed almost nothing but a handful of subjects, over and over, for about a decade....

Keywords: Photography, Photographer Monograph, Dutch Photography, Black and White, Exhibition Catalog

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272 Pages

Hans-Peter Feldmann

Imprint: Fundacio Antoni Tapies, 2001.

Physical Description: 272 pages

Contributors: Regis Durand (Essay); Nuria Enguita Mayo (Essay); Peter Fischli (Essay); Hans Haacke (Essay); Martin Parr (Essay)

Binding: Softcover

Language: English/Spanish/Catalan

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

Hans-Peter Feldmann's 272 Pages is exactly what its title says: a catalogue built almost entirely from the artist's own pictures and objects, with barely any curatorial text standing between the reader and the work.Helena Tatay edited the book....

Keywords: Photography, Conceptual Art, Artist Book, Found Photography, Exhibition Catalog

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American Power

Mitch Epstein

Imprint: Steidl, 2009.

Physical Description: 144 pages

Binding: Clothbound Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

Mitch Epstein's American Power turns a large-format camera on the machinery that keeps the country running, catching the plain, almost bureaucratic look of infrastructure most people are trained not to see....

Keywords: Photography, Documentary Photography, Photobook, Landscape, Environment, American Power

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Gil Elvgren's Private Stock

Gil Elvgren

Imprint: Reel Art Press, 2012.

Physical Description: 192 pages

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

Gil Elvgren's Private Stock collects the private reference photographs the pin-up painter used to build his illustrations, images that were never meant to be seen as finished work.Tony Nourmand edited the book. Reel Art Press published it in 2012 as a 192-page hardcover....

Keywords: Photography, Illustration, Pin-up Art, American Art, Archival Photography

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Stan Douglas

Imprint: Steidl, 2014.

Physical Description: 228 pages

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

This third volume in the Scotiabank Photography Award series presents the photographic practice of Vancouver artist Stan Douglas, honored as the award's laureate for an established Canadian artist.The 228-page monograph, published by Steidl in partnership with Scotiabank,...

Keywords: Photography, Contemporary Art, Canadian Art, Photobook, Scotiabank Photography Award

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Eric Crosby

Imprint: Walker Art Center, 2016.

Physical Description: 208 pages

Contributors: Eric Crosby (Curator); Thomas Beard (Essay); Lane Relyea (Essay); Eva Respini (Essay); Misa Jeffereis (Contributor)

Binding: Spiralbound

Language: English

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

This catalogue is the first critical anthology to trace how contemporary art has grappled with the generic, mass-produced image. It accompanied one of the more ambitious photography surveys the Walker Art Center has mounted this decade....

Keywords: Photography, Vernacular Photography, Conceptual Art, Exhibition Catalog, Group Exhibition

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TR680 .C72 2009

Private Views

Barbara Crane

Imprint: Aperture, 2009.

Physical Description: 111 pages

Contributors: Barbara Hitchcock (Text)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

Private Views gathers the Polaroid photographs Barbara Crane made in Chicago's summer festival crowds between 1980 and 1984, pictures shot close enough that the camera's speed is doing as much work as her eye....

Keywords: Photography, Photobook, Monograph, Polaroid, Chicago, Portraiture

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Fashion Image Revolution: The Art and Technique of Brian Dowling

Charlotte Cotton

Imprint: Prestel, 2018.

Physical Description: 221 pages

Contributors: Brian Dowling (Subject / Darkroom Printer); Nick Knight (Contributing Photographer); Anton Corbijn (Contributing Photographer); Juergen Teller (Contributing Photographer); Craig McDean (Contributing Photographer)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

Fashion Image Revolution tells the story of Brian Dowling's BDI, the London darkroom where analog printing became a creative act in fashion photography. For more than thirty years, Dowling's studio shaped the medium, from the 1970s through the shift to digital....

Keywords: Photography, Fashion Photography, Photobook, Analog Photography, London

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Coming of Age

Petra Collins

Imprint: Rizzoli International Publications, 2017.

Physical Description: 208 pages

Contributors: Laurie Simmons (Introduction); Marilyn Minter (Contributor); Alessandro Michele (Contributor); Karley Sciortino (Contributor); Jamia Wilson (Contributor)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

Coming of Age is Petra Collins's first monograph, a retrospective survey of the photography that made her one of the defining image-makers of the 2010s.The book collects a decade of Collins's work, from early self-portraits taken as a teenager in Toronto through campaigns for...

Keywords: Photography, Monograph, Fashion Photography, Portraiture, Women Photographers

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Brassaï: The Monograph

Brassaï

Imprint: Bulfinch Press, 2000.

Physical Description: 320 pages

Contributors: Jean-Jacques Aillagon (Essay); Werner Spies (Essay); Roger Grenier (Essay); Henry Miller (Text); Jacques Prévert (Text); Gilberte Brassaï (Interview)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

Published to accompany the Centre Georges Pompidou's retrospective of Brassaï's work, this monograph is the fullest English-language account of a photographer whose Paris after dark remains one of the defining bodies of 20th-century street photography....

Keywords: Photography, Street Photography, Paris, Surrealism, Portraiture, 20th Century

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Shadow and Light

Bill Brandt

Imprint: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2013.

Physical Description: 208 pages

Contributors: Lee Ann Daffner (Contributing essayist (conservation/technique))

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

Bill Brandt: Shadow and Light is the catalogue for the Museum of Modern Art's 2013 retrospective. It was the museum's first full reconsideration of Brandt's career since 1969, and the most comprehensive survey of his work assembled to date....

Keywords: Photography, Photobook, Exhibition Catalog, British Photography, Portraiture, Nudes

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A Message for You

Guy Bourdin

Imprint: Steidl, 2013.

Physical Description: 320 pages

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: September 4, 2026

A Message for You collects the fashion photographs Guy Bourdin made with the model Nicolle Meyer in the late 1970s, the period widely considered the high point of his career. It stands as one of the fullest records of a single working relationship behind his images....

Keywords: Photography, Fashion Photography, Photobook, Vogue, 20th Century

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Kohei Yoshiyuki

Imprint: Hatje Cantz, 2007.

Physical Description: 128 pages; 22.6 x 30.7 cm

Contributors: Vince Aletti (Text); Nobuyoshi Araki (Interview)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: August 2026

Catalogued: September 1, 2026

Working at night in three Tokyo parks during the 1970s, Kohei Yoshiyuki used infrared film and flash to photograph couples in the midst of sexual encounters, both heterosexual and homosexual, that took place under cover of darkness in public space....

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Photography, Photobook, Voyeurism

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Super Vision

Various Artists

Imprint: MIT Press, 2006.

Physical Description: 176 pages; 27.9 x 21.6 cm

Contributors: David Joselit (Essay); McKenzie Wark (Essay)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: August 2026

Catalogued: September 1, 2026

Published to accompany the exhibition that opened the Institute of Contemporary Art's new Boston building in September 2006, Super Vision surveys how visuality has shifted in the digital era, as computer graphics, imaging, digitization, and virtuality reshape what it means to...

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Art, Exhibition Catalog, Contemporary Art

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Petter Hegre

Imprint: Edition Stemmle, 2000.

Physical Description: 208 pages; 25.1 x 18.0 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: August 2026

Catalogued: September 1, 2026

Petter Hegre, a commercial and fine-art photographer, began photographing his wife the day they met, eventually amassing roughly 5000 images over the course of their relationship. My Wife gathers a selection of those photographs into a single volume, opening with a short...

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Photography, Photobook, Documentary Photography, Voyeurism

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72 Girls and Some Boys Who Could Be Models

Anne Daems

Imprint: J&L Books, 2007.

Physical Description: 80 pages; 15.0 x 22.6 cm

Contributors: Dan Graham (Interview)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: August 2026

Catalogued: September 1, 2026

In late 2005, Anne Daems roamed SoHo while on an art-residency grant from the International Studio & Curatorial Program, photographing young New Yorkers on sidewalks, in the subway, under scaffolding, and through shop windows without their knowledge....

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Photography, Street Photography, Photobook, Voyeurism

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I Saw You

Bruce Connew

Imprint: Vapour Momenta, 2007.

Physical Description: ; 14.7 x 10.4 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: August 2026

Catalogued: September 1, 2026

I Saw You is the first volume in what Bruce Connew conceived as a loose trilogy of artist's books examining private life under observation. Over twelve months, Connew trained a telephoto lens on Balaena Bay car park in Wellington from his own home, photographing people going...

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Photography, New Zealand Photography

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The Transparent City

Michael Wolf

Imprint: Aperture, 2008.

Physical Description: 116 pages; 40 x 31.75 cm

Contributors: Elizabeth Siegel (Essay)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: August 2026

Catalogued: September 1, 2026

The Transparent City gathers Michael Wolf's photographs of Chicago's downtown skyscrapers made after dark, when illuminated interiors turn the glass towers into vast, legible grids of windows.Working with a large-format camera from the street and from within neighboring...

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Photography, Urban Photography, Architecture, City Surveillance

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Jurkjes en Jason: 27 Views On Terrorism Today

Various Artists

Imprint: Onomatopee, 2008.

Physical Description: 64 pages; 29.7 x 21 cm

Binding: Softcover

Language: Dutch, English

Acquired: August 2026

Catalogued: September 1, 2026

Jurkjes en Jason: 27 Views On Terrorism Today collects short image- and text-based contributions from twenty-seven different makers, each responding in a page or two to the same brief: how terrorism appears, circulates, and is represented in contemporary visual culture....

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Photography, Terrorism, Anthology, Dutch Photography

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Mishka Henner

Imprint: Self-published, 2010.

Physical Description: 106 pages; 25 x 20 cm

Binding: Softcover, print-on-demand

Language: English

Acquired: August 2026

Catalogued: September 1, 2026

Fifty-One US Military Outposts is Mishka Henner's first book to use satellite imagery as both research tool and creative medium, a project that replaces the photographer's camera with the reconnaissance apparatus already deployed by states and institutions....

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Photography, Self-Published, Conceptual Art, State Surveillance

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The Thirty-Two Inch Ruler / Map of Babylon

John Gossage

Imprint: Steidl, 2010.

Physical Description: 240 pages; 28.6 x 23.5 cm

Binding: Hardcover, clothbound, two volumes

Language: English

Acquired: August 2026

Catalogued: September 1, 2026

The Thirty-Two Inch Ruler / Map of Babylon pairs two color photographic essays by John Gossage, his first books shot in color, issued as companion volumes with neither taking precedence over the other.The Thirty-Two Inch Ruler documents the Washington, D.C....

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Photography, Photobook, Landscape Photography

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Chad States

Imprint: powerHouse Books, 2011.

Physical Description: 100 pages; 25.1 x 32.3 cm

Contributors: Gordon Brent Ingram (Text); Alec Soth (Text)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: August 2026

Catalogued: September 1, 2026

Chad States's first monograph documents two years spent photographing the parks, public restrooms, and roadside wooded groves that gay men across the United States have used as cruising sites, gathering 80 color plates from locations nationwide....

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Photography, Photobook, Queer Culture, Landscape Photography, Voyeurism

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The Nine Eyes of Google Street View

Jon Rafman

Imprint: Jean Boîte Éditions, 2011.

Physical Description: 160 pages; 24.1 x 16.5 cm

Contributors: Guillaume Aubry (Text)

Binding: Softcover

Language: Bilingual (English/French)

Acquired: August 2026

Catalogued: September 1, 2026

The Nine Eyes of Google Street View collects hundreds of found images from Rafman's ongoing project, begun in 2008, in which he combs Google's Street View archive for scenes its roving cameras caught by accident: car crashes, animals in odd postures, masked figures, landscapes...

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Photography, Photobook, Internet Art, Appropriation, City Surveillance

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Top Secret: Bilder aus den Archiven der Staatssicherheit

Simon Menner

Imprint: Hatje Cantz, 2013.

Physical Description: 128 pages; 24.9 x 19.8 cm

Binding: Softcover

Language: German, English

Acquired: August 2026

Catalogued: September 1, 2026

Simon Menner mined the archives of the Stasi, East Germany's secret police, to surface formerly classified photographs of officers and employees putting on professional uniforms, gluing on fake beards, and signaling to each other with their hands....

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Photography, Photobook, Stasi, Cold War, State Surveillance

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No Man's Land

Mishka Henner

Imprint: Self published, 2011.

Physical Description: 120 pages; 20.1 x 24.9 cm

Binding: Softcover, print-on-demand

Language: English

Acquired: August 2026

Catalogued: September 1, 2026

No Man's Land collects fifty-nine images of isolated women on the margins of southern European roadsides, all sourced entirely from Google Street View.Henner found the coordinates on online forums where men trade information about the location of sex workers, then used Street...

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Photography, Photobook, Self-Published, Appropriated Imagery, Eyeballing

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Dutch Landscapes

Mishka Henner

Imprint: Self published, 2011.

Physical Description: 106 pages; 20.1 x 24.9 cm

Binding: Softcover, print-on-demand

Language: English

Acquired: August 2026

Catalogued: September 1, 2026

Mishka Henner built Dutch Landscapes from a quirk of Google Earth's satellite coverage: the Dutch government, unlike most, chose not to blur or pixelate sensitive sites but to cover them with bold, brightly colored polygons, an intervention meant to obscure that instead reads as...

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Photography, Photobook, Self-Published, Landscape Photography, State Surveillance

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World of Details

Viktoria Binschtok

Imprint: Distanz, 2013.

Physical Description: 136 pages; 27.9 x 21.6 cm

Contributors: Matthias Harder (Essay)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: German/English

Acquired: August 2026

Catalogued: September 1, 2026

Binschtok worked in two stages: she selected New York street scenes from Google's archive while in her Berlin studio, then traveled to each location to photograph it again with her own camera. The Street View source images are grayscale, distant, and mechanically framed....

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Photography, Photobook, Conceptual Photography, Visibility

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Getting to Know My Neighbors

Joseph Wilcox

Imprint: Self-published, 2013.

Physical Description: ; 20.3 x 13.3 cm

Binding: Zine

Language: English

Acquired: August 2026

Catalogued: September 1, 2026

A zine built from Joseph Wilcox's personal collection of anonymous ATM receipts, gathered without any initial intent to make art from them. "I want to know what people buy at the store, how much they have or don't have, how they keep themselves afloat, and how close they are to...

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Zines, Self-Published, Found Materials, Money

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XY XX

Fosi Vegue

Imprint: Dalpine, 2014.

Physical Description: 108 pages; 23.9 x 16.3 cm

Contributors: Víctor Garrido (Prepress)

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Acquired: August 2026

Catalogued: September 1, 2026

XY XX is Fosi Vegue's first photobook, a voyeuristic sequence shot through a window facing a row of rooms where sex workers meet clients, its digital noise pushed to the point of abstraction rather than erased....

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Photography, Photobook, Voyeurism

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Privacy Settings

Erik van der Weijde

Imprint: 4478zine, 2013.

Physical Description: 60 pages; 17.0 x 23.1 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: August 2026

Catalogued: September 1, 2026

Privacy Settings is a sequence of black-and-white photographs of Erik van der Weijde's sleeping son, the boy cast about the bed in different positions across the book, occasionally joined by his sleeping mother....

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Photography, Photobook, Family, Self-Published, Personal Surveillance

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You See Me, I See You

Audrey Tan

Imprint: Self-published, 2014.

Physical Description: 66 pages; 20.1 x 16.0 cm

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Acquired: August 2026

Catalogued: September 1, 2026

Audrey Tan's first photobook and solo exhibition catalog, made to mark her return to Singapore after years in London, uses portraiture and self-portraiture to trace connection, isolation, and belonging....

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Photography, Photobook, Self-Published, Self-Portraiture, Identity

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The Looking Game

M.F.G. Paltrinieri, Mirko Smerdel

Imprint: Akina Books, 2013.

Physical Description: 110 pages; 18.0 x 13.0 cm

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Acquired: August 2026

Catalogued: September 1, 2026

The Looking Game pairs the once-secret photographic archive of serial killer Rodney Alcala with writing by art critic John Berger, whose name Alcala took as an alias while a fugitive in New York in 1968....

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Photography, Photobook, Appropriation, Criminal Surveillance

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Source Code

Mishka Henner

Imprint: Self-published, 2013.

Physical Description: 610 pages; 27.9 x 21.6 cm

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Acquired: August 2026

Catalogued: September 1, 2026

Source Code is Mishka Henner's print-on-demand archive of the raw HTML source code behind the home pages of U.S. intelligence agencies, harvested on a single day, 24 June 2013. The United States Intelligence Community, the network of agencies established under Executive Order...

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Self-Published, Conceptual Art, Internet, State Surveillance

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The Blue Hour

Uri Gershuni

Imprint: The Green Box Kunstedition, 2014.

Physical Description: 260 pages; 22.6 x 17.0 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: August 2026

Catalogued: September 1, 2026

The Blue Hour documents Uri Gershuni's virtual return to Lacock, the English village where William Henry Fox Talbot pioneered photography, walked entirely through Google Street View. Where his first visit to Lacock was made in person, this second journey unfolds from a computer...

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Photography, Photobook, Google Street View, Conceptual Art

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The Epilogue

Laia Abril

Imprint: Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2014.

Physical Description: 172 pages; 26.2 x 19.3 cm

Contributors: Ramon Pez (Art Direction)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: August 2026

Catalogued: September 1, 2026

The Epilogue reconstructs the life of Cammy Robinson, a 26-year-old who died from complications of bulimia, through testimonies, family photographs, letters, medical records, and other archival ephemera gathered in close collaboration with her family....

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Photography, Photobook, Documentary Photography, Family Archive, Self Surveillance

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Tabula Rasa Magazine, Volume I: Identity

Tabula Rasa Magazine

Imprint: Tabula Rasa Magazine, Inc., 2014.

Physical Description: ; 27.9 x 22.9 cm

Binding: Magazine

Language: English

Acquired: August 2026

Catalogued: September 1, 2026

The inaugural issue of Tabula Rasa, a New York- and Copenhagen-based magazine treating fashion photography as an independent, advertisement-free medium, gathers eighteen photographers' takes on a single theme: Identity....

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Photography, Magazines, Fashion Photography, Anthology, Identity

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Ramya

Petra Stavast

Imprint: Fw:Books / Roma Publications, 2014.

Physical Description: 224 pages; 24.9 x 18.0 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: August 2026

Catalogued: September 1, 2026

Petra Stavast moved into her landlady Ramya's Amsterdam home in 2001, and the camera became the two women's shared language over the fourteen years that followed.The resulting photographs are quiet and domestic: the house, its rooms, and Ramya herself, gathered slowly enough...

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Photography, Photobook, Documentary Photography, Dutch Photography, Identity

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One Picture Book #83: Witness

Dan Solomon

Imprint: Nazraeli Press, 2014.

Physical Description: 16 pages; 18.3 x 14.0 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: August 2026

Catalogued: September 1, 2026

Dan Solomon's Witness radically crops stills from the Zapruder film and the Moorman Polaroid, isolating the bystanders who watched the Kennedy assassination unfold rather than the event itself.By decontextualizing individual and grouped figures from Dealey Plaza's most examined...

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Photography, Found Photography, Photobook, Archives, Criminal Surveillance

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N.A.

Doug Rickard

Imprint: D.A.P. / Distributed Art Publishers, 2014.

Physical Description: 128 pages; 24.1 x 32.5 cm

Contributors: Z. Redman (Text); Ann Garlid (Poem)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: August 2026

Catalogued: September 1, 2026

Doug Rickard's N.A. gathers still frames pulled from YouTube videos uploaded by ordinary Americans, assembling a jittery, unauthorized portrait of the country's urban underbelly.Over roughly three years, Rickard combed through amateur cellphone footage, pausing and advancing...

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Photography, Found Photography, Appropriation

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Taxi Dirty Book

Yoshinori Mizutani

Imprint: Boabooks, 2014.

Physical Description: 48 pages; 29.5 x 20.8 cm

Binding: Softcover

Language: No text

Acquired: August 2026

Catalogued: September 1, 2026

Yoshinori Mizutani's first book pairs two bodies of pictures made in Tokyo: taxi drivers photographed frontally from the back seat, and books and magazines, some of them pornographic, abandoned on the street....

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Photography, Photobook, Japanese Photography, Street Photography, Voyeurism

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Rear Window

Jordi Huisman

Imprint: The Velvet Cell, 2014.

Physical Description: 24 pages; 19.3 x 15.2 cm

Binding: Softcover, saddle-stitch

Language: English

Acquired: August 2026

Catalogued: September 1, 2026

Rear Window turns Dutch photographer Jordi Huisman's camera on the backs of buildings across European capitals, the unplanned, patched-together architecture that faces courtyards and alleys rather than the street....

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Photography, Photobook, Architecture, Urban Landscape, City Surveillance

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Periscope

José Diniz

Imprint: Editora Madalena / Editora Terceiro Nome, 2014.

Physical Description: 74 pages; 22.6 x 22.6 cm

Binding: Softcover with clear plastic protective cover

Language: Portuguese

Acquired: August 2026

Catalogued: September 1, 2026

Over eight years, José Diniz traced the Brazilian coastline from Maranhão to Rio Grande do Sul and into Uruguay, photographing people, buildings, and the horizon always from the same low, water-level vantage: face-on, beneath, or above the waves....

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Photography, Photobook, Brazilian Photography, Landscape

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Temps Mort

Mohamed Bourouissa

Imprint: Études Studio / kamel mennour, 2014.

Physical Description: 140 pages; 32.0 x 23.6 cm

Contributors: Al (Collaborator); Magali Jauffret (Text)

Binding: Softcover with embossed cover

Language: English/French

Acquired: August 2026

Catalogued: September 1, 2026

Temps Mort gathers eight months of exchanges between the French-Algerian artist Mohamed Bourouissa and his friend Al, an inmate, conducted entirely by SMS and MMS on a phone smuggled into the prison where Al was held....

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Photography, Artist Book, Incarceration, Collaborative Art, Eyeballing

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North Warning System

Donovan Wylie

Imprint: Steidl, 2014.

Physical Description: 40 pages; 23.4 x 30.5 cm

Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket

Language: English

Acquired: August 2026

Catalogued: September 1, 2026

North Warning System is the third and final book in Donovan Wylie's Tower series, a body of work concerned with the relationship between vision and power in military architecture. Here Wylie photographs a radar installation just inside the Canadian Arctic, part of the network of...

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Photography, Photobook, Military, State Surveillance

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Imprint: Spector Books, 2014.

Physical Description: 624 pages; 31.0 x 21.8 cm

Contributors: Peter Kamber (Text)

Binding: Thread-sewn lay-flat brochure with flaps

Language: English/German

Acquired: August 2026

Catalogued: September 1, 2026

Miklós Klaus Rózsa was kept under surveillance for nearly two decades by the Swiss Federal Office of Police, the cantonal police, and the Zurich municipal police, who compiled a State Protection file on him between 1971 and 1989....

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Photography, Photobook, Archive, State Surveillance

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Kim Jong Il Looking At Things

João Rocha

Imprint: Jean Boîte Éditions, 2014.

Physical Description: 192 pages; 24.1 x 17.3 cm

Contributors: Marco Bohr (Essay)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English/French

Acquired: August 2026

Catalogued: September 1, 2026

Kim Jong Il Looking At Things collects and republishes photographs appropriated from the North Korean Central News Agency, all showing the country's late leader in the act of inspecting something, usually flanked by an entourage of military officers and advisers who appear...

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Photography, Photobook, Propaganda, State Surveillance

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Identity Zine

Dave Naz

Imprint: Self-published, 2014.

Physical Description: ; 20.6 x 14.6 cm

Binding: Zine

Language: English

Acquired: August 2026

Catalogued: September 1, 2026

Identity Zine #1 is a self-published photo zine of portraits by Los Angeles photographer Dave Naz, documenting people across the transgender and genderqueer spectrum. The project grew out of an earlier book, Genderqueer: And Other Gender Identities, using images Naz shot for...

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Photography, Zines, Self-Published, Queer, Identity, Gender

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Benedetta Pomini

Imprint: Skinnerboox, 2015.

Physical Description: 196 pages; 29 x 20.5 cm

Binding: Softcover, PUR binding

Language: English

Acquired: August 2026

Catalogued: September 1, 2026

NTSOTWBH: Never Take Shortcuts On The Way Back Home works from the Interpol missing-persons database, the only public international registry of its kind, to ask what a photograph does once it is disconnected from the person it depicts....

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Photography, Photobook, Archives, Identity

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Robber Queen's Favorites

Nathaniel Matthews

Imprint: 8 Ball Zines, 2015.

Physical Description: 38 pages; 27.9 x 21.6 cm

Binding: Softcover, full color

Language: English

Acquired: August 2026

Catalogued: September 1, 2026

Robber Queen's Favorites reprints, in full color, every photograph a single Flickr user favorited under the handle Robber Queen, organized by subject from the mundane to the violent.Nathaniel Matthews compiled the book from one person's accumulated "favorites," the images a...

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Photography, Photobook, Zines, Found Photography, Disappearing

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Private Rooms

Fred Hüning

Imprint: Peperoni Books, 2015.

Physical Description: 40 pages; 21 x 15.2 cm

Binding: Thread-stitched softcover

Language: English

Acquired: August 2026

Catalogued: September 1, 2026

Private Rooms collects stills Fred Hüning pulled from video clips uploaded to Youporn by private users, cropped down to the domestic space around the subject rather than the subject itself.Hüning's crops move past the point the clips were made for, isolating a bedspread, a shelf...

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Photography, Photobook, Found Photography, Appropriation, Privacy

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Photourist

Andy Gershon

Imprint: Daniel 13 (self-published), 2015.

Physical Description: ; 27.9 x 21.6 cm

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Acquired: August 2026

Catalogued: September 1, 2026

Photourist collects Andy Gershon's photographs of tourists and museumgoers photographing what is in front of them, each picture built around the glowing rectangle of a phone screen held between the viewer and the view....

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Photography, Photobook, Self-Published, Digital Culture

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Modern Monsters: Death and Life of Fiction

Anselm Franke, Brian Kuan Wood

Imprint: Spector Books, 2015.

Physical Description: 300 pages; 26 x 18 cm

Contributors: David Der-Wei Wang (Essay); Nabil Ahmed (Essay); Chen Chieh-Jen (Essay); Reza Negarestani (Essay); Jow Jiun Gong (Essay); Joachim Koester (Essay); James T. Hong (Essay); Jei Li (Essay); Bavand Behpoor (Essay); Sophie Wahnich (Essay); Ian Svenonius (Essay); Eric Baudelaire (Essay); Masao Matsuda (Essay); Mark Fisher (Essay); Alberto Toscano (Essay); Hu Fang (Essay); Chihiro Minato (Essay); Natasha Ginwala (Essay)

Binding: Thread-sewn paperback

Language: English

Acquired: August 2026

Catalogued: September 1, 2026

Modern Monsters: Death and Life of Fiction is the reader that followed the Taipei Biennial 2012, gathering the essays, images, and source texts that shaped the exhibition Anselm Franke curated under the same title....

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Art, Exhibition Catalog, Essays, Contemporary Art, State Surveillance

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Pictures of People Taking Pictures

Cheryl Dunn

Imprint: Heavy Time, 2015.

Physical Description: ; 27.9 x 20 cm

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Acquired: August 2026

Catalogued: September 1, 2026

Pictures of People Taking Pictures is Cheryl Dunn's argument that the compulsion to photograph everything did not start with the iPhone, built from her own pictures of other people mid-shot.Dunn, a street photographer and documentary filmmaker who has spent decades working New...

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Photography, Photobook, Street Photography, Personal Surveillance

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Predator

Jean-Marie Donat

Imprint: INNOCENCES, 2015.

Physical Description: 200 pages; 22 x 19.5 cm

Contributors: Jacinto Lageira (Essay)

Binding: Hardcover, linen cover

Language: French

Acquired: August 2026

Catalogued: September 1, 2026

Predator gathers anonymous amateur photographs from the 1920s through the 1970s that share one incongruous detail: the photographer's own shadow, falling across the frame, always wearing a hat.Jean-Marie Donat, a collector who has spent more than twenty-five years assembling an...

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Photography, Photobook, Found Photography, Vernacular Photography, Identity

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Married Man

Natasha Caruana

Imprint: Here Press, 2015.

Physical Description: 50 pages; 24 x 20 cm

Binding: Hardcover, faux leather case

Language: English

Acquired: August 2026

Catalogued: September 1, 2026

Married Man is Natasha Caruana's record of eighty dates she arranged with married men through websites built for people seeking affairs, each meeting documented on a disposable camera.Between 2008 and 2009 Caruana met more than fifty men, some days three or four in a row, and...

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Photography, Photobook, Documentary Photography, Personal Surveillance

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Podmoskovye

Pascal Anders

Imprint: Self-published, 2015.

Physical Description: 144 pages; 20 x 13 cm

Binding: Softcover

Language: French

Acquired: August 2026

Catalogued: September 1, 2026

Podmoskovye gathers still images pulled from surveillance-camera footage of Moscow's suburbs, printed full-bleed and offered without captions or explanation.Pascal Anders built the book around an epigraph from Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish, using its account of...

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Photography, Photobook, Self-Published

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Hide

Jason Vaughn

Imprint: Trema Förlag, 2015.

Physical Description: 74 pages; 24.1 x 21.0 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: August 2026

Catalogued: September 1, 2026

Hide is Jason Vaughn's first monograph, a photographic typology of deer stands built by hunters across Wisconsin, the state he adopted as his home. Inspired by conversations with hunters who described their stands as structures meant to be passed down to the next generation,...

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Photography, Photobook, Typology, Hunting, Family, Disappearing

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Fear of Disappearance

Mariya Ustymenko

Imprint: Akina Factory, 2015.

Physical Description: 52 pages; 21.1 x 14.7 cm

Contributors: Akina Factory (Sequencing and printing)

Binding: Zine (softcover)

Language: English

Acquired: August 2026

Catalogued: September 1, 2026

Fear of Disappearance began as Mariya Ustymenko's exploration of one's connection to a particular space, developed during a 2015 Arts Council-funded residency with bookRoom under the guidance of Akina in London....

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Photography, Photobook, Zines, Urban Landscape, Self-Published, Disappearing

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Letzte Generation Ost

Kristin Trüb

Imprint: Éditions Bessard, 2015.

Physical Description: 150 pages; 24.1 x 19.1 cm

Binding: Hardcover, boxed

Language: English

Acquired: August 2026

Catalogued: September 1, 2026

Letzte Generation Ost focuses on the last generation born in the German Democratic Republic, centered on a housing complex in Hagenow, East Germany, where photographer Kristin Trüb herself grew up. Trüb interviewed nine of her peers who came of age there, combining their...

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Photography, Photobook, East Germany, Oral History, State Surveillance

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Figur I, Figur II

Andrzej Steinbach

Imprint: Spector Books, 2015.

Physical Description: ; 29.5 x 22.1 cm

Binding: Softcover, thread-sewn

Language: English

Acquired: August 2026

Catalogued: September 1, 2026

Figur I, Figur II collects two related series of black-and-white portraits: in Figur I, a young woman is photographed against a neutral background in a shifting range of poses and clothing that resist a fixed reading of gender; in Figur II, a second figure stands before a...

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Photography, Photobook, Portraiture, Gender, Identity, Self Surveillance

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Lovers

Corey Presha

Imprint: S_U_N, 2013.

Physical Description: 24 pages; 19.1 x 14.0 cm

Binding: Zine

Language: English

Acquired: August 2026

Catalogued: September 1, 2026

Lovers is a limited-edition zine by Corey Presha, drawn from a larger body of work titled Night Shift. The images are pulled from security-camera footage recorded in the elevators of unidentified New York City hotels during the overnight shift, showing anonymous couples in...

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Photography, Zines, Found Photography, Self-Published

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Framing Bodies

Various Artists

Imprint: Art and Theory Publishing, 2015.

Physical Description: ; 26.9 x 21.1 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English/Swedish

Acquired: August 2026

Catalogued: September 1, 2026

Framing Bodies draws on the Hasselblad Foundation's collection to present photographs by fifteen photographers, among them Walker Evans, Nan Goldin, Ernest Cole, Annika von Hausswolff, and Adriana Lestido, spanning from the late nineteenth century to the present....

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Photography, Photobook, Group Exhibition Catalog, Self Surveillance

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Inside Embassies

Elisabeth Ida Mulyani

Imprint: Art Paper Editions (APE), 2015.

Physical Description: 72 pages; 27.0 x 20.1 cm

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Acquired: August 2026

Catalogued: September 1, 2026

Inside Embassies presents Elisabeth Ida Mulyani's photographs of meeting rooms, waiting areas, and anonymous corridors inside a dozen embassies around the world. Working in a restrained, objective style, Mulyani examines the embassy as a physical stand-in for a nation abroad, a...

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Photography, Photobook, Architecture, Diplomacy, State Surveillance

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Dear Erin Hart

Jessamyn Lovell

Imprint: SF Camerawork, 2015.

Physical Description: 58 pages; 23.5 x 16.5 cm

Contributors: Renny Pritikin (Essay); Heather Snider (Introduction)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: August 2026

Catalogued: September 1, 2026

In 2009, artist Jessamyn Lovell's wallet was stolen from San Francisco Camerawork, and her identity was subsequently used by a woman named Erin Hart. Rather than pursue the case only through police and courts, Lovell hired a private investigator and spent nearly two years...

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Photography, Photobook, Identity Theft, Identity

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Foam Magazine #43: Freedom of Expression under Surveillance

Ai Weiwei

Imprint: Foam (Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam), 2015.

Physical Description: 2015288 pages; 30.0 x 23.1 cm

Binding: Magazine, softcover

Language: English

Acquired: August 2026

Catalogued: September 1, 2026

Foam Magazine #43, 'Freedom of Expression under Surveillance,' was produced in close collaboration with Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei, who served as guest editor for the issue. Having lived under constant government surveillance for years, Weiwei uses the issue to turn...

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Photography, Magazine, Self-Documentation

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Peepers Patterns

Cuss This

Imprint: Modes Vu, 2015.

Physical Description: 52 pages; 15.2 x 11.4 cm

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Acquired: August 2026

Catalogued: September 1, 2026

Peepers Patterns pairs photographs of people caught looking out of their windows with images of pattern and repetition, published under the pseudonym Cuss This.A man leans out in a tank top; a woman looks over a balcony ledge....

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Photography, Photobook, Voyeurism

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Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition

Edmund Clark, Crofton Black

Imprint: Aperture / Magnum Foundation, 2015.

Physical Description: 292 pages; 29.5 x 21.6 cm

Contributors: Eyal Weizman (Text)

Binding: Spiral-bound hardback with cloth spine

Language: English

Acquired: August 2026

Catalogued: September 1, 2026

Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition documents the CIA's secret prisoner-transport program through photographs and the paper trail left by the businesses that made it possible.Photographer Edmund Clark and counterterrorism investigator Crofton Black spent...

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Photography, Documentary Photography, War, Human Rights, State Surveillance

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Data Rush

Wim Melis

Imprint: Noorderlicht, 2015.

Physical Description: 256 pages; 23.1 x 17.1 cm

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Acquired: August 2026

Catalogued: September 1, 2026

Data Rush is the catalogue for the 2015 Noorderlicht International Photofestival, gathering fifty photographers and multimedia artists working on the tension between personal data and digital control....

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Photography, Exhibition Catalog, Data Privacy

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Dark Rooms

Nigel Shafran

Imprint: MACK, 2016.

Physical Description: 176 pages; 27.2 x 21.1 cm

Contributors: David Chandler (Essay); Paul Elliman (Essay)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: August 2026

Catalogued: September 1, 2026

Dark Rooms gathers five interlocking series of photographs by British photographer Nigel Shafran, all built around domestic scenes and the routines of ordinary life.The photographs move between the overt, such as supermarket checkout lines and underground escalators, and the...

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Photography, Documentary Photography, Photobook

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Blinds

Philip Tomaru

Imprint: Arts & Sciences Projects, 2015.

Physical Description: 16 pages; 16.5 x 10.8 cm

Binding: Staple-bound pamphlet, risograph

Language: English

Acquired: August 2026

Catalogued: September 1, 2026

Blinds is the first of three risograph-printed pamphlets by Philip Tomaru that read the interior of a Mies van der Rohe apartment building through its architecture of privacy.Photographed at Baltimore's Highfield House between 2001 and 2015, the series works through blinds,...

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Photography, Artist Book, Architecture, Risograph, City Surveillance

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Beautified

Tom B. Aicrag

Imprint: Open Projects Press, 2016.

Physical Description: 26 pages; 21.0 x 13.3 cm

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Acquired: August 2026

Catalogued: September 1, 2026

Beautified is artist Tom B. Aicrag's digest-format study of the Mehadrin filter, a content-blocking technology built to censor what employees at certain organizations can view on a browser.The book compiles undated, unattributed screenshots gathered from unnamed sources, each...

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Artist Book, Censorship, Appropriation

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Astro Noise: A Survival Guide for Living Under Total Surveillance

Laura Poitras

Imprint: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2016.

Physical Description: 240 pages; 24.1 x 16.5 cm

Contributors: Jay Sanders (Curator/Introduction); Ai Weiwei (Contributor); Lakhdar Boumediene (Contributor); Kate Crawford (Contributor); Cory Doctorow (Contributor); Dave Eggers (Contributor); Jill Magid (Contributor); Trevor Paglen (Contributor); Hito Steyerl (Contributor); Edward Snowden (Contributor)

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Acquired: August 2026

Catalogued: September 1, 2026

Astro Noise: A Survival Guide for Living Under Total Surveillance is the catalogue for filmmaker and artist Laura Poitras's first major museum exhibition, staged at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2016, and doubles as a guide to living under mass surveillance....

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Exhibition Catalog, Whitney Museum, Contemporary Art, State Surveillance

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Elvis

Will Boone

Imprint: Karma, 2014.

Physical Description: 32 pages; 26.7 x 20.3 cm

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Catalogued: August 29, 2026

Elvis collects amateur photographs that fans took of Elvis Presley, assembling a portrait of the singer built entirely from other people's snapshots. Published by Karma in 2014 in an edition of 500, the book reproduces found Polaroids and prints, including the cover image of...

Keywords: Art

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Prison Rodeo

Will Boone

Imprint: Karma, 2014.

Physical Description: 48 pages; 26.7 x 22.2 cm

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Catalogued: August 29, 2026

Prison Rodeo gathers found photographs of the rodeos held inside American prisons, part of the found-image research Will Boone drew on for his paintings and sculpture. Published by Karma in 2014 in an edition of 750, the book reproduces black-and-white photographs of inmates...

Keywords: Art

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CAR

Will Boone

Imprint: Karma, 2016.

Physical Description: 40 pages; 26.7 x 21.6 cm

Contributors: Story by Harry Crews

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Catalogued: August 29, 2026

Car collects the automotive imagery Will Boone used as raw material for his paintings and sculpture, turning a working scrapbook into a stand-alone artist's book. Published by Karma in 2016 in an edition of 700, the book reproduces found photographs, advertisements, and...

Keywords: Art

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Pope.L

Will Boone

Imprint: Andrea Rosen Gallery, 2016.

Physical Description: 68 pages

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Catalogued: August 29, 2026

Pope.L, Will Boone documents a two-artist exhibition at Andrea Rosen Gallery that set William Pope.L's language-based sculpture against Will Boone's paintings of found American imagery, letting each artist's work sharpen the other by contrast....

Keywords: Art

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Language 1966-2006

Mel Bochner

Imprint: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2007.

Physical Description: 148 pages; 25.4 x 25.4 cm

Contributors: Johanna Burton (Essay), James Rondeau (Essay), James Meyer (Essay)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: August 29, 2026

Language 1966–2006 surveys four decades in which Mel Bochner turned words into his primary material, treating a sentence the same way a painter treats a mark on canvas. Published by the Art Institute of Chicago to accompany a retrospective there from October 2006 to January...

Keywords: Art, Contemporary Art, Exhibition Catalog

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Zaza Bertrand

Imprint: APE (Art Paper Editions), 2016.

Physical Description: 96 pages; 30.0 x 22.5 cm

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Catalogued: August 29, 2026

Zaza Bertrand spent time inside Japan's rabuho, the anonymous "love hotels" where sex and romance are kept deliberately apart, and Japanese Whispers is the document she brought back. Published by Art Paper Editions in 2016, the 96-page softcover holds seventy color plates...

Keywords: Photography, Contemporary Art

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The Naked Eye

Erica Baum

Imprint: Bureau New York, 2015.

Physical Description: 144 pages; 25.0 x 20.0 cm

Contributors: Jean-Max Colard (Essay), Cathleen Chaffee (Essay)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: August 29, 2026

Erica Baum photographs the fanned, aging edges of paperback books rather than their covers or spines, and this 2015 monograph gathers the first full survey of that ongoing series, begun in 2008. Published by Crevecoeur in Paris with Bureau in New York, the 144-page hardcover...

Keywords: New York City

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Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Imprint: Hatje Cantz, 2010.

Physical Description: 224 pages; 31.1 x 25.4 cm

Contributors: Glenn O'Brien (Essay)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: August 29, 2026

This 2010 monograph traces Jean-Michel Basquiat's eight-year career through more than three hundred color plates, brought together to mark what would have been the artist's fiftieth birthday. Published by Hatje Cantz for an exhibition at Fondation Beyeler in Riehen, near Basel,...

Keywords: Art

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Jean-Michel Basquiat

Imprint: CH, 1999.

Physical Description: 205 pages; 27.9 x 24.1 cm

Contributors: Keith Haring (Essay), Francesco Clemente (Essay), Henry Geldzahler (Essay)

Binding: Softcover

Language: English/Italian

Catalogued: August 29, 2026

This 1999 exhibition catalogue assembles more than a hundred paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat alongside recollections from artists and critics who knew him, and it captures a career that lasted less than a decade yet reshaped American painting....

Keywords: Art

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Scene

Jeannette Montgomery Barron

Imprint: powerHouse Book, 2013.

Physical Description: 136 pages; 29.9 x 23.5 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: August 29, 2026

Scene collects Jeannette Montgomery Barron's portraits of the artists, musicians, and downtown regulars who defined New York's early-1980s underground, a record of a social world made from the inside rather than observed at a distance....

Keywords: celebrity photography

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Wall and Piece

Banksy

Imprint: Century, 2007.

Physical Description: 192 pages; 25.4 x 20.3 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: August 29, 2026

Wall and Piece collects the stencils, photographs, and captions that made Banksy the best-known street artist working under anonymity, gathering roughly a decade of unauthorized work into a single illustrated volume....

Keywords: "street art"

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The Politics of Bacteria, Docile Bodies, Ronde de Nuit

Lewis Baltz

Imprint: Ram Publications, 2017.

Physical Description: 60 pages; 28.3 x 18.1 cm

Contributors: Cornelia H. Butler (Essay/Curator)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: August 29, 2026

This exhibition catalogue gathers three of Lewis Baltz's large-scale color trilogies: Ronde de Nuit, Docile Bodies, and The Politics of Bacteria, the body of work in which he traded the black-and-white seriality of his early career for saturated, multi-panel color installations....

Keywords: Photography, Exhibition Catalog

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Lewis Baltz

Imprint: Steidl, 2017.

Physical Description: 320 pages; 26 x 24.1 cm

Contributors: Walead Beshty (Essay), Urs Stahel (Essay), David Campany (Interview)

Binding: Hardcover, half-linen binding

Language: English

Catalogued: August 29, 2026

Steidl's 2017 Lewis Baltz is the first comprehensive monograph to appear after the photographer's death in 2014, assembling five decades of work into a single retrospective volume. Co-published with Fundación Mapfre to accompany the first full-scale exhibition of Baltz's...

Keywords: Photography, Exhibition Catalog

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At The / In Der Albertina

Lewis Baltz

Imprint: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2014.

Physical Description: 108 pages; 24 x 15 cm

Binding: Paperback

Language: German/English

Catalogued: August 29, 2026

At the / In der Albertina documents a two-part exhibition of Lewis Baltz's photographs staged jointly by the Albertina in Vienna and Galerie Thomas Zander in Cologne, built around a recorded conversation between the artist and curator Walter Moser....

Keywords: Photography, Exhibition Catalog

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Lewis Baltz

Imprint: Éditions de la Différence, 1993.

Physical Description: 152 pages; 23 x 23 cm

Contributors: Bernard Lamarche-Vadel (Essay)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: French

Catalogued: August 29, 2026

Published in Paris in 1993, Lewis Baltz pairs a compact survey of Baltz's photographs with a single sustained essay by the French critic Bernard Lamarche-Vadel, one of the closest European readings of Baltz's cool, procedural landscapes....

Keywords: Photography

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Richard Avedon

Imprint: Random House 1st edition, 1993.

Physical Description: ; 36.8 x 29.2 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: August 29, 2026

An Autobiography tells Richard Avedon's life story entirely through photographs, without a written narrative to explain them. Published by Random House in 1993, the book gathers 284 duotone plates spanning Avedon's career from the 1940s through the early 1990s, printed...

Keywords: Biography, Photography

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Artificial Nature

Jeffrey Deitch

Imprint: DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, 1990.

Physical Description: 152 pages; 27.9 x 20.3 cm

Binding: Paperback

Language: English, Greek

Catalogued: August 29, 2026

Artificial Nature is the catalogue for a 1990 group exhibition that read the American and European fascination with genetics, plastic surgery, and processed food as a single project: the replacement of nature with its manufactured image....

Keywords: Nature

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Medianoche

Rafael Arocha

Imprint: Self-published, 2014.

Physical Description: 84 pages

Binding: Hardcover

Catalogued: August 29, 2026

Medianoche photographs the small rituals of a night out: the glance, the touch on an arm, the drink held a beat too long, staged in the bars and clubs where courtship still runs on old signals. Rafael Arocha shot the series between 2009 and 2011 in Belgrade, Madrid, Barcelona,...

Keywords: Photography

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Magazine Work

Diane Arbus

Imprint: Aperture, 2005.

Physical Description: 175 pages; 28 x 23.3 cm

Contributors: Thomas W. Southall (Essay)

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Catalogued: August 29, 2026

Diane Arbus: Magazine Work collects the photographs Arbus made on assignment for Esquire, Harper's Bazaar, and other magazines between 1960 and 1971, work she never separated from her personal projects. Edited by Doon Arbus and Marvin Israel with an essay by Thomas W....

Keywords: Periodical, Photography

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Nobuyoshi Araki: Eros Diary

Nobuyoshi Araki

Imprint: ANTHONY D'OFFAY, 2016.

Physical Description: 92 pages; 24.1 x 17.8 cm

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Catalogued: August 29, 2026

Eros Diary collects eighty-seven new photographs in which Nobuyoshi Araki turns from provocation toward something quieter: an old man taking stock of loss. Published by Anthony d'Offay in 2016 to accompany Araki's exhibition of the same name at Anton Kern Gallery in New York,...

Keywords: Biography

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Monochrome Paradise

Nobuyoshi Araki

Imprint: Adachi, 2015.

Physical Description: 96 pages; 25.7 x 25.7 cm

Binding: Softcover

Language: Japanese, English

Catalogued: August 29, 2026

Monochrome Paradise gathers seventy-five black-and-white photographs in which Nobuyoshi Araki turns dolls, dying flowers, and toy animals into a small theater of decay and desire. Published by Adachi Press in 2015, the book continues Araki's long-running "Paradise" project,...

Keywords: language-arts-disciplines

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Black Panther Coloring Book

Anonymous

Imprint: S_U_N_, 2016.

Physical Description: 46 pages; 28 x 21.5 cm

Contributors: Corey Presha (Reissue Artist), Bill Sullivan (Reissue Artist)

Binding: Softcover, saddle-stitched

Language: English

Catalogued: August 29, 2026

The Black Panther Coloring Book is a 1968 pamphlet whose true origin is still disputed: was it Black Panther propaganda, an FBI forgery meant to discredit the Panthers, or an internal Panther drawing the FBI later weaponized against its own creators....

Keywords: coloring-book, Coloring Book

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Strip

Kathryn Andrews

Imprint: Koenig, 2015.

Physical Description: 246 pages; 23 x 17 cm

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Catalogued: August 29, 2026

Kathryn Andrews' Strip turns snapshots of the Hollywood Walk of Fame into a flip-book of tourists, street performers, and the traffic lights between them. Andrews photographed Hollywood Boulevard at street level, then laid the pictures out in overlapping rows that shift left and...

Keywords: art-modern

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Swedish Girls: A Tribute

Nina Andersson

Imprint: Argent Books, 2014.

Physical Description: 200 pages; 25.5 x 18.5 cm

Contributors: Nina Tahko (Designer), Louise Enhörning (Photographer), Nina Andersson (Photographer)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: Swedish

Catalogued: August 29, 2026

Swedish Girls: A Tribute gathers five years of portraits by photographers Nina Andersson and Louise Enhörning, each working independently to picture young women across Sweden. Between them, Andersson and Enhörning photographed one hundred women, building a loose collective...

Keywords: Photography, Portraiture

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Disobedient Bodies

JW Anderson

Imprint: InOtherWords, 2017.

Physical Description: 142 pages; 31 x 23 cm

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Catalogued: August 29, 2026

JW Anderson built Disobedient Bodies as a second exhibition on paper, pairing sculpture by Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore with the fashion he designs for a living. The book documents Anderson's 2017 exhibition at The Hepworth Wakefield, where he set works by Hepworth, Moore,...

Keywords: Fashion, Art, Exhibition Catalog

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Bleu Blanc Rouge

Christopher Anderson

Imprint: Hatje Cantz, 2019.

Physical Description: 32 pages; 36.0 x 27.0 cm

Contributors: Nadine Barth (Text)

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Catalogued: August 29, 2026

In Bleu Blanc Rouge, Christopher Anderson lays out a decade of color pictures made across the United States and Europe like pages torn from an unfinished magazine, image after image left to argue its own case....

Keywords: photography-artistic

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Christopher Anderson: Stump

Christopher Anderson

Imprint: Rm, 2014.

Physical Description: 96 pages

Contributors: John Heilemann (Essay)

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Catalogued: August 29, 2026

Christopher Anderson's Stump collects color and black-and-white pictures from the 2012 U.S. presidential campaign trail, close-cropped portraits that catch politicians mid-gesture, between rehearsed composure and unscripted strain....

Keywords: politics, Photography

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Dirty Windows

Merry Alpern

Imprint: Art Pub Inc First Edition, First Printing, 1995.

Physical Description: 112 pages; 29.2 x 23.5 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: August 29, 2026

Merry Alpern's Dirty Windows reduces surveillance photography to its rawest form: forty-some black-and-white frames shot through a bathroom window, aimed at a makeshift brothel used by Wall Street traders after hours....

Keywords: New York City, prostitution, sex, sex-work downtown, Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Voyeurism

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Formulation: Articulation

Josef Albers

Imprint: T.G. Rosenthal, 2006.

Physical Description: 168 pages; 33.0 x 24.8 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: August 29, 2026

Josef Albers spent his final years on the Formulation: Articulation portfolios, a two-part set of silkscreens that stands as his own summary of a lifetime spent testing what color does to the eye. This 2006 Thames & Hudson edition, introduced by T.G....

Keywords: Art, Painting

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Arrival, The Third Line, Dubai

Farah Al Qasimi

Imprint: Self, 2019.

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Catalogued: August 29, 2026

Farah Al Qasimi's Arrival uses the imagery of horror cinema to stage jinn folklore drawn from across the United Arab Emirates. Self-published in a signed edition of 100 for Al Qasimi's third solo exhibition at The Third Line in Dubai, running September through November 2019, the...

Keywords: Photography

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Monument For Nothing

Makoto Aida

Imprint: Graphic Sha Pub Co, 2007.

Physical Description: 248 pages; 29.8 x 23.5 cm

Contributors: Gabriel Ritter (Introduction)

Binding: Boards

Language: Japanese, English

Catalogued: August 29, 2026

Makoto Aida's Monument for Nothing gathers two decades of a practice built on refusing to settle into one style, medium, or position. Published by Graphic-sha in 2007 to accompany a survey of Aida's work, the 245-page volume runs text in Japanese and English and includes a...

Keywords: pop-culture-art, Pop Culture, Art

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CDMX

Grace Ahlbom

Imprint: Dashwood, 2020.

Physical Description: 18 pages; 20.3 x 13.3 cm

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Catalogued: August 29, 2026

CDMX collects Grace Ahlbom's photographs of a group of boys skating through Mexico City, made on a Supreme trip in the spring of 2019 and printed the following year as she went back through her archive in quarantine....

Keywords: Dashwood zines, Photography, Zines

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Dreaming is Heavy Metal

Grace Ahlbom

Imprint: Soft Opening, 2018.

Physical Description: 32 pages; 29.2 x 24.1 cm

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Catalogued: August 29, 2026

Grace Ahlbom's Dreaming is Heavy Metal reworks the imagery of Norwegian black metal fandom into a set of staged photographs, made after a chance visit to a record shop shrine to the scene's 1990s originators....

Keywords: music, Photography

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Gone?

Robert Adams

Imprint: Steidl Photography International, 2010.

Physical Description: 116 pages; 26 x 26 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: August 29, 2026

Robert Adams calls Gone? his most personal book: a return to the semi-rural stretch of Colorado where he grew up, photographed decades after he first left it. The 116-page volume collects 119 black-and-white photographs of the Front Range foothills, land Adams had already...

Keywords: Photography

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Lisa Yuskavage

Imprint: Harry N. Abrams, 2004.

Physical Description: 191 pages

Contributors: Tamara Jenkins (Essay and diagrams)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Small Paintings 1993-2004 gathers a decade of Lisa Yuskavage's smaller-format paintings, in which candy-colored light and cartoonishly exaggerated female bodies push figurative painting toward the territory of pin-up and pornographic imagery, then unsettle it from within....

Keywords: Art, Painting, Contemporary Art, Women Artists

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Vertigo

Daisuke Yokota

Imprint: Newfave, 2014.

Physical Description: 96 pages; 21 x 29 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Language: Japanese

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Daisuke Yokota's Vertigo is a photobook built around a bodily sensation rather than a place or subject: the disorientation of being off balance.Across 96 hardcover pages, more than ninety black-and-white photographs, including two foldouts, move through close-up and aerial views...

Keywords: Photography, Japanese Photography

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Dimension of Vision

Toshitsugu Yamawaki

Imprint: Studio A La Page, 2011.

Physical Description: 120 pages; 29.5 x 21 cm

Binding: Softcover

Language: Japanese

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Dimension of Vision is Toshitsugu Yamawaki's first photobook, a 120-page collection built from roughly 2,000 images the artist shot between 2008 and 2011.The book compiles 109 photographs, reworked in the months after the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011, into three...

Keywords: Photography, Japanese Photography

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Berlin / Deep in Thought

Toshitsugu Yamawaki

Imprint: Studio a la page, 2014.

Physical Description: 492 pages; 31 x 23 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Berlin / Deep in Thought is Toshitsugu Yamawaki's black-and-white meditation on the city of Berlin, made as a study of the accumulated historical and political weight held in a single place.Published by the artist's own imprint, Studio a la page, in 2014, the 492-page hardcover...

Keywords: Photography, Japanese Photography

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Gengetsu

Takemi Yabuki

Imprint: Super Labo, 2015.

Physical Description: 110 pages; 29.5 x 23 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Language: Japanese

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Takemi Yabuki's Gengetsu is a portrait project built on withholding: each subject, a stranger approached on the street and asked to pose, appears with part of their face or body cut from view.Yabuki has described the method as a study of visibility and invisibility, of how much...

Keywords: Photography, Portraiture, Japanese Photography

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Jonas Wood

Imprint: Phaidon Press, 2019.

Physical Description: 160 pages; 29 x 25 cm

Contributors: Ian Alteveer (Essay), Helen Molesworth (Essay), Mark Grotjahn (Contributor)

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

The first monograph devoted to Jonas Wood surveys the paintings that established him as one of the most closely watched figures in contemporary American painting.Working from his own photographs, drawings and collages, Wood builds interiors, studio views, potted plants, and...

Keywords: Art, Contemporary Art, Painting

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Archäologie, Beaux Arts, Ethnography, Théâtre-Vérité, Couleur Européenne, Couleur Soviétique, Couleur Chinoise, Varietes

Christopher Williams

Imprint: Contemporary Art Gallery, 2005.

Physical Description: 45 pages

Contributors: Claudia Beck (Curator), John Miller (Essay)

Binding: Paperback

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

This catalogue accompanied an exhibition by the conceptual photographer Christopher Williams at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver, running January 13 to March 6, 2005.Its unusually long title strings together the names of several bodies of work shown together, in a mix...

Keywords: Art, Photography, Contemporary Art, Exhibition Catalog

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Michael Williams: How to Ruin an Omelet

Michael Williams

Imprint: Karma, 2017.

Physical Description: 64 pages

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Michael Williams' How to Ruin an Omelet gathers a body of drawings made in dry marker, a medium the American painter has used as a loose, fast counterpart to his large abstract-figurative canvases.The 64-page paperback, published by Karma in New York, reproduces drawings built...

Keywords: Art, Contemporary Art, Drawing

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Michael Williams: Traditional Cornish Cottages

Michael Williams

Imprint: Karma, 2017.

Physical Description: 112 pages; 29.2 x 20.6 cm

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Michael Williams' Traditional Cornish Cottages is an artist's book that layers hand-drawn portraiture with the flattened imagery of the internet.Throughout the 112-page volume, drawings of faces and figures are repeatedly interrupted by a uniform, cropped image of a browser...

Keywords: Art, Contemporary Art

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Michael Williams

Imprint: JRP|Editions, 2015.

Physical Description: 64 pages; 28.6 x 20.3 cm

Contributors: Dan Nadel (Essay), George Pendle (Essay)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Michael Williams surveys the recent evolution of the New York-based painter's practice, from large gestural oil paintings toward similarly scaled canvases printed with a billboard-sized inkjet printer....

Keywords: Art, Contemporary Art, Painting

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Peer to Peer

Hannah Whitaker

Imprint: MÖREL Books, 2015.

Physical Description: 100 pages; 30 x 25 cm

Contributors: Aaron Kunin (Text)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Peer to Peer is Hannah Whitaker's study of how photographs can behave like a network, iterating and cross-referencing one another rather than standing as single, isolated images.The book alternates a full-page photograph with a following spread of up to four smaller images that...

Keywords: Photography, Contemporary Art

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The Powder

Jocko Weyland

Imprint: Dashwood Books, 2011.

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

The Powder is Jocko Weyland's artist's book on the golden era of American ski culture, built around growing up skiing in Colorado in the late 1970s and early 1980s.Assembled from found and archival imagery, the book sets skiing before its absorption into big commercial resorts...

Keywords: Photography

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Nick Waplington

Imprint: Powershovel Books.

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Made Glorious Summer takes its title from the opening line of Shakespeare's Richard III — "Now is the winter of our discontent / Made glorious summer" — and gathers a body of Nick Waplington's photographs under that note of uneasy seasonal turn....

Keywords: Photography, British Photography

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Homo Viksraitis

Rimaldas Viksraitis

Imprint: Dashwood Books, 2017.

Binding: Paperback

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Homo Viksraitis is a 2017 paperback photobook by the Lithuanian photographer Rimaldas Viksraitis, issued by Dashwood Books, the New York bookshop and small press.Little bibliographic detail on the book's contents is available from the sources checked; it was published as a...

Keywords: Photography, Documentary Photography

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SPBN: Self Publish, Be Naughty

NA VA

Imprint: Self Publish, Be Happy.

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Self Publish, Be Naughty is an anthology assembled under the Self Publish, Be Happy imprint, edited by Bruno Ceschel, bringing together self-published photographic work from a wide roster of contributors....

Keywords: Photography, Zines

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Prkýnka na maso jsme uřízli

Martina Overstreet

Imprint: Yinachi, 2013.

Contributors: Michal Nanoru (Author)

Language: Czech

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Prkýnka na maso jsme uřízli documents the first years of Czech skateboarding culture, up to 1990, through photographs and first-person accounts from people who were part of the scene.The book combines archival and contemporary photography with interviews, including with actor...

Keywords: Photography, Youth Culture

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Yes Yes Yes Alternative Press: '66-'77 from Provo to Punk

NA VA

Imprint: VIAINDUSTRIAE, 2015.

Physical Description: 493 pages

Binding: Paperback

Language: English/Italian

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Yes Yes Yes Alternative Press: '66-'77 from Provo to Punk is a survey catalogue documenting the international underground and alternative press of the late 1960s and 1970s, from the Dutch Provo movement through to the emergence of punk....

Keywords: Art, Zines, Underground Press, Exhibition Catalog

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Nuogo kūno teorija

NA VA

Imprint: Kaunas Photography Gallery, 2016.

Physical Description: 94 pages; 23 x 17 cm

Contributors: Milda Kiaušaitė (Text)

Binding: Softcover, Swiss binding

Language: Lithuanian and English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Nuogo kūno teorija (Theory of a Naked Body) is a group exhibition catalogue examining how Lithuanian photographers pictured the nude body across three decades of the country's twentieth-century photography....

Keywords: Photography, Exhibition Catalog

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Nudes: Curated by Julien Dossena

NA VA

Imprint: A Magazine Curated By, 2016.

Physical Description: 100 pages

Contributors: Julien Dossena (Curator), Coco Capitán (Photographs and text)

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Nudes is a fashion-photography publication commissioned as a deliberate response to Jean Clemmer's 1969 monograph Nues, a book of female nudes styled in Paco Rabanne's sculptural metal and plastic garments....

Keywords: Fashion, Photography, Contemporary Art

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Photobook Phenomenon

NA VA

Imprint: RM Verlag, 2017.

Physical Description: 120 pages; 25.4 x 19.1 cm

Contributors: Martin Parr (Contributor)

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name at Barcelona's Centre de Cultura Contemporània (CCCB), Photobook Phenomenon traces the rise of the photobook from an overlooked publishing format to one of the central forms through which contemporary photography circulates....

Keywords: Photography, Exhibition Catalog, Photobooks

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Jonas / 12

Willy Vanderperre

Imprint: IDEA, 2017.

Binding: Unbound, in poly bag

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Jonas / 12 gathers intimate portraits and close-up studies of the model Jonas Gloer by fashion photographer Willy Vanderperre, stripping his subject away from the clothes and sets of a fashion shoot to the face alone....

Keywords: Photography, Fashion, Zines

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Kiki / 12

Willy Vanderperre

Imprint: IDEA, 2017.

Physical Description: 23 pages; 27.5 x 20 cm

Binding: Unbound folded fanzine

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Kiki / 12 is one part of a twelve-issue fanzine project by fashion photographer Willy Vanderperre, each installment built around a single model rather than a season or a brand.Published by IDEA in London in 2017, this issue is devoted to Kiki Willems: an unbound, loose-folded...

Keywords: Fashion, Photography, Zines, Portraiture

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Can't Pay You to Disappear

Thomas Vandenberghe

Imprint: AKINA Books, 2016.

Physical Description: 80 pages

Binding: Softcover, French fold, stab-strip bound

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Thomas Vandenberghe's Can't Pay You to Disappear is a handmade photobook that unravels the life span of an intense relationship, where love, obsession and loss run together into a single, urgent narrative....

Keywords: Photography, Zines

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Paris Mortel

Johan van der Keuken

Imprint: C. de Boer Jr. (DEBO), 1963.

Binding: Hardcover, first edition

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Paris Mortel is Johan van der Keuken's early photobook of Paris, made while he was still in his twenties and years before he turned primarily to filmmaking.Published in 1963 by C. de Boer Jr. in Hilversum, the book gathers black-and-white street photographs made in Paris, where...

Keywords: Photography, Street Photography

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Houseplants Covered With Snow

Ruth van Beek

Imprint: Dashwood Books, 2014.

Physical Description: 45 pages; 24.1 x 17.1 cm

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Houseplants Covered With Snow is a small collage artist book by the Dutch artist Ruth Van Beek, built entirely from cut, folded, and reassembled photographs sourced from vintage horticultural books and magazines....

Keywords: Art, Collage, Photography

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Real Nazis

Piotr Uklanski

Imprint: Edition Patrick Frey, 2017.

Physical Description: 271 pages; 25.4 x 19.1 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Real Nazis sets Hollywood film stills of actors playing Nazi officers directly against archival photographs of the real Third Reich officials and war criminals they were cast to resemble, and lets the reader try to tell the two apart....

Keywords: Art, Contemporary Art, Photography, Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition Two

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Cy Twombly: In Beauty It Is Finished: Drawings, 1951–2008

Cy Twombly

Imprint: Rizzoli International Publications, in association with Gagosian Gallery, 2018.

Physical Description: 125 pages

Contributors: David Anfam (Essay)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Cy Twombly: In Beauty It Is Finished surveys one of the least publicly seen strands of the artist's output: his drawings, made between 1951 and 2008.The 125-page hardcover volume was published by Rizzoli in association with Gagosian Gallery to accompany a gallery exhibition of...

Keywords: Art, Contemporary Art, Drawing, Exhibition Catalog

Wolfgang Tillmans

Imprint: Walther König, Köln, 1997.

Physical Description: 128 pages; 24.1 x 16.5 cm

Binding: Softcover

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Concorde is Wolfgang Tillmans' sustained study of a single subject: the Concorde supersonic jet, photographed taking off, landing, in flight, and sometimes reduced to a tiny, birdlike silhouette in the sky....

Keywords: Photography, Art

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Wer Liebe wagt lebt morgen

Wolfgang Tillmans

Imprint: Hatje Cantz, 1996.

Contributors: Annelie Lütgens (Text), Helen Molesworth (Text), Collier Schorr (Text)

Binding: Softcover

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Wer Liebe wagt lebt morgen is a Wolfgang Tillmans exhibition publication, gathering the photographer's images of everyday life, intimacy, and observation as printed and installed for the show.Published in Ostfildern-Ruit, the book follows Tillmans's characteristic method of...

Keywords: Photography, Contemporary Art, Exhibition Catalog

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Wolfgang Tillmans: Portikus Frankfurt

Wolfgang Tillmans

Imprint: Portikus Frankfurt, 1995.

Contributors: Neville Wakefield (Text)

Language: German/English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

A catalogue published for Wolfgang Tillmans' 1995 exhibition at Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, one of the early institutional shows that established the loose, wall-spanning installation approach central to his work....

Keywords: Photography, Contemporary Art, Exhibition Catalog

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Wolfgang Tillmans: Kunsthalle Zürich

Wolfgang Tillmans

Imprint: JRP Ringier Kunstverlag, 1995.

Physical Description: 81 pages

Contributors: Bernhard Bürgi (Text), Bettina Marbach (Text)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English/German/French

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Wolfgang Tillmans: Kunsthalle Zürich is the catalogue for the artist's 1995 exhibition at Kunsthalle Zürich, one of his earliest institutional surveys.The 81-page volume, bound in gray-green boards with photo-illustrated covers, reproduces the photographs shown in the...

Keywords: Photography, Exhibition Catalog, Contemporary Art

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Wolfgang Tillmans

Imprint: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 1995.

Physical Description: 176 pages

Contributors: Simon Watney (Text)

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

The book that introduced Wolfgang Tillmans to a general audience, and the one that fixed the loose, unhierarchical way of looking he had been building in magazines since the late 1980s.Published by Taschen in Cologne in June 1995, edited by Burkhard Riemschneider with a text by...

Keywords: Photography, Contemporary Art, Portraiture, Queer Culture

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Saturated Light: Silver Works

Wolfgang Tillmans

Imprint: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, 2021.

Physical Description: 416 pages; 25 x 25 cm

Contributors: Tom Holert (Essay), Klaus Pollmeier (Conversation)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Saturated Light brings together, for the first time in one volume, almost thirty years of Wolfgang Tillmans's Silver works, abstract photographs built from marks that most photographic processes are designed to eliminate....

Keywords: Photography, Abstract Photography, Contemporary Art

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Edit Beijing

Guy Tillim

Imprint: Editions Bessard, 2017.

Binding: Hardcover

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Edit Beijing collects street photographs Guy Tillim made over a two-week residency in Beijing, working closer to his subjects than in the wide cityscapes of his earlier African work.Tillim shot the series and, with designer Syb Kuiper, edited it down into a sequence that places...

Keywords: Photography, Street Photography

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Showboat: Punk / Sex / Bodies

Toby Mott

Imprint: Dashwood Books, 2016.

Binding: Softcover

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Showboat: Punk / Sex / Bodies explores sex in punk and punk in sex, drawing on Toby Mott's archive of punk-era ephemera to complicate a movement often read as almost asexual.Edited by Toby Mott from the Mott Collection, his holdings of punk, protest, and subcultural print...

Keywords: Art, Zines

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Wayward Cognitions

Ed Templeton

Imprint: Um Yeah Arts, 2014.

Physical Description: 160 pages

Contributors: Stijn Huijts (Text)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Wayward Cognitions collects two decades of Ed Templeton's photographs of Orange County, California, an unsentimental record of skate culture, suburban sprawl and adolescence made by an artist who came up inside the world he photographs....

Keywords: Photography, Portraiture

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Contemporary Suburbium

Ed Templeton

Imprint: Um Yeah Arts, 2017.

Contributors: Deanna Templeton (Artist)

Binding: Hardcover, two-volume set in slipcase

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Contemporary Suburbium is a two-volume boxed set in which Ed Templeton and Deanna Templeton each present a separate photographic volume of Southern California suburban life, issued together in a shared slipcase....

Keywords: Photography, Street Art

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Hairdos of Defiance

Ed Templeton

Imprint: Deadbeat Club Press, 2018.

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Hairdos of Defiance gathers two decades of Ed Templeton's portraits of mohawked strangers, and it treats a single hairstyle as a lens onto punk identity, refusal and belonging across generations.A former professional skateboarder turned photographer and painter, Templeton shot...

Keywords: Photography, Portraiture, Street Art

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Season Three

Juergen Teller

Imprint: Steidl, 2016.

Physical Description: 224 pages; 26.7 x 17.8 cm

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Season Three is the third in a series of books recording Juergen Teller's ongoing collaboration with designer Nicolas Ghesquiere for Louis Vuitton.The 224-page paperback follows Ghesquiere's Fall-Winter 2015/16 collection through 118 color photographs, mixing press-kit images,...

Keywords: Photography, Fashion

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Night into Day / De Nuit en Jour

Sarah Sze

Imprint: Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, 2020.

Physical Description: 208 pages; 34.3 x 23.5 cm

Binding: Paperback

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

American artist Sarah Sze (b. 1969) exhibited her first solo show at the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain at the turn of the millennium; two decades later she returned to Jean Nouvel's building with two new sculptures made for the occasion, the subject of this catalogue....

Keywords: Art, Contemporary Art, Exhibition Catalog

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Larry Sultan

Imprint: MACK, 2017.

Physical Description: 167 pages

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Pictures from Home is Larry Sultan's decade-long portrait of his parents in their San Fernando Valley home, and it stands among the most influential photobooks made about family, memory and the American domestic interior....

Keywords: Photography, Documentary Photography, Portraiture, Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition Two

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Love & Hate & Other Mysteries: Found Altered Snapshots from the Collection of Thierry Struvay

Thierry Struvay

Imprint: August Editions, 2016.

Physical Description: 144 pages; 21 x 16.5 cm

Contributors: Glenn O'Brien (Introduction)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Love & Hate & Other Mysteries collects one hundred found snapshots that have been physically altered by the people who once owned them, faces and figures removed with scissors, pen or tears.Drawn entirely from Thierry Struvay's collection of vernacular photography, the book...

Keywords: Photography, Found Photography, Vernacular Photography

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Walking

Thomas Struth

Imprint: Ivorypress, 2013.

Physical Description: 101 pages

Binding: Paperback

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Walking gathers Thomas Struth's photographs of people in motion through public space, extending the artist's long study of how cities structure the bodies that move through them.Published by Ivorypress in a perfect-bound paperback edition of 101 pages, the book sequences images...

Keywords: Photography

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Folklig Idrott

Maximilian Stejskal

Imprint: Edition Patrick Frey, 2016.

Physical Description: 120 pages

Binding: Hardcover

Language: Swedish/English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Folklig Idrott (Folk-athletic games) gathers Maximilian Stejskal's mid-century photographs of traditional Swedish-Finnish rural sport, images made for an ethnographic study and republished decades later as a body of documentary photography in their own right....

Keywords: Photography

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I Will Survive

Hito Steyerl

Imprint: Spector Books, 2021.

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Hito Steyerl's I Will Survive follows a single 3D-scanned bullet as it moves through military supply chains, data servers and international arms fairs, using one object to trace how weapons, images and information now travel the same infrastructure....

Keywords: Art, Contemporary Art, Exhibition Catalog

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Whitewash

Harit Srikhao

Imprint: Akina Books, 2018.

Physical Description: 128 pages; 24 x 16.5 cm

Binding: Softcover, spiral-bound

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Whitewash is Harit Srikhao's first monograph, and it turns a teenage memory of state violence into a body of staged, symbolically loaded photographs rather than a documentary account.Srikhao was a student in Bangkok during the 2010 military crackdown on Red Shirt protesters,...

Keywords: Photography, Documentary Photography, Southeast Asian Photography

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Temporary Discomfort: Chapter I-V

Jules Spinatsch

Imprint: Lars Muller Publishers, 2005.

Physical Description: 120 pages; 33.8 x 24.9 cm

Contributors: Martin Jaeggi (Essay)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English/German

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Jules Spinatsch's Temporary Discomfort documents the security apparatus mounted around five economic summits, working across landscape photography, photojournalism and surveillance imagery.The book collects five chapters made in Davos, Genoa, New York, Evian and Geneva during...

Keywords: Photography, Documentary Photography, Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Photojournalism

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Songbook

Alec Soth

Imprint: MACK, 2014.

Physical Description: 144 pages

Binding: Hardcover

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Songbook turns Alec Soth's eye from the solitary Americans of Sleeping by the Mississippi toward community life: meetings, dances, festivals and communal gatherings across the country, stripped of their news context and read instead as a search for connection....

Keywords: Photography, Documentary Photography

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Let's Panic No. 3

NA VA

Imprint: Let's Panic Magazine.

Contributors: Davide Sorrenti (Photographer), Jim Goldberg (Photographer), Larry Clark (Photographer), William Strobeck (Photographer), Drew Jarrett (Photographer)

Binding: Softcover

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Let's Panic No. 3 is the third issue of the New York art-and-fashion biannual Let's Panic, built around an extensive portfolio of pictures by the photographer Davide Sorrenti.Alongside Sorrenti's pictures, the issue carries Larry Clark's portraits of River Phoenix, Chloe Sevigny...

Keywords: Fashion, Photography, Art

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With And Without You

Jacob Aue Sobol

Imprint: Super Labo, 2022.

Physical Description: 224 pages

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English/Danish

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

A tribute to Jacob Aue Sobol's father, who died when the photographer was twenty and never saw the two decades of work that followed.With And Without You brings together 129 images spanning Sobol's career: highlights from published projects including Sabine, Arrivals and...

Keywords: Photography, Portraiture

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VISTA

Colin Snapp

Imprint: Editions Bessard, 2013.

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Colin Snapp's VISTA is a photographic study of the American scenic overlook, the roadside platform built and framed for tourists to take in a view.Rather than photographing landscape directly, Snapp turns his camera on the apparatus of looking itself: guardrails, viewing...

Keywords: Photography, Landscape

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The Love Doll: Days 1-36

Laurie Simmons

Imprint: Baldwin Gallery / Salon 94 / Tomio Koyama Gallery / Wilkinson Gallery, 2012.

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

The Love Doll: Days 1-36 follows Laurie Simmons as she photographs a life-size Japanese love doll through the invented rhythm of an ordinary life, extending a body of work that has staged artificial figures as stand-ins for women since the late 1970s....

Keywords: Photography, Contemporary Art, Exhibition Catalog

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Libya: Inch by Inch, House by House, Alley by Alley

Giovanna Silva

Imprint: Mousse Publishing, 2013.

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Giovanna Silva's Inch by Inch, House by House, Alley by Alley photographs Libya in the years after the 2011 uprising and civil war, its title borrowed from the language of urban siege warfare.The book belongs to a series of publications conceived by Silva and published by Mousse...

Keywords: Photography, Documentary Photography, Architecture

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Tear Sheets

Pacifico Silano

Imprint: Silent Face Projects with Dashwood Books, 2016.

Binding: Softcover

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Tear Sheets takes its title from the torn and clipped magazine pages that are Pacifico Silano's raw material: found images from vintage gay pornographic and physique magazines, rephotographed, cropped and recomposed into new tableaux....

Keywords: Photography, Queer Culture

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Olele Olala

Kishin Shinoyama

Imprint: Shueisha, 1971.

Physical Description: ; 29.6 x 21 cm

Contributors: Shōzō Tsurumoto (Composition/Text)

Binding: Softcover

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Olele Olala is Kishin Shinoyama's document of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, made on assignment for the Japanese edition of Playboy when the photographer was thirty years old.Issued as a Playboy Special Edition by Shueisha in 1971, the book runs largely in color, its images...

Keywords: Photography, Japanese Photography

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Blind Date

Lieko Shiga

Imprint: La Fábrica, 2026.

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English/Japanese

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Lieko Shiga's Blind Date is a staged, dreamlike photographic series built around couples encountered and photographed in Bangkok, their bodies and motorcycles caught in theatrical arrangements of artificial light and motion....

Keywords: Photography, Japanese Photography

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Steven Shearer

Imprint: Ikon Gallery / The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, 2007.

Contributors: Nigel Prince (Essay), Helena Reckitt (Essay), Nancy Tousley (Essay)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Steven Shearer is the catalogue for the Vancouver artist's first major touring survey, and it remains a key document of a practice built from the discarded imagery of adolescence and internet subculture....

Keywords: Art, Contemporary Art, Drawing, Exhibition Catalog

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Blisner, IL: An Index of Work as Labour as Work

Daniel Shea

Imprint: Fourteen-Nineteen, 2014.

Physical Description: 192 pages; 25 x 18 cm

Contributors: Walter Benn Michaels (Essay)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Daniel Shea's Blisner, IL maps the aftermath of industrial collapse across southern Illinois, using a fictional composite town, Blisner, as a frame for photographs of real post-industrial landscapes and the people who remain in them....

Keywords: Photography, Documentary Photography, Landscape

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Before and After Night Porter

Chris Shaw

Imprint: Kehrer Verlag, 2012.

Physical Description: 144 pages; 32 x 24 cm

Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Before and After Night Porter gathers the black-and-white work of British photographer Chris Shaw (b. 1967), photographs shot in close-up, at unexpected angles and in high contrast, with a formal kinship to the Japanese Vivo and Provoke collectives of the 1960s....

Keywords: Photography, Documentary Photography

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The People on the Street

Nigel Shafran

Imprint: Self-published.

Binding: Softcover

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

The People on the Street reverses Nigel Shafran's usual position behind the camera: between 2016 and 2017 he approached people sleeping rough in London and Paris and asked each of them to take his photograph....

Keywords: Photography

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No Time for Love

Chloe Sevigny

Imprint: Innen, 2015.

Physical Description: 28 pages; 19 x 13 cm

Binding: Zine, side-stapled

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

A self-published zine in which the actress Chloe Sevigny turns a personal photo archive into a public one, pairing snapshots of past relationships with tabloid gossip clippings about herself.No Time for Love collects photographs Sevigny took of the men she loved, in her words,...

Keywords: Photography, Zines

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Pul Ke Niche

Nick Sethi

Imprint: Dashwood Books, 2013.

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Nick Sethi's Pul Ke Niche is a saturated, flash-driven photographic diary of the artist's travels through India, its title translating roughly as "under the bridge."Shot on point-and-shoot cameras with hard on-camera flash, the book moves without hierarchy between street scenes,...

Keywords: Photography, Zines

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Khichdi (Kitchari)

Nick Sethi

Imprint: Dashwood Books, 2018.

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Khichdi (Kitchari) is Nick Sethi's first major artist book, a decade-long project photographing India as both an outsider and a native son, and it announced him as one of the more idiosyncratic voices in contemporary documentary photography....

Keywords: Photography, Documentary Photography

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Things Left Unsaid

Paul Seawright

Imprint: Artist Photo Books, 2014.

Physical Description: 56 pages; 26.8 x 21 cm

Contributors: Nicholas Allen (Text)

Binding: Hardcover

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Paul Seawright turns his camera on the interiors of American and European television news studios, the spaces where footage of distant wars is edited into broadcast narrative.The photographs record the sets, lighting rigs and control desks behind the news anchor's frame, drawing...

Keywords: Photography, Documentary Photography, Exhibition Catalog, Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition Two

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Peter Saville

Imprint: Princeton Architectural Press, 2003.

Physical Description: 191 pages

Contributors: Peter York (Essay)

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Peter Saville's record sleeves for Factory Records recast graphic design as a form of authorship in its own right, and this monograph is the first sustained account of a career that reshaped how music, fashion and corporate identity look....

Keywords: Design, Graphic Design, Music

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Peter Saville: Estate 1-127

Peter Saville

Imprint: JRP|Editions, 2008.

Physical Description: 272 pages; 27 x 21 cm

Contributors: Michael Bracewell (Essay), Wolfgang Tillmans (Contributor), Sarah Morris (Contributor), Sean Snyder (Contributor), Robert Longo (Contributor), Kelley Walker (Contributor)

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

This monograph surveys the visual career of Peter Saville, the designer whose sleeve work for Factory Records reshaped the look of British record design from the late 1970s onward.The book gathers 240 color images spanning Saville's early record covers through his later...

Keywords: Art, Graphic Design, Contemporary Art, Exhibition Catalog

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Landscapes

Lele Saveri

Imprint: Dashwood Books, 2015.

Physical Description: 120 pages; 18.4 x 12.1 cm

Binding: Softcover

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Landscapes is Lele Saveri's photobook of nude and botanical studies pushed through months of Risograph experimentation, treating the printing process itself as much a subject as the bodies and plants it depicts....

Keywords: Photography, Art, Zines

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Roxane II

Viviane Sassen

Imprint: Oodee, 2017.

Contributors: Maria Barnas (Text)

Binding: Hardcover

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Roxane II continues Viviane Sassen's collaborative portrait of her muse Roxane Danset, extending a visual dialogue between photographer and subject that treats the body as a site of shadow, gesture, and mark-making rather than straightforward likeness....

Keywords: Photography, Portraiture

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Sketches: Polaroids made in Africa, 2002-2010

Viviane Sassen

Imprint: Kominek Books, 2015.

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Sketches gathers Polaroids Viviane Sassen made across Africa between 2002 and 2010, a compact counterpart to the more finished photographs of her earlier book Flamboya.Where Flamboya presents Sassen's formal, color-saturated studio and location work, Sketches shows the...

Keywords: Photography

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Of Mud and Lotus

Viviane Sassen

Imprint: Artbeat Publishers, 2017.

Physical Description: 108 pages; 28.7 x 23.2 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Of Mud and Lotus is a photobook by the Dutch photographer Viviane Sassen, published by Artbeat Publishers, Tokyo, in an embroidered hardcover limited to 1,000 copies.The 108-page book gathers colour photographs that draw on Sassen's recurring interests — the body, shadow,...

Keywords: Photography, Contemporary Art, Fashion

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Altered States: The Library of Julio Santo Domingo

Julio Mario Santo Domingo

Imprint: Anthology Editions, 2017.

Physical Description: 479 pages

Contributors: Peter Watts (Author), Jason Brownrigg (Photography)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Altered States: The Library of Julio Santo Domingo documents one of the largest private archives of countercultural material ever assembled: the collection built over decades by Julio Mario Santo Domingo Jr....

Keywords: Art, Photography

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Sterling Ruby

Imprint: Koenig Books / UCCA, 2015.

Physical Description: 144 pages; 22.9 x 17.1 cm

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Struck by the eerie similarities between the giant megalopolises of Los Angeles and Beijing, Sterling Ruby (born 1972) takes the reader into his own journalistic vision, sourcing photographs of landscapes and interiors of the two cities, both shot and found by the artist....

Keywords: Art, Contemporary Art, Photography, Artist Book

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Superstition

Henry Roy

Imprint: Études Books, 2017.

Physical Description: 48 pages; 24 x 17 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English/French

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Superstition exists in a castle in the sky: a sequence of dream-like landscapes and portraits by Henry Roy, drawn from different times and places, that settles into one coherent, self-evolved atmosphere rather than a single story....

Keywords: Photography

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Secrets

Paolo Roversi

Imprint: Editions Stromboli, 2013.

Physical Description: ; 27.94 x 22.86 cm

Contributors: Antoine de Beaupré (Production)

Binding: Loose sheets, printed card cover, in slipcase

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Secrets is a collection of black-and-white portraits by the Italian photographer Paolo Roversi, published under his own imprint, Editions Stromboli, to coincide with a 2013 exhibition at the Fotografiska museum in Stockholm....

Keywords: Photography, Fashion, Portraiture

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King of Diamonds

Ben Rosenzweig

Imprint: Ben Rosenzweig, 2014.

Physical Description: 32 pages; 28 x 19 cm

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

King of Diamonds began as an editorial photography assignment at Miami's King of Diamonds strip club and was reshaped by Ben Rosenzweig into a self-published artist's book.Working afterward with an art director friend, Rosenzweig re-edited and re-sequenced the material away from...

Keywords: Photography

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Headshots

Aura Rosenberg

Imprint: Stop Over Press, 1996.

Physical Description: 96 pages; 24.4 x 16.5 cm

Contributors: Lynne Tillman (Text), Gary Indiana (Text)

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Headshots collects Aura Rosenberg's series of portraits photographing male artists' faces during orgasm, cropped tight to isolate expression from context.Rosenberg photographed each subject — largely artists and figures from New York's downtown art scene — in stark black and...

Keywords: Photography, Contemporary Art, Portraiture

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Time and Space on the Lower East Side

Brian Rose

Imprint: Golden Section Publishers, 2010.

Physical Description: 130 pages; 23.5 x 29.2 cm

Contributors: Ed Fausty (Photographer), Suzanne Vega (Foreword)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Time and Space on the Lower East Side pairs photographs Brian Rose and Ed Fausty made of Manhattan's Lower East Side in 1980 with pictures Rose returned to shoot from the same vantage points three decades later, tracking one neighborhood's transformation street by street....

Keywords: Photography, Street Photography

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The Touch That Made You

Torbjørn Rødland

Imprint: Serpentine Galleries / Koenig Books, 2017.

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

The Touch That Made You was published for Torbjørn Rødland's first UK exhibition, at the Serpentine Galleries in 2017. The show surveyed staged photographs spanning two decades of the Los Angeles-based, Norwegian-born artist's practice....

Keywords: Art, Photography, Contemporary Art, Exhibition Catalog

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Confabulations

Torbjørn Rødland

Imprint: MACK, 2016.

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

A dictionary will tell you that confabulations are memory disturbances, the sincere production of fabricated, distorted memories about oneself and the world, made without any conscious intention to deceive....

Keywords: Photography, Contemporary Art

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Sasquatch Century

Torbjørn Rødland

Imprint: Walther König, 2015.

Physical Description: 152 pages; 26.7 x 21.6 cm

Contributors: Linda Norden (Essay), Milena Høegsberg (Essay)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Sasquatch Century is a midcareer survey of the Norwegian photographer Torbjørn Rødland (b. 1970), published by Walther König in association with Mousse Publishing.The book gathers a selection of Rødland's photographs from the past twenty years, guiding readers through a visual...

Keywords: Photography, Contemporary Art

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Vanilla Partner

Torbjørn Rødland

Imprint: MACK, 2012.

Physical Description: 158 pages

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Vanilla Partner collects a body of staged color photographs by the Norwegian artist Torbjørn Rødland, built from pairings and juxtapositions that feel simultaneously banal and quietly wrong.Rødland works in a highly controlled, almost clinical style of studio and location...

Keywords: Photography, Contemporary Art

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Fifth Honeymoon

Torbjørn Rødland

Imprint: Sternberg Press, 2018.

Physical Description: 136 pages

Contributors: Sianne Ngai (Text), Matias Faldbakken (Text), Steinar Sekkingstad (Text), Axel Wieder (Text)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Fifth Honeymoon collects Torbjørn Rødland's recent photographs, images that stage familiar subjects — hands, food, teenagers, domestic objects — until they curdle into something uncanny.Rødland works in a highly controlled studio style closer to advertising or fashion...

Keywords: Photography, Contemporary Art

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Elixir: The Video Organism of Pipilotti Rist

Pipilotti Rist

Imprint: Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, 2009.

Physical Description: 222 pages

Contributors: Paul Kempers (Text)

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Elixir: The Video Organism of Pipilotti Rist accompanied a large-scale survey of the Swiss artist's video installations, shown at Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam and the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki in 2009....

Keywords: Art, Contemporary Art, Video Art, Exhibition Catalog

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Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest

Pipilotti Rist

Imprint: Phaidon / New Museum, 2016.

Physical Description: 208 pages; 29 x 21.4 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

The most comprehensive monograph to date on Pipilotti Rist, this book surveys the work of a pioneer of experimental video art celebrated for installations that bridge fine art and popular culture, the natural world and the technological sublime....

Keywords: Art, Contemporary Art, Exhibition Catalog

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Tom

Doug Rickard

Imprint: Little Big Man Books, 2013.

Physical Description: ; 22.9 x 27.9 cm

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Tom is a book of vintage found photographs assembled by the artist Doug Rickard, published by Little Big Man Books in a limited edition, now out of print.Rickard built the book around a cache of anonymous photographs — black-and-white images from the 1960s of women,...

Keywords: Photography, Found Photography, Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One

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Portraits

Gerhard Richter

Imprint: Hatje Cantz, 2006.

Physical Description: 254 pages

Contributors: Stefan Gronert (Author), Hubertus Butin (Essay)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Portraits gathers Gerhard Richter's paintings of the human face into a single survey, tracking one of the most persistent threads running through his otherwise restless body of work.Published to accompany an exhibition at the Museumsberg Flensburg, the catalogue reproduces...

Keywords: Painting, Portraiture, Exhibition Catalog, Contemporary Art

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Runts

Robert Rauschenberg

Imprint: PaceWildenstein, 2008.

Physical Description: 46 pages

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Runts documents an exhibition of new work Robert Rauschenberg made in the final years of his career, shown at PaceWildenstein in New York from January 11 to February 16, 2008.The Runts series continues Rauschenberg's decades-long method of combining photographic transfer,...

Keywords: Art, Contemporary Art, Collage, Exhibition Catalog

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Scenarios

Robert Rauschenberg

Imprint: PaceWildenstein, 2005.

Physical Description: 47 pages

Contributors: Oscar Hijuelos (Essay)

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Scenarios presents the paintings Robert Rauschenberg made in the final years of his life, monumental compositions that fuse his signature transfer-printed photographic imagery with passages of bare, unpainted canvas....

Keywords: Art, Contemporary Art, Painting, Exhibition Catalog

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Dromos

Neo Rauch

Imprint: Hatje Cantz, 2018.

Physical Description: 144 pages; 30.5 x 22.9 cm

Contributors: Ralph Keuning (Text), Ulf Küster (Text), Harald Kunde (Text), Norman Rosenthal (Text), Klaus Werner (Text)

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Dromos, Paintings 1993–2017 surveys the painting career of Neo Rauch (born 1960), from his first solo exhibition in 1993 at Galerie Eigen + Art in Leipzig through the present day, tracing developments in his work with examples drawn from prominent international collections....

Keywords: Art, Contemporary Art, Painting, Exhibition Catalog

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Neo Rauch

Imprint: Taschen, 2012.

Physical Description: 462 pages

Contributors: Wolfgang Büscher (Essay), Harald Kunde (Essay), Gary Tinterow (Essay)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English/French/German

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

This oversized Taschen monograph gathers the essential overview of Neo Rauch's paintings, canvases built from startling juxtapositions of figures, architecture, and unresolved narrative.Across 462 pages, the book reproduces Rauch's work at large scale, drawing on a deep...

Keywords: Art, Contemporary Art, Painting

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Terrestre

Arnaud Pyvka

Imprint: Marc Bervillé Éditions, 2014.

Physical Description: 156 pages; 29.7 x 20 cm

Contributors: Julien Carreyn (Text)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: French

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Terrestre is a photographic study of rural France by Arnaud Pyvka, published in a 156-page hardcover by the Paris house Marc Bervillé Éditions.Pyvka's colour photographs move through the French countryside, its landscapes, weather and the people who work and live on the land,...

Keywords: Photography, Landscape Photography, Documentary Photography

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Rob Pruitt's eBay Flea Market: Year One

Rob Pruitt

Imprint: Bruno, 2016.

Physical Description: 296 pages

Contributors: Tommaso Speretta (Text)

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Rob Pruitt's eBay Flea Market: Year One documents the opening chapter of Pruitt's ongoing flea-market project, first staged in New York and since restaged internationally.The project takes the form of a live, open flea market: Pruitt invites artists, dealers, collectors and...

Keywords: Contemporary Art

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Provoke: Complete Reprint of 3 Volumes

Provoke

Imprint: Nitesha, 2023.

Contributors: Takuma Nakahira (Photography), Yutaka Takanashi (Photography), Takahiko Okada (Text), Daido Moriyama (Photography)

Binding: Softcover, boxed set of 3 volumes plus booklet

Language: Japanese

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Provoke reproduces, in full, the three issues of the short-lived dojin-shi (self-published magazine) that reshaped postwar Japanese photography.Founded in November 1968 by critic Koji Taki and photographer Takuma Nakahira, with poet Takahiko Okada and photographer Yutaka...

Keywords: Photography, Japanese Photography

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Die Mauer ist Weg!

Mark Power

Imprint: Globtik Books, 2014.

Binding: Hardcover

Language: German/English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Die Mauer ist Weg! ("The Wall Is Gone!") revisits the British photographer Mark Power's coverage of Berlin in the days after the fall of the Wall, recasting reportage made in November 1989 as a physical artifact of the event itself....

Keywords: Photography

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Von Willich Aus / Starting from Willich: Photographs 1973–78

Sigmar Polke

Imprint: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2015.

Physical Description: 144 pages; 26.7 x 24.1 cm

Contributors: Laszlo Glozer (Text)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: German/English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

In 1972 Sigmar Polke (1941–2010) moved into the Gaspelshof in Willich on the Lower Rhine, which soon became an artist commune. The place had a formative influence on his output: from Willich he set off on numerous journeys with his wife, Katharina Steffen, living and...

Keywords: Art, Photography, Contemporary Art

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Umschläge

Peter Piller

Imprint: Dashwood Books, 2014.

Physical Description: 60 pages; 24 x 17 cm

Binding: Paperback

Language: German

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Umschläge, German for "covers," is Peter Piller's deadpan study of a single Cold War-era publication reduced to its outer wrapper.The book reproduces the front and back covers of Armeerundschau ("Army Review"), the periodical published for the East German National People's Army...

Keywords: Art, Photography

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Walter Pfeiffer

Imprint: RVB Books, 2016.

Physical Description: 78 pages; 31 x 22 cm

Contributors: ECAL (University of Art and Design Lausanne) (Workshop)

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Choli Cholie collects photographs made by graduate students at ECAL, the University of Art and Design Lausanne, during a 2014-15 workshop led by the Swiss photographer Walter Pfeiffer, and stands as a collective homage to his sensibility rather than a monograph of his own...

Keywords: Photography, Contemporary Art

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Ghost

Elizabeth Peyton

Imprint: Hatje Cantz, 2011.

Physical Description: 144 pages; 24.8 x 22.9 cm

Contributors: Hilton Als (Essay)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Famed for her intimate painted portraits, Elizabeth Peyton (born 1965) has also produced a wide range of prints over the past two decades — monotypes, lithographs, woodcuts and etchings worked across diverse paper stocks and inks....

Keywords: Art, Contemporary Art, Portraiture, Exhibition Catalog

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Untitled (Imprint 93)

Elizabeth Peyton

Imprint: Imprint 93, 1995.

Physical Description: 16 pages; 23 x 15 cm

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Untitled is Elizabeth Peyton's contribution to Imprint 93, the mail-art press Matthew Higgs ran out of London between 1993 and 1998, distributing more than fifty artists' editions to a small circle of friends and collaborators....

Keywords: Art, Zines, Portraiture

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Gröna Lund

Anders Petersen

Imprint: Aman Iman, 2013.

Contributors: Jan Stolpe (Text)

Binding: Softcover

Language: French

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Gröna Lund is a new edition of Anders Petersen's debut book, revisiting the photographs he made in the early 1970s at Stockholm's Gröna Lund amusement park, one of the oldest in Sweden.First published in 1973 by Fyra Förläggare as Gröna Lund: om människor på ett nöjesfält, with...

Keywords: Photography, Documentary Photography, Street Photography

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Bottom of the Lake

Christian Patterson

Imprint: TBW Books, 2013.

Physical Description: 256 pages; 27.9 x 22.9 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Bottom of the Lake is Christian Patterson's book-within-a-book: an artist's book built inside a 256-page facsimile of the telephone directory his family used in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin — a town whose name literally translates as "the bottom of the lake" — printed in 1973, soon...

Keywords: Photography, Contemporary Art

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Questions of Faith

Djordje Ozbolt

Imprint: Hauser & Wirth Publishers, 2017.

Physical Description: 160 pages; 31.8 x 22.9 cm

Contributors: Oliver Basciano (Text)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Questions of Faith gathers three years of paintings and sculpture by the Belgrade-born, London-based artist Djordje Ozbolt, whose deadpan humor and magpie borrowings from folk art, art history, and popular imagery unsettle any single reading of belief, ritual, or authority....

Keywords: Art, Contemporary Art, Painting, Exhibition Catalog

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Imponderable: The Archives of Tony Oursler

Tony Oursler

Imprint: JRP|Ringier, 2016.

Physical Description: 520 pages; 25.4 x 20.3 cm

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Since the late 1990s, Tony Oursler (born 1957) has amassed a sprawling personal archive of objects and ephemera relating to magic, the paranormal, film, television, phantasmagoria, pseudoscience and technology....

Keywords: Art, Contemporary Art, Exhibition Catalog

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I/O Underflow

Tony Oursler

Imprint: Oude Kerk, 2015.

Physical Description: 176 pages

Binding: Paperback

Language: Dutch/English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

I/O Underflow documents Tony Oursler's site-specific commission for the Oude Kerk, Amsterdam's oldest building, in which the artist turned a seven-hundred-year-old church into a staging ground for questions about identity, surveillance, and machine cognition....

Keywords: Art, Contemporary Art, Exhibition Catalog

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Eleventh Finger

Yuki Onodera

Imprint: Art Beat Publishers, 2014.

Physical Description: 60 pages; 35.1 x 26.4 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Language: Japanese/English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Eleventh Finger is a monograph of work by the Japan-born, Paris-based photographer Yuki Onodera, published by the Tokyo imprint Art Beat Publishers in a hardcover edition.The 60-page volume gathers a body of Onodera's photographic work in the artist's characteristically...

Keywords: Photography, Japanese Photography, Conceptual Art

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Jason Nocito

Imprint: Dashwood Books, 2015.

Binding: Hardcover, cloth-bound boards with foil-blocked title

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

PUD 3 closes the trilogy in the same terms it opened with: a single lowercase word on a cloth board, and no explanation offered inside.Dashwood Books published it in 2015, a year after the first two volumes....

Keywords: Photography, Contemporary Art

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Alice Neel: Painted Truths

Alice Neel

Imprint: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2010.

Physical Description: 296 pages

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

This is the book that argued Alice Neel belongs in a European lineage of figure painting, and it was the first survey to make that case at scale outside the United States.Organised by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and published in 2010 with distribution by Yale University...

Keywords: Art, Painting, Portraiture, Exhibition Catalog, American Art

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Alice Neel: People Come First

Alice Neel

Imprint: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2021.

Physical Description: 256 pages; 29.2 x 20.3 cm

Contributors: Meredith A. Brown (Text), Julia Bryan-Wilson (Text), Susanna V. Temkin (Text)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Alice Neel called herself a collector of souls, and this catalogue makes the case that her portraits are less likeness than testimony.Published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2021 for the retrospective of the same name, the book surveys seven decades of Neel's painting...

Keywords: Art, Painting, Portraiture, Exhibition Catalog, American Art

Xavier Miserachs

Imprint: MACBA / RM Verlag, 2015.

Physical Description: 128 pages

Contributors: Horacio Fernandez (Curator and text)

Binding: Softcover

Language: Catalan/English/Spanish

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Xavier Miserachs photographed Barcelona as a city that was still being lived in rather than looked at, and this catalogue is the argument that his 1964 book belongs among the great European city books....

Keywords: Photography, Street Photography, Documentary Photography, Exhibition Catalog

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Sweet

Aaron McElroy

Imprint: S_U_N, 2015.

Physical Description: 51 pages; 28 x 21 cm

Binding: Wire-bound softcover

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Sweet is the point at which Aaron McElroy sets aside the muted colour and diaristic drift of his earlier work and reduces the nude to line, form and the coarse grain of a laser print.Published in 2015 by S_U_N, the photographers' cooperative McElroy helped found, the book...

Keywords: Photography, Nudes, Erotica, Self-Published

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Welcome 2 my Room

Maki

Imprint: Média Immédiat, 2010.

Physical Description: 28 pages; 10.5 x 7.6 cm

Binding: Softcover mini photobook

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Maki made these portraits by pointing a Polaroid camera at his own computer screen, photographing the sex workers he was talking to on a Philippine webcam site.Welcome 2 my Room was published in Marseille in May 2010 by Média Immédiat, the mini-photobook imprint Maki founded...

Keywords: Photography, Polaroid, Sexuality, Digital Culture

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Between Screens

Olivier van Breugel, Simone Mudde

Imprint: Not Another Publisher, 2014.

Physical Description: ; 46.5 x 31 cm

Contributors: Nicole Montagne (Essay)

Binding: Softcover, four loose cross-folded sheets

Language: English, Dutch

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Olivier van Breugel and Simone Mudde photographed visitors to the Rijksmuseum's Gallery of Honour as they looked at Rembrandt's Night Watch through the screens of phones, cameras and tablets.The pictures are close-ups of raised hands holding devices, each with the painting on...

Keywords: Photography, Artist Book, Photobook, Museums, Rembrandt, Tourism, Screens, Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition Two

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The Heavens: Annual Report

Paolo Woods, Gabriele Galimberti

Imprint: Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2015.

Physical Description: 218 pages; 31 x 24.6 cm

Contributors: Nicholas Shaxson (Essay)

Binding: Hardcover, slip-cased

Language: English

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

A photobook styled as a corporate annual report, in which Paolo Woods and Gabriele Galimberti follow the world of tax havens, offshore banking and secrecy, and the wealth that collects there.The two photographers spent more than two years visiting the offshore centres where tax...

Keywords: Photography, Documentary Photography, Tax Havens, Finance, Photobook, Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition Two

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Michael Wolf: Works

Michael Wolf

Imprint: Peperoni Books, 2017.

Physical Description: 296 pages; 30 x 24.5 cm

Contributors: Marc Feustel (Essay); Jan-Philipp Sendker (Essay); Wim van Sinderen (Essay)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

A survey of more than four decades of work by the photographer Michael Wolf (1954-2019), made for his first major retrospective.Peperoni Books published it in 2017, as the retrospective opened at the Rencontres d'Arles....

Keywords: Photography, Photobook, Monograph, Retrospective, Urban Photography, Hong Kong, Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition Two

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Tokyo Compression Final Cut

Michael Wolf

Imprint: Peperoni Books, 2017.

Physical Description: 120 pages; 25 x 20 cm

Contributors: Christian Schüle (Essay)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

The fourth and final edition of Michael Wolf's Tokyo Compression, a series of close portraits of Tokyo commuters pressed against subway windows.Peperoni Books reworked the book completely for this edition: 89 colour plates in a clothbound hardcover of 120 pages, with images...

Keywords: Photography, Photobook, Monograph, Urban Photography, Street Photography, Tokyo, Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition Two

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Taking Off. Henry My Neighbor

Mariken Wessels

Imprint: Art Paper Editions, 2015.

Physical Description: 330 pages; 33 x 24 cm

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Taking Off. Henry My Neighbor is a Dutch artist's book that assembles the photographs, collages and clay figures of a man named Henry into a story of a failed marriage, voyeurism and obsession.Mariken Wessels presents the book as the edited archive of Henry, whose studio she...

Keywords: Art, Photography, Photobook, Artist Book, Collage, Found Photography, Voyeurism, Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition Two

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Between Maple and Chestnut

Terri Weifenbach

Imprint: Nazraeli Press, 2012.

Physical Description: 56 pages

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Between Maple and Chestnut is Terri Weifenbach's book on a single suburban neighborhood, photographed as an "anywhere America" of mature trees, green lawns and street names repeated from town to town.The pictures were made between 2005 and 2007....

Keywords: Photography, Contemporary Photography, Landscape, Suburbia, Color Photography, Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition Two

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Thaddé Comar

Imprint: Mörel Books, 2022.

Physical Description: 168 pages; 29 x 20.5 cm

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

A photobook on the 2019 Hong Kong protests that takes surveillance, and the protesters' inventive countermeasures, as its subject. Thaddé Comar spent three months in the city and made around ten thousand photographs, which he spent several years working through after returning...

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition Two, Photography, Photobook, Documentary Photography, Protest, Hong Kong, Contemporary Photography

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Hyenas of the Battlefield, Machines in the Garden

Lisa Barnard

Imprint: GOST Books, 2015.

Physical Description: 192 pages

Contributors: Julian Stallabrass (Essay); Eugénie Shinkle (Essay)

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

A study of the alliance between the US military, the entertainment industry and technology, followed through the screens that mediate modern warfare and the landscapes where it is staged and directed....

Keywords: Art, Photography, Documentary Photography, Military, Photojournalism, Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition Two

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A Guide for the Protection of the Public in Peacetime

Archive of Modern Conflict

Imprint: Archive of Modern Conflict (AMC Books), 2014.

Physical Description: 144 pages; 26 x 20 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

The eleventh issue of the Archive of Modern Conflict's journal AMC2, made to accompany the archive's room in Conflict, Time, Photography at Tate Modern. The book sets out war as seen by the people it draws in, damages and unsettles....

Keywords: Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition Two, Photography, Photobook, Found Photography, War, Vernacular Photography, Archive, Exhibition Catalog

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Will Roscoe

Imprint: Beacon Press, 1995.

Physical Description: 346 pages

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

An anthology edited by the scholar Will Roscoe that gathers myths, folktales, literature and ethnographic accounts about male same-sex desire, offered as a shared body of story for gay men.The book is arranged in sections including "Stories for Boys," "Rites of Passage," "Gay...

Keywords: Queer Culture, Anthology, Mythology, Gay Studies, Two-Spirit

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Tom Bianchi

Imprint: Bruno Gmünder, 2002.

Physical Description: 104 pages; 23 x 21 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English / German

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

A 2002 book of erotic male portraiture in which Tom Bianchi photographs men on one couch in his living room, first of two volumes under the title On the Couch.Bruno Gmünder of Berlin published the hardcover in April 2002....

Keywords: Photography, Queer Culture, Nudes, Photographer Monograph

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Gideon Mendel

Imprint: Trolley Books, 2017.

Physical Description: 88 pages

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

The Ward is a photographic record of two London AIDS wards in 1993, made in the years before antiretroviral drugs changed the course of HIV.Gideon Mendel spent several weeks on the Broderip and Charles Bell wards at the Middlesex Hospital....

Keywords: Photography, Queer Culture, AIDS, Photographer Monograph

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Eric Rhein: Lifelines

Eric Rhein

Imprint: Institute 193, 2020.

Physical Description: 112 pages

Contributors: Mark Doty (Essay); Paul Michael Brown (Essay)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Lifelines is Eric Rhein's first monograph, a memoir in images that follows three decades of work made under the shadow of AIDS.The book brings together photographs from 1989 to 2012, including self-portraits and pictures of friends and lovers from the period of Rhein's HIV...

Keywords: Art, Queer Culture, AIDS, Photography, Artist Book

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Cock, Paper, Scissors

David Evans Frantz

Imprint: ONE Archives at the USC Libraries in collaboration with the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, 2016.

Physical Description: 152 pages

Contributors: Julia Bryan-Wilson (Essay); Ramzi Fawaz (Essay); Glenn Ligon (Contributor); Ian Byers Gamber (Photography)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Cock, Paper, Scissors is the catalogue of a 2016 exhibition on queer collage, from the gay liberation era to the present.The book presents work by fifteen queer artists across generations who cut and reassemble printed matter for what the publisher calls worldmaking....

Keywords: Queer Culture, Collage, Exhibition Catalog, Anthology

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The Music Book

Mark Seliger

Imprint: teNeues, 2008.

Physical Description: ; 34 cm

Contributors: Tom Wolfe (Contributor)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

A collection of music portraits by the American photographer Mark Seliger, drawn from his magazine work. teNeues published the book in 2008 as a hardcover about 34 cm tall. It gathers portraits of musicians from the 1980s onward, most first printed in Rolling Stone and Vanity...

Keywords: Photography, Music, Portraiture, Photographer Monograph

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Touching Strangers

Richard Renaldi

Imprint: Aperture, 2014.

Physical Description: 120 pages; 29.7 x 23.9 cm

Contributors: Teju Cole (Introduction)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

A series of large-format portraits in which a photographer asks strangers to pose together in physical contact. Renaldi began the project in 2007. He works on the street with an 8 x 10 inch view camera, meeting people in towns and cities across the United States, pairing them up...

Keywords: Photography, Portraiture, Photographer Monograph

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The Revolution Is My Boyfriend

Bruce LaBruce

Imprint: Baron, 2024.

Physical Description: 250 pages; 32 x 27 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

A visual anthology of film stills, portraits and personal photographs by the Canadian filmmaker and artist Bruce LaBruce. Baron published the book in 2024 as a 250-page hardcover. It combines stills from LaBruce's films, among them No Skin Off My Ass (1993), Super 8½ (1994) and...

Keywords: Photography, Queer Culture, Photographer Monograph, Film

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Paul Outerbridge

Imprint: Nazraeli Press, 2009.

Contributors: Graham Howe (Introduction); William A. Ewing (Preface and essay)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

The first book to publish a previously unknown body of color work that Paul Outerbridge made in California and Mexico between 1948 and 1955.The photographs were shot on Kodachrome after Outerbridge left the studio for the street....

Keywords: Photography, Photographer Monograph, Color Photography, Modernism, Mexico, California, Exhibition Catalog, Paul Outerbridge

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Unnar Örn

Imprint: Unnar Örn Forlag, 2016.

Physical Description: 196 pages; 17 x 11 cm

Binding: Paperback, sewn bound

Language: English

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Unnar Örn's On the Natural History of Unrest is a book of black-and-white photographs and bitmap images that show large crowds at protests and other activist events.The photographs are cropped wide, and the book gives no descriptions or other text to say what is shown....

Keywords: Artist Book, Photography, Protest Photography, Protest, Activism, Crowds, Iceland, Bitmap Images

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Diary of a Leap Year

Rabih Mroué

Imprint: Kaph Books, 2017.

Physical Description: 720 pages; 20 x 13.5 cm

Binding: Softcover, cloth binding, dust jacket

Language: English, Arabic

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Rabih Mroué's Diary of a Leap Year is a year of newspaper cutouts, one collage for each of the 366 days, made as a personal record of violence in Lebanon and the wider Arab world.Mroué cut the material from local Lebanese newspapers and some international ones, and treats the...

Keywords: Artist Book, Collage, Newspapers, Found Material, Lebanon, Middle East, Political Art, Violence, Diary

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Mexican Crime Photographs from the Archive of Stefan Ruiz

Stefan Ruiz

Imprint: GOST Books, 2015.

Physical Description: 187 pages; 16 x 12 cm

Contributors: Benjamin Smith (Essay)

Binding: Hardback clothbound

Language: English

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Stefan Ruiz's Mexican Crime Photographs publishes a found police-style archive from Mexico City: over 100 mugshots, robbery stills and drawn portraits of criminals and stolen jewelry from the late 1950s to the early 1970s....

Keywords: Photobook, Photography, Found Photography, Vernacular Photography, Mugshots, Police Photography, Crime, Mexico, Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition Two

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Other People

David Horvitz

Imprint: RVB Books, 2025.

Physical Description: 448 pages; 12.5 x 8.8 cm

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

David Horvitz's Other People is a book of strangers' photographs that facial recognition software mistook for the artist.Horvitz searched the web with pictures of his own face and collected the mismatches, photographs of other people that artificial intelligence identified as...

Keywords: Artist Book, Photography, Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition Two, Facial Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, AI, Portraiture, Found Photography, Internet

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Amateur

Fabian Reimann

Imprint: Spector Books, 2013.

Physical Description: 116 pages; 29.5 x 21.5 cm

Binding: Stitched gatefolded brochure

Language: English, German

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Fabian Reimann's Amateur uses FBI archive photographs to look at the studio of the Soviet spy Rudolph Abel, whose cover as an amateur artist was fifty oil paintings.When Abel (1903–1971) was arrested in New York on 21 June 1957, agents found the paintings in his studio....

Keywords: Artist Book, Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition Two, Espionage, Archival Photography, Found Photography, Cold War

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Jaunt

Lotte Reimann

Imprint: APE (Art Paper Editions), 2015.

Physical Description: 48 pages; 30 x 21 cm

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Lotte Reimann's Jaunt turns a found archive of amateur erotica into a road trip of the artist's own invention, with the car as both setting and object of desire.The source is a set of nude self-portraits posted to a photo-sharing site by an elderly couple of amateur...

Keywords: Photography, Artist Book, Appropriation Art, Found Photography, Vernacular Photography, Erotica, Nudes, Car Culture, Internet

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Board: Surf/Skate/Snow Graphics

Jeremy Leslie, Patrick Burgoyne

Imprint: Laurence King / Harper Design, 2003.

Physical Description: 160 pages

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

A survey of the graphic art of surfing, skateboarding and snowboarding, gathering more than four hundred board designs from rare archival material to the work of contemporary studios.First published in 1997 as Bored, the book treats the board as a printed surface with its own...

Keywords: Art, Design, Graphic Design, Skateboarding, Surfing, Snowboarding, Pop Culture

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Covert to Overt: The Under/Overground Art of Shepard Fairey

Shepard Fairey

Imprint: Rizzoli, 2015.

Physical Description: 256 pages; 31.1 x 26 cm

Contributors: Pedro Alonzo (Text); Russell Brand (Text); D*Face (Text); Dennis Morris (Text); Sean Bonner (Text); Mark Sloan (Text)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

A monograph on the American street artist and graphic designer Shepard Fairey (b. 1970) covering 2010 to 2015, the years in which the author of the OBEY Giant campaign moved from paper onto murals, installations and cross-cultural collaborations....

Keywords: Street Art, Graphic Design, Contemporary Art, Pop Culture, Art

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Imprint: Editorial RM, 2010.

Physical Description: 116 pages; 28.5 x 24 cm

Contributors: Gabriel Orozco (Conversation); Eduardo Abaroa (Text); Pedro Alonzo (Text)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English / Spanish

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

The principal monograph on the Oaxaca-based artist and tattooist Dr. Lakra (Jerónimo López Ramírez, b. 1972), whose drawings overlay vintage printed matter with the iconography of tattoo, folk ritual and the underworld....

Keywords: Art, Contemporary Art, Tattoo, Drawing, Collage, Mexico

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Sex Magazine #1–10: 2012–2015

Asher Penn

Imprint: powerHouse Books, 2016.

Physical Description: 360 pages; 28 x 21.5 cm

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

The first print edition of Sex, the free, web-native culture magazine founded in New York by the artist Asher Penn, collecting its first ten issues from 2012 to 2015.Conceived for the browser and distributed at no cost, Sex took its cue from the independent magazine renaissance...

Keywords: Magazines, Periodical, Contemporary Art, Culture, Fashion, Photography

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Modern Artifacts

Tod Lippy

Imprint: Esopus Books, 2020.

Physical Description: 354 pages; 30.5 x 24.1 cm

Contributors: Mary Ellen Carroll (Artist project); Rhea Karam (Artist project); Mary Lum (Artist project); Clifford Owens (Artist project); Michael Rakowitz (Artist project); Paul Ramirez Jonas (Artist project)

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

A compilation of the Modern Artifacts series that Esopus magazine ran with the Museum of Modern Art Archives from 2006 to 2019, reproducing documents from the museum's institutional record in facsimile....

Keywords: Art, Museum Publication, Archives, Contemporary Art, Design

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Magic City: Die Kunst der Strasse: The Art of the Street

Carlo McCormick

Imprint: From Here To Fame Publishing, 2017.

Physical Description: 196 pages; 27.9 x 20.3 cm

Binding: Softcover

Language: German / English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

The bilingual catalogue for Magic City: Die Kunst der Strasse, the touring street-art exhibition curated by the New York critic Carlo McCormick that opened in Dresden in October 2016 and travelled on to Munich and Stockholm....

Keywords: Street Art, Graffiti, Exhibition Catalog, Contemporary Art, Art

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L'Image Obscène / The Obscene Image: Parisian Hospital Break Room Graffiti

Gilles Tondini, Marie L. Bouchon

Imprint: Mark Batty Publisher, 2010.

Physical Description: 160 pages; 28.6 x 21.1 cm

Contributors: Jake Davis (Translation)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: French / English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

A photographic record of the painted salles de garde of Paris, the hospital break rooms whose walls carry generations of obscene murals made by the medical staff who eat and rest in them.Gilles Tondini photographed the frescoes in a dozen hospitals of greater Paris, from the...

Keywords: Photography, Erotica, Graffiti, Culture, Drawing, France

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Trigger

Robert Klanten, Hendrik Hellige, Michael Mischler

Imprint: Die Gestalten Verlag, 1999.

Physical Description: 200 pages; 30 x 24.1 cm

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

A snapshot of late-1990s graphic design from Berlin's Die Gestalten Verlag, gathered from the studios the publisher met while researching its club-flyer survey Flyermania.Trigger collects logos, corporate identities, flyers and print typefaces rather than finished campaigns, and...

Keywords: Graphic Design, Design, Typography, Illustration, Pop Culture

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Alston W. Purvis

Imprint: Yale University Press, 2004.

Physical Description: 112 pages; 24.1 x 19.1 cm

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

The first English-language monograph on Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman (1882–1945), the Groningen jobbing printer who turned the letterpress shop into an instrument for abstract picture-making.Written by Alston W....

Keywords: Art, Graphic Design, Typography, Design, Printmaking

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Fashion at the Time of Fascism: Italian Modernist Lifestyle 1922–1943

Mario Lupano, Alessandra Vaccari

Imprint: Damiani, 2009.

Physical Description: 400 pages; 30.5 x 24.1 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

The first visual history of Italian fashion during the two decades of Fascist rule, tracing how a modernist industry negotiated between international couture and the dictates of the regime.Edited by Mario Lupano and Alessandra Vaccari, the book draws on extensive archival...

Keywords: Fashion, Design, Graphic Design, Photography, Fascism, Culture, Art

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VALIE EXPORT: Zeit und Gegenzeit / Time and Countertime

VALIE EXPORT

Imprint: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2010.

Physical Description: 304 pages; 32.5 x 25 cm

Contributors: Sabeth Buchmann (Text); Yilmaz Dziewior (Text); Elke Krasny (Text); Toby Axelrod (Translation)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: German / English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

The catalogue of the two-city retrospective that the Belvedere in Vienna and the Lentos Kunstmuseum in Linz mounted for VALIE EXPORT in 2010, and the most comprehensive single volume on the artist's work....

Keywords: Art, Contemporary Art, Performance Art, Video Art, Conceptual Art, Photography, Exhibition Catalog

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Christina Lodder

Imprint: Yale University Press, 1983.

Physical Description: 328 pages; 27 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Christina Lodder's history of Russian Constructivism, published by Yale in 1983 and still the standard English-language account of the movement.Working from Soviet archives and from interviews with surviving participants, Lodder traces the movement from the non-utilitarian...

Keywords: Art, Constructivism, Russian Avant-Garde, Soviet Design, Design History, Modernism

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The Russian Avant-Garde Book 1910–1934

Margit Rowell, Deborah Wye

Imprint: The Museum of Modern Art, 2002.

Physical Description: 304 pages

Contributors: Jared Ash (Essay); Nina Gurianova (Essay); Gerald Janecek (Essay); Glenn D. Lowry (Foreword)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

The catalogue of the Museum of Modern Art's 2002 exhibition of Russian avant-garde books, the first full account of the Judith Rothschild Foundation gift of some 1,200 books, journals and related printed works that made MoMA's holdings in the field the largest outside Russia....

Keywords: Art, Russian Avant-Garde, Constructivism, Typography, Graphic Design, Exhibition Catalog, Museum Publication

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Another Science Fiction: Advertising the Space Race 1957–1962

Megan Prelinger

Imprint: Blast Books, 2010.

Physical Description: 240 pages; 27.9 x 20.3 cm

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

A study of the advertising the American aerospace industry ran in its own trade journals between Sputnik and the Apollo commitment, assembled by the historian Megan Prelinger from the pages of Aviation Week and Missiles and Rockets....

Keywords: Design, Graphic Design, Illustration, Science Fiction, Design History, Advertising, Pop Culture

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Mythology: The DC Comics Art of Alex Ross

Alex Ross

Imprint: Pantheon Books, 2003.

Physical Description: 320 pages; 30.5 x 22.9 cm

Contributors: Chip Kidd (Text); Geoff Spear (Photography); M. Night Shyamalan (Introduction); Paul Dini (Text)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

A designed monograph on the painter Alex Ross and his DC Comics work, assembled by Chip Kidd with photography by Geoff Spear and published by Pantheon in 2003.The book gathers Ross's painted treatments of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Flash, Aquaman, Green Lantern and the...

Keywords: Comics, Illustration, Painting, Pop Culture, Graphic Design, Design

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Berlin: The Twenties

Rainer Metzger

Imprint: Abrams, 2007.

Physical Description: 400 pages; 24.1 x 17 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

An illustrated cultural history of Weimar Berlin by the Austrian art historian Rainer Metzger, assembling some 400 photographs, paintings, posters and pieces of printed ephemera from the years between the November Revolution of 1918 and the Nazi seizure of power in 1933....

Keywords: Art, Design, Photography, Weimar, Culture, Modernism, Design History

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László Moholy-Nagy: The Art of Light

László Moholy-Nagy

Imprint: La Fábrica, 2010.

Physical Description: 256 pages; 27.3 x 22.2 cm

Contributors: Oliva María Rubio (Curator and essay); Vincenzo Vitiello (Essay); Hubertus von Amelunxen (Essay); Frans Peterse (Essay); Oliver A. I. Botar (Essay); Jeanpaul Goergen (Essay)

Binding: Hardcover, clothbound with dust jacket

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Catalogue of the touring exhibition László Moholy-Nagy: The Art of Light, organised by PHotoEspaña and curated by Oliva María Rubio, which presented the artist's work across media as a single sustained investigation of light....

Keywords: Art, Photography, Bauhaus, Modernism, Photomontage, Exhibition Catalog

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Merz to Emigre and Beyond: Avant-Garde Magazine Design of the Twentieth Century

Steven Heller

Imprint: Phaidon Press, 2003.

Physical Description: 240 pages; 29.9 x 25.8 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Steven Heller's Merz to Emigre and Beyond surveys the avant-garde magazine across the twentieth century, from Kurt Schwitters's Merz to Rudy VanderLans and Zuzana Licko's Emigre, as the form in which new art, politics and typography first reached print....

Keywords: Art, Graphic Design, Magazines, Design History, Typography, Modernism, Design

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Stephen Powers

Imprint: St. Martin's Press, 1999.

Physical Description: 160 pages; 28 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Written by the graffiti writer ESPO, Stephen Powers's The Art of Getting Over is a history of graffiti from inside the culture, published as the form reached the end of its first three decades.Powers combines a general history with extended interviews with the writers who shaped...

Keywords: Art, Graffiti, Street Art, Culture, Pop Culture, Typography

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Bat-Manga!: The Secret History of Batman in Japan

Chip Kidd

Imprint: Pantheon Books, 2008.

Physical Description: 352 pages

Contributors: Geoff Spear (Photography); Saul Ferris (Collection); Jiro Kuwata (Artist)

Binding: Softcover with French flaps

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Chip Kidd's Bat-Manga! recovers the Batman comics that Jiro Kuwata drew for the Japanese weekly Shōnen King in 1966 and 1967, stories never collected in Japan and never previously translated.Licensed at the height of the television-driven Batman craze, Kuwata's serials pit...

Keywords: Art, Comics, Manga, Graphic Design, Pop Culture, Illustration

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Techniques for Drawing Female Manga Characters

Hikaru Hayashi

Imprint: Graphic-sha Publishing, 2000.

Physical Description: 128 pages; 25.1 x 18.3 cm

Contributors: Society for the Study of Manga Techniques (Series)

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

A volume from Graphic-sha's How to Draw Manga series, this instructional manual by Hikaru Hayashi sets out the conventions for drawing female figures in Japanese comics.Published in Tokyo in 2000 as volume 20 of the English-language series, the book moves from proportion,...

Keywords: Art, Manga, Comics, Drawing, Illustration, Pop Culture

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Disposable: A History of Skateboard Art

Sean Cliver

Imprint: Gingko Press, 2007.

Physical Description: 237 pages; 27.8 x 22.9 cm

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Sean Cliver's Disposable is the standard visual history of skateboard graphics, gathering more than 1,000 deck designs from the early 1980s to the start of the 2000s.Cliver, who drew boards for Powell-Peralta from 1989 and later for World Industries and its offshoots, arranges...

Keywords: Art, Skateboarding, Illustration, Graphic Design, Pop Culture, Design History

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Max Natkiel

Imprint: Voetnoot, 2013.

Physical Description: 623 pages; 24.5 x 22.5 cm

Contributors: Dirk van Weelden (Introduction)

Binding: Softcover

Language: English/Dutch/French

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Studio Paradiso collects Max Natkiel's portraits of the people who passed through Amsterdam's Paradiso club across the 1980s, a decade he spent photographing its crowd rather than its stage.Natkiel worked as a kind of house portraitist for the venue, pulling punks, new-wavers,...

Keywords: Photography, Portraiture, Punk, Nightlife

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Kraftwerk 45 RPM

Toby Mott

Imprint: Vinyl Factory Publishing, 2012.

Physical Description: 96 pages

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Toby Mott's Kraftwerk 45 RPM is a document of graphic design history read through the throwaway object of the 7-inch single sleeve.The book reproduces Kraftwerk 45 RPM single sleeves and associated print ephemera assembled by Mott, presenting the group's cover art, national...

Keywords: Design, Music

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Incoming

Richard Mosse

Imprint: MACK, 2017.

Physical Description: 576 pages; 19.7 x 17.5 cm

Contributors: Giorgio Agamben (Text)

Binding: OTA-bound softback with metallic silkscreened cover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Richard Mosse's Incoming turns a weapon on its subject and asks what is left of a person once a camera can only see their heat.The 280 metallic tritone plates are stills from Mosse's three-screen video work of the same name, made with a thermal imaging camera classed as a...

Keywords: Photography, Documentary Photography, Contemporary Art, Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition Two

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Tertium Quid

Murray Moss

Imprint: August Editions, 2014.

Physical Description: 204 pages; 27.9 x 28.6 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Tertium Quid is Murray Moss's book of paired vintage press photographs, each image set beside another with which it forms an unplanned visual rhyme, a "third thing" produced by the meeting of two unrelated pictures....

Keywords: Photography, Vernacular Photography, Found Photography, Design

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Daido Moriyama: Mirage

Daido Moriyama

Imprint: MMM (Bookshop-M), 2015.

Physical Description: 56 pages; 29.8 x 26 cm

Contributors: Satoshi Machiguchi (Art Direction)

Binding: Hardcover with slipcase

Language: Japanese/English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Mirage collects color photographs Daido Moriyama shot in the 1970s and left unpublished for four decades, presenting the film's chemical decay as inseparable from the images themselves.The pictures, drawn from commissioned work including images made for the Japanese edition of...

Keywords: Photography, Japanese Photography, Color Photography

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Record No. 31

Daido Moriyama

Imprint: Akio Nagasawa Publishing, 2016.

Physical Description: 160 pages; 27.9 x 21.3 cm

Binding: Softcover

Language: Japanese/English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Record No. 31 is one issue in Daido Moriyama's ongoing photo-journal series Kiroku (Record), a run of small, self-published volumes he has produced steadily since 2006.Moriyama began Kiroku in 1972 as a personal counterweight to his commercial magazine work, let it lapse after...

Keywords: Photography, Japanese Photography, Street Photography, Zines

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Record No. 32

Daido Moriyama

Imprint: Akio Nagasawa Publishing, 2016.

Physical Description: 160 pages; 27.9 x 21.3 cm

Binding: Softcover

Language: Japanese/English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Daido Moriyama's Record No. 32 is one installment in a decades-long serial project, a photographer's working notebook issued to the public roughly twice a year rather than a single, discrete book.Like the rest of the Record (Kiroku) series, this issue collects Moriyama's recent...

Keywords: Photography, Japanese Photography, Street Photography

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Carlo Mollino: Polaroids

Carlo Mollino

Imprint: Damiani, 2014.

Physical Description: 288 pages; 26.7 x 21.6 cm

Contributors: James Crump (Foreword), Fulvio Ferrari (Text), Napoleone Ferrari (Text), Silvio Curto (Text)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Polaroids gathers the private photographic practice Carlo Mollino kept almost entirely to himself: hundreds of Polaroid portraits of women, staged in his own Turin apartment and never intended for public view....

Keywords: Photography, Italian Design, Vernacular Photography

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Tokyo Parrots

Yoshinori Mizutani

Imprint: amana / IMA Photobooks, 2014.

Physical Description: 90 pages; 24.4 x 18 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Yoshinori Mizutani's Tokyo Parrots follows the feral rose-ringed parakeets, descended from pets brought to Japan in the 1970s, that now flock by the hundreds over Tokyo.Mizutani has said his first encounter with an enormous flock left him afraid, "like I had fallen into the...

Keywords: Photography, Japanese Photography, Nature

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Joan Mitchell: I Carry My Landscapes Around with Me

Joan Mitchell

Imprint: David Zwirner Books, 2020.

Physical Description: 104 pages; 35.6 x 25.4 cm

Contributors: Suzanne Hudson (Essay), Robert Slifkin (Essay)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

I Carry My Landscapes Around with Me is the first publication devoted to Joan Mitchell's multipanel paintings, the large-scale works she built by joining two to five canvases across four decades of practice....

Keywords: Art, Painting, Abstract Art, Exhibition Catalog

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Some Thing Means Everything to Somebody

Peter Mitchell

Imprint: RRB Photobooks, 2015.

Physical Description: 132 pages; 28.7 x 23.8 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Peter Mitchell's Some Thing Means Everything to Somebody tells an autobiography sideways, through faceless scarecrows standing alone in empty Yorkshire fields.Mitchell photographed scarecrows he sought out specifically because they had no face, treating them as stand-ins for...

Keywords: Photography, Documentary Photography

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Pretty/Dirty

Marilyn Minter

Imprint: Gregory R. Miller & Co., 2015.

Physical Description: 176 pages; 27.9 x 24.8 cm

Contributors: Bill Arning (Essay), Elissa Auther (Essay), Eileen Myles (Contributor), Richard Hell (Contributor)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Pretty/Dirty is the catalog for Marilyn Minter's first full-career survey, tracking four decades of work that renders glamour and desire in almost unbearable close-up — lip gloss, sweat, spit, jewelry, and grime rendered with the same hyperreal precision....

Keywords: Art, Contemporary Art, Painting, Photography, Exhibition Catalog

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Ray K. Metzker

Imprint: Laurence Miller Gallery, 1988.

Physical Description: 16 pages

Contributors: Tom Goodman (Introduction)

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Ray K. Metzker's Earthly Delights catalogs a body of close, dense black-and-white studies of foliage and undergrowth, a quieter register from a photographer best known for stark urban abstraction.Produced for Metzker's exhibition at Laurence Miller Gallery in New York, on view...

Keywords: Photography, Exhibition Catalog

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Immersion / Visions

Joel Meyerowitz

Imprint: Winch, 2014.

Physical Description: 94 pages

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Immersion / Visions is the catalogue for a two-part exhibition of Joel Meyerowitz's work staged at La Piscine, the art and industry museum in Roubaix housed in a former Art Deco swimming pool.Published by Winch in 2014, the 94-page volume documents the exhibition's two halves:...

Keywords: Photography, Exhibition Catalog, Color Photography

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Life Adjustment Center

Ryan McGinley

Imprint: Dashwood Books, 2010.

Physical Description: 95 pages; 24.5 x 18 cm

Binding: Hardcover, cloth boards

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Life Adjustment Center pairs two strands of Ryan McGinley's work from the same period: staged black-and-white nude studio portraits, often shared with live animals, set against the loose, saturated color photographs he made travelling with friends across the American landscape....

Keywords: Photography, Nudes, Travel Photography

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Ground: A Reprise of Photographs from the Farm Security Administration

Bill McDowell

Imprint: Daylight Books, 2016.

Physical Description: 176 pages; 29.8 x 22.2 cm

Contributors: Jock Reynolds (Introduction), Rosanne Cash (Text), Wendell Berry (Text), DJ Hellerman (Contribution)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Ground assembles photographs from the Farm Security Administration archive that were never meant to be seen: negatives Roy Stryker rejected by driving a hole punch through the frame rather than discarding the film....

Keywords: Photography, Documentary Photography, American History

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Sex, Drugs and Magick

Gareth McConnell

Imprint: Sorika, 2014.

Contributors: Matthew Collin (Essay)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Gareth McConnell's Sex, Drugs and Magick looks past the sunlit cliche of Ibiza to the people who built its rave and club culture, rendered in grainy, high-contrast black and white.McConnell shot the island's clubbers, DJs, and dawn stragglers over repeated visits, then pushed...

Keywords: Photography, Documentary Photography, Culture

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Paul McCarthy: Between Beauty and the Beast

Paul McCarthy

Imprint: Foundation 20/21, 2007.

Physical Description: 56 pages; 22.9 x 22.9 cm

Contributors: Sam Lipsyte (Text)

Binding: Hardcover (wood-veneer boards)

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Between Beauty and the Beast: Sculptures, Drawings and Photographs is the catalogue for a 2006 exhibition surveying the scatological, cartoonish, and violent imagery central to Paul McCarthy's work....

Keywords: Art, Contemporary Art, Sculpture, Exhibition Catalog

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You Haven't Seen Their Faces

Daniel Mayrit

Imprint: RIOT BOOKS, 2015.

Physical Description: 101 pages; 25.5 x 17.5 cm

Binding: Softcover, screw-bound

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

You Haven't Seen Their Faces borrows the visual language of a police wanted-poster and points it at power rather than poverty, presenting the hundred most influential figures in the City of London as though they were suspects in an ongoing investigation....

Keywords: Photography, Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Politics, Spanish Photography, State Surveillance

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Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitect

Gordon Matta-Clark

Imprint: Yale University Press, 2017.

Physical Description: 184 pages; 25.4 x 19.1 cm

Contributors: Cara M. Jordan (Essay), Xavier Wrona (Essay)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Published with the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitect surveys the practice of an artist who treated the building itself, cut open, gutted or partially demolished, as his primary material....

Keywords: Art, Contemporary Art, Architecture, Exhibition Catalog

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Impala

Ari Marcopoulos

Imprint: Red Lebanese, 2014.

Physical Description: 104 pages

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

A photobook by the Amsterdam-born, New York-based photographer Ari Marcopoulos, Impala takes its title from the undercover police cars the artist repeatedly encountered around Flatbush, his Brooklyn neighborhood....

Keywords: Photography, Street Photography, Zines

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Epiphany

Ari Marcopoulos

Imprint: IDEA, 2016.

Physical Description: ; 29 x 26 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Epiphany is a limited-edition photobook made by Ari Marcopoulos while embedded with Gucci's pre-fall 2016 shoot, one of a string of outsider collaborators creative director Alessandro Michele brought into the house's orbit....

Keywords: Photography, Fashion, Contemporary Art

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Portraits From the Studio and the Street

Ari Marcopoulos

Imprint: IDEA, 2017.

Physical Description: 148 pages; 27.9 x 21.6 cm

Contributors: Glenn O'Brien (Introduction)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Ari Marcopoulos's Portraits From the Studio and the Street is a document of downtown New York in the 1980s, caught at the moment when Pop Art's established figures rubbed shoulders with the emerging worlds of street art and hip-hop....

Keywords: Photography, Portraiture, New York City

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To Be Continued

Christian Marclay

Imprint: Klangspuren Schwaz, 2016.

Physical Description: 48 pages; 30 x 22.5 cm

Binding: Softcover (stapled)

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

To Be Continued is an artist's book by Christian Marclay built entirely from collaged fragments of comic books, with each page functioning as a graphic score to be read and played aloud.Published by Klangspuren Schwaz in 2016 in an edition of 2,000, the 48-page stapled softcover...

Keywords: Art, Contemporary Art, Comics, Sound Art

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People in Cars

Mike Mandel

Imprint: Stanley/Barker, 2017.

Physical Description: 72 pages; 21 x 29.7 cm

Binding: Softcover, Swiss catalogue bound

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

People in Cars collects Mike Mandel's spontaneous close-up portraits of Los Angeles drivers and passengers, shot through open car windows at a single Van Nuys intersection. It is a study of the automobile as a stage for unguarded, fleeting encounter....

Keywords: Photography, Street Photography, California, Vernacular Photography

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Life is One Live it Well

Henrik Malmström

Imprint: Kominek Books, 2015.

Physical Description: 256 pages; 33 x 21.5 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Henrik Malmström's Life is One Live it Well documents the barroom culture of St. Georg, a Hamburg district long associated with street prostitution and, more recently, rapid gentrification.Over four years Malmström frequented bars including Mickey Mouse, Windstärke 11 and Zum...

Keywords: Photography, Documentary Photography, Nightlife

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New Reproductions

David Maljkovic

Imprint: Mousse Publishing, 2013.

Physical Description: 96 pages; 35.5 x 23.8 cm

Contributors: Mirene Arsanios (Essay), Maria Fusco (Essay), Karl Larsson (Essay), Sidsel Nelund (Essay), Jonas Zakaitis (Essay)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

New Reproductions is an artist book by the Croatian artist David Maljković (b. 1973, Rijeka), published to accompany his solo exhibition of the same name at the Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius, from 19 November 2013 to 12 January 2014....

Keywords: Art, Contemporary Art, Exhibition Catalog

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Glen Luchford

Imprint: Dashwood Books, 2013.

Physical Description: ; 24.5 x 17.8 cm

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Glen Luchford's Damaged Negatives turns an archival disaster into the substance of the book itself, presenting fashion and portrait photographs that were left to rot in a flooded storage unit for months before anyone noticed....

Keywords: Photography, Fashion, Black and White Photography

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Roy Lichtenstein

Imprint: Prestel, 2019.

Physical Description: 152 pages; 36 x 25 cm

Binding: Paperback

Language: English/German

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

A survey of the poster as a working medium for Roy Lichtenstein, tracing how the same benday-dot vocabulary that defined his paintings moved into printed ephemera for exhibitions, films, and public causes....

Keywords: Art, Pop Art, Prints, Exhibition Catalog

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All About Saul Leiter

Saul Leiter

Imprint: Thames & Hudson, 2018.

Physical Description: 296 pages; 21 x 14.8 cm

Contributors: Margit Erb (Text), Pauline Vermare (Text), Motoyuki Shibata (Text)

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

All About Saul Leiter surveys the full arc of Saul Leiter's work, from the street photographs he began making in New York in the 1940s to the fashion pictures, nudes and late paintings that followed....

Keywords: Photography, Fashion

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Women

Saul Leiter

Imprint: Space Shower Books, 2018.

Physical Description: 160 pages; 21 x 15.5 cm

Contributors: Michael Parillo (Essay)

Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket and obi

Language: Japanese/English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Women collects nude and intimate portraits Saul Leiter made of women in his life across two decades, photographs that stayed in his East Village apartment until they surfaced after his death.Published by the Japanese label Space Shower Books in 2018, the 160-page hardcover...

Keywords: Photography, Portraiture

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Grassland

H. Lee

Imprint: Kehrer Verlag, 2014.

Physical Description: 112 pages; 28.6 x 22.4 cm

Contributors: Glenn O'Brien (Text), Emily Brady (Text)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Grassland follows a year inside Humboldt County's cannabis-growing community, photographed by an artist working under the pseudonym H. Lee.Lee lived among growers in the towering redwood country of Northern California, gaining access on the promise that the work would be...

Keywords: Photography, Documentary Photography

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Byways & Through Lines

Pierre Le Hors

Imprint: Dashwood Books, 2013.

Physical Description: 44 pages; 17.8 x 24.4 cm

Binding: Softcover, saddle-stitched

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Byways & Through Lines treats the photobook as a set of loosely related paths rather than a single narrative, letting drawing, scanning, and photography sit side by side without settling into one method....

Keywords: Photography, Mixed Media, Contemporary Photography

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The Mechanism

Mårten Lange

Imprint: MACK, 2017.

Physical Description: 96 pages; 28 x 22 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

A melancholic black-and-white sequence that treats the contemporary city as evidence of a story already underway, one about surveillance, infrastructure, and the machinery threaded through daily life....

Keywords: Photography, Architecture, Urban Landscape

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Event Horizon

Quentin Lacombe

Imprint: RVB Books, 2017.

Physical Description: 118 pages; 32 x 23 cm

Binding: Softcover, Japanese binding, foldout poster dust jacket

Language: English/French

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Quentin Lacombe's Event Horizon takes its title from the boundary around a black hole beyond which no event can be observed, and builds a private cosmology out of photography, digital rendering and collage....

Keywords: Photography, Contemporary Art

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Concrete and Sex

Sasha Kurmaz

Imprint: Pogobooks, 2013.

Physical Description: 32 pages; 21 x 14.8 cm

Binding: Softcover, stapled

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Concrete and Sex pairs nude snapshots with the post-industrial, post-Soviet architecture of Kyiv, Sasha Kurmaz's third publication and a clear statement of the juxtaposition that runs through his early work....

Keywords: Photography, Zines

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Imprint: Spector Books, 2013.

Physical Description: 164 pages; 27.5 x 19 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Passengers gathers photographs Dagmar Keller and Martin Wittwer made at a bus station at night while travelling through Poland, of riders seen through the ice-covered windows of an idling coach.Fogged, stained and lit only by the station's pale lamps, the windows turn each...

Keywords: Photography

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JK Sitting

John Kayser

Imprint: Peter Miles Studio, 2016.

Physical Description: ; 29.7 x 21 cm

Binding: Softcover

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

JK Sitting gathers the vintage photographs of John Kayser, an unknown California photographer who spent decades photographing nude women seated on pies, cakes, fish bowls, cats and vegetables. It was an obsessive private practice that stayed out of sight until after his death....

Keywords: Photography

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Libby

Charles Johnstone

Imprint: 70South, 2013.

Binding: Hardcover, cloth boards

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Libby gathers Charles Johnstone's Polaroid portraits of Elizabeth Schoettle, made over seven years of an ongoing friendship and collaboration.The book was initiated in 2011 by 70South's Corey Presha, who was looking through Johnstone's archive of Polaroids and recognized a...

Keywords: Photography, Portraiture

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The Girl in the Fifth Floor Walk-Up

Charles Johnstone

Imprint: S_U_N_, 2014.

Physical Description: 64 pages; 22.2 x 17.1 cm

Contributors: Heather Malesson (Subject/Collaborator)

Binding: Linen hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

The Girl in the Fifth Floor Walk-Up casts a set of Polaroids as a paperback noir, building a fictional case file around a single recurring character.Charles Johnstone photographed Heather Malesson, his longtime muse and collaborator, then designed the book around an excerpt from...

Keywords: Photography, Polaroid, Fiction

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Photobooks &: a critical companion to the contemporary medium

Matt Johnston

Imprint: Onomatopee, 2021.

Physical Description: 210 pages; 24 x 17 cm

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Matt Johnston's Photobooks & takes stock of the contemporary photobook at a point of real excess, asking what happens to a medium once its supply of makers, small presses, and specialist fairs has outpaced any settled way of reading it....

Keywords: Photography, Photobooks, Criticism

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Order of Appearance

Jim Jocoy

Imprint: TBW Books, 2017.

Physical Description: 84 pages; 31.1 x 22.9 cm

Contributors: Thurston Moore (Text), Jim Goldberg (Text)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

A second look into Jim Jocoy's archive of San Francisco punk photographs, this one turned toward the quiet moments between the poses that made his earlier work famous.Structured in three short chapters spanning 1977 to 1980, Order of Appearance moves like vignettes from a single...

Keywords: Photography, Punk, Portraiture, Street Art

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Four Thousand Threads

Dick Jewell

Imprint: Self-published, 2015.

Physical Description: ; 30 x 24 cm

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Dick Jewell's Four Thousand Threads is a survey of the artist's decades-long habit of collecting and arranging found and appropriated photographs, brought together as digital photography multiplied the volume of images in circulation....

Keywords: Photography, Contemporary Art, Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Voyeurism

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PRINT / Issue Two

NA VA

Imprint: PRINT, 2017.

Contributors: David Sims (Photographer), Jamie Hawkesworth (Photographer), Zoë Ghertner (Photographer), Hugo Scott (Photographer), Terry Richardson (Photographer), Ari Marcopoulos (Photographer), Bill Henson (Photographer), Colin Dodgson (Photographer), Karim Sadli (Photographer), Suzanne Koller (Contributor), Spike Jonze (Contributor)

Binding: Softcover, perfect bound, in corrugated cardboard box

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

PRINT / Issue Two is the second issue of the fashion magazine produced by stylist Francesca Burns and creative director Christopher Simmonds, a single object that treats a magazine as a physical archive rather than a stack of pages....

Keywords: Fashion, Photography

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Lingering Ghosts

Sam Ivin

Imprint: Fabrica, 2016.

Physical Description: 70 pages; 20 x 20 cm

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Lingering Ghosts collects Sam Ivin's portraits of 28 people from 28 countries then waiting on asylum decisions in the UK, their eyes scratched out of every print.Ivin began the project in 2013 at a drop-in centre in Cardiff while still a documentary photography student, later...

Keywords: Photography, Portraiture, Documentary Photography

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Matador

Nicolas Hosteing

Imprint: Études Books, 2012.

Physical Description: 48 pages; 24 x 17 cm

Contributors: Julien Perez (Text)

Binding: Hardcover, sewn binding, with attached booklet

Language: French

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Matador borrows its title from the bullfighter's trick of concealing a blade inside a cape, using that image of hidden intent to frame a book about escape and the erasure of evidence.Nicolas Hosteing sequences photographs of motorcycle and car riders burning rubber into...

Keywords: Photography, French Photography, Contemporary Photography

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Open Nightly

Liv Hoffman

Imprint: Self-published, 2016.

Physical Description: 480 pages

Binding: Softcover

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Open Nightly is a self-published photobook by the Chicago photographer Liv Hoffman, distributed through Dashwood Books in New York in 2016 as a softcover first edition, signed, and sold out shortly after release....

Keywords: Photography, Zines

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Le Feu

Pauline Hisbacq

Imprint: September Books, 2018.

Physical Description: 40 pages; 29.7 x 21 cm

Binding: Softcover with elastic band

Language: French

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

A found-image artist book by the French photographer Pauline Hisbacq that treats desire and fantasy as material already circulating online, waiting to be re-cut into a new sequence.Rather than shooting original photographs, Hisbacq assembled Le Feu from pictures collected from...

Keywords: Photography, Contemporary Art, Zines

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Beyond Blonde

Steve Hiett

Imprint: Prestel, 2015.

Physical Description: 280 pages; 30 x 22.5 cm

Contributors: Philippe Garner (Essay)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Steve Hiett's Beyond Blonde gathers five decades of the British photographer's fashion work, most of it never before collected in book form.Arranged by decade from the late 1960s to the 2000s, the book moves through Hiett's magazine work for British, French and Italian titles,...

Keywords: Photography, Fashion

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Forever

Anthony Hernandez

Imprint: MACK, 2017.

Physical Description: 128 pages; 26.5 x 21 cm

Binding: Hardback

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Forever follows the daily movements of homeless residents through downtown Los Angeles and the neighborhoods of Compton, Watts and South Central, photographed from the vantage point of the street rather than as a record of what people leave behind....

Keywords: Photography, Documentary Photography

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Lessons in Posing Subjects

Robert Heinecken

Imprint: Triangle Books / WIELS, 2014.

Physical Description: 56 pages; 25 x 34 cm

Contributors: Devrim Bayar (Text)

Binding: Spiral-bound hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Lessons in Posing Subjects reproduces, complete and for the first time, the series Robert Heinecken assembled between 1981 and 1982 from photographs he found in mail-order clothing catalogues.The spiral-bound, 56-page volume pairs each appropriated image of a model with a...

Keywords: Photography, Exhibition Catalog, Contemporary Art

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Lessons in Posing Subjects

Robert Heinecken

Imprint: Triangle Books / WIELS, 2014.

Physical Description: 56 pages; 25 x 34 cm

Contributors: Devrim Bayar (Text)

Binding: Softcover, spiral-bound

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Lessons in Posing Subjects takes the stock gestures of commercial photography apart, one deadpan caption at a time.Between 1981 and 1982, Robert Heinecken rephotographed models and families from mail-order catalogues onto Polaroid SX-70 film, then wrote his own sober,...

Keywords: Photography, Appropriation Art, Polaroid, Exhibition Catalog

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Preston Bus Station

Jamie Hawkesworth

Imprint: Dashwood Books, 2017.

Physical Description: 196 pages; 30.5 x 24.1 cm

Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Jamie Hawkesworth's Preston Bus Station collects portraits of commuters and passersby photographed inside one of Britain's largest Brutalist bus stations, made after Hawkesworth learned the 1969 building was under threat of demolition....

Keywords: Photography, Portraiture, Contemporary Art

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Naoya Hatakeyama: Excavating the Future City

Naoya Hatakeyama

Imprint: Aperture, 2018.

Physical Description: 276 pages; 29.7 x 22.4 cm

Contributors: Toyo Ito (Essay), Philippe Forest (Essay)

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

The first English-language survey of Naoya Hatakeyama, whose thirty-year study of cities and the materials that build them has made him one of the defining photographers of the transformed Japanese landscape....

Keywords: Photography, Japanese Photography, Architecture, Landscape, Exhibition Catalog

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Ren Hang

Imprint: Self-published, 2016.

Physical Description: 32 pages; 30 x 20 cm

Binding: Softcover

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

June is another installment in Ren Hang's self-published, month-by-month photobook project, the Beijing photographer's plan in 2016 to print and issue one book for every month of the year.The cover spells the title letter by letter across pages of dense green sea foam and rock,...

Keywords: Photography, Contemporary Art, Zines

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Physical Borderline

Ren Hang

Imprint: Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, 2014.

Physical Description: 128 pages; 21 x 14 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Physical Borderline is the catalogue Three Shadows Photography Art Centre published for Ren Hang's 2014 exhibition of the same name, a body of work that pushes his nude portraiture toward its most contorted, sculptural extreme....

Keywords: Photography, Chinese Photography, Exhibition Catalog

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October

Ren Hang

Imprint: Self-published, 2016.

Physical Description: 44 pages; 29.7 x 20 cm

Binding: Softcover

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Ren Hang's October is another installment in the self-published monthly photo-book project the Chinese photographer and poet ran through 2016, releasing a new booklet each month for a year.The 44-page softcover gathers photographs made in Beijing that October, continuing the...

Keywords: Photography, Queer Culture

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August

Ren Hang

Imprint: Self-published, 2016.

Physical Description: 48 pages; 29.7 x 20 cm

Binding: Softcover booklet

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

August belongs to a run of monthly zines Ren Hang self-published through 2016, each one a snapshot of a single month spent shooting the bodies of friends and collaborators.The photographs, all made in Tokyo in August 2016, show nude figures alone or in small groups, staged with...

Keywords: Photography, Zines, Nude Photography, Chinese Photography

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November

Ren Hang

Imprint: Self-published, 2016.

Physical Description: 32 pages; 29.7 x 20 cm

Binding: Softcover, staple-bound booklet

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Ren Hang's November is one installment in a yearlong project the Beijing photographer set for himself in 2016: to self-publish a photobook every month, each one a compact record of the people and desire that filled his life that year....

Keywords: Photography, Contemporary Art, Chinese Photography

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March

Ren Hang

Imprint: Self-published, 2016.

Physical Description: 40 pages; 30 x 20 cm

Binding: Softcover

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

A self-published photobook by the Chinese photographer and poet Ren Hang, part of a year-long project of monthly volumes that stands among the most personal work of his brief career.In 2016 Ren Hang set out to publish a small softcover book every month, an informal diary running...

Keywords: Photography, Chinese Photography, Queer Culture, Zines

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May

Ren Hang

Imprint: Self-published, 2016.

Physical Description: 28 pages; 29 x 20 cm

Binding: Softcover

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Ren Hang's May is one installment in a self-published, month-by-month photobook project the Beijing photographer set for himself in 2016, printing a new book for each month of the year.Following his stated plan to publish "one photo book every month," each volume gathered...

Keywords: Photography, Contemporary Art, Zines

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Huang Jiaqi

Ren Hang

Imprint: Self-published, 2013.

Physical Description: 32 pages; 29.2 x 21.7 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Ren Hang's Huang Jiaqi is a self-published record of a Berlin encounter with his partner, a work as intimate as it is unrepeatable.The 32-page hardcover, produced in Beijing and issued with an accompanying poster, gathers photographs Ren Hang made of Huang Jiaqi during their...

Keywords: Photography, Chinese Photography, Portraiture, Queer Culture

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Wade Guyton

Imprint: Walther König, 2018.

Physical Description: ; 26.7 x 19.1 cm

Binding: Paperback

Language: English/German (bilingual)

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Zeichnungen von Drama und Frühstück im Atelier Vol. II is the second half of a two-volume catalogue documenting Wade Guyton's studio floor as both subject and support, this volume tied to the condensed London restaging of a Munich exhibition....

Keywords: Art, Contemporary Art, Painting, Exhibition Catalog

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Das New Yorker Atelier

Wade Guyton

Imprint: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2017.

Physical Description: 356 pages; 33 x 30.5 cm

Contributors: Johanna Burton (Essay), Bernhard Maaz (Essay)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English/German

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Das New Yorker Atelier documents a significant new body of work by Wade Guyton, moving beyond his signature repeated letterforms into paintings built from a diverse range of digitally captured imagery....

Keywords: Art, Contemporary Art, Painting, Exhibition Catalog

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Wade Guyton, Seth Price, Josh Smith, Kelley Walker

Wade Guyton

Imprint: Kunsthalle Zürich, 2007.

Physical Description: 192 pages

Contributors: Beatrix Ruf (Curator), John Kelsey (Essay)

Binding: Softcover

Language: English/German

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

This exhibition catalog documents Wade Guyton, Seth Price, Josh Smith, Kelley Walker's 2007 group show at Kunsthalle Zürich, an early survey of four artists whose work reshaped ideas of authorship, appropriation, and process in painting after 2000....

Keywords: Art, Contemporary Art, Exhibition Catalog

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Black Paintings

Wade Guyton

Imprint: JRP|Ringier, 2011.

Physical Description: 800 pages

Contributors: John Kelsey (Text)

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Wade Guyton makes his Black Paintings by running raw linen canvas through a large-format inkjet printer, layering black ink pass after pass until the surface approaches an even, saturated black.This 800-page book, published by JRP|Ringier in 2011, reproduces the series at...

Keywords: Art, Contemporary Art, Painting, Conceptual Art

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Beryl Chen: A Jamaican Girl

Rene Groebli

Imprint: Sturm & Drang Publishers, 2015.

Physical Description: 44 pages

Contributors: Teo Schlachter (Text)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: German

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Beryl Chen: A Jamaican Girl gathers Rene Groebli's portrait studies of a young woman, printed from negatives that sat in the Swiss photographer's archive for decades before this book brought them into view....

Keywords: Photography, Portraiture, Documentary Photography

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Jenna Gribbon: The Honeymoon Show!

Jenna Gribbon

Imprint: Lévy Gorvy Dayan, 2025.

Physical Description: 100 pages; 33 x 24.8 cm

Contributors: Alison M. Gingeras (Essay)

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

The Honeymoon Show! is Jenna Gribbon's third monograph, built around tender, theatrically staged portraits of her wife and muse set against scenes from their honeymoon in Thailand.Published by Lévy Gorvy Dayan to accompany the exhibition of the same name at the gallery's New...

Keywords: Art, Contemporary Art, Painting, Portraiture, Queer Culture

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The Western Front

Stanley Greene

Imprint: André Frère Éditions, 2013.

Physical Description: 176 pages; 34.5 x 24.5 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English & French

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

The Western Front is Stanley Greene's record of the San Francisco punk scene he lived inside as a young photographer in the 1970s, black-and-white pictures taken from within a music culture rather than at its edge....

Keywords: Photography, Documentary Photography, Punk, Music

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Does Yellow Run Forever?

Paul Graham

Imprint: MACK, 2014.

Physical Description: 96 pages; 19 x 13.5 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Does Yellow Run Forever? is Paul Graham's meditation on desire and belief, following the color yellow from the promise of gold at a rainbow's end to the storefronts that turn hope into hard currency....

Keywords: Photography, Contemporary Art

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Mariposas Nocturnas: Moths of Central and South America, A Study in Beauty and Diversity

Emmet Gowin

Imprint: Princeton University Press, 2017.

Physical Description: 144 pages; 35.6 x 27.9 cm

Contributors: Terry Tempest Williams (Foreword)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Mariposas Nocturnas gathers fifteen years of Emmet Gowin's photographs of moths from Central and South American cloud forests, a late-career turn from the landscapes and family portraits that made his name....

Keywords: Photography, Nature Photography, American Photography

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Who Do You Love: Twelve Reproductions

John Gossage

Imprint: Fraenkel Gallery, 2014.

Physical Description: 32 pages

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Who Do You Love presents twelve unique pieces John Gossage made through the 1990s and set aside for two decades, work he calls "photographic distractions" that refuse to sit squarely in either photography or collage....

Keywords: Photography, Collage, Exhibition Catalog

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Still Lifes, Portraits & Parts

Daniel Gordon

Imprint: Morel Books, 2013.

Physical Description: 102 pages

Contributors: Eva Respini (Essay)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Still Lifes, Portraits & Parts brings together three interlocking bodies of work in which Daniel Gordon builds his subjects out of paper before he ever points a camera at them.Gordon prints photographs scavenged from internet image searches and magazines, then cuts, crumples,...

Keywords: Photography, Contemporary Art, Still Life, Collage, Portraiture

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Peekaboo

Tomoo Gokita

Imprint: 888 Books, 2018.

Binding: Hardcover

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Peekaboo collects the monochrome paintings from Tomoo Gokita's 2018 exhibition of the same name at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, a body of work built entirely around surprise and withheld information....

Keywords: Art, Contemporary Art, Painting, Japanese Art, Exhibition Catalog

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Imprint: Nobody Books, in association with Arnolfini, 2021.

Physical Description: 604 pages; 27 x 21.6 cm

Binding: Clothbound hardback

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Coming up for Air is the fullest account so far of Stephen Gill's photography, drawing together four decades of work, from 1982 to 2021, into a single retrospective.The 604-page clothbound hardback holds over 600 images — roughly 450 in colour and 150 in black and white —...

Keywords: Photography, British Photography, Documentary Photography, Exhibition Catalog

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Moscow Terminus

Bruce Gilden

Imprint: Dashwood Books, 2014.

Physical Description: 52 pages; 24.1 x 16.5 cm

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Bruce Gilden's Moscow Terminus is an unpublished dispatch from Komsomolskaya Square, the frenetic three-station plaza where Moscow's rail lines converge, rendered in the photographer's signature close, flash-lit street style....

Keywords: Photography, Street Photography

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Bücherwald

Ingo Giezendanner

Imprint: Nieves, 2017.

Physical Description: ; 18.4 x 14 cm

Binding: Softcover

Language: French

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Bücherwald ("book forest") is a small illustrated zine by the Zurich artist Ingo Giezendanner, published under his GRRRR alias, that turns a page of dense pen-and-ink drawing into a literal thicket of books and branches....

Keywords: Art, Zines, Street Art

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And Another Thing

Anthony Gerace

Imprint: Aint-Bad, 2017.

Physical Description: 128 pages; 29.5 x 22.4 cm

Contributors: Laura May Todd (Essay)

Binding: Perfect bound, hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

And Another Thing compiles seven years of collage work and studio materials by London-based artist Anthony Gerace, functioning as much as an artwork in itself as a record of one.Published by Aint-Bad in an edition of 700, printed in the Netherlands, the 128-page hardcover was...

Keywords: Art, Collage, Contemporary Art

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor: Jim French Polaroids

Jim French

Imprint: Antinous Press, 2013.

Physical Description: 144 pages

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor: Jim French Polaroids collects vintage Polaroid studies of the male figure made between 1964 and 1967, offering an intimate, working view of pre-Stonewall underground photography....

Keywords: Photography, Queer Culture

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Jonah Freeman & Justin Lowe: Black Acid Co-op / Bright White Underground / Stray Light Grey / Artichoke Underground

Jonah Freeman

Imprint: Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, 2015.

Physical Description: 224 pages; 31.1 x 23.5 cm

Contributors: Glenn O'Brien (Text), Jan Tumlir (Text), Mark Flood (Text), Hamilton Morris (Text), Ali Subotnick (Interview), Gianni Jetzer (Interview), Todd Eberle (Photographs), Greg Kessler (Photographs), Joshua White (Photographs)

Binding: Clothbound

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

This inaugural monograph documents the collaborative practice of Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe, whose mazelike, fully built installations turn gallery interiors into fictional worlds assembled from found objects and invented products....

Keywords: Art, Contemporary Art, Installation Art, Exhibition Catalog

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Now Here Then

Huger Foote

Imprint: Dashwood Books, 2015.

Contributors: Glenn O'Brien (Text), Susan Minot (Text)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Now Here Then collects photographs Huger Foote made over years of travel and daily life, prints whose stains, tears and scorch marks became part of the finished work, a book about the passage of time as much as about the pictures in it....

Keywords: Photography, Contemporary Art

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PDA

Todd Fisher

Imprint: 0-100 Editions, 2013.

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

PDA is Todd Fisher's document of couples caught in the open, unguarded gestures of affection staged not for the camera but for each other.Shot in New York's bars, clubs and on its sidewalks, the photographs work close and low-lit, favoring the grain and color shifts of available...

Keywords: Photography

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Flowers and Mushrooms

Peter Fischli & David Weiss

Imprint: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2016.

Physical Description: 160 pages; 25.4 x 19.7 cm

Binding: Paperback, folded unbound sheets

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Flowers and Mushrooms is a reprint of an artist's book by the Swiss duo Peter Fischli and David Weiss, built from multiple superimposed photographic exposures of gardens and mushroom patches shot between 1997 and 1998....

Keywords: Art, Photography, Contemporary Art

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Hans-Peter Feldmann

Imprint: Walther König, 2007.

Physical Description: 208 pages; 31 x 22.1 cm

Contributors: Inka Schube (Essay), Martin Clark (Essay), Martin Hochleitner (Essay)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English/German (bilingual)

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Buch/Book No. 9 is the ninth in Hans-Peter Feldmann's numbered book series, a survey that treats the artist's collections of found and made photographs as a body of work in their own right.Published by Walther König in a bilingual German/English hardcover of 208 pages to...

Keywords: Art, Photography, Conceptual Art, Exhibition Catalog

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Album

Hans-Peter Feldmann

Imprint: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2009.

Physical Description: 308 pages; 30.5 x 24.1 cm

Binding: Cloth hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Album is Hans-Peter Feldmann's wordless survey of the personal image archive he assembled over decades, presenting roughly 3,000 photographs in sequence with no text beyond the title page.Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König as a cloth-bound hardcover, the book...

Keywords: Art, Photography

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Rachel Feinstein

Imprint: Rizzoli Electa, 2019.

Physical Description: 240 pages; 31.8 x 24.1 cm

Contributors: Kelly Taxter (Introduction), Marc Jacobs (Contribution), Lisa Yuskavage (Contribution), Florence Welch (Contribution)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Rachel Feinstein is the first full-scale monograph on the American sculptor and installation artist, tracing two decades of work that fuses baroque ornament, Americana, and pop imagery into a singular vision of kitsch and elegance....

Keywords: Art, Contemporary Art, Sculpture

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Louis Faurer

Imprint: Steidl / Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, 2016.

Physical Description: 208 pages; 23.3 x 17.2 cm

Contributors: Agnès Sire (Introduction), Walter Hopps (Text), Susan Kismaric (Text)

Binding: Hardcover, linen binding

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Louis Faurer is the first monograph in fifteen years devoted to a photographer whose darkly romantic pictures of 1940s and '50s New York have long been overshadowed by the better-known work of his contemporaries....

Keywords: Photography, Street Photography, Portraiture, Exhibition Catalog

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Wolfgang

David Fathi

Imprint: Skinnerboox, 2016.

Physical Description: 164 pages; 23 x 15.8 cm

Contributors: Jeffrey Ladd (Text)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Using photographs drawn from the archives of the CERN laboratory, David Fathi builds Wolfgang around a piece of scientific folklore: the "Pauli Effect," the belief that physicist Wolfgang Pauli caused unexplainable equipment failures simply by entering a room....

Keywords: Photography, Conceptual Art, Appropriated Imagery

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Boardwalk

Max Farago

Imprint: Self-published, 2017.

Physical Description: 174 pages

Binding: Softcover, spiral bound

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Max Farago's self-published Boardwalk is an unruly document of a decade spent photographing the far West Coast of America, taking the temperature of a culture running on plastic, impulse, and image-saturation....

Keywords: Photography, Contemporary Art

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Olafur Eliasson: Reality Machines

Olafur Eliasson

Imprint: Koenig Books / Moderna Museet, 2016.

Physical Description: 300 pages; 29.2 x 20.3 cm

Contributors: Daniel Birnbaum (Contribution), Timothy Morton (Essay), Matilda Olof-Ors (Essay)

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Olafur Eliasson: Reality Machines documents a three-decade practice built on the conviction that art can turn thinking into doing, tracing sculpture, photography, film, and installation shaped by a deep interest in perception, movement, and embodied experience....

Keywords: Art, Contemporary Art, Sculpture, Exhibition Catalog

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Unknown #2: Tentative d'épuisement d'un livre

Stéphane Duroy

Imprint: Filigranes Éditions, 2017.

Physical Description: 64 pages; 33.5 x 24.5 cm

Binding: Leporello (accordion-fold)

Language: English/French

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Unknown #2: Tentative d'épuisement d'un livre is Stéphane Duroy's account of a single book he could not stop remaking, turning a discontinued edition of his own photography into an open-ended material process....

Keywords: Photography, Collage

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i

Eamonn Doyle

Imprint: Self-published (D1), 2014.

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

i is Eamonn Doyle's self-published debut photobook, a document of elderly residents photographed from above on the streets around Dublin's Parnell Street and Moore Street, and the book that reintroduced street photography as a serious contemporary form for a new generation....

Keywords: Photography, Street Photography, Portraiture, Irish Photography

Jan Dobkowski

Imprint: Kodoji Press, 2014.

Contributors: Janusz Zagrodzki (Essay)

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Take a Swing on the Thread of Life gathers the Polish artist Jan Dobkowski's largest single body of drawing, a set of 383 works in pencil made over ten years and united by an obsessive, symmetrical figuration....

Keywords: Art, Drawing, Exhibition Catalog

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The Vanity of Certain Flowers Part Two

Peter De Potter

Imprint: MENDO.

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

The Vanity of Certain Flowers Part Two continues a project Peter De Potter began in an earlier volume, working across still life, fashion photography and collaged found imagery.As with the first part, the book builds meaning through juxtaposition rather than narrative, setting...

Keywords: Art, Collage, Photography, Fashion

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This is What Hatred Did

Cristina de Middel

Imprint: RM, 2015.

Physical Description: 180 pages

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

This Is What Hatred Did is Cristina de Middel's staged photographic response to Amos Tutuola's 1954 novel My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, restaging its hallucinatory vision of Lagos as a threshold between the living and the spirit world....

Keywords: Photography, Contemporary Art, Staged Photography, West African Photography

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I Loved My Wife (Killing Children Is Good for the Economy)

Dieter De Lathauwer

Imprint: Lecturis, 2017.

Physical Description: 112 pages; 25 x 20 cm

Contributors: Joachim Naudts (Essay), Erik Thys (Essay), Herwig Czech (Essay)

Binding: Softcover with 24-page booklet in a two-pocket folder

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

I Loved My Wife (Killing Children Is Good for the Economy) confronts a largely unexamined chapter of the Holocaust: the Nazi program that murdered tens of thousands of children in Austrian psychiatric institutions between 1939 and 1941, framed by the regime as mercy killing....

Keywords: Photography, War Photography, Art

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The Accidental Fold

Saskia de Brauw

Imprint: Self-published, 2016.

Physical Description: 288 pages; 21 x 14.8 cm

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

The Accidental Fold is Saskia de Brauw's debut artist book, a diaristic record of small discarded things she picked up and scanned over roughly six years on the road.Working with a handheld scanner she carried between fashion shoots and travels, de Brauw assembled images of a...

Keywords: Art, Photography

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May the Circle Remain Unbroken

Corinne Day

Imprint: Morel Books, 2014.

Physical Description: 164 pages; 25.4 x 20.3 cm

Contributors: Charlotte Cotton (Essay), Glenn O'Brien (Text), Pablo Ferro (Cover typography)

Binding: Hardcover, cloth boards

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

May the Circle Remain Unbroken gathers previously unpublished early photographs by Corinne Day, whose unflinching, snapshot-style documentation of friends, lovers, and youth culture reshaped fashion photography in the 1990s, including her controversial 1993 Vogue images of a...

Keywords: Photography, Fashion, Documentary

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Two Perspectives on Tokyo

Motoyuki Daifu

Imprint: Newfave, 2016.

Physical Description: 56 pages; 21 x 14.8 cm

Binding: Softcover zine set (two volumes)

Language: Japanese

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Two Perspectives on Tokyo pairs two photographers based in the same city into a single publication, setting Motoyuki Daifu's family-centered snapshots against Kenta Cobayashi's images of the young artists and friends sharing his Shibuya house....

Keywords: Photography, Japanese Photography, Zines

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Index

Antoine D'Agata

Imprint: André Frère Éditions, 2014.

Physical Description: 256 pages; 18 x 13.5 cm

Binding: Softcover

Language: French

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Index turns the A7 between Paris and Marseille into a confessional, with the rest areas as stations and the family history surfacing mile by mile.The book runs 1,215 small colour photographs across 256 pages at 13....

Keywords: Photography, French Photography, Documentary Photography, Diaristic Photography, Magnum Photos, France

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Pictures of Pictures

Sara Cwynar

Imprint: Printed Matter, 2014.

Physical Description: 92 pages; 22.2 x 15.2 cm

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Pictures of Pictures is Sara Cwynar's early taxonomy of found photographic ephemera, a slim artist's zine that previews the archival, image-about-images method that would define her later work.Published through Printed Matter's Emerging Artists Publication Series in 2014 in an...

Keywords: Photography, Contemporary Art, Zines

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Robert Cumming: The Difficulties of Nonsense

Robert Cumming

Imprint: Aperture, 2016.

Physical Description: 184 pages; 26.7 x 22.9 cm

Contributors: Sarah Bay Gachot (Essay), David Campany (Interview)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Robert Cumming: The Difficulties of Nonsense is the first comprehensive publication to survey the artist's landmark conceptual photographs of the 1970s, work that remains a touchstone for artists still working with illusion and staged fiction....

Keywords: Photography, Contemporary Art, Portrait Painting

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Arc

Zoë Croggon

Imprint: Perimeter Editions, 2015.

Physical Description: 80 pages; 30 x 21 cm

Binding: Softcover with flaps

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

The debut book of the Melbourne artist Zoë Croggon, whose photographic collages set the human body against the geometry of modernist architecture, and the winner of the 2015 Asia-Pacific Photobook Prize....

Keywords: Art, Photography, Collage, Contemporary Art, Limited Edition, Australia

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Disss-Co (A Fragment)

Douglas Crimp

Imprint: MoMA PS1, 2016.

Physical Description: 36 pages; 22.2 x 14.6 cm

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Disss-Co (A Fragment) is Douglas Crimp's fragmentary memoir of gay disco culture in 1970s New York, a personal counterpart to the criticism that made him one of the era's most influential voices on art, sexuality, and AIDS activism....

Keywords: Queer Culture, Art Criticism

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Money

Prill Vieceli Cremers

Imprint: Edition Patrick Frey, 2015.

Physical Description: 256 pages; 33 x 24 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Money is the first joint artist's book by Tania Prill, Alberto Vieceli, and Sebastian Cremers, the Zurich design studio Prill Vieceli Cremers, built entirely from the pictures printed on the world's banknotes....

Keywords: Art, Graphic Design

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Silhouettes

Fred Cray

Imprint: 64 Books, 2016.

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Silhouettes is Fred Cray's 2016 continuation of his long-running Unique Photographs project, in which mass-produced snapshots are altered into one-of-a-kind objects.For this book, Cray ran 4 x 6 machine prints through a desktop printer a second time, layering silhouettes, and...

Keywords: Photography, Zines

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Selected Works from 1990's

William Crawford

Imprint: Innen, 2016.

Physical Description: 32 pages; 19 x 13 cm

Binding: Staple-bound softcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Selected Works from 1990's puts a slice of the William Crawford archive into circulation as a zine, which is close to the form the drawings originally took.Thirty-two pages of black-and-white offset reproductions, staple-bound at 19 by 13 cm and published by Innen in Switzerland...

Keywords: Art, Drawing, Zines, Outsider Art, Erotica

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Women with Cameras (Anonymous)

Anne Collier

Imprint: Karma / Studio Voltaire, 2017.

Physical Description: 168 pages; 25.4 x 25.4 cm

Contributors: Hilton Als (Essay)

Binding: Softcover with flaps

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Women with Cameras (Anonymous) assembles eighty found photographs of women photographed in the act of taking a picture, turning a private, repeated gesture into a study of who gets to hold the camera....

Keywords: Photography, Contemporary Art, Portraiture

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Trash

Dan Colen

Imprint: Gagosian / Rizzoli, 2014.

Physical Description: 302 pages; 30.5 x 22.9 cm

Contributors: Josh Smith (Text)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Trash is the first book devoted to Dan Colen's paintings built from studio detritus — chewed gum, dirt, and refuse worked into the paint surface as both subject and material.Published by Gagosian and Rizzoli in October 2014, the 302-page hardcover reproduces the series in...

Keywords: Painting, Contemporary Art

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Friends Forever

Kenta Cobayashi

Imprint: Self-published, 2014.

Physical Description: 56 pages; 25.7 x 18.2 cm

Binding: Softcover

Language: Japanese

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Friends Forever is an early self-published photobook by Kenta Cobayashi, documenting the young artists and friends who passed through his shared house in Shibuya, Tokyo.The 56-page softcover book was self-published in Tokyo in 2014, part of a run of small, quickly produced...

Keywords: Photography, Japanese Photography, Zines

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Sarah Charlesworth

Imprint: Yale University Press / Art Institute of Chicago, 2014.

Physical Description: 64 pages; 27.2 x 19.7 cm

Contributors: Matthew S. Witkovsky (Essay), Douglas Druick (Foreword)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

This slim, haunting volume gathers for the first time the complete Stills, Sarah Charlesworth's 1980 series of fourteen large-scale photographs depicting anonymous figures caught mid-fall or mid-jump from buildings, images she appropriated and re-photographed from newspaper wire...

Keywords: Photography, Contemporary Art, Exhibition Catalog

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Stills

Sarah Charlesworth

Imprint: Yale University Press / Art Institute of Chicago, 2014.

Physical Description: 64 pages; 27.2 x 19.7 cm

Contributors: Matthew S. Witkovsky (Essay)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Stills presents, for the first time in full, Sarah Charlesworth's 1980 series of fourteen photographs depicting figures falling or jumping from buildings, each print exceeding six feet in height.Charlesworth appropriated the source images from newspapers and re-photographed...

Keywords: Photography, Pictures Generation, Exhibition Catalog

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Looters

Tiane Doan na Champassak

Imprint: Self-published, 2014.

Physical Description: 52 pages; 21 x 15 cm

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Looters is built entirely from photographs Tiane Doan na Champassak did not take: images of the riots that spread across England in August 2011, pulled from the internet in the days after they occurred....

Keywords: Photography, Zines, Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Police Surveillance

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My Freedom

Tiane Doan na Champassak

Imprint: Siam's Guy Books, 2016.

Physical Description: 44 pages; 30 x 19.5 cm

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

My Freedom is a small, tightly limited artist book from the year Tiane Doan na Champassak's self-publishing was at its most prolific, and it keeps the intimacy of the residency in which it was made.The photographs were taken during an artist residency in Bangkok....

Keywords: Photography, Thailand, Bangkok, Body, Self-Published

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Floatation Tank

Giles Cassels

Imprint: Self-published, 2015.

Physical Description: 64 pages

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Floatation Tank is the debut installment in Giles Cassels's quarterly photobook series, a moody assemblage of American vernacular imagery that fellow photographer Tony Fouhse described as approximating a feeling of the country itself....

Keywords: Photography, Zines

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Nightfall

Giles Cassels

Imprint: Self-published, 2015.

Physical Description: 64 pages

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Giles Cassels' Nightfall collects overlooked, banal fragments of daily life and re-stages them as signifiers charged with private and cultural weight, closing a loop between waking perception and dream life....

Keywords: Photography, Zines

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Bruce of Los Angeles

Imprint: Acne Studios, 2013.

Physical Description: 190 pages; 24 x 19 cm

Binding: Hardcover in printed slipcase

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Rodeo collects a little-known body of work by Bruce of Los Angeles, the photographer better known for the stylized male nudes that made him a founding figure of mid-century beefcake photography.Edited by critic Vince Aletti, the book gathers Bellas's photographs of cowboys taken...

Keywords: Photography, Queer Culture, Fashion

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Rodeo

Bruce of Los Angeles

Imprint: Acne Studios, 2013.

Physical Description: 190 pages; 24 x 19 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Rodeo collects a lesser-known body of work by Bruce Bellas, known as Bruce of Los Angeles, one of the most prolific photographers of the male physique in mid-century America.Curated by photography critic Vince Aletti and published by Acne Studios in 2013, the 190-page hardcover...

Keywords: Photography, Queer Culture, Portraiture

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The Photographic Work of Robin Broadbent

Robin Broadbent

Imprint: Damiani, 2017.

Physical Description: 184 pages; 27.9 x 21.6 cm

Contributors: Frederic Tuten (Text)

Binding: Hardcover with jacket

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Published by Damiani in 2017, The Photographic Work of Robin Broadbent collects two decades of the photographer's still-life abstractions, distilling everyday objects into stark, reductive forms that blur the line between fashion image-making and studio experiment....

Keywords: Photography, Fashion, Contemporary Art

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Bowery

Robin Broadbent

Imprint: Dashwood Books, 2017.

Binding: Zine

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Bowery is the sixth installment in an ongoing numbered zine series by the English, New York-based photographer Robin Broadbent, issued in a limited run of 100 copies through Dashwood Books.Consistent with earlier volumes in Broadbent's series, the zine is issued as a small,...

Keywords: Photography, Zines

Andre Bradley

Imprint: Image Text Ithaca Press, 2015.

Physical Description: ; 22.9 x 17.1 cm

Binding: Three saddle-stitched booklets and two single-page inserts in a foil-stamped, die-cut folder

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Dark Archives, 1-41 is Andre Bradley's fragmentary autobiography, weaving his own photographs and writing together with pictures pulled from his family's archive to build a portrait of memory that resists a single, linear narrative....

Keywords: Photography, Art, Artist Book

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The Spider and the Tapestries

Louise Bourgeois

Imprint: Hatje Cantz, 2015.

Physical Description: 92 pages; 21 x 14.6 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

The Spider and the Tapestries gathers the fabric-based works Louise Bourgeois made in the last years of her life, in which mending and repair become both a literal craft and a psychological act.The book reproduces sculptures built from salvaged tapestry fragments and needlepoint...

Keywords: Art, Sculpture, Exhibition Catalog

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Lewis Baltz

Imprint: Steidl, 2011.

Physical Description: 108 pages; 31.8 x 24.1 cm

Contributors: Wolfgang Scheppe (Essay)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Candlestick Point is Lewis Baltz's stark inventory of a marginal California landscape, one of the defining works of the New Topographics movement and a touchstone for photography's turn toward the built and the discarded....

Keywords: Photography, Contemporary Art

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The New Industrial Parks Near Irvine, California

Lewis Baltz

Imprint: Leo Castelli / Castelli Graphics, 1974.

Physical Description: 112 pages; 27.9 x 26.8 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English/German

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Lewis Baltz's The New Industrial Parks Near Irvine, California is one of the founding documents of the New Topographics movement, a body of work that gave a critical, deadpan eye to the man-altered landscape spreading across California's former agricultural land....

Keywords: Photography, Landscape Photography

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Baldessari Sings LeWitt

John Baldessari

Imprint: Rollo Press, 2009.

Physical Description: 44 pages; 29.7 x 21 cm

Contributors: Sol LeWitt (Source Text)

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Baldessari Sings LeWitt is graphic designer Toom Tragel's complete transcription of a deadpan 1972 performance in which John Baldessari sang the tenets of conceptual art.In the original film, Baldessari sits with a sheaf of papers and sings each of Sol LeWitt's thirty-five...

Keywords: Art, Conceptual Art, Music

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Nobuyoshi Araki: Vintage Prints

Nobuyoshi Araki

Imprint: Dashwood Books, 2018.

Physical Description: 48 pages; 19.5 x 15 cm

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Nobuyoshi Araki: Vintage Prints documents a rare New York showing of prints Araki made himself, close to the time each picture was taken, rather than the later reprints through which most of his work is known....

Keywords: Japanese Photography, Photography, Exhibition Catalog

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Araki by Araki

Nobuyoshi Araki

Imprint: TASCHEN, 2014.

Physical Description: 568 pages

Contributors: Jérôme Sans (Text)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English, French, German

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Araki by Araki is Nobuyoshi Araki's own retrospective selection of his photography, a career-spanning survey chosen and sequenced by the artist himself rather than an outside editor or curator.Across 568 pages the book moves through the subjects that recur across Araki's...

Keywords: Photography, Japanese Photography, Contemporary Art

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Blue Period / Last Summer

Nobuyoshi Araki

Imprint: Dashwood Books, 2017.

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 27, 2026

Blue Period / Last Summer pairs two chapters of Nobuyoshi Araki's ongoing photographic diary, its cover a nude print overpainted by the artist in raw washes of color. The hand-applied intervention recurs throughout his later work....

Keywords: Japanese Photography, Photography

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Untitled Sketchbook

Paul Thek

Imprint: American Art Catalogues, 2024.

Physical Description: ; 24 x 32 cm

Binding: Wire-bound facsimile in board tray

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 17, 2026

A facsimile of the 1969 sketchbook in which Paul Thek drew himself over and over again, issued by American Art Catalogues in an edition of 1,000 — thirty-one pencil drawings, none of which had been shown publicly before this edition....

Keywords: Art, Drawing, Facsimile, Artist Notebooks, Self-Portraits, New York Art, American Artists

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Nothing But Time: Paul Thek Revisited 1964–1987

Paul Thek

Imprint: Pace Publishing, 2013.

Physical Description: 72 pages; 21.6 x 24.1 cm

Contributors: Kenny Schachter (Curator and introduction)

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 17, 2026

A slim staple-bound catalogue that compresses Paul Thek's entire working life into 72 pages, made for the 2013 Pace London exhibition that carried his posthumous reappraisal out of the museum and into the gallery....

Keywords: Art, Exhibition Catalog, Sculpture, Painting, Watercolor, New York Art, American Artists, 1960s-1970s

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Jean-Michel Basquiat

Imprint: Whitney Museum of American Art / Harry N. Abrams, 1992.

Physical Description: 272 pages

Contributors: Richard Marshall (Curator and Editor)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 13, 2026

This is the catalogue that made Basquiat a museum artist: the record of the first full retrospective of his work, organised by Richard Marshall for the Whitney Museum of American Art four years after the artist's death.Published in 1992 by the Whitney with Harry N....

Keywords: Art, Painting, Contemporary Art, Exhibition Catalog, Museum Publication

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Binding: Hardcover

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 13, 2026

Cwynar’s research-driven and visually complex images constitute the hallmarks of contemporary post–Pictures Generation work―in which photography is pursued in relation to film, sculpture, digital culture, and the cultural and technological history of image-making....

Keywords: Photography

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Late Paintings

Francis Bacon

Imprint: Rizzoli, 2016.

Physical Description: ; 31.2 x 24.1 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 13, 2026

Encompassing more than twenty-five paintings that Francis Bacon made in London and Paris during the last two decades of his life, this book serves as a companion to the 2015 exhibition at Gagosian Gallery, New York, and is the first in-depth exploration of the innovations of the...

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Tissue Magazine N°5

Tissue Magazine

Imprint: , 2014.

Binding: Magazine

Acquired: March 2026

Catalogued: August 7, 2026

Tissue Magazine is a biannual publication exploring art and sexuality. Issue N°5 features Sarah Schoenefeld, Jennifer Abessira, Meghan Edwards, and an interview with Joerg Koch of 032C magazine. Includes contributions from Martin Eder, Tim Bruening, Roman Schramm, and a...

Keywords: Art, Photography, Sexuality, Erotica, Contemporary, Queer Culture

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Tissue Magazine N°4

Tissue Magazine

Imprint: , 2014.

Binding: Magazine

Acquired: March 2026

Catalogued: August 7, 2026

Tissue Magazine is a biannual publication exploring art and sexuality. Issue N°4 features an interview with Olivier Zahm by Mirna Funk, portfolio by fashion designer Ayzit Bostan shot by Fabian Frinzel, and contributions from international photographers including Maxime...

Keywords: Art, Photography, Sexuality, Erotica, Contemporary, Queer Culture

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Tissue Magazine N°3

Tissue Magazine

Imprint: , 2015.

Binding: Magazine

Acquired: March 2026

Catalogued: August 7, 2026

Tissue Magazine is a biannual publication exploring art and sexuality. Issue N°3 is a special feature on the record label Magazine, run by Barnt, Jens-Uwe Beyer, and Crato, documenting their visual design work and artistic output. Features 67 pages of magazine imagery.

Keywords: Art, Photography, Sexuality, Erotica, Contemporary, Queer Culture

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Tissue Magazine N°2

Tissue Magazine

Imprint: , 2012.

Binding: Magazine

Acquired: March 2026

Catalogued: August 7, 2026

Tissue Magazine is a biannual publication exploring art and sexuality. Issue N°2 features work by prominent photographers and artists exploring eroticism and contemporary art. Cover by Maxime Ballesteros featuring performance artist Helga Wretman....

Keywords: Art, Photography, Sexuality, Erotica, Contemporary, Queer Culture

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Tissue Magazine N°1

Tissue Magazine

Imprint: , 2011.

Binding: Magazine

Acquired: March 2026

Catalogued: August 7, 2026

Tissue Magazine is a biannual publication exploring art and sexuality. Issue N°1, an amalgamation of everything sexy, explores various manifestations of eroticism across art, media, and sexuality with contributions from international artists....

Keywords: Art, Photography, Sexuality, Erotica, Contemporary, Queer Culture

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Communist Guide to New York City

Unknown

Imprint: common books, 2008.

Physical Description: 180 pages; 16.5 x 12 cm

Contributors: Olga Kopenkina (Essay) Kim Förster (Essay)

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Acquired: June 21, 2026

Catalogued: August 6, 2026

An archival photographic guide documenting the hidden topography of American communist history in New York City, published by common books in 2008 in an edition of 500 copies with support from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts....

Keywords: Photography, Political Art, Documentary Photography, Artists' Books, Urban History, Communism, New York

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Gordon Parks

Imprint: Steidl / The Gordon Parks Foundation / Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2022.

Physical Description: 176 pages; 29 x 25 cm

Contributors: Cedric Johnson (Essay) Stokely Carmichael (Text (reprint of "What We Want," 1966))

Binding: Hardcover (clothbound)

Language: English

Acquired: June 21, 2026

Catalogued: August 6, 2026

A landmark reappraisal of Gordon Parks's 1967 Life magazine essay "Whip of Black Power," his nuanced profile of Stokely Carmichael at the moment the young SNCC chairman's call for Black Power made him the most controversial figure in the civil rights movement....

Keywords: Photography, Photojournalism, Civil Rights, Black Power, African American History, Exhibition Catalog

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Collected Works. Study Edition, Volume 2: 1947–1963

Gordon Parks

Imprint: Steidl / The Gordon Parks Foundation, 2017.

Physical Description: ; 29 x 25 cm

Contributors: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Text), Deborah Willis (Text), Maurice Berger (Text), Barbara Baker Burrows (Text)

Binding: Clothbound hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 21, 2026

Catalogued: August 6, 2026

The second volume of Gordon Parks’s Collected Works, spanning the years on the staff of Life that made him the best known photographer at the magazine.The volume covers 1947 to 1963, overlapping the close of Volume 1 and the opening of Volume 3....

Keywords: Photography, Documentary Photography, African American Photographers, Photobooks, Civil Rights

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Ada: A Series of Collages

Jack Walls

Imprint: Fuse Gallery, 2008.

Physical Description: ; 15.2 x 10.2 cm

Contributors: Zachary Stuart-Pontier (Video Installation)

Binding: Announcement card

Language: English

Acquired: June 21, 2026

Catalogued: August 6, 2026

Ada: A Series of Collages is the announcement card for Jack Walls's 2008 exhibition at Fuse Gallery in the East Village. Mounted at fifty, it was the Chicago-born artist's fine-art solo debut: collages cut from imagery sourced from Robert Mapplethorpe, whose partner and muse...

Keywords: Collage, Ephemera, Announcement Card, East Village, Found Photography

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Unusual View of Unknown Subjects

Simon Rimaz

Imprint: Lecturis, 2015.

Physical Description: 144 pages; 30 x 24 cm

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Acquired: June 21, 2026

Catalogued: August 6, 2026

Unusual View of Unknown Subjects is the first book by the Swiss artist Simon Rimaz (b. 1987), winner of the Unseen Dummy Award in 2014. It excavates American press-photo archives by cutting away exactly what was published, leaving only the discarded margins of each picture....

Keywords: Collage, Found Photography, Appropriation, Press Photography, Archives, Photobook, Photography, Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition One, Identity

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30 Years of Being Cut Up

Genesis Breyer P-Orridge

Imprint: Invisible-Exports, 2009.

Physical Description: 128 pages; 24.8 x 17.2 cm

Binding: Hardcover (illustrated boards)

Language: English

Acquired: June 21, 2026

Catalogued: August 6, 2026

The catalog for the acclaimed 2009 retrospective at Invisible-Exports, New York, 30 Years of Being Cut Up surveys three decades of collage by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (1950–2020) — photomontage, Expanded Polaroids, and early mail art, much of it published here for the first time....

Keywords: Collage, Photomontage, Mail Art, Polaroids, Found Photography, Exhibition Catalog

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John Stezaker: At the Edge of Pictures

John Stezaker

Imprint: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2020.

Physical Description: 176 pages; 23.4 x 15.6 cm

Contributors: Yuval Etgar (Text)

Binding: Softcover (Otabind)

Language: English

Acquired: June 21, 2026

Catalogued: August 6, 2026

At the Edge of Pictures is the first monographic study of the British collagist John Stezaker (b. 1949). The Oxford scholar Yuval Etgar takes the eventful decades of the 1970s and 1980s as the prism for a historical account of the artist's life and work, and a mapping of collage...

Keywords: Collage, Found Photography, Appropriation, Conceptual Art, Art History

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Paradise Found

Devin Troy Strother

Imprint: Coloured Publishing, 2019.

Physical Description: 138 pages; 21 x 15 cm

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Acquired: June 21, 2026

Catalogued: August 6, 2026

An artist's book by the Los Angeles artist Devin Troy Strother with the designer Yuri Ogita, Paradise Found answers a found book with an act of reauthorship, examining who owns an image and who gets pictured in it....

Keywords: Collage, Appropriation, Found Imagery

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Terry Winters: Red Yellow Green Blue

Terry Winters

Imprint: 'T' Space Rhinebeck, 2014.

Contributors: Sanford Kwinter (Text)

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 21, 2026

Catalogued: August 6, 2026

A catalog documenting the American painter Terry Winters's Red Yellow Green Blue, the third exhibition of the 2014 season at 'T' Space, the architect Steven Holl's gallery in the woods outside Rhinebeck, New York....

Keywords: Collage, Abstract Art, Exhibition Catalog, Contemporary Art

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John Stezaker: Unassisted Readymade

John Stezaker

Imprint: JRPRingier, 2016.

Physical Description: 144 pages; 34.5 x 24.5 cm

Contributors: David Campany (Text)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 21, 2026

Catalogued: August 6, 2026

Its title borrowed from Duchamp, Unassisted Readymade is a large-format monograph that frames the British artist John Stezaker's collage practice as the act of choosing an image rather than making one: the found photograph as readymade....

Keywords: Collage, Found Photography, Appropriation, Film Stills

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Imprint: Art Paper Editions, 2022.

Physical Description: 448 pages; 19.5 x 14.5 cm

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Acquired: June 21, 2026

Catalogued: August 6, 2026

Collages 2020-2022 gathers three years of collage work by the South African artist Nico Krijno (b. 1981), published by Art Paper Editions as the fullest survey yet of a practice that treats photography as raw material for cutting, layering, and reassembly....

Keywords: Collage, Photography, Contemporary Art, South African Art

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Pictorial Atlas of a Girl Who Cut a Library into Pieces

Eva Koťátková

Imprint: JRPEditions, 2016.

Physical Description: 712 pages; 24 x 17 cm

Contributors: Phil Jones (Translator)

Binding: Paperback

Language: Czech, English

Acquired: June 21, 2026

Catalogued: August 6, 2026

Pictorial Atlas of a Girl Who Cut a Library into Pieces is a two-volume artist's book by the Czech artist Eva Koťátková (b. 1982), staging roughly 300 collages as an imagined 1980s schoolbook from her Prague childhood under Communist rule....

Keywords: Collage, Czech Art, Contemporary Art

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Mind Machines

Sabine Remy

Imprint: Redfoxpress, 2020.

Physical Description: 40 pages; 15 x 10.5 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 21, 2026

Catalogued: August 6, 2026

Vintage mechanical imagery collides with hand-cut typography in Mind Machines, the German collage artist Sabine Remy's entry in Redfoxpress's C'est mon Dada series, its cover built around blueprint-style renderings of viewing apparatuses under a hand-lettered title....

Keywords: Collage, Mail Art, Visual Poetry, Dada, Found Imagery

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Papeles Pegados

Pere Sousa

Imprint: Redfoxpress, 2020.

Physical Description: 44 pages; 15 x 10.5 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 21, 2026

Catalogued: August 6, 2026

Collage and mail art converge in Papeles Pegados ("Glued Papers"), the Barcelona artist Pere Sousa's contribution to Redfoxpress's C'est mon Dada series, its cover pairing old-master portraiture with a photograph of a technician adjusting a measuring apparatus....

Keywords: Collage, Mail Art, Visual Poetry, Dada, Found Imagery

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The New World

Horst Hahn

Imprint: Redfoxpress, 2019.

Physical Description: 40 pages; 15 x 10.5 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 21, 2026

Catalogued: August 6, 2026

Collage and visual poetry from the German mail artist Horst Hahn, whose The New World layers wartime aircraft photography, road signage, and cut typography into a dense artist's book issued as volume 137 in Redfoxpress's C'est mon Dada series....

Keywords: Collage, Mail Art, Visual Poetry, Dada, Found Imagery

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Ficciones

Sun Yanchu

Imprint: Jiazazhi Press, 2016.

Physical Description: 112 pages; 23 x 18 cm

Binding: Hardcover, spiral-bound

Language: Chinese and English

Acquired: June 21, 2026

Catalogued: August 6, 2026

Ficciones is Chinese artist Sun Yanchu's altered-photograph project, which won the inaugural Gucang Dummy Book Award, selected by Martin Parr, in 2015.The book gathers anonymous photographs Sun found in antique markets across China: snapshots of family gatherings, travel, and...

Keywords: Collage, Found Photography, Vernacular Photography, Chinese Photography

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Young Ideas

Eddie O'Keefe

Imprint: Bywater Bros. Editions, 2015.

Physical Description: 88 pages; 17.8 x 14 cm

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 21, 2026

Catalogued: August 6, 2026

Young Ideas assembles five years of imagery by the American filmmaker Eddie O'Keefe (stills from his films and music videos alongside photographs of the Southwest) into a numbered artist-book edition that reads as one continuous, uneasy travelogue of the American West....

Keywords: Collage, Photography, Film Stills

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Trevor Paglen

Imprint: Melville House, 2010.

Physical Description: 160 pages; 18.5 x 15.5 cm

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Acquired: June 21, 2026

Catalogued: August 6, 2026

Trevor Paglen's I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to Be Destroyed by Me collects more than seventy insignia patches worn on classified U.S. military and intelligence programs, reading their cartoonish, occult imagery as an accidental portrait of the government's secret...

Keywords: Photography, Surveillance, Surveillance Index, Surveillance Index Edition Two, Military History, Documentary, Government Secrecy, Contemporary Art

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Adversarially Evolved Hallucinations

Trevor Paglen

Imprint: Sternberg Press, 2024.

Physical Description: 160 pages; 18 x 11 cm

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Acquired: June 21, 2026

Catalogued: August 6, 2026

Trevor Paglen’s Adversarially Evolved Hallucinations (2017–ongoing) treats machine hallucination not as a glitch but as the defining condition of AI-made images—and this slim critical reader, volume four in Sternberg Press’s Research/Practice series, unpacks what that means....

Keywords: Art, Contemporary Art, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Vision, Computer Vision, Surveillance, Photography Theory, Digital Culture, Critical Theory, Sternberg Press, Digital Art

David Weiss

Imprint: Swiss Institute / Karma, 2016.

Physical Description: 310 pages; 22.2 x 15.2 cm

Contributors: Hans Ulrich Obrist (Text) Urs Lüthi (Text) Douglas Fogle (Essay)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 21, 2026

Catalogued: August 6, 2026

Before Fischli/Weiss there was a decade of David Weiss working alone, filling notebooks and sheets of paper with drawings that stayed hidden for more than thirty years.Published by the Swiss Institute with Karma in 2016, this compact hardcover gathers the works on paper Weiss...

Keywords: Art, Drawing, Works on Paper, Swiss Art, Fischli Weiss, Swiss Institute

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Imprint: EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, 2019.

Physical Description: 175 pages; 31 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 21, 2026

Catalogued: August 6, 2026

The catalog for the British-American artist Sarah Morris's (b. 1967) solo exhibition at EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art (June 21, 2017 – January 7, 2018), documenting the abstract paintings and films of an artist who treats the two media as one continuous practice....

Keywords: Art, Contemporary Art, Painting, Film, Abstract Art, Exhibition Catalog

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Ellsworth Kelly in San Francisco

Ellsworth Kelly

Imprint: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art / University of California Press, 2002.

Physical Description: 96 pages; 30 x 25 cm

Contributors: Madeleine Grynsztejn (Essay) Julian Myers (Essay) Neal Benezra (Foreword)

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 21, 2026

Catalogued: August 6, 2026

The catalog for Ellsworth Kelly in San Francisco, SFMOMA's 2002–03 exhibition uniting the twenty-two works the museum acquired from the artist's personal collection in 1999 with its earlier holdings, together the most important grouping of Ellsworth Kelly's work in any museum....

Keywords: Art, Abstract Art, Painting, Sculpture, Exhibition Catalog

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Mr. Remember

Alex Da Corte

Imprint: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2022.

Physical Description: 320 pages; 24.8 x 24.8 cm

Contributors: Poul Erik Tøjner (Foreword) Bruce Hainley (Essay) Delia Solomons (Essay) Sarah Nicole Prickett (Essay) Steven Zultanski (Essay) Derek McCormack (Essay)

Binding: Clothbound

Language: English

Acquired: June 21, 2026

Catalogued: August 6, 2026

The comprehensive monograph on the Philadelphia-based installation artist Alex Da Corte (b. 1980), published for Mr. Remember, his major European retrospective at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (July 14, 2022 – January 8, 2023)....

Keywords: Art, Contemporary Art, Installation Art, Video Art, Pop Culture, Exhibition Catalog

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On Any Given Day in Spring / Light Balances

Robert Adams

Imprint: Matthew Marks Gallery / Fraenkel Gallery, 2012.

Physical Description: 80 pages; 20 x 25 cm

Binding: Two paperbacks in cardboard slipcase

Language: English

Acquired: June 21, 2026

Catalogued: August 6, 2026

A quiet two-volume set of late photographs by Robert Adams (b. 1937), the central chronicler of the American West's transformation, published as paired paperbacks in a plain cardboard slipcase by Matthew Marks Gallery and Fraenkel Gallery in 2012....

Keywords: Photography, Landscape Photography, Black and White Photography, Pacific Northwest, Photobooks

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Visible World

Peter Fischli & David Weiss

Imprint: Matthew Marks Gallery / Walther König, 2000.

Physical Description: 260 pages; 27 x 20 cm

Binding: Flexibound

Language: English

Acquired: June 21, 2026

Catalogued: August 6, 2026

An encyclopedic artist's book by the Zurich duo Peter Fischli (b. 1952) and David Weiss (1946–2012), Visible World compresses 2,848 color photographs taken over fifteen years of travel into 260 flexibound pages. The world is rendered as a deadpan, seemingly total inventory....

Keywords: Art, Photography, Conceptual Art, Travel Photography

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1954 Drawings on a Bus, Sketchbook 23

Ellsworth Kelly

Imprint: Matthew Marks Gallery / Steidl, 2007.

Physical Description: 48 pages; 25 x 19 cm

Binding: Hardcover in slipcase

Language: English

Acquired: June 21, 2026

Catalogued: August 6, 2026

A facsimile of Sketchbook 23 by the American painter Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015), reproducing the ink drawings of shifting shadow patterns he made riding New York City buses in the fall of 1954, weeks after returning from six years in Paris....

Keywords: Art, Drawing, Sketchbooks, Abstract Art, Facsimile

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Eric Doeringer

Imprint: Copycat Publications, 2011.

Physical Description: 72 pages; 17.8 x 14 cm

Binding: Softcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 21, 2026

Catalogued: August 6, 2026

Eric Doeringer’s remake of Ed Ruscha’s 1971 classic Records, and a companion in method to his other appropriations.Ruscha’s original reproduced thirty records from his own collection, each spread pairing an album cover on the left with a photograph of the bare vinyl LP on the...

Keywords: Artist's Books, Appropriation Art, Conceptual Art, Ed Ruscha, Music, Vinyl Records, Art

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David Wojnarowicz

Imprint: Aperture Foundation, 1994.

Physical Description: 94 pages; 30 cm

Contributors: Nan Goldin, Karen Finley, Kiki Smith, Vince Aletti, C. Carr, Fran Lebowitz, David Cole

Binding: Softcover

Acquired: June 21, 2026

Catalogued: August 6, 2026

A seminal work begun in collaboration with David Wojnarowicz before his death in 1992 from AIDS-related complications.This monograph demonstrates Wojnarowicz's extraordinary use of photography, often done in conjunction with writing or painting, to address the AIDS crisis and...

Keywords: Photography, Art, AIDS, Queer Culture, Censorship, Social Commentary

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The Atmosphere of Crime, 1957

Gordon Parks

Imprint: Steidl/The Gordon Parks Foundation, 2020.

Physical Description: 68 pages; 24.8 x 29.2 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Acquired: June 21, 2026

Catalogued: August 6, 2026

The Atmosphere of Crime, 1957 presents Gordon Parks's color photographs for a Life magazine series on crime in America, including pictures that had not been published before.Life asked Parks in 1957 to illustrate a recurring series of articles on crime in the United States....

Keywords: Art, Black Photographers

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