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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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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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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

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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

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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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Sender

Peter Sutherland

Imprint: Printed Matter, 2013.

Physical Description: 60 pages; 30 x 23 cm

Contributors: Ross Simonini (Text)

Binding: Softcover

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Sender reworks Peter Sutherland's photographic archive into a layered, disorienting stream of cropped scans, full-scale reproductions, and overlapping images of brands, logos, and signage.Published by Printed Matter as a perfect-bound softcover, printed in color at 23 by 30...

Keywords: Photography, Art

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Radial Grammar

Batia Suter

Imprint: Roma Publications, 2018.

Physical Description: 296 pages

Contributors: Diane Dufour (Curator)

Binding: Paperback

Language: English/French

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Radial Grammar is Batia Suter's atlas of found photographs, arranging existing images into new visual sequences that let form and pattern, rather than the pictures' original captions or sources, govern meaning....

Keywords: Art, Photography, Exhibition Catalog

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Tekerrür (Recurrence)

Selim Süme

Imprint: Reccollective, 2016.

Contributors: Özgür Öğütcen (Collaborator)

Binding: Softcover

Language: Turkish/English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

Eighty anonymous identity photographs, rephotographed and enlarged until the one thing an ID portrait exists to do (fix a person to a name) stops working.Süme and Öğütcen took a set of found passport-style portraits, reproduced and resized them, and sequenced them with a text...

Keywords: Photography, Portraiture, Found Photography, Artist Book

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Pictures from Home

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

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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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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

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John Schabel

Imprint: Steidl, 2013.

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Acquired: June 2026

Catalogued: August 28, 2026

John Schabel's Passengers collects black-and-white photographs of airline travelers photographed unaware through the windows of departing planes, each face caught alone with itself in the last moments before takeoff....

Keywords: Photography, Portraiture

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Designed by Peter Saville

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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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.

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

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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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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

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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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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, Ephemera, 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, Ephemera

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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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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, Ephemera

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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 Index

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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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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, Politics, Spanish Photography

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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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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

Contributors: true

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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Dagmar Keller & Martin Wittwer

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

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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

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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

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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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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

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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

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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

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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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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

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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

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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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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

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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, Military History, Documentary, Government Secrecy, Contemporary Art, Surveillance Index

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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

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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

Keywords: Art, Black Photographers

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