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Extraordinarily proud to announce our newest publication, Stella Honey, a book of the photographic work of Tatia Franchetti Twombly. Born into an aristocratic family and coming of age in post-war Italy,…

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Book of the Week: Freedom, Hashiguchi
“As I spent more time living in Berlin, I came to realise that the freedom Berlin offered was a cruelly gentle kind of freedom... The freedom provoked the individual, telling them that life or death is up to them”.…

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Book of the Week: A Scene In Between, Knee

As the author acknowledges in his introduction, to categorise the hodgepodge of bands and fashions pervading Britain in the 1980s under the title of an ‘Indie’ scene is a disservice to the breadth of music and attitude that was…

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Points of Reference 007: Vase As Art Object

“In Ikebana, flowers become you.” These are the words of Sofu Teshigahara, the founder of The Sogetsu School of Ikebana – one of the three major schools of Ikebana, formed in 1927.…

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Winogrand Color, Almereyda & Kismaric
Longtime readers will be acutely aware of our love for Gary Winogrand, the father of street photography who’s candid, expressive, urgent black and white images have come to define the entire genre.…

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Book of the Week: Library Science 001
It’s wonderfully hard to describe the first publication from Kaia Gerber and Alyssa Reeder’s Library Science Book Club.…

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Book of the Week: Couples, Hashiguchi
Part of our favourite trilogy of photo books, Jōji Hashiguchi’s Couples is a masterpiece of human indexing.…

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@sweetxdessert why does every photo of you look like a campaign shoot 🤩

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Book of the Week: Styles of Living – The Best of Casa Vogue
A titan in the pantheon of interiors books, Styles of Living assembles 20 years of the very best of Casa Vogue, that Conde Nast gem, into one triumphantly hardback beauty.…

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Book of the Week: Memphis, Radice
If there was one word that could capture the design language of the 1980s, it would be Memphis, and if there was one book that could capture the totality of Memphis, it would be this one.…

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Book of the Week: Living Room, Waplington
Like only a handful of photo books before or after it, Nick Waplington’s Living Room arrived like a comet and left a crater so large that we still find ourselves falling into it thirty five years later.…

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Points of Reference 006: The Photographic Work of Herve Guibert

Herve Guibert’s photographs do not appear as those of a painter or photographer, instead these images originate from the mind of a writer.…

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Book of the week: Adieu A X, Nakahira
In 1977, Takuma Nakahira fell into a coma as a result of alchohol poisoning. The Provoke founder and central figure of a new Japanese photography movement awoke to find he had sustained memory loss and aphasia,…