ACC Art Books

This definitive collection of Derek Ridgers London youth portraits is a stunning archive of style and subculture in 1980s England. Between 1978 and 1987, Ridgers captured London youth culture in all its glory. With skinheads, punks and new romantics, in clubs and on the...

Space Posters & Paintings: Art About NASA showcases a superb selection of paintings, illustrations and posters recording the history of space exploration. From as early as 1962, the NASA Art Program commissioned artists to capture the importance of their work by giving them unprecedented...

This is a striking distillation of over 30 years' unprecedented photographic access to the world's largest green-field music and performing arts festival. In over 120 memorable images, Liam Bailey invites us to share his experiences of being among its diverse tribes.Although Glastonbury has evolved...

This important photo book visually documents student life at Oxford University during the 1980s and is a powerful record of the future British establishment. We see a world that has been written about and dramatised, yet never photographed. It pokes critical and affectionate fun at...

Throughout the 1980s, award-winning photographer Dafydd Jones was granted access to some of England’s most exclusive upper-class events. Here he presents this irreverent and intimate portrait of birthday parties and charity balls, Eton picnics and private school celebrations.With the crack of a hunting rifle and...

Normski was a vital witness to the period known as the Golden Age of Rap, when big US artists like Run DMC, LL Cool J and Public Enemy started to play in the UK. At the same time, a British music scene born of...

This is the first ever collection of Willie Christie’s vibrant work and includes his collaborations with Pink Floyd and The Rolling Stones. Willie Christie’s photographs are far more than a record of fashion, style or contemporary culture. Dynamic, cinematic and stylish, they present beautifully...

From political leaders to celebrities, photographic portraits exert considerable influence over our reaction to public figures. As the first academic publication focused on the Taikang photography collection, this book explores both the mechanics of portraiture and its psychological effects.Taikang Space is one of the...

This is the illustrated story of super-stylist Caroline Baker – the woman who shaped modern street fashion. It explores Baker’s highly influential career – in her own words alongside stunning images by celebrated photographers including Helmut Newton, Sarah Moon, Saul Leiter and Guy Bourdin.  Baker...

Best known in the art world for his ceramic works, to the wider public Grayson Perry is perhaps equally famous for his cross-dressing alter ego. This book reveals a unique relationship between Perry and renowned portrait photographer Richard Ansett through a previously unseen archive...

Before they became two of America’s most iconic pop artists, Andy Warhol and Robert Indiana were young aspiring creatives, living in New York. There, they met and befriended William John Kennedy, who would take some of the first photographs of these artists in their...

In The Apple is Everything, sculptor Barnaby Barford offers a celebration of this fruit using over 240 illustrations and photographs of apples, illustrating their place within culture and the impact on the history of humankind. Apples have become a recent feature of Barford’s eye-catching installations,...

In Fashion by Chance Italian fashion designer Cleonice Capece provides a vivid and richly documented account of how creativity, entrepreneurial courage and institutional support played a key role in the success of 'Made in Italy'. Capece offers the testimony of someone directly involved in...

A multitude of colourful and naïve biblical and other religious pottery figures found their way into 19th century Victorian homes in Britain. They were bought by tradesmen, shop-keepers, clerks, teachers and the more skilled working class people. This book tells the story of these...

Desperately Young introduces the masterpieces left behind by some of the greatest rising stars in fine art - all of whom died before their thirtieth birthday.Precocious talent seeps from each artist's work, along with a sense of unfulfilled potential. Informative biographies detail their legacies, while...

Alexander Rodchenko (1891-1953) was a central figure in the Russian Constructivist art movement; a radical activist, a pioneer of photomontage, a theorist, and a teacher. This concise, comprehensive and informative work focuses largely on Rodchenko's graphic work in the form of book jackets, posters and...

Wyndham Payne's career as an illustrator began in the early 1920s illustrating books, calendars, greetings cards and advertisements, often with toys - soldiers, model theatres, trains - as a subject. Payne's designs included a celebrated jacket for The Wind in the Willows produced for the publisher...

On two cold grey days in 1966, LS Lowry was joined by a young photographer on one of his first assignments for Nova Magazine. Clive Arrowsmith had been commissioned to photograph Lowry at home. Perhaps it was Arrowsmith's youthful exuberance that resulted in him taking as...

Christo and Jeanne-Claude are renowned above all for their ephemeral yet monumental interventions in landscapes and cities. They have created numerous oil barrel sculptures and installations since the beginning of their careers and this book is dedicated to these barrel works. In the late...