Portrait | Figure | Body

"Load right, aim sharp, and shoot well. The satisfaction of good pictures will be your reward." – Brownie Hawkeye Instruction Manual, 1959David Pace was given a Brownie Hawkeye on his eighth birthday in 1959. He used it to document, from a child's perspective, family, church,...

Rare & Collectible Entirely realised by the artists, with more than 540 colour illustrations, this rare book is like a family album, illustrating almost all works created by Pierre et Gilles between 1976 and 2002. As an image album, the colour illustrations, from small-sized to...

SIXSIXSIX consists of 666 large-format Polaroid self-portraits (each 21.5 x 27 cm), produced in an intensive process by Samuel Fosso with a small team in his Paris studio in 2015 and 2016. Shot against the same rich, coloured backdrop, these striking photographs depart from...

Having completed her studies at the Academy of Applied Arts and the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in the 1950s, Kiki Kogelnik was part of the young St. Stephan Group. After extensive travels through Europe and through her acquaintance with Sam Francis, Kogelnik...

The incomparable play of light and colour in Paul Cezanne’s work was the foundation of his reputation as a forerunner of modernism. From the start he went his own way, and his paintings initially evoked a lack of understanding in art critics of the...

This publication centres on Gormley’s work, Expansion Field consisting of sixty steel sculptures whose orthogonal shapes are derived from different postures of the artist’s body. Expansion Field ties in with the other Field works by the sculptor and in terms of cultural and art...

Rare & Collectible Best known for her controversial 2005 postmortem portrait series The Travellers, which The New York Times called "a peek... at the vibrant, living face beneath the mask of death," the former architectural photographer Elizabeth Heyert resumes her role as observer and...

For decades Chick Close's (1940-2021) larger-than-life and unflinchingly honest paintings of friends and family, and self-portraits have won admiration from a wide audience. Having reinvented portraiture for the late twentieth century, he became one of America's most famous artists. In this book Christopher Finch...

This is the world's first comprehensive documentation of the art of tattooing in China and Taiwan. Fascinating images exemplify the artful diversity of Chinese tattooing and its common motifs, which are largely inspired by ancient myths and legends. The meanings behind many of these...

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...

Rare & Collectible The 40 full-page colour photographs presented here - which include landscapes, fashion and still lifes as well - form a kind of atlas on skin that also refers the observer, on the one hand, to Northern European painting from the 1500s...

Rare & Collectible 95 sheet-fed gravure plates Contains sexually explicit images Ross Bleckner’s deeply personal camera work travels over the intimate contours of a lover’s body and the pages of his daily newspaper. The enigmatic and absurd landslide of images that inundate our daily...

Ballyhoo! looks at the poster as a form of popular portraiture. These celebrity likenesses are dramatic - and often enormous - but in fact, what a poster communicates about an individual is usually secondary to its principal message: Barnum and Bailey announcing the arrival of...

Rare & Collectible In 2010, photographer Dan Martensen was introduced to the Angulo brothers by filmmaker Crystal Moselle, who had just begun work on the hit documentary The Wolfpack. Chronicling the lives of the six home-schooled boys who recreated cult-classic films, fashioning props as well...

Lucian Freud (1922–2011), widely regarded as the greatest figurative painter of our time, spent seven months painting a portrait of the art critic Martin Gayford. The daily narrative of their encounters takes us into that most private place, the artist’s studio, and to the...

This is the first comprehensive overview of influential American photographer and filmmaker Danny Lyon (b. 1942) who distinguished himself with work that emphasised intimate social engagement. In 1962 Lyon traveled to the segregated South to photograph the civil rights movement. Subsequent projects on biker...

Rare & Collectible PLEASE NOTE: Contains sexually explicit images Since 2002, through his enigmatic and compelling Polaroids, Jeremy Kost has been telling the stories of New York’s nights from within its hottest party spots. An outsider on the inside track, Kost is both a...

Rare & Collectible Leather cover and gilded page edges Barmaid presents images by American photographer John Arsenault, who worked at the iconic gay bar Eagle LA as a barback, or "barmaid," as Arsenault liked to refer to the position. The series consists of customer...

These photographs were made across Ukraine between 2015 and 2020 in the spring and summer seasons and form a collective portrait of being young in Ukraine. They were taken on the way to the sea along the banks of the Dnipro River to the...

For over thirty-five years, Monica Bonvicini (b.1965) has created a vast collection of drawings, including sketches, designs, and concepts for the sculptures, installations, and works of media art that have earned her worldwide renown, as well as many standalone works that constitute a significant...