Subcultures & Counterculture

Luke Haines Hardcover | 14.5 x 2.9 x 22.6 cm | 320 pp Nine Eight Books | 2024 | 9781788709347 Musician and author Luke Haines embarks on an odyssey through the ages, exploring how the 'freaks' infiltrated modern culture - and almost won the rock...

Kembrew McLeod Hardcover | 15.24 x 3.18 x 22.86 cm | 368 pp Harry N. Abrams | 2018 | 9781419732522 In the 1960s and early 1970s, the inhabitants of a small, roughly one-square-mile area of lower Manhattan were smashing the status quo of music, art, film, performance, and...

Darryl W. Bullock Hardcover | 15.88 x 3.56 x 23.5 cm | 368 pp Omnibus Press | 2023 | 9781913172527  This is the definitive account of the LGBTQ trailblazers of early blues and a fascinating consideration of the intersection between music and LGBTQ history, from...

Softcover | 17 x 1.91 x 25 cm | 184 pp Arnoldsche Art Publishers | 2020 | 9783897905979 In the 1960s and 1970s, a generation of young Americans rejected the promise of prosperity and the suburban dream embraced by their parents. Furious about the...

Peter Watts Hardcover | 24 x 3.7 x 32 cm | 480 pp Anthology Editions | 2017 | 9781944860158 Julio Mario Santo Domingo (1957-2009) was a collector and visionary who filled his homes and warehouses with the world’s greatest private collection related to the...

Steve Schapiro Hardcover | 29.21 x 2.79 x 22.86 cm |256 pp powerHouse Books | 2015 | 9781576877630 Steve Schapiro, famous for his photographs of the 60s - including Haight-Ashbury and the hippies of that era here documents the hippies of today and their lives...

Liam Bailey Hardcover | 20 x 1.65 x 25 cm | 120 pp ACC Art Books | 2024 | 9781788842570 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...

Ricky Adam Hardcover | 22.35 x 2.29 x 29.97 cm | 176 pp Damiani | 2017 | 9788862085106 The ‘Warzone Collective’ began in 1984 in the city of Belfast, Northern Ireland when a few local punks decided to consolidate their efforts and get their...

Bill Peel Softcover | 12.95 x 1.52 x 19.81 cm | 200 pp Repeater Books | 2023 |  9781914420368 A radical re-writing of the history and politics of black metal music, Tonight It’s a World We Bury explores a range of tendencies central to black...

Jim Heimann Hardcover | 25 x 4 x 34 cm | 512 pp Taschen | 2022 | 9783836583282 Surfing. 1778–Today is the most comprehensive visual history of surfing to date, marking a major cultural event as much as a publication. Following three and a half...

Hardcover | 15.88 x 4.06 x 23.5 cm | 352 pp Omnibus Press | 2022 | 9781913172213 Over fifty years on from Britain’s first Pride march, the long road to LGBT equality continues. Through protest songs and gay club nights, street theatre activism and...

Paul Baker Hardcover | 12.9 x 1.9 x 19.9 cm | 320 pp Footnote Press | 2024 | 9781804440322 Camp has been an inescapable part of popular culture for at least the last 150 years. Famously unrestrained and ever evolving, it has not only captured...

Peter Gravelle Hardcover | 23 x 2.3 x 29.1 cm | 216 pp Carpet Bombing Culture | 2016 | 9781908211415 From the filth and the fury to the elegant extravaganza, Peter Gravelle, the many named photographer, has remained in the shadows of punk rock,...

Hardcover | 23.5 x 2.54 x 30.48 cm | 173 pp Gingko Press | 2022 | 9781584237716 Michael Dressel’s street photography relies on his long practiced ability to anticipate events that are about to happen and the readiness to capture these moments. In Lost Angeles,...

Hardcover | 22.86 x 1.27 x 27.31 cm | 65 pp Anthology Editions | 2024 | 9781944860639 Reissued for the first time in decades having been originally published in limited quantities in 1981, Halloween: A Fantasy in Three Acts collects photographs taken by Ken...

Fran May Hardcover | 29.7 x 3 x 27.7 cm | 224 pp Storm Music & Images | 2019 | 9781999833817 This edition presents extraordinary images form the archive of renowned photographer Fran May - extraordinary for their quality but also for the fact...

Patrick Potter Hardcover | 16.5 x 22 cm | 192 pp Carpet Bombing Culture | 2018 | 9781908211590 Sometime around the beginning of the 1960’s, a number of stars aligned. A small but fanatical group of young men and women, mostly no more than...

Gary Charles Hardcover | 16.5 x 22 cm | 192 pp Carpet Bombing Culture | 2019 | 9781908211835 Expanded and updated edition Bikers: Legend, Legacy and Life is a painstakingly detailed chronicle of this unique band of Brothers, and trawls deep into their history to...

Isabelle Bonnet & Sophie Hackett Softcover | 18.29 x 3.3 x 25.91 cm | 480 pp Thames & Hudson | 2024 | 9780500297902 This book brings together a wealth of research and an expansive selection of photographs to create an enduring account of America's first known trans...

Martin Popoff Hardcover in slipcase | 26.64 x 2.49 x 27.13 cm | 176 pp Motorbooks | 2023 | 9780760379271  Take a deep dive into one of the best-selling albums ever with this beautifully produced and authoritatively written slipcased edition. Veteran rock critic Martin Popoff leaves...