Subcultures & Counterculture

Elena Dorfman Softcover |  21 x 2.3 x 28 cm | 144 pp Aperture | 2007 | 9781597110358 In Fandomania, photographer Elena Dorfman examines the pop culture phenomenon of "cosplay," in which participants dress up in costumes and live part of their lives as characters...

Paul Bergen Hardcover | 28.19 x 2.79 x 34.29 cm | 256 pp teNeues | 2022 | 9783961714124 This is the most comprehensive and exhaustive collection of pictures of the music of the 1990s. David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen, Nirvana, Oasis, Pete Doherty, Phil Collins, Prince, Motörhead...

Babycakes Romero Hardcover | 21.59 x 1.52 x 15.49 cm | 192 pp Carpet Bombing Culture | 2019 | 9781908211736 This compelling collection of documentary images shows both the communities and cultures which make up the multicultural melting pot that is London. These photos bear...

Hardcover | 25.15 x 3.3 x 30.99 cm | 288 pp Yale University Press | 2016 | 9780300218831 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....

Hardcover | 25.91 x 1.78 x 26.16 cm | 104 pp Daylight Books | 2015 | 9781942084105 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...

Softcover | 21.5 x 2.46 x 27 cm | 272 pp ACC Art Books | 2021 | 9781788841481 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...

Hardcover | 28 x 3 x 21.5 cm | 320 pp Gestalten | 2018 | 9783899559613 Born-Free is Southern California’s oasis of choppers that has sprung up annually at the end of June since 2010. Each year the show has grown, with humble beginnings...

Nicole Trevillian Softcover | 15.24 x 0.64 x 20.96 cm | 112 pp Edizioni Charta | 2009 | 9788881587513 Nicole Trevillan's London Club is a series of fashion photographs from influential new-music nightclubs in London between 2000 and 2010. The club night Trash, founded in...

Softcover | 15.49 x 1.78 x 21.59 cm | 240 pp Kehrer | 2003 | 9783933257963  Being a young photographer, Sandra Mann decided to portray her own generation, or rather her generation's nightlife. She captures the nightly scenes in clubs and discotheques not only...

Postcard box | 10.6 x 8.1 x 16.2 cm | 100 postcards Princeton Architectural Press | 2018 | 9781616897246 Punch line. Political statement. Conversation piece. Souvenir. From the campaign trail to the concert tour, the button badge occupies a fascinating place in popular culture.This...

Softcover | 21.08 x 1.78 x 27.94 cm | 160 pp Damiani | 2015 | 9788862084437 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...

Hardcover | 28.58 x 1.52 x 36.2 cm | 150 pp powerHouse Books | 2011 | 9781576875681 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...

Hardcover | 26.04 x 3.81 x 30.48 cm | 496 pp Edition Reuss | 2011 | 9783943105049 Text in English, French, Chinese & German This is the world's first comprehensive documentation of the art of tattooing in China and Taiwan. Fascinating images exemplify the...

Blake Atwood Softcover | 15.24 x 1.55 x 23.01 cm | 320 pp MIT Press | 2021 | 9780262542845 In 1983, the Iranian government banned the personal use of home video technology. In Underground, Blake Atwood recounts how in response to the ban, technology enthusiasts,...

Hardcover | 19.69 x 3.05 x 24.13 cm | 368 pp Unicorn | 2022 | 9781914414459 describes himself first and foremost as a sculptor and his trademark is a celebration of colour, in whatever medium he is working in, with the primary aim to create beauty or bring...

Matt Wrbican, Abigail Franzen–sheehan, Blake Gopnik & Neil Printz  Hardcover | 26.92 x 2.54 x 28.45 cm | 296 pp Yale University Press | 2019 | 9780300233445 Andy Warhol (1928–1987) remains an icon of the 20th century and a leading figure in the Pop Art movement. He also was an...

Tony Fletcher & Billy Bragg Softcover | 20.96 x 2.54 x 30.48 cm | 288 pp Omnibus Press | 2021 | 9781913172305  One of Britain’s best-loved and most successful fanzines, Jamming! documented the musical landscape as it evolved between 1977 and 1986. An immensely evocative read...

Simon Matthews Softcover | 13.39 x 2.29 x 19.96 cm | 208 pp Oldcastle Books | 2023 | 9780857305350 Between 1967 and 1970 Italian auteur Giovanni 'Tinto' Brass directed four feature films in London, each starring a woman as the main character. Exploring the political,...

Eric Schaffer Softcover | 15.24 x 2.6 x 23 cm | 480 pp Duke University Press | 2014 | 9780822356547 Sex Scene suggests that what we have come to understand as the sexual revolution of the late 1960s and early 1970s was actually a media revolution....

Shirley Halperin Softcover | 15.1 x 2.54 x 22.9 cm | 336 pp Abrams | 2010 | 9780810903128 Reefer Movie Madness is the most extensive guide ever to movies for the stoner audience, a real market that has proven its mass appeal with the successful...