So Far So Goude: Jean-Paul Goude with Patrick Mauries, Adapted by Tom Hedley. Hardback, Thames & Hudson, 2006. Selected and arranged by the photographer himself, So Far So Goude: Jean Paul Goude is a retrospective of the work by the photographer best known for his iconic work with Grace Jones. Starting with a look into the inspirations of his youth, this definitive collection then moves on to his work with Esquire, Chanel, Lee Cooper and many more. Recommended by Harris Elliott of H by Harris.

The Photographic Art of Hoyningen – Huene. A colour and duotone portfolio of Hoyningen-Huene's work as well as largely unpublished biographical material. Paperback, William A.Ewing, 1998. A colour and duotone portfolio of Hoyningen-Huene's work as well as largely unpublished biographical material. From unpublished memoirs this is a picture biography of Geoge Hoyningen-Huene; who was born into Russia's aristocracy. He was a part of the Paris scene in the 20s and 30s and became a sophisticate among fashion magazine photographers. Influenced by Man Ray, Baron de Meyer and Edward Steichen, Hoyningen-Huene set a standard of elegance in a genre later taken further by Horst, Penn and Avedon. Recommended by Damir Doma.

This Is A Pair Of Levi's Jeans: Official History Of The Levi's Brand by Lynn Downey. For 150 years, Levi's jeans have been woven into the very fabric of American history and culture. America's love affair with jeans is movingly documented, and the wonderfully original Levi's advertising campaigns brilliantly reproduced.

Tom Wood: Photie Man. Paperback, Steidl, 2005. Tom Wood became known locally as 'photieman' because everyday he was out on the streets with his camera. Most of the pictures collected in this book were taken within a 5-minute walk from Wood's home. The work focuses on the inhabitants of the town and its regular visitors, from Liverpool daytrippers to clubbers who attended the Chelsea Reach nightspot. Working primarily on the street and in pubs and clubs, Wood photographed the public face of New Brighton, England, across the river from Liverpool, from the late 1970s until he moved away in 2003. Recommended by Christopher Shannon.

If 'Work Hard, Play Hard' is your mantra then <a href="http://www.mrporter.com/Shop/Designers/Smythson">Smythson</a>'s cross grain leather-bound notebook is a back-pocket essential. Perfect for jotting down dates, names and reminders, this sleek piece of stationery will keep you effortlessly organised, while the vibrant orange hue will ensure it is always easy to find. Alternatively, it will make a good-humoured gift for a like-minded friend. Designed exclusively for MR PORTER}

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Take a trip through the bright lights and blazing colours of Sin City with this coffee-table homage to the glitz and glamour of Las Vegas. Writer Jennifer Worthington explores its humble beginnings in the Mojave Desert, through to its rise to fame as the premier playground of the Rat Pack. Capturing the seductive allure of the legendary gambling paradise, it's filled with sumptuous shots of the starlets, showgirls and scandal-makers that have helped propel it to international infamy.}

Massimo Vitali, Landscape with Figures (2010). Documenting the masses at play, Massimo Vitali&#8217;s large-scale colour images apply a topographical detail and minute clarity to the rites and rituals of modern leisure. With this volume, Vitali enlarges the scope of his survey to include beaches and clubs from around the world, plus there are some ski resorts and miscellaneous landscapes thrown in for good measure.

Bid farewell to gadgetry and embrace old-school stationery. This dark brown leather-bound organiser from Smythson has sections devoted to your diary, address book and phone numbers. With a metal pencil tucked discreetly inside, it seamlessly marries function with form. An ideal gift, it holds all your essential information in impeccable style.}

Tina Barney, Players (2011). In this book Tina Barney continues her photographic study of families and their surroundings in America, while also broadening her scope to include fashion, circus performers, actors, as well as her own circle of friends and family. Here, Barney juxtaposes the theatre project with her editorial images for magazines as well as commercial assignments, collected since 1988. Editor and designer Chip Kidd has translated work to the pages of this new book, which includes an introductory verse written by Michael Stipe of R.E.M.

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Siddhartha by Herman Hesse. Paperback, Bantam Doubleday Reissue, 1982. Siddhartha is claimed to be the most important and compelling moral allegory our century has produced. Integrating Eastern and Western spiritual traditions with psychoanalysis and philosophy, Siddhartha is a simple tale written with a deep and moving empathy for humanity, has touched the lives of millions since its original publication in 1922. Recommended by Damir Doma - shop the collection here

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On a day with no waves: A Chronicle of Skateboarding 1779-2009 -Rapha&euml;l Zarka -B42, 2010 -Softcover On a day with no waves comes from the artist Rapha&euml;l Zarka who takes a refreshing look at skateboarding, but not from the perceptive of a skateboarder but that of an artist. Focusing on skateboarding as a question of forms, from those created through the physical act of skateboarding to the forms in skateparks and urban architecture. This book draws interesting parallels to art and science and makes all the more apparent the various lines that traverse skateboarding, and links it to a whole aspect of contemporary thought on the transmigration of forms and their uses.

&#8216;The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and the Enigmatic Meaning of their Dreams&#8217; is an elaborate series of images centred around the two cousins that lend their names to the title. The dreamlike images are meticulously directed by Sanguinetti, and are at once both enigmatic and alienating, infused with a casual, magical realism that is typical of the South American storytelling by such luminaries as Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

M&ouml;rel Books, 2011, Softcover, 44 pages, 22cm x 31cm, limited edition of 500 This is M&ouml;rel Books second book from Alexander Binder. Alexander Binder has seamlessly managed to blend crystal rainbows with even the most arcane and dark twilights and thus once again constructing a world of haunting beauty and mysticism.

Back to Mystery City -Andreas Laszlo Konrath -Dashwood Books, 2011 -Softcover -Edition size of 500 copies. Back to Mystery City is a high quality zine that sees photographer Andreas Laszlo Konrath revisit his passion and travel to Helsinki to follow the Perus crew, a local group of skateboarders. They spend their daily lives living like nomads on a quest to find the perfect skate spots. Perus crew are a band of brothers that live in each others pocket, sleep on the floor, drink all through the never ending night and with each day do it all over again.

Ari Marcopoulos, Directory Influential to both art and fashion, Ari Marcopoulos&#8217;s unique style of raw immediacy has made him one of the most important contemporary photographers. For thirty years, photographer Ari Marcopoulos has been pioneering contemporary photography by documenting subcultures such as skateboarders and graffiti artists, as well as landscapes and his own family and friends. Since his days printing photographs for Andy Warhol, he has amassed a huge body of work marked by its arresting and unsentimental intimacy that has been influential to the worlds of art, fashion, and photography. Bound to mimic a phone book, &#8222;Ari Marcopoulos: Directory&#8220; presents a collection of approximately 1.200 photographs, with curator and critic Neville Wakefield providing insightful commentary on some of Marcopoulos&#8217;s singular images. Copublished with Nieves, each book in this limited-edition series includes a print signed by the artist. Paperback, 1200 pages, 27cm x 21cm.

Abandoned Sleep -Ari Marcopoulos -Dashwood Books, 2011 -Softcover -Edition size 500 copies Abandoned Sleep is Ari Marcopoulos and Dashwood Books forth and most recent collaboration. Printed off-set on high quality paper and like certain of his previous publications Marcopoulos has reinterpreted the book form. Ari Marcopoulos&#39;s unique style of raw immediacy has made him one of the most important contemporary photographers. For thirty years, photographer Ari Marcopoulos has been pioneering contemporary photography by documenting subcultures such as skateboarders and graffiti artists, as well as landscapes and his own family and friends.

Before Sunset Comes -Emi Fukuyama -POV Female Tokyo, 2012 -Softcover -First Edition, Limited to 100 copies. Before Sunset Comes is one of the five new publications to come from POV Female. POV stands for Point of View and each publication is part of a wider project. The books focus on photographers whose self-motivated, single-themed projects exhibit a uniquely female perspective. At the end of 2011 the first set of five photographers were selected from London, this is the second based inTokyo, while Paris and New York are still to follow. POV offers a glimpse of how this shared female perspective transcends geographical boundaries and responds to the different creative energies of a place. This is the first photographic project from Emi Fukuyama, her work is connected however with similar themes Fukuyama is concerned with the transience of existence, not just of objects perceived, but of the subject that perceives them. The setting of the sun is a metaphor for the fading of consciousness, the fleetingness of life and death. The images are an expression of her desire to capture various places before they pass from existence and she loses consciousness of the way she first saw them.

This book is as an expansive survey of progressive rock, from its roots through to more contemporary artists who share similar traits including Sonic Youth and Radiohead. &quot;Beyond and Before&quot; considers the high period of the early to mid-1970s, where there was widespread acceptance of the &#39;progressive&#39; approach of detailed instrumentation, extended tracks and conceptual linkage and development across albums. Hegarty and Halliwell assess the roots of progressive rock, arguing convincingly that a fusion of styles, approaches and genres defined the 1970s period, and the authors develop tools to assess other, later progressive musics. Each set of connections are justified and grounded by close textual readings of musical works, a consideration of their material presentation, and an examination of performance and cultural contexts. Through close analysis, the authors show that something &#39;progressive&#39; underpins many subgenres of rock. Featuring discussions not just of the obvious subjects and albums, but also of music by artists as diverse as Kate Bush, Talk Talk, Mars Volta, Tortoise, Joanna Newsom, Sonic Youth and Radiohead, &quot;Beyond and Before&quot; is ideal reading for anyone who&#39;s interested in exploring the history and meaning of progressive rock in all its forms

Three hardcover books housed in a slipcase, 944 pages, 834 tritone platesOver the course of his long career Bruce Davidson has travelled the world making reportage stories both on assignment as a member of the Magnum agency and on subjects of personal interest. A few years ago he returned to his archive of negatives housed in a room in his Manhattan apartment and began a ritual of revisiting each and every one of the stories he had made, from his work as a student in 1954 to his urban landscapes in Los Angeles in 2009. Printing in his darkroom alongside the archive, he began to elaborate a very personal selection, discovering forgotten images and throwing new light onto some of his most famous series. Outside Inside is the result of this work, a sumptuous three volume box set with fifty-three chapters over 800 pages, and includes the work from the photographers East 100th Street, Subway and Brooklyn Gangs series. Each chapter is introduced by a short text written by Davidson himself. The result is a celebration of the development of a master of the medium and an autobiography, a photographer&#8217;s life seen through his work.

A long overdue reissue of one of the most influential photography books the last thirty years. In 1980 Bruce Davidson began photographing the New York subway system, venturing regularly into this intoxicating, sometimes dangerous subterranean world. In Davidson&#39;s own words, &quot;I wanted to transform the subway from its dark, degrading, and impersonal reality into images that open up our experience again to the color, sensuality, and vitality of the individual souls that ride it each day.&quot; In &quot;Subway&quot;, passengers of the city&#39;s subterranean world are portrayed in detail, set against a gritty, graffiti-strewn background and displayed in tones that Davidson describes as &quot;an iridescence like that I had seen in photographs of deep-sea fish&quot;. Moving from the menacing to the lyrical, Subway presents a pure vision of city life in motion.

Black and White -Bruce Davidson -Steidl, 2012 -Five Hardcover books housed in slipcase The set is a definitive collection of Bruce Davidson&#39;s black and white photography, housed in a handmade slipcase and divided into five clothbound books. The set draws together some of Davidson&#39;s most provoking bodies of work. Included in the set is Circus (1958), an intimate portrait of a dwarf clown; Brooklyn Gang (1959), depicting a group of&#8232;troubled youths; Time of Change (1961-1965), a civil rights documentation in America; East 100th Street (1966-1968), showing life on one block in Spanish Harlem; and Central Park (1992-1995), exploring layers of life in New York&#39;s famous urban oasis. Black and White is a highly collectible, limited to 2,000 sets with each containing a certificate hand signed and numbered by Bruce Davidson.

Collier Schorr is an American photographer who has been working on and off in Southern Germany for the past 12 years. In that time she has compiled a portrait of a small town that is both documentary and fictional, centred around the idea of a town haunted by historical inhabitants. For Schorr, the German landscape is a map of her own history, both imagined and inherited. Combining the overlapping roles of war photographer, traveling portraitist, anthropologist and family historian, in this series, entitled Forests and Fields, Schorr tells the interwoven stories of a place and time determined by memory, nationalism, war, emigration and family.

Always manoeuvring on the edge of social norms and putting his own physical capacities to the test, it is the quest for a social model of life that characterises Dash Snow&#8217;s entire oeuvre. His polaroids, for example, all have as a central theme the abstruseness of urban youth culture as it reveals itself in night-time rambles. More recently, these documentary observations of an excessively experienced environment have been supplemented by political collages addressing the wild-west politics of the US administration. But Snow is not a political artist. He doesn&#8217;t make accusations, nor does he divide the world into good and evil. In addition to the assemblages and sculptures focusing on excess and withdrawal, love and transitoriness, the artist presents around 200 new collages in this book. Pages 242 Binding hardback in slipcase Illustration illustrated in colour and b&amp;w Dimensions 325 x 240 mm Weight 1900g

Derek Jarman: Super8 -Buchhandlung Walther Konig, 2010 -Hardcover The British painter, filmmaker, set designer and author Derek Jarman is well-known to a wide audience, particularly as the director of distinctive films and music videos. Less widely known, are the Super 8 films that Jarman made in the 1970s and 1980s. Recorded from the subjective-personal perspective of his handheld camera, the staged compositions convey Jarman&#39;s artistic position, in which life and art constantly, and naturally, connect with one another. The stills from Derek Jarman&#39;s Super 8 films are published here as a series for the first time.

Dora Lives: The Authorized Story of Miki Dora -Steve Pezman, C.R. Stecyk -DAP/ T. Adler, 2005 Miki Dora was the West coast archetype and and antihero, he became the incarnation of surfing for the post war generation. Miki Dora was everything that a surfer should be, he was tanned, he was good looking and he was trouble. This book was brought together by long time Dora confidantes C.R. Stecyk III and Drew Kampion over several years of work before Dora&#39;s death and is a homage to a mans life. Further explication comes from Dora himself, and some 100 stills, film frames, and personal family photos.

&#8216;Mothball&#8217; is the new zine from Los Angeles-based artist / photographer Ed Templeton, published by Innen to coincide with Templeton&#8217;s exhibition of the same name at the Cementary of Reason in Budapest.

Dustri Verlag, 1967, 3rd Edition, Hardcover Originally published in 1935, Dr. Hans Killian created this photographic study of the faces of patients awaiting death for doctors and physicians. This powerful and disturbing document sensitively captures the beauty and fragility of the human condition. The 64 full page black and white photographic plates depict the subjects countenance with added annotation of their condition. Despite the difficult subject matter, each plate provokingly captures these moments with empathy. Facies Dolorosa holds an important place in the history of photography, cited by many as a photographic masterpiece.