For Japan the existence of the 20th century was announced apocalyptically by the atomic bomb at Hiroshima. Whatever clothes the Emperor wore that day, they were useless to him now. And no sooner had the revelation of Western civilisation been so awesomely visited upon the Rising Sun than came the 21st century, gizmoid and insensible, surreal and plastic. In Reflex, 40 urban young artists and performers realise the manifestations of modern Japan ...

First ever collection of official portraits of Heads of State from the 191 member states of the United Nations. ...

Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin visited 12 communities. Spending a month in each, they photographed people and asked the same questions: "Who is in power here?" Where do you go to be alone, to make love, to be with friends? What are your hopes and dreams?". This is a collection of their results.
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Essays by Verlyn Klinkenborg and Tim Origer.
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Essay by Andre Glucksmann and Christian Caujolle.
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Philip Jones Griffiths, president of Magnum Photos for five years, created in Vietnam, Inc. a record of the war in almost Biblical proportions. No one who has seen it will forget its haunting images. In Agent Orange, he adds a postscript that is equally unforgettable.
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Text by John Pilger and Philip Jones Griffiths.
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The painter Patsy Craig has unravelled the activities of the Mike Smith Studios, including the symbiosis of the studio with the process of creation of such artists as Damien Hirst, Mona Hatoum, Keith Tyson, Darren Almond and Mark Wallinger. She has collected from the Studio's archives, along with the detritus, the correspondence, notes, ideas, failures and successes of these and other artists at the studio. They are a diary and vade mecum of the ...

Nick Waplington, photographer of the ordinary, again turns his lens on daily life. In this new book of photographs, taken throughout the 90s, Waplington searches for the Higgs, often called the God particle. To discover the Higgs--which might flash across Atlas's layered detectors for a microsecond--researchers will have to process a staggering amount of information. To paraphrase the words of Kafka, "You do not need to leave your room. Remain ...

A companion to the successful 1970s wartime American comedy, with stills from the show.
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