Thames & Hudson

Francis Bacon: Revelations by Mark Stevens (Thames & Hudson) — the most comprehensive account of Bacon’s career available in English, presenting the complete body of work with the scholarly depth and visual richness it demands. Bacon’s distorted, screaming, isolated figures captured something about the modern condition that no other visual art of his era managed to express — works that cannot be looked at with comfort and cannot be forgotten. Published by Thames & Hudson.

Magnum Magnum (Thames & Hudson) — the greatest photographs from the complete Magnum archive, selected by the agency’s own photographers — each choosing the image by a colleague they most admire. A portrait of the world’s most important photographic agency as a community of peers: diverse in style and subject, united by a commitment to the photograph as a vehicle for truth. One of the great photography books. Published by Thames & Hudson.

Daido Moriyama: Complete Works (Thames & Hudson) — the most comprehensive survey of Moriyama’s fifty-year engagement with Tokyo: grainy, high-contrast, restlessly mobile images that capture the city as a permanent present tense, a flux to be inhabited rather than a space to be composed. One of the twentieth century’s most important photographers, in the definitive Thames & Hudson monograph. Published by Thames & Hudson.

Woody Allen: A Retrospective by Tom Shone (Thames & Hudson) — the complete Allen career from 1969 to the present, with exceptional visual material and serious critical analysis of a body of work that ranges from early slapstick comedy through Annie Hall and Manhattan to the European films and the late crime dramas. Allen as writer, director, and performer, in the context of the American and European cinematic traditions that shaped him. Published by Thames & Hudson.

Queen of Arts: A History of Women in Art by Flavia Frigeri (Thames & Hudson) — the complete tradition of women’s art from antiquity to the present: the medieval illuminators and Renaissance painters, the Impressionists and Surrealists, the Abstract Expressionists and the feminist artists of the 1970s, and the global diversity of contemporary women artists now receiving the recognition they deserve. An essential art history — comprehensive, authoritative, and long overdue. Published by Thames & Hudson.

Looking at Photographs: A Guide to Technical Terms by Mark Haworth-Booth (Thames & Hudson) — the technical and aesthetic vocabulary of photography presented with clear definitions and visual examples drawn from the history of the medium. Originally produced in collaboration with the Getty Conservation Institute. Essential for photography students, collectors, and anyone who wants to engage more precisely with what they see and what they make. Published by Thames & Hudson.

All About Saul Leiter (Thames & Hudson) — the comprehensive monograph presenting the complete vision of Saul Leiter, one of the great pioneers of colour photography: the paintings, the photographs of New York in the 1940s and 1950s, and the life of an artist who refused celebrity with the same completeness with which he pursued beauty. Many of these images were unseen for decades because Leiter, characteristically, never pushed them. Published by Thames & Hudson.

Almodóvar: A Retrospective by Frédéric Strauss (Thames & Hudson) — the most comprehensive account of Pedro Almodóvar’s extraordinary filmmaking career available in English, with exceptional visual material and extended analysis of the films that have made him the most important European filmmaker of the past four decades. Women on the Verge, All About My Mother, Talk to Her, Volver — each a complete world. Published by Thames & Hudson.

Vivienne Westwood by Claire Wilcox (Thames & Hudson) — the authoritative monograph by the curator of the major V&A retrospective, presenting the complete Westwood career with the scholarly depth it deserves: from the punk origins through four decades of politically engaged fashion that simultaneously revived eighteenth-century tailoring traditions and challenged every fashion convention. The most important British fashion designer of the twentieth century. Published by Thames & Hudson.

The Mysterious Fayum Portraits by Euphrosyne Doxiadis (Thames & Hudson) — the most complete presentation available of the extraordinary Roman-Egyptian portrait paintings produced in the Fayum oasis between 100 BCE and 300 CE: real people, individually seen, painted with an intimacy and a skill that bridges two thousand years and addresses the viewer directly, person to person. Essential for anyone interested in ancient art, portraiture, or the relationship between painting and mortality. Published by Thames & Hudson.

The Architecture Concept Book by James Tait (Thames & Hudson) — fifty of the most important concepts in architectural thinking, from classical notions of order and proportion through the Modernist revolution to contemporary debates about parametric design and sustainability, presented with the visual richness and the scholarly depth that Thames & Hudson brings to its major reference volumes. An essential intellectual companion for architecture students. Published by Thames & Hudson.

Italy: In the Footsteps of the Masters by Stefano Zuffi (Thames & Hudson) — a visual journey through the landscapes, cities, and buildings that shaped Western art, pairing each location with the works it inspired: Raphael in Urbino, Caravaggio in Rome, Titian in Venice. Travel photography of exceptional quality combined with art historical depth — the ideal companion for anyone who has been to Italy or plans to go. Published by Thames & Hudson.