Booth-Clibborn Editions

With its longstanding reputation for publishing and with an outstanding list on the fine, media and decorative arts and at the cutting edge, Booth-Clibborn Editions continues to be in demand internationally to produce diverse and exciting titles on a wide range of subjects. Each title is treated as an individual project, ensuring that the design complements the content. This search for excellence results in books that are admired around the world.

The Game: All Things Trump Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 264
ISBN: 9781861543868
Pub Date: 01 Sep 2020
Illustrations: 270 colour photos
Description:
Before Donald Trump was President, he was Donald Trump. The Game: All Things Trump is a journey through the world Donald Trump created for himself starting in the 1980s. His brand, his name, his casinos, his hotels, his products, his everything.
Portable Studio Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 608
ISBN: 9781861543806
Pub Date: 31 Oct 2017
Description:
Portable studio documents contemporary British youth culture, and was created in collaboration with the young people Appleson met and photographed on the streets of Birmingham in 2014. Inspired by the way identities are now curated online, the project works with a wide range of individuals to create an 'archive' of found and commissioned material, exploring identity and experience as expansive, multimedia portraits. Portable Studio inverts the traditional idea of the studio portrait/street photograph - the 'snapshot' is now just the starting point.
Henri Barande: The Work Beyond Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 344
ISBN: 9781861543820
Pub Date: 09 Aug 2016
Description:
The Work Beyond examines the extraordinary work of French-born artist Henri Barande. Edited by art critic David Galloway, the book contains stunning reproductions of Barande s sculptures and paintings, together with a collection of essays by Henri Claude Cousseau, Romaric Sulger Buel and Michel Weemans that explore Barande s artistic achievements. This extensive monograph is published on September 8th 2016 and coincides with an exhibition at Saatchi Gallery which opens on October 4th.
Out of Season Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 226
ISBN: 9781861543783
Pub Date: 21 Jun 2016
Description:
Exceptional colour photographs of the mid-twentieth-century motels of Wildwood, New Jersey, USA, the largest concentration of the exuberant architectural style sometimes known as 'doo wop' complete with neon signs and plastic palms. The images in this book are the result of a ten-year project by Mark Havens to capture the essence of these vanishing treasures. A number of the motels were photographed at the end of their last season, just prior to demolition.
UK/RAINE Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 144
ISBN: 9781861543813
Pub Date: 26 Nov 2015
Description:
A collaboration between the Firtash Foundation of the Ukraine and Saatchi Gallery, UK/ RAINE presents an overview of emerging artists from both countries, chosen by a panel of eminent international experts. Including some of the most imaginative new talent from the UK and Ukraine's contemporary art scenes. The selected 30 young artists reveal shared concerns and challenges despite the very different socio-political and artistic environments in which they work.
DEAD Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 250
ISBN: 9781861543592
Pub Date: 18 Jun 2015
Description:
In his new book, DEAD, A Celebration of Mortality, Charles Saatchi confronts the inescapable subject of death, decay and mortality in a series of perversely entertaining essays written in his characteristically dry, sardonic and amusing style . The 52 essays span a wide variety of topics; the Russian mafia, snake eating spiders, Attila the Hun, The Wild West, being run over by your own dog , the most effective poisons, fatal curses, near- death experiences, premature burials, snuff movies and lethal sex.
Graphic Design by Iain Cadby for the Elms Lesters Painting Rooms Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9781861543684
Pub Date: 29 May 2015
Description:
Since 2004, London's Elms Lesters Painting Rooms has become a major exhibition space for street and graffiti art, exhibiting such artists as Ron English, Space Invader and Kaws. Graphic designer Iain Cadby has enjoyed a unique collaboration with the gallery and this book documents the work he created for their exhibitions from 2008- 2014. Divided into 12 sections examining different projects, the book contains not just beautifully photographed work, but also drawings, proofs, early designs, rejected designs, gallery shots and detailed descriptions his creative process.
Sculptures of Jeddah Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 282
ISBN: 9781861543387
Pub Date: 21 May 2015
Description:
40 years ago, Jeddah mayor Mohamed Said Farsi transformed his city through an urban development scheme that placed contemporary art at its core. This was public art on a grand scale, designed 'to bring delight to the citizen, to give a sense of wonder and stir a sense of history'. Works were commissioned from the world's greatest sculptors and this book documents the restoration and relocation of some 26 major works to a new Open Air Museum.
Sculptures of Jeddah (Arabic Edition) Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 282
ISBN: 9781861543776
Pub Date: 21 May 2015
Description:
40 years ago, Jeddah mayor Mohamed Said Farsi transformed his city through an urban development scheme that placed contemporary art at its core. This was public art on a grand scale, designed 'to bring delight to the citizen, to give a sense of wonder and stir a sense of history'. Works were commissioned from the world's greatest sculptors and this book documents the restoration and relocation of some 26 major works to a new Open Air Museum.
Premonition: Ukrainian Art Now Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 144
ISBN: 9781861543691
Pub Date: 01 Oct 2014
Description:
While it is by no means exhaustive, Premonition - aims to provide a broad introduction to the highly diverse and energetic nature of Ukraine's art-scene while exploring movements and trends over the last decade or so. Some of the artists have established reputations in Ukraine and emerged in the 1990s while others have only recently graduated from art college. Yet few, if any, are well known outside their homeland.
Stretching Thoughts Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 301
ISBN: 9781861543417
Pub Date: 24 Feb 2014
Description:
Lebanese artist and architect Nadim Karam is renowned for his public art and work in urban regeneration and his interventions have been seen in cities as diverse as Melbourne, Prague, Dubai, Beirut, London and Nara, Japan. These interventions often take the form of large-scale steel sculptures, described as urban toys by the artist. Says Karam: Each urban toy has a message.
Tokyo Adorned Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 130
ISBN: 9781861543479
Pub Date: 13 Feb 2014
Description:
The neon, pastels, bows, and vibrant prints of Tokyo's fashion tribes are unmistakable, outrageous, and fun. Recognized around the world, with huge online followings, the city's style icons are photographed here against white backgrounds, revealing a new dimen-sion of personality and emotion in these remarkable individuals. Portraits include fashion icon Kumamiki--the vision behind the Party Baby movement and clothing brand--who has a growing global online following.
The Memory of My Wardrobe Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 112
ISBN: 9781861543462
Pub Date: 01 Jan 2014
Description:
The Memory of My Wardrobe, a project by Finnish photographer Ida Taavitsainen, explores the personal narratives given to clothing inherited or simply handed down to her by her family. Over the years, she acquired a lot of clothes, many once belonging to people she never knew - her great-great-grandmother, for instance - but all with family ties.
I, Jack Russell: A Photographer and a Dog's Eye View Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9781861543219
Pub Date: 01 Oct 2012
Description:
Artists live by curiosity and enthusiasm, qualities readily evident as inspiration in dogs.' Robert Adams, Why People Photograph I, Jack Russell is a journey of discovery that will enthrall dog lovers everywhere. When photographer Andy Hughes, a life long admirer and owner of Jack Russells, realised that he had many more pictures of his dogs than he did of his family and friends, he decided to create this joyous enterprise, photographing one dog which lead to another dog until he had traveled the length and breadth of the UK and then ventured to the USA.
Photographs Found: A Personal Memoir of 1960s Britain Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9781861543325
Pub Date: 01 Oct 2012
Description:
Starting at the age of nine, Basil Hyman (b. 1936) has taken hundreds of photographs of everyday life in Britain. In Photographs Found he looks back to the swinging sixties' of his youth with an array of images that capture everything from sports to travel to leisure and beauty contests--as well as previously unpublished informal shots of his friend and relative Brian Epstein, an iconic 60s figure and the Beatles' first manager, widely credited with shaping their early success.
The Havana Archive Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9781861543295
Pub Date: 01 Oct 2012
Description:
This lavishly illustrated book includes photographs, postcards, flyers, tickets and brochures, which conjure up the atmosphere of Cuba s past times and places and some of those associated with it. Divided into two parts; the first, a visual Archive, which was the property of a Chicago gangster Grover Dullard, is a vignette of Prohibition and proof of Havana s attractions for the Mob; and the second, an extraordinary collection of printed material from pre-revolutionary Cuba, which paint a picture of its heyday.