Published by the Barbican Art Gallery as part of the exhibition Everything was Moving: Photography from the 60s and 70s. Features 12 key figures, including Bruce Davidson, William Eggleston, David Goldblatt, Graciela Iturbide, Boris Mikhailov, Sigmar Polke, Malick Sidibé, Shomei Tomatsu, and Li Zhensheng as well as important innovators such as Ernest Cole, Raghubir Singh and Larry Burrows.

The world changed dramatically in the 1960s and 1970s. From the Cultural Revolution to the Cold War, from America's colonialist misadventure in Vietnam to the indelible values of the civil rights movement – this was the defining period of the modern age. It also coincided with a golden age in photography: the moment when the medium flowered as a modern art form.

As well as a comprehensive collection of photographs from each of the artists included in the exhibition the book contains essays from the curator Kate Bush, and Sean O’Hagan, Tanya Barson, T.J Demos, Helen Potrovsky, Boris Mikhailov, Ian Jeffrey, Julian Stallabrass, Robert Pledge, Manthia Diwara, Shanay Jhaveri and Raghubir Singh.