2018 Favorite Photobooks — Day Seven

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Books2018 Favorite Photobooks — Day SevenDay 7 of our 14-day series featuring the Favorite Photobooks of 2018! This year we asked a number of luminaries from the photobook world to select their favorite photobook of the year. The list will continue to grow over the next two weeks, so check back each day for a new group of favorite books!"

2018 Favorite Photobooks — Day 7

This year we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of our renowned listing of the year's best photobooks. To mark this milestone, we've decided to do something a bit different. We've asked 88 internationally recognized luminaries from the photobook world to choose their favorite photobook of the year. Their favorite book could be unforgettable for any number of reasons but the chosen books affected our selectors on a very personal level. These books led each of our contributors to conclude, "If there's one book not to miss this year, it would be this!"

Each day for the following two weeks we will publish additional titles selected by our distinguished group of photobook lovers. Subscribe to PhotoBookDaily to get our email announcements in advance!

Check back daily to see a new group of favorite books!

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Daniel Shea's Favorite

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One Wall A Web
Photographs by Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa

"This text is simultaneously so deeply personal and so deeply theoretical, its exploration of the meaning and consequences of race, that its implications can’t be ignored; we need to constantly be pressing to resist longstanding realities. We need to resist the comfort and delusion that maintains a status quo."

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John Jenkins's Favorite

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The New Colonists
Photographs by Monica Alcazar-Duarte

"What I like about The New Colonists is the way in which it interweaves two separate yet conceptually intertwined bodies of work. The first presents photographs of Mars, Pennsylvania. They depict life in a small rural American town — a high school football game, the local pizza shop, the county fair, etc."

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Tomoki Matsumoto's Favorite

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Margins of Excess
Photographs by Max Pinckers

"I have been following Max’s works, and Margins of Excess is my favorite. Very strong book with wonderful pictures, well-done texts, and a beautiful design. I am always surprised by how he challenges the boundaries of storytelling via photography. What is the “truth” in this world?"

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Forrest Soper's Favorite

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No More, No Less
Artist book by Kensuke Koike & Thomas Sauvin

"The way in which we read and interpret photographic images is constantly changing and evolving but by studying and comparing the designs of these three books, one can gain a better understanding of how individual perception is largely dependent on context and presentation."

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Marco Delogu's Favorite

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The Map and The Territory
Photographs and text by Luigi Ghirri

"I saw too many books of Luigi Ghirri, too many shows. This one has a particular point of view, the seventies, and is a great contribution to understanding the work of Ghirri. It is a serious book on Italy and Ghirri, on the relationship between writers and history."

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RVB Books's Favorite

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Diary of Tom Wilkins
Printed and hand-bound by Sébastien Girard

"This archive of 911 polaroids found by Girard and printed in its integrality could have remained anonymous but a unique self-portrait of the author printed in page 79 reveals the identity of its author and the story behind this visual obsession."

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2018 Favorite Photobooks — Day Eight

December 12, 2018, 10:38 am

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Books2018 Favorite Photobooks — Day EightDay 8 of our 14-day series featuring the Favorite Photobooks of 2018! This year we asked a number of luminaries from the photobook world to select their favorite photobook of the year. The list will continue to grow over the next two weeks, so check back each day for a new group of favorite books!"

2018 Favorite Photobooks — Day 8

This year we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of our renowned listing of the year's best photobooks. To mark this milestone, we've decided to do something a bit different. We've asked 88 internationally recognized luminaries from the photobook world to choose their favorite photobook of the year. Their favorite book could be unforgettable for any number of reasons but the chosen books affected our selectors on a very personal level. These books led each of our contributors to conclude, "If there's one book not to miss this year, it would be this!"

Each day for the following two weeks we will publish additional titles selected by our distinguished group of photobook lovers. Subscribe to PhotoBookDaily to get our email announcements in advance!

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Michael Mack's Favorite

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Landfall
Photographs by Mimi Plumb

"This book illustrates the value of the age-old relationship between an author and her publisher. Mimi Plumb’s brilliant photographs from the 1980s lay fallow in her archive until she began work with the team at TBW Books."

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Éanna de Fréine's Favorite

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Dark Cities
Photographs by Shyue Woon

"The three volumes — Carpark, Capsule, and Eujiro— are incredibly immersive and really fascinated me as I browsed through them. It’s a book I’ll be going back to time and time again."

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Jeff Mermelstein's Favorite

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Ice Fishers
Photographs by Aleksey Kondratyev

"The book is understated in its physicality but with elegance and subtlety depicts these people with grace, homage, and respect. A humble, refined testimony to survival, adaptation and a spirit of pure strength and that is a welcome thing to see in our world right now."

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Tricia Gabriel's Favorite

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Remembering the Future
Photographs by Angel Albarrán and Anna Cabrera

"In Remembering the Future, published by RM, artists Albarrán Cabrera (Angel Albarrán and Anna Cabrera) found a way to string together a series of beautiful and mysterious images that feel otherworldly. They seem like clues to a new place to discover."

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Lauren Henkin's Favorite

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Transcendental Concord
Photographs by Lisa McCarty

"Transcendental Concord is a beautiful meditation on Transcendentalism, photography and visual poetry. The book design, printing, scale, and material selection are handled with such care by Radius Books, that the viewer is left to fully engage and succumb to McCarty’s imagery and the accompanying text of Rebecca Norris Webb and Kirsten Rian."

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Karen Jenkins's Favorite

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Public Matters
Photographs by Janet Delaney

"Street photography is a crowded club; the best of its acolytes, like Delaney, have left an enduring mark on how I see the world and what I expect of art. With Public Matters, I have stepped into the shoes of so many like and unlike myself, in a welcome jolt of recognition, regard, and re-invigoration."

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Gallery Favorites – Tom Chambers: Hearts and Bones

December 12, 2018, 2:46 pm

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Tom Chambers: Hearts and Bones This week Gallery Staff has selected their favorite images from Chamber's current exhibition Hearts and Bones, a mid-career retrospective containing 26 images spanning twenty-five years of work and ten separate projects. The exhibition remains on view through February 16, 2019.

Tom Chambers: Hearts and Bones installed at photo-eye Gallery

Tom Chambers is a master storyteller. His intricate photomontages construct convincing single-setting narratives delicately balanced between beauty, danger and wonder. His images captivate us as they leave room for our own personal experience and imagination to answer the questions each scene poses. Our reaction becomes part of the creative process and a reason to revisit the image time after time. This week our Gallery Staff has selected their favorite images from Chambers' current exhibition Hearts and Bones, a mid-career retrospective containing 26 images spanning twenty-five years of work and ten separate projects. The exhibition remains on view through February 16, 2019.

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Anne Kelly selects Moat Float

Tom Chambers, Moat Float, 2018, Archival Pigment Print, 28x29" Image, Edition of 10, $2300

Anne Kelly, Gallery Director anne@photoeye.com 505.988.5152 x114

I distinctly recall the first time I encountered one of Tom Chambers' prints. Twelve years ago I saw Prom Gown #1. At the time I couldn’t articulate what it was about the image that moved me--I knew immediately I was looking at an artist with vision and promise. Since then Chambers has continued to produce images that speak to me. The first time I saw Moat Float I was transported back to my childhood days, swimming in the lake at my grandparents', floating along with my little butterfly sailboat. Tom depicts a fragile, young girl, still in her dress, lying in the cold waters of a dreary lake, gulls circling a lonely castle, a small sailboat carried on the ripples of time. The scene is both chilling and calming. The muted colors elicit a feeling of sadness, yet the boat sails proudly forth while smoke pours from the chimney, a fire waiting inside. Life carries on despite the grayness we often feel. It reminds me of the resilience we all hold within us, especially when we remember to embrace our child-like wonder. I'm often asked how I choose artists to represent and how I build my own personal collection. The answer is the same: I follow my intuition, gathering the things that speak to me most.

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Lucas Maclaine Shaffer selects Now Now

Tom Chambers, Now Now, 2018, Archival Pigment Print, 22x13" Image, Edition of 20, $950

Lucas Maclaine Shaffer Special Projects & Client Relations photo-eye Gallery lucas@photoeye.com 505.988.5152 x114

Now Now, from Tom Chambers upcoming Portrait Series, exemplifies the artist's ability to construct a resounding fiction in a simple frame. Eschewing his standard square format for an arched vertical, Chambers borrows a classic form akin to that of Medieval iconography, and in doing so, imbues Now Now with both mythological status and symbolism. Something important, something powerful, is evident in the image, but the narrative details are yours to reveal.

The idyllic pastoral setting is delightful, yet clashes with the young woman's rigid posture, unexplained injury, and piercing gaze aimed directly at the viewer--one that seems to say, "I see you." The tension of the narrative is delivered in the delicate gesture of the young woman's left hand. Hovering her hand just above her wolf-protector's head, she appears to be keeping it momentarily at bay, her eyes focused intently on us, the viewer. Chambers deftly creates the feeling of being seen by the subject and gives us the illusion of agency in the confrontation, as if our actions will somehow determine the next scene in this narrative. The moment is rife with anticipation. Now Now is magnetic. It draws me in with its pristine detail and muted pastels and holds me in place with its mysteries. Who is this girl? Why is she hurt? Why does she need protection? Who am I to her? Is she far from home? Where are her shoes?

I find the image captivating and can imagine it being especially powerful if presented in life-size. I adore Chambers' ability to build complex worlds worth visiting on a daily basis. I appreciate the room he leaves for our own imagination, interpretation, and reflection in the process.

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Juliane Worthington selects Late for Dinner

Tom Chambers, Late For Dinner, 2013, Archival Pigment Print, 20x20" Image, Edition of 20, $1600

Juliane Worthington Gallery Associate juliane@photoeye.com 505.988.5152 x116

I love the way Late For Dinner feels like a scene from a fairy tale dream. The edges are soft and blurred, the pink hue of the sunset fading behind the small, old village on the hill. At first glance the sweet girl, in her best gown grabs my entire focus. But the more I study this image, which I asked be hung next to my desk in the gallery, I’m aware of the ravens circling the structures that appear to be vacant and abandoned. Why is such a beautiful child, barefoot and alone on a road to a forgotten place? How late is she really? Is it an hour or a hundred years? I can’t see her face to know with what intent she’s running up this damp and slippery path. What Chambers executes so well in in his work is the ability to create a vision of an idea that’s nearly possible, slightly dangerous, and completely mystifying. His montages often ride the line between dreams and nightmares. Perhaps it’s up to us to decide—will the girl break the spell on the ghostly village and restore it with the beauty and life of her own innocent spirit, or is she too late?

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All prices listed were current at the time this post was published. 

Prices will increase as the print editions sell.

For more information, and to purchase prints, please contact Gallery Staff at 

505-988-5152 x202 or gallery@photoeye.com

Hearts and Bones:  A Retrospective of Tom Chambers' Photomontage Art Photographs by Tom Chambers.   Unicorn Publishing Group, Chicago, USA, 2018.  Hardbound: $45.00

Tom Chambers:
Hearts and Bones

On view through February 16th, 2019

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   with Tom Chambers

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2018 Favorite Photobooks — Day Nine

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2018 Favorite Photobooks — Day 9

This year we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of our renowned listing of the year's best photobooks. To mark this milestone, we've decided to do something a bit different. We've asked 88 internationally recognized luminaries from the photobook world to choose their favorite photobook of the year. Their favorite book could be unforgettable for any number of reasons but the chosen books affected our selectors on a very personal level. These books led each of our contributors to conclude, "If there's one book not to miss this year, it would be this!"

Each day for the following two weeks we will publish additional titles selected by our distinguished group of photobook lovers. Subscribe to PhotoBookDaily to get our email announcements in advance!

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George Slade's Favorite

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AIRGAP
Photographs by Drew Brown

"I am from Minnesota, a great state for hockey; I watched a lot, but never played (I joked that I could skate and hold a stick, but not at the same time). I went to Yale as an undergraduate, never saw a hockey game there, but got wrapped up in photography, as did Drew Brown. AIRGAP melds the sport and the art in ways that astound me."

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Fred Cray's Favorite

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Studio Volta Photo
Photographs by Sanlé Sory

"These studio portraits were made during the first decades of independence for Burkina Faso; they provide a substantial contrast to our current difficult times."

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Eamonn Doyle's Favorite

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Chris Killip Four Volume Set
Photographs by Chris Killip

"This is an incredible, historic and significant selection of work from Chris Killip — one of the world’s greats — thematically brought together as four publications in one slipcase."

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Daniel Boetker-Smith's Favorite

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Will My Mannequin Be Home When I Return
Photographs by Arko Datto

"Will My Mannequin Be Home When I Return is a stand-out amongst photobook publications this year, part of a larger trilogy of which two more books are expected in the near future."

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Barbara Bosworth's Favorite

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The Moth
Photographs by Jem Southam

"In Jem’s photographically eloquent version we follow alongside a lone traveler, a quiet observer of the world. We are aware of time passing in what appears to be a timeless landscape."

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Emma Phillips's Favorite

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Silence And Image
Text by Mariko Takeuchi

"In a world that feels increasingly shrouded by darkness, Takeuchi offers a dexterous and enlightened perceptive on what at times feels to me like the malevolent act of looking at pictures."

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2018 Favorite Photobooks — Day Ten

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Books2018 Favorite Photobooks — Day TenDay 10 of our 14-day series featuring the Favorite Photobooks of 2018! This year we asked a number of luminaries from the photobook world to select their favorite photobook of the year. The list will continue to grow over the next two weeks, so check back each day for a new group of favorite books!"

2018 Favorite Photobooks — Day 10

This year we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of our renowned listing of the year's best photobooks. To mark this milestone, we've decided to do something a bit different. We've asked 88 internationally recognized luminaries from the photobook world to choose their favorite photobook of the year. Their favorite book could be unforgettable for any number of reasons but the chosen books affected our selectors on a very personal level. These books led each of our contributors to conclude, "If there's one book not to miss this year, it would be this!"

Each day for the following two weeks we will publish additional titles selected by our distinguished group of photobook lovers. Subscribe to PhotoBookDaily to get our email announcements in advance!

Check back daily to see a new group of favorite books!

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Alejandro Cartagena's Favorite

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Ghost Guessed
Text by Tom Griggs and Paul Kwiatkowski

"Through text and image, this book takes us on a journey of grief over the loss of a loved one, through the chaotic and rambling feelings mixed into the process. The book asks of us to let go of looking for specific answers about what "it's about" and drags us down a spiral of incertitude that slowly, like a movie, develops into an experience of the issue itself."

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Miwa Susuda's Favorite

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Higher
Photographs by John Edmonds

"John Edmonds' work is born from a unique mythology. In this sense, Higher could be considered the bible of his kingdom. Through the symbolic compositions of color and subject in his portrait series Hoods, Du-rags, and Tribe, Edmonds challenges us to consider an alternative perspective of the subjects presented. "

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Collier Brown's Favorite

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Series of Dreams
Edited by Russell Joslin

"Dreams are delicate and elusive. The bridges they form between themselves, one night to the next, are made of mist and drizzle. Nevertheless, they carry the weight of so much great art."

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Laura André's Favorite

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Real Life Dramas
Photographs and text by Mary Frey

"Last year, I chose Mary Frey's 2017 book, Reading Raymond Carver, as one of my Best Books because it captivated me on a variety of levels. Likewise, her latest publication, Real Life Dramas, is full of beguiling images that—for me—are by turns nostalgic, uncanny, humorous, bizarre, joyful, poignant, and embarrassing. Some images are all of these."

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Rafal Milach's Favorite

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Human
Photographs by Arion Gabor Kudasz

"Kudasz uses the human body and deformed brick modules to set the new hierarchy, which can be perceived as a metaphor of the shift in fundamental values that Hungary and other countries in Eastern Europe are facing today."

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Nathaniel Grann's Favorite

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Khichdi (Kitchari)
Photographs by Nick Sethi

"Nick Sethi’s Khichdi (Kitchari) is one of the most heartfelt books I’ve come across in awhile. At first, experiencing this book can feel a bit overwhelming, as it is made up of hundreds (if not thousands) of photographs from Sethi’s travels through India and features a different layout on each page; nested inside, though, is a sincere look at and celebration of the country and people he has come to know through his work."

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2018 Favorite Photobooks — Day Eleven

December 15, 2018, 10:06 am

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2018 Favorite Photobooks — Day 11

This year we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of our renowned listing of the year's best photobooks. To mark this milestone, we've decided to do something a bit different. We've asked 88 internationally recognized luminaries from the photobook world to choose their favorite photobook of the year. Their favorite book could be unforgettable for any number of reasons but the chosen books affected our selectors on a very personal level. These books led each of our contributors to conclude, "If there's one book not to miss this year, it would be this!"

Each day for the following two weeks we will publish additional titles selected by our distinguished group of photobook lovers. Subscribe to PhotoBookDaily to get our email announcements in advance!

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Jeffrey Ladd's Favorite

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Pure Country
Photographs by Bill Sullivan

"Using the early color photographs by the Russian photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) as a starting point, the photographer/artist Bill Sullivan weaves a culture blending narrative of the westward expansion of the United States in his new book Pure Country."

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Kevin Messina's Favorite

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Studio Volta Photo
Photographs by Sanlé Sory

"2018 has been a difficult year, not just for me personally, but it seems, for the whole world. When I encountered this book at the New York Art Book Fair in September, it immediately made me feel happy, and meeting and talking with its exceptional designer, Sébastien Girard, only intensified the effect."

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Nick Waplington's Favorite

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Deana Lawson
Photographs by Deana Lawson

"This book is far and away my favorite of the year — I have two copies, one in New York and one in London, so I can show it to people in either place. On the surface, this seems like a simple book: a series of strong color portraits each of which is a work in its own right. Grouped together, however, they become something more."

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2018 Favorite Photobooks — Day Twelve

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Books2018 Favorite Photobooks — Day TwelveDay 11 of our 14-day series featuring the Favorite Photobooks of 2018! This year we asked a number of luminaries from the photobook world to select their favorite photobook of the year. The list will continue to grow over the next two weeks, so check back each day for a new group of favorite books!"

2018 Favorite Photobooks — Day 12

This year we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of our renowned listing of the year's best photobooks. To mark this milestone, we've decided to do something a bit different. We've asked 88 internationally recognized luminaries from the photobook world to choose their favorite photobook of the year. Their favorite book could be unforgettable for any number of reasons but the chosen books affected our selectors on a very personal level. These books led each of our contributors to conclude, "If there's one book not to miss this year, it would be this!"

Each day for the following two weeks we will publish additional titles selected by our distinguished group of photobook lovers. Subscribe to PhotoBookDaily to get our email announcements in advance!

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Mary Frey's Favorite

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Manifest
Photographs by Kristine Potter

"In Kristine Potter’s marvelous book, Manifest, ideas of myth and romance that once were symbolized in landscapes of the American West are subtly intertwined with portraits of men who presently inhabit these places."

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Matthew Morrocco's Favorite

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Deana Lawson
Photographs by Deana Lawson

"Deana Lawson has been one of my favorite artists for a long time. She shows things with stark clarity as well as care and attention to detail — a rare, important, and unique combination in contemporary photography. There is no one like her."

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Kevin Bond's Favorite

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A Bleak Reality
Photographs by Kris Graves

"NotWrong is a project that works with photographic artists to illustrate stories of gentrification, race, power, and discrimination. In times like the present, where one horrendous act replaces another on an almost daily basis, it’s important that some of these atrocities are collected into something that won’t be easily forgotten."

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Janelle Lynch's Favorite

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The Heavens
Photographs by Barbara Bosworth

"Sublime color and black-and-white images of the sun, moon, and sky that Bosworth made with her 8x10 camera using long exposures or in combination with a telescope, are timely — if not urgent — reminders of the possibility to cultivate wonder and perspective."

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Ron Jude's Favorite

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In The Vicinity
Photographs by Ed Panar

"With a perfect balance of sincerity and levity, Panar helps us see the endearing qualities in our folly in a region whose off-the-grid economy provides an incredible visual blend of wilderness and burnout culture."

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Richard Renaldi's Favorite

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Jasper
Photographs by Matthew Genitempo

"Genitempo portrays a remote territory seemingly neglected by time and circumstance, fully insulated from its centrality in a prosperous nation. Except for the occasional glimpse of a rusty truck or a broken down trailer, the images in Jasper reveal a landscape that has barely changed in over a century."

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2018 Favorite Photobooks — Day Thirteen

December 17, 2018, 10:04 am

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2018 Favorite Photobooks — Day 13

This year we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of our renowned listing of the year's best photobooks. To mark this milestone, we've decided to do something a bit different. We've asked 88 internationally recognized luminaries from the photobook world to choose their favorite photobook of the year. Their favorite book could be unforgettable for any number of reasons but the chosen books affected our selectors on a very personal level. These books led each of our contributors to conclude, "If there's one book not to miss this year, it would be this!"

Each day for the following two weeks we will publish additional titles selected by our distinguished group of photobook lovers. Subscribe to PhotoBookDaily to get our email announcements in advance!

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Jim Goldberg's Favorite

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Blind Date
Photographs by Lieko Shiga

"Blind Date is a beautifully produced book that’s a joy to hold. When I first looked inside it, I was taken by the feeling that I was looking with Lieko through her viewfinder as the couples drove by, seeing the secret glances and intimate sensuality of two people riding on a small machine together as if for the first time."

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Larissa Leclair's Favorite

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Higher
Photographs by John Edmonds

"His book Higher includes four bodies of work, of which Hoods has transcended a historical exploration of how this clothing can cover vulnerability and provide security to now being explicitly part of the current dialogue of Black Lives Matter — wrapped in political meaning and right into the photo history books. Everyone should know his work."

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Owen Kobasz's Favorite

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Vivian Maier: The Color Work
Photographs by Vivian Maier

"The 150 some featured pictures are effectively a highlight reel. Through them, however, emerges a beautiful survey of one of the most interesting and important photographers to surface in the last decade."

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2018 Favorite Photobooks to date

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Book of the Week: Selected by Karen Jenkins

December 17, 2018, 10:09 am

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Book Of The WeekFrail SisterArtist's book by Karen GreenReviewed by Karen JenkinsArtist and writer Karen Green's second book originated in a search for a woman who had vanished: her Aunt Constance, whom Green knew only from a few family photos and keepsakes. In her absence, Green has constructed an elliptical arrangement of artifacts from an untold life.

Frail Sister.By Karen Green.

Frail Sister

Artist's book by Karen Green

Steidl, Gottingen, Germany, 2016.
104 pp., 55 black-and-white illustrations, 10¼x12½".

In Frail Sister, Karen Green has created an elaborate, imaginative archive of a life that might have been. Using photographs, drawings, letters and ephemera, she (re)constructs the tale of her “disappeared” Aunt Constance in an artful synthesis of materials both found and (mostly) fabricated. Yet this is not only an additive project. The story is told as much in its subtractions, via overlaps, masking, and most cleverly, in the diminishing effect of words and images that challenge and contradict.

By bending the familiar tropes of the unreliable narrator and “based on a true story,” Frail Sister both obfuscates and reveals. With varying degrees of respect and irreverence for an absent “truth,” Green builds the story of Constance’s childhood during the Depression in Oil City, Pennsylvania, her escape as a musical USO performer in war-time Italy, return to a tarnished existence in New York, and a gradual diminishment via violence and illness.

Objects of correspondence provide much of the narrative arc of Constance’s story. Sometimes, letters and postcards are the substrates of the layered episodes that emerge from their fertile soil. In other passages, vintage-seeming ephemera (a musical score, ration book, menu) are used as impromptu stationery—the starting point for handwritten and typed messages further transformed with photos and drawings, strikeouts and redactions. As many a researcher must do, Green offers a one-sided version of her subject as gleaned from correspondence Constance (might have) received. A collection of letters from her many male admirers may reveal each man’s particular ardor, but they are also reduced to generalized types in their literal ordering from A (Al), B (Bill), C (Clyde)…to Z. We, like them, wait expectantly for Constance’s reply, only to be met with her absence.

Music figures prominently throughout Green’s story. At first connecting Constance to her sister, later embraced as a vehicle of escape, and ultimately found to be an inadequate shield against life’s harsh realities. Onto a yellowed USO postcard, Constance writes, “We are the bridge in a song, sis, forever linked, together we make the music and there is nothing and no one can asunder us, not even war!” The bridge imagery resonates throughout Frail Sister, appearing at each important junction in Constance’s story. Running the metaphorical gamut from “bridge leading to nowhere” to that which might “bridge the gulf,” these increasingly heartbreaking permutations are revealing of Constance’s present state while foregrounding Green’s nimble command of language and imagery.

Late in the story, Constance returns to New York, trading in her USO past for a burlesque (and worse) future. This tragic stage unfolds in a new wave of letters and manipulated photographs, revealing Constance’s experience of domestic violence and other horrors. A typewritten inventory trailing down the face of a woman in a faded photograph makes explicit the slang term that gives this book its title––frail sister, guttersnipe, harlot, harridan, hussy (again in an alphabetical reduction to type). Deterioration in Constance’s circumstances and resiliency are also suggested in the increasingly illegible handwriting, which delivers missives back home that no longer wear a brave face. The fading of this one (perhaps unknowable) woman permeates a final gallery of studio portraits of anonymous women; their faces stitched in with thread or obscured in overlays of color wash. Paired with descriptions of nameless bodies discovered after violent ends; Constance’s fate is now powerfully intertwined with other vulnerable women lost to exploitation and violence.

The final spread in Frail Sister shows the front and back side of an image of Constance playing the violin; now thoroughly sewn-over with colored threads, forever obscured as if by an invasive vine. With no more strands to follow, I closed the book and immediately saw the cover photo anew. What at first reads as an unperturbed found photograph of two young sisters soon reveals the subtle traces of internal manipulation and embellishment. A crack in the emulsion runs down the side of this aged print, dotted by a few now-shifted spot tone corrections. And a thin run of threaded embellishment emerges from the waist and neckline of Constance’s outfit as if to prime us for the mesmerizing concoction of subtext and wishful thinking to come. Where the girls join hands, a faint fingerprint impression also comes to light. This story has been handled, but it can still offer truth.

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Karen Jenkins earned a Master's degree in Art History, specializing in the History of Photography from the University of Arizona. She has held curatorial positions at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, AZ and the Demuth Museum in Lancaster, PA. Most recently she helped to debut a new arts project, Art in the Open Philadelphia, that challenges contemporary artists to reimagine the tradition of creating works of art en plein air for the 21st century.

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Books2018 Favorite Photobooks — Day FourteenDay 13 of our series featuring the Favorite Photobooks of 2018! This year we asked a number of luminaries from the photobook world to select their favorite photobook of the year. The list will continue to grow over the next two weeks, so check back each day for a new group of favorite books!"

2018 Favorite Photobooks — Day 14

This year we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of our renowned listing of the year's best photobooks. To mark this milestone, we've decided to do something a bit different. We've asked 88 internationally recognized luminaries from the photobook world to choose their favorite photobook of the year. Their favorite book could be unforgettable for any number of reasons but the chosen books affected our selectors on a very personal level. These books led each of our contributors to conclude, "If there's one book not to miss this year, it would be this!"

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David Campany's Favorite

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Landing Lights Park
Photographs by David Rothenberg

"Photographs shot from the ground of passengers looking out from the windows of planes in the air. But a book isn’t its description. These are remarkable and surprisingly moving photographs by David Rothenberg, full of alienation, pathos and good humor."

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Michael Wolf's Favorite

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American Interiors
Photographs by M L Casteel

"He does not show the veterans themselves; rather, he shows the effects of trauma only through details of the interiors of their cars: syringes, overflowing ashtrays, self-help guides, veterans' medical records—all haphazardly scattered on the seats."

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Carlo Brady's Favorite

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The Heavens
Photographs by Barbara Bosworth

"The Heavens provides a heartening look into the promises of longevous attention, positing awe as a corollary of repetition and intent. It also allowed me the space to enjoy wonderful allegories on the nature of photography and sighted meaning. A moving and generative work."

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Books2018 Favorite Photobooks — Day FifteenDay 15 of our series featuring the Favorite Photobooks of 2018! This year we asked a number of luminaries from the photobook world to select their favorite photobook of the year. The list will continue to grow over the next two weeks, so check back each day for a new group of favorite books!"

2018 Favorite Photobooks — Day 15

This year we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of our renowned listing of the year's best photobooks. To mark this milestone, we've decided to do something a bit different. We've asked 88 internationally recognized luminaries from the photobook world to choose their favorite photobook of the year. Their favorite book could be unforgettable for any number of reasons but the chosen books affected our selectors on a very personal level. These books led each of our contributors to conclude, "If there's one book not to miss this year, it would be this!"

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Dewi Lewis's Favorite

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Angst
Photographs by Soham Gupta

"As a publisher, I often come across books I admire, but only occasionally ones that I also wish I’d published. Soham Gupta’s Angst is certainly one of those. It’s not an easy book."

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Paul Graham's Favorite

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Index G
Photographs by Piergiorgio Casotti & Emanuele Brutti

"I first saw this book in Arles Rencontres — the 'books of the year' presentation was hidden on an upper floor, at the back of a local supermarket, in a room well over 100 degrees. I thumbed through as many as time & perspiration allowed, then went straight online to order this. Happy to own it."

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Christian Patterson's Favorite

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Pure Country
Photographs by Bill Sullivan

"The Russian composer Igor Stravinsky said, 'A good composer does not imitate; he steals.' The U.S. publisher S U N describes American artist Bill Sullivan's book Pure Country as an 'an epic romp through the history of color image making over the last century and a half.'"

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photo-eye Galleryphoto-eye Gallery has a unique ready-to-wrap gift perfect for the collector, photographer or art lover in your life.

Keith Carter, Four Moths, 2012, Tintype, 8x10 inches, Edition of 15, $1,725. Framed by the artist. Four Moths is no longer being printed as a tintype by the artist, this print is the last available at photo-eye Gallery.

With only a few days left before December 25th, I know personally, I'm still looking to cross a few names off my list. If you live in the Santa Fe area or happen to be spending the holidays here, (which if you haven't, it's magic--you absolutely should!) photo-eye Gallery has a unique ready-to-wrap gift perfect for the collector, photographer or art lover in your life.

In this collection, Anne, Juliane, and I have selected small framed prints, Limited Edition books and other works, that can be carried out or shipped from the gallery the same day you order. Many of the works listed are by some of our most popular artists like Kate Breakey, Keith Carter and Tom Chambers.

For shipments to arrive before next Tuesday, we need to receive your order by Midnight on Thursday, Dec 20th. If you order after the 20th, we can provide a customized email letter with an image of the work to present the gift recipient. Or, possibly like myself, you have more than one holiday celebration to attend, and the items listed in the collection are available to be sent out early next week in time for your second gathering.

Once again, our thanks for all your interest, support, and enthusiasm this year; enjoy the collection!

–Lucas Shaffer, Gallery Associate

Keith Carter

Four Moths, 2012

Tintype

8 x 10 inches

Edition of 15

$1,725 Framed

Four Moths is no longer being printed as a tintype by Carter; this print is the last available at photo-eye Gallery.

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Pentti Sammahlatti

Kitakata City, Fukushima, Japan, 2005

Toned Gelatin-Silver Print 

8x6" Image

14x11" Mat

$1,300 

Pentti Sammallahti is a traveler and a visual poet. Meticulously well-seen, Sammallahti’s photographs are imbued with a sense of wonder, delight, and reverence for the world at large while reflecting on both beauty and the human condition.

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James Pitts

FLOWERS
Mini Print Portfolio
2x1.5 Inches
55 Archival Pigment Prints
$250

This charming petite portfolio contains 55 black-and-white archival pigment prints of Pitts' flower images. We also have a few of these images as original Platinum Palladium prints as well. Please inquire if you are interested.

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Brad Wilson

Wild Life, Special Edition

Photographs by Brad Wilson

Prestel, Lakewood, 2014, 184 pp., illustrated throughout, 10x11¾"

By bringing wild animals into his studio, Brad Wilson offers a unique and beautiful perspective on our non-human neighbors that sets a new standard in animal photography. The Wild Life Special Edition includes a Signed Hardbound copy of Wild Life and a signed artist print.

6½x9½" Archival Pigment Print on 8.5x11" Paper

Signed by Artist on Verso

Protected by crystal clear acetate

Open Edition

Hardbound: $250

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Tom Chambers

Hearts and Bones is the first comprehensive collection of Chambers' work. More than one hundred color photomontages are included in this volume, spanning his entire career.

Limited Edition of 25 copies (plus 2 Artist Proofs) of each of three different archival pigment ink prints (9½ × 9½ inches), protected in an acetate sleeve and inserted loose into a signed copy of the book. Each image is printed by the artist, and signed and numbered on verso.

Limited Edition [A]

Saccharine Perch, 2009

Archival Pigment Print

9½ × 9½ inches

Edition of 25

$450

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The Goatherd, 2009

Archival Pigment Print

9½ × 9½ inches

Edition of 25

$350

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Prom Dress #3, 2005

Archival Pigment Print

9½ × 9½ inches

Edition of 25

$450

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Tom Chambers: DREAMING IN REVERSE / SOÑANDO HACIA ATRÁS

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This portfolio of twelve archival pigment print housed in an archival anodized aluminum box is published in a limited edition of thirty. 

"TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO I TRAVELED FREELY THROUGHOUT THE MEXICAN COUNTRYSIDE WHERE I RELISHED A WARM, WELCOMING, AND SLOW-PACED STYLE OF LIVING. I WAS HEARTENED BY THE PHYSICAL BEAUTY OF THE LANDSCAPE AND THE SIMPLE, PURE LIFESTYLES SHARED BY BOTH THE HISPANIC AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF MEXICO. A SENSE OF SPIRITUALITY AND MAGIC WERE EMBEDDED IN THEIR RELIGIOUS PRACTICES, CRAFTS, ART, DANCE, AND LITERATURE. RECENTLY, I RETURNED TO MEXICO WHERE I EXPERIENCED A COUNTRY TEETERING ON THE BRINK OF CHANGE CREATED BY INCREASING POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC CHALLENGES AND EXACERBATED BY THE TRAPPINGS OF GLOBAL CONSUMERISM. THE MEXICAN PEOPLE APPEARED HANDCUFFED BY DEMANDS LARGELY OUTSIDE OF THEIR CONTROL AND THREATENED BY THE POTENTIAL LOSS OF THEIR CULTURAL RICHNESS. SENSING THAT LITTLE TIME REMAINS TO PHOTOGRAPH THE BEAUTY OF MEXICO, I HAVE CREATED THE SERIES “DREAMING IN REVERSE” TO EXPRESS BOTH MY CONCERN FOR CULTURAL LOSS, AS WELL AS MY APPRECIATION FOR THE INHERENT LOVELINESS OF MEXICAN LIFE. EMPLOYING MAGIC REALISM, AN ART GENRE USED IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY IN MEXICO, I HAVE ATTEMPTED TO CREATE IMAGES OF MEXICO WHICH SEEM TRUE AND BELIEVABLE, BUT ALSO PERHAPS IMPROBABLE. THESE PHOTOMONTAGES ILLUSTRATE MY DREAMS FOR THE MEXICAN PEOPLE THAT THEY ARE ABLE TO RETAIN THE AUTHENTICITY OF THEIR CULTURE." - TOM CHAMBERS

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12 Archival Pigment Prints
14×11" Engraved Aluminum Box, Lined with Oil Cloth
Limited Edition of 30
$1,300

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Steve Fitch

Vanishing Vernacular Limited Edition Monograph with Print

Limited Edition of 60 copies total. Each Limited Edition contains a signed first edition of the book and one of three signed and numbered archival pigment prints, each printed in an edition of 20.

Image size is 8x10" on 8½x11" Canson Platine Fibre Rag paper from digital files prepared from the original 8x10 color film negatives and printed by the artist himself. Prints are in a protective sleeve and inserted into signed Trade Edition copies of the book.

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Starlite Motel, Mesa, Arizona, December 28, 1980
Archival Pigment Print
8x10" Image
Edition of 20
$350

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Blue Swallow Motel, Hwy. 66, Tucumcari, New Mexico; July, 1990
Archival Pigment Print
8x10" Image
Edition of 20
$1,500

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 Motel, Raton, New Mexico; 1980
Archival Pigment Print
8x10" Image
Edition of 20
$350

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Kate Breakey

Waxing Crescent
Archival Pigment Print
Glass Plate, 24kt Gold
5x3.5 Inches
Edition of 20
$600 – Framed in an antique daguerreotype case

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Douglas Levere

Snowflake 2014.02.16.024 
Archival Pigment Print
12x12" Image
Edition of 10
$500

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Rachel Phillips

Divination by Cloud
Varnished Transfer to Antique Photo
6.5x4.3" Image
Unique
$700

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2018 Favorite Photobooks — Day 16

This year we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of our renowned listing of the year's best photobooks. To mark this milestone, we've decided to do something a bit different. We've asked 88 internationally recognized luminaries from the photobook world to choose their favorite photobook of the year. Their favorite book could be unforgettable for any number of reasons but the chosen books affected our selectors on a very personal level. These books led each of our contributors to conclude, "If there's one book not to miss this year, it would be this!"

Each day for the following two weeks we will publish additional titles selected by our distinguished group of photobook lovers. Subscribe to PhotoBookDaily to get our email announcements in advance!

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Matthew Genitempo's Favorite

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Past K-Ville
Photographs by Mark Steinmetz

"Castaways, spray painted testimonies, and young love all bound by a deep affection for the South. A profound reminder of our own desire and the shadows we throw upon the earth and one another. They’re just pictures, but pictures we can write into our own truths."

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Unwired
Photographs by Jacqueline Hassink

"Unwired epitomizes Hassink’s rigorous, research-driven process, juxtaposing a typology of tightly framed portraits of people lost in their devices and screens against a series of ‘White Spot’ landscapes from Iceland, Kenya, Germany, and the U.S., among other locations. Each of the landscapes depicts a site of 'non-connection'— places where cell-phone reception and digital data streams are nonexistent or purposefully blocked."

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Martin Parr's Favorite

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The Portraits
Photographs by John Myers

"John Myers, one of the great photographers from the UK who has been somewhat overlooked, is having this discrepancy corrected with this series of books from RRB publishers. The first features the wonderful portraits that Myers took in the 70s, many of which came from his original project, Middle England. These deadpan portraits...just sing off the page."

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2018 Favorite Photobooks — Day 17

This year we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of our renowned listing of the year's best photobooks. To mark this milestone, we've decided to do something a bit different. We've asked 88 internationally recognized luminaries from the photobook world to choose their favorite photobook of the year. Their favorite book could be unforgettable for any number of reasons but the chosen books affected our selectors on a very personal level. These books led each of our contributors to conclude, "If there's one book not to miss this year, it would be this!"

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Jörg Colberg's Favorite

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The Heavens
Photographs by Barbara Bosworth

"This year one particular book struck a chord with me: Barbara Bosworth's The Heavens. I can't stop looking at it not because I used to be an astrophysicist, but because the artist didn't attempt to be one. Instead, these photographs hint at the sublime beauty that we all feel in the presence of celestial bodies, and they even endow the moon and sun with characters. The photographs in this book are all felt, not seen — and that's really the best an artist can hope for."

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Women's Market
Photographs by Tom Wood

"I picked this book for one particular photo, an older lady holding a cigarette inside a café by the window and on the other side of the glass is a young girl and her reflection leaning, looking. Both are making eye contact with the lens...Everything is perfect in this image."

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Amsterdam Stuff
Concept by Jerzy Gawronski, Peter Kranendonk and Willem van Zoetendaal. Photography by Harold Strak.

"Amsterdam Stuff is an insightful historical document and at the same time a luxurious, rigorously designed, fully realized object."

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2018 Favorite Photobooks — Day 18

This year we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of our renowned listing of the year's best photobooks. To mark this milestone, we've decided to do something a bit different. We've asked 88 internationally recognized luminaries from the photobook world to choose their favorite photobook of the year. Their favorite book could be unforgettable for any number of reasons but the chosen books affected our selectors on a very personal level. These books led each of our contributors to conclude, "If there's one book not to miss this year, it would be this!"

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Rixon Reed's Favorite

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The Castle
Photographs by Richard Mosse

"Richard Mosse's The Castle surfaces among this year's incredibly rich sea of photobooks as an extraordinary tour de force that perfectly blends exquisite design with hauntingly rich content. Published by MACK, London, the book's intricate inclusion of multiple gatefolds, richly printed using silver ink on black paper, meshes perfectly with Mosse's unusual exploration of life in temporary refugee encampments along migration routes from Central Asia and the Middle East to Europe."

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Press and PicsTom Chambers: Hearts and Bones, opened at the end of November and we are thrilled about the enthusiastic response the work has received from the fine art community in Santa Fe.

Photographer Tom Chambers holding a copy of his new monograph, Hearts and Bones, at photo-eye Gallery.

Tom Chambers: Hearts and Bones, opened at the end of November and we are thrilled about the enthusiastic response the work has received from the fine art community in Santa Fe. photo-eye Gallery is proud to have represented Chambers for more than a decade now and he's become one our most popular artists over the years. Since his first solo exhibition in 2007, Chambers' narrative photomontages have delighted viewers by inviting them to believe in a world rich with magic and mysticism. Hearts and Bones is a mid-career retrospective; a celebration of Chambers' complete body of work covering more than twenty-five years and includes three images from his yet-to-be-titled portrait series, Nesting with Scissors, Hide Your Eyes, and Now Now. Paul Weideman of the Pasatiempo wrote an excellent summary of Chambers' work and career in his December 14th cover story with background and commentary provided by the artist. Here's an excerpt from Weideman's article Of Girls, Birds, and Cloudy Skies discussing Chamber's new work:

Gallery Associate Julaine Worthington holding a copy of the December 14th issue of the Pasatiempo featuring Tom Chambers' image Fire and Ice on the cover.

If viewers are seeking meaning in his works, they may often be confounded, or at least challenged. But his methodology also makes it fun to view them and discover nearly hidden elements. The main subject of Hide Your Eyes is a girl with a hooded hawk on her wrist partially lifting a blindfold. There are birds here and there, and two rabbits camouflaged in the grass. The hawk was a stuffed bird Chambers found in a case at a hawk sanctuary. “Hide Your Eyes is one of a very new series. I have seven completed right now and three are at the gallery for this show. I wanted to shake up my work, to do something totally different. I set parameters. I decided they would be full-length portraits, all the same size, all looking directly ahead, all with the horizon line at knee height so it would be mostly sky, and the colors would be muted.”

Another of his newest pictures is Nesting With Scissors. Here is a young lady standing, looking out of the frame at us as she cuts her hair with a large pair of scissors. She has a sad look on her face. Sparrows are harvesting the cut hair in midair and on the ground, using it to improve their nest. Chambers said he has not yet nailed down the artistic statement for this new series. The parameters limit the basic look of the photos, so the story is told purely by means of the other elements and the action. “I don’t know the name of the series yet. It has to do with storytelling and maybe heroines, because I think this will be all girls.” – Paul Weideman

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We'll have more from Tom later in January about his new portrait series when we release the full portfolio of images alongside a new interview with the artist. In the meantime, we are incredibly grateful for your enthusiasm and support this year, and wish you all the best in the year to come.

Represented Artist Tom Chambers with photo-eye Gallery Director Anne Kelly. Image courtesy of Sally Chambers.

Tom Chambers: Hearts and Bones installed at photo-eye Gallery

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Hearts and Bones:  A Retrospective of Tom Chambers' Photomontage Art Photographs by Tom Chambers.   Unicorn Publishing Group, Chicago, USA, 2018.  Hardbound: $45.00

Tom Chambers:
Hearts and Bones

On view through February 16th, 2019

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Books2018 Favorite Photobooks — Bonus Selection by Mark Steinmetz#89 of our series featuring the Favorite Photobooks of 2018! This year we asked a number of luminaries from the photobook world to select their favorite photobook of the year. Today features the 89th selection!"

2018 Favorite Photobooks — Bonus Selection by Mark Steinmetz

This year we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of our renowned listing of the year's best photobooks. To mark this milestone, we've decided to do something a bit different. We've asked 88 internationally recognized luminaries from the photobook world to choose their favorite photobook of the year. Their favorite book could be unforgettable for any number of reasons but the chosen books affected our selectors on a very personal level. These books led each of our contributors to conclude, "If there's one book not to miss this year, it would be this!"

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Landfall
Photographs by Mimi Plumb

“Landfall by Mimi Plumb begins with a brief text:
‘I remember having insomnia for a time when I was 9 years old. My mother told me there might be nuclear war.’

“Made in the mid to late 1980s in black and white, the central recurring character of Landfall is a young girl. There's also a woman who might be her mother, a man who could be the father (and another man — an uncle perhaps), a boy who is possibly a brother. There are images of missiles, toy tanks, and military equipment. There are photographs of the Western desert landscape, the shoreline, barren trees and the burnt interior of a house. Plumb's flash turns hair into silver, and strikes carousel horses with gaping mouths (literal night mares). Sources of comfort are absent (an exception: the girl lying in bed with (I guess) her mother, though the sleeping mother has turned away). There's a vague dread hovering over this child's world; something dark may be approaching.”

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Books2018 Favorite Photobooks — Bonus Selection by Colin Pantall#90 of our series featuring the Favorite Photobooks of 2018! This year we asked a number of luminaries from the photobook world to select their favorite photobook of the year. Today features the 90th selection!"

2018 Favorite Photobooks — Bonus Selection by Colin Pantall

This year we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of our renowned listing of the year's best photobooks. To mark this milestone, we've decided to do something a bit different. We've asked 90 internationally recognized luminaries from the photobook world to choose their favorite photobook of the year. Their favorite book could be unforgettable for any number of reasons but the chosen books affected our selectors on a very personal level. These books led each of our contributors to conclude, "If there's one book not to miss this year, it would be this!"

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Today we offer a 90th selection by Colin Pantall!

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Colin Pantall's Favorite

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Landfall
Photographs by Mimi Plumb

“This book is the story of Sohrab Hura’s mother, her mental illness and her struggle to keep her house in order. Most of all though, it’s the story of her dog, Elsa, and their companionship. It’s a beautiful story, and a terribly sad one—Elsa dies in the end—played out against the backdrop of Ma’s messy house. And Hura’s photography, and its incidental intimacy, is part of that backdrop. It made me cry. I loved it.”

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photo-eye Gallery Highlights 2018

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photo-eye Galleryphoto-eye Gallery Highlights 20182018 was an exciting year at photo-eye Gallery filled with new artists, comprehensive retrospectives, and ambitious group shows. As we look forward to 2019, we wanted to take a brief moment to celebrate the amazing work by our artists and the support from our community of collectors.

2018 was an exciting year at photo-eye Gallery filled with new artists, comprehensive retrospectives, and ambitious group shows. As we look forward to 2019, we wanted to take a brief moment to celebrate the amazing work by our artists and the support from our community of collectors — particularly those who purchased their first prints in 2018. At photo-eye, our mantra is to "collect what you love," and it is a privilege for us to share work we ourselves connect with on a daily basis. The photo-eye team would like to say a heartfelt THANK YOU, and we're looking forward to working with you in the new year.

2018 photo-eye Gallery Exhibitions

2018 Winter Group Show
January 26 – March 24, 2018

Julie Blackmon, Tom Chambers, John Delaney, Mitch Dobrowner, Michael Kenna, and Maggie Taylor.

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» Read our Blog Coverage from the Exhibition

Steve Fitch: Vanishing Vernacular
March 30 – May 19, 2018

Vanishing Vernacular featured a selection of color works by photographer Steve Fitch focusing primarily on the distinctive, idiosyncratic, and evolving features of the Western roadside landscape.

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» Read our Blog Coverage of Vanishing Vernacular

COSMOS
May 25 – July 20, 2018

Beth Moon, Kate Breakey, Chris McCaw, Linda Connor,
Alan Friedman, and Bryant Austin

Cosmos celebrated humanity’s fascination with the vast expanse beyond Earth’s boundaries. In this group exhibition, six diverse photographers focused on heavenly bodies as a means to convey sublime notions of time, scale, and splendor.


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» Read our Blog Coverage About the Artwork and Exhibition




Light + Metal
July 27 – September 22, 2018

David Emitt Adams, Kate Breakey, Vanessa Marsh, Nissa Kubly, Michael Jackson, Anne Arden McDonald, Heather Oelklaus, Kevin O’Connell, David Ondrik, Meghann Riepenhoff, Claire A. Warden, Julie Weber, Vanessa Woods, and Lori Vrba

The 14 artists in Light + Metal react to the proliferation of digital photographic technologies by experimenting with traditional, metal-based processes and materials, including silver-gelatin paper, cyanotype, and wet collodion, to create unique photographic objects — often without using a camera.

» View Light + Metal
» Read Interviews with the Artists & Exhibition Coverage



Beth Moon: Ancient Kingdoms
Works in Platinum
September 28 – November 24, 2019

Beth Moon's first solo show at photo-eye Gallery, Ancient Kingdoms presented a collection of platinum prints spanning nearly two decades and images from four discrete projects.

» View Ancient Kingdoms

» Read our Discussion with Moon and our
   profiles of her projects

Tom Chambers: Hearts and Bones
November 30, 2018 – February 16, 2019

Hearts and Bones is a mid-career retrospective spanning more than twenty-five years by award-winning photographer Tom Chambers featuring work from ten different photographic series.

Tom Chambers is a master storyteller. Employing Magic Realism, Chambers’ complex single-setting narratives convincingly insert fantastical elements into our everyday existence.

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» Read our Blog Coverage of the Exhibition and Artwork

Candid Images from 2018 Events and Exhibitions

Represented artist Maggie Taylor standing in front of her work installed in our 2018 Winter Group Show

Steve Fitch's Vanishing Vernacular monograph and exhibition at photo-eye Gallery

photo-eye Director Rixon Reed discussing represented artist Steve Fitch's work in Vanishing Vernacular with the Leica society.

The exhibition banner for COSMOS.

Represented Artist Jamey Stillings speaking about his work at photo-eye Gallery. Stillings' work was included in an exhibition curated by Angie Rizzo of CENTER that was projected on to the outside of photo-eye Gallery during the Interplanetary Festival in June 2018.

The opening reception for COSMOS.

Exhibition banner for Light + Metal.

Artist Nissa Kubly discussing her work with visitors during the opening reception for Light + Metal.

Exhibition banner for Beth Moon: Ancient Kingdoms.

Press for Beth Moon: Ancient Kingdoms in the Santa Fe New Mexican's Pasatiempo magazine.

Beth Moon: Ancient Kingdoms installed at photo-eye Gallery.

Opening reception for Beth Moon: Ancient Kingdoms at photo-eye Gallery.

Exhibition Banner for Tom Chambers: Hearts and Bones.

Sally Chambers, Gallery Associate Juliane Worthington, and represented artist Tom Chambers at photo-eye Gallery.

Represented artist Tom Chambers signing copies of Hearts and Bones during Filter Photo Festival in Chicago.

Press coverage for Tom Chambers: Hearts and Bones.

Cookies and cupcakes served at the opening for Tom Chambers: Hearts and Bones.

Represented artist Keith Carter was the Keynote Speaker for Photo NOLA in 2018. His new book, Fifty Years, is due in January 2019.

Farolitos lining the walkway outside photo-eye Gallery during the December 28th Last Friday Art Walk in Santa Fe's Railyard Arts District.

Our thanks again for an excellent 2018 and we're wishing you all the best in the new year!

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Best Selling Photobooks of 2018

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BooksTop Ten Best Selling Photobooks of 2018We are pleased to announce photo-eye's Top Ten Best Selling Photobooks of 2018!

We are pleased to announce photo-eye Bookstore's 

Top Ten Bestselling Photobooks of 2018

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Number One

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A Thousand Crossings
Photographs and text by Sally Mann

For more than 40 years, Sally Mann (b. 1951) has made experimental, elegiac, and hauntingly beautiful photographs that explore the overarching themes of existence: memory, desire, death, the bonds of family, and nature’s magisterial indifference to human endeavor.

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Number Two

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I Know How Furiously Your Heart Is Beating
Photographs by Alec Soth

"When I returned to photography, I wanted to strip the medium down to its primary elements. Rather than trying to make some sort of epic narrative about America, I wanted to simply spend time looking at other people and, hopefully, briefly glimpse their interior life."

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Number Three

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Bright Black World
Photographs by Todd Hido

Exploring the dark terrain of the Northern European landscape and regions as far as the North Sea of Japan enchanted Hido, calling him back on several occasions.

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Number Four

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Vanishing Vernacular
Photographs by Steve Fitch

In Vanishing Vernacular, Steve Fitch presents both the ancient and the modern by way of petroglyphs, neon motel signs and hand-painted business signs, drive-in movie theater screens, and radio and cell towers.

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Number Five

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Hearts and Bones
Photographs by Tom Chambers

Hearts and Bones is the first comprehensive collection of Chambers' work. More than one hundred color photomontages are included in this volume, spanning his entire career.

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Number Six

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Niagara
Photographs by Alec Soth

In the follow-up to his critically acclaimed debut monograph Sleeping by the Mississippi, Alec Soth turned his eye to another iconic body of water, Niagara Falls.

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Number Seven

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The Black Trilogy
Photographs by Ralph Gibson

Making a clean break with the prior conventions of the photography book, The Black Trilogy created a new visual syntax—page layouts, the pairing of photographs face-to-face, graphic and thematic echoes—that provided a unique language for photographic communication.

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Number Eight

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American Winter
Photographs by Gerry Johansson

In Gerry Johansson's photographs time appears to stand still: neighbourhoods that once possessed the allure of Art Deco architecture, or the glory of bustling Main Streets, are now home to abandoned school buildings and cars parked decades ago.

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Number Nine

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27 Roads
Photographs by Robert Adams

27 Roads is the first publication to focus on this important aspect of his work, and is comprised of the artist's concise, poetic selection of images spanning almost five decades.

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Number Ten

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Seeing Deeply
Photographs by Dawoud Bey

Dawoud Bey: Seeing Deeply offers a forty-year retrospective of the celebrated photographer’s work, from his early street photography in Harlem to his current images of Harlem gentrification.

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