2019 Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards Shortlist
On Friday, September 20, Paris Photo and Aperture Foundation announced the Shortlist for the 2018 Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards. Established in 2012, the Paris Photo—Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards celebrate the contribution of photoooks to the evolving narrative of photography, with three major categories: First PhotoBook, Photography Catalogue of the Year, and PhotoBook of the Year.
The following selected nominees are available for purchase through photo-eye.
The following selected nominees are available for purchase through photo-eye.
First PhotoBook
Tania Franco Klein
Positive Disintegration, the first monograph by Mexican artist Tania Franco Klein, comprises an extended version of her acclaimed series Our Life In The Shadows. The work is influenced by the pursuit of the American Dream lifestyle in the Western world and contemporary practices such as leisure, consumption, media overstimulation, eternal youth, and the psychological sequels they generate in our everyday private life.
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This World and Others Like It
Drew Nikonowicz
Drew Nikonowicz
Drew Nikonowicz's work investigates the role of the 21st century explorer by combining computer modeling with analogue photographic processes. Drawing upon the language of 19th Century survey images, he questions their relationship with current methods of record making.
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Parallel State
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Rubbish, Dipping Sauce, Grass, Peonie, Bum
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Elf Dalia
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Dyckman Haze
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Attention Servicemember
Guy Martin
After nearly losing his life documenting conflict in Libya, photographer, Guy Martin, turned his attention to a seemingly less dangerous project: documenting on set of Turkish soap operas. After a failed coup and the protests that ensued, Martin began photographing protesters. Parallel State alternates between images of TV set productions and street protests, resulting in a multidimensional body of work.
Maisie Cousins
Trolley Books are proud to announce the first photographic monograph by Maisie Cousins. The publication will present large format images from her first three major series: 'grass, peonie, bum', 'rubbish' and 'dipping sauce.'
Maja Daniels
Most of the inhabitants of the Swedish valley of Älvdalen still speak Elfdalian, an ancient language with strong links to the Vikings’ Old Norse. How it has managed to persist to this day remains a mystery because the community has never been completely isolated.
Adam Pape
In the city there are ways to escape the grid and walk along lines unseen. The city parks of New York offer this escape, eliciting both alienation and intoxication. They allow citizens and nature both a space for growth, a second city away from eyes on the street.
Ben Brody
Attention Servicemember is Ben Brody's searing elegy to the experience of the American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Brody was a soldier assigned to make visual propaganda during the Iraq War. Returning to rural New England after 12 years at war, he found his home unrecognizable. So he continued photographing the war as it exists in his mind.
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New Dutch Views
Marwan Bassiouni
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Sun Gardens
Cyanotypes by Anna Atkins
Marwan Bassiouni
The series New Dutch Views started as Marwan Bassiounis graduation project and was since developed further. Now it appears as a book with many new photographs and autobiographical reflections, published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Fotomuseum in The Hague.
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Workforce
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The Eight Day
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American Origami
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Pillars Of Home
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Hola Mi Amol
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Shine Heros
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Who Is Michael Jang?
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Enghelab Street: A Revolution through Books
Michele Borzon
Workforce is an ambitious documentary project that attempts to draw a composite picture of Italy’s current labor landscape, in the framework of the recent global economic recession.
Gao Shan
The Eighth Day, takes its name from Gao Shan's personal history – on the eighth day after his birth, Shan was adopted by his new mother. The relationship between the two characterized by coldness and indifference, according to Shan’s afterword. Only recently has he started to regard her as more than a mere presence in his life.
Andres Gonzalez
The six year project American Origami, closely examines the epidemic of mass shootings in American schools, interweaving first-person interviews, forensic documents, press materials, and original photographs. The book takes its reader through a visual journey of shared grief and atonement to illuminate moments of beauty and pose moral questions embedded in acts of collective healing.
Csilla Klenyanszki
For the series entitled Pillars of Home, visual artist Csilla Klenyánszki built 98 sculptures that reach from the floor to the ceiling using everyday objects found in her apartment. The temporary installations are of different scales and their level of complexity is also varied.
Karla Hiraldo Voleau
In Hola Mi Amol, Hiraldo Voleau returns to the Dominican Republic to cast her gaze on the bodies of the many men she meets, mostly men working in the tourism trade. There, she explores desire, sex and love in this luscious, tender and sexy debut.
Federico Estol
There are 3000 shoe shiners who go out into the streets of La Paz and El Alto suburbs each day in search of clients. They are from all ages and in recent years have become a social phenomenon in the Bolivian capital. What characterizes this tribe is the use of ski masks so they will not be recognized by those around them.
Photography Catalogue of the Year
San Francisco–based photographer Michael Jang spent nearly four decades working as a successful commercial portrait photographer. Unbeknownst to the world, however, he was simultaneously assembling a vast archive of thousands of remarkable images documenting, variously: college days, Hollywood celebrities, would-be weather presenters, San Francisco street scenes, his family, Bay Area punks and adolescent garage bands.
Hannah Darabi and Chowra Makaremi
Darabi takes us to the heart of an intense artistic and cultural period in Iranian history in a visual essay accompanied by a critical essay by Chowra Makaremi. With its revelatory landscape of publications, Enghelab Street gives us the opportunity to look at rare printed matter for the first time.
Cyanotypes by Anna Atkins
This lavishly illustrated book features the beautiful and scientifically important photographs by Anna Atkins, whose landmark work combined a passion for botany with remarkable creativity and technical skill.