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Marco Delogu
Lesley A. Martin
George Slade
Antone Dolezal
Melanie McWhorter
Alec Soth
Daniel Espeset
Ron Jude & Danielle Mericle
Douglas Stockdale
Tricia Gabriel
Jeff Mermelstein
Ed Templeton
Richard Gordon
Eric Miles
Sara Terry
John Gossage
Laura Moya
Jennifer Thompson
Todd Hido
Martin Parr
Erik van der Weijde
Anne Kelly
Andrew Phelps
Michael Wolf
Debra Klomp Ching
Markus Schaden
Jeff Ladd
Looking In.
ROBERT FRANK

Nat. Gallery Of Art, Wash./Steidl

[9 selections]
  • Antone Dolezal
  • Jeff Ladd
  • Jeff Mermelstein
  • Ed Templeton
  • John Gossage
  • Michael Wolf
  • Eric Miles
  • Richard Gordon
  • Daniel Espeset
Greater Atlanta.
MARK STEINMETZ

Nazraeli Press

[8 selections]
  • Todd Hido
  • Jeff Ladd
  • Jeff Mermelstein
  • Andrew Phelps
  • Alec Soth
  • Ed Templeton
  • Paul Schiek
  • Daniel Espeset
Open See.
JIM GOLDBERG

Steidl & Partners

[7 selections]
  • George Slade
  • Todd Hido
  • Ed Templeton
  • Paul Schiek
  • Alec Soth
  • Eric Miles
  • Douglas Stockdale
From Back Home.
ANDERS PETERSEN & JH ENGSTRÖM

Max Ström

[6 selections]
  • Antone Dolezal
  • Jeff Mermelstein
  • Ron Jude & Danielle Mericle
  • Markus Schaden
  • Eric Miles
  • Daniel Espeset
Protest Photographs.
CHAUNCEY HARE

Steidl / Steven Kasher Gallery

[6 selections]
  • Todd Hido
  • Jeff Ladd
  • Jeff Mermelstein
  • John Gossage
  • Martin Parr
  • Alec Soth
The Plan.
MICHAEL SCHMELLING

J&L Books

[5 selections]
  • Lesley A. Martin
  • Tricia Gabriel
  • Alec Soth
  • Eric Miles
  • Daniel Espeset
The Great Unreal.
TAIYO & NICO KREBS ONORATO

Editions Patrick Frey

[5 selections]
  • Lesley A. Martin
  • Ron Jude & Danielle Mericle
  • Markus Schaden
  • Tricia Gabriel
  • Michael Wolf
American Power.
MITCH EPSTEIN

Steidl Photography International

[4 selections]
  • Antone Dolezal
  • Andrew Phelps
  • Eric Miles
  • Richard Gordon
All the Days and Nights.
DOUG DUBOIS

Aperture

[4 selections]
  • George Slade
  • Andrew Phelps
  • Alec Soth
  • Daniel Espeset
Animal Logic.
RICHARD BARNES

Princeton Architectural Press

[4 selections]
  • George Slade
  • Antone Dolezal
  • Jennifer Thompson
  • Anne Kelly
The Spirit & The Flesh.
DEBBIE FLEMING CAFFERY

Radius Books

[3 selections]
  • George Slade
  • Antone Dolezal
  • Anne Kelly
Private Views.
BARBARA CRANE

Aperture

[3 selections]
  • George Slade
  • Ed Templeton
  • Richard Gordon
Wind.
JUNGJIN LEE

Aperture/Sepia

[3 selections]
  • Antone Dolezal
  • Melanie McWhorter
  • Anne Kelly
Boarding House.
ROGER BALLEN

Phaidon

[3 selections]
  • Antone Dolezal
  • Laura Moya
  • Douglas Stockdale
Summer Nights, Walking.
ROBERT ADAMS

Aperture/Yale University Art Galler

[3 selections]
  • Todd Hido
  • Tricia Gabriel
  • Alec Soth
The Sun As Error.
SHANNON EBNER

Wallis Annenberg

[3 selections]
  • Lesley A. Martin
  • Alec Soth
  • Daniel Espeset
We English.
SIMON ROBERTS

Chris Boot

[3 selections]
  • Andrew Phelps
  • Marco Delogu
  • Martin Parr
Beaumont's Kitchen.
BEAUMONT NEWHALL

Radius Books

[3 selections]
  • Jennifer Thompson
  • Melanie McWhorter
  • Anne Kelly
Landmasses and Railways.
BERTRAND FLEURET

J&L Books

[3 selections]
  • Jennifer Thompson
  • Markus Schaden
  • Douglas Stockdale
School.
RAIMOND WOUDA

Nazraeli Press

[3 selections]
  • Jeff Mermelstein
  • Alec Soth
  • Michael Wolf
Wald.
GERHARD RICHTER

Walther Konig

[3 selections]
  • Jeff Ladd
  • Tricia Gabriel
  • John Gossage
The Joy of Portraits.
KEIZO KITAJIMA

Rat Hole Gallery/Hysteric Glamour

[2 selections]
  • Lesley A. Martin
  • John Gossage
Bettie Kline.
RICHARD PRINCE

Gagosian Gallery

[2 selections]
  • Jeff Ladd
  • Erik van der Weijde
AutoMagic.
RAY K. METZKER

Only Photography

[2 selections]
  • Ed Templeton
  • Michael Wolf
The Green of This Notebook.
JOHN DIVOLA

Nazraeli Press

[2 selections]
  • Ron Jude & Danielle Mericle
  • Michael Wolf
Anomalies.
MÅRTEN LANGE

Farewell Books

[2 selections]
  • Ron Jude & Danielle Mericle
  • Paul Schiek
Gingerbread Monument.
KLARA KÄLLSTRÖM

Klara Källström

[2 selections]
  • Melanie McWhorter
  • Daniel Espeset
Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and 1970s.
IVAN VARTANIAN

Aperture

[2 selections]
  • Ed Templeton
  • Richard Gordon
Carousel.
RAYMOND MEEKS

Raymond Meeks

[2 selections]
  • Laura Moya
  • Anne Kelly
Winter Stories.
PAOLO VENTURA

Aperture

[2 selections]
  • Laura Moya
  • Marco Delogu
Roads and Paths.
BERNHARD FUCHS

Walther König

[2 selections]
  • Erik van der Weijde
  • Andrew Phelps
Omaha Sketchbook.
GREGORY HALPERN

J&L Books

[2 selections]
  • Andrew Phelps
  • Ron Jude & Danielle Mericle
The History of Photography in Pen and Ink.
CHARLES WOODARD

A-Jump Books

[2 selections]
  • Marco Delogu
  • Melanie McWhorter
New Topographics.
BRITT SALVESEN

Steidl & Partners

[2 selections]
  • Marco Delogu
  • John Gossage
2nd Tour Hope I Don’t Die.
PETER VAN AGTMAEL

photolucida

[2 selections]
  • Sara Terry
  • Richard Gordon
Edward Hopper & Company.
EDWARD HOPPER

Fraenkel Gallery

[2 selections]
  • Todd Hido
  • Richard Gordon
Periodical Photographs.
DAN WINTERS

Aperture

[2 selections]
  • Sara Terry
  • Melanie McWhorter
Riley and His Story.
MONICA HALLER

Onestar Press/Fälth & Hässler

[2 selections]
  • George Slade
  • John Gossage
War Is Only Half the Story.
KATHRYN COOK

The Aftermath Project

[2 selections]
  • George Slade
  • Sara Terry
Lisboa.
VICTOR & COSTA MARTINS PALLA

Pierre von Kleist Editions

[2 selections]
  • Jeff Ladd
  • John Gossage
J_subs.
OLIVER SIEBER

BoehmKobayashi

[2 selections]
  • Markus Schaden
  • Martin Parr
Grona Lund.
ANDERS PETERSEN

Aman Iman

[1 selections]
  • Ed Templeton
La Subversion Des Images.
QUENTIN & CLEMENT CHERO BAJAC

Editons du Centre Pompidou

[1 selections]
  • John Gossage
Suits vs. Facts & Fiction.
KATJA STUKE

Bohm/Kobayashi

[1 selections]
  • Lesley A. Martin
Nothing But Home.
SEBASTIEN GIRARD

Sebastian Girard

[1 selections]
  • Markus Schaden
Lost Boy Mountain.
LESTER B. MORRISON

Little Brown Mushroom Books

[1 selections]
  • George Slade
Tennis Courts.
GIASCO BERTOLI

Nieves

[1 selections]
  • Erik van der Weijde
Walker Evans and the Picture Postcard
JEFF L. ROSENHEIM

Steidl & Partners

[1 selections]
  • George Slade
Kulture Klub Collaborative: Home Is Where You Make It (Kulture Klub Collaborative via Blurb)
 Lauri Lyons and Tish Jones

Blurb

[1 selections]
  • George Slade
Trinity.
MICHAEL P. BERMAN

University Of Texas Press

[1 selections]
  • Antone Dolezal
Georgian Spring.
MAGNUM PHOTOS

Chris Boot

[1 selections]
  • Antone Dolezal
Dogwalk/Out of Sight.
ENGHOFFLICH

Journal Publishers

[1 selections]
  • Antone Dolezal
Ordinary Lives.
RANIA MATAR

Quantuck Lane Press

[1 selections]
  • Sara Terry
North Cascades Walkabout.
BOBBY ABRAHAMSON

Bobby Abrahamson

[1 selections]
  • Sara Terry
Capitolio.
CHRISTOPHER ANDERSON

RM

[1 selections]
  • Sara Terry
Kamaitachi.
EIKOH HOSOE

Aperture

[1 selections]
  • Sara Terry
middle air.
RAYMOND MEEKS

Raymond Meeks

[1 selections]
  • Sara Terry
Cuba: Campo Adentro
SUSAN S. BANK

Sagamore Press

[1 selections]
  • Sara Terry
Makasutu: Mecca in the Forest
 Jason Florio

Blurb

[1 selections]
  • Sara Terry
The Pictures Generation, 1974-1984.
DOUGLAS EKLUND

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

[1 selections]
  • Todd Hido
Nothing But a Berliner.
ERWIN BLUMENFELD

Hatje Cantz

[1 selections]
  • Todd Hido
Avedon Fashion.
RICHARD AVEDON

Harry N Abrams

[1 selections]
  • Todd Hido
Black, White and Things.
ROBERT FRANK

Steidl/The Robert Frank Project

[1 selections]
  • Todd Hido
Gerhard Richter Portraits.
PAUL MOORHOUSE

Yale University Press

[1 selections]
John Baldessari.
JOHN BALDESSARI

Prestel

[1 selections]
  • Jeff Ladd
Novemberrejse
 Krass Clement



[1 selections]
  • Jeff Ladd
In This Dark Wood
 Elisabeth Tonnard



[1 selections]
  • Jeff Ladd
Crush.
PAUL KOOIKER

Museum Boijmans

[1 selections]
  • Erik van der Weijde
Moonmilk.
RYAN MCGINLEY

Morel Publishing

[1 selections]
  • Erik van der Weijde
One Seven Nine Me
 Bartolomé Sanson & Sylvain Etasse

Kaugummi Books

[1 selections]
  • Erik van der Weijde
Within Arm’s Reach.
ARI MARCOPOULOS

JRP|RINGIER

[1 selections]
  • Erik van der Weijde
Photography Degree Zero.
GEOFFREY BATCHEN

MIT Press

[1 selections]
  • Marco Delogu
The Animals.
GIACOMO BRUNELLI

Dewi Lewis Publishing

[1 selections]
  • Marco Delogu
Photographing America.
HENRI & WALK CARTIER-BRESSON

Thames & Hudson

[1 selections]
  • Marco Delogu
To Walk in Beauty.
STACIA SPRAGG-BRAUDE

Museum Of New Mexico Press

[1 selections]
  • Marco Delogu
New York, N. Why?.
RUDY BURKHARDT

Nazraeli Press

[1 selections]
  • Lesley A. Martin
Roma, Citta Di Mezzo.
GUY TILLIM

punctum

[1 selections]
  • Marco Delogu
A Shimmer of Possibility.
PAUL GRAHAM

SteidlMack

[1 selections]
  • Marco Delogu
Lay Flat 01.
SHANE LAVALETTE

Lay Flat

[1 selections]
  • Daniel Espeset
Fall River Boys.
RICHARD RENALDI

Charles Lane Press

[1 selections]
  • Andrew Phelps
Paris.
WILLIAM EGGLESTON

Steidl

[1 selections]
  • Jennifer Thompson
I Still Do.
JUDITH FOX

powerHouse Books

[1 selections]
  • Jennifer Thompson
Neues Museum.
FRIEDERIKE/DAVID C VON RAUCH

Hatje Cantz

[1 selections]
  • Andrew Phelps
Polaroids.
DASH SNOW

Peres Projects

[1 selections]
  • Erik van der Weijde
One Picture Book #60.
TODD HIDO

Nazraeli Press

[1 selections]
  • Jennifer Thompson
The Photographer.
DIDIER & GUIBERT, EMM LEFEVRE

First Second

[1 selections]
  • Jennifer Thompson
Surfland.
JONI STERNBACH

photolucida

[1 selections]
  • Jennifer Thompson
Grasslands.
DON KIRBY

Nazraeli Press

[1 selections]
  • Jennifer Thompson
Chiara.
ELISABETH LEGNAZZI ZAHND

University Of Chicago Press

[1 selections]
  • Laura Moya
Proud Flesh.
SALLY MANN

Aperture

[1 selections]
  • Laura Moya
Long Story Bit by Bit.
TIM HETHERINGTON

Umbrage Editions

[1 selections]
  • Laura Moya
Overpainted Photographs.
GERHARD RICHTER

Hatje Cantz

[1 selections]
  • Laura Moya
Nollywood.
PIETER HUGO

Prestel

[1 selections]
  • Laura Moya
Witness No. 7.
TODD HIDO

Nazraeli Press

[1 selections]
  • Laura Moya
Grey Gardens.
SARA & REBEKA MAYSLES MAYSLES

Free News Projects

[1 selections]
  • Laura Moya
Yard Sale Photographs.
ADAM BARTOS

Damiani

[1 selections]
  • Jeff Mermelstein
The Photographs of Homer Page.
KEITH F. DAVIS

Yale University Press

[1 selections]
  • Jeff Mermelstein
Small Trades.
IRVING PENN

The Getty Museum

[1 selections]
  • Jeff Mermelstein
Flying Pictures.
DANIEL GORDON

powerHouse Books

[1 selections]
  • Jeff Mermelstein
Twirl / Run.
JEFF MERMELSTEIN

powerHouse Books

[1 selections]
Surfaces and Depths.
THOMAS RUFF

Verlag fur Moderne Kunst Nurnberg

[1 selections]
  • John Gossage
Playas.
MARTIN PARR

Chris Boot & RM Editions

[1 selections]
  • John Gossage
Binran.
MASATO SETO

Little More

[1 selections]
  • Michael Wolf
Portraits from Above.
VON RUFINA & STEFAN CANHAM WU

Peperoni

[1 selections]
  • Michael Wolf
Cover.
LYNNE COHEN

Le Point Du Jour

[1 selections]
  • Michael Wolf
Father Photographer.
HENRY FRANK

Steidl/The Robert Frank Project

[1 selections]
  • Michael Wolf
Eine Hommage
 Jogurt Becher



[1 selections]
  • Michael Wolf
Kin Subscription Series Number Two.
TODD HIDO ET AL

TBW Books

[1 selections]
All Publications

Je Suis Une Bande de Jeunes

[1 selections]
  • Paul Schiek
The Last Days of W.
ALEC SOTH

Little Brown Mushroom

[1 selections]
  • Paul Schiek
Photography After Frank.
PHILIP GEFTER

Aperture

[1 selections]
  • Paul Schiek
Not in Fashion.
MARK BORTHWICK

Rizzoli Publishers

[1 selections]
  • Paul Schiek
Sacred Wood.
BAE, BIEN-U

Hatje Cantz

[1 selections]
  • Anne Kelly
Memories of Myself.
DANNY LYON

Phaidon

[1 selections]
  • Anne Kelly
Native.
MONA KUHN

Steidl Photography International

[1 selections]
  • Anne Kelly
Along Cypress Creek.
DAVID H. GIBSON

David H. Gibson

[1 selections]
  • Anne Kelly
A Shadow Falls.
NICK BRANDT

Abrams Books

[1 selections]
  • Anne Kelly
The Worst Hotel in the World.
KESSELSKRAMER

Booth-Clibborn Editions

[1 selections]
  • Martin Parr
Holly Innocence
 Joan Fontcuberta

Albarracin

[1 selections]
  • Martin Parr
Scrapbook.
DONOVAN WYLIE

Steidl

[1 selections]
  • Martin Parr
The Corinthians

Archive of Modern Conflict

[1 selections]
  • Martin Parr
Born in Brennen.
JOERG KOOPMANN

Book with a Beard

[1 selections]
  • Andrew Phelps
Sète # 08.
ANDERS PETERSEN

Images en Manoeuvres

[1 selections]
  • Eric Miles
Studies After Nature.
JÜRGEN BERGBAUER

Fotohof Editions

[1 selections]
  • Jeff Ladd
Leichtes Gepäck
 Olaf Unverzart



[1 selections]
  • Markus Schaden
Jetlag and Alcohol.
MORTEN ANDERSEN

Shadowlab

[1 selections]
  • Markus Schaden
Libero.
PETRA STAVAST

Roma

[1 selections]
  • Markus Schaden
Seven Stories
ROBERT FRANK

Steidl

[1 selections]
  • Tricia Gabriel
Tree Zone.
TRINE & NICOLAI SØNDERGAARD

Hassla Books

[1 selections]
  • Tricia Gabriel
Cui Cui.
RINKO KAWAUCHI

FOIL

[1 selections]
  • Tricia Gabriel
New Color Photographs from Mexico and California, 1948-1955.
PAUL OUTERBRIDGE

Nazraeli Press

[1 selections]
  • Tricia Gabriel
Pyramids.
MIKE SLACK

The Ice Plant

[1 selections]
Road Beef
 Peter Sutherland

OFR

[1 selections]
  • Tricia Gabriel
O Public Road!
PETER KAYAFAS

Purple Martin Press

[1 selections]
  • Ed Templeton
The Last Resort.
MARTIN PARR

Dewi Lewis

[1 selections]
  • Ed Templeton
Svart Metall.
GRANT WILLING

Grant Willing

[1 selections]
  • Ron Jude & Danielle Mericle
Ulan Bator.
GERRY JOHANSSON

Gun Gallery

[1 selections]
  • Melanie McWhorter
Westward the Course of Empire.
MARK RUWEDEL

Yale University Press

[1 selections]
  • Melanie McWhorter
Regarding Heroes.
YOUSUF KARSH

David R Godine

[1 selections]
  • Melanie McWhorter
Dr. Lakra.
ABRAHAM CRUZVILLEGAS

Editorial RM

[1 selections]
  • Melanie McWhorter
Take Me to the Water.
LUC SANTE

Dust-to-Digital

[1 selections]
  • Melanie McWhorter
Not Natasha.
DANA POPA

Autograph Books

[1 selections]
  • Ed Templeton
Fools on Hills.
TILL GERHARD

Decathlon Books

[1 selections]
  • Ron Jude & Danielle Mericle
Ma Proche Banlieue.
PATRICK ZACHMANN

Editions Xavier Barral

[1 selections]
  • Martin Parr
Gaza Photo Album.
KENT KLICH

Umbrage Editions

[1 selections]
  • Martin Parr
Agonie.
ANTOINE D'AGATA

Actes Sud

[1 selections]
  • Martin Parr
I Have a Room With Everything.
MELANIE BONAJO

Capricious Publishing

[1 selections]
  • Lesley A. Martin
Important Artifacts and Personal Property
LEANNE SHAPTON

Farrar Straus & Giroux

[1 selections]
  • Alec Soth
Imaginary Meetings.
RIITTA PÄIVÄLÄINEN

Kehrer Verlag

[1 selections]
  • Douglas Stockdale
The Regulars.
SARAH STOLFA

Artisan

[1 selections]
  • Douglas Stockdale
Your Golden Opportunity Is Comeing Very Soon.
RJ SHAUGHNESSY

RJ Shaughnessy

[1 selections]
  • Andrew Phelps
Memory Traces.
CARY MARKERINK

Ideas on Paper

[1 selections]
  • Markus Schaden
Furniture Bondage.
MELANIE BONAJO

Kodoji Press

[1 selections]
  • Erik van der Weijde
Portraits of Silence.
HISASHI SHIMIZU

Kodansha

[1 selections]
  • Daniel Espeset
The Sartorialist.
SCOTT SCHUMAN

Penguin

[1 selections]
  • Jennifer Thompson
Flying Clipper Loggbok.
STAFFAN & JONAS WETTRE

Wettre Forlag

[1 selections]
  • Markus Schaden
Fake Flowers in Full Colour.
JAAP + HANS GREMMEN SCHEEREN

Fw:

[1 selections]
  • Erik van der Weijde
Waters in Between.
LUKAS FELZMANN

Lars Muller Publishers

[1 selections]
  • Douglas Stockdale
Time Studies
 Mark Klett

Cavallo Point Lodge & Edition One Books

[1 selections]
  • Douglas Stockdale
America.
ZOE STRAUSS

Ammo Books

[1 selections]
  • Douglas Stockdale
Counterpoint.
ROBERT AND SHANA PARKEHARRISON

Twin Palms Publishers

[1 selections]
  • Douglas Stockdale
New Mexico.
LEE FRIEDLANDER

Radius Books

[1 selections]
  • Douglas Stockdale
The Jazz Loft Project.
SAM STEPHENSON

Knopf Publishing Group

[1 selections]
  • Richard Gordon
Rome.
WILLIAM KLEIN

Aperture

[1 selections]
  • Richard Gordon
The Brown Sisters.
NICHOLAS NIXON

The Museum of Modern Art

[1 selections]
  • Richard Gordon
Nude.
RALPH GIBSON

Taschen

[1 selections]
  • Richard Gordon
Men in the Cities.
ROBERT LONGO

Schirmer/Mosel

[1 selections]
  • Lesley A. Martin
The New Antiquity.
TIM DAVIS

Damiani

[1 selections]
  • Lesley A. Martin
Photography.
MICHAEL ZIEGLER

Fotohof Editions

[1 selections]
  • Ron Jude & Danielle Mericle
Color Dying Light.
SAM FALLS

Hassla Books

[1 selections]
  • Ron Jude & Danielle Mericle
Hot Coals Only.
PETER SUTHERLAND

Seems Books

[1 selections]
  • Ron Jude & Danielle Mericle
You and Me or the Art of Give and Take.
ALLEN RUPPERSBERG

JRP|Ringier

[1 selections]
  • Alec Soth
I Am – Paradox Identity.
ILSE FRECH

Episode Publishers

[1 selections]
  • Lesley A. Martin
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