Ramón Reverté

Editor

Quatorze Juillet.
JOHAN VAN DER KEUKEN

Unknown images from the well known series of Johan Van Der Keuken of a street celebration in Paris in 1958.

As with many Dutch photobooks, the design and production is awesome.

The Adventures of Guille and Belinda.
ALESSANDRA SANGUINETTI

Alessandra is a great story teller. This new book is about two young cousins named Guille and Belinda in rural Buenos Aires. It is in itself a psychological study of two young girls that crossed the path of Alessandra.

Der Rote Bulli.
STEPHEN SHORE

Basic reading (also visually) for understanding the dialogue between Germany and the United States and the influence of Stephen Shore on the New Düsseldorf Photography.

Empty Land.
ARNOLD VAN BRUGGEN & ROB HORNSTRA

Empty Land, Promised Land, Forbidden Land is an account of Rob Hornstra's four years spent traveling through Abkhazia. Abkhazia broke away from Georgia after a short, violent civil war. Great as always.

See You Soon.
MAXWELL ANDERSON

How to make a great visual book from a short encounter. Superbly designed and printed.

Desperate Cars.
SEBASTIEN GIRARD

Second book of Sébastien Girard, the Toulouse based photographer. This time we are presented with a collection of abandoned cars in a total dark solitude.

Coming Up for Air.
STEPHEN GILL

With Stephen you don't know what is best: the work itself or the book. With this book, based on photos taken from Hackney and Japan, and using his lens like a portable fish tank, "Stevens transport us to a strange and disorienting fictional aquatic world." Each book has a transparent and unique cover hand painted by Gill himself. A must in your book shelve!

Sentimental Journey, Spring Journey.
NOBUYOSHI ARAKI

Another Sentimental Journey. This time of his beloved cat. What's new? Well, nothing but it is part of a great body of work.

Broken Manual.
ALEC SOTH & LESTER B. MORRISON

New book (well, lately with Alec "new" is short-lived) with a four years work where he investigates the places in which people retreat to escape civilization. Solid work, great printing and superb conceptualization. A must. There is a special edition where the book is housed inside another book used only as a container.

Detroit 2009.
ARI MARCOPOULO S

Ruins of Detroit (nothing new) as a backdrop for an intimate portrait of two teenage noise musicians. Good work in a very coherent design and mise en page from this great artist.

Ramón Reverté , born in Barcelona (1967), is actually editor at RM in Mexico, where he conceptualizes photobooks for RM and Museums. He is currently developing with Aperture and Cosac & Naify the “Latin American Photobook” with a pool of connoisseurs led by Horacio Fernandez (editor of Photography in Print 1919-1939) and Martin Parr. He has published books on many photographers like Daido Moriyama, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Graciela Iturbide, Martin Parr, Christopher Anderson and Jeff Wall among others.

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