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THE BEST BOOKS OF 2010

SELECTED BY

Morten Andersen

Rinko Kawauchi

Ramón Reverté

Elizabeth Avedon

Hester Keijser

Michael Schmelling

Alexa Becker

Anne Kelly

George Slade

Bruno Ceschel

Debra Klomp Ching

Alec Soth

Jörg M. Colberg

Loring Knoblauch

Peter Sutherland

Marco Delogu

Larissa Leclair

Willem van Zoetendaal

Antone Dolezal

Melanie McWhorter

Laurence Vecten

John Gossage

Colin Pantall

Fabrice Wagner

Todd Hido

Martin Parr

Timothy Prus & Ed Jones

George Slade

Writer / Curator

Smoke Bath.
PETER SUTHERLAND (ED.)

Smoke Bath was my favorite collection of the year, though Get Off My Lawn (Geoffrey Ellis, Sadkids) and 10 Years of In-Public (Nick Turpin Publishing) were right up there too.

The Kaddu Wasswa Archive.
ANDREA STULTIENS

Andrea Stultiens had a huge year, releasing three fascinating books in 2010. The weightiest, The Kaddu Wasswa Archive, has the most to tell us about biography and autobiography.

Maske.
PHYLLIS GALEMBO

Phyllis Galembo's Maske is both familiar and bizarre. It reminds me of photography's innate capacity for complexity, wherein the truth takes fabulously mysterious journeys around and into itself.

The State of Ata.
MIKE MANDEL & CHANTAL ZAKARI

The State of Ata: The Contested Imagery of Power in Turkey by Mike Mandel and Chantal Zakari takes a different tack on authority and the single image, the portrayal of a leader as fixated upon by a nation.

Photographs.
DAVID SCHOERNER

Simple, elegant, compact, and brief, Photographs by David Schoerner is dreamy and beguiling, a marvel of understatement.

5683 Miles Away.
YAEL BEN-ZION

Yael Ben-Zion's 5683 Miles functions with similar economy, though with socio-political undertones that charge her simplicity with the knowledge of conflict.

War Is Personal.
EUGENE RICHARDS

The veterans in Eugene Richards' War Is Personal know conflict's legacy all too well. I'm still moved by my encounter with this book.

Infidel.
TIM HETHERINGTON

Tim Hetherington's Infidel shows us another aspect of soldiering, at once compelling, strong, intimate, and vulnerable, boredom amidst bombardment.

Thinner Air.
JOHN MANN

John Mann's Thinner Air is a terrific book work that functions as diagram, travelogue, and monograph, referring at its conclusion to the wonderful map images he's been making over the last few years.

Drinking the Kool-Aid.
ED TEMPLETON

Finally, Ed Templeton's Drinking the Kool-Aid, because it's cool, wacky, and over the top while still fitting in the palm of your hand and held in your fingers.

George Slade , a longtime contributor to photo-eye, is a photography writer, curator, historian and consultant based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He can be found on-line at http://rephotographica-slade.blogspot.com/

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