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THE BEST BOOKS OF 2011
SELECTED BY
Gerry Badger
Todd Hido
Raymond Meeks
Adam Bell
Darius Himes
Kevin Messina
Susan Burnstine
John Jenkins
Aron Morel
Marco Delogu
Anne Kelly
Martin Parr
Antone Dolezal
Anouk Kruithof
Cliff Shapiro
Sven Ehmann
Kevin Kunishi
Alec Soth
Horacio Fernández
Shane Lavalette
Gordon Stettinius
John Gossage
Larissa Leclair
Elisabeth Tonnard
Lauren Henkin
Melanie McWhorter
Selected by:
  • Elisabeth Tonnard
Visible Library.
Photographs by Sam Falls.
Lay Flat.

In a departure from the colorful still life photographs he is known for, artist Sam Falls brings together a series of black and white images for the first time in his limited-edition artist book Visible Library. With a large format camera and a few boxes of expired film, Falls spent a day making these beautiful and haunting pictures in the stacks above the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Like “walking alone in the woods,” as he refers to it, Falls created what can easily be considered his most intimate body of work, a personal meditation on art, history, preservation and the photographic medium.

Read George Slade's review of Visible Library in photo-eye Magazine.

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