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THE BEST BOOKS OF 2011
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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
Illuminance.
RINKO KAWAUCHI

Aperture

[9 selections]
  • Kevin Messina
  • John Gossage
  • Martin Parr
  • Lauren Henkin
  • John Jenkins
  • Antone Dolezal
  • Horacio Fernández
  • Alec Soth
  • Marco Delogu
Redheaded Peckerwood.
CHRISTIAN PATTERSON

Mack Books

[8 selections]
  • John Gossage
  • Raymond Meeks
  • Antone Dolezal
  • Larissa Leclair
  • Adam Bell
  • Gerry Badger
  • Shane Lavalette
  • Melanie McWhorter
A.
GREGORY HALPERN

J & L Books

[7 selections]
  • Raymond Meeks
  • Kevin Kunishi
  • Antone Dolezal
  • Adam Bell
  • Alec Soth
  • Shane Lavalette
  • Todd Hido
A Criminal Investigation.
WATABE YUKICHI

Xavier Barral / LE BAL

[6 selections]
  • Raymond Meeks
  • Horacio Fernández
  • Alec Soth
  • Darius Himes
  • John Gossage
  • Marco Delogu
Gomorrah Girl.
VALERIO SPADA

Cross Editions

[4 selections]
  • John Gossage
  • Horacio Fernández
  • Darius Himes
  • Gerry Badger
A New Map of Italy.
GUIDO GUIDI

Loosestrife Editions

[4 selections]
  • Martin Parr
  • Horacio Fernández
  • Adam Bell
  • Marco Delogu
Photographic Memory.
VERNA POSEVER CURTIS

Aperture/Library of Congress

[4 selections]
  • Sven Ehmann
  • John Gossage
  • Larissa Leclair
  • Alec Soth
Redwood Saw.
RICHARD ROTHMAN

Nazraeli Press

[4 selections]
  • Raymond Meeks
  • Antone Dolezal
  • Adam Bell
  • Todd Hido
pretty girls wander.
RAYMOND MEEKS

dumbsaint editions

[4 selections]
  • Lauren Henkin
  • John Gossage
  • Gerry Badger
  • Todd Hido
C.E.N.S.U.R.A.
JULIAN BARON

Editorial RM

[4 selections]
  • Sven Ehmann
  • Martin Parr
  • John Gossage
  • Horacio Fernández
Paloma al Aire.
RICARDO CASES

PHOTOVISION

[4 selections]
  • Martin Parr
  • Horacio Fernández
  • Alec Soth
  • Shane Lavalette
Koudelka.
JOSEF KOUDELKA

Aperture

[3 selections]
  • John Gossage
  • Gordon Stettinius
  • Melanie McWhorter
Happy Birthday to You.
ANOUK KRUITHOF

Anouk Kruithof

[3 selections]
  • Martin Parr
  • Antone Dolezal
  • Alec Soth
People in Trouble Laughing Pushed to the Ground.
BROOMBERG & OLIVER CHANARIN

Mack Books

[3 selections]
  • Kevin Messina
  • Anouk Kruithof
  • Shane Lavalette
Salt & Truth.
SHELBY LEE ADAMS

Candela Books

[3 selections]
  • Susan Burnstine
  • Antone Dolezal
  • Larissa Leclair
Robert Adams.
ROBERT ADAMS

Yale University Press

[3 selections]
  • Raymond Meeks
  • Kevin Kunishi
  • Anne Kelly
The Unseen Eye.
W. M. HUNT

Aperture

[3 selections]
  • John Jenkins
  • Anne Kelly
  • Todd Hido
Abendsonne.
MISHA DE RIDDER

Schaden.com

[3 selections]
  • Antone Dolezal
  • Adam Bell
  • Marco Delogu
Visitor.
OFER WOLBERGER

Horses Think Press

[3 selections]
  • Shane Lavalette
  • Larissa Leclair
  • Elisabeth Tonnard
Abstract Pictures.
WOLFGANG TILLMANS

Hatje Cantz

[2 selections]
  • Shane Lavalette
  • Marco Delogu
The Heath.
ANDY SEWELL

Andy Sewell

[2 selections]
  • Antone Dolezal
  • Anne Kelly
In the Shadow of Things.
LEONIE HAMPTON

Contrasto

[2 selections]
  • Alec Soth
  • Marco Delogu
On Thin Ice, in a Blizzard.
PAULA MCCARTNEY

Paula McCartney

[2 selections]
  • John Jenkins
  • Larissa Leclair
La Creciente.
ALEJANDRO CHASKIELBERG

Nazraeli Press

[2 selections]
  • John Jenkins
  • Cliff Shapiro
Pontiac.
GERRY JOHANSSON

Mack Books

[2 selections]
  • Antone Dolezal
  • Darius Himes
In Almost Every Picture 9.
ERIK KESSELS

KesselsKramer

[2 selections]
  • Elisabeth Tonnard
  • Anouk Kruithof
Photographs.
PENELOPE UMBRICO

Aperture

[2 selections]
  • John Jenkins
  • Adam Bell
Believing Is Seeing.
ERROL MORRIS

Penguin Press

[2 selections]
  • Gordon Stettinius
  • Todd Hido
The Brothers.
ELIN HØYLAND

Dewi Lewis Publishing

[2 selections]
  • Susan Burnstine
  • Anne Kelly
History's Shadow.
DAVID MAISEL

Nazraeli Press

[2 selections]
  • Susan Burnstine
  • Larissa Leclair
Photographs 2001-2009.
KEN ROSENTHAL

Ken Rosenthal

[2 selections]
  • Susan Burnstine
  • Gordon Stettinius
The Vanities.
LARRY FINK

Schirmer/Mosel

[2 selections]
  • Susan Burnstine
  • Gordon Stettinius
Iraq | Perspectives.
BENJAMIN LOWY

Duke University Press

[2 selections]
  • Susan Burnstine
  • Larissa Leclair
Tooth for an Eye.
DEBORAH LUSTER

Twin Palms Publishers

[2 selections]
  • Kevin Messina
  • John Jenkins
God Forgotten Face.
ROBIN MADDOCK

Trolley

[2 selections]
  • Martin Parr
  • Gerry Badger
Summertime.
MARK STEINMETZ

Nazraeli Press

[2 selections]
  • Kevin Messina
  • Raymond Meeks
Subscription Series 3.
MARK STEINMETZ

TBW Books

[2 selections]
  • Raymond Meeks
  • Shane Lavalette
Dirk Braeckman.
DIRK BRAECKMAN

Roma Publications

[2 selections]
  • Alec Soth
  • Anouk Kruithof
Eden Is a Magic World.
MIGUEL CALDERÓN

Little Big Man Books

[2 selections]
  • Horacio Fernández
  • Alec Soth
One to Nothing.
IRINA ROZOVSKY

Kehrer Verlag

[2 selections]
  • Adam Bell
  • Melanie McWhorter
No Man's Land
 Mishka Henner

Self-published

[2 selections]
  • Elisabeth Tonnard
  • Aron Morel
The Bridge at Hoover Dam.
JAMEY STILLINGS

Nazraeli Press

[2 selections]
  • Anne Kelly
  • Cliff Shapiro
The Powder.
JOCKO WEYLAND

Dashwood Books

[1 selections]
  • Anne Kelly
In the Face of Silence.
CHRISTOPHE AGOU

Dewi Lewis Publishing

[1 selections]
  • Anne Kelly
Not Seen | Not Said, With Wes Mills.
RAYMOND MEEKS

Silas Finch

[1 selections]
  • Anne Kelly
The Pier.
NILS PETTER LÖFSTEDT

Pierre von Kleist Editions

[1 selections]
  • Anne Kelly
Winter.
JEFFREY CONLEY

Nazraeli Press

[1 selections]
  • Anne Kelly
Ama.
NINA POPPE

Kehrer Verlag

[1 selections]
  • Darius Himes
It Chooses You.
MIRANDA JULY

McSweeney's Books

[1 selections]
  • Anouk Kruithof
Out of My Mind… Back in 5 Minutes.
HANNA LIDEN

Karma

[1 selections]
  • Anouk Kruithof
As Long As It Photographs, It Must Be A Camera.
TAIYO ONORATO & NICO KREBS

Self Published

[1 selections]
  • Anouk Kruithof
Goethe.
OL.SCHMIDT

Oliver Schmidt

[1 selections]
  • Elisabeth Tonnard
Interior.
GUSTAVO DI MARIO

Edicion Remota

[1 selections]
  • Horacio Fernández
A Guide to Trees for Governors and Gardners.
YTO BARRADA

Deutsche Guggenheim

[1 selections]
  • Marco Delogu
First Pictures.
JOEL STERNFELD

Steidl

[1 selections]
  • Marco Delogu
Presences.
RICHARD LEAROYD

Fraenkel Gallery

[1 selections]
  • Marco Delogu
Shirana Shahbazi.
SHIRANA SHAHBAZI

Fotomuseum Winterthur / Steidl

[1 selections]
  • Marco Delogu
The Lost Album.
BASIL HYMAN

Booth-Clibborn Editions

[1 selections]
  • Todd Hido
The Latin American Photobook.
HORACIO FERNANDEZ

Aperture

[1 selections]
  • Todd Hido
Richard Prince.
RICHARD PRINCE

Rizzoli Publishers

[1 selections]
  • Todd Hido
Mark Morrisroe.
MARK MORRISROE

JRP|Ringier

[1 selections]
  • Todd Hido
Sunday.
PAUL KOOIKER

Van Zoetendaal Gallery

[1 selections]
  • Aron Morel
Celebrity.
KENJI HIRASAWA

Bemojake

[1 selections]
  • Aron Morel
The King of Photography.
TIANE DOAN NA CHAMPASSAK

Self Published

[1 selections]
  • Aron Morel
Films.
PAUL GRAHAM

Mack Books

[1 selections]
  • Aron Morel
Elad Lassry.
ELAD LASSRY

JRP|Ringier

[1 selections]
  • Aron Morel
Firework Studies.
PIERRE LE HORS

Hassla Books

[1 selections]
  • Aron Morel
Incubi et Succubi.
LELE SAVERI

Seems Books

[1 selections]
  • Aron Morel
Arthropoda.
HAROLD STRAK

Willem van Zoetendaal

[1 selections]
  • Aron Morel
I Heart Transylvania.
JASON NOCITO

Dashwood Books / Jason Nocito

[1 selections]
  • Aron Morel
Haiiro.
 Karianne Bueno

Self Published

[1 selections]
  • Darius Himes
Grid-Portraits.
STU LEVY

Nazraeli Press

[1 selections]
  • Cliff Shapiro
Double Life.
KELLI CONNELL

Decode Books

[1 selections]
  • Cliff Shapiro
Snowflake Twelfth
 Rinko Kawauchi

Zine’s Mate

[1 selections]
  • Larissa Leclair
Good Luck. Special edition with perfume.
 Christine Otten and Erik Kessels

Boekenweek 2011

[1 selections]
  • Martin Parr
The Stage
Shen Chao-Liang

Self-published

[1 selections]
  • Martin Parr
Pass it On
 Peng Yanghun and Chen Jiaojiao

Shang Xia

[1 selections]
Eyes of Paris. Paris im Fotobuch 1890-2010
 Hans-Michael Koetzle

Hirmer

[1 selections]
  • Sven Ehmann
TKY
 Daido Moriyama

Aperture

[1 selections]
  • Darius Himes
Astronomical
 Mishka Henner

Self-published

[1 selections]
  • Darius Himes
Other People’s Photographs
 Joachim Schmid

Self-published

[1 selections]
  • Elisabeth Tonnard
Francesca Woodman.
GIUSEPPE CASETTI

AGMA Publishing

[1 selections]
  • Todd Hido
Portraits de Villes.
VINCENT LAPPARTIENT

be-poles

[1 selections]
  • Kevin Kunishi
Someone Is No Monster.
JAN VON HOLLEBEN

Someone Is No Monster

[1 selections]
  • Sven Ehmann
A Short History of Crying
 Sanja Mitrovic

Stand Up Tall Productions

[1 selections]
Separations
 Jane Grisewood

Book Works

[1 selections]
  • Elisabeth Tonnard
Box - Pass It On.
PENG YANGJUN & CHEN JIAOJIAO

Shang-Xia Ltd

[1 selections]
  • Martin Parr
A Short History of Crying.
SANJA MITROVIC

Stand Up Tall Productions

[1 selections]
  • Sven Ehmann
Animals That Saw Me.
ED PANAR

The Ice Plant

[1 selections]
  • Darius Himes
La Belle Dame Sans Merci.
ALEC SOTH

Punctum Press

[1 selections]
  • Darius Himes
Self Publish Be Naughty.
SELF PUBLISH BE HAPPY

Self Publish Be Happy

[1 selections]
  • Gerry Badger
Under House Arrest.
SEBASTIEN GIRARD

Sebastien Girard

[1 selections]
  • Gerry Badger
The Hudson Valley.
STEPHEN SHORE

Blind Spot

[1 selections]
  • Gerry Badger
Four Seasons.
ANDREAS SCHMIDT

Self Published

[1 selections]
  • Elisabeth Tonnard
Idyll.
RAYMOND MEEKS & MARK STEINMETZ

Silas Finch

[1 selections]
  • Lauren Henkin
Extrem Tourism.
THOMAS MAILAENDER

RVB Books

[1 selections]
  • Elisabeth Tonnard
Freunde von Freunden.
FREUNDE VON FREUNDEN

Distanz

[1 selections]
  • Sven Ehmann
The Other View.
ANNETT GRÖSCHNER

Hatje Cantz

[1 selections]
  • Sven Ehmann
The Trash Humpers.
HARMONY KORINE

JRP|Ringier

[1 selections]
  • Anouk Kruithof
Photos from Japan and My Archive.
PAULINE OLTHETEN

Nai Publishers

[1 selections]
  • Anouk Kruithof
Fragile.
RAPHAËL DALLAPORTA

Editions GwinZegal

[1 selections]
  • Gerry Badger
Surfacing.
KATINKA GOLDBERG

Journal

[1 selections]
  • Gerry Badger
A Falling Horizon.
HEIDI DE GIER

FW:

[1 selections]
  • Larissa Leclair
Deck of Chords.
KIRSTEN RIAN & LAUREN HENKIN

Kirsten Rian & Lauren Henkin

[1 selections]
  • Gordon Stettinius
The Lost Photographs of Captain Scott.
DAVID M. WILSON

Little, Brown & Company

[1 selections]
  • Kevin Kunishi
Looters.
TIANE DOAN NA CHAMPASSAK

Self Published

[1 selections]
  • Martin Parr
A Head With Wings.
ANOUK KRUITHOF

Little Brown Mushroom Books

[1 selections]
  • Raymond Meeks
Is This Place Great or What.
BRIAN ULRICH

Aperture

[1 selections]
  • Raymond Meeks
Le Luxe.
ROE ETHRIDGE

Mack Books

[1 selections]
  • John Gossage
Soldier, Many Wars.
SUZANNE OPTON

Decode Books

[1 selections]
  • Kevin Messina
Swiss Photobooks from 1927 to the Present.
PETER PFRUNDER

Prestel

[1 selections]
  • Sven Ehmann
Chromes.
WILLIAM EGGLESTON

Steidl

[1 selections]
  • John Gossage
Undisclosed
 Bertil Nilsson

Canalside Books

[1 selections]
  • Kevin Messina
Ballet.
ALEXEY BRODOVITCH

errata editions

[1 selections]
  • Sven Ehmann
Darkroom.
ADAM BARTOS

SteidlDangin

[1 selections]
  • Sven Ehmann
The Mark of Abel.
LYDIA PANAS

Kehrer Verlag

[1 selections]
  • Susan Burnstine
Interior Relations.
IAN VAN COLLER

Charles Lane Press

[1 selections]
  • Kevin Messina
The Suffering of Light.
ALEX WEBB

Aperture

[1 selections]
  • Susan Burnstine
Ernst Haas.
WILLIAM A. (ED.) EWING

Steidl

[1 selections]
  • Kevin Messina
Fishing With My Dad 1978-1995.
COREY ARNOLD

Nazraeli Press

[1 selections]
  • Kevin Messina
FY.
MICHAEL WOLF

Wanderer Books/Peperoni Books

[1 selections]
  • Kevin Messina
Sunder.
BRUCE HALEY

Charta/Daylight

[1 selections]
  • Susan Burnstine
Publish Your Photography Book.
DARIUS D. HIMES & MARY VIRGINIA SWANSON

Princeton Architectural Press

[1 selections]
  • Gordon Stettinius
Core Curriculum.
TOD PAPAGEORGE

Aperture

[1 selections]
  • Gordon Stettinius
Waikiki.
HENRY WESSEL

Steidl

[1 selections]
  • Kevin Kunishi
One Day.
HARVEY BENGE

Kehrer Verlag

[1 selections]
  • John Jenkins
Diane Arbus.
ELISABETH SUSSMAN

Aperture

[1 selections]
  • John Jenkins
Brut.
PAUL KRANZLER

Fotohof Editions

[1 selections]
  • Raymond Meeks
Boulevard.
KATY GRANNAN

Fraenkel Gallery/Salon 94

[1 selections]
  • Lauren Henkin
Unmarked Sites.
JESSICA AUER

Les Territoires

[1 selections]
  • Lauren Henkin
Series.
ENRIQUE METINIDES

Kominek Books

[1 selections]
  • Lauren Henkin
The New Cars 1964.
LEE FRIEDLANDER

Fraenkel Gallery

[1 selections]
  • Lauren Henkin
Naksan.
BOOMOON

Nazraeli Press

[1 selections]
  • Lauren Henkin
Lyonel Feininger.
LYONEL FEININGER

Hatje Cantz

[1 selections]
  • Lauren Henkin
Pangnirtung.
ROBERT FRANK

Steidl

[1 selections]
  • Lauren Henkin
Hurricane Story.
JENNIFER SHAW

Chin Music Press

[1 selections]
  • Gordon Stettinius
In the Picture.
LEE FRIEDLANDER

Yale University Press

[1 selections]
  • Gordon Stettinius
Within Shadows.
SUSAN BURNSTINE

Charta Editions

[1 selections]
  • Gordon Stettinius
Visible Library.
SAM FALLS

Lay Flat

[1 selections]
  • Elisabeth Tonnard
The Story of Four Generations.
YEE LING TANG

Ipso Facto

[1 selections]
  • Larissa Leclair
White Noise.
ANTÓNIO JÚLIO DUARTE

Pierre von Kleist Editions

[1 selections]
  • Horacio Fernández
Dune.
MISHA DE RIDDER

Lay Flat

[1 selections]
  • Horacio Fernández
The Auckland Project.
ALEC SOTH & JOHN GOSSAGE

Radius Books

[1 selections]
  • Adam Bell
Oculus.
KEN SCHLES

Noorderlicht

[1 selections]
  • Adam Bell
Towards a Warm Math.
LUCAS BLALOCK

Hassla Books

[1 selections]
  • Adam Bell
Retrieved.
CHARLOTTE DUMAS

The Ice Plant

[1 selections]
  • John Jenkins
Burke + Norfolk.
JOHN BURKE & SIMON NORFOLK

Dewi Lewis

[1 selections]
  • Antone Dolezal
The Wedding.
BORIS MIKHAILOV

Morel Books

[1 selections]
  • Alec Soth
Conductors of the Moving World
 Brad Zellar

Little Brown Mushroom Books

[1 selections]
  • Elisabeth Tonnard
Seacoal.
CHRIS KILLIP

Steidl

[1 selections]
  • Shane Lavalette
Parasomnia.
VIVIANE SASSEN

Prestel

[1 selections]
  • Shane Lavalette
Mexico Roma.
GRACIELA ITURBIDE

Editorial RM

[1 selections]
  • Melanie McWhorter
Before Silence.
MATHIAS GRATE

Mathias Grate

[1 selections]
  • Melanie McWhorter
Homage.
JIM KRANTZ

Jim Krantz Studio

[1 selections]
  • Melanie McWhorter
Interrogations.
DONALD WEBER

Schilt Publishing

[1 selections]
  • Melanie McWhorter
Sicarios.
JAVIER ARCENILLAS

FotoEvidence

[1 selections]
  • Melanie McWhorter
A Living Man Declared Dead & Other Chapters.
TARYN SIMON

Mack Books

[1 selections]
  • Melanie McWhorter
The Half-Life of History.
MARK KLETT

Radius Books

[1 selections]
  • Melanie McWhorter
Nowhere But Here.
JOCELYN LEE

Steidl Pace/MacGill

[1 selections]
  • Shane Lavalette
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