John Gossage

Photographer / Bookmaker

Chromes.
WILLIAM EGGLESTON

The best period of Bill's work in three definitive volumes.

Koudelka.
JOSEF KOUDELKA

A reprint (sort of) that reinvents a classic work by making it better printed (Steidl), designed, and edited.

Illuminance.
RINKO KAWAUCHI

The Foil edition in Japan has better cover pictures, but either edition has some of the photographer's best work and wonderful book craft.

Le Luxe.
ROE ETHRIDGE

Another great failure of a book, by someone whose failures are more interesting than others successes. Or to paraphrase Robert Duvall in Apocalypse Now 'Goldman don't surf.'

Photographic Memory.
VERNA POSEVER CURTIS

A beautifully authored and edited book on books that for once you cannot go on the internet and try to buy.

Redheaded Peckerwood.
CHRISTIAN PATTERSON

Good photos, good book craft all based on my favorite Terrence Malick film. Need I say more?

Gomorrah Girl.
VALERIO SPADA

The best self published book so far in this time of so many attempts.

pretty girls wander.
RAYMOND MEEKS

The other self publishing option. Intense handcraft that always follows the needs of the material, and never gets too fussy.

C.E.N.S.U.R.A.
JULIAN BARON

Politicians photographed using the style of "broken camera."

A Criminal Investigation.
WATABE YUKICHI

Book craft of the highest order bringing sleeping photographs to life.

John Gossage has since the age of 14 devoted his life to photography, photobooks, and the music of Charles Edward Anderson Berry.

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