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THE BEST BOOKS OF 2012
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Erin Azouz
John Gossage
Andrew Phelps
Svetlana Bachevanova
Todd Hido
Markus Schaden
Adam Bell
Anne Kelly
Aaron Schuman
Pierre Bessard
Erik Kessels
Rebecca Senf
Jonathan Blaustein
Shane Lavalette
Alec Soth
Tony Cederteg
Melanie McWhorter
Sputnik Photos
Tom Claxton
Colin Pantall
Miwa Susuda
Marco Delogu
Martin Parr
Anne Wilkes Tucker
Natasha Egan
Christian Patterson
WassinkLundgren
Rémi Faucheux
PDN Editors
The Afronauts.
CRISTINA DE MIDDEL

Self Published

[7 selections]
  • Marco Delogu
  • Alec Soth
  • Andrew Phelps
  • Martin Parr
  • John Gossage
  • Tom Claxton
  • Pierre Bessard
Lick Creek Line.
RON JUDE

Mack

[6 selections]
  • Adam Bell
  • Andrew Phelps
  • Christian Patterson
  • Natasha Egan
  • John Gossage
  • PDN Editors
Dive Dark Dream Slow.
MELISSA CATANESE

The Ice Plant

[5 selections]
  • Adam Bell
  • Miwa Susuda
  • Shane Lavalette
  • Todd Hido
  • WassinkLundgren
Lebensmittel.
MICHAEL SCHMIDT

Snoeck

[5 selections]
  • Adam Bell
  • Colin Pantall
  • Martin Parr
  • Christian Patterson
  • Tom Claxton
The Present.
PAUL GRAHAM

Mack

[5 selections]
  • Colin Pantall
  • Aaron Schuman
  • John Gossage
  • Todd Hido
  • Tom Claxton
Down These Mean Streets.
WILL STEACY

b. frank books

[5 selections]
  • Erin Azouz
  • Andrew Phelps
  • Aaron Schuman
  • Christian Patterson
  • Melanie McWhorter
Coexistence.
STEPHEN GILL

Nobody Books and Centre national de l'audiovisuel (L)

[5 selections]
  • Alec Soth
  • Martin Parr
  • Markus Schaden
  • Tom Claxton
  • WassinkLundgren
Another Language.
MÅRTEN LANGE

MACK

[4 selections]
  • Adam Bell
  • Christian Patterson
  • Shane Lavalette
  • Sputnik Photos
Two Thousand Light Years from Home.
PIETRO MATTIOLI

Kodoji Press

[4 selections]
  • Adam Bell
  • Martin Parr
  • Rémi Faucheux
  • Tom Claxton
City Diary.
ANDERS PETERSEN

Steidl/Swedish Books/GUN

[4 selections]
  • Christian Patterson
  • Anne Wilkes Tucker
  • Tom Claxton
  • Sputnik Photos
Scrapbook 1969-1985.
WALTER PFEIFFER

Patrick Frey

[3 selections]
  • Miwa Susuda
  • Tony Cederteg
  • WassinkLundgren
Looking for Love, 1996.
ALEC SOTH

Kominek Books

[3 selections]
  • Adam Bell
  • Aaron Schuman
  • Shane Lavalette
A Girl and Her Room.
RANIA MATAR

Umbrage

[3 selections]
  • Colin Pantall
  • Svetlana Bachevanova
  • PDN Editors
A New American Picture.
DOUG RICKARD

Apterture

[3 selections]
  • Marco Delogu
  • Natasha Egan
  • PDN Editors
Sunburn.
CHRIS MCCAW

Candela Books

[3 selections]
  • Erin Azouz
  • Rebecca Senf
  • Anne Kelly
Kiev.
ROB HORNSTRA

The Sochi Project

[3 selections]
  • Jonathan Blaustein
  • Pierre Bessard
  • Sputnik Photos
Jeddah Diary.
OLIVIA ARTHUR

Fishbar

[3 selections]
  • Jonathan Blaustein
  • Alec Soth
  • Andrew Phelps
Petrochemical America.
RICHARD MISRACH & KATE ORFF

Aperture

[3 selections]
  • Rebecca Senf
  • Natasha Egan
  • Melanie McWhorter
Elementary Calculus.
J CARRIER

MACK

[3 selections]
  • Alec Soth
  • Christian Patterson
  • Shane Lavalette
Life’s a Beach.
MARTIN PARR

Aperture

[3 selections]
  • Alec Soth
  • John Gossage
  • Pierre Bessard
Life Size.
SAM FALLS

Karma

[3 selections]
  • Christian Patterson
  • Miwa Susuda
  • John Gossage
Lange Liste 79 - 97.
CHRISTIAN LANGE

Spector Books

[3 selections]
  • Christian Patterson
  • Rémi Faucheux
  • WassinkLundgren
(based on a true story).
DAVID ALAN HARVEY

BurnBooks

[3 selections]
  • Colin Pantall
  • Markus Schaden
  • PDN Editors
The Photograph As Contemporary Art.
MELINDA GIBSON

Self Published with Lucid-Ly

[2 selections]
  • Erik Kessels
  • Tom Claxton
Censorship Daily.
JAN DIRK VAN DER BURG

Self Published

[2 selections]
  • Erik Kessels
  • Rémi Faucheux
My Dakota.
REBECCA NORRIS WEBB

Radius Books

[2 selections]
  • Erin Azouz
  • PDN Editors
Margaret.
NICOLE DELMES

Walther König

[2 selections]
  • Christian Patterson
  • Todd Hido
Los Restos.
KEVIN KUNISHI

Daylight

[2 selections]
  • Erin Azouz
  • Anne Kelly
Heavy Hand, Sunken Spirit.
DAVID ROCHKIND

Dewi Lewis

[2 selections]
  • Erin Azouz
  • Melanie McWhorter
The Father of Pop Dance.
TIANE DOAN NA CHAMPASSAK

Self Published

[2 selections]
  • Aaron Schuman
  • Rémi Faucheux
American Portraits.
LEON BORENSZTEIN

Nazraeli Press

[2 selections]
  • Alec Soth
  • Melanie McWhorter
Metsästä.
ANNE GOLAZ

Kehrer Verlag

[2 selections]
  • Andrew Phelps
  • Tom Claxton
Mrs. Merryman's Collection.
ANNE SOPHIE MERRYMAN

MACK

[2 selections]
  • Martin Parr
  • Melanie McWhorter
Here Far Away.
PENTTI SAMMALLAHTI

Dewi Lewis Publishing

[2 selections]
  • Anne Kelly
  • Rebecca Senf
Left Behind.
JONATHAN HOLLINGSWORTH

Dewi Lewis

[2 selections]
  • Jonathan Blaustein
  • Melanie McWhorter
Uncle Charlie.
MARC ASNIN

Contrasto

[2 selections]
  • Svetlana Bachevanova
  • Anne Wilkes Tucker
Billy Monk.
BILLY MONK

Dewi Lewis

[2 selections]
  • Colin Pantall
  • Martin Parr
A Natural Order.
LUCAS FOGLIA

Nazraeli Press

[2 selections]
  • Erin Azouz
  • Melanie McWhorter
Arbeit / Work.
CHRIS KILLIP

Steidl

[2 selections]
  • Marco Delogu
  • Jonathan Blaustein
The History of Photography in Pen and Ink. (Second Edition)
CHARLES WOODARD

A-Jump Books

[2 selections]
  • Marco Delogu
  • Erin Azouz
Wolfgang Tillmans.
WOLFGANG TILLMANS

Taschen

[2 selections]
  • Adam Bell
  • WassinkLundgren
Photographs Not Taken.
WILL STEACY

Daylight

[2 selections]
  • Rebecca Senf
  • Anne Wilkes Tucker
Heaven.
PAUL KOOIKER

Van Zoetendaal Gallery

[2 selections]
  • Erik Kessels
  • Rémi Faucheux
Vanilla Partner.
TORBJØRN RØDLAND

MACK

[2 selections]
  • Miwa Susuda
  • Tony Cederteg
Found Photos in Detroit.
ARIANNA ARCARA

Censura Publishing

[2 selections]
  • Erik Kessels
  • John Gossage
Larry Sultan & Mike Mandel.
LARRY SULTAN & MIKE MANDEL

Distributed Art Publishers

[2 selections]
  • Shane Lavalette
  • Markus Schaden
The Quest for the Man on the White Donkey.
YAAKOV ISRAEL

Schilt Publishing

[2 selections]
  • Markus Schaden
  • Sputnik Photos
Singular Beauty.
CARA PHILLIPS

Fw:

[2 selections]
  • WassinkLundgren
  • Melanie McWhorter
This Face.
XU YONG

Editions Bessard

[1 selections]
  • WassinkLundgren
The Mother Road.
HANS GREMMEN

FW: Books

[1 selections]
  • WassinkLundgren
The Netherlands.
HANS VAN DER MEER

Y

[1 selections]
  • WassinkLundgren
Rodeo Drive, 1984.
ANTHONY HERNANDEZ

MACK

[1 selections]
  • Alec Soth
Playground.
JEROEN HOFMAN

Self Published

[1 selections]
  • Pierre Bessard
The Table of Power 2.
JACQUELINE HASSINK

Hatje Cantz

[1 selections]
  • Pierre Bessard
Surrendered Myself to the Chair Of Life.
JIN OHASHI

AKAAKA

[1 selections]
  • Pierre Bessard
Los Alamos Revisited.
WILLIAM EGGLESTON

Steidl

[1 selections]
  • Pierre Bessard
The Dutch Photobook.
FRITS GIERSTBERG

Aperture

[1 selections]
  • Pierre Bessard
Spbh Book Club Vol I.
ADAM BROOMBERG

Self Publish, Be Happy

[1 selections]
  • Sputnik Photos
Working Memory.
JIM REED

Easter Trouble Press

[1 selections]
  • Sputnik Photos
Still.
PATRICK HOGAN

Self Published

[1 selections]
  • Sputnik Photos
Memory of the image
Jerzy Lewczy?ski

Czytelnia sztuki, Muzeum w Gliwicach

[1 selections]
  • Sputnik Photos
New Construction
Roe Ethridge

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

[1 selections]
  • John Gossage
Concresco
 David Galjaard

Self-published

[1 selections]
  • Martin Parr
Materia
 Yoshihiko Ueda

Kyuryudo Art Publishing

[1 selections]
  • Tony Cederteg
Meet Strangers
 ju lan ching

Self-published

[1 selections]
  • Pierre Bessard
Who am I, where am I
SECT & WANTO

Self-published

[1 selections]
  • Pierre Bessard
Moderna Museet 2012 Online Catalog
 Wolfgang Tillmans

Moderna Museet

[1 selections]
  • Christian Patterson
No. 223
 Lin Zhipeng

Revolution-Star Publishing

[1 selections]
  • WassinkLundgren
NUDE/A ROOM/FLOWERS
 Sakiko Nomura

Match

[1 selections]
  • Markus Schaden
Paris Photo: Vu Par David Lynch


Paris Photo/Steidl

[1 selections]
  • Todd Hido
Distant Place.
AGNIESZKA RAYSS

Copernicus Science Centre

[1 selections]
  • Melanie McWhorter
Gary Briechle.
GARY BRIECHLE

Twin Palms Publishers

[1 selections]
  • Melanie McWhorter
Poland.
TOMASZ WIECH

Self Published

[1 selections]
  • Sputnik Photos
Executive Model.
RON JUDE

Libraryman

[1 selections]
  • Shane Lavalette
Violentology.
STEPHEN FERRY

Umbrage Editions

[1 selections]
  • Svetlana Bachevanova
Back Yard.
DAISUKE YOKOTA

Self Published

[1 selections]
  • John Gossage
Ali Taptik.
ALI TAPTIK

Atelier du Visu

[1 selections]
  • Markus Schaden
The Americans List.
JASON ESKENAZI

Red Hook Editions

[1 selections]
  • Markus Schaden
Furtivos.
VICENTE PAREDES

Fiesta Ediciones/RM

[1 selections]
  • Markus Schaden
Torre David.
IWAN BAAN

Lars Muller Publishers

[1 selections]
  • Markus Schaden
Mont St. Michel and Shiprock.
WILLIAM CLIFT

William Clift

[1 selections]
  • Rebecca Senf
Backyard Oasis.
DANIELL CORNELL

Prestel

[1 selections]
  • Rebecca Senf
Instituting Reform.
DEBORAH MARTIN KAO

Harvard Art Museums

[1 selections]
  • Rebecca Senf
Gila.
MICHAEL P. BERMAN

Museum Of New Mexico Press

[1 selections]
  • Rebecca Senf
Everyday.
BYRON WOLFE

One Tree Press

[1 selections]
  • Rebecca Senf
The Raw and the Cooked.
PETER BIALOBRZESKI

Hatje Cantz

[1 selections]
  • PDN Editors
Call and Response.
CEDRIC NUNN

Hatje Cantz

[1 selections]
  • PDN Editors
A Retrospective.
RINEKE DIJKSTRA

Guggenheim Museum

[1 selections]
  • PDN Editors
Red Thistle.
DAVIDE MONTELEONE

Dewi Lewis Publishing

[1 selections]
  • PDN Editors
Taking My Time.
JOEL MEYEROWITZ

Phaidon

[1 selections]
  • PDN Editors
To the Past.
NOBUYOSHI ARAKI

Little Big Man

[1 selections]
  • Tom Claxton
Cette Montagne C'est Moi.
WITHO WORMS

FW:

[1 selections]
  • Tom Claxton
Lovesody.
MOTOYUKI DAIFU

Little Big Man Books

[1 selections]
  • Tony Cederteg
Assembly.
OSAMU YOKONAMI

Self Published

[1 selections]
  • Tony Cederteg
Car Crash Studies.
NICOLAI HOWALT

Études Books

[1 selections]
  • Tony Cederteg
Transfiguration Book.
GOSHA RUBCHINSKIY

Junsuke Yamasaki

[1 selections]
  • Tony Cederteg
Matador.
NICOLAS HOSTEING

Études Books N°3

[1 selections]
  • Tony Cederteg
Nocturnes.
AM PROJECTS

dienacht Publishing

[1 selections]
  • Tony Cederteg
In the Car With R.
RAFAL MILACH

Czytelnia Sztuki

[1 selections]
  • Shane Lavalette
Die Son Sien Alles.
VIVIANE SASSEN

Libraryman Co., Ltd.

[1 selections]
  • Shane Lavalette
Imaginary Landscape No. 1.
HANNAH WHITAKER

Blonde Art Books

[1 selections]
  • Shane Lavalette
Light Years.
MATTHEW S. WITKOVSKY

Yale University Press

[1 selections]
  • John Gossage
Texts.
LEWIS BALTZ

Steidl

[1 selections]
  • John Gossage
Catalogue.
HANS-PETER FELDMANN

Walther Konig

[1 selections]
  • Todd Hido
Amc2 Journal.
ARCHIVE OF MODERN CONFLICT

Archive of Modern Conflict

[1 selections]
  • Todd Hido
Sex Press.
VINCENT BERNIÈRE

Harry N Abrams

[1 selections]
  • Todd Hido
101 Tragedies of Enrique Metinides.
ENRIQUE METINIDES

Aperture

[1 selections]
  • Todd Hido
Reading Ed Ruscha.
ED RUSCHA

Kunsthaus Bregenz

[1 selections]
  • Todd Hido
Less Américains.
MISHKA HENNER

Self Published

[1 selections]
  • Colin Pantall
Nurture Studies.
DIANA SCHERER

van Zoetendaal Gallery

[1 selections]
  • Erik Kessels
Touch.
PETER DEKENS

Self Published

[1 selections]
  • Erik Kessels
Fire Guys.
IDAN HAYOSH & CORINA KUENZLI

Kodoji Press

[1 selections]
  • Erik Kessels
Cathedral Cars.
THOMAS MAILAENDER

RVB Books

[1 selections]
  • Erik Kessels
Nic Nicosia.
NIC NICOSIA

University Of Texas Press

[1 selections]
  • Natasha Egan
Edible Selby.
TODD SELBY

Abrams

[1 selections]
  • Natasha Egan
Occupied Territory.
LYNNE COHEN

Aperture

[1 selections]
  • Natasha Egan
Anyway. 44.
ARI MARCOPOULOS

Dashwood Books

[1 selections]
  • Miwa Susuda
Unfolded.
MAURICE SCHELTENS

Kodoji Press

[1 selections]
  • Miwa Susuda
Ono.
NATASHA CARUANA

Here Press

[1 selections]
  • Erik Kessels
The Night Is Never As Dark As It Is In Childhood.
MARCEL GAHLER

Patrick Frey

[1 selections]
  • Erik Kessels
Nathan Lyons.
JESSICA S. MCDONALD

University Of Texas Press

[1 selections]
  • Anne Wilkes Tucker
Autopsie.
MANFRED HEITING

Steidl

[1 selections]
  • Anne Wilkes Tucker
Unfixed.
SARA BLOKLAND

Jap Sam Books

[1 selections]
  • Anne Wilkes Tucker
Utopia/Dystopia.
YASUFUMI NAKAMORI

Museum Fine Arts Houston

[1 selections]
  • Anne Wilkes Tucker
Between the Eyes.
DAVID LEVI STRAUSS

Aperture

[1 selections]
  • Anne Wilkes Tucker
There’s a Place in Hell for Me & My Friends.
PIETER HUGO

Oodee

[1 selections]
  • Anne Wilkes Tucker
The Address Book.
SOPHIE CALLE

Siglio

[1 selections]
  • Anne Wilkes Tucker
The Children Living in Washington Heights 1959-1962.
GASHO YAMAMURA

Yagisha

[1 selections]
  • Miwa Susuda
Barricade.
KAZUO KITAI

Harper's Books

[1 selections]
  • Miwa Susuda
Project Prints.
LUIGI GHIRRI

JRP|RINGIER

[1 selections]
  • Miwa Susuda
Circulation.
TAKUMA NAKAHIRA

Osiris

[1 selections]
  • Miwa Susuda
Building.
BARNEY KULOK

Aperture

[1 selections]
  • Adam Bell
The Actor.
JOHN GOSSAGE

Loosestrife

[1 selections]
  • Adam Bell
Handbook to the Stars.
PETER PUKLUS

Stokovec

[1 selections]
  • Adam Bell
Guy Tillim.
GUY TILLIM

Prestel

[1 selections]
  • Marco Delogu
Sasha.
CLAUDINE DOURY

Le Caillou Bleu

[1 selections]
  • Colin Pantall
The Altogether.
CHRIS COEKIN

Walkout

[1 selections]
  • Colin Pantall
Antonia's Garden / Le Jardin d'Antonia.
MARISA PORTOLESE

UMA

[1 selections]
  • Erin Azouz
Documenting Science.
BERENICE ABBOTT

Steidl

[1 selections]
  • Jonathan Blaustein
A Possible Life.
BEN KREWINKEL

f0.23 publishers

[1 selections]
  • Colin Pantall
Heaven or Hell.
JOEL-PETER WITKIN

Collectif

[1 selections]
  • Erin Azouz
Pieter Hugo.
PIETER HUGO

Prestel

[1 selections]
  • Erin Azouz
Harold Feinstein.
HAROLD FEINSTEIN

Nazraeli Press

[1 selections]
  • Svetlana Bachevanova
Malick Sidibe.
MALIK SIDIBE

Skira

[1 selections]
  • Svetlana Bachevanova
How Terry Likes His Coffee.
FLORIAN VAN ROEKEL

Self Published

[1 selections]
  • Jonathan Blaustein
The Wrong Side.
JÉRÔME SESSINI

Contrasto

[1 selections]
  • Svetlana Bachevanova
Dead Traffic.
KIM THUE

dienacht Publishing

[1 selections]
  • Svetlana Bachevanova
Revolutions.
RÉMI OCHLIK

Emphas.is

[1 selections]
  • Svetlana Bachevanova
Mit Jock Sturges Familär.
JOCK STURGES

edition GALERIE VEVAIS

[1 selections]
  • Anne Kelly
Entropic Kingdom.
TOM CHAMBERS

ModernBook

[1 selections]
  • Anne Kelly
Rothko / Sugimoto.
HIROSHI SUGIMOTO

Pace Gallery

[1 selections]
  • Anne Kelly
The English Cathedral.
PETER MARLOW

Merrell

[1 selections]
  • Martin Parr
Departures and Arrivals.
CHARLES HARBUTT

Damiani

[1 selections]
  • Rebecca Senf
Surrogates.
LUCIANO RIGOLINI

Centre Culturel Suisse

[1 selections]
  • Martin Parr
Animal Farm.
DANIEL NAUDE

Prestel

[1 selections]
  • Martin Parr
Pictures and Words.
JUERGEN TELLER

Steidl

[1 selections]
  • Alec Soth
On the Mines.
DAVID GOLDBLATT

Steidl

[1 selections]
  • Alec Soth
Out to Lunch.
ARI MARCOPOULOS

PPP Editions

[1 selections]
  • Alec Soth
Bees.
ZHE CHEN

Jia Zazhi Press

[1 selections]
  • Andrew Phelps
Brutal.
MICHAL LUCZAK

Michal Luczak

[1 selections]
  • Andrew Phelps
The River Winter.
JEM SOUTHAM

MACK

[1 selections]
  • Aaron Schuman
Index of Time.
TEREZA ZELENKOVA

Self Published

[1 selections]
  • Aaron Schuman
Concrete Geographies.
XAVIER RIBAS

B Side Books

[1 selections]
  • Aaron Schuman
NYLPT.
JASON EVANS

MACK

[1 selections]
  • Aaron Schuman
Most Popular of All Time.
MACDONALDSTRAND

MacDonaldStrand

[1 selections]
  • Aaron Schuman
New Colour Guide.
JOHN MACLEAN

Hunter & James

[1 selections]
  • Aaron Schuman
Vanitas.
JOEL-PETER WITKIN

Arbor Vitae

[1 selections]
  • Anne Kelly
From Above and Below.
SHARON HARPER

Radius Books

[1 selections]
  • Anne Kelly
Honk If You Love Stieglitz.
STU LEVY

Nazraeli Press

[1 selections]
  • Anne Kelly
Strip-O-Gram.
SEBASTIEN GIRARD

Self Published

[1 selections]
  • Rémi Faucheux
SPBH Book Club Vol II.
BRAD FEUERHELM

Self Publish, Be Happy

[1 selections]
  • Rémi Faucheux
In Almost Every Picture 11.
ERIK KESSELS

KesselsKramer

[1 selections]
  • Rémi Faucheux
Bilder Von Der Straße.
JOACHIM SCHMID

Print on Demand

[1 selections]
  • Rémi Faucheux
Reprinting the City.
STEPHAN KEPPEL

FW:

[1 selections]
  • Rémi Faucheux
2013.
JUSTIN JAMES REED

Horses Think Press

[1 selections]
  • Shane Lavalette
Ararchy Photobook Mania.
NOBUYOSHI ARAKI

IZU PHOTO MUSEUM / NOHARA

[1 selections]
  • Todd Hido
Live Through This.
TONY FOUHSE

Straylight Press

[1 selections]
  • Colin Pantall
Imaginary Club.
OLIVER SIEBER

Bohm/Kobayashi

[1 selections]
  • Markus Schaden
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