Favourite Photobooks 2023
This past year we were once again able to discover numerous photo books from all over the world that have inspired us. A good sign of the growing diversity and increasing importance of the photo book as a medium. However, three books particularly impressed us conceptually: Tomasz Tomaszewski's retrospective "World Trip" in the form of an œuvre catalog and Werner Amann's "Kein Morgen", a stimulating look at the glorious rave culture of the nineties. Last but not least: Claudio Pogo, who applies his textual scalpel so furiously to Germany's controversial tabloid BILD that we have learned to see it anew.
Tomasz Tomaszewski,
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Werner Amann,
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Claudio Pogo,
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Favourite Photobooks 2022
"The book extends its influence" is how French photo portal The Eye of Photography summed up this year's Paris Photo! Countless new photo books, new fairs and more and more publishers: The photo book as a medium is becoming an increasingly serious player in the world of photography. All the more important we see the task of developing and communicating photobook culture in all its facets.
Our three photo books of the year are distinguished by their ability to open up new perspectives and spaces for thought. The reception history of Diane Arbus through her Documents, the "making of" Susan Meisela's legendary Carnival Strippers and Dayanita Singh's innovative look at her own Book Building and the expanded possibilities of dealing with the medium. Three publications that pave the way for a future photobook culture!
Diane Arbus, DocumentsThis extensive volume, wonderfully designed and produced, brings together all the quotes, correspondences, writings, commentaries, criticisms and an extensive bibliography on, by and about Diane Arbus. We cannot agree more to the quote on the back of the book: "... because what is written will become what is known ...". Published by David Zwirner Books & Fraenkel Gallery, 2022 | |
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Dayanita Singh,
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Favourite Photobooks 2021
Studio Photo Nationale
by Samuel Fosso
As we look back on an exciting 2021 and a stack of great photo books... we want to share with you our favorite photo book of the year:
STUDIO PHOTO NATIONALE by Samuel Fosso
"An amazing production,
fantastic photographs and a
great story behind it
... we love it! "
76 folded pages (Japanese),
spiral-bound book in a slipcase with screen printing.
Risographed and bound by hand. 24 x 33 cm
Concept, design and printing by Sébastien Girard
Foto: Samuel Fosso, Cover und Schuber aus Studio Photo Nationale, Toulouse 2021