PHOTOBOOK AWARDS 2016 - The Shortlist

 

The Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards have been announced at the Opening Days of the European Month of Photography.
The Awards this year have been organized in collaboration with C/O Berlin, a Berlin-based charitable institution committed to photography and visual media.
This year’s shortlist selection was made by Christoph Wiesner (Artistic Director, Paris Photo), Lesley A. Martin (Creative Director of the Aperture Foundation book program and of The PhotoBook Review), David Campany (author, curator, and artist), Ann-Christin Bertrand (curator, C/O Berlin), and Becky Senf (Chief Curator and Norton Family Curator of Photography at the Center of Creative Photography).
The winners are to be announced at the twentieth running of Paris Photo on November 10, 2016. The thirty-five selected photobooks will be profiled in The PhotoBook Review, issue 011, and exhibited at Paris Photo and Aperture Gallery in New York, December 10, 2016 – February 2, 2017.
Initiated in November 2013 by Aperture Foundation and Paris Photo, the Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards celebrate the photobook’s contribution to the evolving narrative of photography, with three major categories: First PhotoBook, PhotoBook of the Year, and Photography Catalogue of the Year. The short-listed titles are :

CATALOGUE OF THE YEAR :

A Handful of Dust : From the Cosmic to the Domestic
David Campany
LE BAL and MACK

Wojciech Zamecznik : Photo-graphics
Karolina Puchala-Rojek and Karolina Ziebinska-Lewandowska
Fundacja Archeologia Fotografii

Werker 2-A Spoken History of the Young Worker
Marc Roig Blesa and Rogier Delfos
Bunkier Sztuki Gallery of Contemporary Art and Fotomuseum Winterthur

Robert Mapplethorpe : The Archive
Frances Terpak and Michelle Brunnick
Getty Research Institute

Moholy-Nagy: Future Present
Matthew S. Witkovsky, Carol S. Eliel, and Karole P. B. Vail
Art Institute of Chicago

SHORT-LISTED TITLES FOR PHOTOBOOK OF THE YEAR:

The Meadow
Barbara Bosworth and Margot Anne Kelley
Radius Books

Looking for Alice
Siân Davey
Trolley Books

End.
Eamonn Doyle, Niall Sweeney, and David Donohoe
D1

Taking Stock of Power : An Other View of the Berlin Wall
Annett Gröschner and Arwed Messmer
Hatje Cantz

ZZYZX
Gregory Halpern
MACK

The Democratic Forest
Mark Holborn and William Eggleston III
Steidl

Berenice Abbott : Paris Portraits, 1925-1930
Ron Kurtz and Hank O’Neal
Steidl and Commerce Graphics

The Epic Love Story of a Warrior
Peter Puklus
SPBH Editions

Parallel Encyclopedia #2
Batia Suter
Roma Publications

Little North Road: Africa in China
Daniel Traub, Wu Yong Fu, and Zeng Xian Fang
Kehrer Verlag

SHORT-LISTED TITLES FOR FIRST PHOTOBOOK:

The Prospect of Immortality
Murray Ballard
GOST Books

Where We’ve Been, Where We’re Going, Why?
Dan Boardman and Aspen Mays
Houseboat Press and Conveyer Editions

I Absolutely Forbade All Public Photographs of Myself
Yannick Bouillis
Self-published

Dark Archives: 1-41
Andre Bradley
Images Text Ithaca Press

Libyan Sugar
Michael Christopher Brown
Twin Palms Publishers

The Naming of a River
Cheng Xinhao
Jiazazhi Press

Magic Party Place
CJ Clarke
Kehrer Verlag

Black Is the Day, Black is the Night
Amy Elkins
Self-published

A House Without a Roof
Adam Golfer
Booklyn

Lost Coast
Curran Hatleberg
TBW Books

Foreigner: Migration into Europe 2015-2016
John Radcliffe Studio
Self-published

Astres Noirs
Katrin Koenning et Sarker Protick
Chose Commune

Event Horizon
Quentin Lacombe
Self-published

Sugar Paper Theories
Jack Latham
Here Press

Dear Clark: Portrait of a Con Man
Sara-Lena Maierhofer
Drittel Books

Tokyo
Sohei Nishino
Amana

Summer Days Staten Island
Christine Osinski
Damiani Editore

00A
Dominique Somers
Art Paper Editions

How We End.
Kate Stone and Hannah Schneider
Self-published

Estamos Buscando A (We’re Looking For)
Paul Turounet
Self-published