UK's PHOTOBOOKSTORE, my favourite online photobook store again this year invited photography aficionados from a cross-section of photobook disciplines to select their favourite photobooks of the past year. Twenty five photographers, publishers, writers, booksellers and collectors shared their ‘Photobooks of 2018‘, including Todd Hido, John Gossage, Vanessa Winship, Simon Baker and more.
You can go to PHOTOBOOKSTORE HERE to check out the lists in detail.
Photo-eye have been compiling annual lists of best photobooks for 25 years, this year they have done something different, they say this: This year we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of our renowned listing of the year's best photobooks. To mark this milestone, we've decided to do something a bit different. We've asked 90 internationally recognized luminaries from the photobook world to choose their favorite photobook of the year. Their favorite book could be unforgettable for any number of reasons but the chosen books affected our selectors on a very personal level. These books led each of our contributors to conclude, "If there's one book not to miss this year, it would be this!"
Below is a random group, you can see all 90 selections HERE.
Written tongue in cheek, but with more than a few grains of truth, New York Magazine Art Critic and columnist Jerry Saltz lists 33 rules for being and artist. This came from Saltz's instagram feed where thus far over 150, 000 have read the piece... you can follow HERE.
My pictures explore the strange anthropology of cities. The unusual and overlooked in the human landscape.
I am asking the viewer to question the idea that photographs as documents are complete representations of subject.
I'm interested in the universality of life and the idea of parallel lives - when one thing is happening here, something else is happening over there. The democracy of non-places fascinates me, in the knowledge that inevitably nothing is as it seems.
I work and live between Auckland and Paris.
http://harveybenge.com/
email:harvey.benge@xtra.co.nz