The 2019 PhotoBook Awards Shortlist
Aperture and Paris Photo are pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2019 PhotoBook Awards.
The shortlist selection was made by Amanda Maddox, associate curator in the Department of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Joanna Milter, director of photography at the New Yorker, Drew Sawyer, Phillip Leonian and Edith Rosenbaum Leonian Curator of Photography at the Brooklyn Museum, Lesley A. Martin, creative director of Aperture Foundation and publisher of The PhotoBook Review, and Christoph Wiesner, artistic director of Paris Photo.
Established in 2012, the Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards celebrate the photobook’s contribution to the evolving narrative of photography, with three major categories: First PhotoBook, Photography Catalogue of the Year, and PhotoBook of the Year.
First PhotoBook
Marwan Bassiouni
New Dutch Views
Lecturis, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Michele Borzoni
Workforce
L’Artiere, Bologna, Italy
Juan Brenner
Tonatiuh
Editorial RM, Barcelona
Ben Brody
Attention Servicemember
Red Hook Editions, Brooklyn
Maisie Cousins
Rubbish, Dipping Sauce, Grass Peonie Bum
Trolley Books, London
Maja Daniels
Elf Dalia
MACK, London
Federico Estol
Héroes del Brillo
Hormigón Armado, Bolivia, and El Ministerio Ediciones, Uruguay
Tania Franco Klein
Positive Disintegration
Éditions Bessard, Paris
Gao Shan
The Eighth Day
Imageless, Wuxi, China
Andres Gonzalez
American Origami
Fw:Books, Amsterdam, and Light Work, Syracuse, New York
Bardhi Haliti
May 25 Is Now October 1
Cpress, Zürich
Csilla Klenyanszki
Pillars of Home
Self-published, Amsterdam
Lam Pok Yin and Chong Ng
The Untimely Apparatus of Two Amateur Photographers
Jiazazhi, Ningbo, China
Guy Martin
The Parallel State
GOST Books, London
Justyna Mielnikiewicz
A Ukraine Runs Through It
Pix.house, Poznań, Poland
Drew Nikonowicz
This World and Others Like It
Fw:Books, Amsterdam, and Yoffy Press, Atlanta
Adam Pape
Dyckman Haze
MACK, London
Mimi Plumb
Landfall
TBW Books, Oakland, California
Guadalupe Rosales
Map Pointz
Little Big Man Books, Los Angeles
Karla Hiraldo Voleau
Hola Mi Amol
SPBH Editions, London, and ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne, Renens, Switzerland
Photography Catalogue of the Year
Claudia Andujar: a luta Yanomami
Thyago Nogueira, ed.
Instituto Moreira Salles, São Paulo
Enghelab Street, A Revolution through Books: Iran 1979–1983
Hannah Darabi
Spector Books, Leipzig, Germany, and LE BAL, Paris
Who is Michael Jang?
Pascale Georgiev, ed.
Atelier Éditions, Los Angeles
Sun Gardens: Cyanotypes by Anna Atkins
Larry J. Shaaf
Prestel Publishing, New York
Eiko Yamazawa: What I Am Doing
Tsukasa Ikegami and Yoshiko Suzuki, eds.
AKAAKA Art Publishing, Kyoto
PhotoBook of the Year
Vince Aletti
Issues: A History of Photography in Fashion Magazines
Phaidon, New York
Emi Anrakuji
Balloon Position
AKAAKA Art Publishing, Kyoto
George Georgiou
Americans Parade
BB Editions (self-published), Folkestone, UK
Sunil Gupta
Christopher Street, 1976
STANLEY/BARKER, London
Sohrab Hura
The Coast
UGLY DOG (self-published), New Delhi, India
Libuše Jarcovjáková
EVOKATIV
Untitled, Prague
Mari Katayama
Gift
United Vagabonds, Tokyo
Santu Mofokeng
Stories
Steidl, Göttingen, Germany
Thomas Sauvin and Kensuke Koike
No More No Less
the(M) éditions, Paris; Skinnerboox, Jesi, Italy; and Jiazazhi, Ningbo, China
Henk Wildschut
Rooted
Self-published, Amsterdam
Jurors’ Special Mention–Books About Books
The jury remarked on the extremely strong showing of books about photobooks and magazines—a now established genre in itself. Instead of selecting a single “book about books,” they chose to highlight the following eight books as excellent examples of this type of publishing.
Photobook Belge: 1854–Now
Tamara Berghmans, ed.
Hannibal Publishing, Belgium
Printed Photography in Venezuela
Sagrario Berti
Ricardo Báez, Sagrario Berti, and La Cueva Casa Editorial, Venezuela
Queer Publishing: A Family Tree
Bernhard Cella and Orlando Pescatore, eds.
Salon für Kunstbuch, Vienna
Czech and Slovak Photo Publications, 1918–1989
Manfred Heiting, ed.
Steidl, Göttingen, Germany
How We See: Photobooks by Women
Russet Lederman, Olga Yatskevich, and Michael Lang, eds.
10×10 Photobooks, New York
Camera Austria International: Laboratory for Photography and Theory
Museum der Moderne Salzburg
Spector Books, Leipzig, Germany
Dr. Paul Wolff & Tritschler: Light and Shadow—Photographs 1920 to 1950
Hans-Michael Koetzle, ed.
Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany
Inner World: Modern Argentine Photography 1927–1962
Facundo de Zuviría
Fundación Malba, Buenos Aires
