The Shortlist contains thirty-five outstanding titles in the categories of First Photobook of the Year, Photobook of the Year and Photography Catalogue of the Year, with one additional honorable mention. We are pleased to present the shortlisted titles below, along with photo-eye Bookstore links, bookteases and reviews when available.
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Photobook of the Year Shortlist:
LDN EI
Antony Cairns
Self-published
Imperial Courts 1993–2015
Dana Lixenberg
Publisher: Roma Publications
Illustrated People
Thomas Mailaender
Publisher: Archive of Modern Conflict/RVB Books
Selected as a Best Book of 2014 by Cristina de Middel
Good 70s
Mike Mandel
Publisher: J&L Books/D.A.P.
Studio 54
Tod Papageorge
Publisher: Stanley/Barker
Selected as a Best Book of 2014 by Marco Delogu
Bottom of the Lake
Christian Patterson
Publisher: Walther König
Erasure
Fazal Sheikh
Publisher: Steidl
Deadline
Will Steacy
Publisher: b.frank books
Taratine
Daisuke Yokota
Publisher: Session Press
Selected as Book of the Week by Simon Baker
Negatives
Xu Yong
Publisher: New Century Press
First Photobook Shortlist:
(in matters of) Karl
Annette Behrens
Publisher: Fw:Books
Hush: Israel Palestine 2000–2014
Noa Ben-Shalom
Publisher: Sternthal Books
Walk This Way
Sophie Bramly
Publisher: Galerie 213
Fire in Cairo
Matthew Connors
Publisher: SPBH Editions
Read the review by Adam Bell
Ser Sangre
Iñaki Domingo
Publisher: RM Verlag/La Kursala/Here Press
Selected a Best Books of 2014 by:
Laia Abril
Ramon Pez
Landmark
J. W. Fisher and J. T. Leonard
Publisher: Daylight
Ramps, Pools, Ponds and Pipes
Dominic Forde
Self-published
Hold the Line
Siegfried Hansen
Publisher: Verlag Kettler
Transmission
Lucy Helton
Publisher: Silas Finch
A Geological Index of the Landscape
Benoît Jeannet
Self-published
Paper Planes
Sjoerd Knibbeler
Publisher: Fw:Books
5 PTOHOGRAHPIES—40 × 28 CM
Madeleine Kotte and Cornelius de Bill Baboul
Publisher: The Ptohograhpies
You Haven’t Seen Their Faces
Daniel Mayrit
Publisher: Riot Books
Anna Konda
Katarzyna Mazur
Publisher: dienacht Publishing
Gilles Raynaldy
Publisher: Purpose Éditions
Greetings from Auschwitz
Paweł Szypulski
Publisher: Edition Patrick Frey/Foundation for Visual Arts
Mass
Hiroshi Takizawa
Publisher: Newfave
Now Will Not Be With Us Forever
Maurice van Es
Publisher: RVB Books
My Lens, Our Ferguson
Adrian Octavius Walker
Self-published
Brick Yard
Akihito Yoshida
Self-published
Photography Catalogue of the Year Shortlist:
A Guide for the Protection of the Public in Peacetime
Timothy Prus, Ed Jones, and David Alan Mellor
Publisher: Archive of Modern Conflict
Beastly/Tierisch
Duncan Forbes, Matthias Gabi, and Daniela Janser
Publisher: Spector Books/Fotomuseum Winterthur
Images of Conviction: The Construction of Visual Evidence
Diane Dufour with the contributions of Christian Delage, Thomas Keenan, Tomasz Kizny, Luce Lebart, Jennifer Mnookin, Anthony Petiteau, Eric Stover, Eyal Weizman
Publisher: Le Bal/Éditions Xavier Barral
Crackle & Drag
TR Ericsson, Arnaud Gerspacher, and Barbara Tannenbaum
Publisher: Yale University Press/Cleveland Museum of Art
William Eggleston: A Cor Americana
Thyago Nogueira
Publisher: Instituto Moreira Salles
Jurors’ Special Mention:
Chizu (The Map)
Kikuji Kawada
Publisher: Akio Nagasawa