Best Books 2014: Alex F. Webb & Lewis Chaplin

Best Books 2014 Best Books 2014 Alex F. Webb & Lewis Chaplin Best Books picks from Alex F. Webb & Lewis Chaplin of Fourteen-nineteen.

Woodlands By Bernhard Fuchs Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Koenig The title of this book speaks for itself.	A Perpetual Season By Gregoire Pujade MACK A frightening, melancholic glimpse into a familiar new world displayed through a quiet and beautifully effective sequence. Oblique storytelling at its best.	The Sun Shone Glaringly By Seth Lower The Ice Plant A simple well executed concept that humorously explores the relationship between LA and its relationship to film, both through place and actor.
This Year's Model By Go Itami Rondade Only just released but definitely a favorite from this year. A compelling index of false appearances.	Antarktis By Gerry Johansson Libraryman Perfectly executed study of a land that not many experience.	Windows Mirrors Tabletops By Lucas Blalock Morel I have never come across a book that is so closed to completely falling apart and collapsing upon itself. The idea of taking what looks like a book dummy and making a full print run is so appropriate to Lucas’ constant replicating and rehashing of images.
New Ways of Photographing the New Masai By Jan Hoek Art Paper Editions Jan’s simple act of asking people how they wish to be presented is unexpectedly powerful in the lines it draws about political and cultural assumptions of self-representation. Wait until you see the spider image.	Out of Order By Penelope Umbrico RVB For me, this book is the perfect example of how working with swathes of digital, everyday imagery can illustrate a socio-political event in a way unlike no other.	Printed in Germany By Christopher Williams Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Koenig I understand why a lot of people don't like Christopher Williams. For me the rigorousness and detail of his entire practice makes way for a really enigmatic abstraction that this slightly confusing book encapsulates perfectly.
Cloud Studies By Helmut Völter Spector Books Spector gathers the detritus of early science’s relentless drive to document and categorize everything — demonstrated here through systems for documenting something as transient as clouds — weaving a link from early photography through to the first satellite images.

We (Alex & Lewis) run Fourteen Nineteen, a project set-up to explore and celebrate young photography through publishing, events & commissions.