Michael Christopher Brown won the 2016 First PhotoBook Award for Libyan Sugar printed by Twin Palms Publishers, Santa Fe, NM, 2016.
Gregory Halpern won the 2016 PhotoBook of the Year award for ZZYZX printed by MACK, London, 2016.
Karolina Puchała-Rojek and Karolina Ziębińska-Lewandowska won the 2016 Photography Catalogue of the Year Award for Wojciech Zamecznik: Photo-graphics published by Fundacja Archeologia Fotografii, Warsaw, 2015. This title is now out-of-print and unavailable.
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| Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards |
The selections were made by Ann-Christin Bertrand, Curator, C/O Berlin; David Campany, independent curator and writer; Lesley A. Martin, Creative Director, Aperture Foundation and Publisher, The PhotoBook Review; Becky Senf, Phoenix Art Museum and Center for Creative Photography, Tucson; and Christoph Wiesner, Artistic Director, Paris Photo.
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PhotoBook of the Year:
ZZYZX
Photographs by Gregory Halpern
The pictures in this book begin in the desert east of Los Angeles and move west through the city, ending at the Pacific. This general westward movement alludes to a thirst for water, as well as the original expansion of America, which was born in the East and which hungrily drove itself West until reaching the Pacific, thereby fulfilling its “manifest” destiny.
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| Libyan Sugar. By Michael Christopher Brown. Twin Palms Publishers, 2016. |
First PhotoBook Award:
Libyan Sugar
Photographs by Michael Christopher Brown
Centered around the 2011 Libyan Revolution, Libyan Sugar is a road trip through a war zone, detailed through photographs, journal entries, and written communication with family and colleagues. A record of Michael Christopher Brown's life both inside and outside Libya during that year, the work is about a young man going to war for the first time and his experience of that age-old desire to get as close as possible to a conflict in order to discover something about war and something about himself-perhaps a certain definition of life and death.
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| Wojciech Zamecznik: Photo-graphics By Karolina Puchala-Rojek and Karolina Ziebinska-Lewandowska. Fundacja Archeologia Fotografii, 2015. |
Photography Catalogue of the Year:
Wojciech Zamecznik: Photo-graphics
By Karolina Puchala-Rojek and Karolina Ziebinska-Lewandowska
In the years 1940-42 Zamecznik studied at the Department of Interior Design of the High School for Building Engineering in Warsaw. During the Second World War he frequented clandestine classes at the Architecture Department of the Warsaw Polytechnic. He was a prisoner in the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. Between 1945 and 1947 he worked as a graphic designer at the Bureau for the Reconstruction of Warsaw.
This title is sold-out from the publisher.
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Parallel Encyclopedia #2
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Photography Catalogue of the Year Runners Up:
A Handful of Dust.
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Selected as one of the Best Books of 2015 by Rafal Milach
*David Campany recused himself from the shortlist jury’s discussions of this title.
Moholy-Nagy: Future Present.
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Robert Mapplethorpe: The Archive.
Robert Mapplethorpe
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Werker 2: A Spoken History of the Young Worker.
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