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Kassel Photobook Award 2017 – The Experts Selection

Books Kassel Photobook Award 2017 Established in 2008, the Kassel Photobook Award reaches out to numerous distinguished professionals, asking them to select and provide a brief statement on a photobook of their choosing.

Kassel Photobook Award 2017 - The Experts Selection
Established in 2008, the Kassel Photobook Award reaches out to numerous distinguished photo-arts professionals, asking them to select and provide a brief statement on a photobook of their choosing. The post below highlights the books selected for the 2017 Award.

The Expert's Selection was made by Laia Abril, Martin Amis, Gerry Badger, Daniel Blaufuks, Tamara Berghmans, Pierre Bessard, David Campany, Chiara Capodici, Federica Chiocchetti, Rémi Coignet, Anatole Desachy, Yuan Di, Thobias Fäldt, John Gossage, Yumi Goto, Brian Griffin, Thomas Gust, Sebastian Hau, Rob Hornstra, Klara Källström, Volkan Kiziltunc, Eva-Maria Kunz, Jeffrey Ladd, Frederic Lezmi, Lesley Martin, Martin Parr, Markus Schaden, Markus Schaden, Willem van Zoetendaal, Laurence Vecten, Lars Willumeit, Zhang Xiao, Ekaterina Zueva, and Wolfgang Zurborn .

Find more information on the 2017 Kassel Photobook Award, click here.

Kassel Photobook Award 2017 - The Experts Selection:


Anaesthesia
By Valentina Abenavoli
Publisher: Akina Books
Selected by: Lars Willumeit







Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition.
By Edmund Clark and Crofton Black
Publisher: Aperture and Magnum Foundation
Selected by: Rob Hornstra

Read the review by George Slade on photo-eye Blog





I Loved My Wife (Killing Children Is Good For The Economy.)
By Dieter De Lathauwer
Publisher: Lecturis
Selected by: Tamara Berghmans





The Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland
By Leif Elggren and Carl Michael von Hausswolff
Publisher: Art and Theory Publishing
Selected by: Chiara Capodici




Gerard Petrus Fieret
By Gerard Petrus Fieret
Publisher: Editions Xavier Barral
Selected by: Willem van Zoetendaal






Schema
By Alexander Gronsky & Ksenia Babushkina
Publisher: Talka
Selected by: Ekaterina Zueva







The Jungle Book
By Jan Gross
Publisher: Aperture
Selected by: Yuan Di

Selected as one of the Best Books of 2016 by Cristina de Middel




ZZYZX
By Gregory Halpern
Publisher: MACK
Selected by: Martin Amis

Read the review by Adam Bell on photo-eye Blog
Selected as one of the Best Books of 2016 by Antone Dolezal, Moises Saman, and Sarah Bradley




Red Flower: The Women of Okinawa
By Mao Ishikawa
Publisher: Session Press
Selected by: Lesley Martin

Selected as Book of the Week by Keenan McCracken



Reason-Purpose
By Korhan Karaoysal
Publisher: MASA
Selected by:Volkan Kiziltunc


*Not currently available from photo-eye




Small Change
By Erik Kessels
Publisher: Kesselskramer
Selected by: Klara Källström and Thobias Fäldt







Highway Kind
By Justine Kurland
Publisher: Aperture
Selected by: John Gossage






Sugar Paper Theories
Jack Latham
Publisher: Here Press
Selected by: Laia Abril





One Sun, One Shadow
By Shane Lavalette.
Publisher: Lavalette
Selected by: Sebastian Hau

Read the review by Antone Dolezal on photo-eye Blog
Selected as one of the Best Books of 2016 by Larissa Leclair



Hollingshausen.
By Anne Lefevbre
Publisher: Pierre von Kleist
Selected by: Daniel Blaufuks







Hometowns
By John MacLean
Publisher: Self-Published
Selected by: Laurence Vecten






Zelle/Cell
By Arwed Messmer
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Selected by: Gerry Badger



Incoming
Richard Mosse
Publisher: Mack
Selected by: Markus Schaden


  

In Most Tides An Island
Nicholas Muellner
Publisher: Self Publish Be Happy
Selected by: David Campany





Withheld Due to
By Christof Nussli
Publisher: cpress
Selected by: Eva-Maria Kunz






BOMBA
Thomas Prior
Publisher: Self-published
Selected by: Jeffrey Ladd






Discordia
By Moises Saman
Publisher: Self-published
Selected by: Carlos Spottorno

Selected as one of the Best Books of 2016 by Forrest Soper





Ending
By Leif Sandberg
Publisher: Boecker Books
Selected by: Yumi Goto






Xian
By Thomas Sauvin
Publisher: Self-published
Selected by: Frederic Lezmi

Selected as one of the Best Books of 2016 by Daniel Boetker-Smith




La Grieta
By Carlos Spottorno and Guillermo Abril
Publisher: Astiberri Editions
Selected by: Rémi Coignet


*English Edition coming soon


Immorefugee
By Marco Tiberio
Publisher: defrost.ed
Selected by: Martin Parr





Parallel Encyclopedia #2
By Batia Suter
Publisher: Roma Publications
Selected by: Thomas Gust







Edit Beijing
Guy Tillim
Publisher: Editions Bessard
Selected by: Anatole Desachy




(Altre) Avventure di Pinocchio. 
By Lorenzo Tricoli.
Publisher: Skinnerboox
Selected by: Fererica Chiocchetti







Buzzing at the Sill
By Peter van Agtmael
Publisher: Kehrer Verlag
Selected by: Wolfgang Zurborn






Werker 2: A Spoken History of the Young Worker.
Marc Roig Blesa and Rogier Delfos
Publisher: Werker Magazine
Selected by: Brian Griffin



Ficciones
By Sun Yanchu
Publisher: Jiazazhi Press
Selected by: Zhang Xiao