Books 2018 Favorite Photobooks — Bonus Selection by Colin Pantall #90 of our series featuring the Favorite Photobooks of 2018! This year we asked a number of luminaries from the photobook world to select their favorite photobook of the year. Today features the 90th selection!"

2018 Favorite Photobooks — Bonus Selection by Colin Pantall

This year we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of our renowned listing of the year's best photobooks. To mark this milestone, we've decided to do something a bit different. We've asked 90 internationally recognized luminaries from the photobook world to choose their favorite photobook of the year. Their favorite book could be unforgettable for any number of reasons but the chosen books affected our selectors on a very personal level. These books led each of our contributors to conclude, "If there's one book not to miss this year, it would be this!"

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Today we offer a 90th selection by Colin Pantall!

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Colin Pantall's Favorite

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Landfall
Photographs by Mimi Plumb

“This book is the story of Sohrab Hura’s mother, her mental illness and her struggle to keep her house in order. Most of all though, it’s the story of her dog, Elsa, and their companionship. It’s a beautiful story, and a terribly sad one—Elsa dies in the end—played out against the backdrop of Ma’s messy house. And Hura’s photography, and its incidental intimacy, is part of that backdrop. It made me cry. I loved it.”

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Books 2018 Favorite Photobooks — Bonus Selection by Mark Steinmetz #89 of our series featuring the Favorite Photobooks of 2018! This year we asked a number of luminaries from the photobook world to select their favorite photobook of the year. Today features the 89th selection!"

2018 Favorite Photobooks — Bonus Selection by Mark Steinmetz

This year we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of our renowned listing of the year's best photobooks. To mark this milestone, we've decided to do something a bit different. We've asked 88 internationally recognized luminaries from the photobook world to choose their favorite photobook of the year. Their favorite book could be unforgettable for any number of reasons but the chosen books affected our selectors on a very personal level. These books led each of our contributors to conclude, "If there's one book not to miss this year, it would be this!"

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Today we offer an 89th selection by Mark Steinmetz!

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Mark Steinmetz's Favorite

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Landfall
Photographs by Mimi Plumb

“Landfall  by Mimi Plumb begins with a brief text:
‘I remember having insomnia for a time when I was 9 years old. My mother told me there might be nuclear war.’

“Made in the mid to late 1980s in black and white, the central recurring character of Landfall is a young girl. There's also a woman who might be her mother, a man who could be the father (and another man — an uncle perhaps), a boy who is possibly a brother. There are images of missiles, toy tanks, and military equipment. There are photographs of the Western desert landscape, the shoreline, barren trees and the burnt interior of a house. Plumb's flash turns hair into silver, and strikes carousel horses with gaping mouths (literal night mares). Sources of comfort are absent (an exception: the girl lying in bed with (I guess) her mother, though the sleeping mother has turned away). There's a vague dread hovering over this child's world; something dark may be approaching.”

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Books 2018 Favorite Photobooks — Day Eighteen Day 18 of our series featuring the Favorite Photobooks of 2018! This year we asked a number of luminaries from the photobook world to select their favorite photobook of the year. Today features our final selection!"

2018 Favorite Photobooks — Day 18

This year we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of our renowned listing of the year's best photobooks. To mark this milestone, we've decided to do something a bit different. We've asked 88 internationally recognized luminaries from the photobook world to choose their favorite photobook of the year. Their favorite book could be unforgettable for any number of reasons but the chosen books affected our selectors on a very personal level. These books led each of our contributors to conclude, "If there's one book not to miss this year, it would be this!"

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Today is our final day of favorites!

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Rixon Reed's Favorite

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The Castle
Photographs by Richard Mosse

"Richard Mosse's The Castle surfaces among this year's incredibly rich sea of photobooks as an extraordinary tour de force that perfectly blends exquisite design with hauntingly rich content. Published by MACK, London, the book's intricate inclusion of multiple gatefolds, richly printed using silver ink on black paper, meshes perfectly with Mosse's unusual exploration of life in temporary refugee encampments along migration routes from Central Asia and the Middle East to Europe."

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Books 2018 Favorite Photobooks — Day Sixteen Day 16 of our series featuring the Favorite Photobooks of 2018! This year we asked a number of luminaries from the photobook world to select their favorite photobook of the year. The list will continue to grow, so check back each day for a new group of favorite books!"

2018 Favorite Photobooks — Day 16

This year we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of our renowned listing of the year's best photobooks. To mark this milestone, we've decided to do something a bit different. We've asked 88 internationally recognized luminaries from the photobook world to choose their favorite photobook of the year. Their favorite book could be unforgettable for any number of reasons but the chosen books affected our selectors on a very personal level. These books led each of our contributors to conclude, "If there's one book not to miss this year, it would be this!"

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Check back daily to see a new group of favorite books!

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Matthew Genitempo's Favorite

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Past K-Ville
Photographs by Mark Steinmetz

"Castaways, spray painted testimonies, and young love all bound by a deep affection for the South. A profound reminder of our own desire and the shadows we throw upon the earth and one another. They’re just pictures, but pictures we can write into our own truths."

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Lesley A. Martin's Favorite

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Unwired
Photographs by Jacqueline Hassink

"Unwired epitomizes Hassink’s rigorous, research-driven process, juxtaposing a typology of tightly framed portraits of people lost in their devices and screens against a series of ‘White Spot’ landscapes from Iceland, Kenya, Germany, and the U.S., among other locations. Each of the landscapes depicts a site of 'non-connection' — places where cell-phone reception and digital data streams are nonexistent or purposefully blocked."

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Martin Parr's Favorite

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The Portraits
Photographs by John Myers

"John Myers, one of the great photographers from the UK who has been somewhat overlooked, is having this discrepancy corrected with this series of books from RRB publishers. The first features the wonderful portraits that Myers took in the 70s, many of which came from his original project, Middle England. These deadpan portraits...just sing off the page."

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Books 2018 Favorite Photobooks — Day Fifteen Day 15 of our series featuring the Favorite Photobooks of 2018! This year we asked a number of luminaries from the photobook world to select their favorite photobook of the year. The list will continue to grow over the next two weeks, so check back each day for a new group of favorite books!"

2018 Favorite Photobooks — Day 15

This year we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of our renowned listing of the year's best photobooks. To mark this milestone, we've decided to do something a bit different. We've asked 88 internationally recognized luminaries from the photobook world to choose their favorite photobook of the year. Their favorite book could be unforgettable for any number of reasons but the chosen books affected our selectors on a very personal level. These books led each of our contributors to conclude, "If there's one book not to miss this year, it would be this!"

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Dewi Lewis's Favorite

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Angst
Photographs by Soham Gupta

"As a publisher, I often come across books I admire, but only occasionally ones that I also wish I’d published. Soham Gupta’s Angst is certainly one of those. It’s not an easy book."

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Paul Graham's Favorite

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Index G
Photographs by Piergiorgio Casotti & Emanuele Brutti

"I first saw this book in Arles Rencontres — the 'books of the year' presentation was hidden on an upper floor, at the back of a local supermarket, in a room well over 100 degrees. I thumbed through as many as time & perspiration allowed, then went straight online to order this. Happy to own it."

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Christian Patterson's Favorite

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Pure Country
Photographs by Bill Sullivan

"The Russian composer Igor Stravinsky said, 'A good composer does not imitate; he steals.' The U.S. publisher S U N describes American artist Bill Sullivan's book Pure Country as an 'an epic romp through the history of color image making over the last century and a half.'"

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2018 Favorite Photobooks to date

Books 2018 Favorite Photobooks — Day Fourteen Day 14 of our series featuring the Favorite Photobooks of 2018! This year we asked a number of luminaries from the photobook world to select their favorite photobook of the year. The list will continue to grow over the next two weeks, so check back each day for a new group of favorite books!"

2018 Favorite Photobooks — Day 14

This year we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of our renowned listing of the year's best photobooks. To mark this milestone, we've decided to do something a bit different. We've asked 88 internationally recognized luminaries from the photobook world to choose their favorite photobook of the year. Their favorite book could be unforgettable for any number of reasons but the chosen books affected our selectors on a very personal level. These books led each of our contributors to conclude, "If there's one book not to miss this year, it would be this!"

Each day for the following two weeks we will publish additional titles selected by our distinguished group of photobook lovers. Subscribe to PhotoBookDaily to get our email announcements in advance!

Check back daily to see a new group of favorite books!

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David Campany's Favorite

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Landing Lights Park
Photographs by David Rothenberg

"Photographs shot from the ground of passengers looking out from the windows of planes in the air. But a book isn’t its description. These are remarkable and surprisingly moving photographs by David Rothenberg, full of alienation, pathos and good humor."

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Michael Wolf's Favorite

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American Interiors
Photographs by M L Casteel

"He does not show the veterans themselves; rather, he shows the effects of trauma only through details of the interiors of their cars: syringes, overflowing ashtrays, self-help guides, veterans' medical records—all haphazardly scattered on the seats."

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Carlo Brady's Favorite

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The Heavens
Photographs by Barbara Bosworth

"The Heavens provides a heartening look into the promises of longevous attention, positing awe as a corollary of repetition and intent. It also allowed me the space to enjoy wonderful allegories on the nature of photography and sighted meaning. A moving and generative work."

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2018 Favorite Photobooks to date

Books 2018 Favorite Photobooks — Day Thirteen Day 13 of our series featuring the Favorite Photobooks of 2018! This year we asked a number of luminaries from the photobook world to select their favorite photobook of the year. The list will continue to grow over the next two weeks, so check back each day for a new group of favorite books!"

2018 Favorite Photobooks — Day 13

This year we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of our renowned listing of the year's best photobooks. To mark this milestone, we've decided to do something a bit different. We've asked 88 internationally recognized luminaries from the photobook world to choose their favorite photobook of the year. Their favorite book could be unforgettable for any number of reasons but the chosen books affected our selectors on a very personal level. These books led each of our contributors to conclude, "If there's one book not to miss this year, it would be this!"

Each day for the following two weeks we will publish additional titles selected by our distinguished group of photobook lovers. Subscribe to PhotoBookDaily to get our email announcements in advance!

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Jim Goldberg's Favorite

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Blind Date
Photographs by Lieko Shiga

"Blind Date is a beautifully produced book that’s a joy to hold. When I first looked inside it, I was taken by the feeling that I was looking with Lieko through her viewfinder as the couples drove by, seeing the secret glances and intimate sensuality of two people riding on a small machine together as if for the first time."

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Larissa Leclair's Favorite

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Higher
Photographs by John Edmonds

"His book Higher includes four bodies of work, of which Hoods has transcended a historical exploration of how this clothing can cover vulnerability and provide security to now being explicitly part of the current dialogue of Black Lives Matter — wrapped in political meaning and right into the photo history books. Everyone should know his work."

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Owen Kobasz's Favorite

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Vivian Maier: The Color Work
Photographs by Vivian Maier

"The 150 some featured pictures are effectively a highlight reel. Through them, however, emerges a beautiful survey of one of the most interesting and important photographers to surface in the last decade."

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2018 Favorite Photobooks to date

Books 2018 Favorite Photobooks — Day Twelve Day 12 of our series featuring the Favorite Photobooks of 2018! This year we asked a number of luminaries from the photobook world to select their favorite photobook of the year. The list will continue to grow over the next two weeks, so check back each day for a new group of favorite books!"

2018 Favorite Photobooks — Day 12

This year we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of our renowned listing of the year's best photobooks. To mark this milestone, we've decided to do something a bit different. We've asked 88 internationally recognized luminaries from the photobook world to choose their favorite photobook of the year. Their favorite book could be unforgettable for any number of reasons but the chosen books affected our selectors on a very personal level. These books led each of our contributors to conclude, "If there's one book not to miss this year, it would be this!"

Each day for the following two weeks we will publish additional titles selected by our distinguished group of photobook lovers. Subscribe to PhotoBookDaily to get our email announcements in advance!

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Mary Frey's Favorite

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Manifest
Photographs by Kristine Potter

"In Kristine Potter’s marvelous book, Manifest, ideas of myth and romance that once were symbolized in landscapes of the American West are subtly intertwined with portraits of men who presently inhabit these places."

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Matthew Morrocco's Favorite

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Deana Lawson
Photographs by Deana Lawson

"Deana Lawson has been one of my favorite artists for a long time. She shows things with stark clarity as well as care and attention to detail — a rare, important, and unique combination in contemporary photography. There is no one like her."

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Kevin Bond's Favorite

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A Bleak Reality
Photographs by Kris Graves

"NotWrong is a project that works with photographic artists to illustrate stories of gentrification, race, power, and discrimination. In times like the present, where one horrendous act replaces another on an almost daily basis, it’s important that some of these atrocities are collected into something that won’t be easily forgotten."

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Janelle Lynch's Favorite

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The Heavens
Photographs by Barbara Bosworth

"Sublime color and black-and-white images of the sun, moon, and sky that Bosworth made with her 8x10 camera using long exposures or in combination with a telescope, are timely — if not urgent — reminders of the possibility to cultivate wonder and perspective."

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Ron Jude's Favorite

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In The Vicinity
Photographs by Ed Panar

"With a perfect balance of sincerity and levity, Panar helps us see the endearing qualities in our folly in a region whose off-the-grid economy provides an incredible visual blend of wilderness and burnout culture."

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Richard Renaldi's Favorite

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Jasper
Photographs by Matthew Genitempo

"Genitempo portrays a remote territory seemingly neglected by time and circumstance, fully insulated from its centrality in a prosperous nation. Except for the occasional glimpse of a rusty truck or a broken down trailer, the images in Jasper reveal a landscape that has barely changed in over a century."

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2018 Favorite Photobooks (to be continued)

Books 2018 Favorite Photobooks — Day Eleven Day 11 of our 14-day series featuring the Favorite Photobooks of 2018! This year we asked a number of luminaries from the photobook world to select their favorite photobook of the year. The list will continue to grow over the next two weeks, so check back each day for a new group of favorite books!"

2018 Favorite Photobooks — Day 11

This year we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of our renowned listing of the year's best photobooks. To mark this milestone, we've decided to do something a bit different. We've asked 88 internationally recognized luminaries from the photobook world to choose their favorite photobook of the year. Their favorite book could be unforgettable for any number of reasons but the chosen books affected our selectors on a very personal level. These books led each of our contributors to conclude, "If there's one book not to miss this year, it would be this!"

Each day for the following two weeks we will publish additional titles selected by our distinguished group of photobook lovers. Subscribe to PhotoBookDaily to get our email announcements in advance!

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Jeffrey Ladd's Favorite

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Pure Country
Photographs by Bill Sullivan

"Using the early color photographs by the Russian photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) as a starting point, the photographer/artist Bill Sullivan weaves a culture blending narrative of the westward expansion of the United States in his new book Pure Country."

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Kevin Messina's Favorite

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Studio Volta Photo
Photographs by Sanlé Sory

"2018 has been a difficult year, not just for me personally, but it seems, for the whole world. When I encountered this book at the New York Art Book Fair in September, it immediately made me feel happy, and meeting and talking with its exceptional designer, Sébastien Girard, only intensified the effect."

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Nick Waplington's Favorite

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Deana Lawson
Photographs by Deana Lawson

"This book is far and away my favorite of the year — I have two copies, one in New York and one in London, so I can show it to people in either place. On the surface, this seems like a simple book: a series of strong color portraits each of which is a work in its own right. Grouped together, however, they become something more."

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2018 Favorite Photobooks (to be continued)

Books 2018 Favorite Photobooks — Day Ten Day 10 of our 14-day series featuring the Favorite Photobooks of 2018! This year we asked a number of luminaries from the photobook world to select their favorite photobook of the year. The list will continue to grow over the next two weeks, so check back each day for a new group of favorite books!"

2018 Favorite Photobooks — Day 10

This year we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of our renowned listing of the year's best photobooks. To mark this milestone, we've decided to do something a bit different. We've asked 88 internationally recognized luminaries from the photobook world to choose their favorite photobook of the year. Their favorite book could be unforgettable for any number of reasons but the chosen books affected our selectors on a very personal level. These books led each of our contributors to conclude, "If there's one book not to miss this year, it would be this!"

Each day for the following two weeks we will publish additional titles selected by our distinguished group of photobook lovers. Subscribe to PhotoBookDaily to get our email announcements in advance!

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Alejandro Cartagena's Favorite

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Ghost Guessed
Text by Tom Griggs and Paul Kwiatkowski

"Through text and image, this book takes us on a journey of grief over the loss of a loved one, through the chaotic and rambling feelings mixed into the process. The book asks of us to let go of looking for specific answers about what "it's about" and drags us down a spiral of incertitude that slowly, like a movie, develops into an experience of the issue itself."

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Miwa Susuda's Favorite

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Higher
Photographs by John Edmonds

"John Edmonds' work is born from a unique mythology. In this sense, Higher could be considered the bible of his kingdom. Through the symbolic compositions of color and subject in his portrait series Hoods, Du-rags, and Tribe, Edmonds challenges us to consider an alternative perspective of the subjects presented. "

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Collier Brown's Favorite

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Series of Dreams
Edited by Russell Joslin

"Dreams are delicate and elusive. The bridges they form between themselves, one night to the next, are made of mist and drizzle. Nevertheless, they carry the weight of so much great art."

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Laura André's Favorite

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Real Life Dramas
Photographs and text by Mary Frey

"Last year, I chose Mary Frey's 2017 book, Reading Raymond Carver, as one of my Best Books because it captivated me on a variety of levels. Likewise, her latest publication, Real Life Dramas, is full of beguiling images that—for me—are by turns nostalgic, uncanny, humorous, bizarre, joyful, poignant, and embarrassing. Some images are all of these."

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Rafal Milach's Favorite

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Human
Photographs by Arion Gabor Kudasz

"Kudasz uses the human body and deformed brick modules to set the new hierarchy, which can be perceived as a metaphor of the shift in fundamental values that Hungary and other countries in Eastern Europe are facing today."

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Nathaniel Grann's Favorite

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Khichdi (Kitchari)
Photographs by Nick Sethi

"Nick Sethi’s Khichdi (Kitchari) is one of the most heartfelt books I’ve come across in awhile. At first, experiencing this book can feel a bit overwhelming, as it is made up of hundreds (if not thousands) of photographs from Sethi’s travels through India and features a different layout on each page; nested inside, though, is a sincere look at and celebration of the country and people he has come to know through his work."

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2018 Favorite Photobooks (to be continued)