Books 2019 Favorite Photobooks — Final Day Today is the final day of photo-eye's Favorite Photobooks, all 78 of our photobook VIPs' selections are now available to view on our website.

2019 Favorite Photobooks — Final Day

Today is the final day of photo-eye's Favorite Photobooks, all 78 of our photobook VIPs' selections are now available to view on our website.

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

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Mark Power's Favorite

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Sleep Creek
Dylan Hausthor & Paul Guilmoth

"A beautiful little book from the excellent Athens-based Void, this was my most exciting find at Paris Photo. Devoid of text, the book appears to blend fact, fiction, and myth, with pictures consistently strange and often difficult to read. [...] It’s a brave publication, but one which (I’m sure) will continue to reveal itself over time."

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Josef Chladek's Favorite

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Dein Kampf
Brad Feuerhelm

"Brilliant, from the first page to the last thanks (that goes to The Sisters of Mercy—how can anything be wrong with that?), shelved right on my Berlin-Olympus beside the masterworks of Michael Schmidt's Waffenruhe and John Gossage’s Stadt des Schwarz/Berlin in the Time of the Wall—it feels like a contemporary companion of those books."

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Rixon Reed's Favorite

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Lake Lahontan | Lake Bonneville

Michael Light

"Michael Light's sumptuous book of abstractions, made from above the North American Great Basin, is brilliant in concept and execution. Here, the scars that are made on our earth's surface by humans act as a semi-permanent record of how we treat our planet."

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Shane Lavalette's Favorite

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American Origami
Andres Gonzalez

"American Origami presents an unusual and moving reflection on the complexity of a seemingly endless cycle of gun violence in America—a timely publication that is visually striking, poetic, and painful."

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RVB Books' Favorite

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Richard Prince 1234/ Instagram Recordings
Richard Prince & Sébastien Girard

"I had already seen early dummies of it, but when I discovered the final version of the Instagram Recordings — 12 chronological books, each packaged in a unique record sleeve — two words came to mind: future classic!"

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Christopher J Johnson's Favorite

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Stages for Being
Ralph Eugene Meatyard

"Meatyard, an optometrist by trade, continues to show us that seeing is miracle, but seeing a photograph is the work of meditation."

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2019 Favorite Photobooks (to be continued)

  

Books 2019 Favorite Photobooks — Day Twelve We've asked internationally renowned experts and artists from the photobook world to choose just one book as their FAVORITE photobook of the year. Over the next several days we will be unveiling all of our photobook VIPs' favorites.

2019 Favorite Photobooks — Day Twelve

We've asked internationally renowned experts and artists from the photobook world to choose just one book as their FAVORITE photobook of the year. Over the next several days we will be unveiling all of our photobook VIPs' favorites.

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

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Michael Mack's Favorite

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were it not for
Michael Ashkin

"Over the past year or more, the most consistently stunning and challenging books have come out of Amsterdam, through the publishing of ROMA and fw:books. I could have selected a number of books by each of these publishers as my favourite of the year but settled on Michael Ashkin’s were it not for".

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Tim Carpenter's Favorite

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I wish the world was even
Matteo Di Giovanni

"Back in July, I wrote about the remarkable photobook I wish the world was even by Matteo Di Giovanni for the photo-eye blog. I loved it then, and my appreciation has only deepened in the months since."

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Miwa Susuda's Favorite

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Entropy

Ari Marcopoulos

"Marcopoulos’ photos are pervasive serenity, an oasis in a frenetic urban landscape. His work is a reminder of hope against all odds—a reminder that we can connect, that we can attain fleeting serendipity and even love in the face of apparent futility."

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Christian Patterson's Favorite

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Family Car Trouble
Gus Powell

"Family. Car. Trouble. Gus Powell’s masterful family photo novella. Beautiful, sad and bittersweet. Perfect. The Volvo cried, and I cried with it."

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Rafal Milach's Favorite

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EVOKATIV
Libuše Jarcovjáková

"EVOKATIV is a manifesto of personal freedom put against the political context of communist Czechoslovakia. Libuše Jarcovjáková is a strong female voice liberating both the body and space from the oppressive look."

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Karen Jenkins's Favorite

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Taken From Memory
Sheron Rupp

"To pass muster on porch and pathway; to weave through lines of laundry, cats and cars; to wait expectantly on a fish or a flower; to trace Sheron Rupp’s thirty-plus year journey to find home in another’s backyard is a wonder worth pursuing."

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2019 Favorite Photobooks (to be continued)

  

Books 2019 Favorite Photobooks — Day Eleven We've asked internationally renowned experts and artists from the photobook world to choose just one book as their FAVORITE photobook of the year. Over the next several days we will be unveiling all of our photobook VIPs' favorites.

2019 Favorite Photobooks — Day Eleven

We've asked internationally renowned experts and artists from the photobook world to choose just one book as their FAVORITE photobook of the year. Over the next several days we will be unveiling all of our photobook VIPs' favorites.

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

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Alec Soth's Favorite

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Family Car Trouble
Gus Powell

"2019 was a banner year for photobooks. Dozens of publications impressed me with their creative horsepower. But the one that touched me the most, Gus Powell’s Family Car Trouble, is as modest, sturdy and lovable as the 1993 Volvo it features."

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Mark Steinmetz's Favorite

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The Pillar
Stephen Gill

"The resulting images of birds (and one fox) are astonishing. Taken together, the photos evoke nature’s rhythms and the passage of time. The book is beautifully produced."

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Nick Waplington's Favorite

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CTY

Antony Cairns

"Using outmoded digital cameras from the early days of their inception combined with an acute knowledge of cutting-edge printing techniques, Cairns brings us into a world that could only exist in the computer-driven landscape of today."

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Dewi Lewis' Favorite

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Deceitful Reverence
Igor Pisuk

"A personal and bravely intimate journey from addiction to rehab, Deceitful Reverence explores vulnerability and fragility in a way that is open and honest, expressing the depth of a struggle to regain a true sense of personal identity and a place in the world."

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Andrew Fedynak's Favorite

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Sleep Creek
Dylan Hausthor & Paul Guilmoth

"In Sleep Creek, by Dylan Hausthor and Paul Guilmoth, we are taken on a journey through raw, unknown spaces of rural land — and of our minds."

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Eamonn Doyle's Favorite

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Ex-Voto
Alys Tomlinson

"Beautifully shot on large format film, the stunning black and white prints were one of my highlights of the Rencontres d'Arles Festival this year where it also very deservedly won this year's discovery award."

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2019 Favorite Photobooks (to be continued)

  

Books 2019 Favorite Photobooks — Day Ten We've asked internationally renowned experts and artists from the photobook world to choose just one book as their FAVORITE photobook of the year. Over the next several days we will be unveiling all of our photobook VIPs' favorites.

2019 Favorite Photobooks — Day Ten

We've asked internationally renowned experts and artists from the photobook world to choose just one book as their FAVORITE photobook of the year. Over the next several days we will be unveiling all of our photobook VIPs' favorites.

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

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Todd Hido's Favorite

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The Pillar
Stephen Gill

"Gill’s book affirms that the natural world is far more interesting than all the nonsense occurring in our world. Also, don't miss his previous book called Night Procession, another book with similar parameters to this."

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Larissa Leclair's Favorite

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Positive Disintegration
Tania Franco Klein

"The cinematic world of Tania Franco Klein is enticing; the dramatic lighting and saturated colors of her photographs draw us into such a disjointed and unsettling existence."

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Paula McCartney's Favorite

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Cloud Service

Batia Suter

"Batia Suter’s Cloud Service is my favorite book of the year because it reminds me of the joy of looking and the rewards of considering the interconnectedness of things. Like a song stuck in your head, once one becomes aware of a subject, it can be seen everywhere, in everything."

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Alex Webb's Favorite

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Animals
Sage Sohier

"Sage’s images—deeply sympathetic, often funny, sometimes tender, and occasionally dark—take the viewer into an enigmatic world where humans and their animals interact in strange and surprising ways, a world in which the pets and their owners all seem equally—and wonderfully—mysterious."

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Richard Renaldi's Favorite

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Midlife
Elinor Carucci

"Simultaneously looking in and out Carucci exquisitely navigates the joys and pains of aging with an exacting and fearless eye. Gratefully for myself, and perhaps any viewer at a similar age, paging through Midlife engenders a bit of catharsis."

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Colin Pantall's Favorite

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English Journey
John Angerson

"John Angerson’s English Journey is that rarest of things, a beautifully designed book that takes a critical look at English identity without resorting to cliché or regionalism."

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2019 Favorite Photobooks (to be continued)

  

Books 2019 Favorite Photobooks — Day Nine We've asked internationally renowned experts and artists from the photobook world to choose just one book as their FAVORITE photobook of the year. Over the next several days we will be unveiling all of our photobook VIPs' favorites.

2019 Favorite Photobooks — Day Nine

We've asked internationally renowned experts and artists from the photobook world to choose just one book as their FAVORITE photobook of the year. Over the next several days we will be unveiling all of our photobook VIPs' favorites.

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

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Bryan Schutmaat's Favorite

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The Pillar
Stephen Gill

"With a simple concept, Gill reveals the vibrancy of bird life as it has never been seen before. These wonderful pictures made me feel as though I was allowed into a hidden world not meant for human eyes. The Pillar is a pure delight and will not be forgotten."

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Ruben Lundgren's Favorite

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Inventions (1915-1938)
Luce Lebart

"Who can't enjoy the simple beauty of a taxi equipped with an anti-crushing device or a nice set of cloud projection disks from 1928? They are beautiful analogue reminders of innovative times. Its funny that now we are able to see these photos (besides their striking visual rigour) as moving, almost adorable and extremely funny."

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Tim Carpenter's Favorite

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I wish the world was even

Matteo Di Giovanni

"Back in July, I wrote about the remarkable photobook I wish the world was even by Matteo Di Giovanni for the photo-eye blog. I loved it then, and my appreciation has only deepened in the months since. In this book, the twin truths of longing and of thwarted desire somehow find precarious coexistence."

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Christian Patterson's Favorite

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Family Car Trouble
Gus Powell

"Family Car Trouble. Gus Powell’s masterful family photo novella. Beautiful, sad and bittersweet. Perfect. The Volvo cried, and I cried with it."

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Kevin Bond’s Favorite

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Elf Dalia
Maja Daniels

"Daniels’ photographs accompany Perrson’s archive from the century before her; their images are woven together with text from the language unique to this small town. The result reads like epic fiction, a mysterious fantasy coinciding with historical fact."

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Owen Kobasz's Favorite

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The Coast
Sohrab Hura

"Sohrab Hura’s fourth book, The Coast, is comprised of flash heavy, unsettling, absurd photographs. In these images, Hura uses metaphorical imagery to photograph the 'beating pulse' of the world he was living in."

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2019 Favorite Photobooks (to be continued)

  

Books 2019 Favorite Photobooks — Day Eight We've asked internationally renowned experts and artists from the photobook world to choose just one book as their FAVORITE photobook of the year. Over the next several days we will be unveiling all of our photobook VIPs' favorites.

2019 Favorite Photobooks — Day Eight

We've asked internationally renowned experts and artists from the photobook world to choose just one book as their FAVORITE photobook of the year. Over the next several days we will be unveiling all of our photobook VIPs' favorites.

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

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Raymond Meeks' Favorite

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I walk toward the sun which is always going down
Alan Huck

"Each wandering sojourn through I walk toward the sun… provides new revelations and discoveries. Quite simply, it’s the book I needed most and wish I’d made."

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Jeffrey Ladd's Favorite

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Berlin-Wedding, 1978
Michael Schmidt

"Before the arrival of his grand experiment Waffenruhe, Michael Schmidt was making books that, on their surface at least, appear to stay within the established lanes of photographic tradition."

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George Slade's Favorite

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There, There quarterly: Issue Two

Aspen Mays, Drew Nikonowicz, & John Mann

"My most exciting interaction with photobookworld, however, was in early October at the Silver Eye Book Fair, where I encountered a core sample of the dynamic scene of contemporary indie publishers and artist-driven books. The book that most intrigued me in Pittsburgh, however, is hardly a book at all..."

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Rudi Thoemmes' Favorite

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The Pillar
Stephen Gill

"On a visit to Narayana Press earlier this year, I was told about a photographer they recently had on press who was such a perfectionist that it took 12 days to print his book. Narayana wondered if I knew him since he also came from Bristol. Of course, I remembered Stephen, who gave a memorable talk at one of our photobook festivals and left a lasting impression."

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Maki’s Favorite

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In my mind there is never silence
Diego Moreno

"After his magnificent first book, Huesped, Diego Moreno came to this year's Arles photo festival with this new, astonishing, and limited photobook, which confirms the talent and depth of this Mexican photographer."

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Jeff Mermelstein's Favorite

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The Imperfect Atlas
Peter Funch

"A childlike excitement came over me in anticipation of the book, with some of the visual clues that the publisher displayed on the website. I started to think about my memory of the look of the 1970s color television screens. I contemplated the tragedy of global warming and how Funch communicates this profound issue in a way that utilizes an intelligence that is precise, inventive, playful, scientific, complex, surprising, telling and very much human."

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2019 Favorite Photobooks (to be continued)