Every year, we select photo books for the holiday season and New Year. This is a time to treat yourself or give someone else a photo book, which we believe to be the ultimate form of photographic work. We support photographers and publishers in promoting artists who we believe are important and deserve your attention. We follow our editorial and curatorial guidelines, embracing our tastes and our independence.
- Trent Parke Monument – Published by Stanley / Barker
Trent Parke’s landmark publication Monument is a portal through which we bear witness to the disintegration of the universe. Across 294 pages, Parke gathers images from decades of work and reimagines them as a single vision: a cosmos trembling at the edge of collapse, where light flares and fades, where bodies blur and vanish, where beauty appears in the very act of disintegration. Monument is at once archive and prophecy, disappearance and arrival, a book that presses us to face the truth of what it means to be here for only a moment.
2. Marjolein Martinot, Riverland – Published by Stanley / Barker
During times of darkness and moments of deep turmoil in her personal life, Dutch photographer and mother of six, Marjolein Martinot, found herself lost, searching for a renewed sense of self. Each evening, she sought solace in nature, walking to a nearby river in the South of France with her camera in hand. There, she captured the quiet beauty of the natural world in the golden light of dusk, forming connections with the animals and families she en- countered at the river’s edges—jumping, splashing, climbing, and swinging from the trees.
3. You Are What You Do, a monograph by Daniel Arnold – Published by Losse Joints
Arnold’s pursuit of the human moment reveals an artist of emotional range in a city alive with contradiction and complexity. Loose Joints is proud to present You Are What You Do, a monograph by Daniel Arnold — one of New York’s most renowned and obsessive modern street photographers. Over the past fifteen years, Arnold has become a cult figure in the city’s visual culture, known for his raw, humanistic encounters with its citizens and for collaborations spanning from the Safdie brothers to the Met Gala and beyond.
4. North North South by Ayda Gragossian – Published by GOST
‘In Los Angeles, what do you see when you are not moving at 60 mph?’Los Angeles is a constantly shifting, fragmented city with a landscape that is both navigated and determined by the car. To create the photographs in her forthcoming book—North North South— the Iranian American artist Ayda Gragossian wandered through different areas of the city. She documented the spaces, objects, and textures that are often overlooked when life is in constant motion.
5. Spina Americana by Richard Sharum – Published by GOST
Driven by both national and personal anxiety about the current divisions in the US, photographer Richard Sharum embarked on a journey through the central ‘spine’ of America. He was in search of the unifying elements of contemporary American ‘national character’. Focusing on a 100 mile-wide corridor down the geographic centre of the US encompassing parts of the Dakotas, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas—an area often dismissed as ‘flyover’ country—Sharum spoke to more than 4000 people and took over 14000 photographs. His aim was to see if this region could hold the key to a better understanding of who America still is as a country and what remains of the collective hope of a unified nation.
6. Misr. Egypt by Denis Dailleux – Published by Le bec en l’air
Misr is the Arabic name for Egypt. Since 1992, Denis Dailleux has been tirelessly photographing this country, taking an interest in both the hustle and bustle of Cairo and the tranquillity of Upper and Lower Egypt. His total immersion has given him access to scenes of daily life, in the street, in cafés and on the banks of the Nile, to family and religious celebrations and also within intimate spheres. This book brings together both his most symbolic Egyptian photographs and previously unpublished images rediscovered for the occasion. It is accompanied by texts by Christian Caujolle. Cover and afterword by Christian Lacroix.
7. Ernest Cole: The True America – published by Aperture
The first publication of Ernest Cole’s photographs depicting Black lives in the United States during the turbulent and eventful late 1960s and early 1970s.
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