Todd Hido, photographer and photobook maker greeted an eager crowd at the New York Art Book Fair on Friday, September 26 to announce the thirty-five outstanding photobooks short listed for the 2014 Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards, supported by Amana / IMA Magazine.
Initiated in November 2011, by Aperture Foundation and Paris Photo, the Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards celebrate the photobook’s contribution to the evolving narrative of photography, with two major categories: First PhotoBook and PhotoBook of the Year. This year, the Awards introduced a brand-new third category, Photography Catalogue of the Year. In 2013, First PhotoBook was awarded to KARMA by Óscar Monzón (RVB Books/Dalpine), and PhotoBook of the Year went to A01 [COD.19.1.1.43] — A27 [S | COD.23] by Rosângela Rennó.
This year’s short list selection was made by Julien Frydman, director of Paris Photo; Todd Hido, Lesley A. Martin, publisher of the Aperture book program and of The PhotoBook Review; Mutsuko Ota, editorial director of IMA magazine; and Anne Wilkes Tucker, photography curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
The ten short listed titles for PhotoBook of the Year are:
The Big Book
Photographer: W. Eugene Smith
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Rich and Poor
Photographer: Jim Goldberg
Publisher: Steidl
Disco Night Sept. 11
Photographer: Peter van Agtmael
Publisher: Red Hook Editions
Marrakech
Photographer: Daido Moriyama
Publisher: SUPER LABO
Photographs for Documents
Photographer(s): Vytautas V. Stanionis
Publisher: Kaunas Photography Gallery
Ponte City
Photographers: Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse
Publisher: Steidl
Vertigo
Photographer(s): Daisuke Yokota
Publisher: Newfave
Imaginary Club
Photographer(s): Oliver Sieber
Publisher: Editions GwinZegal/BöhmKobayashi
The Winners
Photographer(s): Rafal Milach
Publisher: GOST
The Arrangement
Photographer(s): Ruth van Beek
Publisher: RVB Books
The twenty short listed titles for First Photobook are:
everything will be ok
Photographer: Alberto Lizaralde
Publisher: Self-published
Synonym Study
Photographer: Nico Krijno
Publisher: Self-published
The Meteorite Hunter
Photographer: Alexandra Lethbridge
Publisher: Self-published
Father Figure: Exploring Alternative Notions of Black Fatherhood
Photographer: Zun Lee
Publisher: Ceiba
19.06_26.08.1945
Photographer: Andrea Botto
Publisher: Danilo Montanari
Miklós Klaus Rózsa
Photographer: Christof Nüssli and Christoph Oeschger
Publisher: Cpress/Spectorbooks
ED IT: The Substantial System for Photographic Archive Maintenance
Authors: Ola Lanko, Brigiet van den Berg, Nikki Brörmann, Simone Engelen, Sterre Sprengers Publisher: Self-published
Back to the Future
Photographer: Irina Werning
Publisher: Self-published
Inventio
Photographer(s): Yann Haeberlin
Publisher: Self-published
Euromaidan
Photographer(s): Vladyslav Krasnoshchok and Sergiy Lebedynskyy
Publisher: Riot Books
Silent Histories
Photographer: Kazuma Obara
Publisher: Self-published
Hidden Islam
Photographer: Nicoló Degiorgis
Publisher: Rorhof
Sequester
Photographer: Awoiska van der Molen
Publisher: Fw: Books
The American Series
Photographer: Oskar Schmidt
Publisher: Distanz
Fractal State of Being
Photographer: Sara Skorgan Teigen
Publisher: Journal
Spasibo
Photographer: Davide Monteleone
Publisher: Kehrer Verlag
Red String
Photographer: Yoshikatsu Fujii
Publisher: Self-published
War Porn
Photographer: Christoph Bangert
Publisher: Kehrer Verlag
Jannis
Photographer: Alma Cecilia Suarez
Publisher: Self-published
Photograph
Photographer: Yuji Hamada
Publisher: Lemon Books
The five short listed titles for Photography Catalogue of the Year are:
Photobooks: Spain 1905–1977
Photographers: Multiple
Publisher: Editorial RM
Christopher Williams: Printed in Germany
Photographer: Christopher Williams
Publisher: Walther König/David Zwirner
Christopher Williams: The Production Line of Happiness
Photographer: Christopher Williams
Publisher: Art Institute of Chicago
Dark Knees
Photographer: Mark Cohen
Publisher: Le Bal/Éditions Xavier Barral
Tsunami, Photographs, and Then: Lost and Found Project
Photographer: Munemasa Takahashi
Publisher: AKAAKA
The Catalogue Box
Photographers: Multiple
Publisher: Verlag Kettler/The PhotoBook Museum
The thirty-five selected photobooks will be exhibited at Paris Photo in the Publishers Space. After Paris Photo, the exhibition will travel to Aperture Gallery in New York from December 13, 2014–January 29, 2015 and will tour after to the IMA Concept store and gallery in Tokyo from December 9, 2014–January 18, 2015, as well as other venues to be determined.
They short listed books will also be profiled in issue 007 of The Photobook Review, Aperture’s biannual publication dedicated to the consideration of the photobook, to be released in November 2014 at Paris Photo. Copies will be also be available at Aperture Gallery and Bookstore, as well as distributed with Aperture magazine and through other distribution partners.
The short list is also available at Aperture Foundation’s web site at www.aperture.org/photobookawards/ and Paris Photo’s web site at www.parisphoto.com.
A final jury in Paris will select the winners for all three prizes, which will be revealed at Paris Photo on November 14, 2013. The winner of First PhotoBook will be awarded $10,000.
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PhotoBook Awards 2014 Short List appeared first on Aperture Foundation NY.