PHOTOBOOK AWARDS 2017 : THE SHORTLIST
Sept 22, 2017
ANNOUNCING THE SHORT LIST FOR THE 2017 PARIS PHOTO–APERTURE FOUNDATION PHOTOBOOK AWARDS
New York, September 22, 2017
This year’s shortlist selection was made by Christoph Wiesner (Artistic Director, Paris Photo), Lesley A. Martin (Creative Director of the Aperture Foundation book program and of The PhotoBook Review), Gregory Halpern’s ZZYZX (who won the Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook of the Year Award in 2016), Joel Smith (the Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York) and Kathy Ryan (the longtime director of photography at the New York Times Magazine).
The winners are to be announced at Paris Photo on November 10, 2017. The thirty-five selected photobooks will be profiled in The PhotoBook Review, issue 013.
Initiated in November 2012 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 three major categories: First PhotoBook, PhotoBook of the Year, and Photography Catalogue of the Year.
SHORT-LISTED TITLES FOR CATALOGUE OF THE YEAR
Brassaï: Graffiti, Le Langage du Mur
Karolina Ziebinska-Lewandowska
Éditions Xavier Barral
CLAP! 10x10 Contemporary Latin American Photobooks: 2000–2016
Olga Yatskevich, Russet Lederman, and Matthew Carson
10x10 Photobooks
Diary of a Leap Year
Rabith Mroué
Kunsthalle Mainz and Kapth Books
Hans Eijkelboom: Photo Concepts 1970
Gabriele Conrath-Scholl, Wim van Sinderen, Gerrit Willems and Dieter Roelstraete
Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbH
New Realities: Photography in the 19th Century
Mattie Boom, Hans Rooseboom
Rijiksmuseum/Nai
SHORT-LISTED TITLES FOR PHOTOBOOK OF THE YEAR
Anne Golaz
Corbeau
MACK
Jim Goldberg
The Last Son
SUPER LABO
Nicholas Muellner
In Most Tides an Island
SPBH Editions
Mark Neville
Fancy Pictures
Steidl
Alison Rossiter
Expired Paper
Radius Books and Yossi Milo Gallery
Paul Scheik, ed.
Mike Mandel, Susan Meiselas, Bill Burke, and Lee Friedlander
Subscription Series No. 5
TBW Books
Dayanita Singh
Museum Bhavan
Steidl
Carlos Spottorno and Guillermo Abril
La Grieta (The Crack)
Astiberri Ediciones
Erik van der Weijde
This Is Not My Book
Spector Books
Henk Wildschut
Ville de Calais
Self-published
SHORT-LISTED TITLES FOR FIRST PHOTOBOOK
Mathieu Asselin
Monsanto: A Photographic Investigation
Verlag Kettler
Zackary Canepari
REX
Contrasto Books
Teju Cole
Blind Spot
Penguin Random House
Sam Contis
Deep Springs
MACK
Debi Cornwall
Welcome to Camp America, Inside Guantánamo Bay
Radius Books
Albert Elm
What Sort of Life Is This
The Ice Plant
Mary Frey
Reading Raymond Carver
Peperoni Books
Jenia Fridlyand
Entrance to Our Valley
Self-published
Darren Harvey-Regan
The Erratics
RVB Books
Karoline Hjorth and Riitta Ikonen
Eyes As Big As Plates
Forlaget Press
Dawn Kim
Creation.IMG
Self-published
Laura Larson
Hidden Mother
Saint Lucy Books
Feng Li
White Night
Jiazazhi Press
Cecil McDonald Jr.
In the Company of Black
Candor Arts
Virginie Rebetez
Out of the Blue
Meta/Books
Claudius Schulze
State of Nature
Hartmann Books
Nadya Sheremetova, ed.
With Alexey Bogolepov, Margo Ovcharenko, Irina Ivannikova, Anastasia Tsayder, Igor Samolet, Yury Gudkov, Olya Ivanova, Irina Zadorozhnaia, Anastasia Tailakova, and Irina Yulieva.
Amplitude No.1
FotoDepartment
Senta Simond
Rayon Vert
Self-published
Alnis Stakle
Melancholic Road
Self-published
Mayumi Suzuki
The Restoration Will
Self-published