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Showing 1–17 of 17 books
teNeues · Photography
Marsel van Oosten
Van Oosten works at the scale of a single subject: one elephant, one waterfall, one tree. In a 270 x 360mm format, printed by teNeues, that turns out to be quite enough.
Hatje Cantz · Photography
Nick Brandt, Zoë Lescaze and 1 other
The photographs in this book should not exist. Nick Brandt somehow made them anyway, entirely in-camera, on the ocean floor off Fiji.
Phaidon · Architecture
Álvaro Siza, Duccio Malagamba
Siza at 91, choosing his own twenty. Malagamba's photographs and the architect's hand drawings together make the case for why the work still matters.
teNeues · Photography
Elliott Erwitt, Thomas Hoepker and 5 others
Seven decades of New York, fourteen photographers, one XXL slipcase. The range is the point.
Phaidon · Architecture
Diller Scofidio + Renfro, 2x4 and 2 others
A studio monograph that is itself a work of design: two conjoined volumes, 792 pages, and four decades of work that refuses to stay inside architecture.
Gestalten · Architecture
Marianne Julia Strauss
A wide-angle survey of 50 sacred sites across five continents, arranged by ambition rather than faith: exactly what it is, and worth having on a table where visitors with different backgrounds will all find something familiar.
Aperture · Photography
Pauline Vermare, Lesley A. Martin and 5 others
The most comprehensive English-language survey of Japanese women's photography to date, and unusual for a picture book in having the scholarly translations to support that claim.
Aperture · Photography
Tina Barney, Quentin Bajac and 2 others
Barney's three decades of large-format portraits of the New England upper class, organised thematically and accompanied by serious critical texts, published to coincide with her first European retrospective at Jeu de Paume.
Hatje Cantz · Photography
Nick Brandt, Zoë Lescaze and 1 other
Three volumes of large-format photography that place the human and animal costs of climate change in the same frame, built with unusual methodological rigour and issued as a properly substantial physical object.
Gestalten · Architecture
Ricardo Bofill, Pablo Bofill and 3 others
A serious monograph on one of the twentieth century's most architecturally unclassifiable figures, updated with photography that earns its place alongside the buildings.
MACK · Photography
David Armstrong, Colleen Doyle
Armstrong's contact prints show how much he was watching: what he caught between sessions, what got filed away, and who was around. The first posthumous catalogue of his work, reproduced at 1:1 scale, makes the case for everything he did not exhibit.
Abrams · Photography
Richard Avedon, Laura Wilson and 1 other
Avedon went west for five years and photographed working people against a portable white background. Forty years on, the same 103 images arrive in the same trim size. The argument about whether he should have made them is still unresolved.
Gestalten · Architecture
Norm Architects, Jonas Bjerre-Poulsen and 2 others
A Copenhagen studio documents a decade of Japan travel with real intelligence; the photographs are quieter than most architecture books, and the book is better for it.
Gestalten · Architecture
Sam Lubell
A case for American architecture as an act of resistance: 150 years of buildings that pushed back against whatever style everyone else was doing, in 288 pages of full-colour photography.
MACK · Photography
Steve McQueen, Dionne Brand and 1 other
McQueen photographs Grenada's flowers without flattening them into symbols, and the book holds together as both an object and an argument. Irma Boom's design is part of what makes it work.
Phaidon · Design & Type
Deyan Sudjic, Karen Stein and 1 other
An authoritative account of the company that turned a Swiss shopfitter's encounter with an Eames chair in 1950 into one of the world's more consequential design operations — dense with archival material and well worth the shelf space.
Phaidon · Architecture
Tadao Ando, Richard Pare and 1 other
Nearly three decades after *The Colours of Light*, this second instalment documents Ando's mature work as Pare has always understood it — in silence, and with the light exactly where Ando intended it.