From an album of candid shots by Dennis Hopper to a study of the short-lived Zambian 60s space programme, here are 10 more of the year's top picture publications
A few weeks ago, I rounded up some of the best photobooks of 2012, but the ones I left out have been nagging at me ever since. There follows, in no particular order, a much more personal selection, most of which are still available.
Billy Monk: Nightclub Photographs, Dewi Lewis, £30
Alongside Lucas Foglia's A Natural Order, which I wrote about here, Billy Monk's Nightclub Photographs is perhaps my favourite photobook of 2012. From 1967 to 1969, Monk was a bouncer in the Catacombs, a sleazy nightclub in Cape Town. He was also an excellent amateur photographer, as this extraordinary book of intimate monochrome reportage shows.
Cristina de Middel: The Afronauts, self-published (sold out)
Though the first print run is long sold out and De...
A few weeks ago, I rounded up some of the best photobooks of 2012, but the ones I left out have been nagging at me ever since. There follows, in no particular order, a much more personal selection, most of which are still available.
Billy Monk: Nightclub Photographs, Dewi Lewis, £30
Alongside Lucas Foglia's A Natural Order, which I wrote about here, Billy Monk's Nightclub Photographs is perhaps my favourite photobook of 2012. From 1967 to 1969, Monk was a bouncer in the Catacombs, a sleazy nightclub in Cape Town. He was also an excellent amateur photographer, as this extraordinary book of intimate monochrome reportage shows.
Cristina de Middel: The Afronauts, self-published (sold out)
Though the first print run is long sold out and De...
- 12/21/2012
- by Sean O'Hagan
- The Guardian - Film News
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