Monday, December 21, 2015

Best of 2015 Photobooks -- The Mega Meta List

56 different reviewer lists -- all in one place!!

The following is a summary of all the photobooks that were mentioned more than once in any of the 32 different lists aggregated by Phot(o)lia or the 24 additional lists on the Photo-Eye site.  The big take away from this exercise? Diversity rules. There is little consensus in the photobook world. Of the approximately 360 books listed, only about a quarter of them got more than one shout-out.

And here they are ...... (insert drum roll here).


Author Title

Phot(o)lia

Photo-Eye

Total

Mariela Sancari- Moisés

7

7

14

Thomas Sauvin – Until Death Do Us Part

7

6

13

Dana Lixenberg Imperial Courts

7

6

13

Alec Soth Songbook

8

5

13

Paul Kooiker – Nude Animal Cigar

5

6

11

Ron Jude Lago

5

5

10

Mariken Wessels – Taking Off. Henry My Neighbor

5

5

10

Laura El-Tantawy In The Shadow Of Pyramids

6

3

9

Will Steacy Deadline

7

1

8

Sohrab Hura Life Is Elsewhere

6

1

7

Daniel Mayrit  You Haven’t Seen Their Faces.

2

5

7

Doug Dubois My Last Day At Seventeen

2

4

6

Christian Patterson  Bottom Of The Lake.

2

4

6

Thom And Beth Atkinson / Missing Buildings

5

0

5

Newsha Tavakolian Blank Pages - Of An Iranian Photo Album

5

0

5

Ivars Gravlejs – Early Works

2

3

5

Geert Goiris - Prophet

4

1

5

Daisuke Yokota  – Taratine

4

1

5

Boris Mikhailov – Diary

1

4

5

Antony Cairns – Ldn Ei

3

2

5

Regine Petersen  Find A Fallen Star

3

1

4

Peter Mitchell  Some Thing Means Everything For Somebody

0

4

4

Paweł Szypulski – Greetings From Auschwitz

2

2

4

Mike Mandel – Good 70s

2

2

4

Matthew Connors - Fire In Cairo

2

2

4

Martin Parr And Wassinklundgren - The Chinese Photobook. From The 1900s To The Present

2

2

4

Keizo Kitajima  – Modoru Okinawa

3

1

4

Gillian Laub Southern Rites

3

1

4

Daisuke Yokota – Immerse

4

0

4

Annette Behrens (In Matters Of) Karl

4

0

4

Vincent Delbrouck: Dzogchen

2

1

3

Vicente Paredes   Pony Congo

0

3

3

Tr Ericsson   Crackle & Drag

0

3

3

Tiane Doan Na Champassak – Sunless

3

0

3

Shoji Ueda –  Ueda

2

1

3

Sally Mann   Hold Still

2

1

3

Phillip Toledano  When I Was Six

2

1

3

Mike Brodie – Tones Of Dirt And Bone

3

0

3

Mark Cohen  Frame

2

1

3

Kurt Caviezel – The Encyclopedia Of Kurt Caviezel

2

1

3

Katja Stuke – Nationalfeiertag

1

2

3

Katarzyna Mazur Anna Konda

2

1

3

Jh Engström    Tout Va Bien 

2

1

3

Henrik Malmström / Life Is One Live It Well

3

0

3

Gus Powell  The Lonely Ones 

1

2

3

Erik Kessels Unfinished Father –

3

0

3

David Campany - A Handful Of Dust

2

1

3

Christien Meindertsma & Mathijs Labadie  Bottom Ash Observatory

0

3

3

Catharine Maloney: Teleplay, Pt 1

2

1

3

Carlos Spottorno – Wealth Management

2

1

3

Andrew Moore  Dirt Meridian

3

0

3

Yuji Hamada – C/M/Y

1

1

2

Walker Evans  Depth Of Field

2

0

2

Visvaldas Morkevičius Public Secrets

1

1

2

Tomoko Sawada, Recruit

1

1

2

Todd Hido  – Khrystyna’s World

1

1

2

Timothy Prus – The Whale’s Eyelash

2

0

2

Sjoerd Knibbeler - Paper Planes

2

0

2

Sian Davey And Hannah Watson  Looking For Alice

2

0

2

Sanne Peper: Due To Lack Of Interest Tomorrow Has Been Cancelled.

1

1

2

Sam Harris   The Middle Of Somewhere

2

0

2

PJ Harvey / Seamus Murphy The Hollow Of The Hand

1

1

2

Patricia Almeida, David-Alexandre Guéniot – My Life Is Going To Change

1

1

2

Paolo Woods And Gabriele Galimberti The Heavens 

1

1

2

Olivia Arthur    Stranger

1

1

2

Michael Schmelling - My Blank Pages

1

1

2

Mazakazu Murakami  – Kumogakure Onsen (Reclusive Travels)

2

0

2

Matthew Porter Archipelago

2

0

2

Martin Toft – Atlantus

1

1

2

Lucy Helton – Transmission

1

1

2

Lotte Riemann  Jaunt

0

2

2

Kou Inose  – Complete Works

2

0

2

Kazuma Obara – Silent Histories

2

0

2

Katrien De Blauwer I Do Not Want To Disappear Silently Into The Night

2

0

2

Jesse Burke    Wild & Precious

1

1

2

Javier Viver  Révélations.

2

0

2

Jan Rosseel – Belgian Autumn

1

1

2

Jamey Stillings The Evolution Of Ivanpah Solar

2

0

2

James Mollison    Playground  

1

1

2

Indra Kumar Jha & Federico Carpani   Maa

0

2

2

Huger Foote – Now Here Then

1

1

2

Hajime Kimura – In Search Of Lost Memories

2

0

2

George Shiras  L’Intérieur De La Nuit.

1

1

2

Gabriela Maj Almond Garden

2

0

2

Eli Reed   A Long Walk Home

2

0

2

Dragana Jurisic Yu: The Lost Country

2

2

2

David Shields    War Is Beautiful

2

0

2

David Fathi  Anecdotal.

1

1

2

Danny Lyon  Conversations With The Dead

2

0

2

Coco Young – Vanity

1

1

2

Bruce Gilden   Face,

1

1

2

Brian Griffin – Himmelstrasse

1

1

2

Anne Morgenstern Land Ohne Mitte

2

0

2

André Penteado  Cabanagem

0

2

2

Alessandro Calabrese – Die Deutsche Punkinvasion

1

1

2