Aperture Foundation
Aperture Foundation is a nonprofit arts institution, founded in 1952 by Ansel Adams, Minor White, Barbara Morgan, Dorothea Lange, Nancy Newhall, Beaumont Newhall, Ernest Louie, Melton Ferris, and Dody Warren. Their vision was to create a forum fo ...
. It is announced at the Paris Photo fair and was established in 2012. The categories are First PhotoBook (with a $10,000 prize), Photography Catalogue of the Year, and PhotoBook of the Year.
The shortlisted books are displayed at Paris Photo and then tour to Aperture Gallery in New York and venues elsewhere (in 2013 they toured to Denmark, Ireland, Finland and Cincinnati, OH).
Steidl
Steidl is a German-language publisher, an international publisher of photobooks, and a printing company, based in Göttingen, Germany. It was started in 1968 by Gerhard Steidl and is still run by him.
Overview
The company was started by Gerha ...
Aperture Foundation
Aperture Foundation is a nonprofit arts institution, founded in 1952 by Ansel Adams, Minor White, Barbara Morgan, Dorothea Lange, Nancy Newhall, Beaumont Newhall, Ernest Louie, Melton Ferris, and Dody Warren. Their vision was to create a forum fo ...
. Accessed 1 August 2014.
*2013: ''A01 OD.19.1.1.43— A27 COD.23' by Rosângela Rennó (RR Edições, 2013). Special jury recognition was awarded to ''War/Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath'', edited by
Anne Wilkes Tucker
Anne Wilkes Tucker was an American museum curator of photographic works. She retired in June 2015.
Life and work
Tucker was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She received a B.A. in Art History from Randolph Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Vir ...
and Will Michels with Natalie Zelt (
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), is an art museum located in the Houston Museum District of Houston, Texas. With the recent completion of an eight-year campus redevelopment project, including the opening of the Nancy and Rich Kinder Build ...
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Yale University Press
Yale University Press is the university press of Yale University. It was founded in 1908 by George Parmly Day, and became an official department of Yale University in 1961, but it remains financially and operationally autonomous.
, Yale Universi ...
, 2012).
*2014: ''Imaginary Club'' by Oliver Sieber (Editions GwinZegal/BöhmKobayashi, 2013). Special mention was awarded to ''Photographs for Documents'' by Vytautas V. Stanionis (Kaunas Photography Gallery, 2013).
*2015: ''Illustrated People'' by Thomas Mailaender (
Archive of Modern Conflict
Archive of Modern Conflict (AMC) is an organisation and independent publisher based in Holland Park, London, England.
AMC was established in the early 1990s and maintains an archive of vernacular material relating to the history of war, primarily ...
/RVB Books, 2015). Special Jurors’ Mention was awarded to ''Deadline'' by Will Steacy (b.frank books, 2015).
*2016: ''ZZYZX'' by
Gregory Halpern
Gregory Halpern (born 1977) is an American photographer and teacher. He currently teaches at the Rochester Institute of Technology and is a nominee member of Magnum Photos.
Halpern has published a number of books of his own work; ''Zzyzx'' won Ph ...
( Mack, 2016). Special Jurors’ Mention was awarded to ''Taking Stock of Power: An Other View of the Berlin Wall'' by Annett Gröschner and Arwed Messmer (
Hatje Cantz
Hatje Cantz Verlag (English: Hatje Cantz Publishing) is a German book publisher specialising in photography, art, architecture and design. It was established in 1945 by Gerd Hatje
*2017: ''Museum Bhavan'' by
Dayanita Singh
Dayanita Singh (born 18 March 1961) is an Indian photographer whose primary format is the book. She has published fourteen books.
Singh's art reflects and expands on the ways in which people relate to photographic images. Her later works, draw ...
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Steidl
Steidl is a German-language publisher, an international publisher of photobooks, and a printing company, based in Göttingen, Germany. It was started in 1968 by Gerhard Steidl and is still run by him.
Overview
The company was started by Gerha ...
, 2017). Special Jurors’ Mention was awarded to ''La Grieta (The Crack)'' by Carlos Spottorno and Guillermo Abril (Astiberri Ediciones, 2016).
*2018: ''On Abortion'' by
Laia Abril
Laia Abril (born 1986) is a Catalan artist whose work relates to bio-politics, grief and women rights. Her books include ''The Epilogue'' (2014), which documents the indirect victims of eating disorders; and a long-term project ''A History of Misog ...
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Dewi Lewis Publishing Dewi may refer to either a Welsh or Southeast Asian name. Neither is pronounced as "dewy".
Welsh name
Dewi (, also or ) is an alternate or diminutive form of the Welsh masculine given name Dafydd ("David").
It is most famously borne by the p ...
, 2017).
*2019: ''The Coast'' by Sohrab Hura (UGLY DOG elf-published 2019).
*2020: ''Woman Go No’Gree'' by Gloria Oyarzabal (Editorial RM and Images Vevey, 2020).
*2021: ''The Banda Journal'' by Muhammad Faldi and Fatris MF (Jordan, jordan Édition, Jakarta, Indonesia).
First PhotoBook winners
*2012: ''Concresco'' by David Galjaard (Self-published, 2012).
*2013: ''KARMA'' by Óscar Monzón (RVB/Dalpine, 2013).
*2014: ''Hidden Islam'' by Nicolò Degiorgis (Rorhof, 2014).
*2015: ''You Haven’t Seen Their Faces'' by Daniel Mayrit (Riot, 2015).
*2016: ''Libyan Sugar'' by Michael Christopher Brown (Twin Palms, 2016).
*2017: ''Monsanto: A Photographic Investigation'' by
Mathieu Asselin
Mathieu Asselin (born 25 June 1973) is a French-Venezuelan photographer artist specializing in documentary photography and portraiture related to social issues. He is based in New York City.
In 2017 his book ''Monsanto: A Photographic Investigati ...
(Kettler, 2017).
*2018: ''One Wall a Web'' by Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa (Roma, 2018). Special Jurors’ Mention was awarded to ''Experimental Relationship Vol. 1'' by Pixy Liao (Jiazazhi, 2018).
*2019: ''The Eighth Day'' by Gao Shan (Imageless, 2019).
**Special Jurors' Mention was awarded to ''This World and Others Like It'' (Fw and Yoffy, 2019).
*2020: ''Living Trust'' by
Buck Ellison
Buck Ellison (born 1987) is an American visual artist, known for his photography. He lives and works in Los Angeles.
Biography
Buck Ellison was born in 1987 in San Francisco, California. He received a BA degree in German literature from Columbia ...
(Loose Joints Publishing, 2020).
*2021: ''Untitled'' by Sasha Phyars-Burgess (Capricious Publishing, New York).
Photography Catalogue of the Year winners
*2014: ''Christopher Williams: The Production Line of Happiness'' and ''Christopher Williams: Printed in Germany'' by Christopher Williams (
Art Institute of Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago's Grant Park, founded in 1879, is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the world. Recognized for its curatorial efforts and popularity among visitors, the museum hosts approximately 1.5 mill ...
, 2014) and (Walther König, 2014).
*2015: Diane Dufour and Xavier Barral for ''Images of Conviction: The Construction of Visual Evidence'' ( Xavier Barral and Le Bal, 2015).
*2016: ''Wojciech Zamecznik: Photo-graphics'' by Karolina Puchała-Rojek and Karolina Ziębińska-Lewandowska (Fundacja Archeologia Fotografii, 2015).
*2017: ''New Realities: Photography in the 19th Century'' by Mattie Boom and Hans Rooseboom (
Rijksmuseum
The Rijksmuseum () is the national museum of the Netherlands dedicated to Dutch arts and history and is located in Amsterdam. The museum is located at the Museum Square in the borough of Amsterdam South, close to the Van Gogh Museum, the St ...
and nai010, 2017).
*2018: ''The Land in Between'' by
Ursula Schulz-Dornburg
Ursula Schulz-Dornburg (born 1938) is a German photographer and artist known for the conceptual series (mostly black and white) photographs. She lives and works in Düsseldorf.
Schulz-Dornburg received the 2016 AIMIA AGO Photography Prize from t ...
( Mack, 2018).
*2019: ''Enghelab Street, A Revolution through Books: Iran 1979–1983'' by Hannah Darabi (Spector Books and Le Bal, 2019).
*2020: ''Imagining Everyday Life: Engagements with Vernacular Photography'' by Tina M. Campt, Marianne Hirsch, Gil Hochberg, and Brian Wallis, eds. (Walther Collection and Steidl, 2020).
*2021: ''What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women, 1843–1999'' by Russet Lederman and Olga Yatskevich, eds. (10×10 Photobooks, New York).
Chris Boot
Chris Boot (born 27 May 1960) is a British photography curator, book publisher, and has worked in a variety of other roles related to photography. He was director of London’s Photo Co-op, director of the London and New York offices of Magnum Pho ...