The Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards is a yearly photography book award that is given jointly by

Paris Photo Paris Photo is an annual international art fair dedicated to photography. It was founded in 1997, and is held in November at the Grand Palais exhibition hall and museum complex, located at the Champs-Élysées in the 8th arrondissement in Pari ...

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Aperture Foundation Aperture Foundation is a nonprofit arts institution, founded in 1952 by Ansel Adams, Minor White, Barbara Morgan (photographer), Barbara Morgan, Dorothea Lange, Nancy Newhall, Beaumont Newhall, Ernest Louie, Melton Ferris, and Dody Warren. Their ...

. 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).

PhotoBook of the Year winners

*2012: ''City Diary (Volumes 1–3)'' by Anders Petersen (

Steidl Steidl is a German-language publisher based in Göttingen, Germany. Founded in 1968 by Gerhard Steidl, it publishes photobooks. Overview The company was started by Gerhard Steidl.Bill Kouwenhoven, "Off to see the wizard", ''British Journa ...

, 2012).Announcing the Winners of The Paris Photo—Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards 2013
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Rosângela Rennó Rosângela Rennó Gomes (Belo Horizonte, MG, 1962) is a Brazilian artist who lives and works in Rio de Janeiro. Her work consists of photographic images from public and private archives that question the nature of an image and its symbolic value. ...

(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 (born 1945) is a former American 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 College, Randolph Macon Woman' ...

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. The permanent collection of the museum spans more than 5,000 years of history with nearly 80,000 works from six continents. Follo ...

Yale University Press Yale University Press is the university press of Yale University. It was founded in 1908 by George Parmly Day and Clarence Day, grandsons of Benjamin Day, and became a department of Yale University in 1961, but it remains financially and ope ...

, 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/RVB Books, 2015). Special Jurors’ Mention was awarded to ''Deadline'' by Will Steacy (b.frank books, 2015). *2016: ''ZZYZX'' by Gregory Halpern ( 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, 2016). *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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, 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 ( Dewi Lewis Publishing, 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 :id:Fatris MF (Jordan, jordan Édition, Jakarta, Indonesia). *2022: ''Périphérique'' by

Mohamed Bourouissa Mohamed Bourouissa (born 1978) is an Algeria-born French photographer, based in Paris. In 2020 Bourouissa won the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize. His work is held in the collection of the Maison européenne de la photographie, Paris ...

(Loose Joints, Marseille, France) *2023: ''The Drawer'' by Vince Aletti (SPBH Editions, London)

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 Nicolò Degiorgis (born 1985) is an Italian visual artist, publisher, photographer, and curator. He runs Rorhof, an independent publishing house in Bolzano, Italy. He has self-published a number of books, including ''Hidden Islam'' (2014). ''Hidd ...

(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 (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, 2020). *2021:
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(Capricious, New York). *2022: ''Hafiz: Guardians of the Qur'an'' by Sabiha Çimen (Red Hook, 2021) *2023: ''Tender'' by Carla Williams (TBW Books, Oakland, California)

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, founded in 1879, is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the United States. The museum is based in the Art Institute of Chicago Building in Chicago's Grant Park (Chicago), Grant Park. Its collection, stewa ...

, 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 S ...

and nai010, 2017). *2018: ''The Land in Between'' by Ursula Schulz-Dornburg ( 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). *2022: ''Devour the Land: War and American Landscape Photography since 1970'' by Makeda Best (Yale University Press) *2023: ''The Public Life of Women: A Feminist Memory Project by'' Diwas Raja Kc and NayanTara Gurung Kakshapati (Nepal Picture Library / photo.circle, Kathmandu, Nepal)

References

External links

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Video introduction for the 2012 awards
with Chris Boot and Lesley Martin. {{DEFAULTSORT:Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards Photography awards Awards established in 2012 Photography in France Annual events in France