Selections from the 2022 PhotoBook Awards Shortlist | Aperture PhotoBook Club

Initiated in November 2012 by Aperture and Paris Photo, the Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards celebrate the photobook’s contribution to the evolving narrative of photography, with three major categories: First PhotoBook, PhotoBook of the Year, and Photography Catalogue of the Year.

For the February Aperture PhotoBook Club gathering, Aperture executive director Sarah Meister joined the shortlist jury members—Clinton Cargill, Lesley A. Martin, Miwa Susuda, Brian Wallis, and Leslie M. Wilson—to discuss the 2022 winning titles and selections from the shortlist.

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This conversation was originally streamed on Wednesday, February 1, 2023.

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Footnotes:

READ
The full Shortlist includes thirty-five titles from an international cohort of publishers. We featured only nine in this conversation—a nice teaser! Learn about all the titles (including the Special Juror’s Mention: PhotoBooks for Ukraine) and draw your own conclusions about the state of the photobook here: https://aperture.org/editorial/announ...

VISIT
Show extended! All thirty-five photobooks from the 2022 Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards Shortlist are on view at Printed Matter now through March 12 before traveling internationally. See them now and appreciate the physicality of the work in person: https://aperture.org/exhibitions/2022...

WATCH
Leslie Wilson argued for the importance of Ernest Cole’s "House of Bondage" within the history of the photobook. Did you know our December 2022 PhotoBook Club gathering discussed Aperture’s re-issue of this singularly influential volume? Learn about the challenges and process behind making a new edition and the importance of seeing it published for the first time in South Africa:    • Ernest Cole, "House of Bondage" | Aperture...  

ORDER
Spoiler alert! We were completely humbled that our guest Brian Wallis chose our publication, "LaToya Ruby Frazier: The Notion of Family" (Aperture, 2014), as one of his favorite photobooks of all time. Lucky for you, the title is in stock: https://aperture.org/books/the-notion...

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Support for the 2023 Aperture PhotoBook Club is generously provided by FotoFocus.

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TIMESTAMPS
00:00:00 Introduction
00:00:52 Welcome to the Aperture PhotoBook Club
00:03:26 What are the Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards?
00:05:21 The Shortlist Jury
00:08:17 On the Jury Process
00:12:30 First PhotoBook
00:14:40 "Hafiz," Sabiha Çimen (Red Hook Editions)
00:19:18 "Last Day in Lagos," Marilyn Nance (CARA and Fourthwall Books)
00:23:22 Photography Catalogue of the Year
00:24:06 "Diane Arbus Documents," Max Rosenberg, ed. (David Zwirner Books and Fraenkel Gallery)
00:28:36 "Devour the Land: War and American Landscape Photography since 1970," Makeda Best (Harvard Art Museums)
00:34:28 PhotoBook of the Year
00:35:42 "River’s Dream," Curran Hatleberg (TBW Books)
00:40:53 "Look at me like you love me," Jess T. Dugan (MACK)
00:42:03 "Flint is Family in Three Acts," LaToya Ruby Frazier (Steidl and The Gordon Parks Foundation)
00:46:44 "SCUMB Manifesto," Justine Kurland (MACK)
00:50:40 "Périphérique," Mohamed Bourouissa (Loose Joints)
00:55:32 Trends in Photobook Publishing
01:01:10 How has the photobook landscape changed?
01:08:08 Favorite Photobooks
01:14:23 Closing Remarks