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The Best Books about PhotoBooks!!

So.. during MAO we got an email a other day seeking what a best resources are for collecting photobooks. Sadly.. we incidentally deleted this person's email.. SHIT...OOPS!  So we couldn't answer this chairman directly. My apologies to that person! 

BUT, Since it's a good topic, we suspicion it was inestimable of a full posting filled with a vapid, self serving  studied thoughts on this important topic.

FYI.. We are going to be dedicating a subsequent few blog posts to some new and sparkling photobook discoveries.. so stay tuned Photobook geeksAficionados!

OK.. So what are THE BEST books on Collecting Photobooks? Well, Here is MAO's list.. in a totally inequitable sequence of importance..

1. Andrew Roth's (Editor)... The Book of 101 Books. The: Seminal Photographic Books of a Twentieth Century.

This is a book that set a customary for photobook anxiety guides. It was a initial vital collection of photobooks widely published...and it stays a benchmark.

With 2 to 4 pages for any book, a calm is good researched.. and has put together some of a best minds on a subject of critical photography books.

This  is a MUST have for any critical photobook collector. 

FYI.. It was

this reference book has also been mostly obliged for augmenting a prices ten fold  for any photobook even mentioned inside these pages. 

2. Haselblad.. The Open Book,  Photographs by countless contributing photographers.
Hasselblad Center, Goteberg, 2005. 423 pp., 404 illustrations, 8x10".

The book was published in and with a Hasselblad Center. Edited by Andrew Roth.

Contributions by Simon Anderson, Ute Eskildsen, Philip Arons, Gerhard Steidl, Robert Frank and Hasse Persson. There was an exhibition that ran from Jun 17 to Sep 4, 2005,

"A story of a minute book from 1878 to 2005."

Sadly we missed this uncover in 2005!

The list within this calm is chronological.

It's a good and thoughtfull collection,

but,

sadly this book has no ominous or minute calm about any of a photobooks, it usually has a few cinema and a smallest about any book.

3. PARR we - The Photobook: A History, Vol. 1 Hardcover by Martin Parr (Author), Gerry Badger (Author).

This anxiety book substantially includes as many as 200 photobooks.

It's got 9 chapters, and unequivocally covers a full operation of a best chronological photography books.

Many were tiny famous or intermittently seen titles..but now frequently uncover adult during book fairs and auctions with vast cost tags.

Rumors always round that these opportunistic authors/editors bought adult as many as probable of these photobooks before they published this calm book. Hmm.... MAO wonders how this effected that photobook got included?

All suspicions aside, this is a good researched calm book, with a lot of minute information about any of a photobooks included.

Most of we will know Martin Parr..as an accomplished  British tone photographer, "some people" would even say Martian Parr is a improved scholar/bookmaker than a photographer.

 MAO's not 100% sure..but we've listened several people contend this. You be a judge.

This one is A contingency for any photobook collector.

Note: Copies of this textbook are permitted on amazon.... 2nd or 3rd editions!

4. Aperture Foundation's Japanese Photobooks of a 1960 - 1980's by

RYUICHI KANEKO(essay) is a curator during a Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography and an consultant on Japanese photography and Japanese photobooks.

IVAN VARTANIAN (editor and essays) anthologized and translated Setting Sun: Writings by Japanese Photographers (Aperture, 2006).

This is substantially a best book on photobooks we've ever seen.

The calm is great, it's good published, and really deeply researched. Thsi book truely creates a universe of Japanese photography permitted to people who don't pronounce Japanese! 

So it would have been series 1 in a list, though given it is usually 100% japanese photobook focused..we have to put it series 4.

5. AUER - 802 Photobooks from a M + M Auer Collection.

This is a private collection of photobooks..

aka This is someone putting it all out there for everyone to see drool over!

 these 802 books are listed by dates, and there is roughly no additional information about any of a ones included.

You can review some-more about this tiny gem of a book here..from blogger 5B4

I trust this was self published..

But, FYI

you can buy a copy directly here.

http://www.auerphotobooks.com/doku.php?id=photobooks

6. George Eastman Library - Imagining Paradise: The Richard and Ronay Menschel Library

during The George Eastman House, Rochester Hardcover

By Manfred Heiting (Editor), Sheila Foster (Editor), Rachel Stuhlman (Editor), Saskia Asse (Contributor)

So this is also a really vast format book...288 pages. This one is really good researched with lots of calm to report any of a books.

But, these are mostly really chronological photobooks, many are pre-1960.. about 250 books are listed. Many of these books are totally different to complicated photobook collecting people. Mostly means these are OLD RARE books..think VERY costly and unfit to find, solely for a few critical libraries around a world.

But this calm book brings together several critical scholars, and lots of tone cinema of a books. So, you'll roughly feel like you've to the Eastman House! 

This calm is also available...on Amazon..I'd guess not too many people have seen this book of photobooks.

7. PARR II - The Photobook: A History - Volume 2 Hardcover Martin Parr (Author), Gerry Badger (Author)

Well.. this one is a most some-more biased book of some-more stream photobooks.

There are some genuine gems in here.. and some you'll blemish we conduct as to because they were included.

It's also filled with good information about the

history of a photobook.

So really useful.. though a books in here are not as collectible.

Well... This anxiety book is substantially also a contingency have..

but.. hey...

You be a judge.

There are rumors that PAR III is shortly to be in bookstores!

8. Bertolotti - Books of Nudes Hardcover Alessandro Bertolotti  (Author), Abrams, Dec 2007.

This is a vast good illustrated book of photobooks that usually concentration on a bare image.

We find it well researched, and substantially underneath famous by a photography book collecting world.

This vast book reviews work covering a 20th century published bare including amorous photography books from a predominately European perspective.

The particular books are described and photos of a open books are supposing opposite a 280 pages. There is some genuine chronological value here. It's one good value checking out.

OK..

So..that is a MAO Top 8 Books on Photobooks. If we have any others you'd suggest..please let us know!