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Les Amies de Place Blanche
Originally published in 1983, this newly-reprinted (and expanded) book focuses on the transsexual community living around the Place Blanche district of Paris in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The book established Christer Strömholm’s reputation as one of the leading photographers of the twentieth century.
Iranian Photography
An excellent overview of 40 contemporary photographers in Iran. Text in French.
Less Américains
A self-published conceptual partial-erasure of Robert Frank’s seminal photobook draws attention to minute details in each photo, and has created some controversy throughout the photographic community.
Elegies of Manumission
Max de Esteban’s elegant new book combines high-minded philosophical reveries with beautiful portraits of intriguing characters.
A Visit with Magritte
This book celebrates Duane Michals’ 1965 visit and photographic collaboration with the great Belgian painter of inverse worlds and bizarre hybrid forms.
You Look At Me Like An Emergency
Cig Harvey’s super-saturated staged color photographs sometimes test the limits of conceptual whimsy, while her hand-written texts alter between insight and syrupy solipsism.
 Landmasses
and Railways
Completely wordless, Bertrand Fleuret’s photobook reads like a dream narrative, subject to an endless variety of interpretations.
 7 Rooms
Over an extended period, Rafal Milach portrays seven members of a generation caught between the mentality of the old Soviet regime and the Russia of the Putin era.
 Between Flesh and Film
Less a photobook than an academic thesis, this book explores the highly charged creative period experienced by Francesca Woodman while she lived in Italy.
The Color of Hay: The Peasants of Maramures
Kathleen Laraia McLaughlin documents the last days of centuries-old traditions in Northern Transylvania.
VII: The Magazine
Exclusive multimedia reports from inside the world of photo-journalism. Often disturbing, always insightful. Updated with fresh content weekly. Shown: detail from a photo-essay, North Korea-Secrets and Lies by Tomas van Houtryve.
Robert Adams’ Prairie
Robert Adams’ photographs offer an unsentimental view of the American wilderness in an exquisite and expanded reprint of this book originally published in 1978.
 Posed, Unposed: C Photo, Vol. 3
The volume Posed/Unposed outlines the field of tension between the entirely spontaneous and unposed on one hand, and the striving for a perfect pose on the other, depicting a variety of approaches from photojournalism or amateur snapshots to advertising, portraiture and fashion photography.
 Örjan Henriksson
Henriksson’s quiet, formal compositions are near-perfect meditations on shape, light, shadow and texture.
 Kodak Girl
A wonderful compilation of early advertisements and some great vintage photographs that helped to launch the age of the snapshot.
 1,000 Buddhas
An ongoing collaborative project reaching out to photographers all over the world — please contribute your photos today!
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In this terrifyingly real photobook, Canadian photojournalist Donald Weber takes us inside police interrogation rooms in Ukraine.
Photographer Léonie Hampton explores the ups and downs of her mother's obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) through a collaborative family project that combines intimate photos and extended transcripts of recorded family conversations and arguments. A hybrid photobook that is insightful, amusing, disturbing, and quite memorable.
Jocelyn Bain Hogg’s latest book, The Family, takes us very close into the lives of London’s seedier gangs and organized criminals. 
Swiss-born photographer, Ferit Kuyas, became fascinated with the life and landscapes on the ever-changing fringes of one of the largest cities in world. He presents a compelling introduction to his view on China’s explosive growth.
Part road-trip, part hilarious narrative diary, this unique photobook presents two distinct points-of-view as the Polish photographer, Rafal Milach, and his local guide, Huldar Breidfjörd, continually start and stop on a manic 1450 km 10-day drive around Iceland. 
Blurring the lines between investigative reporting, fictional dramatic re-enactment and vivid imagination, Christian Patterson weaves together a photo story of real-life teenagers who violently murdered ten people during a three-day killing spree. 
Already an award-winning photographer of contemporary Afghanistan, Simon Norfolk returned this time to follow the footsteps of a relatively unknown Irish war photographer, John Burke, who had documented the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-1880). This immensely engaging book presents the works of both photographers, as well as compelling essays that offer context to this subtle and complex work.
Trying to see daily life in Paris beyond the cliché views as we typically think of it, Spanish-born photographer Marcel Pedragosa has created a series that captures modern urbanity in dark, intimate, anonymous moments of blurred contemporary existence.
600 minors and 2000 adults work around the clock at Smokey Mountain, Phnom Penh’s municipal rubbish dump, seeking and sorting recyclables to sell. Nigel Dickinson’s disturbing and haunting images tell a story that words could never convey.
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