I have been thinking about my list of Best PhotoBooks for 2009, and I am in sort of a quandary. The implication is that this list would be for the books that were published in 2009, but the fact is that many interesting books published in 2008 took a while before I could acquire them. And I have not seen or read all of the books published in 2009, not by a long shot. So I am going with what I would “recommend” instead, not presented in any order as to ranking of the best of those recmmended, but I think that these are the photobooks worth further consideration.
Lukas Feltzmann, Waters in Between
Roger Ballen, Boarding House
Bertrand Fleuret, Landmassess and Railways
Mark Klett, Time Studies
Zoe Strauss, America
Sarah Stolfa, The Regulars
Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison, counterpoint
Linda Connor, Odyssey
Doug Keys, Collective Memory
Ritta Paivalainen, Imaginary Meetings
Jim Goldberg, Open See
Lee Friedlander, New Mexico
Biography; Dorothea Lange by Linda Gordon
Best regards for the Holidays and New Year, Douglas Stockdale
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