Six Books Pete Picked Up This Year and Liked

My list of fave photobooks is the Vantage list of fave photobooks. I noted the subheader should read: How four books mailed to the author and two other books he bought in crowdfunding campaigns made the grade

THE ANOINTED ONES

Fan by Rian Dundon (Modes Vu)

A Lebanese Archive by Ania Dabrowska (Bookworks + Arab Image Foundation)

Deadline by Will Steacy (b.frank books)

In The Vale of Cashmere by Thomas Roma (Powerhouse)

Law & Order by Jan Banning

Pony Congo by Vicente Paredes (This Book Is True)

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I’m perplexed by how exactly the photo-world goes about constructing its holiday exhortations. So much so that Joachim Schmid’s polite takedown of the Photobook-Industrial-Complex is just the best thing.

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