For what it’s worth, here is a list of my 10 favourite photo books of 2011. They are listed in no particular order and the list contains books in all formats, from extensive monographs like A New Map of Italy to small booklets like The World Won’t Listen:
- A New Map of Italy by Guido Guidi
- Bad Driving by Louis Porter
- Farms by Bernhard Fuchs
- Permanent Error by Pieter Hugo
- Animals That Saw Me by Ed Panar
- The World Won’t Listen by Laurent Champoussin
- A Criminal Investigation by Watabe Yukichi
- Illuminance by Rinko Kawauchi
- On The Plane by Phillip Kalantzis-Cope
- 83 Days of Darkness by Niels Stomps
There is a big chance that The Auckland Project by John Gossage and Alec Soth would have ended on this list, but I haven’t seen it yet.
