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photo-eye’s Best Books of 2015

Imperial Courts. 1993-2015.  Photographs by Dana Lixenberg. Roma Publications, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2015. In English. 269 pp., black-and-white, 9½x12¼". Selected as one of the Best Books of 2015 by: 10x10 Photobooks David Campany Hans Gremmen Jeffrey Ladd Kevin Messina Miwa Susuda

This title was selected for the Shortlist for the 2015 Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards
In 1992, Dana Lixenberg travelled to South Central Los Angeles for a magazine story on the riots that erupted following the verdict in the Rodney King trial. What she encountered inspired her to revisit the area, and led her to the community of the Imperial Courts housing project in Watts. Returning countless times over the following twenty-two years, Lixenberg gradually created a collaborative portrait of the changing face of this community. Over the years, some in the community were killed, while others disappeared or went to jail, and others, once children in early photographs, grew up and had children of their own. In this way, Imperial Courts constitutes a complex and evocative record of the

Nude Animal Cigar.  Photographs by Paul Kooiker. Art Paper Editions. 336 pp., 6¾x9½". Selected as one of the Best Books of 2015 by: Hans Gremmen Jeffrey Ladd Little Brown Sarah Bradley Melanie McWhorter Miwa Susuda

Paul Kooiker is among the most interesting conceptual photographers currently working in the Netherlands. Although his work consists of photographic images, he is not so much a photographer as a sculptor and installation artist. His fascination with intriguing themes like voyeurism, innocence and clichés leads him to construct fictive collections of images that are of extremely uncertain origin, subject and significance. In his latest installation, 'Nude Animal Cigar', Kooiker looks back over his twenty-year career. The result is a bewildering array of photographic works, in which images of nudes and animals are interspersed with close-ups of the countless cigars he has smoked in his studio over the years.

Bottom Ash Observatory By Christien Meindertsma & Mathijs Labadie Thomas Eyck Since her first book Checked Baggage in 2004, I’ve been amazed by the sheer ingenuity and intelligence of the methodologies that Christien Meinderstma utilizes in her practice. She has maintained an original and intriguing set of processes and approaches for the past decade, dealing specifically with globalization, consumerism and the way we engage with traditional materials. Her newest publication Bottom Ash Observatory: An Incinerated Municipal Solid Waste Expedition, is no exception, repeating the encyclopedic approach taken in the brilliantPIG 05049, Meinderstma dissects and records 25 kilos of bottom ash and constructs a photographic analysis of how we can think differently about waste. The feel of the images borrows from a 19th Century aesthetic, whilst the scientific narrative is incredibly contemporary and engaging. The book is beautifully produced and includes images by collaborator Mathijs Ladabie. Prophet By Geert Goiris Roma Prophet gives us a world that is entirely recognizable yet disruptively foreign. The images are suggestive of a narrative without guides, fragments of moving time and action made still, frozen in darkness and a flash of light. Due To Lack Of Interest Tomorrow Has Been Cancelled By Sanne Peper Lecturis Peper throws unexpected images and words at the mirage that is the American "deep south." Myth upon myth. Cor Was Here By Cor Jaring Uitgeverij Hannibal