Photography books of the year

There has been several 'photography books of the year' type articles published recently.  The first that I was aware of is from The Telegraph and features the university's very own Max Houghton. 

The Guardian's Sean O'Hagan is not content with one list but has two - the first of which is personal list, the other, published in The Observer, is arranged by genre.  Prudence Hone also has a list published by the Guardian.

There are also lists published on the blogs 5b4, Conscientious, and Alec Soth makes a selection on his blog. 

PDN has a list in two parts - although only part two seems to be available online.

Photo-eye magazine makes an excellent list each year, but have not yet published one for 2010. Their 2009 list is worth revisiting though.

A Plagiarism Carol

Its almost Christmas, its cold outside, you have assigments due... So, what you need is the University of Bergen's pastiche of A Christmas Carol... featuring the not very Norwegian sounding 'James.'



The Library Services produced guide to 'Referencing your work' is available for free in the library or online.

Deutscher Fotobuchpreis 2011

The German Photobook Prize awards for 2011 have been announced, which seems a little premature.  The web site is in German, but it is easy enough to work out who gets the gold and silver gongs in the following categories: Photobook; History / Theory; Textbook.

The 'gold' winners are listed below:

PHOTOBOOKS

Stanley Green. Black Passport. Benteli*
Nadav Kander. Yangtze –The Long River. Hatje Cantz
Lillian Bassman & Paul Himmel. The First Retrospective. Kehrer*
Christian Lutz. Tropical Gift: the Business of Oil and Gas in Nigeria. Lars Müller
Bruce Davidson. Outside / Inside. Steidl

HISTORY/ THEORY

Cynthia Young. Mexican Suitcase. Steidl

TEXTBOOK

Uwe Steinmueller & Jürgen Gulbins. Handbuch Digitale Dunkelkammer. Dpunkt [ISBN for English translation: 9781933952710]

* In stock at Harrow

The written reasons given by the jury aren't so easy to figure out, but Google translate can help here.

Additional

I have ordered a copy of the textbook The Digital Photography Workflow Handbook: From Import to Output, which is published by Rocky Nook.  I will be looking out for an e-copy, but in the meantime you might want to take a look at Uwe's English-language website, Digital Outback Photo.