This is a list I recently made while browsing through thousands of photography books at Kowasa bookstore in Barcelona. The books (mostly non-mainstream) that made the list are books that moved me either by their subject matters, by the strenght of the visuals or by their overall originality. (or simply because of sheer genius). I took the freedom of highlighting a few titles in red to point out their hotness.
Alec Soth: Sleeping By the Mississippi
Alec Soth: Niagara
Alex Webb: Crossing / The sunshine state / Istanbul
Alfred Seiland: East coast West coast
An-my Lê: Small wars
Andrei Tarkovsky: Instant light (because the guy was a real genius)
Artek: un été en crimee
Bas Princen: Artificial arcadia
Boogie: Its all good (very dark book)
Brian Rose: The lost border, the landscape of the iron curtain
Carl de keyzen: Zona
Charles "teenie" Harris
Christopher Morris: My america
Cristobal Hara: An imaginary spaniard
Danny Lyon: The destruction of lower Manhattan
David Yellen: Too fast for love
Dereck Henderson
Diane Arbus: Revelations
Disfarmer: Vintage prints
Eadweard Muybridge: Complete human + animal locomotion (3 books)
Gareth McConnell: Gareth McConnell
Geert Van Kesteren: Why mister why
Hellen Van Meene: Portraits
Hellen Van Meene: New work
Jacob Aue Sobol: Sabine
James Perry Walker: The reverend
Jem Southam: Landscape Stories
Joan Liftin: Drive-ins
Joel Sternfeld: American prospects/On this site/Stranger passing/Sweet earth/Walking the high line
John Cohen: There is no hope
John Ganis
Larry Towell: The World From My Front Porch, The Mennonites, etc...
Lauri Eriksson: Suomi pictures
Lise Sarfati: The new life
Luc Delahaye: History
Lui Zheng: The chinese
Marco Van Duyvendijk: Mongolia
Michael Light: 100 suns
Michael Reisch
Mitch Epsteins: Work
Nan Goldin: The devil`s playground
Nathaniel Welch: Spring Broke
Nikolaus Schletterer
Patrick Shanahan: Esperantis
Paul D`amato: Barrio
Paul Fusco: RFK`s funeral train
Paul Seawright
Pep Bonet: PositHIV+
Peter Bialobreski
Peter Granser: Coney Island
Phillip Toledano: Bankrupt
Philippe Chancel: North Korea
Philip-Lorca Dicorcia: Philip-Lorca Dicorcia
Philip-Lorca Dicorcia: A story book life
Richard Renaldi: Figure and ground
Robert Polidori: After the Flood / Metropolis
Sally Mann: Immediate Family / Deep South / What remains
Scott Peterman
Simon Roberts: Motherland (good book but too small)
Stefan Ruiz: People
Stephanie Schneider: Stranger than paradise
Stephen Hugues
Stephen Shore: Uncommon Places/ The nature of photographs
Sze Tsung Leong: History Images
Terry Falke: Observations in occupied wilderness
Thomas Struth: Museum photographs / Still
Todd Hido: Roaming / Between the two
Vincenzo Castella: Photoworks
Virgil Hancock 3
Xavier Ribas
