Each year, TIME Magazine picks and highlights the best photography books of the 12 months prior. This year, they’ve put a special focus on the growing trend of bucking the traditional publishing system as many of their choices fall in the realm of self-publishing and self-promotion. This was made most evident when many of TIME’s editors picked the same book for the top spot, Magnum Photographer Peter van Agtmael’s self-published Disco Night September 11, an often brutal look at America post-September 11.
Some of the other choices include Johannes Schwartz’s Teirgarten, which focuses on intimate close-up images of meals being fed to the animals at the Moscow Zoo printed on a Risograph Press, Stephen Shame’s Bronx Boys, which chronicle’s the South Bronx over a period of 20 years stretching from the mid-70s to the mid-90s, Magnum Photographer Martin Parr’s Carpoolers, an original bird’s eye look at the passengers and cargo of open plan trucks as they pass underneath bridges and overpasses, and Ashley Gilbertson’s Bedrooms Of The Fallen, an emotional look inside the bedrooms of now-fallen soldiers who sacrificed their lives for us in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Click the source link below to see a gallery of all 27 of this year's selections.
[via Time Magazine]
