Wednesday, 27 November 2013

Christmas 2013: best photography books of the year


David Campany’s Gasoline (Mack, £27.50) curates random, infrequently magnificent,

mostly workaday photographs of petrol stations taken by press photographers

in a years before digital cameras. Left to rust in their employer’s

repository in box they were indispensable for destiny stories, many of these images

haven’t seen a light of day given they were taken. Covered in a red

chinagraph pencils used by editors to imply intensity crops, they are both

a mural of pre-digital news photography and a charming approach to tell the

story of a adore event with a road.



Paris comes into artistic concentration with Brassaï: Paris Nocturne (Thames

Hudson, T £43) and Brassaï: For a Love of Paris (Flammarion, £28). The

initial is many elegant, though a second delves serve into his work – his

mindfulness with graffiti, for example. An American Brassaï contemporary is

a theme of a five-volume estimation in The Unkown Berenice Abbott

(Steidl, £240), a decisive work.



Gregory

Crewdson
comes adult trumps with a career consult (Rizzoli, T

£85
). Accompanying his elaborate, set-piece photographs are a

array of brief stories by Jonathan Lethem. Sergio Larrain (TH, T

£59
) also gets a monograph treatment. This lesser-known

photographer was invited to join Magnum by nothing other than Cartier-Bresson,

and his cinema of London, Paris, and South America are among a finest

I’ve seen this year.



Finally, if you’re after a slot authority in contemporary art photography, Why

it Does Not Have to be in Focus (TH T

£9.99
) offers an satirical starting point.




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