368 unique books were found in the 35 “Best Art & Photography” book lists we consulted. Of the 368 books, 38 titles appeared on multiple lists.
We’ve added pictures and links for the top 38 art & photography books that appear on multiple lists. To see our aggregated year-end lists for other categories, follow the links below.
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The 38 Top Art & Photography Books of 2015
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The 330 Additional Books Appearing on a Single List
- 1/1000th: The Sports Photography of Bob Martin by Bob Martin
- A HANDFUL OF DUST”
- A Lifetime of Looking
- A Long Walk Home by Eli Reed
- About Forty Years by Nicholas Nixon
- Akademie X: Lessons in Art + Life
- Alberto Burri: The Trauma of Painting, Contributions by Emily Braun, Megan Fontanella,
and Carol Stringari - All the Paintings in the Museum
- Almond Garden by Gabriela Maj
- ALPHABET by Debbie Fleming Caffery
- Alternative Movie Posters II: More Film Art from the Undergroundby Matthew Chojnacki
- Amelia and the Animals by Robin Schwartz
- An Eames Anthology
- Anders Petersen. Valparaiso
- Anna Konda
- Antony Gormley on Sculpture
- Arcadia Britannica: A Modern British Folklore Portrait by Henry Bourne and Robin Muir
- Art and Fashion: Collaborations and Connections Between Icons
- Art Chantry Speaks
- Arthur Elgort: The Big Picture
- Artists’ Recipes — Contemporary Artists and Their Favourite Recipes byAdmir Jahic and
Comenius Roethlisberger - Atlas of the World
- Aunties: The Seven Summers of Alevtina and Ludmila, by Nadia Sablin
- Babe, Petra Collins
- Bawden, Ravilious and the Artists of Great Bardfield by Gill Saunders and Malcolm Yorke
- BEASTLY VERSE
- Becoming a Graphic and Digital Designer: A Guide to Careers in Design
- Becoming, By Cindy Crawford,
- Before the War by Alejandro Cartagena
- Bill Viola
- BIOPHILIA
- Black is Beautiful: A Philosophy of Black Aesthetics
- Blank Pages – Of an Iranian Photo Album by Newsha Tavakolian
- Bottega Veneta: Art of Collaboration
- Bottom of the Lake
- Boyhood: Twelve Years on Film by Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, Patricia Arquette,
Ellar Coltrane, Lorelei Linklater - Brodsky & Utkin
- Bruce Gilden’s FACE
- Can I Go Now? The Life of Sue Mengers, Hollywood’s First Superagent. By Brian Kellow
- Celebrity Pets by Edward Quinn
- Champagne and Wax Crayons
- Charleroi by Stephan Vanfleteren
- CHARTH VADER Photographs by Ashly Stohl
- Children of the Stone: The Power of Music in a Hard Land. By Sandy Tolan
- Chinese Propaganda PostersOct 29, 2015 by Stefan R. Landsberger and Anchee Min
- Christopher Williams‘ Printed in Germany (green edition)
- Condition: The Ageing of Art by Paul Taylor
- Cosmic Forces
- COSPLAY IN AMERICA, Volume 2 by Ejen Chuang.
- Covert to Overt: The Under/Overground Art of Shepard FaireySep 29, 2015 by Shepard Fairey
- CREATION
- Cuba 1959 by Burt Glinn
- Damascus Tiles: Mamluk and Ottoman Architectural Ceramics from Syria by Arthur Millner
and Sheila R Canby - Death & Co: Modern Classic Cocktails by David Kaplan, Nick Fauchald, and Alex Day
- Death and life.
- Defining Beauty: The Body in Ancient Greek Art by Ian Jenkins et al
- Dennis Stock: James Dean
- Depth of Field by Walker Evans
- Derek Boshier: Rethink/Re-entry
- Design and Violence by Paola Antonelli and Jamer Hunt
- Design Annual 2016
- Designers on Instagram #Fashion
- Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century
- Detail in Typography by Jost Hochuli
- Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in Detroit
- Dior by Avedon
- Dirt Meridian by Andrew Moore
- Dogs in the Air
- Dominique Ansel: The Secret Recipes by Dominique Ansel and Thomas Schauer
- Drawn & Quarterly: 25 Years Of Contemporary Cartooning, Comics And Graphic Novels by
edited by Tom Devlin - Drawn: The Art of AscentMay 15, 2015 by Jeremy Collins
- Dust & Grooves: Adventures in Record CollectingSep 15, 2015 by Eilon Paz and RZA
- Dzogchen
- Eli Reed: A Long Walk Home
- Ellie by Mike Wu
- Embracing an Icon: The Posters of Bernard Villlemot
- Enid Marx: Design by Ruth Artmonsky and Brian Webb
- Ephemeral Works 2004-2014 by Andy Goldsworthy
- ERASURE TRILOGY”
- Even Magazine
- EVERY BREATHE WE DREW: Photographs by Jess T. Dugan; Text by curator Amy Galpin;
interview by Dawoud Bey - Every Object Tells a Story by Oliver Hoare
- Extreme EarthOct 13, 2015 by Michael Martin
- Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek and the Reinvention of
Seeing by Laura J. Snyder - Fables: Covers by James Jean
- FACING CHANGE: DOCUMENTING AMERICA
- Fashion and The Art of Pochoir
- Fashion: A Timeline in Photographs — 1850 to Today
- Father Figure: Exploring Alternate Notions of Black Fatherhood by Zun Lee
- Fearless: Portraits of LGBT Student Athletes by Jeff Sheng
- FINDING HOME: SHELTER DOGS AND THEIR STORIES by Traer Scott
- Fiona Hall: Wrong Way Time edited by Linda Michael
- Fire in Cairo by Matthew Connors
- For an Agreement of the People
- Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network
- Frame by Mark Cohen
- Francis Bacon in Your Blood by Michael Peppiatt
- Frank Sinatra Has A Cold
- From These Hands by Steve McCurry
- Germaine Krull
- Goya: The Portraits by Xavier Bray, Manuela B Mena Marqués and Thomas Gayford
- Grapefruit by Yoko Ono
- Graphic Design Visionaries
- Graphic Design: The New Basics
- Graphique de la Rue
- Grímsey by Cole Barash
- Group f.64: Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, and the Community of Artists
Who Revolutionized American Photography. By Mary Street Alinder - Habitat: The Field Guide To Decorating by Lauren Liess
- Hackney by Night
- Harper’s BAZAAR: Models
- Heirloom Harvest: Modern Daguerrotypes of Historic Garden Treasures
- Helmut Newton: Polaroids
- Hip Hop Family Tree Book 3: 1983-1984 (Vol. 3) by Ed Piskor
- Home by Carson Ellis
- Humans of New York: StoriesOct 13, 2015 by Brandon Stanton
- I Went to the Worst of Bars Hoping to Get Killed. But All I Could Do Was to Get Drunk
Again - ILL FORM AND VOID FULL”
- Impossible Wardrobes
- INDECENT EXPOSURES: Eadweard Muybridge’s “Animal Locomotion” Nudes” by Sarah Gordon
- Independence: Interview with 12 Magazine Makers
- India (Phaidon
- Irving Penn “Beyond Beauty” by Curator Merry A. Foresta
- It All Dies Anyway: L.A., Jabberjaw, and the End of an EraAug 25, 2015 by Bryan Ray
Turcotte and Michelle Carr - Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series
- Jet Lag by Chien-Chi Chang
- Joni Sternbach: Surf Site Tin Type
- JR: Can Art Change the World?
- Judge this.
- JULIA MARGARET CAMERON: Photographs to Electrify You with Delight and Startle the World
by Curator Marta Weiss - Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art
- Kill City: Lower East Side Squatters 1992-2000Mar 31, 2015 by Ash Thayer and Frank
Morales - Killer Heels: The Art of the High-Heeled Shoe by Lisa Small, Stefano Tonchi, and
Caroline Weber - Killing and Dying
- Kimono: The Art And Evolution Of Japanese Fashion
- Knock Knock
- L’Esprit des Hommes de la Terre de Feu by Martin Gusinde
- Ladies of Letterpress: A Gallery of Prints With 86 Removable Posters
- Ladislav Sutnar: Visual Design in Action
- Lago by Ron Jude
- Lance Wyman: The Monograph
- Lee
- Letter To A Future Lover: Marginalia, Errata, Secrets, Inscriptions, And Other Ephemera
Found In Libraries by Ander Monson - Life is Elsewhere by Sohrab Hura
- Listening to Stone
- Liver & Lights No 53, Railton Road, Herne Hill End 2015
- Local Guy, Tank Top, Good Looking
- Logo: The Reference Guide to Symbols and Logotypes (mini)
- Looking at Pictures
- Looking for Looking for Love
- Lost Ocean: An Inky Adventure and Colouring Book
- Louis Vuitton: The Icons and the Iconoclasts by Jo-Ann Furniss
- M Train. By Patti Smith
- Manuals 2
- Maori Patterns
- Marcus King: Painting New Zealand for the World
- Marilyn: In the Flash
- Mark di Suvero
- Mark Molnar: Behind the Pixels
- Marvel Comics: Seventy-Five Years of Cover Art by DK Publishing
- Marvelous Objects: Surrealist Sculpture from Paris to New York
- Max Beckmann at the Saint Louis Art Museum: The Paintings
- Maya Lin: TopologiesOct 13, 2015 by Maya Lin and Michael Brenson
- MEMENTO MORI: TESTIMENT TO LIFE
- Metal Cats by Alexandra Crockett
- Metamedia: American Book Fictions and Literary Print Culture After Digitization
- Michael O’Neill: On Yoga, The Architecture of Peace
- Mick Rock: Shooting for Stardust, The Rise of David Bowie & Co.
- Milky Seas
- Miracle Village
- Miró: From Earth to Sky, by Gisela C. Fischer, edited by Jean-Louis Prat
- Missing Buildings by Thom and Beth Atkinson
- Mongrel Rapture: The Architecture of Ashton Raggatt Mcdougall
- Moving Still
- MUSE”
- MUSEUM OF CHANCE”
- My Blank Pages by Michael Schmelling
- My Last Day at Seventeen by Doug DuBois
- NEGATIVES”
- New Objectivity: Modern German Art in the Weimar Republic 1919-1933
- New Perspectives in Typography
- New York Through the Lens by Vivienne Gucwa
- Nextinction
- Night Vision: Nocturnes In American Art, 1860-1960
- Nude Animal Cigar
- One’s Own Arena
- Only What’s Necessary: Charles M. Schulz and the Art of Peanuts by Chip Kidd
- Orange is the New Black Presents: The Cookbook by Jenji Kohan, Tara Hermann, Hartley
Voss, and Alex Regnery - Oscar de la Renta: His Legendary World of Style
- Out of the Box: The Rise of Sneaker Culture
- Outcasts & Innocents by Alice Wheeler
- Outside the Box: Hand-Drawn Packaging From Around the World
- Painting Beyond Pollock
- Patternalia: An Unconvential History of Polka Dots, Stripes, Plaid, Camouflage & Other
Graphic Patterns - Peggy Guggenheim: The Shock of the Modern by Francine Prose
- Peter Schlesinger
- Picasso Sculpture (Museum of Modern Art)
- Piet Mondrian: The Studios
- Pinocchio: The Making of the Disney Epic
- Places (Series) by Bill Jacobson
- Plenty More: Vibrant Vegetable Cooking from London’s Ottolenghi by Yotam Ottolenghi
- Pomodori a Grappolo by John Gossage
- Portraits in Lace: Breton Women’s by Charles Fréger
- Portraits: John Berger on Artists
- POULTRY SUITE: Photographs by Jean Pagliuso
- Presenting Shakespeare: 1,100 Posters From Around the World
- Pret-a-Party: Great Ideas for Good Times and Creative Entertaining
- pretty / Dirty
- Prisons by Sebastien Van Malleghem
- Prune by Gabrielle Hamilton
- Ravilious by James Russell
- Retrospecting Sandy Hill
- Rex Whistler: Inspirations by Hugh and Mirabel Cecil
- Rock Covers by Jon Kirby, Robbie Busch, and Julius Wiedemann
- Ryan McGinley: Way Far
- Samuel Palmer: Shadows on the Wall by William Vaughan
- Scent of a Dream: Travels in the World of CoffeeSep 29, 2015 by Sebastiao Salgado
- Scroll Down And Keep Scrolling byFiona Banner
- Secret Power
- Self & Others: Portrait as Autobiography by Aline Smithson
- SELF + OTHERS: PORTRAIT AS AUTOBIOGRAPHYPhotographs by Aline Smithson
- Self Publish, Be Happy: A DIY Photobook Manual and Manifesto
- SELFISH”
- Shake Puppies by Carli Davidson
- Small House Living
- Sons of Anarchy The Official Collector’s Edition by Tara Bennett
- Sony Design: Making Modern
- Space, Hope and Brutalism: English Architecture 1945-1975 by Elain Harwood
- Speculations (“The future is ______”)
- Star Wars Storyboards: The Original Trilogy by LucasFilm Ltd
- Stephen Sprouse: Xerox/Rock/Art
- Sunless
- Surf Is Where You Find ItMay 26, 2015 by Gerry Lopez and Steve Pezman
- Surfers
- Taking Off. Henry My Neighbor
- Tales From The Loop by Simon Stalenhag
- Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life by Jonathan Bate
- Terry Richardson: Volumes 1 & 2: Portraits and Fashion
- That Day: Pictures in the American West. Photographs by Laura Wilson;
- The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
- The Art of Dave Seeley
- The Art of Film Magic – 20 Years of Weta
- The Art of Mad Max: Fury Road
- THE ART OF PEANUTS
- The Art of Robert E.McGinnis
- The Art of Typewriting
- The Battle Of Versailles: The Night American Fashion Stumbled Into The Spotlight And Made
History by Robin Givhan - The Beatles Lyrics by Hunter Davies
- The Belgians
- The Best American Infographics 2015
- The Big Green Tent: A Novel by Ludmila Ulitskaya, translated by Polly Gannon
- The Blank pages from an Iranian Photo Album
- The Book Cover in the Weimar Republic Roaring Jackets: The finest German publishing
1919–1933 - The Broad Collection
- The Butterflies of North America: Titian Peale’s Lost ManuscriptSep 1, 2015 by
Kenneth Haltman and Titian Peale - The Chinese Photobook From the 1900s to the Present curated by WassinkLundgren and Martin
Parr - The Cobbe Cabinet of Curiosities: An Anglo-Irish Country House Museum edited by Arthur
MacGregor - The Craft Companion by Ramona Barry and Rebecca Jobson
- The Debate
- THE DEMOCRATIC FOREST”
- The English Garden
- The Evolution of Ivanpah Solar by Jamey Stillings
- The First Day of Good Weather
- The Flemish Merchant of Venice: Daniel Nijs and the Sale of the Gonzaga Art Collection by
Christina M. Anderson - The Flowers by Lisa Cooper
- The Four-Dimensional Human: Ways of being in the digital world by Laurence Scott, William
Heinemann - The Gap Of Time: A Novel by Jeanette Winterson
- The Health Gap: The challenge of an unequal world by Michael Marmot, Bloomsbury
- The Ingenious Mr Pyke: Inventor, fugitive, spy by Henry Hemming, PublicAffairs
- The Internet Does Not Exist
- The Invention of Nature: The adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the lost hero of
science by Andrea Wulf, John Murray - The journey though Taratine by Daisuke Yokota
- The Law of Closure by Daniel Boyd
- The Life and Love of the SeaOct 6, 2015 by Lewis Blackwell
- The Long Shadow of Chernobyl by Gerd Ludwig
- The Lovers by Lauren Fleishman
The Lulu Plays, illustrated by William Kentridge - The Marriage Of Opposites by Alice Hoffman
- The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud, translated by John Cullen
- The Middle of Somewhere
- The Miró Eye: Photographs by Jean-Marie del Moral
- The Monocle Guide to Cosy Homes
- The People’s Galleries: Art Museums and Exhibitions in Britain 1800-1914
- THE PHONE BOOK by Robert Herman
- The Process: A New Foundation in Art and Design
- The Real Thing: Essays on Making in the Modern World by Tanya Harrod
- The Skate Girls of Kabul by Jessica Fulford-Dobson
- The Small Backs Of Children: A Novel by Lidia Yuknavitch
- The Social Studio by Grace McQuiltern
- The Unraveling, Central African Republic by Marcus Bleasdale
- THE WATCHERS: Photographs by Haley Morris-Cafiero, Text by Amanda de Cadenet
- The Whale’s Eyelash: A Play in Five Acts, by Timothy Prus
- The World of Ice & Fire: The Untold History of Westeros and the Game of Thrones by George
R.R. Martin, Elio Garcia, and Linda Antonsson - This Place 4
- Thomas Sauvin’s SHUANGXI (Until Death Do Us Part
- Thug Kitchen: Eat Like You Give a F*ck by Thug Kitchen
- THUNDER & LIGHTNING
- Tiksi by Evgenia Arbugaeva
- TIMELESS: PHOTOGRAPHS BY KAMOINGE Edited by Anthony Barboza and Herb Robinson
- Tones of Dirt and Bone
- Tory Burch In Color
- True Love by Jennifer Lopez
- Tseng Kwong Chi: Performing for the Camera
- Ueda
- Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink. By Elvis Costello
- Unfinished Father by Erik Kessels
- Unflattening
- Variations on a Rectangle
- Velazuez: The Complete Works
- VHS Video Cover Art
- Vogue & The Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute by Hamish Bowles
- Vogue: Like a Painting
- Voyage of the Sable Venus
- Walkers Evans: Depth of Field by John T. Hill and Heinz Liesbrock
- War Is Beautiful by David Shields
- WEALTH managemen
- Weatherland: Writers and Artists Under English Skies
- Welcome to MarwencolNov 3, 2015 by Mark E. Hogancamp and Chris Shellen
- When I Was Six.
- When the Sick Rule the World, Dodie Bellamy
- Where the Heaven Flowers Grow: The Life and Art of Leonard Knight by Aaron Huey
- White Light by Vanessa Garcia
- Widow Basquiat: A Love Story by Jennifer Clement
- William Addison Dwiggins: Stencilled Ornament and Illustration
- William Blake: The Drawings for Dante’s Devine Comedy
- Wonderful Days
- Yiadom-Boakye
- You Haven’t Seen Their Faces, by Daniel Mayrit
- Young Orson: The Years of Luck and Genius on the Path to Citizen Kane. By Patrick
McGilligan - Yves Saint Laurent’s Studio: Mirror and Secrets
- Zhang Xiaogang: Disquieting Memories
The 35 “Art & Photography Book” Year-End Lists Consulted