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The Best Art & Photography & Coffee Table Books of 2018 (A Year-End List Aggregation)

“What are the Best Art & Photography books of 2018?” We aggregated 17 year-end lists and ranked the 283 unique titles by how many times they appeared in an attempt to answer that very question!

 

There are thousands of year-end lists released every year and like we do in our weekly Best Book articles, we wanted to see which books appear the most. The top 17 books, all of which appeared on 2 or more “Best Coffe Table” Book lists, are ranked below with images, summaries, and links for more information or to purchase. The remaining 250+ books, as well as the top book lists are at the bottom of the page.

 

Make sure to take a look at our other Best of 2018 book lists:

You can also take a look at our Best Art/Photography books from last year as well as all the other Best 2017 articles!

Happy Scrolling!



Top 17 Art And Photography Books Of 2018



17 .) Andy Warhol: Polaroids XL

Lists It Appears On:

  • OPUMO
  • Reader’s Digest

Instant Andy: Before there was Instagram, there was Warhol A picture means I know where I was every minute. That s why I take pictures. It s a visual diary. – Andy WarholAndy Warhol was a relentless chronicler of life and its encounters. Carrying a Polaroid camera from the late 1950s until his death in 1987, he amassed a huge collection of instant pictures of friends, lovers, patrons, the famous, the obscure, the scenic, the fashionable, and himself. Created in collaboration with theAndy Warhol Foundation, this book features hundreds of these instant photos, many of them never seen before.Portraits of celebrities such asMick Jagger, Alfred Hitchcock, Jack Nicholson, Yves Saint Laurent, Pele, Debbie Harryare included alongside images of Warhol s entourage and high life, landscapes, and still lifes from Cabbage Patch dolls to the iconic soup cans. Often raw and impromptu, the Polaroids document Warhol s era like Instagram captures our own, offering a unique record of the life, world, and vision behind the Pop Art maestro and modernist giant.




16 .) Contact High: A Visual History Of Hip-Hop written by Vikki Tobak

Lists It Appears On:

  • Amazon
  • NPR

Featuring rare outtakes from over 100 photoshoots alongside interviews and essays from industry legends, Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop takes readers on a chronological journey from old-school to alternative hip-hop and from analog to digital photography. The ultimate companion for music and photography enthusiasts, Contact High is the definitive history of hip-hop’s early days, celebrating the artists that shaped the iconic album covers, t-shirts and posters beloved by hip-hop fans today.




15 .) Drawn Together written by Minh Lê

Lists It Appears On:

  • Booklist 2
  • NPR

When a young boy visits his grandfather, their lack of a common language leads to confusion, frustration, and silence. But as they sit down to draw together, something magical happens-with a shared love of art and storytelling, the two form a bond that goes beyond words. With spare, direct text by Minh Lê and luminous illustrations by Caldecott Medalist Dan Santat, this stirring picturebook about reaching across barriers will be cherished for years to come.




14 .) Flowers for Lisa: A Delirium of Photographic Invention

Lists It Appears On:

  • PDN
  • Publishers Weekly

Best known for his surreal camera obscura pictures and luminous black-and-white photographs of books, photographer Abelardo Morell now turns his transformative lens to one of the most common of artistic subjects, the flower. The concept for Flowers for Lisa emerged when Morell gave his wife, Lisa, a photograph of flowers on her birthday. “Flowers are part of a long tradition of still life in art,” writes Morell. “Precisely because flowers are such a conventional subject, I felt a strong desire to describe them in new, inventive ways.” With nods to the work of Jan Brueghel, Édouard Manet, Georgia O’Keeffe, René Magritte, and others, Morell does just that; the images are as innovative as they are arresting.




13 .) Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times written by Alan Walker

Lists It Appears On:

  • Booklist 1
  • Kirkus

Based on ten years of research and a vast cache of primary sources located in archives in Warsaw, Paris, London, New York, and Washington, D.C., Alan Walker’s monumental Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times is the most comprehensive biography of the great Polish composer to appear in English. Walker’s work is a corrective biography, intended to dispel the many myths and legends that continue to surround Chopin. Fryderyk Chopin is an intimate look into a dramatic life; of particular focus are Chopin’s childhood and youth in Poland, which are brought into line with the latest scholarly findings, and Chopin’s romantic life with George Sand, with whom he lived for nine years.




12 .) Hey, Kiddo written by Jarrett J. Krosoczka

Lists It Appears On:

  • Booklist 2
  • NPR

Hey, Kiddo is the graphic memoir of author-illustrator Jarrett J. Krosoczka. Raised by his colorful grandparents, who adopted him because his mother was an incarcerated heroin addict, Krosoczka didn’t know his father’s name until he saw his birth certificate when registering for a school ski trip. Hey, Kiddo traces Krosoczka’s search for his father, his difficult interactions with his mother, his day-to-day life with his grandparents, and his path to becoming an artist. To date, nearly one million people have viewed Krosoczka’s TED Talk about his experience.




11 .) Imagine John Yoko written by John Lennon & Yoko Ono

Lists It Appears On:

  • Amazon
  • Publishers Weekly

Imagine John Yoko tells the story of John & Yoko’s life, work and relationship during this intensely creative period. It transports readers to home and working environments showcasing Yoko’s closely guarded archive of photos and artifacts, using artfully compiled narrative film stills, and featuring digitally rendered maps, floor plans and panoramas that recreate the interiors in evocative detail. John & Yoko introduce each chapter and song; Yoko also provides invaluable additional commentary and a preface.




10 .) Inside North Korea written by Oliver Wainwright

Lists It Appears On:

  • Dwell
  • Reader’s Digest

Guardian journalist and photographer Oliver Wainwright takes us on an eye-opening tour behind closed doors in the most secretive country in the world, revealing that past the grand stone façades lie lavish wonder-worlds of marble and mosaic, coffered ceilings, and crystal chandeliers, along with new interiors in dazzling color palettes. Discover the palatial reading rooms of the Grand People’s Study House, and peer inside the locker rooms of the recently renovated Rungrado May Day Stadium, ready to host a FIFA World Cup that will never come.




9 .) Photographic: The Life Of Graciela Iturbide written by Isabel Quintero

Lists It Appears On:

  • Booklist 2
  • NPR

Graciela Iturbide was born in México City in 1942, the oldest of 13 children. When tragedy struck Iturbide as a young mother, she turned to photography for solace and understanding. From then on Iturbide embarked on a photographic journey that has taken her throughout her native México, from the Sonora Desert to Juchitán to Frida Kahlo’s bathroom, to the United States, India, and beyond. Photographic is a symbolic, poetic, and deeply personal graphic biography of this iconic photographer. Iturbide’s journey will excite readers of all ages as well as budding photographers, who will be inspired by her resolve, talent, and curiosity.




8 .) Snarkitecture written by Snarkitecture

Lists It Appears On:

  • Dwell
  • OPUMO

The first monograph on Snarkitecture, a New York-based collaborative and innovative design studio with an introduction by Maria Cristina Didero Fast becoming one of the world’s most sought-after studios, Snarkitecture has designed installations, architecture, products, and furniture for a diverse range of clients including COS, Kith, Calvin Klein, the New Museum, Kartell, and Beats by Dr. Dre. This book presents more than 70 of their projects and investigates how its founders, artist Daniel Arsham and architect Alex Mustonen, work at the interface between their disciplines to come up with some of the most beguiling and fascinating designs seen in recent years.




7 .) The Art of Reading written by Lawrence Schwartzwald

Lists It Appears On:

  • Elizabeth Avedon Journal
  • Publishers Weekly

The Art of Reading presents New York photographer Lawrence Schwartzwald’s (born 1953) candid images of readers, made between 2001 and 2017. Partly inspired by André Kertész’s On Reading(1971), Schwartzwald’s subjects are mostly average New Yorkers―sunbathers, a bus driver, shoeshine men, subway passengers, denizens of bookshops and cafes―but also artists (most notably Amy Winehouse at Manhattan’s now-closed all-night diner Florent).




6 .) The Beat Scene: Burt Glinn’s Vivid Portrait of a Subculture

Lists It Appears On:

  • Magnum Photos
  • PDN

This magnificent volume features a remarkable collection of largely unseen photographs of the Beat Generation by renowned Magnum photographer Burt Glinn. This amazing, untouched treasure trove of images was discovered when Reel Art Press was working with Burt Glinn’s widow, Elena, on a larger retrospective of Glinn’s work. Archived with the negatives was a short essay by Jack Kerouac entitled “And This Is The Beat Nightlife of New York,” which is published here alongside the photographs. The book features black-and-white shots, and also—uniquely, for images of this era—more than 70 in color. An extremely rare find, these photographs capture the raw energy of the Beat Generation in a way that has never been seen before in print.




5 .) The Hunt: Navigating the Worlds of Art and Design written by Patrick Parrish

Lists It Appears On:

  • Dwell
  • PDN

In this little gem of a book Patrick Parrish, of the eponymous Patrick Parrish Gallery in New York, offers advice, stories, gossip, and pointers on how to go about acquiring top-quality art and design from flea markets all the way up to the finest auction houses in the world. With over 25 years of hard-won experience in the trenches as a picker, collector, and dealer he tells you what to do, what not to do, and how to negotiate the often-confusing labyrinths that international galleries, auction houses, and even flea markets can present.




4 .) The New Yorker Encyclopedia of Cartoons: A Semi-serious A-to-Z Archive written by Bob Markoff, ed.

Lists It Appears On:

  • Amazon
  • Folio

The is the most ingenious collection of New Yorker cartoons published in book form, The New Yorker Encyclopedia of Cartoons is a prodigious, slip-cased, two-volume, 1,600-page A-to-Z curation of cartoons from the magazine from 1924 to the present. Mankoff–for two decades the cartoon editor of the New Yorker–organizes nearly 3,000 cartoons into more than 250 categories of recurring New Yorker themes and visual tropes, including cartoons on banana peels, meeting St. Peter, being stranded on a desert island, snowmen, lion tamers, Adam and Eve, the Grim Reaper, and dogs, of course. The result is hilarious and Mankoff’s commentary throughout adds both depth and whimsy. The collection also includes a foreword by New Yorker editor David Remnick. This is stunning gift for the millions of New Yorker readers and anyone looking for some humor in the evolution of social commentary.




3 .) Transcendental Concord written by Lisa McCarty

Lists It Appears On:

  • Elizabeth Avedon Journal
  • PDN

Transcendental Concord documents the spirit of Transcendentalism, the literary and philosophical movement that arose in the mid-19thcentury. While the circle of Transcendentalists in New England was wide, at its center was a core group that lived in Concord, Massachusetts.Bronson Alcott and daughter Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson,Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau lived within a few miles of each other for nearly 20 years, regularlymeeting in each other’s homes and on the paths of Walden Woods todiscuss their writings and beliefs. In the course of a year and in every season North-Carolina based photographer Lisa McCarty photographed thesites where these Transcendentalists lived and wrote in Concord.McCarty’s parallel reverence for the natural world is evident in herphotographs which point to large and small variations in environment,season and light. McCarty uses long exposures and camera movement inorder to capture these variations. Transcendental Concord payshomage to Transcendentalism not only in capturing a shared landscape,but in McCarty’s technique: her keen observation of natural phenomenaand openness to experimentation and chance.




2 .) Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness written by Renee Mussai

Lists It Appears On:

  • New York Times
  • PDN

Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness is the long-awaited monograph from one of the most powerful visual activists of our time. The book features over ninety of Muholi’s evocative self-portraits, each image drafted from material props in Muholi’s immediate environment. A powerfully arresting collection of work, Muholi’s radical statements of identity, race, and resistance are a direct response to contemporary and historical racisms. As Muholi states, “I am producing this photographic document to encourage individuals in my community to be brave enough to occupy spaces―brave enough to create without fear of being vilified. . . . To teach people about our history, to rethink what history is all about, to reclaim it for ourselves―to encourage people to use artistic tools such as cameras as weapons to fight back.




1 .) Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler; Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art written by Mary Gabriel

Lists It Appears On:

  • Booklist 1
  • Kirkus
  • New York Times

Gutsy and indomitable, Lee Krasner was a hell-raising leader among artists long before she became part of the modern art world’s first celebrity couple by marrying Jackson Pollock. Elaine de Kooning, whose brilliant mind and peerless charm made her the emotional center of the New York School, used her work and words to build a bridge between the avant-garde and a public that scorned abstract art as a hoax. Grace Hartigan fearlessly abandoned life as a New Jersey housewife and mother to achieve stardom as one of the boldest painters of her generation. Joan Mitchell, whose notoriously tough exterior shielded a vulnerable artist within, escaped a privileged but emotionally damaging Chicago childhood to translate her fierce vision into magnificent canvases. And Helen Frankenthaler, the beautiful daughter of a prominent New York family, chose the difficult path of the creative life. Her gamble paid off: At twenty-three she created a work so original it launched a new school of painting.



The 250+ Additional Best Coffee Table Books Og Last Year



# Books Authors Lists
18 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die: A Life-Changing List James Mustich Folio
19
21 Discounts Seniors Get Only if They Know
Reader’s Digest
20
A Completely True Work of Fiction: Jim Goldberg’s Raised By Wolves
Magnum Photos
21 A Detroit Nocturne DAVE JORDANO
Elizabeth Avedon Journal
22
AGENTS OF FAITH: VOTIVE OBJECTS IN TIME AND PLACE
New York Times
23 Albert Namatjira National Gallery of Australia Readings
24 Ali
Reader’s Digest
25
ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS: A BIOGRAPHY OF ROCK HUDSON
Kirkus
26 Almost True STEVEN BOLLMAN
Elizabeth Avedon Journal
27 American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin Terrance Hayes MutualArt
28
An Atmosphere of Fear: Matt Black on Documenting Migration
Magnum Photos
29 And Time Unfolds PDN
30
Animal Kingdom: A Collection of Portraits
Amazon
31 Anni Albers
Publishers Weekly
32 Annie Leibovitz Portraits 2005-2016
Reader’s Digest
33 Apollo: VII – XVII Amazon
34
Approximate Joy: How Christopher Anderson’s imagined future shaped a vision of the present
Magnum Photos
35 Arctic: New Frontier
Elizabeth Avedon Journal
36 As it may be
Magnum Photos
37 Astounding: John W Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard and the Golden Age of Science Fiction Alec Nevala-Lee Folio
38
ATLAS OF BRUTALIST ARCHITECTURE
New York Times
39 Bauhaus Dwell
40 Be Bold: Bespoke Modern Interiors Dwell
41 Beaches
Reader’s Digest
42
Berenice Abbott: A Life in Photography
Booklist 1
43
Between the Lines: How Ernie Barnes Went from the Football Field to the Art Gallery
Booklist 2
44
BETWEEN WORLDS: THE ART OF BILL TRAYLOR
New York Times
45
Beyond the Myth: The Legacy of May ’68
Magnum Photos
46 Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany Amazon
47
BING CROSBY: SWINGING ON A STAR: THE WAR YEARS, 1940-1946
Kirkus
48 Blood Water Paint Booklist 2
49 Blue Laura Vaccaro Seeger NPR
50
Bob Langrish’s World of Horses: A Master Photographer’s Lifelong Quest to Capture the Most Magnificent Horses in the World
Publishers Weekly
51
Book Towns: Forty-Five Paradises of the Printed Word
Publishers Weekly
52 Born To Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life And Mysterious Genius Of Edward Gorey Mark Dery NPR
53 Born to Ice Amazon
54
Brand by Hand: Blisters, Calluses, and Clients: A Life in Design
Amazon
55 Brave Enough Booklist 2
56
Bruce Gilden’s Forgotten Portrait of Syracuse, New York
Magnum Photos
57
BRUCE NAUMAN: DISAPPEARING ACTS
New York Times
58 Bruce Nauman: Mindfuck Philip Larrat-Smith MutualArt
59
Bruce Springsteen: From Asbury Park, to Born to Run, to Born in the USA
Publishers Weekly
60
California Crazy: American Pop Architecture
Dwell
61
CAPTIVE AUDIENCE: ON LOVE AND REALITY TV
Kirkus
62
Carlos Santana: Sound of the Heart, Song of the World
Booklist 2
63
CHALK: THE ART AND ERASURE OF CY TWOMBLY
Kirkus
64 Che: A Revolutionary Life Jon Lee Anderson, illustrated NPR
65
CHINESE MOVIE MAGAZINES: FROM CHARLIE CHAPLIN TO CHAIRMAN MAO 1921-1951
New York Times
66 Chromatopia David Coles Readings
67 Civilization: The Way We Live Now William A. Ewing & Holly Roussell Readings
68 Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s Leslie S. Klinger Folio
69
Coyote Doggirl by Lisa Hanawalt (available here)
NYLON
70 Creative Quest Questlove NPR
71
CURATORIAL ACTIVISM: TOWARDS AN ETHICS OF CURATING
New York Times
72
D C-T! by Joana Avillez and Molly Young (available here)
NYLON
73
DAEMON VOICES: ON STORIES AND STORYTELLING
Kirkus
74
David LaChapelle: Lost and Found Part I Book
OPUMO
75 David Levinthal: War, Myth, Desire PDN
76 Dawoud Bey: Seeing Deeply PDN
77
DEANA LAWSON: AN APERTURE MONOGRAPH
New York Times
78
DECODING MIMBRES PAINTING: ANCIENT CERAMICS OF THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST
New York Times
79 Depardon in America
Magnum Photos
80 Design for Plebes and Royalty Alike
Publishers Weekly
81 Donald: The Book
Reader’s Digest
82 Dream Design Live Dwell
83 Dreamers Yuyi Morales NPR
84 Dreamscapes
Publishers Weekly
85
Drowned River: The Death and Rebirth of Glen Canyon on the Colorado
PDN
86 Edward Weston Book OPUMO
87 El Libro Supremo de la Suerte PDN
88 Elements of Architecture Dwell
89 Everything in the Universe is Unfinished Yoko Ono MutualArt
90 Everything You Need For A Treehouse Carter Higgins, illustrated NPR
91 Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles Mark Russell, illustrated NPR
92
Fashion Climbing: A Memoir with Photographs
Booklist 1
93 Feel Free: Essays Zadie Smith NPR
94
Fish Town: Down the Road to Louisiana’s Vanishing Fishing Communities
PDN
95 FLIGHTS
New York Times
96 Forever Or A Day Sarah Jacoby NPR
97
FORMS OF ENCHANTMENT: WRITINGS ON ART AND ARTISTS
Kirkus
98 Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up Claire Wilcox & Circe Henestrosa Readings
99
From Civil Strife to Global Superpower: 80 Years of Magnum in China
Magnum Photos
100
GARY INDIANA: VILE DAYS: THE VILLAGE VOICE ART COLUMNS 1985-1988
New York Times
101
GIUSEPPE PENONE: THE INNER LIFE OF FORMS
New York Times
102
GOODBYE TO TENTH STREET: A NOVEL
New York Times
103 Green Architecture Dwell
104 H+ PDN
105 Hail the Dark Lioness
Elizabeth Avedon Journal
106 HAIRY WHO? 1966-1969
New York Times
107
Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination
Publishers Weekly
108
Henri Cartier-Bresson: Principles of a Practice
Magnum Photos
109
HILMA AF KLINT: PAINTINGS FOR THE FUTURE
New York Times
110 Hiroshi Sugimoto: Portraits PDN
111 History of the World Map by Map
Publishers Weekly
112
Homes for Our Time: Contemporary Houses around the World
Dwell
113
Hudson Modern: Residential Landscapes
Dwell
114 Humans of New York: Stories
Reader’s Digest
115 I Am Inuit PDN
116 Iconic Magazine Covers: The Inside Stories Told By the People Who Made Them Ian Birch Folio
117
Improv Nation: How We Made a Great American Art
Booklist 1
118 In My Room
Elizabeth Avedon Journal
119 Industrial Facility Dwell
120
Innumerable Insects: The Story of the Most Diverse and Myriad Animals on Earth
Publishers Weekly
121
Insiders & Company: The New Artisans of Interior Design
Dwell
122
Interior Portraits: At Home With Cultural Pioneers and Creative Mavericks
Dwell
123 Isay Weinfeld: An Architect from Brazil Dwell
124
It’s A Gas!: The Allure of the Gas Station
Dwell
125 Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter To The World Ashley Herring Blake NPR
126 Japan: The Cookbook
Reader’s Digest
127 Jasper PDN
128 Jim Olson: Building, Nature, Art Dwell
129
Joel Meyerowitz: Where I Find Myself: A Lifetime Retrospective (An Elephant Book)
Amazon
130
Johnny Cash: The Life and Legacy of the Man in Black
Publishers Weekly
131 Josef Koudelka: Exiles
Magnum Photos
132 Joseph Albers: Interaction
Publishers Weekly
133 Kehrer Verlag
Elizabeth Avedon Journal
134 Kjeld von Folsach and Jakob Skovgaard-Peterson, The Human Figure in Islamic Art Joachim Meyer MutualArt
135
KNOW THYSELF: WESTERN IDENTITY FROM CLASSICAL GREECE TO THE RENAISSANCE
Kirkus
136 Le Corbusier: The Built Work Dwell
137 Leonardo da Vinci. Booklist 1
138 LINA BO BARDI
New York Times
139
Little Big Rooms: New Nurseries and Rooms To Play In
Dwell
140 Little: A Novel Edward Carey NPR
141 Littoral Drift + Ecotone PDN
142 Living in the Desert Phaidon Readings
143 Love Matt de la Peña, illustrated NPR
144
Love Colour: Choosing Colours to Live With
Publishers Weekly
145
Love That Bunch by Aline Kominsky-Crumb (available here)
NYLON
146 Lucian Freud
Publishers Weekly
147
Magnum Photographers Explore Home
Magnum Photos
148 Manifest PDN
149 Mark Power: Good Morning, America
Magnum Photos
150
Martha’s Flowers: A Practical Guide to Growing, Gathering, and Enjoying
Publishers Weekly
151 Martin Parr’s Beach Therapy
Magnum Photos
152 MASAHISA FUKASE
New York Times
153
Massimo Listri: The World’s Most Beautiful Libraries
Reader’s Digest
154 May I Come In?
Publishers Weekly
155 Mediations PDN
156
Meet Cindy Sherman: Artist, Photographer, Chameleon
Booklist 2
157
Merrie Albion: Landscape Studies of a Small Island
PDN
158 Mind The Gap PDN
159
Minding the Store: A Big Story about a Small Business by Julie Gaines and Ben Lenovitz (available here)
NYLON
160 Mirka & Georges: A Culinary Affair Lesley Harding & Kendrah Morgan Readings
161
Mistral: The Legendary Wind of Provence
PDN
162 Miyazakiworld: A Life in Art Susan Napier MutualArt
163 Moby Dick: The Illustrated Novel Herman Melville and Anton Lomaev, ill. Folio
164 Monster Portraits Sofia Samatar, illustrated NPR
165 Mother and Child
Reader’s Digest
166 MURALS OF TIBET
New York Times
167
Nashville: Scenes from the New American South
Amazon
168 New Shoes Chris Raschka NPR
169 North Korea: The Grand Tour
Magnum Photos
170 Notes from the Woodshed Jack Whitten MutualArt
171 Nothing Personal PDN
172 Ocean Liners: A Visual History
Publishers Weekly
173
On Abortion: And the Repercussions of Lack of Access
PDN
174 One, Two, Three, More PDN
175 Over My Eyes PDN
176 Pantone: The 20th Century in Color
Reader’s Digest
177 Paolo Pellegrin: Un’antologia
Magnum Photos
178
Part of It: Comics and Confessions by Ariel Schrag (available here)
NYLON
179
Passing for Human by Liana Finck (available here)
NYLON
180
Pasta for Nightingales: A 17th-Century Handbook of Bird-care and Folklore
Publishers Weekly
181 Pattern Design Elizabeth Wilhide Readings
182 Paul Outerbridge Book OPUMO
183 PINE PDN
184 Pit Bull Flower Power
Publishers Weekly
185
PLANET FUNNY: HOW COMEDY TOOK OVER OUR CULTURE
Kirkus
186
Point of View: Me, New York City, and the Punk Scene
Amazon
187 Pompeii Archive PDN
188
POSING MODERNITY: THE BLACK MODEL FROM MANET AND MATISSE TO TODAY
New York Times
189
Power and the Camera: Gregory Halpern on Intuition, Reflection and Representation
Magnum Photos
190 Prince Street Girls
Magnum Photos
191 Priya Ramrakha PDN
192
PROUST’S DUCHESS: HOW THREE CELEBRATED WOMEN CAPTURED THE IMAGINATION OF FIN-DE-SIÈCLE PARIS
Kirkus
193
Rafal Milach Uses Visual Metaphors to Deconstruct the System
Magnum Photos
194 Re-membrance of the Remembrance
Elizabeth Avedon Journal
195
Remembering Diana: A Life in Photographs
Reader’s Digest
196 Ren Hang Book OPUMO
197 René Burri: Imaginary Pyramids
Magnum Photos
198 RENÉ D
New York Times
199 Resurrection City, 1968 PDN
200 Richard Kalvar: Photo Poche
Magnum Photos
201 RICHARD PRINCE: HIGH TIMES
New York Times
202 Rivages
Magnum Photos
203 Romance Was Born Anna Plunkett, Luke Sales & Georgina Safe Readings
204 Room to Dream . Booklist 1
205
Sabrina by Nick Drnaso (available here)
NYLON
206
Sacred Spaces: The Awe-Inspiring Architecture of Churches and Cathedrals
Publishers Weekly
207 Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings PDN
208 Series of Dreams Russell Joslin
Elizabeth Avedon Journal
209 Serpent in the Wilderness ANDY RICHTER
Elizabeth Avedon Journal
210
She Disappeared into Complete Silence
Elizabeth Avedon Journal
211
Shoplifter!: New Retail Architecture and Brand Spaces
Dwell
212 Silver Lake Drive PDN
213
Smithsonian Flora: Inside the Secret World of Plants
Publishers Weekly
214 Social Forms: A Short History of Political Art Christian Viveros Faune and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro MutualArt
215 Social Practices Chris Kraus MutualArt
216
Sohrab Hura on his Dilemmas Photographing the Marginalized
Magnum Photos
217 Sory Sanlé: Volta Photo PDN
218
Space Atlas, Second Edition: Mapping the Universe and Beyond
Reader’s Digest
219
Specimens of Hair: The Curious Collection of Peter A. Browne
Publishers Weekly
220
Stanley Kubrick Photographs: Through a Different Lens
Amazon
221
STEALING THE SHOW: HOW WOMEN ARE REVOLUTIONIZING TELEVISION
Kirkus
222 Supergroup Richard Prince MutualArt
223
Supersonic: The Design and Lifestyle of Concorde
Amazon
224
Sweet Life, Chapter 2 – Look It’s Getting Sunny Outside!!!
Magnum Photos
225
Tales of the Genji: A Visual Companion
Publishers Weekly
226
Texas Made/Texas Modern: The House and the Land
Dwell
227
THANKS A LOT MR. KIBBLEWHITE: MY STORY
Kirkus
228
The American Fraternity: An Illustrated Ritual Manual
PDN
229 The Art of the Cheese Plate
Reader’s Digest
230 The Art of the Fishing Fly
Publishers Weekly
231 The Artful Evolution Of Hal & Mal’s Malcolm White, illustrated NPR
232 The Assassination Of Brangwain Spurge M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin NPR
233 The Big Book of the Continental Op Dashiell Hammett Folio
234 The Book of the Bird: Birds in Art Angus Hyland and Kendra Wilson MutualArt
235
The Bucket List: 1000 Adventures Big & Small
Reader’s Digest
236
THE CHIAROSCURO WOODCUT IN RENAISSANCE ITALY
New York Times
237
THE COLLECTOR: THE STORY OF SERGEI SHCHUKIN AND HIS LOST MASTERPIECES
New York Times
238 The Dark Side of the Boom Georgina Adam MutualArt
239 The Dragon Slayer: Folktales From Latin America Jaime Hernandez NPR
240 The Drunken Botanist
Reader’s Digest
241 The Electric State Simon Stalenhag NPR
242
The Eye: How the World’s Most Influential Creative Directors Develop Their Vision
Amazon
243 The Frame-Up Booklist 2
244
The Global Economy as You’ve Never Seen It: 99 Ingenious Infographics That Put It All Together
Publishers Weekly
245
The Golden Ratio: The Divine Beauty of Mathematics
Publishers Weekly
246
The Great Jazz and Pop Vocal Albums
Booklist 1
247 The Heavens BARBARA BOSWORTH
Elizabeth Avedon Journal
248 The Illusion of Purpose
Elizabeth Avedon Journal
249
The Incredible True Story of Blondy Baruti: My Unlikely Journey from the Congo to Hollywood
Booklist 1
250 The Last Tattooed Women of Kalinga PDN
251
THE LOVE OF PAINTING: GENEALOGY OF A SUCCESS MEDIUM
New York Times
252
The Magnum Digest: December 14, 2018
Magnum Photos
253 The Middle Ages in 50 Objects
Publishers Weekly
254
The Minard System: The Complete Statistical Graphics of Charles-Joseph Minard
Amazon
255 The Prince And The Dressmaker Jen Wang NPR
256
The Splendor of Birds: Art and Photographs From National Geographic
Amazon
257 The World’s Most Beautiful Libraries Dwell
258 The Writer’s Map: An Atlas Of Imaginary Lands Huw Lewis-Jones NPR
259 These Truths: A History of The United States Jill Lapore Folio
260 They Can’t Kill Us until They Kill Us Booklist 1
261 They Say Blue Jillian Tamaki NPR
262 Thomas O’Brien: Library House Dwell
263
Through the Window: Views of Marc Chagall’s Life and Art
Booklist 2
264 Tigers & Tea With Toppy Barbara Kerley and Rhoda Knight Kalt, illustrated NPR
265 To Survive on This Shore PDN
266
Together, Alone: Jean Gaumy Discusses Solidarity and Solitude as he Joins the Académie des Beaux Arts
Magnum Photos
267 Tom Ford
Reader’s Digest
268 Unravelled: Contemporary Knit Art Charlotte Vannier Readings
269
Unusual Sounds: The Hidden History of Library Music
Publishers Weekly
270 Urban Sanctuary Anna Johnson & Richard Black Readings
271
Violet Isle: A Duet of Photographs from Cuba
Magnum Photos
272
Volume: Let Europe’s Finest Style Experts Spice Up Your Home
Dwell
273
War is Only Half the Story: Ten Years of the Aftermath Project
PDN
274 We are Indestructible PDN
275
WE SHALL OVERCOME: PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS OF NASHVILLE DURING THE CIVIL RIGHTS ERA
New York Times
276
Where I Find Myself: A Lifetime Retrospective
PDN
277 Whiskey Cocktails
Reader’s Digest
278
WHITEWALLING: ART, RACE & PROTEST IN 3 ACTS
New York Times
279 Why Art? Eleanor Davis NPR
280
Woman World by Aminder Dhaliwal (available here)
NYLON
281 Writers and Their Cats
Reader’s Digest
282 Yayoi Kasuma: Festival of Life
Reader’s Digest
283 Yo Soy Fidel PDN


17 Best Photography Books Of 2018 Sources/Lists



Source Article
Amazon Best art and photography books of 2018
Booklist 1 Booklist Online Top Art Books 2018
Booklist 2 Booklist Online Top Art Books For Youth 2018
Dwell The Best Design Books of 2018
Elizabeth Avedon Journal BEST PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS OF 2018 : ROUND-UP PART II
Folio The Best Books for Print Lovers, 2018 A holiday gift guide for those who believe in the lasting power of print.
Kirkus Best Arts & Entertainment Books of 2018
Magnum Photos Magnum’s Books of 2018
MutualArt The Best Art Books of 2018
New York Times The Best Art Books of 2018The Best Art Books of 2018
NPR Our Guide To 2018’s Great Reads
NYLON The Best Illustrated Books Of 2018
OPUMO 5 Of The Best Photography Books For Your Coffee Table
PDN Notable Photo Books Of 2018
Publishers Weekly Holiday Gift Guide 2018: Illustrated Books
Reader’s Digest The 20 Best Coffee Table Books to Gift This Year
Readings Readings Best Art and Design Books of 2018
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