That time of year again and, in no particular order, here are my personal favorite Project 12 Groups 2011-plus some bonus options.
Strictly speaking, it was published at the end of the tail is 2010, but it has become one of the most talked about Project Groups this year. Official documents of the disintegration of the brilliant and intense dramatic American cities once-great for several decades.
Original photographs, family portraits, and combine text in note Léonie Hampton's mother "rituals and irrational behavior", together, they fight to clean up the family house artifacts accumulated a lifetime. An intimate of the most powerful reportage.
Ten years on the incredible first book, Aila, continuing its journey to everyday Kawauchi. The same mixture of intimacy and deceptively casual observation holds the power and the end result remains amazingly beautiful.
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