TPR’s Summer Reading Recommendations

Highlighting three recently published photobooks that are worth seeking out.

New and Notable Photobooks: King, Queen, Knave by Gregory Halpern

Halpern’s follow-up to ZZYZX, comprised of photos taken over 20 years in upstate New York, is a deeply personal, enigmatic, and totemic experience of the place he calls home.

Advice for Young Artists is Alec Soth’s Homage to Art School Students

In his latest book, Magnum photographer Alec Soth reckons with the ways that the aging process and the creative process are intertwined.

In Loft Law, Joshua Charow Locates New York’s Creative Pulse

Charow’s debut monograph explores artists’ relationships to the spaces where they live and work.

New and Notable Photobooks: Chris Killip’s Ode To An English Fishing Village

In the early 1980s, celebrated British photographer Chris Killip chronicled life in the small fishing village of Skinningrove. 40 years later, this powerful, humanist body of work is finally seeing the light of day.

New and Notable Photobooks: Silence Is A Gift by Ciro Battiloro

In his debut book, an emerging photographer seeks out the sublime in everyday moments.

Year In Review: Our Favorite Photobooks of 2022

As we look ahead to the coming year, we revisit five photobooks that stood out to us in 2022.

New and Notable Photobooks: Some Say Ice by Alessandra Sanguinetti

In her latest monograph. Alessandra Sanguinetti crafts a kind of spiritual sequel to Michael Lesy’s cult classic, Wisconsin Death Trip. The result is one of the best photobooks of the year.

New and Notable Photobooks: Speedway 1972 by Henry Horenstein

Centered around the sport of modified stock car racing, Horenstein’s new monograph comprises a fascinating look at a subculture as it existed half a century ago.

New and Notable Photobooks: Recreation by Mitch Epstein

In this newly revised and expanded edition of Recreation, Mitch Epstein brings focus to life’s in-between moments while chronicling Americans’ pursuit of leisure across several decades.