• THE 2021 RENCONTRES D’ARLES BOOK AWARDS The Rencontres d’Arles Book Awards were created to support the publishing of photography books,...

    THE 2021 RENCONTRES D’ARLES BOOK AWARDS

     

    The Rencontres d’Arles Book Awards were created to support the publishing of photography books, a swiftly growing domain, and to help these publications reach a broader public. There are now three categories of book awards: Authors’ Books, Historical Books, and Photo-Text Books. The Fondation Jan Michalski pour l’Écriture et la Littérature backs and encourages the Photo-Text Award, which celebrates the relationship between words and images.

    Each award comes with a €6,000 prize and singles out the best photography books published between June 1, 2020 and May 31, 2021.

    The books were shortlisted by a pre-jury, composed of Rémi Coignet, Delphine Manjard and Anna Planas. The winners of the Book Awards are chosen during the opening week of the Rencontres d’Arles festival by a jury composed of Clara Bastid, Pascal Beausse, Ekow Eshun, Anne Lacoste, Jean-Marc Prévost, Sophie Quéval and Vera Michalski.

     
  • PHOTO-TEXT BOOK AWARD

    Winner

    Title: The Idiots Delight

    Photographs and texts: Duane Michals

    Publisher: Editions Bessard

    Graphic design: Sybren Kuyper

     

    Special mention

    Title: John Cage: A Mycological Foray

    Photographs: collective

    Texts: Kingston Trinder and John Cage

    Publisher: Atelier Editions

    Graphic design: Capucine Labarthe

     

    HISTORICAL BOOK AWARD

    Winner

    Title: To Make Their Own Way in the World, The Enduring Legacy of the Zealy Daguerreotypes

    Texts and photographs: Collective

    Publisher: Aperture Foundation & Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology Harvard University

    Graphic design: Duncan Whyte

     

    Special mention

    Title: 1839. Daguerre, Talbot and the publication of photography. An anthology.

    Texts: Steffen Siegel

    Publisher: Macula

    Graphics: Schaffter Sahli

     

    AUTHOR'S BOOK AWARD

    Winner

    Title: Freedom Is Not Free

    Photographer: Mashid Mohadjerin

    Publisher: Royal Academy Fine Arts

    Graphic design: Jelle Jespers

     

    Special Mention

    Title: Whatever You Say, Say Nothing

    Photographer: Gilles Peress

    Publisher: Steidl

    Graphic design: Peress / Steidl

     

    Main partner: The Fondation Jan Michalski pour l’écriture et la littérature

    With support from FNAC for the AuthorsBook award.

     

    SHORTLIST OF PHOTO-TEXT BOOK AWARD

     

    How I Tried to Convince My Husband to Have Children

    Author: Olga Bushkova

    Publisher: Witty Books

     

    Agata

    Author: Bieke Depoorter et Agata Korbus

    Publisher: Auto-Edition

     

    Unprofessional

    Author: Matilde Soes Rasmussen

    Publisher: Disko Bay

     

    Sans Lui

    Author: Sophie Calle

    Publisher: Atelier Exb

     

    The Idiots Delight

    Author: Duane Michals

    Publisher: Edition Bessard

    Graphic design: Sybren Kuyper

     

    John Cage: A Mycological Foray

    Photographs: collective

    Texts : Kingston Trinder and John Cage

    Publisher: Atelier Editions

    Graphic design : Capucine Labarthe

     

    How to Rejuvenate an Eagle

    Author: Adam Lach et Dyba Lach

    Publisher: Auto-Edition

     

    The Parameters of Our Cage

    Author: C. Fausto Cabrera et Alec Soth

    Publisher: Mack

     

    The San Quentin Project

    Author: Nigel Poor

    Publisher: Aperture Foundation

     

    On This Day

    Author: Klara Kallstrom, Thobias Faldt et Thomas Sauvin

    Publisher: Co-édition B-B-B-Books et Beijing Sivermine

     

    Beyond the Shadows

    Author: Elsa & Johanna

    Publisher: Editions H2l2

     

    Je suis malheureuse et heureuse

    Author: Anais Horn

    Publisher: Meta/Books

     

    SHORTLIST OF HISTORICAL PHOTO BOOK AWARD

     

    1839. Daguerre, Talbot et la publication de la photographie. Une anthologie.

    Author: Steffen Siege

    Publisher: Éditions Macula

    Graphics: Schaffter Sahli

     

     

    Claudia Andujar

    Author: Claudia Andujar et Thyago Nogueira

    Publisher: Fundacion Mapfre

     

    La Primera Movida

    Author: Miguel Trillo

    Publisher: Archivo Lafuente / La Fabrica

     

    Une Histoire mondiale des femmes photographes

    Author: sous la direction De Luce Lebart et Marie Robert

    Publisher: Éditions Textuel

     

    Voir Paris, Atget

    Author: Eugene Atget

    Publisher: Atelier Exb

     

    How to Look Natural in Photos

    Author: Bartecka & Rusznica

    Publisher: Palm Studios

     

    Encampment, Wyoming - Selections From the Lora Webb Nichols Archive 1899-1948

    Author: Lora Webb Nichols / Nicole Jean Hill

    Publisher: Fw:Books

     

    Nasa Apollo 11 - Man on the Moon. The Visual Archive

    Author: Studio Tillack Knoll

    Publisher: Spector Books

     

    To Make Their Own Way in the World : The Enduring Legacy of the Zealy Daguerreotypes

    Author: Collectif

    Publisher: Aperture Foundation

    Graphic design : Duncan Whyte

     

    Hayal & Hakikat: A Handbook of Forgiveness & A Handbook of Punishment

    Author: Cemre Yesil Gonenli

    Publisher: Gost Books

     

    SHORTLIST OF AUTHOR BOOK AWARD

     

    Freedom Is Not Free

    Author: Mashid Mohadjerin

    Publisher: Royal Academy Fine Arts

    Graphic design: Jelle Jespers

     

    Estudio elemental del Levante

    Author: Ricardo Cases

    Publisher: Dalpine

    Graphic design : Peress / Steidl

     

    Los Angeles Standards

    Author: Caroline Desroches & Cyril Desroches

    Publisher: Poursuite

     

    Dystopia IV: Pallas

    Author: Maxime Muller

    Publisher: Auto-édition

     

    Paris Nord

    Author: Myr Muratet

    Publisher: Building Books

     

    Sister Sister

    Author: Liv Liberg

    Publisher: Art Paper Editions

     

    Universal Tongue

    Author: Anouk Kruithof

    Publisher: Art Paper Editions

     

    Two Thousand Words

    Author: Roberto Aguirrezabala

    Publisher: Éd. Roberto Aguirrezabala

     

    Face to Face

    Author: Seiichi Furuya & Christine Gossler

    Publisher: Chose Commune

     

    Galerna

    Author: Jon Cazenave Arriola

    Publisher: Atelier Exb

     

    Hoarder Order

    Author: Thomas Kuijpers

    Publisher: Fw:Books

     

    Ciprian Honey Cathedral

    Author: Raymond Meeks

    Publisher: Mack

     

    Family Stranger

    Author: Wiosna Van Bon

    Publisher: The Eriskay Connection

     

    Hernie & Plume

    Author: Katherine Longly

    Publisher: The Eriskay Connection

     

    Dear Imaginary Audience

    Author: Eva & Franco Mattes

    Publisher: Spector Books

     

    Franziska Klose: Detroit. Field Notes from a Wild City

    Author: Franziska Klose

    Publisher: Spector Books

     

    Whatever You Say, Say Nothing

    Author: Gilles Peress

    Publisher: Steidl

    Graphic design : Peress / Steidl

     

    Cut Outs

    Author: Jessica Backhaus

    Publisher: Kehrer Verlag

     

    Libre Maintenant

    Author: Pierre Liebaert

    Publisher: L'éditeur du dimanche

     

    I Wish I Never Saw the Sunshine

    Author: Pacifico Silano

    Publisher: Loose Joints

     

    Virus

    Author: Antoine D'Agata

    Publisher: Studio Vortex

     

    Weathering Time

    Author: Nancy Floyd

    Publisher: Gost Books

     

    Ce qu'il se passe

    Author: Mathieu Pernot

    Publisher: Editions Gwinzegal

     

    Equation du temps

    Author: Raphael Dallaporta

    Publisher: The Eyes Publishing

     

    Everybody's Ataturk

    Author: Mine Dal

    Publisher: Edition Patrick Frey

     

    You I Everything Else

    Author: Linn Phyllis Seeger

    Publisher: Skinnerboox