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The Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards is a yearly photography book award that is given jointly by Paris Photo and Aperture Foundation. It is announced at the Paris Photo fair and was established in 2012. The categories are First PhotoBook (with a $10,000 prize), Photography Catalogue of the Year, and PhotoBook of the Year.
The shortlisted books are displayed at Paris Photo and then tour to Aperture Gallery in New York and venues elsewhere (in 2013 they toured to Denmark, Ireland, Finland and Cincinnati, OH).
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PhotoBook of the Year winners
- 2012: City Diary (Volumes 1-3) by Anders Petersen (Steidl, 2012).
- 2013: A01 [COD.19.1.1.43] -- A27 [S | COD.23] by Rosângela Rennó (RR Edições, 2013). Special jury recognition was awarded to War/Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath, edited by Anne Wilkes Tucker and Will Michels with Natalie Zelt (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston/Yale University Press, 2012).
- 2014: Imaginary Club by Oliver Sieber (Editions GwinZegal/BöhmKobayashi, 2013). Special mention was awarded to Photographs for Documents by Vytautas V. Stanionis (Kaunas Photography Gallery, 2013).
- 2015: Illustrated People by Thomas Mailaender (Archive of Modern Conflict/RVB Books, 2015). Special Jurors' Mention was awarded to Deadline by Will Steacy (b.frank books, 2015).
- 2016: ZZYZX by Gregory Halpern (Mack, 2016). Special Jurors' Mention was awarded to Taking Stock of Power: An Other View of the Berlin Wall by Annett Gröschner and Arwed Messmer (Hatje Cantz, 2016).
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First PhotoBook winners
- 2012: Concresco by David Galjaard (Self-published, 2012).
- 2013: KARMA by Óscar Monzón (RVB Books/Dalpine, 2013).
- 2014: Hidden Islam by Nicoló Degiorgis (Rorhof, 2014).
- 2015: You Haven't Seen Their Faces by Daniel Mayrit (Riot Books, 2015).
- 2016: Libyan Sugar by Michael Christopher Brown (Twin Palms, 2016).
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Photography Catalogue of the Year winners
- 2014: Christopher Williams: The Production Line of Happiness and Christopher Williams: Printed in Germany by Christopher Williams (Art Institute of Chicago, 2014) and (Walther König, 2014).
- 2015: Diane Dufour and Xavier Barral for Images of Conviction: The Construction of Visual Evidence (Xavier Barral and Le Bal, 2015).
- 2016: Wojciech Zamecznik: Photo-graphics by Karolina Pucha?a-Rojek and Karolina Zi?bi?ska-Lewandowska (Fundacja Archeologia Fotografii, 2015).
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