Past photography winners
2023
Sorry I Gave Birth I Disappeared But Now I’m Back
See the 2023 Book Awards page for more information about Sorry I Gave Birth I Disappeared But Now I’m Back.
Trolley Books
2022
What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women, 1843–1999
See the 2022 Book Awards page for more information about What They Saw.
10×10 Photobooks
2021
Dream is Wonderful, Yet Unclear
JOINT WINNER. See the 2021 Book Awards page for more information about Dream is Wonderful, Yet Unclear.
Milda Books
2021
Sunil Gupta: From Here to Eternity
JOINT WINNER. See the 2021 Book Awards page for more information about From Here to Eternity.
Autograph
2020
LaToya Ruby Frazier
See the 2020 Book Awards page for more information about LaToya Ruby Frazier.
Mousse Publishing
2019
Somnyama Ngonyama: Hail the Dark Lioness
See the 2019 Book Awards page for more information about ‘Somnyama Ngonyama: Hail the Dark Lioness‘.
Aperture
2018
Field Studies: Walking through Landscapes and Archives
A Natural History Museum short film about the making of Field Studies can be viewed here.
FW: Books
2017
Provoke: Between Protest and Performance
Steidl
2016
The Erasure Trilogy
Steidl
2015
Amore e Piombo
AMC
2014
Sergio Larrain: Vagabond Photographer
Éditions Xavier Barral and Thames and Hudson
2013
War/Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath
Yale University Press
2012
Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photographs
J. Paul Getty Museum
2011
TJ: Johannesburg Photographs 1948-2010 / Double Negative: A Novel
Constrasto
2010
Oil
Steidl
2009
In History
Steidl
2008
Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945
Thames and Hudson
2008
Impressed By Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840-1860
Yale University Press
2006
The Photobook: A History, Volumes 1 & 2
Phaidon
2004
Res: Lo Stato delle Cose
Contrasto
2004
Family Business
Steidl
2002
The Photographic Art of William Henry Fox Talbot
Princeton University Press
2002
The Beautiful and the Damned: The Creation of Identity in Nineteenth Century Photography
Lund Humphries in association with the National Portrait Gallery
2000
Case History
Scalo
2000
Scientific Photography and Applied Imaging
Focal Press
1999
Photography: An Independent Art – Photographs from the Victoria & Albert Museum 1839-1996
V&A Publishing
1999
Real Fantasies:Edward Steichen’s Advertising Photography
University of California Press
1999
High Speed Photography and Photonics
Focal Press
1999
Parisian Views
MIT Press
1999
Delta: The Perils, Profits and Politics of Water in South and Southeast Asia
Thames & Hudson
1998
Umbo: Otto Umbehr 1902-1980
Richter Verlag
1998
Beauty of Another Order: Photography in Science
Contributions by Marta Braun, Mimi Cazort, Martin Kemp, John McElhone and Larry Schaaf
Yale University Press, UK/USA in association with the National Gallery of Canada
1996
In Retrospect
Sinclair-Stevenson, UK and Alfred A Knopf, USA
1996
Records of the Dawn of Photography: Talbot’s Notebooks P & Q
Cambridge University Press
1994
The Illustrated History of Colour Photography
Fountain Books
1994
Walker Evans: The Hungry Eye
Éditions du Seuil and Thames & Hudson
1994
Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue
Aperture
1992
Photography at the Bauhaus
Dirk Nishen
1992
Out of the Shadows: Herschel, Talbot and the Invention of Photography
Yale University Press, USA/UK
1992
Biomedical Photography
Focal Press
1988
Unexplored London
Lennard
1985
Let Truth Be the Prejudice: W Eugene Smith, His Life and Photography
Aperture
1985
Kroppen Forsvar / Human Body’s Defence
Bonnier Fakta
1985
Incurably Romantic
Temple University Press