There are few things as pleasurable as reading a photography book. Through sequence and design, a story unfolds, a trip into another world where the photographer is our guide. CraveOnline has selected seven of the top photography books of the new millennium, each offering a new way of looking at the world, of understanding its history and traditions, as well as understanding the ability of photographs to take us to places we could not otherwise go.
Conflict and Costume: The Herero Tribe of Namibia by Jim Naughten (Merrell Publishers, 2013)
Guy Bourdin: A Message For You (Steidl, 2006)
The Hyena and Other Men by Pieter Hugo (Prestel, 2008)
Official Portraits by Klaus Zwangsleitner (Trolley Books, 2005)
Piksa Niugini: Portraits and Diaries by Stephen Dupont (Radius Books, 2013)
The Prison by Koto Bolofo (Steidl, 2014)
Sometimes Overwhelming by Arlene Gottfried (powerHouse Books, 2008)
Miss Rosen is a New York-based writer, curator, and brand strategist. There is nothing she adores so much as photography and books. A small part of her wishes she had a proper library, like in the game of Clue. Then she could blaze and write soliloquies to her in and out of print loves.
