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12 Graphic Designers on Their Favorite Books

Whether they’re about pills, products, art, or architecture, here are the books that photobook designers always come back to.

How Alex Webb Sees in Color

Dayanita Singh Finds Common Ground in the Work of Two Architects

Stephen Shore’s American Beauty

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Confronting the Legacy of Photography’s Anti-Blackness

Kimberly Juanita Brown reveals how the photographic enterprise is haunted by racial violence, finding new ways of looking at the dead and the living.
Interviews

Carmen Winant’s Powerful Homage to Abortion Care Workers

Assembling over 2,000 photographs of daily life in reproductive health clinics, Winant centers routine labor as an essential act of care.
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Summertime in America’s Backyard

In 1979, Stephen A. Scheer photographed a riverside community in Connecticut, showing residents reunited with natural surroundings.
Portfolios

The Uncanny Worlds of Nhu Xuan Hua

Working across art and fashion, Hua explores the constructed nature of memory in indelible, dreamlike images.
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Akihiko Okamura’s Outsider View of Northern Ireland

In the 1960s, the Japanese photographer recorded the Troubles with understated eloquence.
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