{"id":530,"date":"2009-01-18T10:45:30","date_gmt":"2009-01-18T10:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=530"},"modified":"2009-01-18T10:45:30","modified_gmt":"2009-01-18T10:45:30","slug":"best-photo-books-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=530","title":{"rendered":"Best Photo Books 2008?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.photoeye.com\/magazine\/Bestof2008\/2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Photoeye Magazine<\/a> invited 17 largely well-known publishers, photographers and critics to list their top ten or so photography books which came out last year. Most of the lists they got back listed the choices in no particular order, but by combining the lists, Photoeye has come up with an overall top ten, and as well as seeing all 17 lists you also look at the books and see who chose them.<\/p>\n<p>Even more usefully there are links to the books so you can take a peek at them on line if you don&#8217;t already have them on your shelves &#8211; and it is hardly a surprise that you can also buy at least nearly all of them.\u00a0 My own shelves are so overflowing I hardly dare add anything, and most that I do are second-hand or books sent for review. But there are one or two listed I&#8217;m thinking about &#8211; just a shame the publishers didn&#8217;t send me review copies!<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.magnumphotos.com\/2009\/01\/best_photo_books_of_2008.html\" target=\"_blank\">Magnum blog<\/a> also lists the choices made by the two Magnum members among those asked, Martin Parr and Alex Soth. The only point in looking at them there rather than on Photoeye is that you can if you wish make comments. But there were none when I read the post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photoeye Magazine invited 17 largely well-known publishers, photographers and critics to list their top ten or so photography books which came out last year. Most of the lists they got back listed the choices in no particular order, but by combining the lists, Photoeye has come up with an overall top ten, and as well &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=530\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Best Photo Books 2008?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews-etc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}