The Best Art & Photography Books of 2016 (A Year-End List Aggregation)
“What are the best Art & Photography Books of 2016?” We aggregated 32 year-end lists and ranked the 446 unique titles by how many times they appeared in an attempt to answer that very question!
There are thousands of year-end lists released every year and, like we do in our weekly Best Book articles, we wanted to see which books appear on them the most. We used 32 lists and found 446 unique titles. The top 22 books, all appearing on 3 or more lists, are below with images, summaries, and links for learning more or purchasing. The remaining books, along with the articles we used, can be found at the bottom of the page.
Be sure to check out our other Best Book of the year lists:
- The Best Fiction Books of 2016
- The Best Nonfiction Books of 2016
- The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books of 2016
- The Best Cookbooks of 2016
- The Best Graphic Novels & Comics of 2016
- The Best Poetry Books of 2016
- The Best Biography & Memoir Books of 2016
- The Best Science & Nature Books of 2016
- The Best History Books of 2016
And if you want to see how they compare to last year, take a look at the 2015 lists as well!
Happy Scrolling!
The Top Art & Photography Books of 2016
22 .) 1% Privilege in a Time of Global Inequality by Myles Little
Lists It Appears On:
- Time
- American Photomag
- PDN
To be able to simply drift in the infinity pool on the roof terrace of the 57-floor Marina Bay Sand Hotel, while enjoying in the background the urban soundscape of Singapore’s imposing sea of high-rises; or to be personally welcomed to a private champagne party after an extended hot-air balloon ride over the Kenyan wilderness: the extravagant pleasures of the wealthiest 1% of the earth’s population represent an extreme contrast to those of the remaining 99%. Describing the gaping disparities in images is a challenge that has been taken up by photographers such as Nina Berman, Peter Bialobrzeski, Guillaume Bonn, Greg Girard, David Leventi, Michael Light, Andrew Moore, Matthew Pillsbury, Mikhael Subotzky, Brian Ulrich and many others. This volume provides visual evidence of the blatant discrepancy between people’s living conditions, which can be as fascinating as it is shocking.
21 .) Alexander McQueen: Unseen by Robert Fairer
Lists It Appears On:
- San Francisco Chronicle
- San Francisco Chronicle
- Vogue
Alexander McQueen, the iconic designer whose untimely death in 2010 left the fashion world reeling and fans worldwide clamoring for more, fused immense creativity, audacity, and a hauntingly dark aesthetic sense into powerful, unforgettable imagery. The strange, singular beauty of his clothing was matched by the spectacle of his legendary fashion shows, which demonstrated his outstanding showmanship and consistently pushed the boundaries of runway events. Robert Fairer’s intimate, vibrant full-color photographs of McQueen’s collections, taken backstage and on the catwalk when few photographers were allowed access, offer a unique insight into the life and work of one of the world’s most captivating figures.
20 .) Dear Data by Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec
Lists It Appears On:
- Amazon
- Fast Code Design
- Print Mag
Equal parts mail art, data visualization, and affectionate correspondence, Dear Data celebrates “the infinitesimal, incomplete, imperfect, yet exquisitely human details of life,” in the words of Maria Popova (Brain Pickings), who introduces this charming and graphically powerful book. For one year, Giorgia Lupi, an Italian living in New York, and Stefanie Posavec, an American in London, mapped the particulars of their daily lives as a series of hand-drawn postcards they exchanged via mail weekly—small portraits as full of emotion as they are data, both mundane and magical. Dear Data reproduces in pinpoint detail the full year’s set of cards, front and back, providing a remarkable portrait of two artists connected by their attention to the details of their lives—including complaints, distractions, phone addictions, physical contact, and desires. These details illuminate the lives of two remarkable young women and also inspire us to map our own lives, including specific suggestions on what data to draw and how. A captivating and unique book for designers, artists, correspondents, friends, and lovers everywhere.
19 .) Hieronymus Bosch, Painter and Draughtsman: Catalogue Raisonne by Matthijs Ilsink and Jos Koldeweij
Lists It Appears On:
- The App Whisperer
- Spectator
- Spectator
Compiled by members of the Bosch Research and Conservation Project and published on the 500th anniversary of Hieronymus Bosch’s death, this is the definitive new catalogue of all of Bosch’s extant paintings and drawings. His mastery and genius have been redefined as a result of six years of research on the iconography, techniques, pedigree, and conservation history of his paintings and on his life. This stunning volume includes all new photography, as well as up-to-date research on the individual works. For the first time, the incredible creativity of this late medieval artist, expressed in countless details, is reproduced and discussed in this book. Special attention is being paid to Bosch as an image maker, a skilled draughtsman, and a brutal painter, changing the game of painting around 1500 by his innovative way of working.
18 .) Highway Kind by Justine Kurland
Lists It Appears On:
- Time
- Elin Spring
- American Photomag
Following in the photographic lineage of Robert Frank, Stephen Shore, and Joel Sternfeld, Justine Kurland’s work examines the story of America―and the idea of the American dream juxtaposed against the reality. Her deep interest in the road, the western frontier, escape, and ways of living outside mainstream values pervade this stunning and important body of work. Since 2004, Kurland and her young son, Casper, have traveled in their customized van, going south in the winter and north in the summer, her life as an artist and mother finely balanced between the need for routine and the desire for freedom and surprise. Casper’s interest ―particularly in trains, and later in cars―and those he befriends along the way often determine Kurland’s subject matter. He appears at different ages in the work, against open vistas and among the subcultures of train-hoppers and drifters around them. Kurland’s vision is in equal parts raw and romantic, idyllic and dystopian. From highly symbolic pictures of trains moving across epic landscapes to allegorical depictions of mechanics and muscle cars, this book features the full scope of her road work―from her series This Train is Bound for Glory, to her most recent, Sincere Auto Care.
17 .) Inherit The Dust by Nick Brandt
Lists It Appears On:
- PDN
- Financial Review
- American Photomag
Three years after the completion of his trilogy, On This Earth, A Shadow Falls Across the Ravaged Land, Nick Brandt returned to East Africa to photograph the escalating changes to the continent’s natural world and its animals. In a series of epic panoramas, Brandt recorded the impact of man in places where animals used to roam, but no longer do. In each location, Brandt erected a life-size panel of one of his portrait photographs–showing groups of elephants, rhinos, giraffes, lions, cheetahs and zebras–placing the displaced animals on sites of explosive urban development, new factories, wastelands and quarries. The contemporary figures within the photographs seem oblivious to the presence of the panels and the animals represented in them, who are now no more than ghosts in the landscape. Inherit the Dust includes this new body of panoramic photographs along with original portraits of the animals used in the panoramas, the unique emotional animal portraiture for which Brandt is recognized. There are also two essays by the artist: a text about the crisis facing the conservation of the natural world in East Africa, and behind-the-scenes descriptions of Brandt’s elaborate production process, with accompanying documentary photographs.
16 .) Kitchen Table Series by Carrie Mae Weems
Lists It Appears On:
- The New York Times Magazine
- The App Whisperer
- American Photomag
Kitchen Table Series is the first publication dedicated solely to this early and important body of work by the American artist Carrie Mae Weems. The 20 photographs and 14 text panels that make up Kitchen Table Series tell a story of one woman’s life, as conducted in the intimate setting of her kitchen. The kitchen, one of the primary spaces of domesticity and the traditional domain of women, frames her story, revealing to us her relationships―with lovers, children, friends―and her own sense of self, in her varying projections of strength, vulnerability, aloofness, tenderness and solitude. As Weems describes it, this work of art depicts “the battle around the family … monogamy … and between the sexes.” Weems herself is the protagonist of the series, though the woman she depicts is an archetype. Kitchen Table Series seeks to reposition and reimagine the possibility of women and the possibility of people of color, and has to do with, in the artist’s words, “unrequited love.”
15 .) Lartigue: Life in Color by Martine D’Astier
Lists It Appears On:
- Elin Spring
- Vogue
- The Art of Photography
Although known for his black-and-white work, Lartigue loved color film, experimenting with the Autochrome process in the teens and twenties and embracing Ektachrome in the late 1940s. His color work, reproduced here for the first time, is astonishingly fresh: the French countryside, the women in his life, famous friends (Picasso, Fellini), and glimpses from his travels all come alive in this delightful book.
14 .) Les Dîners De Gala by Salvador Dalí
Lists It Appears On:
- Vulture
- NPR
- Spectator
“This reprint features all 136 recipes over 12 chapters, specially illustrated by Dalí, and organized by meal courses, including aphrodisiacs. The illustrations and recipes are accompanied by Dalí’s extravagant musings on subjects such as dinner conversation: “The jaw is our best tool to grasp philosophical knowledge.”
All these rich recipes can be cooked at home, although some will require practiced skill and a well-stocked pantry. This is cuisine of the old school, with meals by leading French chefs from such stellar Paris restaurants as Lasserre, La Tour d’Argent, Maxim’s, and Le Train Bleu. Good taste, however voluptuous, never goes out of fashion. In making this exceptionally rare book available to a wide audience, TASCHEN brings an artwork, a practical cookbook, and a multisensory adventure to today’s kitchens.”
13 .) Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies by Ross King
Lists It Appears On:
- Booklist Online
- The Guardian
- The App Whisperer
“Claude Monet is perhaps the world’s most beloved artist, and among all his creations, the paintings of the water lilies in his garden at Giverny are most famous. Seeing them in museums around the world, viewers are transported by the power of Monet’s brush into a peaceful world of harmonious nature. Monet himself intended them to provide “an asylum of peaceful meditation.” Yet, as Ross King reveals in his magisterial chronicle of both artist and masterpiece, these beautiful canvases belie the intense frustration Monet experienced at the difficulties of capturing the fugitive effects of light, water, and color. They also reflect the terrible personal torments Monet suffered in the last dozen years of his life.
Mad Enchantment tells the full story behind the creation of the Water Lilies, as the horrors of World War I came ever closer to Paris and Giverny, and a new generation of younger artists, led by Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso, were challenging the achievements of Impressionism. By early 1914, French newspapers were reporting that Monet, by then 73 and one of the world’s wealthiest, most celebrated painters, had retired his brushes. He had lost his beloved wife, Alice, and his eldest son, Jean. His famously acute vision–what Paul Cezanne called “”the most prodigious eye in the history of painting””–was threatened by cataracts. And yet, despite ill health, self-doubt, and advancing age, Monet began painting again on a more ambitious scale than ever before. Linking great artistic achievement to the personal and historical dramas unfolding around it, Ross King presents the most intimate and revealing portrait of an iconic figure in world culture–from his lavish lifestyle and tempestuous personality to his close friendship with the fiery war leader Georges Clemenceau, who regarded the Water Lilies as one of the highest expressions of the human spirit.”
12 .) Overview: A New Perspective of Earth by Benjamin Grant
Lists It Appears On:
- American Photomag
- Amazon
- Smithsonian Mag
Inspired by the “Overview Effect”–a sensation that astronauts experience when given the opportunity to look down and view the Earth as a whole–the breathtaking, high definition satellite photographs in OVERVIEW offer a new way to look at the landscape that we have shaped. More than 200 images of industry, agriculture, architecture, and nature highlight incredible patterns while also revealing a deeper story about human impact. This extraordinary photographic journey around our planet captures the sense of wonder gained from a new, aerial vantage point and creates a perspective of Earth as it has never been seen before.
11 .) Plant: Exploring the Botanical World by Phaidon Editors
Lists It Appears On:
- Readings
- Smithsonian Mag
- Financial Review
Following in the footsteps of the international bestseller Map: Exploring the World, this fresh and visually stunning survey celebrates the extraordinary beauty and diversity of plants. It combines photographs and cutting-edge micrograph scans with watercolours, drawings, and prints to bring this universally popular and captivating subject vividly to life. Carefully selected by an international panel of experts and arranged in a uniquely structured sequence to highlight thought-provoking contrasts and similarities, this stunning compilation of botanically themed images includes iconic work by celebrated artists, photographers, scientists, and botanical illustrators, as well as rare and previously unpublished images.
10 .) Provoke: Between Protest and Performance by Araki Nobuyoshi and Daido Moriyama
Lists It Appears On:
- The Guardian 2
- TooCool2BeTrue
- Photo-eye
The short-lived Japanese magazine Provoke, founded in 1968, is nowadays recognized as a major contribution to postwar photography in Japan, featuring the country’s finest representatives of protest photography, vanguard fine art and critical theory in only three issues overall. The magazine’s goal was to mirror the complexities of Japanese society and its art world of the 1960s, a decade shaped by the country’s first large-scale student protests. The movement yielded a wave of new books featuring innovative graphic design combined with photography: serialized imagery, gripping text-image combinations, dynamic cropping and the use of provocatively “poor” materials. The writings and images by Provoke’s members―critic Koji Taki, poet Takahiko Okada, photographers Takuma Nakahira, Yakata Takanashi and Daido Moriyama―were suffused with the tactics developed by Japanese protest photographers such as Nobuyoshi Araki, Eikoh Hosoe and Shomei Tomatsu, who pointed at and criticized the mythologies of modern life. Provoke accompanies the first exhibition ever to be held on the magazine and its creators. Illuminating the various uses of photography in Japan at the time, the catalogue focuses on selected projects undertaken between 1960 and 1975 that offer a strongly interpretative account of currents in Japanese art and society at a moment of historical collapse and renewal.
9 .) Slim Aarons: Women by Laura Hawk and Slim Aarons
Lists It Appears On:
- Amazon
- San Francisco Chronicle
- Financial Review
Slim Aarons: Women explores the central subject of Slim Aarons’s career—the extraordinary women from the upper echelons of high society, the arts, fashion, and Hollywood. The book presents the women who most influenced Aarons’s life and work—and the other remarkable personalities he photographed along the way, including Audrey Hepburn, Jackie Kennedy, Diana Vreeland, and Marilyn Monroe, all featured in unforgettable photographs. The collection contains more than 200 images, the majority of which have not appeared in previous books, along with detailed captions written by one of Aarons’s closest colleagues. Showcasing beautiful women at their most glamorous in some of the most dazzling locations across the globe, Slim Aarons: Women is a fresh look at the acclaimed photographer through the muses who inspired his most incredible photographs.
8 .) Astres Noirs by Katrin Koenning and Sarker Protick
Lists It Appears On:
- Time
- The Guardian 2
- Photo-eye
- TooCool2BeTrue
7 .) Border Cantos by Richard Misrach and Guillermo Galindo
Lists It Appears On:
- PDN
- The Guardian 2
- The New York Times Magazine
- American Photomag
This project presents a unique collaboration between photographer Richard Misrach and composer and performer Guillermo Galindo. Misrach has been photographing the 2,000-mile border between the US and Mexico since 2004, with increased focus since 2009—the latest installation in his ongoing series Desert Cantos, a multifaceted approach to the study of place and man’s complex relationship to it. Misrach and Galindo have been working together to create pieces that both document and transform the artifacts of migration. Using water bottles, clothing, backpacks, Border Patrol drag tires, spent shotgun shells, ladders and sections of the border wall itself, most of which were collected by Misrach, Galindo fashions instruments to be performed as unique sound-generating devices. He also imagines graphic musical scores, many of which also use Misrach’s photographs as points of departure. A unique melding of the artist as documentarian and interpreter, the book includes several suites of photographs drawn from a number of distinct series or Cantos, some made with a large-format camera as well as an iPhone. The book contains a compilation of two dozen sculpture-instruments, graphic scores, instrument designs and links to videos of performances by Galindo.
6 .) Got to Go by Rosalind Fox Solomon
Lists It Appears On:
- Time
- PDN
- Photo-eye
- The New York Times Magazine
Part memoir and part fiction, Got To Go presents a collection of photographs from across Rosalind Fox Solomon’s life, contrasting a narrative of her own early years with other, urgent images that reveal a wider vision of the world, one outside of the rigid boundaries imposed by society and the home. If biography is a net cast upon us by family and shaped by social codes, Fox Solomon lays bare the limits of the net, as she negotiates the cusp between lived life and her imagination. Describing the work as a “tragicomedy”, full of both humour and pathos, Fox Solomon probes the limits we impose on ourselves, not only social codes but also the inherited tenets which are so difficult to escape. Fox Solomon, an American artist based in New York City, is celebrated for her portraits and connection to human suffering, ritual, survival and struggle. Her work has been shown in nearly 30 solo exhibitions and 100 group exhibitions, and is in the collections of over 50 museums worldwide.
5 .) Invisible Man: Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison in Harlem by Gordon Parks
Lists It Appears On:
- PDN
- American Photomag
- Time
- Culture Type
“It is relatively unknown that the photographer Gordon Parks was close friends with Ralph Ellison, author of the acclaimed 1952 novel Invisible Man. Even less known is the fact that their common vision of racial injustices, coupled with a shared belief in the communicative power of photography, inspired collaboration on two important projects, in 1948 and 1952. Capitalizing on the growing popularity of the picture press, Parks and Ellison first joined forces on an essay titled “”Harlem Is Nowhere”” for ‘48: The Magazine of the Year.
Conceived while Ellison was already three years into writing Invisible Man, this illustrated essay was centered on the Lafargue Clinic, the first non-segregated psychiatric clinic in New York City, as a case study for the social and economic conditions in Harlem. He chose Parks to create the accompanying photographs, and during the winter of 1948, the two roamed the streets of Harlem, with Parks photographing under the guidance of Ellison’s writing. In 1952 the two collaborated again on “”A Man Becomes Invisible”” for the August 25 issue of Life, which promoted Ellison’s newly released novel. This is the first publication on Parks’ and Ellison’s two collaborations, one of which was lost, while the other was published only in reduced form.”
4 .) In the Beginning, by Diane Arbus
Lists It Appears On:
- American Photomag
- Artnet
- Photo-eye
- The Guardian 2
- TooCool2BeTrue
Diane Arbus (1923–1971) is one of the most distinctive and provocative artists of the twentieth century. Her photographs of children and eccentrics, couples and circus performers, female impersonators and nudists, are among the most recognizable images of our time. This book is the definitive study of the artist’s first seven years of work, from 1956 to 1962. Drawn primarily from the rich holdings of the Metropolitan Museum’s Diane Arbus Archive—a remarkable treasury of photographs, negatives, appointment books, notebooks, and correspondence—it is an essential contribution to our understanding of Arbus and her oeuvre.
3 .) Discordia by Moises Saman
Lists It Appears On:
- PDN
- Photo-eye
- The Guardian 2
- Time
- TooCool2BeTrue
2 .) Libyan Sugar by Michael Christopher Brown
Lists It Appears On:
- American Photomag
- PDN
- Photo-eye
- The New York Times Magazine
- Time
Centered around the 2011 Libyan Revolution, Libyan Sugar is a road trip through a war zone, detailed through photographs, journal entries, and written communication with family and colleagues. A record of Michael Christopher Brown’s life both inside and outside Libya during that year, the work is about a young man going to war for the first time and his experience of that age-old desire to get as close as possible to a conflict in order to discover something about war and something about himself, perhaps a certain definition of life and death.
1 .) ZZYZX by Gregory Halpern
Lists It Appears On:
- American Photomag
- PDN
- Photo-eye
- The Guardian 2
- The New York Times Magazine
- Time
- TooCool2BeTrue
The early settlers dubbed California The Golden State, and The Land of Milk and Honey. Today there are the obvious ironies – sprawl, spaghetti junctions and skid row-but the place is not so easily distilled or visualized, either as a clichéd paradise or as its demise. There’s a strange kind of harmony when it’s all seen together-the sublime, the psychedelic, the self-destructive. Like all places, it’s unpredictable and contradictory, but to greater extremes. Cultures and histories coexist, the beautiful sits next to the ugly, the redemptive next to the despairing, and all under a strange and singular light, as transcendent as it is harsh. The pictures in this book begin in the desert east of Los Angeles and move west through the city, ending at the Pacific. This general westward movement alludes to a thirst for water, as well as the original expansion of America, which was born in the East and which hungrily drove itself West until reaching the Pacific, thereby fulfilling its “manifest” destiny. The people, places, and animals in the book did exist before Halpern’s camera, but he has sewn these photographs into a work of fiction or fantasy-a structure, sequence and edit which, like Los Angeles itself, teeters on the brink of collapsing under the weight of its own strangely-shaped mass.
#23-446 Best Photography & Art Books of 2016
| # | Books | Authors | Lists |
| (Books Appear On 2 Lists Each) | |||
| 23 | A History of Pictures: From the Cave to the Computer Screen | David Hockney and Martin Gayford | Evening Standard |
| The App Whisperer | |||
| 24 | Anthony Hernandez | Anthony Hernandez | Photo-eye |
| American Photomag | |||
| 25 | Artrage!: The Story of the BRITART Revolution | The Guardian | |
| The App Whisperer | |||
| 26 | Black is the Day, Black is the Night | Amy Elkins | Time |
| Photo-eye | |||
| 27 | Bolshoi Confidential: Secrets of the Russian Ballet from the Rule of the Tsars to Today | Simon Morrison | Booklist Online |
| Vogue | |||
| 28 | Bruce Davidson: An Illustrated Biography, | Vicki Goldberg | American Photomag |
| Elin Spring | |||
| 29 | Carbon, | Charles Lindsay | American Photomag |
| PDN | |||
| 30 | Carrie Mae Weems: Kitchen Table Series | Culture Type | |
| Elin Spring | |||
| 31 | Come to Selfhood | Joshua Rashaad McFadden | Photo-eye |
| Elin Spring | |||
| 32 | Diagram of the Heart | Glenna Gordon | PDN |
| American Photomag | |||
| 33 | Draplin Design Co.: Pretty Much Everything | Aaron James Draplin | Amazon |
| Print Mag | |||
| 34 | Edward Burtynsky: Essential Elements | William A. Ewing | Crave |
| American Photomag | |||
| 35 | Elegy | Justin Kimball | PDN |
| Elin Spring | |||
| 36 | Ellsworth Kelly: Photographs | Ellsworth Kelly | Time |
| Photo-eye | |||
| 37 | Folk | Aaron Schuman | Time |
| Photo-eye | |||
| 38 | Folklig Idrott | Maximilian Stejskal | Time |
| Photo-eye | |||
| 39 | Impossible Wardrobes | Olivier Saillard and Tilda Swinton, photographs by Ruediger Glatz | San Francisco Chronicle |
| San Francisco Chronicle | |||
| 40 | Inge Morath, Style Icon | John P. Jacob and Justine Picardie | PDN |
| Amazon | |||
| 41 | Kids in Love | Olivia Bee | Elin Spring |
| American Photomag | |||
| 42 | L’Enfant Femme | Rania Matar | Elin Spring |
| PDN | |||
| 43 | Little North Road | Daniel Traub | Time |
| The App Whisperer | |||
| 44 | Living in the Landscape | Anna Johnson and Richard Black | Readings |
| Financial Review | |||
| 45 | Mark Neville: Fancy Pictures | Mark Neville | Time |
| The App Whisperer | |||
| 46 | Mounting Frustration: The Art Museum in the Age of Black Power | Culture Type | |
| Vulture | |||
| 47 | Mr. Ken Fulk’s Magical World | Ken Fulk | Amazon |
| San Francisco Chronicle | |||
| 48 | Never Built New York | Sam Lubell and Greg Goldin | Fast Code Design |
| Curbed | |||
| 49 | Peter Hujar: Lost Downtown | Peter Hujar | Time |
| Elin Spring | |||
| 50 | Photographs from the Edge, | Art Wolfe with Rob Sheppard | American Photomag |
| Amazon | |||
| 51 | Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers | Stephen Shames and Bobby Seale | Crave |
| Culture Type | |||
| 52 | Service, | Platon | American Photomag |
| PDN | |||
| 53 | Shenasnameh | Amak Mahmoodian | Time |
| Photo-eye | |||
| 54 | Stoppers: My Life at Vogue, | Phyllis Posnick | American Photomag |
| Amazon | |||
| 55 | Sunday Sketching | Christoph Neimann | Fast Code Design |
| Print Mag | |||
| 56 | Swing Time | Zadie Smith | Kirkus |
| NPR | |||
| 57 | The Art of Rivalry | Sebastian Smee | Vogue |
| Vulture | |||
| 58 | The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone | Olivia Laing | Booklist Online |
| NPR | |||
| 59 | The Radical Eye: Modernist Photography from the Sir Elton John Collection | Simon Baker and Shoair Mavlian | Financial Times |
| The App Whisperer | |||
| 60 | Wild Encounters: Iconic Photographs of the World’s Vanishing Animals and Cultures | David Yarrow | Amazon |
| Smithsonian Mag | |||
| 61 | Wolfgang | David Fathi | The Guardian 2 |
| Photo-eye | |||
| (Books Appear On 1 List Each) | |||
| 62 | 1971: A Year in the Life of Color | Culture Type | |
| 63 | 20 Iconic Film Posters | Jennifer Bass and Pat Kirkham | Print Mag |
| 64 | a Handful of Dust | David Campany | Time |
| 65 | A House | Bunny Williams and Schafer Gil | Amazon |
| 66 | A Humument: Final Edition | Tom Phillips | Print Mag |
| 67 | A Matter of Memory: Photography as Object in the Digital Age | The App Whisperer | |
| 68 | A Pure Solar World: Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism | Paul Youngquist | Booklist Online |
| 69 | A Sea of Glass: Searching for the Blaschkas’ Fragile Legacy in an Ocean at Risk | Drew Harvell | Smithsonian Mag |
| 70 | Absence of Being | Susan Burnstine | Elin Spring |
| 71 | Action Time Vision | Tony Brook and Adrian Shaughnessy | Print Mag |
| 72 | Aeronautics in the Backyard | Xiaoxiao Xu | The Guardian 2 |
| 73 | African Catwalk | Culture Type | |
| 74 | Alex Webb: La Calle, Photographs from Mexico | Elin Spring | |
| 75 | Alma Thomas | Culture Type | |
| 76 | American Motel Signs: 1980-2008 | Steve Fitch | Photo-eye |
| 77 | Ancient Skies, Ancient Trees | Beth Moon and Clark Strand | Amazon |
| 78 | Andy Warhol: Polaroids 1958-1987 | PDN | |
| 79 | Animals That Saw Me: Volume Two, | Ed Panar | American Photomag |
| 80 | Another Girl Another Planet, | Valerie Phillips | American Photomag |
| 81 | Architecture’s Odd Couple: Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson | Hugh Howard | Curbed |
| 82 | Around That Time: Horst at Home in Vogue | Vogue | |
| 83 | Around the House | Robert Adams | Photo-eye |
| 84 | Art Deco Collectibles: Fashionable Objets from the Jazz Age | The Vore | |
| 85 | Art in Detail: 100 Masterpieces | Susie Hodge | Financial Review |
| 86 | Art is the Highest Form of Hope’ & Other Quotes by Artists | Spectator | |
| 87 | Art+Climate=Change | Guy Abrahams, Kelly Gellatly and Bronwyn Johnson | Readings |
| 88 | At Mirrored River | Enda Bowe | Photo-eye |
| 89 | Attraper au Vol (Catch in the Air), | Fred Mortagne | American Photomag |
| 90 | Automagic | Anouk Kruithof | Photo-eye |
| 91 | Avedon At Work | Laura Wilson | The Art of Photography |
| 92 | Badly Repaired Cars | Ronni Campana | Photo-eye |
| 93 | barespagnol | Pablo Casino | Photo-eye |
| 94 | Baroque and Later Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum | Catherine Whistler | Evening Standard |
| 95 | Bees & The Bearable | Chen Zhe | Photo-eye |
| 96 | Before Pictures | Douglas Crimp | Vulture |
| 97 | Beguiled | Charley Harper | Print Mag |
| 98 | Bellissima!: The Italian Automotive Renaissance, 1945 to 1975 | The Vore | |
| 99 | Berenice Abbott: Paris Portraits, 1925-1930 | Elin Spring | |
| 100 | Berlin | Pierre Mac Orlan | Photo-eye |
| 101 | Beyond Maps and Atlases | Bertien van Manen | Photo-eye |
| 102 | Blank Pages of an Iranian Photo Album | Newsha Tavakolian | PDN |
| 103 | Block | Aapo Huhta | PDN |
| 104 | Blocks | Dustin Shum | Photo-eye |
| 105 | Bowie, | Steve Schapiro | American Photomag |
| 106 | Branding: In Five and a Half Steps | Michael Johnson | Print Mag |
| 107 | Brett Whiteley | Ashleigh Wilson | Readings |
| 108 | buzzing at the sill | Peter van Agtmael | Time |
| 109 | By Rail and by Sea | Scott Conarroe | Photo-eye |
| 110 | By the People: Designing a Better America | Cynthia E. Smith | Curbed |
| 111 | Can Jokes Bring Down Governments? | Metahaven | Fast Code Design |
| 112 | Cartographic Grounds | Jill Desimini and Charles Waldheim | Print Mag |
| 113 | Cathedral of the Pines, | Gregory Crewdson | American Photomag |
| 114 | Central | Vogue | |
| 115 | Chanel: The Complete Karl Lagerfeld Collections | Patrick Mauriès, text by Adélia Sabatini | San Francisco Chronicle |
| 116 | Chardin and Rembrandt | Marcel Proust | Vulture |
| 117 | Cheap Novelties: The Pleasures Of Urban Decay | Ben Katchor | NPR |
| 118 | Choreograph | PDN | |
| 119 | Cindy Sherman: Imitation of Life, | Philipp Kaiser | American Photomag |
| 120 | Classic German Baking | Vogue | |
| 121 | Classic Penguin Cover to Cover | Paul Buckley | Print Mag |
| 122 | Collages | Daria Birang | Time |
| 123 | Color at Home: A Young House Love Coloring Book | Sherry Petersik, John Petersik | Curbed |
| 124 | Connected, | Amy Lombard | American Photomag |
| 125 | Contains 3 Books | Jason Fulford | PDN |
| 126 | Cut That Out: Collage in Contemporary Design | DR.ME | Print Mag |
| 127 | Danny Lyon: Message to the Future, | Julian Cox et al. | American Photomag |
| 128 | Dark Rooms | Nigel Shafran | Time |
| 129 | Dark Space: Architecture, Representation, Black Identity | Mario Goodman | Curbed |
| 130 | David Hockney: A Bigger Book | Vogue | |
| 131 | Day for Night | Richard Learoyd | PDN |
| 132 | Deadline | Will Steacy | Elin Spring |
| 133 | Death in the Making | Photo-eye | |
| 134 | Dench Does Dallas | Peter Dench | PDN |
| 135 | Paul Rand: A Designer’s Art | Saul Bass | Print Mag |
| 136 | Design For People | Scott Stowell | Print Mag |
| 137 | Design: The Invention of Desire | Jessica Helfand | Print Mag |
| 138 | Diane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographer, | Arthur Lubow | American Photomag |
| 139 | Diggers | PDN | |
| 140 | Disco Angola | Culture Type | |
| 141 | Diving for Pearls, | Nan Goldin | American Photomag |
| 142 | Document | Henry Leutwyler | PDN |
| 143 | Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes (Visual Editions) | Fast Code Design |
| 144 | Eli Reed: A Long Walk Home | Eli Reed | PDN |
| 145 | END | Eamonn Doyle | The Guardian 2 |
| 146 | Estamos Buscando A | Paul Turounet | The New York Times Magazine |
| 147 | Everglades | Jungjin Lee | Photo-eye |
| 148 | Everything I Want to Eat: Sqrl and the New California Cooking | Vogue | |
| 149 | Evolution: A Visual Record | Robert Clark | Smithsonian Mag |
| 150 | Eye of the Sixties: Richard Bellamy and the Transformation of Modern Art | Judith E. Stein | Vulture |
| 151 | Eyes on the Street: The Life of Jane Jacobs | Robert Kanigel | Booklist Online |
| 152 | Eyes To Fly With | Graciela Iturbide | The Art of Photography |
| 153 | Factory, | Stephen Shore and Andy Warhol | American Photomag |
| 154 | Failed It! How to turn mistakes into ideas and other advice for successfully screwing up | The Vore | |
| 155 | Fashion 150: 150 Years / 150 Designers | Arianna Piazza | Amazon |
| 156 | Fifteen Miles To K-Ville | Mark Steinmetz | Photo-eye |
| 157 | Float | Vogue | |
| 158 | Flora: The Complete Flowers, | Robert Mapplethorpe | American Photomag |
| 159 | Four Generations: The Joyner Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art | Culture Type | |
| 160 | Frame: A Retrospective | Mark Cohen | PDN |
| 161 | Francis Bacon Catalogue Raisonné | Martin Harrison | Financial Times |
| 162 | Francis Picabia: Our Heads Are Round So Our Thoughts Can Change Direction | Vulture | |
| 163 | Frida Kahlo at Home | Suzanne Barbezat | Artnet |
| 164 | Frida Kahlo: Fashion as the Art of Being | Susana Martinez Vidal | San Francisco Chronicle |
| 165 | From Uncertain To Blue | Keith Carter | The Art of Photography |
| 166 | Fuck It | Michele Sibiloni | Time |
| 167 | Garden Time | Vogue | |
| 168 | Georgia O’Keeffe | Tanya Barson | Readings |
| 169 | Gisele Bündchen | San Francisco Chronicle | |
| 170 | Golden Days Before They End | Klaus Pichler | Photo-eye |
| 171 | Great Houses, Modern Aristocrats | James Reginato, photos by Jonathan Becker | San Francisco Chronicle |
| 172 | Green Metropolis: The Extraordinary Landscapes of New York City as Nature, History, and Design | The Vore | |
| 173 | Grit and Glamour, | Allan Tannenbaum | American Photomag |
| 174 | Ground: A Reprise of Photographs From the Farm Security Administration | Bill McDowell | Artnet |
| 175 | Groupies and Other Electric Ladies: The Original Rolling Stone Magazine Photographs of Baron Wolman | San Francisco Chronicle | |
| 176 | Guns in the Hands of Artists | Jonathan Ferrara | Artnet |
| 177 | Gus Van Sant: Icons | Artnet | |
| 178 | Hamilton: The Revolution | Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jeremy McCarter | NPR |
| 179 | Hans Holbein’s Dance of Death | Spectator | |
| 180 | Harlem Is Nowhere | Culture Type | |
| 181 | Hell on Wheels: Photographs from the New York Underground (1977-1984) | Crave | |
| 182 | Herb Lubalin: Typographer | Adrian Shaughnessy & Tony Brook | Print Mag |
| 183 | Hey Mister | Bruce Gilden | PDN |
| 184 | Hip Hop Raised Me, | DJ Semtex | American Photomag |
| 185 | Hiroji Kubota Photographer | Hiroji Kubota | PDN |
| 186 | Hiroshi Sugimoto: Black Box | Elin Spring | |
| 187 | History is Made at Night, | Crave | |
| 188 | Hollywood Interiors: Style and Design in Los Angeles | Anthony Iannacci | Amazon |
| 189 | Horse | Jitka Hanzlová | Time |
| 190 | Hot Dog Taste Test | Lisa Hanawalt | NPR |
| 191 | How to See: Looking, Talking, and Thinking About Art | David Salle | Vulture |
| 192 | Hubert Robert | Margaret Morgan Grasselli and Yuriko Jackall | Evening Standard |
| 193 | I Wish U Would Believe Me | Jason Vaughn | Photo-eye |
| 194 | ICI Ailleurs | Louis Stettner | Photo-eye |
| 195 | Icons of Modern Art — the Shchukin Collection | Anne Baldassari | Financial Times |
| 196 | If This Is True: I’ll Never Have to Leave Home Again | Robin de Puy | Time |
| 197 | In Flagrante Two | Chris Killip | Photo-eye |
| 198 | INNOCENTS AND OTHERS | Dana Spiotta | Kirkus |
| 199 | Inshallah | Dima Gavrysh | PDN |
| 200 | Inside Art Direction | Steven Brower | Print Mag |
| 201 | Intimate Distance: Twenty-Five Years of Photographs, A Chronological Album | Todd Hido | Elin Spring |
| 202 | J.B. about men floating in the air | Julia Borissova | Photo-eye |
| 203 | Jerome Avenue, | Bronx Photo League | American Photomag |
| 204 | Jim Marshall: Jazz Festival, | Amelia Davis and Tony Nourmand | American Photomag |
| 205 | Jitka Hanzlová: Horse | The App Whisperer | |
| 206 | John Derian Picture Book | John Derian | Amazon |
| 207 | Joseph de Levis & Company: Renaissance Bronze-Founders in Verona | Charles Avery | Evening Standard |
| 208 | Just Small Hiccups | Anni Hanén | Elin Spring |
| 209 | Ken. To be destroyed. | Sara Davidmann | PDN |
| 210 | Kerry James Marshall: Mastry | Culture Type | |
| 211 | Kill ’Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul | James McBride | Booklist Online |
| 212 | La Strada | Italian Street Photography | The Art of Photography |
| 213 | Law & Order | PDN | |
| 214 | Lawrence Alma-Tadema: At Home in Antiquity | Elizabeth Prettejohn and Peter Trippi | Evening Standard |
| 215 | Les Dîners De Gala | Salvador Dalí | The App Whisperer |
| 216 | Let Virtue Be Your Guide | Frances F. Denny | Elin Spring |
| 217 | LIFE Farewell: Remembering the Friends we Lost in 2016 | The App Whisperer | |
| 218 | Listen! Listen! | Ann and Paul Rand | Print Mag |
| 219 | Liz Johnson Artur | Liz Johnson Artur | The New York Times Magazine |
| 220 | Looking for Alice | PDN | |
| 221 | Looking For the Master’s In Ricardo’s Golden Shoes | The Art of Photography | |
| 222 | Lost Coast | Curran Hatleberg | Photo-eye |
| 223 | Lost in the Wilderness | Kalpesh Lathigra | The Guardian 2 |
| 224 | Lost Utopias, | Jade Doskow | American Photomag |
| 225 | Louis Vuitton: Volez Voguez Voyagez | San Francisco Chronicle | |
| 226 | Magnitude, Solitude | Dave Heath | The Art of Photography |
| 227 | Maiolica: Italian Renaissance Ceramics in the Metropolitan Museum of Art | Timothy Wilson with an essay | Evening Standard |
| 228 | Majolica: Italian Renaissance Ceramics in the Metropolitan Museum of Art | Spectator | |
| 229 | Make Art Not War: Political Protest from the American Century | Crave | |
| 230 | Make Your Mark: The New Urban Artists | The Vore | |
| 231 | Making Memeries | Lucas Blalock | Time |
| 232 | Manual of Section | Paul Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki, David J. Lewis | Curbed |
| 233 | March: Book Three | John Lewis, with Andrew Aydin, illustrated | NPR |
| 234 | Margaret Preston | Lesley Harding | Readings |
| 235 | Matter | Michael Lundgren | Photo-eye |
| 236 | Maximilian Stejskal: Folklig Idrott, edited | Marie-Isabel Vogel and Alain Rappaport | The Guardian 2 |
| 237 | Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts | Christopher de Hamel | Financial Times |
| 238 | Meridian | Colin Stearns | Photo-eye |
| 239 | Mexico | Mark Cohen | Photo-eye |
| 240 | Mississippi History | Maude Schuyler Clay | PDN |
| 241 | Modern Color | Fred Herzog | The New York Times Magazine |
| 242 | Modern Forms: A Subjective Atlas of 20th-Century Architecture | Nicolas Grospierre | Curbed |
| 243 | MODERN LOVERS | Emma Straub | Kirkus |
| 244 | Moment | Moment, | American Photomag |
| 245 | Mommie | Arlene Gottfried | Time |
| 246 | Monstress Volume 1: Awakening | Marjorie Liu, illustrated | NPR |
| 247 | Mooncop | Tom Gauld | NPR |
| 248 | Morning, Paramin | Derek Walcott and Peter Doig | Financial Times |
| 249 | Mountains and Waters | Alexander Gronsky | PDN |
| 250 | My Last Day at Seventeen | Doug DuBois | PDN |
| 251 | My Place | Dina Oganova | Photo-eye |
| 252 | Nan Goldin: Diving for Pearls | The App Whisperer | |
| 253 | National Aeronautics and Space Administration Graphics Standards Manual | Curbed | |
| 254 | National Geographic Greatest Landscapes: Stunning Photographs That Inspire and Astonish | National Geographic and George Steinmetz | Amazon |
| 255 | Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition | Crofton Black and Edmund Clark | PDN |
| 256 | Neighbors | Roe Ethridge | Time |
| 257 | New Deal Photography | Peter Walther | Readings |
| 258 | New Ways of Photographing the New Masai | Jan Hoek | Photo-eye |
| 259 | New York Air: The View From Above | George Steinmetz | PDN |
| 260 | New York in Photobooks | Horacio Fernández | Photo-eye |
| 261 | No Plan B | David J. Carol | Elin Spring |
| 262 | North of Dixie, | Mark Speltz | American Photomag |
| 263 | Not Yet, | Ari Marcopoulos | American Photomag |
| 264 | Notes From A Quiet Life | Robert Benjamin | Elin Spring |
| 265 | NUDOGRAMS | Charles Harbutt | Time |
| 266 | ODY-C: Cycle One | Matt Fraction, illustrated | NPR |
| 267 | Of Arms and Artists: The American Revolution through Painters’ Eyes | Paul Staiti | Booklist Online |
| 268 | OMG Posters: A Decade of Rock Art | Mitch Putnam | Print Mag |
| 269 | On Christopher Street: Transgender Stories, | Mark Seliger | American Photomag |
| 270 | One Picture Book #95: Memories of the Salt… | Ed Templeton | Photo-eye |
| 271 | One Sun, One Shadow | Shane Lavalette | Photo-eye |
| 272 | Otherworldly | Theo-Mass Lexileictous & Gestalten | San Francisco Chronicle |
| 273 | Otsuchi: Future Memories | PDN | |
| 274 | Our Time at Foxhollow Farm: A Hudson Valley Family Remembered | Vogue | |
| 275 | Out Of Fashion | Landon Nordeman | Time |
| 276 | Palm Springs: The Good Life Goes On | Nancy Baron | Elin Spring |
| 277 | Panther | Brecht Evens | NPR |
| 278 | Paolo Ventura’s Whimsical Adventures | PDN | |
| 279 | Paper Girls Volume 1 | Brian K Vaughan, illustrated | NPR |
| 280 | Paperwork and the Will of Capital | Taryn Simon | The New York Times Magazine |
| 281 | Paradise Wavering | Alice Q. Hargrave | Elin Spring |
| 282 | Patience | Daniel Clowes | NPR |
| 283 | Patterns in Nature: Why the Natural World Looks the Way it Does | Philip Ball | Smithsonian Mag |
| 284 | Paul Rand: A Designer’s Art | Fast Code Design | |
| 285 | Paz Errázuriz: Survey | Paz Errázuriz | The New York Times Magazine |
| 286 | Photos Souvenirs | Carolle Bénitah | Photo-eye |
| 287 | Picture This: How Pictures Work – Revised and Expanded 25th Anniversary Edition | Molly Bang | Print Mag |
| 288 | Pieces of a Man | Crave | |
| 289 | Pipilotti Rist- Pixel Forest | Artnet | |
| 290 | Place | Bill Jacobson | PDN |
| 291 | Playground | James Mollison | PDN |
| 292 | Politcal Theatre | Mark Peterson | Time |
| 293 | Pop Pills | Baptiste Lignel | PDN |
| 294 | Portraits | William Eggleston | Elin Spring |
| 295 | Possession: The Curious History Of Private Collectors From Antiquity To The Present | Erin Thompson | NPR |
| 296 | Postcard America: Curt Teich and the Imaging of a Nation, 1931–1950 | Crave | |
| 297 | Prado Masterpieces | Vogue | |
| 298 | Prefabulous Small Houses | Sheri Koones | Curbed |
| 299 | Pretty Deadly Volume 2: The Bear | Kelly Sue DeConnick, illustrated | NPR |
| 300 | Provisional Arrangement | Martin Kollar | Photo-eye |
| 301 | Psychobook | Julian Rothenstein | Print Mag |
| 302 | Radiant Child: The Story Of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat | Javaka Steptoe | NPR |
| 303 | Radicalia | Piero Martinello | Time |
| 304 | Reconstrucción | Rosana Simonassi | Photo-eye |
| 305 | Reductionism in Art and Brain Science: Bridging the Two Cultures | Eric Kandel | Vulture |
| 306 | REPUTATIONS | Juan Gabriel Vásquez | Kirkus |
| 307 | REX | Zackary Canepari | Time |
| 308 | Richard Diebenkorn: The Catalogue Raisonné edited | Jane Livingston and Andrea Liguori | Evening Standard |
| 309 | Roberto Burle Marx: Brazilian Modernist | Jens Hoffmann and Claudia J. Nahson | Curbed |
| 310 | Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock ’n’ Roll | Peter Guralnick | Booklist Online |
| 311 | Santa Barbara return jobs back to US | Alejandro Cartagena | Photo-eye |
| 312 | Santu Mofokeng: Stories 2: Concert in Sewefontein; 3: Funeral; 4: 27 April 1994 | Santu Mofokeng | PDN |
| 313 | Santu Mofokeng: Stories No. 1: Train Church | Santu Mofokeng | PDN |
| 314 | Seascapes | PDN | |
| 315 | Seen Not Heard | Heather Evans Smith | Elin Spring |
| 316 | Seizing Beauty: Still Lifes as Warm and Dramatic as Old Master Paintings | PDN | |
| 317 | Self Publish, Be Happy: A DIY Photobook Manual and Manifesto | Bruce Ceschel | PDN |
| 318 | Shadows of Wormwood | Arthur Bondar | Photo-eye |
| 319 | Shelter Island | Roe Ethridge | Photo-eye |
| 320 | Short Stories | Matt Henry | PDN |
| 321 | Signs of Your Identity | Daniella Zalcman | Photo-eye |
| 322 | Silent Beaches, Untold Stories: New York City’s Forgotten Waterfront | Elizabeth Albert | Artnet |
| 323 | Silent Histories | Kazuma Obara | Photo-eye |
| 324 | Sinatra: The Chairman | James Kaplan | Booklist Online |
| 325 | Small Things in Silence : Second Edition | Masao Yamamoto | Photo-eye |
| 326 | Snowflakes Dog Man | Hajime Kimura | Photo-eye |
| 327 | Social Medium: Artists Writing, 2000–2015, edited | Jennifer Liese | Vulture |
| 328 | Southern Rites | Gillian Laub | PDN |
| 329 | Splendours & Miseries: Pictures of Prostitution in France 1850–1910 | Spectator | |
| 330 | Stan Douglas: The Secret Agent | Culture Type | |
| 331 | Sterling Ruby | Kate Fowle, Franklin Sirmans, and Jessica Morgan | Artnet |
| 332 | Still, Looking, Works 1969-2016 | Billy Sullivan | Time |
| 333 | stills | Katrien De Blauwer | Photo-eye |
| 334 | Süddeutsche Zeitung a cooperation between Suddeutsche Zeitung and Steidl, photographs | Robert Frank | Time |
| 335 | Sweetheart Roller Skating Rink | Bill Yates | Elin Spring |
| 336 | Syria Off Frame: Contemporary Artists from Syria | Crave | |
| 337 | Taffin | James Taffin de Givenchy | San Francisco Chronicle |
| 338 | Telegraph Ave | Dianne Weinthal | Photo-eye |
| 339 | TENDER | Belinda McKeon | Kirkus |
| 340 | Tender is the Light | David Julian Leonard | Elin Spring |
| 341 | Tham ma da: The Adventurous Interiors of Paola Navone | Spencer Bailey | Curbed |
| 342 | That Day | Laura Wilson | The Art of Photography |
| 343 | The Americans By Car | Karl Baden | Elin Spring |
| 344 | The Art Of Charlie Chan Hock Chye | Sonny Liew | NPR |
| 345 | The Art of Dinosaur Designs | Louise Olsen and Stephen Ormandy | Readings |
| 346 | The Art of the Airport | Stefan Eiselin, Laura Frommberg and Alexander Gutzmer | Readings |
| 347 | The Autobiography of a Snake | Vogue | |
| 348 | The Battle for Home: The Vision of a Young Architect in Syria | Marwa al-Sabouni | Curbed |
| 349 | The City Is A Novel | Alexey Titarenko | The Art of Photography |
| 350 | The Coveteur: Private Spaces, Personal Style | Stephanie Mark and Jake Rosenberg | Amazon |
| 351 | The Creative Architect: Inside the Great Midcentury Personality Study | Pierluigi Serraino | Curbed |
| 352 | The Decisive Moment | Cartier-Bresson | The Art of Photography |
| 353 | The Democratic Forest | William Eggleston | Photo-eye |
| 354 | The Dream | Fabio Bucciarelli | Time |
| 355 | The Drive: Custom Cars and Their Builders | Fast Code Design | |
| 356 | The Ecstasy of St. Kara | Culture Type | |
| 357 | The Electric Pencil: Drawings from Inside State Hospital No. 3 | James Edward Deeds Jr. | Artnet |
| 358 | The Evolution of Ivanpah Solar | Jamey Stillings | PDN |
| 359 | The Extraordinary Life and Momentous Times of JMW Turner | The Guardian | |
| 360 | The Fashion of Film | Amber Butchart | San Francisco Chronicle |
| 361 | The Fir Tree | Vogue | |
| 362 | The Godfather Notebook | Francis Ford Coppola | NPR |
| 363 | THE GOLDEN AGE | Joan London | Kirkus |
| 364 | The Greatest Of Marlys | Lynda Barry | NPR |
| 365 | The Grey Ghost: New York City Photographs, | Dan Winters | American Photomag |
| 366 | THE GUSTAV SONATA | Rose Tremain | Kirkus |
| 367 | The House and Garden at Glenmore | Mickey Robertson | Financial Review |
| 368 | The House of Seven Women | Tito Mouraz | The Guardian 2 |
| 369 | The Importants, | Kevin Amato | American Photomag |
| 370 | The Joy of iPhotography: Smart pictures from your smart phone | The App Whisperer | |
| 371 | The Jungle Book | Yann Gross | Photo-eye |
| 372 | The Lams of Ludlow Street | Thomas Holton | PDN |
| 373 | THE LAST PAINTING OF SARA DE VOS | Dominic Smith | Kirkus |
| 374 | The Last Stop, | Ryann Ford | American Photomag |
| 375 | The Lightroom Mobile Book: How to extend the power of what you do in Lightroom to your mobile devices | The App Whisperer | |
| 376 | The London Cookbook: Recipes from the Restaurants, Cafes, and Hole-in-the-wall Gems of a Modern City | Vogue | |
| 377 | The Meadow | Barbara Bosworth and Margot Anne Kelley | Time |
| 378 | The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Masterpiece Paintings | Kathryn Calley Galitz and Thomas P. Campbell | Amazon |
| 379 | The Middle of Somewhere | Sam Harris | Elin Spring |
| 380 | The Mirror Thief | Martin Seay | NPR |
| 381 | The Moon 1968-1972 | NASA | Time |
| 382 | The Moon Makes Its Own Plea | Vogue | |
| 383 | The Narcissistic City | Takashi Homma | Photo-eye |
| 384 | The One Hundred Nights Of Hero: A Graphic Novel | Isabel Greenberg | NPR |
| 385 | The Origin of (Almost) Everything | Fast Code Design | |
| 386 | The Pacific Crest Trail: Exploring America’s Wilderness Trail | Mark Larabee and Barney Scout Mann | Amazon |
| 387 | The Pancake King | Phyllis La Farge and Seymour Chwast | Print Mag |
| 388 | The Paper Zoo: Five Hundred Years of Animals in Art | Spectator | |
| 389 | The Picture Book Club | Vogue | |
| 390 | The Picture of the Afghan Hound | Bucky Miller | Photo-eye |
| 391 | The Prado Masterpieces | The Guardian | |
| 392 | The Print Before Photography: An Introduction to European Printmaking 1550-1820 | Antony Griffiths | Evening Standard |
| 393 | The Prospect of Immortality | PDN | |
| 394 | THE QUEEN OF THE NIGHT | Alexander Chee | Kirkus |
| 395 | The Rectangle’s Sharp Stare | Jenny Källman | Photo-eye |
| 396 | The Rise of David Bowie | Mick Rock | San Francisco Chronicle |
| 397 | The Secret Lives of Colour | Kassia St Clair | Smithsonian Mag |
| 398 | The Silhouette from the 18th Century to the Present Day | Spectator | |
| 399 | The Singing Bones | Shaun Tan | NPR |
| 400 | The Snow Queen | Vogue | |
| 401 | The Storyteller | Evan Turk | NPR |
| 402 | The Street Kids | Vogue | |
| 403 | The Theater of Apparitions, | Roger Ballen | American Photomag |
| 404 | The Thrill of the Chase | The Samuel Wagstaff Collection | Elin Spring |
| 405 | The Trespasser | Vogue | |
| 406 | The Unseen Eye | W. M. Hunt | Elin Spring |
| 407 | The Vanishing Man | The Guardian | |
| 408 | The Vanishing Velázquez: A 19th Century Bookseller’s Obsession With A Lost Masterpiece | Laura Cumming | NPR |
| 409 | The Well-Tempered City | Jonathan F. P. Rose | Fast Code Design |
| 410 | The World New Made: Figurative Painting in the Twentieth Century | The Guardian | |
| 411 | The World of Charles and Ray Eames | Catherine Ince, Lotte Johnson, Eames Demetrios, Patricia Kirkham, Eric Schuldenfrei | Curbed |
| 412 | This is Frank Lloyd Wright | Ian Volner | Curbed |
| 413 | Tiny: Streetwise Revisited | Mary Ellen Mark | PDN |
| 414 | to the grave | Megan Tepper | Photo-eye |
| 415 | Tokyo | Kojima Yasutaka | Photo-eye |
| 416 | Tokyo | Gerry Johansson | Photo-eye |
| 417 | Top This and Other Parables of Design: Selected Writings | Curbed | |
| 418 | Total Excess, | Michael Zagaris | American Photomag |
| 419 | TUESDAY NIGHTS IN 1980 | Molly Prentiss | Kirkus |
| 420 | Tula Telfair: Invented Landscapes | Tula Telfair | Amazon |
| 421 | Twenty Over Eighty: Conversations on a Lifetime in Architecture and Design | Aileen Kwun, Bryn Smith | Curbed |
| 422 | Unfinished | Kelly Baum et al | Readings |
| 423 | Valentin de Boulogne: Beyond Caravaggio | Annick Lemoine and Keith Christiansen | Evening Standard |
| 424 | Valparaíso | Sergio Larrain | Photo-eye |
| 425 | Vanity Fair’s Writers on Writers | Vogue | |
| 426 | Vik Muniz | Crave | |
| 427 | Vincent Van Gogh: The Lost Arles Sketchbook | Bogomila Welsh Ovcharov | Artnet |
| 428 | Vintage Classics Woolf Series | Fast Code Design | |
| 429 | Walk through Walls | Marina Abramović | Booklist Online |
| 430 | Walter Robinson | Crave | |
| 431 | WATCHED! Surveillance, Art and Photography | Hasselblad Foundation | Time |
| 432 | We Didn’t See Each Other After That | Ashley Gates | Photo-eye |
| 433 | We’ve Come So Far: The Last Days of Death By Audio, | Ebru Yildiz | American Photomag |
| 434 | What Can I Be? | Ann Rand & Ingrid Fiksdahl King | Print Mag |
| 435 | Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? | Vogue | |
| 436 | When in French: Love in a Second Language | Vogue | |
| 437 | Whiplash | Joi Ito and Jeff Howe | Fast Code Design |
| 438 | Whitfield Lovell: Kin | Culture Type | |
| 439 | Who Shot Sports: A Photographic History, 1843 to the Present, | Gail Buckland | American Photomag |
| 440 | Why Drag? | Magnus Hastings | San Francisco Chronicle |
| 441 | Wild & Precious | Jesse Burke | Elin Spring |
| 442 | William Eggleston: Portraits, | Phillip Prodger | American Photomag |
| 443 | William Hogarth: A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings | Elizabeth Einberg | Evening Standard |
| 444 | William Krisel’s Palm Springs: The Language of Modernism | Heidi Creighton and Chris Menrad | Amazon |
| 445 | Xian | Thomas Sauvin | Photo-eye |
| 446 | You Are Here: NYC: Mapping the Soul of the City | Katherine Harmon | Print Mag |
The 32 Best Art, Photography, and Coffee Table Book Lists Used
| Source | Article |
| Amazon | Best arts and photography books of 2016 |
| American Photomag | THE BEST PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS OF THE YEAR: 2016 |
| Artnet | Our Favorite Art Books of 2016 |
| Booklist Online | Top 10 Arts Books: 2016 |
| Crave | The 5 Best Art Books of 2016 |
| Crave | The 5 Best Photography Books of 2016 |
| Culture Type | Culture Type Picks: The 12 Best Black Art Books of 2016 |
| Curbed | The best architecture and design books of 2016 |
| Elin Spring | OUR FAVORITE PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS OF 2016! |
| Evening Standard | The best art books of 2016 |
| Fast Code Design | The Best-Designed Design Books of the Year |
| Financial Review | 6 of the most beautiful books from 2016 for your coffee table |
| Financial Times | Best books of 2016: Art & photography |
| Kirkus | Best 2016 Books About Artists of All Kinds |
| NPR | NPR’s Book Concierge Our Guide To 2016’s Great Reads |
| PDN | NOTABLE PHOTO BOOKS OF 2016: PART 1 |
| Photo-eye | The Best Books of 2016 |
| Print Mag | 25 of the Best Design Books of the Year |
| Readings | The best art & design books of 2016 |
| San Francisco Chronicle | Style’s favorite books of 2016 for the holidays |
| Smithsonian Mag | The Best “Art Meets Science” Books of 2016 |
| Spectator | The best art books of 2016 |
| The App Whisperer | The Best Photography & Art Books of 2016 |
| The Art of Photography | TOP 10 PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS OF 2016 |
| The Guardian | Peter Conrad’s best art books of 2016 |
| The Guardian 2 | The best photography books of 2016 |
| The New York Times Magazine | The Best Photo Books of 2016 |
| The Vore | Best new Design books in 2016 |
| Time | TIME Selects the Best Photobooks of 2016 |
| TooCool2BeTrue | Best Photography Books in 2016 |
| Vogue | The Best Books to Give Everyone on Your List This Year |
| Vulture | The 10 Best Art Books of 2016 |
