Photo Book Publishers

A good source for standalone photo essays to publish in a magazine is the upcoming books lists from photo book publishers. A few of the big publishers like Chronicle or W.W. Norton will do photography books but generally the good stuff is with the specialty publishers. It’s interesting to note that the literary publishers are extremely proactive about shopping the first serial rights around to magazines for publicity but it’s rare for a photography book publisher to do that so you’ve got to go look at the upcoming lists yourself and see if there’s something worth pitching to the editor. I’m working on a project now that needs a couple photo essays so I thought I’d share my list:

21ST Editions
Aperture
Arena Editions
Chris Boot
D.A.P.
Dewi Lewis
Farewell
Foil Web
Hassla
J and L
Kehrer Verlag
Lodima
Loosestrife Editions
Monacelli
Nazraeli
Phaidon
Power House pH
Prestel
Quantuck Lane
Radius
Sasquatch
Scalo
Steidl
Taschen
teNeues
Trolley
Twin Palms
Umbrage Editions
Watson-Guptill

Photo Eye publishes a newsletter with upcoming releases. Always a good resource.

More in Europe:
Apeiron
Edition Braus
Hatje Catz
Lunwerg
Mets & Schlit
Peliti Associati

Comments 16

  1. chris kargotis wrote:

    Thank you for that, presented in a most helpful way.

    I can think of Dewi Lewis Publishing as well.

    Posted 21 May 2008 at 10:27 am
  2. Stella Kalaw wrote:

    Photoeye.com has a Publisher’s Showcase section which I think will be a great resource for your research:
    http://photoeye.com/templates/PubShowCase_home.cfm

    Posted 21 May 2008 at 10:55 am
  3. rolo wrote:

    Sadly, Arena Editions has been gone for a number of years.

    Posted 21 May 2008 at 11:22 am
  4. Johann Gutenberg wrote:

    Where do university presses fit into this equation? Aren’t they always looking for a fitting, appropriate printing project for their own learning, and to enhance their professor’s resumes? I’ve seen several photo books by “University of _____ Press”. Always seemed like a great fit to me; win/win.

    Posted 21 May 2008 at 11:28 am
  5. Simon wrote:

    …as has scalo. from the uk, chris boot and trolley should be there too, and it would great to have some non-Anglo suggestions too

    Posted 21 May 2008 at 7:52 pm
  6. john mcd. wrote:

    Schaden.com in germany

    Posted 22 May 2008 at 1:52 am
  7. chris kargotis wrote:

    Ive taken these from the 2008 Leica European Publishers Awards For Photography:

    Apeiron, Greece
    Lunwerg Editores, Spain
    Pelite Associati, Italy
    Mets & Schilt, The Netherlands
    Editions Braus, Germany

    Posted 22 May 2008 at 4:52 am
  8. Ken Ponzio wrote:

    May I suggest “Hatje Cantz” ? I think they are phenomenal.
    http://www.hatjecantz.de/en_index.php

    Best regards,

    Ken Ponzio

    Posted 22 May 2008 at 10:57 am
  9. Hee Jin wrote:

    Also Jason Fulford publishes small-run artists’ books that are very good: http://www.jandlbooks.org/

    Posted 22 May 2008 at 5:36 pm
  10. tomé wrote:

    (steidl all the way)

    now what I would be REALLY looking forward to se is a list of self-publishing, self-made-photobook resources.

    Posted 22 May 2008 at 8:25 pm
  11. Jim Hand-Cukierman wrote:

    Just another suggestion: Foil in Tokyo publishes some very interesting stuff.

    http://www.foiltokyo.com/english/indexeg.html

    Posted 23 May 2008 at 5:46 am
  12. A Photo Editor wrote:
    @ 10. Tomé: I’d make a post on self published book but I don’t think theres much out there besides Blurb and http://www.my100books.com/ that’s worth looking at.
    Posted 23 May 2008 at 10:07 am
  13. Aaron Fallon wrote:

    There’s also Viggo Montensen’s company Perceval Press. http://www.percevalpress.com/

    Posted 23 May 2008 at 2:52 pm
  14. Stefan Falke wrote:

    My own first book, the result of a long term photo documentary about a stilt walking school in Trinidad titled ‘MOKO JUMBIES: The Dancing Spirit of Trinidad’, was published by the small New York based publisher Pointed Leaf Press.
    http://www.pointedleafpress.com/
    http://www.stefanfalke.com/2008/05/11/the-moko-jumbies-book/

    Posted 29 May 2008 at 3:58 pm
  15. RR79 wrote:

    I’d always suggest looking at http://www.thamesandhudson.com as they specialise in visual arts publishing, and always have a really strong selection of photographic and art books

    Posted 10 Jun 2008 at 9:58 am
  16. Allison Kramer wrote:

    Thank you so much for this information. I can’t even tell you how helpful it is.

    Allison

    Posted 07 Jul 2008 at 7:30 pm

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