Photobooks USA 2000–25 explores how the photobook has emerged as a powerful tool for artists to respond to the forces shaping contemporary life in the United States. Over the past 25 years, this evolution is reflected in the growing number of publications, a wider range of publishers, bold experimentation in design, and greater inclusivity.
Featuring over 50 photobooks—from out-of-print titles to more recent landmark publications—the exhibition presents a cross section of creators, themes, forms, and subjects, examining how artists have used the photobook to present and circulate their work in powerful and innovative ways.
Rather than defining a canon or focusing on bestselling or award-winning titles, the exhibition brings together books that explore different aspects of the United States. Taken as a whole, they reflect the artistic, social, cultural, political, environmental and economic conversations shaping the twenty-first century.
Curated by ICP’s Creative Director David Campany, Associate Director of Exhibitions Sara Ickow, and Curatorial Assistant malaika newsome.
Featured Photobooks +
Farah Al Qasimi, Hello Future, 2022 (Capricious) Ana Andrade, Río de agua viva, 2023 (Taller California) Peter van Agtmael, Sorry for the War, 2020 (Mass Books) Chris Aluka Berry, Affrilachia: Testimonies, 2024 (University Press of Kentucky) Adriant Khadafhi Bereal, The Black Yearbook, 2024 (4 Color Books) Widline Cadet, Ritual [Dis]Appearance / Seremoni Disparisyon, 2025 (Black Mountain Studio) Anne Collier, Anne Collier, 2014 (Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago) Debi Cornwall, Necessary Fictions, 2020 (Radius Books) Philip-Lorca diCorcia, a Storybook Life, 2003 (Twin Palms Publishers) Jess T. Dugan, Look at me like you love me, 2022 (MACK) John Dugdale, Life's Evening Hour, 2000 (August Press) John Edmonds, Higher, 2018 (Capricious) Mitch Epstein, Family Business, 2003 (Steidl) Nona Faustine, White Shoes, 2021 (MACK) Alanna Fields, Unveiling, 2025 (Meteoro Editions) Rahim Fortune, Hardtack, 2024 (Loose Joints) LaToya Ruby Frazier, The Notion of Family, 2014 (Aperture) Lee Friedlander, Sticks & Stones: Architectural America, 2004 (Fraenkel Gallery) Alice Rose George, Gilles Peress, Michael Shulan, and Charles Traub, Here Is New York: A Democracy of Photographs, 2002 (Scalo) Andres Gonzalez, American Origami, 2019 (Fw:Books / Light Work) Paul Graham, a shimmer of possibility, 2007 (SteidlMACK) Pia-Paulina Guilmoth, flowers drink the river, 2024 (STANLEY/BARKER) Curran Hatleberg, Lost Coast, 2016 (TBW Books) Jon Henry, Stranger Fruit, 2023 (Monolith Editions) Anthony Hernandez, Waiting, Sitting, Fishing, and Some Automobiles (losangeles, photographs of), 2007 (Loosestrife Editions) Todd Hido, House Hunting, 2001 (Nazraeli Press) Katherine Hubbard, The Great Room, 2025 (Loose Joints) Carlos Jaramillo, Tierra Del Sol, 2022 (Pomegranate Press) William E. Jones, Killed: Rejected Images of the Farm Security Administration, 2010 (PPP Editions) Brendan George Ko, Moemoeā, 2023 (Conveyor Editions) Justine Kurland, SCUMB Manifesto, 2022 (MACK) Gillian Laub, Family Matters, 2021 (Aperture) Deana Lawson, Deana Lawson: An Aperture Monograph, 2018 (Aperture) | Baldwin Lee, Baldwin Lee, 2022 (Hunters Point Press) An-My Lê, Small Wars, 2005 (Aperture) Rania Matar, SHE, 2021 (Radius Books) Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Se Te Subió El Santo, 2019 (Capricious) Raymond Meeks, ciprian honey cathedral, 2020 (MACK) Jeff Mermelstein, #nyc, 2020 (MACK) Kimowan Metchewais, A Kind of Prayer, 2022 (Aperture) Philip Montgomery, American Mirror, 2021 (Aperture) Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Orifice + Aperture, 2022 (TBW Books) Zora J Murff, True Colors (or, Affirmations in a Crisis), 2021 (Aperture) Christian Patterson, Redheaded Peckerwood, 2011 (MACK) Sasha Phyars-Burgess, Untitled, 2021 (Capricious) Mimi Plumb, Landfall, 2018 (TBW Books) Kristine Potter, Dark Waters, 2023 (Aperture) Josué Rivas, Standing Strong, 2018 (FotoEvidence Press) RaMell Ross, Spell, Time, Practice, American, Body, 2023 (MACK) Keisha Scarville, lick of tongue, rub of finger, on soft wound, 2023 (MACK) Collier Schorr, Jens F., 2005 (SteidlMACK) Bryan Schutmaat, Grays the Mountain Sends, 2013 (Silas Finch) Pacifico Silano, I Wish I Never Saw The Sunshine, 2021 (Loose Joints) Taryn Simon, An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar, 2007 (Steidl) Rosalind Fox Solomon, A Woman I Once Knew, 2024 (MACK) Alec Soth, Sleeping by the Mississippi, 2004 (Steidl) Larry Sultan, The Valley, 2004 (Scalo) Sandy Sugawara and Catiana Garcia-Kilroy, Show Me the Way to Go to Home, 2022 (Radius Books) Stephanie Syjuco, The Unruly Archive, 2024 (Radius Books) Jeff Wall, A Sudden Gust of Wind (after Hokusai), 2023 (TBW Books) Amani Willett, A Parallel Road, 2020 (Overlapse) Carla Williams, Tender, 2023 (TBW Books) D’Angelo Lovell Williams, Contact High, 2022 (MACK) Carmen Winant, The Last Safe Abortion, 2024 (SPBH Editions) Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, One Wall a Web, 2018 (Roma Publications) Betty Yu, Family Amnesia: Chinese American Resilience, 2025 (Daylight Books) |
Special Thanks
Exhibition support is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Exhibitions at ICP are supported, in part, by Michael Clinton, Caryl Englander, Renee Harbers Liddell, Almudena Legorreta, Jessica Nagle, Ken Nicholson, Jeffrey Rosen, the ICP Board of Trustees,, the Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund and public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
