This is not a list !
These are satistics. Ok, we were already fed up with best of 2011 photobooks lists before mid december, so please DO NOT call the list below a list. What you see is not what it’s supposed to be.

11 days ago, we asked our followers / readers to look back in our 2011 acquisitions, and vote for favorites.
Here are the results :

22 votes (each) :
- Gerry Johansson, Pontiac ; Mack books, 2011 _ See it here
- Takuma Nakahira, For a language to come ; Osiris, 2010 _ See it here

23 votes :
- Yasuhide Koge, Lift ; Seigensha, 2004 _ See it here

25 votes :
- Taisuke Koyama, Melting rainbows ; Self, 2010 _ See it here
- Shoji Yamagishi, Japan a self-portrait ; ICP, 1979 _ See it here

30 votes :
Anthony Hernandez, Waiting, sitting, fishing and some automobiles ; Loosestrife, 2007 _ See it here

31 votes :

- Paul Graham, Empty Heaven ; More pictures here

You love great books, classics with a twist, and Japanese !


And my personal top 5 ?
* Noah Beil, Gone Quickly  ; Self, 2011. For the impressive old fashioned work
* Paul Graham, Films ; Mack, 2011. For the noise when you turn the page
* Carine Roitfeld, Irreverent ; Rizzoli, 2011. I know it’s a bit shocking here, but my day job is in a fashion magazine, and I had a great moment looking at this album, mix of work and personal things
* Andrey Tarkovsky, Bright, bright day ; White space gallery, 2007. Sometimes in life, you’re lucky. I spent some time looking for this book on the internet, and i finally found it “par hasard” in a local bookstore, at a more than reasonable price. And, I don’t know. The book and photographs were worth all the time spent for it. “Le destin”, may be
* Aya Muto. This year we discovered, met and got friends with Aya Muto. Thanks to her nice books, coffee, and … Well… We love all her books. She was a great part in One year for Japan


VOILÀ !
We enjoyed very much sharing our books for the 2nd year, and we are ready for the 3rd.
Bonne année, bons livres !
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