all american is the photo diary of a 5,000 mile journey done by Dutch designer Barbara Dijkhuis and photographer Auke Vleer. From LA to NY: 750 photos chosen from a few thousand originals, which give us a visual perception many American eyes can no longer.

all american is published by Artimo.

Stanley Green followed the  Chechnya Wars: 1994 - 2003.

Open Wound is a collection of 81 powerful images that aim to "reach the public and to show respect to the humanity I faced in Chechnya"

This is more than a reportage photography book: it's a loud voice against Wars and Hate.

Open Wound is published by Trolley.

Paul Graham - American Night is not about the glamorous gloom of the after hours nor the exhilarating Bright Lights Big City atmosphere. There are no lights involved, but rather a subtle therefore powerful depiction of American society.

American Night is published by Steidl Mack.

“Photography is the only way to kill death”. Graciela Iturbide often mentions Jean Cocteau when she talks about her way of taking pictures, almost like it were an excuse to see the world and better know what’s around her.

Pajaros is published by Twin Palms Publishers.

Richard Misrach - The Sky Book. Skies wider than imagination and colors that defy man's memories: Misrach's images are broadening the perception of the sky and giving it an identity.

Photographs by Richard Misrach; text by Rebecca Solnit; published by Arena Editions.

Jocelyn Bain Hogg - In The Firm all the images are in B&W, like the life of the people represented. Bain Hogg put together different strong shots of gangsters, night club dancers, bare knuckle fighters, eclectic horse-drawn hearse funerals, diamonds and brass knuckles and lace shirts. These are the lives of the criminals of London's East End.

The Firm is published by Westzone. 

Jan Saudek - "I'm a man, and nothing human is alien to me" [Terence's Self tormentor]. This line might very well be the motto of Jan Saudek, one of the most affirmative, celebratory and innocent of living photographers. [from Paradise and the Innocent Eye, by John Wood and James Crump]

Realities is published by Arena Editions.

Arthur Tress - Fantastic Voyage is the first retrospective on one of the most prolific and diversified art photographers working in America. Here you can find travels, people and cities, shadows, male nude, paper opera theatre, fish tank and paperweight: simple objects that get transformed in the mind.

Photographs in color and B&W by Arthur Tress [55 color plates, 180 duotone plates, 39 B&W illustrations]; text by di Richard Lorenz; published da Bulfinch Press Book.

James Fee - The American photographer's body of work, created in the last decade but evocative of Fee's earlier concerns begun in the '70s, continue to map out his deeply personal universe.

Photographs by James Fee [65 tri-tone and 65 four color images]; published by St. Ann's Press.

Harvey Wang - Flophouse: life on the Bowery, is a disappearing New York City, a place of marginal life full of humanity and devoid of false sentiment.

Photographs, B&W and color, by Harvey Wang; text by David Isay and Stacy Abrahamson; published by Random House.

Nick Nostitz - Patpong is the Center for underground life in Bangkok: guys and girls that play around and screw, exchange money and fun but never love because in here that would be an illusion. Nostitz is our smooth way toward a piece of real and crude life.

Photographs and text by Nick Nostitz; published by Westzone.

Thomas Flechtner - The "white snow that silently falls on things and people" isn't white any longer: Flechtner's powerful eye has given it a colorful identity.

105 color photographs by Thomas Flechtner; published by Lars Müller publishers.