Open until the end of july, PhotoIreland Festival is an exciting selection of over 40 exhibitions and 60 events around the city of Dublin. If you’re in Ireland, you shouldn’t miss it!

Among other fantastic venues, PhotoIreland Festival announces Martin Parr’s selection of the 30 most influential photobooks of the last decade. The selection is on show at the National Photographic Archive of Ireland until the 31st of July. The “Martin Parr’s Best Books of the Decade” catalogue includes Martin Parr’s comments on each book, together with illustrations and ‘Author’s notes’. These are mostly unpublished texts by the photographers, publishers and curators of the works – personal statements on the process and raison d’être of each book.

We were happy to see that many books and photographers of Parr’s list are also our favorite. Some of them are already in our Vimeo VideoBook Channel, others will soon get there. Some of the photographers were featured in the magazine, others will eventually be there soon! All in all, every single book on the list is a must have! Here’s the full list, with some links…

Ryan McGinley, The Kids are Alright
Geert van Kesteren, Why Mister Why
Christien Meindertsma, Checked Baggage
Sakaguchi Tomoyuki, Home (project in LS04, book soon in Vimeo LS1)
Paul Graham, A Shimmer of Possibility
Viviane Sassen, Flamboya
JH Engstrom, Trying to Dance (project in LS02)
Daniela Rossell, Ricas y Famosas
Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs, The Great Unreal
Archive of Modern Conflict, Nein, Onkel
Florian van Roekel, How Terry likes his coffee
WassinkLundgren, Empty Bottles
Alessandra Sanguinetti, On the Sixth Day
Alec Soth, Sleeping by the Mississippi (book in Vimeo LS1)
Rinko Kawauchi, Utatane (book in Vimeo LS1)
John Gossage, Berlin in the time of the Wall (author in Vimeo LS1)
Leigh Ladare, Pretend You’re Actually Alive
Simon Roberts, We English (book soon in Vimeo LS1)
Doug Rickard, New American Picture
Miguel Calderon, Miguel Calderon
Miyako Ishuichi, Mothers
Jules Spinatsch, Temporary Discomfort: Chapter 1-V
Uchihara Yasuhiko, Son of a Bit
Donovan Wylie, Scrapbook
Stephen Gill, Hackney Wick
Susan Meiselas, In History
Michael Wolf, Tokyo Compression
Nina Korhonen, Anna, Amerikan Mummu
Hans Eijkelboom, Portraits & Cameras 1949-2009
Dash Snow, Slime the Boogie

Well done, Mister Parr!

Details: http://2011.photoireland.org/news/martin-parrs-best-books-of-the-decade/