Past winners – Photography
2009
In History
By Susan Meiselas, edited by Kristen Lubben (Steidl)
2008
Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945
By Matthew S. Witkovsky (Thames and Hudson)
Impressed By Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840-1860
By Roger Taylor (Yale University Press)
2006
The Photobook
A History, Vols 1 & 2
By Martin Parr and Gerry Badger (Phaidon)
2004
Res: Lo Stato delle Cose
By Antonio Biasiucci (Contrasto, Italy)
Family Business
By Mitch Epstein (Steidl, Germany)
2002
The Photographic Art of William Henry Fox Talbot
By Larry J Schaaf (Princeton University Press, USA)
The Beautiful and the Damned: The Creation of Identity in Nineteenth Century Photography
By Peter Hamilton & Roger Hargreaves (Lund Humphries in association with the National Portrait Gallery, UK)
2000
Case History
By Boris Mikhailov (Scalo, Switzerland)
Scientific Photography and Applied Imaging
By Sidney F Ray (Focal Press, UK)
1998
Umbo: Otto Umbehr 1902-1980
By Herbert Molderings (Richter Verlag, Germany)
Beauty of Another Order: Photography in Science
Edited by Ann Thomas (Yale University Press, UK/USA in association with the National Gallery of Canada), with contributions by Marta Braun, Mimi Cazort, Martin Kemp, John McElhone and Larry Schaaf.
1996
In Retrospect
By Eve Arnold (Sinclair-Stevenson, UK and Alfred A Knopf, USA)
Records of the Dawn of Photography: Talbot’s Notebooks P & Q
By Larry J Schaaf (Cambridge University Press, UK)
1994
The Illustrated History of Colour Photography
By Jack H Coote (Fountain Books)
Walker Evans: The Hungry Eye
By Gilles Mora and John T Hill (Editions du Seuil, France and Thames & Hudson, UK)
Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue
By Eugene Richards (Aperture, USA)
1992
Photography at the Bauhaus
By Jeannine Fielder (Dirk Nishen)
Out of the Shadows: Herschel, Talbot and the Invention of Photography
By Larry J Schaaf (Yale University Press, USA/UK)
Biomedical Photography
By John P Vetter (Focal Press)
1988
Paul Barkshire’s Unexplored London
By Paul Barkshire (Lennard)
1985
Let Truth Be the Prejudice: W Eugene Smith, His Life and Photography
By Ben Maddow (Aperture, USA)
Kroppen Forsvar / Human Body’s Defence
By Lennart Nilsson, Jan Lindberg, Stig Nordfeldt and Kjell Lindqvist (Bonnier Fakta, Sweden)
Incurably Romantic
By Bernard F Stehle (Temple University Press,USA)