Best of Show! Some Harvard Bathrooms Kristy Lynn Carpenter Bronson, MI Purchase Here		Best of Show! Living Proof Mercedes Dorame Berkeley, CA Purchase Here
	Best of Show! Cast a Cold Eye Jonathan Sharlin Providence, RI Purchase Here		Best of Show! Worth the Trip Melissa Stallard Chicago, IL Purchase Here
Photo+Book • The Exhibition
	Rabbit Bobby Abrahamson Portland, OR Purchase Here		Fort Ord Requiem Susan Bein Portland, OR Purchase Here
	The Corporeal Road Greg Britton Glenview, IL Purchase Here		Interior Nature Karen Bucher Las Cruses, NM Purchase Here
	The McCann Family Karen Davis Cambridge, MA Purchase Here		15 Surface Studies C. Bruce Forster Portland, OR Purchase Here
	Visual Healing Maura Freeman Seattle, WA Purchase Here		New York Barbara Gilbert Portland, OR Contact 23 Sandy to Purchase
	November 4th, 2008 - Phoenix, Arizona Andrew Hammerand Mesa, AZ Purchase Here		On/Off/Photo Andrew Hammerand Mesa, AZ Purchase Here
	Souls by Water Stewart Harvey Portland, OR Purchase Here		Veronica Douglas Holleley Rochester, NY Purchase Here
	Within the Ice Michael Francis Kelly Juneau, AK Purchase Here		Lost and Found Heidi Kirkpatrick Portland, OR Purchase Here
	Between Twilight Kimi Kolba Portland, OR Purchase Here		Witness Nate Larson Chicago, IL Purchase Here
	Untitled Rhapsody Jim Leisy Sherwood, OR Purchase Here		Exit Wounds Jim Lommasson Portland, OR Purchase Here
	Aesthetics of Abandonment: The Dixie Square Project Christopher W. Luhar-Trice Starkville, MS Purchase Here		African Queens Thomas Miller Portland, OR Purchase Here
	Mostra Loren Minnick Portland, OR Purchase Here		Under Wraps Loren Nelson Portland, OR Purchase Here
	Indian Himalyas Lyssa Palu-ay Jamaica Plain, MA Purchase Here		Touch the Earth Jaye R. Phillips Arlington, MA Purchase Here
	Light Passage Jaye R. Phillips Arlington, MA Purchase Here		Cabela's Neal Rantoul Cambridge, MA Purchase Here
	Pinhole Photos Ruth Ross Portland, OR Purchase Here		SouthWest 2 Views Ruth Ross Portland, OR Purchase Here
	Night Light Uwe Schneider Portland, OR Purchase Here		Somewhere Near Here Rylan Steele Asheville, NC Purchase Here
	In Passing Douglas Stockdale Rancho Santa Margarita, CA Purchase Here		Oceanus Elisabeth, Tonnard Rochester, NY Purchase Here
	Two of Us. Encounters Elisabeth Tonnard Rochester, NY Purchase Here		Hong Kong August 2005 Dennis Witmer Fairbanks, AK Purchase Here
	Near Midas Dennis Witmer Fairbanks, AK Purchase Here		The Battered Trucks of Barrow Dennis Witmer Fairbanks, AK Purchase Here
	M in a Box AJ Zelada Portland, OR Purchase Here

Best of Show Award Winners

Four photographers were selected to receive a “Best of Show Award” for Photo+Book. These four photographers will exhibit framed photographs from their winning photo books on the gallery walls during the Photo+Book exhibition.

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About Photo+Book
Every photographer dreams of having a book of their photographs published. No longer is it necessary to amass thousands of dollars and suffer the rejections of traditional publishers. With the emergence of “self-published, on demand” book printing services such as Blurb, Lulu, iPhoto, MyPublisher and others photographers are now able to publish their own photographs in a high-quality, low-cost and professional book. Photo+Book seeks to exhibit a sampling of some of the best books being self-published by photographers today.

This exhibition was juried by Christopher Rauschenberg—a photographer who has had 83 solo shows in six countries over the last 35 years. His most recent book, Paris Changing: Revisiting Eugene Atget's Paris, was published by Princeton Architectural Press in 2007. His work is in hundreds of private and corporate collections and in numerous museum collections, including the George Eastman House, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Portland Art Museum and the Butler Institute of American Art. He is a co-founder and a Board member of Photolucida. He is a co-founder and co-director of Blue Sky Gallery where he has co-curated and co-produced over 650 solo exhibitions and 46 group shows. He is a member and co-founder of the Nine Gallery and is the founder of the Portland Grid Project. Learn more about his work at www.christopherrauschenberg.com.

Juror Statement
When I was a young photographer coming of age in the Seventies, there were very few photography books to buy and be inspired by. That is hard to imagine now, when there are so many excellent monographs by so many excellent photographers. Photo-eye books carries over 30,000 titles. To date, 43 monographs by Martin Parr alone have been published, whereas in 1970, a set of 43 photography monographs was pretty much every single one that moved you.

In 1970 Lee Friedlander self-published Self Portrait and Ralph Gibson self-published The Somnambulist and in 1972 Les Krims put out his three odd small books in blue boxes, Little People of America, The Deerslayers and The Incredible Case of the Stack O' Wheats Murders. These books were not retrospectives of a life's work, they represented a new idea of what a photo book could be - an artist, even an emerging artist, presenting one body of work in a book format. We all worshipped at the feet of The Americans by Robert Frank, of course, but the enormity of that accomplishment seemed far beyond anything that I could imagine accomplishing myself.  One could aspire to producing books like Krims' or Gibson's, however, which is one reason that photo-eye now has those 30,000 titles.

Print-on-demand books are the second booster kicking in on this rocket-like trajectory of photo book publishing. Instead of needing thousands of dollars to self-publish a good looking book (along with some expertise and a basement to store them in), a photographer now can produce a book for free, buy a copy for himself or herself (and one for mom, I hope!) and make it available to the public, with the print-on-demand publisher taking care of the fulfillment and billing. Among the books in this exhibition, three are books that I already owned, having purchased them from Blurb or Lulu. We are still at the beginning of this new era and it will be exciting to see what new worlds this rocket takes us to.  I'm happy to be along for the ride and I hope that you are too.