Het Amerikaanse blad Village Voice vindt dat het boek ‘Portraits’ van Hellen van Meene hoort tot de 25 beste fotoboeken die vorig jaar zijn verschenen.
Zie hier de lijst, zoals samengesteld door redacteur Vince Aletti:
1. Lee Friedlander: Sticks & Stones: Architectural America (D.A.P./Fraenkel Gallery)
2. Stephen Shore: Uncommon Places: The Complete Works (Aperture)
3. Robert Frank: Storylines (Steidl)
4. Joel Sternfeld: American Prospects (D.A.P.)
5. Martin Parr and Gerry Badger: The Photobook: A History, Volume I (Phaidon)
6. Irving Penn: A Notebook at Random (Bulfinch)
7. Marla Prather: Unrepentant Ego: The Self-Portraits of Lucas Samaras (Whitney Museum/Abrams)
8. Shomei Tomatsu: Skin of the Nation (SFMOMA/Yale)
9. Larry Sultan: The Valley (Scalo)
10. Chris Boot: Magnum Stories (Phaidon)
11. Sylvia Wolf: Ed Ruscha and Photography (Whitney Museum/Steidl)
12. Alec Soth: Sleeping by the Mississippi (Steidl)
13. Andy Warhol: Red Books (Steidl/Pace/MacGill)
14. Gabriel Orozco: Photographs (Steidl/Hirschhorn Museum)
15. Bill Burke: Autrefois, Maison Privee (powerHouse)
16. Sylvia Plachy: Self Portrait With Cows Going Home (Aperture)
17. Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel: Evidence (D.A.P.)
18. Garry Winogrand: Arrivals and Departures (D.A.P.)
19. Stripped Bare: The Body Revealed in Contemporary Art (Merrell)
20. Helen Levitt: Here and There (powerHouse)
21. David Maisel: The Lake Project (Nazraeli)
22. Jack Pierson: Every Single One of Them (Twin Palms)
23. Ruven Alfanador: Sombra (Merrell)
24. Hellen van Meene: Portraits (Aperture)
25. Massimo Vitali: Landcape With Figures (Steidl)