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Mary Virgina Swanson has posted a list of links to the various "best of" lists for 2007 photo books. She's also put up some key info about upcoming photo competitions in 2008. Included are Review Santa Fe, Project Competition, and Singular Image.

From the Guardian:

It is significant that the photographers Kozloff includes are often a good deal more famous than their sitters. There are taxi drivers and barmaids here, sailors and majorettes, hustlers, sharecroppers and vagrants. Teenagers and prostitutes outnumber statesmen. Kozloff favours anonymous faces and everyday locations: he makes room for discarded strips of photo booth portraits, but not for the celebrated sitters of Karsh, Bailey, Leibovitz or Testino.

Theatre of the Face: Portrait Photography Since 1900
by Max Kozloff
$44 at Amazon (reg $70)