My favorite photo book of 2018 is Max Pinckers's self-published Margins of Excess. This pioneering work of "speculative documentary" profiles six case studies of American fabulists. It's the perfect provocation for these so-called post-truth times.
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Debi Cornwall (Brooklyn, NY), is a conceptual documentary artist and former civil-rights lawyer whose first book, Welcome to Camp America: Inside Guantánamo Bay (Radius), was named among the best of 2017 by Photo-Eye, the New York Times Magazine, and others. www.debicornwall.com/