Slideshow: The Best Photo Books of 2008

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A look inside the volumes that push the creative boundaries of art on paper

By American Photo Staff Posted January 13, 2009

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The Oxford Project
by Peter Feldstein and Stephen G. Bloom (Welcome Books, $50)
In 1984, Feldstein photographed the citizens of small-town Oxford, Iowa, where he kept a photo studio, and 21 years later he did it all over again. His intriguing and revelatory side-by-side portraits are complemented by Bloom's candid interviews. Though many of the subjects have greatly changed, the real oddity is that some have remained virtually the same, right down to their mug for the camera. -- l.s.

Slideshow: The Best Photo Books of 2008

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