Each month, Phototrend invites you to discover the photo books that have marked us. In this month of July 2025, here are 5 new works that we have selected for you.
This month, the enigmatic shots of Todd HidoTHE French at sea and the Diversity of hexagonal landscapes are in the spotlight of our selection. Likewise, Martin Schulz et Jo Bradford give us valuable advice, for your next photo trip in Icelandor to take better photos with a smartphone. Good reading.
Intimate Distance II
With Intimate Distance IITodd Hido signs his monograph the most successful to date. Reissued and increased, this new edition published by Textual retraces more thirty photographic creation. The book brings together the series the most emblematic of the American photographer including House Huntings (2001) Silver Meadows (2013) or The End Sends Advance Warning (2023).
Nocturnal landscapes, deserted houses, enigmatic female portraits and naked naked are seized there thanks to a undeniable technical mastery and a light treatment Having made the international reputation of the photographer. THE 320 pagesorganized chronologically, underline the evolution of a deep look narrative and sensorywhile integrating new images taken from Iceland, Norway, France or Japan.
In a enlightening introductory textthe exhibition commissioner and essayist David Campany evokes the way in which Todd Hido composes images open to interpretationboth intimate and distant. A work essential To (re) discover the singular universe of the photographer who offers the fixed image of the whole power a Large cinematographic work.
Intimate Distance IITodd Hido
Editor: textual
€ 69, 320 pages, connected, 29 x 24.5 cm
Buy the book: Textual / Fnac
France in retro
The photographer and Instagrammer Loïc Lagarde transpose into France in retro – Released in Michelin – his obsession for vintage carsthe small roads and the architectural and cultural heritage of Our French towns and villages.
Forget the highway : Loïc Lagarde prefers the departmental people who wind between river, vines or volcanoes, driving a 2 CV or a Cadillac, awakening the nostalgia of the Thirty Glorious Years. In the photos, monuments and buildings coat with a colorful light always photogenic; in a Retro-Instagrammable style. Vintage cars, posed as childhood memories, serve in the lead and as a time machine.
More than a guide, this road book celebrates the slow travel and the French heritagerecalling that Michelin editions“The inventor of the road”, also know how to tell the beauty of France. The photos are signed Loic Lagarde and the texts Laurent Vaultier.
France in retro, Loïc Lagarde (2025 edition)
Editor: Michelin
€ 29.95, 226 pages, connected, 18.5 x 23.8 cm
Buy the book: Michelin / Fnac
We went by the sea
With We went by the sea (South acts), Stéphan Gladieu Book one Sociological and photographic table of French people on vacation. From the Belgian border to the Basque Country, he stopped in 55 seaside stations To capture portraits of holidaymakers at the beach, whether they are alone, as a couple, with family or friends.
Behind a Apparent simplicitythe photographer set up a rigorous protocol : Portraits always in full footcaptured at the same distance, devoid of artifice and bathed in uniform light thanks to a flash stroke. As if to try Put on the same level each person photographed. The result, a series of portraits that combines photo reports but also almost pictorial plastic work, revealing both the diversity and the singularity of each individual and each seaside destination.
The photo book, which is part of the major photographic command of the Ministry of Culture and BNF, is accompanied by texts from the Franco-Moroccan novelist Leïla Slimani and the historian Christophe Grangerspecialist in transformations of bodies and social practices.
We went by the seaStéphan Gladieu
Publisher: Actes Sud
€ 39.90, 272 pages, connected, 24 x 30 cm
Buy the book: Acts Sud / Fnac
Photograph Iceland
Icelandwith its beaches of black sandses waterfallses icebergs and its northern borealis… is a real Paradise for photographers. This island of contrasts, where fire meets ice, offers many challenges, both technical and creative.
Martin Schulzlandscape photographer and passionate about Iceland, offers in this book 58 exceptional placeshighly photogenic, and guides you through 13 detailed circuits. For each excursion, it provides precise indications To easily orient you, accommodation suggestions and advice on best moments of the daytime and saison To capture superb images.
Very rich in advice et I thoughtthis practical guide is likely to become a unavoidable of your next trip to the Icelandic land.
Photographing Iceland, Martin Schulz
Publisher: Eyrolles
24 €, 314 pages, paperback, 14 x 21 cm
Buy the book: Eyrolles / Fnac
Smart Photos
Although many of us have a smartphonefew of us really know how in make the most of For photography. This book invites you to discover 52 inspiring projectsspecially designed to help you release creative potential of your mobile device.
Beyond purely advice techniquesthe photographer Jo Bradford aims to allow you to See the world differently. Thanks to his advice, you will learn to observe the detailshas play with light and at compose images Who tell a story.
Collection of colors, rays of light, collage of landscapes … The work is a mine d’or pour awaken the creative that sleeps in you – that you use a smartphone like a “True” Photo !
Smart Photos, Jo Bradford
Publisher: Eyrolles
€ 19, 144 pages, paperback, 16.2 x 21 cm
Buy the book: Eyrolles / Fnac