Twin Palms
Twin Palms Publishers grew out of Twelvetrees Press, which Jack Woody established in 1981, and it has always worked from the edge of American publishing: its own history says the books have been condemned as pornography and celebrated as classics. The site sums the list up as books of “challenging and provocative content” and “sheer beauty as objects”, which is also a working method, since they are, it says, beautifully designed and printed. Woody returned to the surviving glass-plate negatives for a Disfarmer monograph and reissued a classic as a sheet-fed gravure edition, and reissues of overlooked photographers sit beside the first monographs of younger ones. The house is based in Los Angeles, with trade distribution handled exclusively by D.A.P.
- Books in Spine Index
- 128, years 1988 – 2025
- Link
- twinpalms.com/collections/catalog
Start with
- Garry Winogrand, Winogrand Color (2023)
- Mike Brodie, Failing (2024)
- William Eggleston, For Now (2010)
- Duane Michals, The Adventures of Constantine Cavafy (2007)
Latest additions
- Herbert List, Junge Männer (1988)
- Herb Ritts, Pictures (1988)
- Herb Ritts, Men / Women (1989)
- Duane Michals, Now Becoming Then (1990)
Recurring authors
- Duane Michals (5)
- William Eggleston (4)
- Danny Lyon (4)
- Mike Brodie (3)
- Luke Smalley (3)
Shares authors with
- Dewi Lewis (3)
- Steidl (3)
- Damiani (2)
- Filigranes Éditions (2)
- Akaaka Art Publishing (1)
Books in the archive
- Joel-Peter Witkin, The Bone House (1998)
- Joel-Peter Witkin, Harms Way (1994)
- Matthew Genitempo, Jasper (2018)
- Henry O. Head, Twelve Acres (2025)
- Mike Brodie, Failing (2024)
- Various Authors, Fifty Books: 1981–2024 (2024)
- Luke Smalley, Exercise at Home (2007)
- Jim Mangan, The Crick (2023)
- Garry Winogrand, Winogrand Color (2023)
- Stacy Kranitz, As It Was Give(n) To Me (2022)
- Aaron Stern and Lucy Helton, OK, No Response (2021)
- Robert H. Boltz, Dead of Night (2021)
- Gary Briechle, Maine (2018)
- John Langmore, Open Range (2018)
- Arne Svenson, Unspeaking Likeness (2016)
- Neil Latham, American Thoroughbred (2016)
- Michael Christopher Brown, Libyan Sugar (2016)
- Valerio Spada, I Am Nothing (2015)
- Mike Brodie, Tones of Dirt and Bone (2015)
- Robert Stivers, The Art of Ruin (2015)
- Valerio Spada, Gomorrah Girl (2014)
- Malerie Marder, Anatomy (2013)
- Mike Brodie, A Period of Juvenile Prosperity (2013)
- Michal Chelbin, Sailboats and Swans (2012)
- Gary Briechle, Gary Briechle: Photographs (2012)
- Lise Sarfati, She (2012)
- Antonio Lopez, Instamatics (2011)
- John Schabel, Passengers (2011)
- Ryan McGinley, You and I (2011)
- Norman Mauskopf, Descendants (2011)
- Deborah Luster, Tooth for an Eye (2010)
- William Eggleston, For Now (2010)
- Michal Chelbin, The Black Eye (2010)
- Chris Verene, Family (2010)
- Danny Lyon, Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement (2010)
- Luke Smalley, Sunday Drive (2009)
- William Eggleston, Stranded in Canton (2008)
- Phillip Toledano, Phonesex (2008)
- Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison, Counterpoint (2008)
- Anthony Goicolea, Fictions (2008)
- Jean Luc Mylayne, Jean Luc Mylayne (2007)
- Michael Crouser, Los Toros (2007)
- Bill Burke, I Want to Take Picture (2007)
- Duane Michals, The Adventures of Constantine Cavafy (2007)
- Philip-Lorca diCorcia, A Storybook Life (2003)
- Peter Young, Paintings: 1963-1980 (2007)
- Robert Stivers, Sanctum (2007)
- William Eggleston, 5 x 7 (2006)
- Ken Ohara, With (2006)
- Lise Sarfati, The New Life (2005)
- Eirik Johnson, Borderlands (2005)
- Andre de Dienes, Studies of the Female Nude (2005)
- Amy Adler, Young Photographer (2005)
- Jeff Burton, The Other Place (2005)
- Anthony Goicolea, Drawings (2005)
- Chris Shaw, Life as a Night Porter (2005)
- David Deutsch, Photographs / Paintings (2004)
- Debbie Fleming Caffery, Polly (2004)
- Phillip Toledano, Bankrupt (2004)
- Shimon Attie, The History of Another (2004)
- Jack Pierson, Every Single One of Them (2004)
- Robert Stivers, Sestina (2004)
- Anthony Goicolea, Anthony Goicolea (2003)
- Deborah Luster, One Big Self (2003)
- Ellen Von Unwerth, Revenge (2003)
- Simen Johan, Room to Play (2003)
- John O'Reilly, Assemblies of Magic (2002)
- Guy Stricherz, Americans in Kodachrome (2002)
- Debbie Fleming Caffery, The Shadows (2002)
- Graciela Iturbide, Pajaros (2002)
- Anderson & Low, Gymnasts (2002)
- Anderson & Low, Athletes (2002)
- Danny Lyon, Indian Nations (2002)
- Frank Moore, Between Life and Death (2002)
- Sidney B. Felsen, The Artist Observed (2002)
- Peter Hujar, Animals and Nudes (2002)
- Nancy Burson, Seeing and Believing (2002)
- Adam Fuss, My Ghost (2002)
- Charles Wehrenberg, Mississippi Blue (2002)
- Duane Michals, Questions Without Answers (2002)
