Index

The first-edition boxed set of Index, the career-spanning self-anthology by the Magnum photographer Christopher Anderson (b. 1970): eleven saddle-stitched volumes housed in a silkscreened fluted slipcase, published by STANLEY/BARKER in 2026 and designed by Brian Roettinger.

Rather than a linear retrospective, Index breaks three decades of work into eleven separate booklets (Afghanistan, Haiti, China, France, Cars, Self Portrait, Holiday, New York, Trouble, White House, and 9 East 71st Street) that can be read in any order, juxtaposing war, migration, politics, and domestic intimacy like entries in an index. The 320-page set measures 255 × 225 mm this copy is signed by Anderson.

Anderson won the Robert Capa Gold Medal in 1999 for photographs made aboard a sinking boat of Haitian migrants bound for the United States, then covered Afghanistan, Iraq, and Israel/Palestine before turning toward family, cities, and self-portraiture, work that moves fluidly between reportage and the personal. A member of Magnum Photos, he built the monographs Capitolio, Son, Stump, and Approximate Joy Index draws that full arc together and was widely noted on release, including in The Guardian and Le Monde.