Any other examples that anyone knows of in terms of how photographers work with books?

Going in I felt leery of how Graphic Design might denigrate the Image and treat it merely as a rectangle in a series of two-page spreads with blocks of text as equal elements (to be arranged in a way pleasing to the designer). I had taken great pains in designing each photograph and surely I knew best how they should be treated on the printed page. That is, to simply let the images speak for themselves. I wanted the printing process to reproduce as faithfully as possible what was in the original print and to have the book format interfere as little as possible with the viewer's experience of each image. But in working with a gifted designer who had a lot of experience with visual books I had my eyes opened, I guess you could say.

For instance, surprisingly he advocated having hardly any text accompanying the pictures: no titles or captions. Aquatique has some text in the front: a short foreword and artist's statement, and in the back there is an annotated, illustrated index; but practically no text in the picture section, just a very discreet page number every once in a while. This freed the book to have a visual dynamic of its own with each turn of the page leading into a new type of experience, and it works very differently than a stack of pictures with titles and captions would. It didn't take me long to become enthusiastic about this approach and change my long-held conceptions about what a book of my work should look like.

Although my book exists as a printed physical object you can see examples of the pictures on my website in Water Series galleries. Sorry about any confusion.