This thesis shows the area related to the photo books that are among the various definitions of book artists. Photo books as artist's book are individual compositions, designed, conceived and designed by the artist himself. Artists and photographers across the pages of the book express their ideas and thoughts. Their everyday life is the book as a new medium of presenting this kind of contemporary art. The processes of making personal photo books from the initial idea to its realization are described, starting with recording, collecting, processing photos, making samples up to graphic design, layout, binding and finishing processes. Photo book is not only photos but the whole process and the prospect of the book is important. The study of the origins and historical development of book artists in Croatia and abroad is shown. The institutions, organizations, galleries, institutes which operate on the principle of independent publishers and the wider genre of contemporary book artists who are still not so well known in our region are mentioned. Offer and demand for these kinds of books of contemporary art and photography is getting bigger every day.