Vincent Peri Posted November 23, 2018 Share Posted November 23, 2018 I'm just starting the process of buying books of photographs taken by famous photographers to build up my library (and hopefully, learn a thing or two). So far, I have Diane Arbus, Edward Weston, Robert Frank, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Ansel Adams covered. I'm mainly interested in photos taken sometime around WWII and on to the present. Can anyone suggest some good photo books for my library? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robert_bowring Posted November 23, 2018 Share Posted November 23, 2018 Any book by Mary Ellen Mark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moving On Posted November 23, 2018 Share Posted November 23, 2018 Don’t cheat yourself...... Edward S. Curtis - Wikipedia Scroll to the bottom.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad_ Posted November 23, 2018 Share Posted November 23, 2018 In the American West by Richard Avedon, Avedon at Work: In the American West by Laura Wilson, (one I look at often for inspiration) Evidence, by Richard Avedon, The Map, by Kikuji Kawada, San Francisco Noir, by Fred Lyon Shinjuku, Daido Moriyama 1 www.citysnaps.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vincent Peri Posted November 24, 2018 Author Share Posted November 24, 2018 Thanks for the replies so far. I found a nice copy on ebay of a Mary Ellen Mark book. Still looking for reasonably priced used books by the other photographers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Shadow Posted November 24, 2018 Share Posted November 24, 2018 A book I recently obtained which is becoming a favorite is Josef Sudek: The Legacy of a Deeper Vision LINK TO AMAZON There’s always something new under the sun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tholte Posted November 24, 2018 Share Posted November 24, 2018 Any of Sebastiao Salgado's books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikemorrell Posted November 24, 2018 Share Posted November 24, 2018 One by Fan Ho? An active Dutch photographer whose works are being collected by Art museums in Europe and the US is Erwin Olaf. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruslan Posted November 24, 2018 Share Posted November 24, 2018 I like Robert Doisneau. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn McCreery Posted November 24, 2018 Share Posted November 24, 2018 (edited) Here are a few of my favorite books of photographs, Brett Weston, Photographs from Five Decades John Sexton, Places of Power Eliot Porter, The West Paul Strand, Aperture Masters of Photography Series Wynn Bullock, Photography: a Way of Life Galen Rowell: a Retrospective Edited November 24, 2018 by Glenn McCreery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robert_bowring Posted November 24, 2018 Share Posted November 24, 2018 Lee Friedlander and Garry Winogrand are also among my favorites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cb11664886099 Posted November 24, 2018 Share Posted November 24, 2018 I have: Irving Penn - Centennial Vivian Maier - Street Photographer Elliot Erwitt's New York and Paris I love these books Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sanford Posted November 24, 2018 Share Posted November 24, 2018 "California One" by Stephen Wilkes, anything by Elliot Erwitt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDMvW Posted November 24, 2018 Share Posted November 24, 2018 (edited) Ansel Adams 1984 Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs. ISBN 0-8212-1551-5 and most other books by him, even those seemingly dedicated to methods, etc. Edited November 24, 2018 by JDMvW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vincent Peri Posted November 24, 2018 Author Share Posted November 24, 2018 Hmm... more books being recommended than I can shake a banana at... http://bayouline.com/o2.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c_watson1 Posted November 24, 2018 Share Posted November 24, 2018 Anything you can find by Fan Ho. Way more interesting than Cartier-Bresson any day. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayne Melia Posted November 24, 2018 Share Posted November 24, 2018 'Light Gesture & Color' by Jay Maisel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c_watson1 Posted November 25, 2018 Share Posted November 25, 2018 Fred Herzog's Modern Color or Photographs. Mostly Kodachromes of a long-gone Vancouver. Stunning. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandy Vongries Posted November 25, 2018 Share Posted November 25, 2018 Art Kane - a new one out. Jeanloup Sieff, don't have specific titles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ed_farmer Posted November 27, 2018 Share Posted November 27, 2018 Steichen and Stieglitz are two that you have books on. There are general books of Stieglitz photographs but two of my favorites are his book on Lake George and a book of photographs that he took of Georgia O'Keefe over many years. Any book with good copies of prints by Frederick Evans. If you want a GREAT book that will give you ideas on a number of photographers that you might be interested in, you need to have a copy of the Beaumont Newhall's History of Photography. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wogears Posted November 27, 2018 Share Posted November 27, 2018 I've always been impressed with William Albert Allard (a/k/a "Bill") His "Five Decades" is a book I come back to often, to remind me of what is possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDMvW Posted November 27, 2018 Share Posted November 27, 2018 For some of the best pictures ever published, the Taschen book of Camera Work has all the images from Steichen's famous journal 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Weishaupt Posted November 27, 2018 Share Posted November 27, 2018 "Worlds in a Small Room" by Irving Penn "South With Endurance....The Photography of Frank Hurley" is excellent and perhaps not well known. Any of Hurley's work is worthy of attention. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Shadow Posted November 27, 2018 Share Posted November 27, 2018 By the way, since it’s easily doable these days and not terribly expensive, especially if you wait for one of the many sales offered, I’d highly recommend making a photo book of your own. It’s a great experience. You get to see your own photos in print and have the opportunity to cull your work into a cohesive organism. There’s always something new under the sun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ed_farmer Posted November 27, 2018 Share Posted November 27, 2018 For some of the best pictures ever published, the Taschen book of Camera Work has all the images from Steichen's famous journal [ATTACH=full]1272926[/ATTACH] That was Stieglitz, not Steichen . . . But, I make the same mistake all of the time . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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