Best Photography Books

[harrisfoto]

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When I stopped by the library at the International Center of Photography last week, I obtained a list of 100 photography books, complied by the library staff and instructors at the ICP.

If you are interested in the list, I have posted at:

PGR: Best Photography Books

Is it the "100 BEST"?

Steve Harris

[dkCambridgeshire]

Nothing there by Andreas Feininger?? Maybe he ids better known for his practical/theory books.

 

dunk

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[Guest Metroman]

No Winogrand!

[vic vic]

ya quite a lot of books missing there )

 

gibson, wall, jacobi for example..

[Guest WPalank]

victor,

I love your site. However, under contemporary photographers, I think you mean burtynsky and not "burtytsky". Cheers!

[Mountaineer-American]

Great list, very interesting. This sort of thing is always delightfully arguable. In the field of photo books I would add Tete a Tete by HC-B, Requiem by American photographers in Vietnam, Photo Nomad by David Douglas Duncan, Faces by Bown. In the field of photography history there is an excellent biography of HC-B out now. Somebody wrote a good history of the Magnum photo agency about 5 years ago, don't know the title at this moment.

 

"Don't start vast projects with half-vast ideas."

[Guest flatfour]

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No Lee Miller either. I vote Bill Brandt's the English at Home as my best of the lot followed by HCB's decisive moment.

[wattsy]

gibson

 

Typical USA-centric list. As such, Gibson's omission is especially surprising.

 

There's no Salgado either. Nor Parr.

[vic vic]

willian.. ya sure it is burtinsky.. hahha.. is this the onlyy mistake you found ?? hahahha will make a serious revision of all the stuff later on with english literature proffesor who always revises my works (writen) ...

 

ian.. deffenetly usa-oriented.. but im not sure how seriously those things can be taken beyound something introductory...

 

ah.. good that you reminded them to me.. salgado and parr.. gonna add them on my site too.. there will be text only about part of the phoptographers from the list (those that i love especially and influenced or concider as very important in history of foto)...

think we can take salgado to the calssics - rite ? actually eggleston too - classics by all means, to be honest... but i thought of him as more a kind of milstone.. that is why he is on the conteporary side on my list...

[hektor]

100 photography books, complied by the library staff and instructors at the ICP

 

Try:

 

McAlpin, David Ansel Adams, Singular Images 1974 Morgan & Morgan

Adams, Ansel Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs 1983 Little, Brown and Company

Callahan, Harry M. (ed.) Ansel Adams in Color (sic) 1993 Little, Brown and Company

Atget, Eugène Eugène Atget 1980 Aperture

Renaud, Francoise Eugène Atget 1984 Thames and Hudson

Strong, Roy (ed.) Beaton Portraits 1968 Her Majesty's Stationery Office

Bischof, Marco Werner Bischof 1990 Thames & Hudson

Bischof, Werner Werner Bischof: After the War 1995 Smithsonian Instutution Press

Bischof, Marco Werner Bischof Pictures 2006

Koetzle, Hans-Michael René Burri Photographs 2004 Phaidon Press Limited

Rüegg, Arthur (ed.) Burri, René Le Corbusier 1999 Birkhäuser Publishers

Kershaw, Alex Robert Capa 1996 Scalo

Capa, Cornell (ed.) Robert Capa Photographs 1996 Aperture

Cartier-Bresson, Henri The World of Cartier-Bresson 1968 Thames & Hudson

Cartier-Bresson, Henri Man and Machine 1969 The Viking Press, Inc.

Cartier-Bresson, Henri France 1970 Thames & Hudson

Cartier-Bresson, Henri À propos de Paris 1994 Thames & Hudson

Cartier-Bresson, Henri The Europeans 1997 Thames & Hudson

Cartier-Bresson, Henri The Mind's Eye 1999 Aperture Foundation

Cartier-Bresson, Henri Landscape Townscape 2001 Thames & Hudson

Cornelius, Peter Paris in Colour 1961 Bramhall House

Wolfe, Tom (ed.) Marie Cosindas: Color Photographs 1978 New York Graphic Society, Boston

Doisneau, Robert Doiseneu 40/44 1994 Hoëbeke, Paris

Duncan, David Douglas Photo Nomad 2003 W.W. Norton & Company

Dupain, Max Australia 1986 Viking

Eisenstaedt, Alfred The Eye of Eisenstaedt 1969 Thames & Hudson

Eisenstaedt, Alfred Germany 1980 Smithsonian Instutution Press

Eisenstaedt, Alfred Eisenstaedt on Eisenstaedt 1985 Abbeville Press

Eisenstaedt, Alfred (ed. O'Neil D.C.) Remembrances 1990 Bullfinch Press

Elsken, Ed van der Paris: Foto's 1950-1954 1981 Uitgeverij Bert Bakker

Feininger, Andreas Stockholm 1933-1939 1991 Birkhäuser Publishers

Koch, Thilo (ed.) Ernst Haas: In Germany 1977 Viking

Campbell, Bryn (ed.) Ernst Haas 1982 Collins

Peltason, Ruth (ed.) Ernst Haas, A Colour Retrospective 1952 - 1986 1989 Thames & Hudson

Aigner, Carl (ed.) Franz Hubmann 1999 Verlag Christian Brandstäter

Karsh, Yousuf Karsh, A Fifty-Year Retrospective 1983 New York Graphic Society

Kertész, André On Reading 1971 Penguin Books

Kertész, André André Kertész: Sixty Years of Photography 1912-1972 1972 Thames & Hudson

Kertész, André Landscapes 1979 Mayflower Books

Delpire, Robert Jacques-Henri Lartigue 1976 Aperture Foundation

Moore, David The Australian Functional Tradition 1988 The Five Mile Press

Martin, Jean-Hubert Man Ray Photographs 1981 Thames & Hudson

Lavrent, Alexander Rodchenko, Photographie von 1924 – 1954 1995 Verlag Könemann

Saebens, Hans Hans Saebens, Bilder des Lichts 1995 Verlag Atelier

Hunter-Salomon, Peter Erich Salomon, Portrait eine Epoch 1967 Collier MacMillan

Hunter-Salomon, Peter Dr. Erich Salomon 1886-1944 1981 Schirmer / Mosel

Salomon, Erich Erich Salomon Leica Fotografie 1930-1939 1986 Berlin Exhibition Catalogue

Schneiders, Toni Photographien 1946 - 1980 1999 Schirmer / Mosel

Cook, Olive Edwin Smith 1984 Thames & Hudson

Smith, W. Eugene W. Eugene Smith 1999 Aperture

Norman, Dorothy Alfred Stieglitz: An American Seer 1960 Aperture Foundation

Strand, Paul Tir A'hmurain: The Outer Hebrides of Scotland 1954 Aperture Foundation

Sudek, Josef Poet of Prague 1990 Aperture Foundation

Newhall, Nancy (ed.) Edward Weston 1975 Gordon Fraser

Wolff, Paul & Lubecke, Fried Alt-Frankfurt 1931 Englebert und Schlosser

Wolff, Paul & Tritschler, Alfred Schönheit am Wege 1948 Heering-Verlag

Calvenzi, Giovanna (ed.) Italia 2003 Contrasto Due Srl

Doty, Robert Photo-Secession, Stieglitz and the Fine-Art Movement 1960 Dover Publications Inc.

Leongard, John (ed.) Classic Photographs 1988 Thames & Hudson

Mellor, David (ed.) The Real Thing 1975 Arts Council of Great Britain

Morath, Inge (ed.) Paris Photographs 1935-1981 Magnum 1981 Aperture Foundation

Newhall, Beaumont & Nancy (ed.) Masters of Photography 1981 Park Lane

Steichen, Edward (ed.) The Family of Man (hard-cover) 1955 Museum of Modern Art

Szarkowski, John Looking at Photographs 1973 The Museum of Modern Art

Szarkowski, John Photography Until Now 1989 The Museum of Modern Art

Updike, John (ed.) Heroes and Antiheroes Magnum Images 1991 Random House

[S. Wong]

I was given "The best of Popular Photography" 40th anniversary edition (1937-1977).

This might not belong on a "Top 100" but its great reference for improving photography.

 

It has articles from various greats in American Photography, and various simply-presented discussions of lighting, art, history, and technology.

As a technophile, I really like the discussions on equipment and why certain cameras were chosen.

I'm not so much of a chemist, so the articles on development kinda go over my head.

 

The old camera ads are cool too

-Steven

[ksargent]

I think that "The Family of Man" would be a defensible addition.

 

Ken

[telewatt]

There is one Photographer I miss a lot..

 

.."Ervin Fieger"....for me the best color Photagrapher of the world.. ..and I know "Ernst Haas"....

 

look for the books "Japan" and "Ganges" and you will find pictures in very big size, all done with Leica and Leicaflex and you don't believe your eyes.. ...the best printing I have ever seen...

 

regards,

Jan