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Dawoud Bey on Photographing People and Communities

On Photographing People and Communities Aperture Photography Workshop Series Dawoud Bey on Photographing People and Communities is part of the Aperture Photography Workshop Series. As with Mary Ellen Mark on the Portrait and the Moment, the guiding concept behind the book is to mirror the experience of attending a workshop by a master photographer or […]
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Skira History of Photography

Skira Four Volume History of Photography  Edited by Walter Guadagnini  Skira’s four volume history of photography takes an unusual but rewarding approach. Recognizing that it is impossible, even in four volumes, to provide a comprehensive history of photography, publishing house Skira has instead chosen to dig deeply into key movements in the history of photography, […]
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Public, Private, Secret

Public, Private, Secret. On Photography and the Configuration of Self.  By Charlotte Cotton with Marina Chao and Pauline Vermare   Public, Private, Secret. On Photography and the Configuration of Self, is an outgrowth of an exhibition held in 2016 for the opening of a new space in New York’s Bowery for the International Center of […]
American Witness RJ Smith

American Witness

American Witness. The Art and Life of Robert Frank, by RJ Smith, Da Capo Press Robert Frank was the most influential photographer of the second half of the 20th century. And the basis for that influence is almost exclusively attributed to a single work, The Americans. First published in France in 1958 and then the […]
Group f.64

Group f.64

Group f.64 By Mary Street Alinder, Bloomsbury Group f.64 may be the most influential collection of photographers ever. That influence can still be felt today and their work remains perennially popular. Monographs and retrospectives highlighting the work of individual members continue to be published ninety years later. While Alfred Stieglitz may be credited with relentlessly […]
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The Social Photo: On Photography and Social Media

The Social Photo: On Photography and Social Media.  By Nathan Jurgenson, Verso   Nathan Jurgenson covers a lot of territory in just over 100 pages, as he presents page after page of insightful and thought-provoking observations on photography and social media. Jurgenson dissects current opinions and attitudes about social media and nicely places them in […]
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The Photograph as Contemporary Art

The Photograph as Contemporary Art   by Charlotte Cotton.  World of Art series: Thames & Hudson. Writing about contemporary anything is like running to catch a train that never slows down at a station. The author is forever destined to have missed the latest one, no matter how fast she goes. For nearly two decades, Charlotte […]
Photographers Eye

The best books on photography (irregularly updated)

None of these books will tell you anything about f-stops, but they will definitely make you a better photographer One of the consequences of my interest in photography is that I acquire and read too many photography books. I hope to develop this site as a resource for other photographers seeking out the best in […]
Mary Ellen Mark Book

A workshop in book form?

Mary Ellen Mark on the Portrait and MomentAperture FoundationThe Photography Workshop Series It is an impossible task to convert the experience of learning from an accomplished talent in person into book form. The Aperture Foundation deserves credit for attempting to do so with The Photography Workshop Series (which, as of the end of 2022 consisted […]
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