karlo.kolumna.eins
@karlo.kolumna.eins12 Jun
Must-read Street Photography books
Just want to enlarge my Photobook Collection. Can anybody give me some tipps for some books? Any must-haves?
I would say don’t limit yourself to just street. My favourite are books by Mark Steinmetz, Sage Sohier, Baldwin Lee, Josef Koudelka
thanks mate :)
yeah i don´t limit myself, but wanted especially street photo books recommendation
Ah fair enough :)
Echo this. One year on a bike is my favorite photo book, highly recommend
This was then - Mike Abrahams
The last resort - Martin Parr
I think the classics are a good base to have: Saul Leiter - Early Color, Robert Frank - The Americans, Alex Webb - The Suffering of Light, Vivian Maier - Street Photographer, Henri Cartier-Bresson - The decisive moment, Magnun Contact sheets (various).
I'd add to the list Sage Sohier - Passing Time and Matt Stuart - Think like a street photographer too.
3 of my favourites from 3 of my favourites are:
Ernst Haas: New York in Colour
All About Saul Leiter
The Suffering of Light: Thirty Years of Photographs by Alex Webb
All very solid. Saul Leiter's centennial book is amazing if you don't have it...
I absolutely love The Suffering of Light. Only downside is that i feel like Webb basically finished street photography. There's no way up once it's perfect. I recently got Elliot Erwitt New York as a gift, which I love. But I'm a sucker for Magnum, so that might skew my opinion here.
I'd also add the Photofile series are a great taster as a way in
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Love buying photography books, just wish I had more money so that I could afford all the ones I want to purchase! Just some that I love but are are all so different:
High Country - Lucas Foglia
Venice Beach - Dotan Saguy
Minutes To Midnight - Trente Parke
The Adventures Of Guille & Belinda - Alessandra Sanguinetti
and the incomparable In The American West by Richard Avedon (I think his portraits from this project stand up there with the best photography of the 20th Century)
Maybe not all street but all fantastic photo books. Hope you have a great time buying or looking up the books that speak to you.
Love Dotan's book! It's a piece of art itself!
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I'm having the opposite issue trying to find space to keep all of mine! But they are all my prized possessions. My current favorites not listed so far:
- Fan Ho (I have three)
- Monument by Trent Parke
- Bruce Davidson's Subway
- Just started reading Art of Street Photography by Sean Tucker and Joshua K. Jackson.
I think I might need an intervention....
I've always wanted to get Bruce Davidson's Subway but haven't bought it yet. His body of work for that book is just so brilliantly evocative and to take those photographs when he was in serious danger of violence (and even on the end of it on some occasions) makes them all the more amazing.
I was glad I got it when I did as it's out of print now. Photobooks are so ephemeral!
Fred Herzog - Modern Colour
Amazing book one of my favourites
This is on my wishlist. Hopefully be my next purchase
City Luxe - Ray K. Metzker
Abstract - Ernst Haas
Elliott Erwitt’s New York
The Unseen Saul Leiter
Pick up whatever Harry Gruyaert you can find.
If you’re looking for a book full of solid gold advice and insight then Bill Jay & David Hurn’s ‘On Being a Photographer’ is the book to get.
If you want a photobook, go find a good bookshop and browse. It’s really hard to make a decision from jpgs and a product description on a website.
Stephen Shore: Uncommon Places
Between worlds by Harry Gruyeart is a masterpiece
