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karlo.kolumna.eins
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?

Dan Le Brun
Dan Le Brun@dan.le.brun12 Jun

I would say don’t limit yourself to just street. My favourite are books by Mark Steinmetz, Sage Sohier, Baldwin Lee, Josef Koudelka

karlo.kolumna.eins
karlo.kolumna.eins@karlo.kolumna.eins12 Jun

thanks mate :)
yeah i don´t limit myself, but wanted especially street photo books recommendation

Dan Le Brun
Dan Le Brun@dan.le.brun12 Jun

Ah fair enough :)

Darren Watson
Darren Watson@animated.antics12 Jun

Echo this. One year on a bike is my favorite photo book, highly recommend

Darren Watson
Darren Watson@animated.antics12 Jun

This was then - Mike Abrahams
The last resort - Martin Parr

Leo Saraiva
Leo Saraiva@leosaraiva12 Jun

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.

Michael Wilson
Michael Wilson@atikusphoto12 Jun

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

Chris Stevens-Yu
Chris Stevens-Yu@chris_stevens_yu12 Jun

All very solid. Saul Leiter's centennial book is amazing if you don't have it...

ritger
ritger@ritger14 Jun

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.

Michael Wilson
Michael Wilson@atikusphoto12 Jun

I'd also add the Photofile series are a great taster as a way in

https://www.thamesandhudson.com/collections/photofile?srsltid=AfmBOophzCQA98fdmaaumeetO9VuPLUw1xPaWHmfWIP6_N5mc1UfCNCY

BRIAN WATT
BRIAN WATT@brianwatt12 Jun
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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.

Chris Stevens-Yu
Chris Stevens-Yu@chris_stevens_yu12 Jun

Love Dotan's book! It's a piece of art itself!

Chris Stevens-Yu
Chris Stevens-Yu@chris_stevens_yu12 Jun
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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....

BRIAN WATT
BRIAN WATT@brianwatt12 Jun

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.

Chris Stevens-Yu
Chris Stevens-Yu@chris_stevens_yu13 Jun

I was glad I got it when I did as it's out of print now. Photobooks are so ephemeral!

Andrew Parker
Andrew Parker@southcoaststreet13 Jun

Fred Herzog - Modern Colour

Rob Cadman
Rob Cadman@caddo14 Jun

Amazing book one of my favourites

Michael Wilson
Michael Wilson@atikusphoto14 Jun

This is on my wishlist. Hopefully be my next purchase

Corin Wales
Corin Wales@corinwales14 Jun

City Luxe - Ray K. Metzker
Abstract - Ernst Haas
Elliott Erwitt’s New York
The Unseen Saul Leiter

Andy Bosselman
Andy Bosselman@andybosselman14 Jun

Pick up whatever Harry Gruyaert you can find.

Shane Taylor
Shane Taylor@heroesforsale15 Jun

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.

André Hofmann
André Hofmann@andrehofmann_photo15 Jun

Stephen Shore: Uncommon Places

Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler@nostalgicfutures15 Jun

Between worlds by Harry Gruyeart is a masterpiece

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