On Photography

1.
What Becomes a Legend Most: A Biography of Richard Avedon
What Becomes a Legend Most: A Biography of Richard Avedon 4.09 avg rating — 116 ratings
2.
American Witness: The Art and Life of Robert Frank
American Witness: The Art and Life of Robert Frank 3.84 avg rating — 79 ratings
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Berenice Abbott: A Life in Photography
Berenice Abbott: A Life in Photography 3.71 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Bill Brandt: A Life
Bill Brandt: A Life 3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous
Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 264 ratings
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Inside the Photograph: Writings on Twentieth-Century Photography
Inside the Photograph: Writings on Twentieth-Century Photography 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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PhotoWork: Forty Photographers on Process and Practice
PhotoWork: Forty Photographers on Process and Practice 4.19 avg rating — 81 ratings
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Witness in Our Time: Working Lives of Documentary Photographers
Witness in Our Time: Working Lives of Documentary Photographers
by: Ken Light
4.30 avg rating — 140 ratings
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The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers
The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers 4.15 avg rating — 2,436 ratings
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Just Kids
Just Kids 4.21 avg rating — 333,695 ratings
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Henri Cartier-Bresson: A Biography
Henri Cartier-Bresson: A Biography 3.75 avg rating — 221 ratings
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An Emergency in Slow Motion: The Inner Life of Diane Arbus
An Emergency in Slow Motion: The Inner Life of Diane Arbus 3.51 avg rating — 298 ratings
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Robert Mapplethorpe
Robert Mapplethorpe 4.08 avg rating — 537 ratings
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George Rodger: An Adventure in Photography, 1908-1995
George Rodger: An Adventure in Photography, 1908-1995 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Dialogue With Photography
Dialogue With Photography 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West 4.15 avg rating — 1,578 ratings
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Visions and Images: American Photographers on Photography
Visions and Images: American Photographers on Photography 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Portrait in Light and Shadow: The Life of Yousuf Karsh
Portrait in Light and Shadow: The Life of Yousuf Karsh 4.16 avg rating — 32 ratings
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A Hungry Heart
A Hungry Heart 4.36 avg rating — 156 ratings
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Self Portrait
Self Portrait
by: Man Ray
4.05 avg rating — 317 ratings
21.
Eye to I: The Autobiography of a Photographer
Eye to I: The Autobiography of a Photographer 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis 4.11 avg rating — 9,933 ratings
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Life Photographers: What They Saw
Life Photographers: What They Saw 4.58 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Magnum
Magnum 4.14 avg rating — 223 ratings
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Robert Capa: A Biography
Robert Capa: A Biography 4.16 avg rating — 104 ratings
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How to Read a Photograph: Lessons from Master Photographers
How to Read a Photograph: Lessons from Master Photographers 3.58 avg rating — 159 ratings
27.
Photojournalism: The Professionals' Approach
Photojournalism: The Professionals' Approach 4.11 avg rating — 350 ratings
28.
Here I Am: The story of Tim Hetherington, war photographer
Here I Am: The story of Tim Hetherington, war photographer 4.22 avg rating — 477 ratings
29.
The Pleasures of Good Photographs
The Pleasures of Good Photographs 4.01 avg rating — 73 ratings
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The Tao of Photography: Seeing Beyond Seeing 2005 Calendar
The Tao of Photography: Seeing Beyond Seeing 2005 Calendar 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Understanding a Photograph
Understanding a Photograph 3.95 avg rating — 1,510 ratings
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Photography Masterclass Creative Techniques of 100 Great Photographers
Photography Masterclass Creative Techniques of 100 Great Photographers
by: Paul Lowe
4.20 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Crusade for Your Art: Best Practices for Fine Art Photographers
Crusade for Your Art: Best Practices for Fine Art Photographers 4.15 avg rating — 27 ratings
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The Photographer's Field Guide: The Essential Handbook for Travelling with your Digital SLR Camera
The Photographer's Field Guide: The Essential Handbook for Travelling with your Digital SLR Camera liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
35.
Street Photography Now
Street Photography Now 4.15 avg rating — 996 ratings
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Lewis Baltz: Texts
Lewis Baltz: Texts 4.30 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Bending the Frame: Photojournalism, Documentary, and the Citizen
Bending the Frame: Photojournalism, Documentary, and the Citizen 4.12 avg rating — 85 ratings
38.
Robert Adams: Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews
Robert Adams: Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews 4.03 avg rating — 876 ratings
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Interviews with Master Photographers: Minor White, Imogen Cunningham, Cornell Capa, Elliott Erwitt, Yousuf Karsh, Arnold Newman, Lord Snowdon, Brett Weston
Interviews with Master Photographers: Minor White, Imogen Cunningham, Cornell Capa, Elliott Erwitt, Yousuf Karsh, Arnold Newman, Lord Snowdon, Brett Weston 4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Todd Hido on Landscapes, Interiors, and the Nude
Todd Hido on Landscapes, Interiors, and the Nude
by: Todd Hido
4.39 avg rating — 247 ratings
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Architectural Photography, 3rd Edition: Composition, Capture, and Digital Image Processing
Architectural Photography, 3rd Edition: Composition, Capture, and Digital Image Processing 3.86 avg rating — 79 ratings
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Isms: Understanding Photography: Understanding Photography
Isms: Understanding Photography: Understanding Photography 3.85 avg rating — 55 ratings
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What Makes Great Photography
What Makes Great Photography 3.73 avg rating — 110 ratings
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Philip Gefter: Photography After Frank
Philip Gefter: Photography After Frank 3.89 avg rating — 82 ratings
45.
The Great Nadar: The Man Behind the Camera
The Great Nadar: The Man Behind the Camera 3.77 avg rating — 145 ratings
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W. Eugene Smith: Shadow and Substance: The Life and Work of an American Photographer
W. Eugene Smith: Shadow and Substance: The Life and Work of an American Photographer 4.45 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Lives of the Great Photographers
Lives of the Great Photographers 3.86 avg rating — 28 ratings
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The Street Photographer's Manual
The Street Photographer's Manual 4.12 avg rating — 484 ratings
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Aperture Conversations: 1985 to the Present
Aperture Conversations: 1985 to the Present
by: Various
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
50.
Edward Weston: His Life
Edward Weston: His Life 4.08 avg rating — 38 ratings
51.
The Photographer's Eye
The Photographer's Eye 4.09 avg rating — 4,821 ratings
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The Nature of Photographs: A Primer
The Nature of Photographs: A Primer 4.11 avg rating — 1,099 ratings
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The Ongoing Moment
The Ongoing Moment really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,136 ratings
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Image Makers, Image Takers: The Essential Guide to Photography by Those in the Know
Image Makers, Image Takers: The Essential Guide to Photography by Those in the Know 4.31 avg rating — 173 ratings
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Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits
Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits 4.12 avg rating — 578 ratings
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Henri Cartier-Bresson
Henri Cartier-Bresson 4.23 avg rating — 396 ratings
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Associated Press Guide to Photojournalism (Associated Press Handbooks)
Associated Press Guide to Photojournalism (Associated Press Handbooks) 3.95 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Slightly Out of Focus: The Legendary Photojournalist's Illustrated Memoir of World War II
Slightly Out of Focus: The Legendary Photojournalist's Illustrated Memoir of World War II 4.40 avg rating — 2,057 ratings
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Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs
Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs 4.07 avg rating — 8,086 ratings
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Walker Evans
Walker Evans 3.87 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Henri Cartier-Bresson: Interviews and Conversations (1951-1998)
Henri Cartier-Bresson: Interviews and Conversations (1951-1998) 4.39 avg rating — 151 ratings
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It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War
It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War 4.34 avg rating — 13,218 ratings
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Ansel Adams: An Autobiography
Ansel Adams: An Autobiography 4.14 avg rating — 791 ratings
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Unreasonable Behaviour: An Autobiography
Unreasonable Behaviour: An Autobiography 4.45 avg rating — 862 ratings
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On looking at photographs: A practical guide
On looking at photographs: A practical guide 4.07 avg rating — 27 ratings
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On Being a Photographer: A Practical Guide
On Being a Photographer: A Practical Guide 4.07 avg rating — 413 ratings
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On Photography
On Photography 3.88 avg rating — 54,150 ratings
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Carleton Watkins: Making the West American
Carleton Watkins: Making the West American 4.45 avg rating — 29 ratings