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Top Ten List of Photography Books

by Bill Hall | More from this Blogger

Top ten photography books:
1.Ansel Adams at 100, by Ansel Adams and John Szarkowski. The master of black and white photography is still one of the top ten! Hardcover, 200 pages.
2.Still Time, by Sally Mann. This book documents 20 years of Sally's work, which was displayed as a traveling exhibition. Paperback, 60 images and 80 pages.
3.Why People Photograph, by Robert Adams. Adams is a noted photographer of the American West. Paperback, 190 pages.
4.Immediate Family, by Sally Mann and Reynolds Price.

"Immediate Family, which was published in 1990, must be counted as one of the great photograph books of our time. It is a singularly powerful evocation of childhood from within and without, tender and vertiginous and scary, employing a large photographic vocabulary to render precise ambiguities. Mann [constructs] a style that is much more far-ranging than the average contemporary photographer would permit him or herself, and yet identifiable and cohesive."--Luc Sante, The New Republic

Paperback, 78 pages.
5.National Geographic Photography Field Guide: Secrets to Making Great Pictures (National Geographic Photography Field Guides) by Peter K. Burian and Bob Caputo.Written by two National Geographic Photographers. Paperback, 368 pages.
6.Inherit the Earth by Sheila Metzner, foreword by M. Raven Metzner. This is Sheila's first book, and is all about landscape photography. In more than sixty photos, she shares entries from her travel journals and spectacular photos of places such as: Costa Rica, Easter Island and the Arctic, among other places. Hardcover, 136 pages.
7.Robert Capa: The Definitive Collection by Richard Whelan. Robert Capa was one of the greatest photographers of the twentieth century. His brother, also a LIFE photographer, and his biographer, Richard Whelan, selected 937 of his best images for this book. Paperback.
8.At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women (New Images Book) by Sally Mann and Ann Beattie. 56 pages of black and white photos of young women.

"Sally Mann's photography is a clear pane...not intrusion, but revelation. These young women distill something for the eye...something beautiful and sad and moving, something purely female."--Diane Sawyer

Paperback.
9.Digital Photography Outdoors by James Martin. Paperback, 157 pages.
10.Looking At Photographs : 100 Pictures From the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art (73 Edition) by John Szarkowski. Hardcover.