favorite photography books
Dear all, I have a book I have been working through called Building a Photographic Library, which has in it 138 photographers (etc.) responding with their favorite 6 books. It is really an instructive book, ending with 500 books in all mentioned, and the top 11 books mentioned the most (surprising to me) were: Szarkowski's Looking at Photographs, and Atget Weston's Daybooks Frank's The Americans Barthes Camera Lucida Cartier-Bresson's The Decisive Moment Adams The Negative Aperture's Diane Arbus Evans American Photographs Koudelka's Exiles: Photographs Kenna's 20 Year Retrospective This book was done in 2001. What I am working on is this: I got our librarian to put all of our TR section books into an excel spreadsheet (we have about 3000 books at MSU so I can do this; at the U of Minn and other places, this would be astronomical.....) and I am weeding the list down to a sort of top 100 (or top 500!--I only have it down to 2000 right now!) photography books. It's easy to do this with alt because the number of alt books is not quite high in general (I think I own most of them--Post Factory, Barnier, James, Farber, Scopick, Arentz, Arnow, Blacklow, Sward, Van Keuren, Crawford, Nadeau, Reed, Busselle, Frederick, Lewis, Laughter, Livick, blah blah blah), so that is why I am asking if anyone has any photographic absolute FAVORITE....let's say, 6, that they'd want to share? Especially any from 2000-2007? OR photographers if you don't know titles? I think it would provide lively instruction to have this conversation on this list, even though not pertaining strictly to alt, because we ARE photographers. It also may encourage those who never post on alt to post on something that I would think ALL of us have opinions on. Once done I could make it available on my website for downloading because I know I can't send attachments through the list and it might be too lengthy to cut and paste into an email. Chris
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