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If you want a quality-education in street photography, I recommend either buying, borrowing, or browsing though some of the books below. Books that are bolded are some of my personal favorites.

1. Magnum Contact Sheets
2. Magnum: Degrees
3. Magnum: Stories
4. Mark Cohen: Grim Street
5. Street Photography Now
6. Bruce Davidson: Subway
7. Bruce Davidson: East 100th Street
8. Diane Arbus: A monograph
9. Helen Levitt
10. Lee Friedlander: Friedlander
11. Elliott Erwitt: Personal Best
12. Richard Kalvar: Earthlings
13. Andre Kertesz (Editions Hazan)
14. Robert Frank: The Americans
15. Garry Winogrand: Public Relations
16. Garry Winogrand: Figments from the real world
17. Garry Winogrand: The Animals
18. Bruce Gilden by Stern Magazine
19. Bruce Gilden: A Beautiful Catastrophe
20. Bruce Gilden: Haiti
21. Bruce Gilden: After The Off
22. Bruce Gilden: Facing New York
23. Bystander: A History of Street Photography
24. Joel Meyerowitz
25. Jun Abe: Citizens
26. William Eggleston: Chromes
27. William Eggleston: Guide
28. William Eggleston: Before Color
29. Stephen Shore: Uncommon Places
30. Daido Moriyama: The World Through My Eyes
31. Alex Webb: Istanbul
32. Alex Webb: The Suffering Of Light
33. Jeff Mermelstein: Sidewalk
34. Walker Evans
35. Fred Herzog: Photographs
36. Vivian Maier
37. William Klein: Contacts
38. Joel Sternfeld: American Prospects
39. Martin Parr: The Last Resort
40. Martin Parr: Small World
41. Tony Ray-Jones: Best Of
42. Josef Koudelka: Gypsies
43. Anders Peterson: French Kiss
44. Anders Petersen: Cafe Lehmitz
45. Zoe Strauss: America
46. Henri Cartier-Bresson: “The Decisive Moment”
47. Josef Koudelka: Exiles
48. Anders Petersen
49. The Education of a Photographer
50. David Hurn: On Being a Photographer
51. David Gibson: The Street Photographer’s Manual
52. Siegfried Hansen – hold the line
53. Matt Stuart: All that Life Can Afford
54. The Photographer’s Playbook: 307 Assignments and Ideas
55. Trent Parke: Minutes to Midnight
56. Trent Parke: The Christmas Tree Bucket
57. Trent Parke: The Black Rose
58. Harry Gruyaert
59. Gus Powell: The Lonely Ones
60. Alec Soth: Songbook
61. Ping Pong Conversations: Alec Soth with Francesco Zanot
62. Constantine Manos: A Greek Portfolio
63. Constantine Manos: American Color
64. Constantine Manos: American Color 2
65. David Alan Harvey: Divided Soul
66. Photographers’ Sketchbooks
67. Harry Callahan: Retrospective
68. Slide Show: The Color Photographs of Helen Levitt
69. Mark Cohen: Frame
70. Saul Leiter: Early Color
71. Saul Leiter: Early Black and White
72. Dan Winters: Road to Seeing
73. Todd Hido: Photography Workshop Series
74. Mary Ellen Mark: Photography Workshop Series
75. The Open Road: Photography and the American Roadtrip
76. Jason Eskenazi: Wonderland: A Fairytale of the Soviet Monolith
77. Kaushal Parikh: “Fragments of a Spinning Rock”
78. Sunlanders by Sean Lotman

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Free Books by Eric Kim

If you love learning, read the books below:

1. 100 Lessons From the Masters of Street Photography
2. Street Photography by Eric Kim
3. Photography by Eric Kim
4. Personal Photography Manual
5. Street Photography Contact Sheets Volume II
6. Street Photography Contact Sheets
7. Monochrome Manual
8. Street Portrait Manual
9. Street Photography Composition Manual
10. How to Overcome Photographer’s Block
11. Street Photography 101
12. Street Photography 102
13. Zen in the Art of Street Photography
14. Film Street Photography Manual
15. 31 Days to Overcome Your Fear in Street Photography

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Photo Book Reviews

• Magnum Contact Sheets
• Josef Koudelka: Exiles
• Trent Parke: Minutes to Midnight

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Recommended photo books

• Robert Frank: The Americans
• Alex Webb: The Suffering Of Light
• Josef Koudelka: Gypsies

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