The best presents for photographers for this Christmas:
Buy Books
Books are the best investment for photographers. They never go out of style, and even if you get 1 meaningful idea from a book, it is worth its worth in gold.
My First Photography Book
My First Photography Book: Teach your child how to make photos. Perfect as a bedtime story. Printed hardcover, fold-flat, vibrant colors, and will teach your child why you love photography.
HAPTIC PRESS BOX
Inspire yourself on-the-go with the HAPTIC PRESS BOX. The bundle includes all of our pocketbooks, which covers street photography, personal photography, and film photography:
- STREET NOTES
- PHOTO JOURNAL
- FILM NOTES
- STREET HUNT (Fresh off the press!)
When you order the HAPTIC PRESS BOX, you will get these for free:
- Free bonus! STREET NOTES MOBILE EDITION: PDF & KINDLE (Retail $10USD)
- Free bonus! STREET HUNT MOBILE EDITION (Retail $10USD)
MASTERS
MASTERS is your personal manual on street photography, full of practical wisdom, tips, and techniques on how to fulfill your personal maximum in street photography.
MASTERS is a distillation of all of my LEARN FROM THE MASTERS article series, and is packaged in a beautiful Kodak Yellow cover, with an elegant Red foil embedded in the cover. Beautiful on your coffee table, and every page is full of inspiration for your street photography.
SUITS: First Edition
SUITS: My first photography book, printed on hardcover, elegant fold-flat design, signed; only 6 left in stock. Don’t miss your opportunity to invest in this book for the future.
MAGNUM CONTACT SHEETS
MAGNUM CONTACT SHEETS — now available in paper back. Probably one of the best educational books on photography ever made. See the ‘behind the scenes’ of the great photographs made in history, by studying the contact sheets of the masters. See my Magnum Contact Sheets Review Here >
EXILES: JOSEF KOUDELKA
EXILES by Josef Koudelka is one of the greatest street photography books of all time. See my review here >
THE DECISIVE MOMENT – Henri Cartier-Bresson
The Decisive Moment: THE original photography book. Own a part of history. Read my review here >
Photography Book Reviews
Other great photography books you can gift:
- Josef Koudelka: Gypsies
- Dan Winters: Road to Seeing
- Alex Webb: The Suffering Of Light
- Robert Frank: The Americans
- Martin Parr: The Last Resort
- Trent Parke: Minutes to Midnight
- Photographers’ Sketchbooks
75+ Inspirational Street Photography Books You Gotta Own
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.
- Magnum Contact Sheets
- Magnum: Degrees
- Magnum: Stories
- Mark Cohen: Grim Street
- Street Photography Now
- Bruce Davidson: Subway
- Bruce Davidson: East 100th Street
- Diane Arbus: A monograph
- Helen Levitt
- Lee Friedlander: Friedlander
- Elliott Erwitt: Personal Best
- Richard Kalvar: Earthlings
- Andre Kertesz (Editions Hazan)
- Robert Frank: The Americans
- Garry Winogrand: Public Relations
- Garry Winogrand: Figments from the real world
- Garry Winogrand: The Animals
- Bruce Gilden by Stern Magazine
- Bruce Gilden: A Beautiful Catastrophe
- Bruce Gilden: Haiti
- Bruce Gilden: After The Off
- Bruce Gilden: Facing New York
- Bystander: A History of Street Photography
- Joel Meyerowitz
- Jun Abe: Citizens
- William Eggleston: Chromes
- William Eggleston: Guide
- William Eggleston: Before Color
- Stephen Shore: Uncommon Places
- Daido Moriyama: The World Through My Eyes
- Alex Webb: Istanbul
- Alex Webb: The Suffering Of Light
- Jeff Mermelstein: Sidewalk
- Walker Evans
- Fred Herzog: Photographs
- Vivian Maier
- William Klein: Contacts
- Joel Sternfeld: American Prospects
- Martin Parr: The Last Resort
- Martin Parr: Small World
- Tony Ray-Jones: Best Of
- Josef Koudelka: Gypsies
- Anders Peterson: French Kiss
- Anders Petersen: Cafe Lehmitz
- Zoe Strauss: America
- Henri Cartier-Bresson: “The Decisive Moment”
- Josef Koudelka: Exiles
- Anders Petersen
- The Education of a Photographer
- David Hurn: On Being a Photographer
- David Gibson: The Street Photographer’s Manual
- Siegfried Hansen – hold the line
- Matt Stuart: All that Life Can Afford
- The Photographer’s Playbook: 307 Assignments and Ideas
- Trent Parke: Minutes to Midnight
- Trent Parke: The Christmas Tree Bucket
- Trent Parke: The Black Rose
- Harry Gruyaert
- Gus Powell: The Lonely Ones
- Alec Soth: Songbook
- Ping Pong Conversations: Alec Soth with Francesco Zanot
- Constantine Manos: A Greek Portfolio
- Constantine Manos: American Color
- Constantine Manos: American Color 2
- David Alan Harvey: Divided Soul
- Photographers’ Sketchbooks
- Harry Callahan: Retrospective
- Slide Show: The Color Photographs of Helen Levitt
- Mark Cohen: Frame
- Saul Leiter: Early Color
- Saul Leiter: Early Black and White
- Dan Winters: Road to Seeing
- Todd Hido: Photography Workshop Series
- Mary Ellen Mark: Photography Workshop Series
- The Open Road: Photography and the American Roadtrip
- Jason Eskenazi: Wonderland: A Fairytale of the Soviet Monolith
- Kaushal Parikh: “Fragments of a Spinning Rock”
- Sunlanders by Sean Lotman
Free Books by Eric Kim
If you love learning, read the books below:
- 100 Lessons From the Masters of Street Photography
- Street Photography by Eric Kim
- Photography by Eric Kim
- Personal Photography Manual
- Street Photography Contact Sheets Volume II
- Street Photography Contact Sheets
- Monochrome Manual
- Street Portrait Manual
- Street Photography Composition Manual
- How to Overcome Photographer’s Block
- Street Photography 101
- Street Photography 102
- Zen in the Art of Street Photography
- Film Street Photography Manual
- 31 Days to Overcome Your Fear in Street Photography
Street Notes
Street Notes is a pocket-sized assignment journal to break outside of your comfort zone: