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PHOTO THOUGHTS

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2. What I Wish I Knew If I Started Street Photography All Over Again
3. Why I Photographed the Birth of My First Child

Who is ERIC KIM?

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PHOTOGRAPHY

• Street Photography 101
  • 100 Lessons From the Masters of Street Photography
  • How to Shoot Street Photography
  • Street Photography as Mental Therapy
• Photography Entrepreneurship 101
  • The Modern Photographer
  • Photography Startup Manual
  • PHOTOGRAPHY ENTREPRENEURSHIP MANUAL
• Learn From the Masters
  • 100 Lessons From the Masters of Street Photography
  • Beginner’s Guide to the Masters of Photography
  • Why You Must Kill Your Masters in Photography
• Photography Philosophy
  • HYPER PHOTOGRAPHY
  • The Soul of the Photographer
  • The Photographer as a Vessel
• Cinema
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  • Akira Kurosawa
  • The Matrix
• How to Make More Art
  • How to Express Your Creative Instinct
  • Avoid Anything That Makes You Unproductive in Your Art
  • Pictures Should Stimulate Your Life!
• Soul Photography
  • Why Photography is Good for the Soul
  • The Soul of the Photographer
  • How Do Images Affect Your Soul?
• Photography Therapy
  • What is Photography Therapy?
  • Photography is Self-Therapy
  • 5 Photography Therapy Assignments
• Equipment
  • What is The Perfect Camera For You?
  • Why Camera Companies Want You to Be Perpetually Dissatisfied With Your Camera Gear
  • 10 Reasons Why I Shoot With One Camera and One Lens
• Phone Photography
  • Why Computational Photography is so Revolutionary
  • The Zen of Phone Photography
  • How to Take Better Pictures on Your Phone
• Personal Photography
  • The Personal Photography Manual
  • The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Personal Photography
  • THE PHOTOGRAPHER by ERIC KIM
• Motivation
  • The Joyful Photographer
  • The Dancing Photographer
  • The Kaizen Process of Gradual Self-Improvement
• Creativity
  • Ignore Your Haters.
  • You’re on a Winning Streak
  • Ultralight Photography
• Composition
  • Street Photography Composition Lessons
  • 10 Dynamic Photography Composition Tips
  • Composition by ERIC KIM

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PHILOSOPHY

• Ethics
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  • Marcus Aurelius
  • Publilius Syrus
• Practical Philosophy
  • How to Find Inspiration in Life
  • Why You Must Ignore Haters to Succeed and Win in Life
  • An Active Life is a Happy Life
• Stoicism
  • How to Become Stronger
  • How to Conquer Depression With Photography
  • What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger
• Zen
  • Zen Photography
  • Walking Meditation in Street Photography
  • How to Be a Zen Street Photographer
• Happiness
  • 10 Tips to Be Happier and More Loving in Life
  • How Much Money Do You Need to Be Happy?
  • 55 Tips to Be Happier in Life

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1. HOW TO SEE: Visual Guide to Composition, Color, & Editing in Photography / Kindle Edition
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4. STREET NOTES: Mobile Edition / Kindle Edition
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6. STREET PHOTOGRAPHY MANUAL by ERIC KIM
7. THE PHOTOGRAPHER by ERIC KIM
8. The Art of Street Photography
9. 100 Lessons From the Masters of Street Photography
10. Zen Photography
11. Personal Photography Manual
12. Street Photography Contact Sheets Volume II
13. Street Photography Contact Sheets Volume I
14. Street Photography Composition Manual
15. Street Portrait Manual
16. Street Photography 101
17. Street Photography 102
18. Color Manual
19. Monochrome Manual
20. 31 Days to Overcome Your Fear in Street Photography
21. Letters From a Street Photographer
22. Street Photography Aphorisms, Heuristics, and Sayings

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Photo Book Reviews »

Below are my favorite photo books:

• Josef Koudelka: Exiles
• 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
• Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Decisive Moment
• Photographers’ Sketchbooks

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75+ inspirational photography books »

Buy books, not gear.

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

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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

Street Notes

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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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Mini Street Photography Starter Kit

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For you to use these images to illustrate blog posts. For you to look at these full-resolution images to analyze composition.

For you to use these free Lightroom presets to actually make your digital RAW photos look good.

For you to empower yourself. Because I think that information is power. Information is everything.

Information is money and control of the world (just consider that scene from the James Bond 007 Skyfall at the end of the film — the guy who controlled the information controlled the world).

With this information, you can learn how to conquer your fears, find more personal meaning in your photography and life, and seek to empower others through the art of photography.

BOOKS

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Photography Series PDF Books by Eric Kim

1. MONOCHROME by ERIC KIM
2. ONLY IN AMERICA by ERIC KIM
3. SUITS by ERIC KIM

Individual PDF books:

1. 31 Days to Overcome Your Fear of Shooting Street Photography
2. 100 Lessons From the Masters of Street Photography
3. Color Manual
4. Film Street Photography Manual
5. How to Overcome Photographer’s Block
6. Leica Manual
7. Letters from a Street Photographer
8. Monochrome Manual
9. Personal Photography Manifesto
10. Photography 101
11. Photography by Eric Kim
12. Street Photography 101
13. Street Photography 102
14. Street Photography Aphorisms
15. Street Photography by Eric Kim
16. Street Photography Contact Sheets Volume II
17. Street Photography Contact Sheets
18. The Art of Street Photography
19. The Social Media Blackbook for Photographers
20. The Street Photography Project Manual
21. The Street Portrait Manual
22. The-Photography-Manual
23. Zen in the Art of Street Photography
24. Zen Photography by Eric Kim

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  • “How to Overcome Fears of Photographing Strangers“(11/2/2o17)
  • “What to Look For When Shooting in the Streets” (11/8/2017)
  • “What is the Best Camera for Street Photography?” (11/22/2017)
  • “Travel Photography Tips” (12/10/2017)
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  • “Zen of Eric: On Life, Photography, Art, and Work” (12/29/2017) New!
  • “New Year’s Photography Resolutions” (12/31/2017) New!
  • “How to Monetize Your Photography” (1/23/2018) New!
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Be strong,

Eric

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2. 7 Lessons from the Masters of Street Photography (Google Slides)
3. How to Shoot Street Portraits (PDF, Keynote)
4. How to Conquer Your Fear of Shooting Street Photography (PDF, Keynote)
5. Street Photography 101 (PDF, Keynote)
6. Street Photography Projects (PDF)

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