{"id":6090,"date":"2012-03-16T13:38:17","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T20:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=6090"},"modified":"2018-12-07T15:13:43","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T23:13:43","slug":"75-inspirational-street-photography-books-you-gotta-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/16\/75-inspirational-street-photography-books-you-gotta-own\/","title":{"rendered":"75+ Inspirational Street Photography Books You Gotta Own"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Buy books, not gear<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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<\/strong> are some of my personal favorites.<\/p>\n

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  1. Magnum Contact Sheets<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. Magnum: Degrees<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Magnum: Stories<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Mark Cohen: Grim Street<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. Street Photography Now<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. Bruce Davidson: Subway<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  7. Bruce Davidson: East 100th Street<\/a><\/li>\n
  8. Diane Arbus: A monograph<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  9. Helen Levitt<\/a><\/li>\n
  10. Lee Friedlander: Friedlander<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  11. Elliott Erwitt: Personal Best<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  12. Richard Kalvar: Earthlings<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  13. Andre Kertesz (Editions Hazan)<\/a><\/li>\n
  14. Robert Frank: The Americans<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  15. Garry Winogrand: Public Relations<\/a><\/li>\n
  16. Garry Winogrand: Figments from the real world<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  17. Garry Winogrand: The Animals<\/a><\/li>\n
  18. Bruce Gilden by Stern Magazine<\/a><\/li>\n
  19. Bruce Gilden: A Beautiful Catastrophe<\/a><\/li>\n
  20. Bruce Gilden: Haiti<\/a><\/li>\n
  21. Bruce Gilden: After The Off<\/a><\/li>\n
  22. Bruce Gilden: Facing New York<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  23. Bystander: A History of Street Photography<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  24. Joel Meyerowitz<\/a><\/li>\n
  25. Jun Abe: Citizens<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  26. William Eggleston: Chromes<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  27. William Eggleston: Guide<\/a><\/li>\n
  28. William Eggleston: Before Color<\/a><\/li>\n
  29. Stephen Shore: Uncommon Places<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  30. Daido Moriyama: The World Through My Eyes<\/a><\/li>\n
  31. Alex Webb: Istanbul<\/a><\/li>\n
  32. Alex Webb: The Suffering Of Light<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  33. Jeff Mermelstein: Sidewalk<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  34. Walker Evans<\/a><\/li>\n
  35. Fred Herzog: Photographs<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  36. Vivian Maier<\/a><\/li>\n
  37. William Klein: Contacts<\/a><\/li>\n
  38. Joel Sternfeld: American Prospects<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  39. Martin Parr: The Last Resort<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  40. Martin Parr: Small World<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  41. Tony Ray-Jones: Best Of<\/a><\/li>\n
  42. Josef Koudelka: Gypsies<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  43. Anders Peterson: French Kiss<\/a><\/li>\n
  44. Anders Petersen: Cafe Lehmitz<\/a><\/li>\n
  45. Zoe Strauss: America<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  46. Henri Cartier-Bresson: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Decisive Moment”<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
  47. Josef Koudelka: Exiles<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  48. Anders Petersen<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  49. The Education of a Photographer<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n
  50. David Hurn: On Being a Photographer<\/a><\/li>\n
  51. David Gibson: The Street Photographer’s Manual<\/a><\/li>\n
  52. Siegfried Hansen – hold the line<\/a><\/li>\n
  53. Matt Stuart: All that Life Can Afford<\/a><\/li>\n
  54. The Photographer’s Playbook: 307 Assignments and Ideas<\/a><\/li>\n
  55. Trent Parke: Minutes to Midnight<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  56. Trent Parke: The Christmas Tree Bucket<\/a><\/li>\n
  57. Trent Parke: The Black Rose<\/a><\/li>\n
  58. Harry Gruyaert<\/a><\/li>\n
  59. Gus Powell: The Lonely Ones<\/a><\/li>\n
  60. Alec Soth: Songbook<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  61. Ping Pong Conversations: Alec Soth with Francesco Zanot<\/a><\/li>\n
  62. Constantine Manos: A Greek Portfolio<\/a><\/li>\n
  63. Constantine Manos: American Color<\/a><\/li>\n
  64. Constantine Manos: American Color 2<\/a><\/li>\n
  65. David Alan Harvey: Divided Soul<\/a><\/li>\n
  66. Photographers’ Sketchbooks<\/a><\/li>\n
  67. Harry Callahan: Retrospective<\/a><\/li>\n
  68. Slide Show: The Color Photographs of Helen Levitt<\/a><\/li>\n
  69. Mark Cohen: Frame<\/a><\/li>\n
  70. Saul Leiter: Early Color<\/a><\/li>\n
  71. Saul Leiter: Early Black and White<\/a><\/li>\n
  72. Dan Winters: Road to Seeing<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  73. Todd Hido: Photography Workshop Series<\/a><\/li>\n
  74. Mary Ellen Mark: Photography Workshop Series<\/a><\/li>\n
  75. The Open Road: Photography and the American Roadtrip<\/a><\/li>\n
  76. Jason Eskenazi: Wonderland: A Fairytale of the Soviet Monolith<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  77. Kaushal Parikh: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Fragments of a Spinning Rock\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  78. Sunlanders by Sean Lotman<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    Free Books by Eric Kim<\/h2>\n

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    If you love learning, read the books below:<\/p>\n

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    1. 100 Lessons From the Masters of Street Photography<\/a><\/li>\n
    2. Street Photography by Eric Kim<\/a><\/li>\n
    3. Photography by Eric Kim<\/a><\/li>\n
    4. Personal Photography Manual<\/a><\/li>\n
    5. Street Photography Contact Sheets Volume II<\/a><\/li>\n
    6. Street Photography Contact Sheets<\/a><\/li>\n
    7. Monochrome Manual<\/a><\/li>\n
    8. Street Portrait Manual<\/a><\/li>\n
    9. Street Photography Composition Manual<\/a><\/li>\n
    10. How to Overcome Photographer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Block<\/a><\/li>\n
    11. Street Photography 101<\/a><\/li>\n
    12. Street Photography 102<\/a><\/li>\n
    13. Zen in the Art of Street Photography<\/a><\/li>\n
    14. Film Street Photography Manual<\/a><\/li>\n
    15. 31 Days to Overcome Your Fear in Street Photography<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Street Notes<\/h2>\n

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      Street Notes<\/em><\/a> is a pocket-sized assignment journal to break outside of your comfort zone:<\/p>\n