They're both doorstoppers with a thousand images in one and five hundred in t'other, but if the house burned down these are the first two I'd replace.
150 Years of Photo Journalism, Hulton Getty Picture Collection, 1995. The Photography Book, Phaidon Press, 1997. Needless to say, it's not about individual shots since each collection is constrained by what was available to the publisher. It's about breadth, and history, and key periods - which is useful to me.
I like your list. I would add: Meyerowitz, Joel - Cape Light, for a little color.Originally Posted by Daniel Grenier
I saw these in person in an Atlanta gallery last December as 4 ft x 5 ft prints. They were mesmerizing!
William Mortensen's The Model.
Lots of good suggestions. I'll "second" (or is it "third?") the Ansel Adams trilogy and The Making of 40 Photographs, and add:
Using The View Camera by Steve Simmons
The Art of Black and White Photography by John Garrett
Night Photography by Andrew Sanderson
Graflex Photography by Morgan and Lester (any year!)
Kodak Professional Photo Guide (by The Great Yellow Father in Rochester)
The History of the Photographic Lens by Rudolph Kingslake
...and anything by Roger Hicks and Frances Schultz (I hope I got the spelling right!)
As for monographs, there are far and away too many to speculate---go with which ever floats your boat!
"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority"---EB White
I am surprised that View Camera Technique by Leslie Stroebel hasn't been mentioned.
Here are a few of my other favorites:
Introduction to Photography by Robert B. Rhode and Floyd H. McCall - the first edition is better than the second - although only marginally so.
Object and Image by George M. Craven - again, opt for the first edition. The later editions went a little too commercial and cut out a bunch of the interesting stuff.
In this Proud Land: America 1935-1943 As Seen In The FSA Photographs by Roy E. Stryker and Nancy Wood
WHAT A GREAT RESOURCE! THANK YOU FOR SHARING!I used Google Book Search to index some 192 complete works related to photography. They are freely available to read on-line or you can download each in pdf format for later reading. Below is a hyperlink to selections I have made in my on-line library. Feel free to add them to your library. Enjoy! Dann
http://www.google.com/books?uid=11755300410566273582
PS. I find each and every one to be essential.
The Daybooks of Edward Weston.
Wilhelm (Sarasota)
Here is my Top Ten. By way of explanation, I'm an amateur with a specialty in garden photography. Also, have tried to avoid listing books already mentioned.
The Photographic Experience, Jeff Berner, 1975
Imogene Cunningham: Ideas
without End, Richard Lorenz, 1993
Color Vision, Joe Marvello, 1989
The Sensuous Garden, Montagu Don, 1997
Moments in Eden, Richard Brown, 1989
Lighting for Still Life, Steve Bavister, 2001
Designing a Photograph, Bill Smith, 1985
Impressions of Giverny, Charles Weckler, 1990
Monet's Water Lilies, Vivian Russell, ?
Appalachian Wilderness, Eliot Porter, ?
I've found that library book sales, and remainder tables to be a economical way to add to ones personal collection.
The Print, Ansel Adams
The Print, William Mortensen
Portrait Lighting, also Mortensen.
Poet of Prague - Josef Sudek.
South with Endurance: Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1917 - Frank Hurley
The History of the Photographic Lens, Rudolph Kingslake
AGFA Rezepte, AGFA
Photographisces Hilfsbuch für ernste Arbeit, Schmidt, Berlin 1910.
The Negative and The Print by Ansel Adams
Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs by Ansel Adams
The Zone VI Workshop by Fred Picker
Large Format Nature Photography by Jack Dykinga
Any book of photos by Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Paul Strand, Paul Caponigro, Wynn Bullock, John Sexton or Sebastião Salgado.
Sincerely,
Hany.
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