Your Favorite Photography Book (non-educational)

[Mark Sampson]

Hmmm- looks good, Frank.
My choice might be Strand's 'Tir a Mhurain".

[Scott Davis]

I read Mercury Visions; it's a good bit of historical fiction. I think my favorite book though has to be Lengthening Shadows Before Nightfall, by John Dugdale. That, and Kenro Izu's Passage to Angkor.

[paulr]

Robert Frank, The Americans

[Walter Foscari]

The 4 volumes of "The Work of Atget" by Szarkowski and Hambourg. If only one allowed then I would have to pick volume 3 "The Ancien Regime".

[Michael Graves]

Wright Morris. Photographs and Words. Amazing photographs are accompanied by his story of being on the road to make the images.

[darr]

Oh this is difficult on one level, but easy on another ...

William Clift, Certain Places

[paulr]

The 4 volumes of "The Work of Atget" by Szarkowski and Hambourg.

that would be a good desert island selection. i'd be happy flipping through those pages for years.

[Mike Lopez]

Lee Friedlander's first book of self-portraits. Or maybe the 2005 MoMA retrospective on him.

[Peter Lewin]

It would be close between Clift's "Certain Places" (which Darr already picked) and Paul Caponigro's "The Wise Silence" (which I'll make my pick). But if I'm feeling a bit controversial, I might pick Sally Mann's "Immediate Family" because it moves LF out of its comfortable niche of landscapes and still life. (Actually I'm spending a lot of time right now looking at her "Deep South" which is all wet plate and antique, sometimes damaged, lenses to add interest to what would otherwise be mundane landscapes.)

[AF-ULF]

Wright Morris, "The Home Place."