 | David Plowden: Vanishing Point: Fifty Years of Photography by David Plowden
Buy new: $63.00 / Used from: $55.00 This is undoubtedly the most significant book to appear during 2007. It's a large format book with photo reproduction that rivals hand-drawn prints. Just enough text to make your feel you really know David Plowden.
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 | Walker Evans: Lyric Documentary by John T. Hill
Buy new: $37.80 / Used from: $24.36 I own numerous books of Walker Evans photographs; this is the best. The photo reproduction is excellent and there is enough of a story to allow a glimpse into the man behind the camera.
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 | John Vachon's America: Photographs and Letters from the Depression to World War II (Ahmanson-Murphy Fine Arts Book) by John Vachon
Buy new: $40.60 / Used from: $5.15 Like the better-known Walker Evans, John Vachon was a fellow Farm Service Administration photographer. This book consists of his photographs plus his letters home to his wife. A pleasing and compelling combination.
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 | Sightings: A Maine Coast Odyssey
Buy used from: $32.09 Peter Ralston is that rarity; a documentary photographer who brings an unusual sensitivity to color and light. Peter shows the islands and residence of the Maine Coast with compelling honesty and graphic impact.
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 | Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs by Ansel Adams
Buy new: $26.40 / Used from: $18.42 As this book shows, there's more to Ansel Adams than his Yosemite photographs. There are also portraits, urban landscapes, and store fronts. Photo quality is great, text is short, and the details associated with selected images are very revealing. Edited by his long-term assistant. Excellent value.
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 | E. O. Hoppe's Amerika: Modernist Photographs from the 1920s by Phillip Prodger
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $9.95 There's always something new in photography books. Just when you thought you had them all, a "new" photographer from the 1920's appears in a beautifully-printed book.
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 | George Tice: Urban Landscapes by George A. Tice
Buy new: $40.80 / Used from: $45.32 Yet another hauntingly beautiful book of black and white photographs of American rural and urban life. Large format photography at its best.
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 | Looking Back: Memoirs and Photographs by Todd Webb
Buy used from: $4.50 If you love black and white photography from the 20's and 30's, try to locate a copy of this book. Todd Web may be relatively unknown, but he was intimately connected to New York's photographic inner circle. A compelling story with great photographs.
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