 | Magnum Degrees by Michael Ignatieff
Buy new: $32.97 / Used from: $16.30 Call these pictures documentary or call them journalism, but they are also art. Supreme examples of the photographer as witness.
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 | Walker Evans & Company by Peter Galassi
Buy new: $42.54 / Used from: $32.99 A major influence on artists to follow. One-of-a-kind.
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 | Atget by John Szarkowski
Buy used from: $94.99 The pictures seem silent, from a time long past, but listen closely - the statues in the gardens are whispering and the streets are whistling a gentle tune.
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 | Paul Strand: Sixty Years of Photograph by Calvin Tomkins
Buy used from: $18.16 The most beautiful black and white prints ever - poetry as reality and vice versa - quite a feat.
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 | Typologies of Industrial Buildings by Bernd Becher
Buy used from: $143.71 Conceptual art? Docu-realism? Both - and so much more. Just what are they trying to say?
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 | Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Artless Art by Henri Cartier-Bresson
Buy used from: $45.95 How does he do it? A thousand people saw the same things he saw, but no one else snapped the shots.
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 | Looking at Photographs: 100 Pictures from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art by John Szarkowski
Buy used from: $23.28 John Szarkowski is himself a photographer and his selection of pictures and corresponding commentaries are peerless.
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 | August Sander: People of the 20th Century (7 Volume Set) by Susanne Lange
Buy new: $122.85 / Used from: $135.00 The photo of the pastry chef is a wonderful thing - I guess it's true that you are what you eat!
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 | Carleton Watkins by Doug Nickel
Buy used from: $13.99 Better than Ansel Adams - truer and deeper.
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 | Workers: An Archaeology of the Industrial Age
Buy new: $63.00 / Used from: $90.12 Salgado has been accused of exploiting suffering in creating his beautiful photographs. As John Keats said, "Beauty is truth, truth beauty."
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 | Thomas Struth: 1977-2002 by Douglas Eklund
Buy used from: $75.00 One of my favorites. The towering picture of downtown Dallas after a rain shower miraculously transforms the quotidian into the sublime.
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| California and the West by Charis Wilson
Buy used from: $49.96 Desolation never seemed so beautiful. Weston got to the essence of a thing by capturing its form in the world - as the best artists always do.
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 | The Photo Book by Editors of Phaidon Press
Buy used from: $6.95 The ultimate lazy browse. Indispensable.
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 | Mountain Light: In Search of the Dynamic Landscape, Tenth-Anniversary Edition by Galen A. Rowell
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $15.00 Mr. Rowell passed away a few years ago in a tragic accident. He had an appreciation and awe of the natural world second to none and I'm just wondering why all the great artists have to die.
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 | Hiroshi Sugimoto by Kerry Brougher
Buy used from: $257.05 Incomparable.
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 | Andre Kertesz: His Life and Work by Laszlo Beke
Buy used from: $25.00 Humane, intelligent, witty.
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