Street photography books you should have
Like many of you, we love books. That’s why we’d like to share a list of our personal favorites. On the list you’ll find many well known books, along with other less well known gems. There’s already a lot to like, and as new discoveries are made, our list will surely grow.
Cover | Author first name | Author last name | Book title | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Alex | Webb | The Suffering of Light | Link |
![]() | Alex | Webb | Istanbul | Link |
![]() | Anders | Petersen | Cafe Lehmitz | Link |
![]() | André | Kertész | His Life and Work | Link |
![]() | Arlene | Gottfried | Sometimes Overwhelming | Link |
![]() | Bill | Brandt | The Photography of Bill Brandt | Link |
![]() | Bill | Burke | Autrefois, Maison Privee | Link |
![]() | Brassai | The Monograph | Link | |
![]() | Bruce | Davidson | Subway | Link |
![]() | Bruce | Gilden | Coney Island | Link |
![]() | Burk | Uzzle | All American | Link |
![]() | Charles | Harbutt | Travelog | Link |
![]() | Christophe | Agou | Life Below: The New York City Subway | Link |
![]() | Colin | Westerbeck | Bystander: A History of Street Photography with a new Afterword on SP since the 1970s | Link |
![]() | Constantine | Manos | American Color | Link |
![]() | Constantine | Manos | American Color 2 | Link |
![]() | Cristina | García Rodero | ESPANA OCULTA Public Celebrations in Spain, 1974-1989 | Link |
| Cristóbal | Hara | Vanitas | Link | |
![]() | Cristóbal | Hara | AN IMAGINARY SPANIARD | Link |
![]() | Daido | Moriyama | The World through My Eyes | Link |
![]() | Diane | Arbus | An Aperture Monograph | Link |
![]() | Ernst | Haas | Color Correction | Link |
| Frits | Gierstberg | Ed van der Elsken: Sweet Life: Books on Books No. 13 | Link | |
![]() | Garry | Winogrand | Figments From The Real World | Link |
![]() | Garry | Winogrand | The Man in the Crowd: The Uneasy Streets of Garry Winogrand | Link |
![]() | Garry | Winogrand | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | Link |
![]() | Gary | Stochl | On City Streets: Chicago, 1964-2004 | Link |
| Geoff | Dyer | The Ongoing Moment | Link | |
![]() | Geoff | Dyer | What Was True: The Photographs and Notebooks of William Gedney | Link |
![]() | Gueorguy | Pinkhassov | Sightwalk | Link |
![]() | Harry | Gruyaert | Lumières blanches | Link |
![]() | Harry | Gruyaert | Made in Belgium | Link |
![]() | Helen | Levitt | Link | |
![]() | Helen | Levitt | Slide Show: The Color Photographs of Helen Levitt | Link |
![]() | Henri | Cartier-Bresson | Photographer | Link |
![]() | Jacob | Aue Sobol | I, Tokyo | Link |
![]() | Jacques-Henri | Lartigue | Lartigue | Link |
![]() | Jane | Livingston | The New York School: Photographs, 1936-1963 | Link |
![]() | Jason | Eskenazi | Wonderland: A Fairytale of the Soviet Monolith | Link |
![]() | Jeff | Mermelstein | Sidewalk | Link |
![]() | Jeff | Jacobson | Melting Point | Link |
![]() | Jeff | Jacobson | My fellow americans | Link |
![]() | Joel | Meyerowitz | Taking My Time | Link |
![]() | Joel | Meyerowitz | Link | |
![]() | John | Szarkowski | Looking at Photographs | Link |
![]() | John | Szarkowski | Atget | Link |
![]() | John | Gutmann | The Restless Decade: John Gutmann's Photographs of the Thirties | Link |
![]() | Jonas | Bendiksen | Satellites | Link |
![]() | Klavdij | Sluban | Go East | Link |
![]() | Lee | Friedlander | Friedlander | Link |
![]() | Louis | Faurer | Link | |
![]() | Manuel | Alvarez Bravo | Photopoetry | Link |
![]() | Marco | Barbon | Casablanca | Link |
![]() | Martin | Parr | The Last Resort | Link |
![]() | Michael | Ackerman | End Time City | Link |
![]() | Michael | Ackerman | Half Life | Link |
![]() | Michael | Wolf | The Transparent City | Link |
| Paul | Strand | An American Vision | Link | |
![]() | Paulo | Nozolino | Penumbra | Link |
![]() | Philip | Perkis | The Sadness of Men | Link |
| Raghu | Rai | Reflections in Black and White | Link | |
![]() | Raghubir | Singh | River of Colour the India of Raghubir Singh | Link |
![]() | Raghubir | Singh | A Way Into India | Link |
![]() | Ray | K. Metzker | Light Lines | Link |
| Raymond | Depardon | Manhattan Out | Link | |
![]() | Raymond | Depardon | La porte des Larmes: Retour vers l'Abyssinie | Link |
| Rene | Burri | Un Mundo | Link | |
![]() | Richard | Kalvar | Earthlings | Link |
![]() | Rio | Branco | Miguel Rio Branco: An Aperture Monograph | Link |
![]() | Robert | Frank | The Americans | Link |
![]() | Robert | Walker | Color is Power | Link |
| Roland | Barthes | Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography | Link | |
![]() | Russell | Roberts | Tony Ray-Jones | Link |
![]() | Saul | Leiter | Early Color | Link |
![]() | Sophie Stephen | Howarth McLaren | Street Photography Now | Link |
![]() | Steve | Crist | America | Link |
| Susan | Sontag | On Photography | Link | |
| Tiago | Santana | Sertao | Link | |
![]() | Tod | Papageorge | American Sports, 1970: Or How We Spent the War in Vietnam | Link |
![]() | Trent | Parke | Dream/life | Link |
![]() | Trent | Parke | Minutes to Midnight | Link |
![]() | Vivian | Maier | Vivian Maier: Street Photographer | Link |
![]() | Walker | Evans | American Photographs | Link |
![]() | Walker | Evans | The Hungry Eye | Link |
![]() | Weegee | Weegee's World | Link | |
![]() | Will | Steacy | Photographs Not Taken | Link |
![]() | William | Klein | Life is Good & Good for You in New York | Link |
![]() | William | Eggleston | William Eggleston's guide | Link |
![]() | William | Eggleston | Democratic camera, photographs and video, 1961-2008 | Link |




















































































