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 First name 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
Bob Mazzer Underground Link
Brassai The Monograph Link
Bruce Davidson Subway Link
Bruce Gilden Coney Island Link
Burk Uzzle All American Link
Charles Harbutt Travelog Link
Charles Marville Photographer of Paris Link
Charles H. Traub The Education of a Photographer Link
Christer Strömholm Post Scriptum 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
Fred Herzog Photographs 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 Slide Show: The Color Photographs of Helen Levitt Link
Helen Levitt Link
Henri Cartier-Bresson Photographer Link
Henri Cartier-Bresson The Decisive Moment Link
Henry Wessel Henry Wessel Link
Ilse Bing Photography Through the Looking Glass Link
Jacob Aue Sobol I, Tokyo Link
Jacques-Henri Lartigue Lartigue Link
Jane Livingston The New York School: Photographs, 1936-1963 Link
Jane Tormey Cities and Photography Link
Jason Eskenazi Wonderland: A Fairytale of the Soviet Monolith Link
Jeff Jacobson Melting Point Link
Jeff Jacobson My fellow americans Link
Jeff Mermelstein Sidewalk Link
Jens Olof Lasthein Moments in Between: Pictures From Former Yugoslavia Link
Joan Colom Raval Link
Joel Meyerowitz Link
Joel Meyerowitz Taking My Time Link
Joel Meyerowitz Wild Flowers Link
John Gutmann The Restless Decade: John Gutmann's Photographs of the Thirties Link
John Szarkowski Atget Link
John Szarkowski Looking at Photographs Link
John Szarkowski Mirrors and Windows: American Photography since 1960 Link
Jonas Bendiksen Satellites Link
Josef Koudelka Exiles Link
Katherine A. Bussard Unfamiliar Streets: The Photographs of Richard Avedon, Charles Moore, Martha Rosler, and Philip-Lorca diCorcia Link
Klavdij Sluban Go East Link
Larry Fink Larry Fink on Composition and Improvisation: The Photography Workshop Series Link
Lee Friedlander Friedlander Link
Lee Friedlander Self Portrait Link
Liz Wells The Photography Reader Link
Louis Faurer Link
Manuel Alvarez Bravo Photopoetry Link
Marco Barbon Casablanca Link
Mark Cohen Grim Street Link
Martin Parr The Last Resort Link
Martin Parr The Non-Conformists Link
Mary Ellen Mark Ward 81 Link
Michael Wolf The Transparent City Link
Michael Ackerman End Time City Link
Michael Ackerman Half Life Link
Michael Wolf asoue Link
Nathan Lyons Photographers on Photography (Foundations of Modern Photography) Link
Nathan Benn Kodachrome Memory: American Pictures 1972-1990 Link
Paul Strand An American Vision Link
Paulo Nozolino Penumbra Link
Peter Sekaer Signs of Life 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
Rennie Ellis Life's a Beach Link
Richard Kalvar Earthlings Link
Rio Branco Miguel Rio Branco: An Aperture Monograph Link
Robert Walker Color is Power Link
Robert Frank The Americans Link
Robert Herman The New Yorkers Link
Roland Barthes Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography Link
Russell Roberts Tony Ray-Jones Link
Saul Leiter Early Color Link
Saul Leiter Early Black and White Link
Sergio Larrain Sergio Larrain Link
Sophie
Stephen
Howarth
McLaren
Street Photography Now Link
Stephen Shore Uncommon Places - The Complete Works Link
Steve Crist America Link
Susan Sontag On Photography Link
Susan Sontag Regarding the Pain of Others Link
Tiago Santana Sertao Link
Tod Papageorge American Sports, 1970: Or How We Spent the War in Vietnam Link
Trent Parke Minutes to Midnight Link
Trent Parke Dream/life Link
Vicki Goldberg Photography in Print: Writings from 1816 to the Present Link
Viktor Kolár Ostrava 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 Eggleston Democratic camera, photographs and video, 1961-2008 Link
William Klein Life is Good & Good for You in New York Link
William Eggleston William Eggleston's guide Link