What titles are in your library?

[Helen B]

I have rather a lot, though not nearly as many as I used to have before I left most of them on the other side of the Atlantic because I had so little space in my room at the Chelsea Hotel (where I lived when I came here). Many of the ones I left behind were quite rare, and the price has risen far too much to justify replacing them. I still have more books of photos than any other sort. Here is a small selection from the current collection:

Seeing is Believing, Errol Morris;
The Sixties, Avedon;
Avedon at Work in the American West;
Occam's Razor, Bill Jay;
New Topographics;
The Pond, John Gossage;
Hollywood Photo-Rhetoric, Dylan & Feinstein;
What Can We Believe Where?, Robert Adams;
Zone System Manual, Minor White;
Modernizing Nature, Rajan;
A Model of Order, Ian Hamilton Finlay;
Shadow Sites, Kitty Hauser;
The Pleasure of Good Photographs, Badger;
Nature Over Again, Hunt;
Fashion: Theory;
Between the Eyes, David Levi-Strauss;
Herzog on Herzog;
Classic Essays on Photography, Trachtenberg;
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men;
And Their Children After Them;
The Dusseldorf School of Photography, Gronert;
Drosscape, Berger;
Living With His Camera, Gallop;
I Send You This Cadmium Red, Berger & Christie;
Chromophobia;
Thoughts on Landscape, Frank Gohlke;
The Image, Boorstin;
Psychogeography, Coverley;
Landscape Theory, DeLue & Elkins;
Portrait: Theory;
Portraits, Avedon;
The New West, Robert Adams,
Measuring Color, Hunt;
Modern Photographic Processing, Grant Haist;
Color Management, Green;
For Documentary, Vaughan;
Empire of Signs, Roland Barthes;
Documentary, Barnouw;
You Love Life, Nick Waplington;
Mirage, RichardLong;
Murmurs at Every Turn, Moore;
Land, hamish Fulton;
Diana & Nikon, Malcolm.

That's about a quarter of them.

 

[Buckster]

These are the 16 traditionally made (paper) photo books I have:

Digitally, for reading on my tablet or a computer, I have another 237 titles, including these 10 on Kindle:

Plus another 227 titles from other digital book sources, including Google Books, Nook, Craft & Vision, PhotoWhoa, etc.

1 - 101 Quick and Easy Secrets to Create Winning Photographs
2 - A Deeper Frame
3 - A Digital Photographer's Guide to Model Releases
4 - A Short Course In Digital Photography
5 - Adobe Photoshop for Underwater Photographers
6 - Advanced Digital Black & White Photography - (Malestrom)
7 - Advanced Wedding Photojournalism
8 - Advertising Photography - A Straightforward Guide to a Complex Industry
9 - Aerial The Art of Photography from the Sky
10 - Alternative digital photography
11 - Available Light Photographic Techniques for Using Existing Light Sources
12 - A-Z of digital photography
13 - Beginner's guide to photography
14 - Below The Horizon
15 - Benji Rules Of Portraiture
16 - Better Available Light Digital Photography
17 - Beyond Thirds
18 - Black & White Landscape Photography
19 - Black & White Photography Techniques with Adobe Photoshop
20 - Body Shots Early Cinemas Incarnations Oct 2007
21 - Bourdieu - photography
22 - Bryan Peterson - Understanding Close-Up Photography
23 - Bryan Peterson -Learn to See Creatively
24 - Camera Works Photography and the Twentieth-Century Word
25 - Chasing Reflections
26 - Chasing The Look
27 - Chris Faust - Nocturnes
28 - Classic Portrait Photography - Techniques and Images from a Master Photographer
29 - Close To Home
30 - Complete Guide to Digital Infrared Photography
31 - Concert Lighting Techniques, Art and Business
32 - Contemporary Wedding Photography
33 - Corrective Lighting, Posing & Retouching for Digital Portrait Photographers
34 - Craft And Vision
35 - Creating Photomontages with Photoshop A DesignerNotebook
36 - Creative Black And White Photography - Advanced Camera And Darkroom Techniques,
37 - Creative Close-Ups Digital Photography Tips and Techniques
38 - Creative Composition - Digital Photography Tips Techniques
39 - Creative Shutter Speed
40 - David Busch's Digital Infrared Pro Secrets
41 - David Busch's Digital Photography Bucket List 100 Great Digital Photos You Must Take Before You Die
42 - David Hamilton (A Place in the Sun)
43 - Digital Abstract & Macro Photography
44 - Digital Camera Magazine - Mastering Light
45 - Digital Collage and Painting
46 - Digital Nature Photography by John and Barbara Gerlach
47 - Digital Photography - The Digital Darkroom
48 - Digital Photography - Tips & Tricks
49 - Digital Photography - Workflow Handbook
50 - Digital Photography For Seniors
51 - Digital Photography Just the Steps
52 - Digital Photography Solutions
53 - Digital Photography The Missing Manual
54 - Digital Photography-Tips
55 - Digital SLR Cameras & Photography
56 - Digital-Camera-Magazine-Complete-Photography-Guide-Mastering-Light
57 - DK - Photography
58 - Drawing The Eye
59 - Event Photography - Handbook How to Make Money Photographing Award Ceremonies,
60 - Existing Light Techniques for Wedding and Portrait Photography
61 - Exploring Digital Photography
62 - Exposure For Outdoor Photography
63 - Extreme Perspectives
64 - Famous Photographers Asked Nigel Tomm to create the most famous photography book in the world
65 - Fashion as Photograph
66 - Fast Track to Digital Photography Mar 09
67 - Female Nudes
68 - Film & Digital Techniques for Zone System Photography
69 - Forget Mugshots
70 - Growing The Vision Monger
71 - HDR Photography Photo Workshop
72 - HDR Photography Photo Workshop wileys photo workshop series
73 - HDR Photography Workshop
74 - High School Senior Portrait Photography
75 - Hollywood Portraits
76 - How Digital Photography Works 2nd edition
77 - How to Cheat in Photoshop CS4, The Art of Creating Photorealistic Montages
78 - How to Photograph the Moon and Planets With Your Digital Camera
79 - IATH Best Practices Guide to Digital Panoramic Photography
80 - Illustrated Dictionary of Photography - The Professional's Guide to Terms and Techniques
81 - Irreverent Photo Tools for Digital Photographers
82 - Jeff Smith's Guide to Head and Shoulders Portrait Photography
83 - Jennifer George-The Art of Pregnancy Photography-2008
84 - Kafka and Photography
85 - Langfords Starting Photography 5th Edition Feb 2007
86 - Langford's Starting Photography, Fourth Edition A guide to better pictures for film and digital camera users
87 - Light And Land
88 - Lighting Techniques for Photographing Model Portfolios - Strategies for Digital
89 - Lightroom 3 - Streamlining Your Digital Photography Process (2010)
90 - Macro Photo
91 - Magic of B&W 1
92 - Magic of B&W 2
93 - Magic of B&W 3
94 - Making Light 1
95 - Making Light 2
96 - Making The Print
97 - Manual of Photography - Photographic and Digital Imaging
98 - Massachusetts - A Photographic Portrait
99 - Mastering Digital Black and White
100 - Master's Guide to Wedding Photography - Capturing Unforgettable Moments and Lasting Impressions
101 - Micro Stock
102 - Minimalist Lighting - Professional Techniques for Location Photography
103 - Monte Zucker's Portrait Photography Handbook
104 - Mother and Child Portraits Techniques for Professional Digital Photographers
105 - Night and Low-Light Techniques for Digital Photography
106 - Nude Photography
107 - On Being A Photographer - a practical guide
108 - On-Camera Flash Techniques for Digital Wedding and Portrait Photography
109 - OReilly Digital Photography Expert Techniques 2nd Edition Oct 2006
110 - OReilly Digital Photography Pocket Guide 3rd Edition Aug 2005 eBook
111 - P&P CHASING REFLECTIONS
112 - P&P ICELAND
113 - P&P JOURNEY THROUGH JAVA
114 - P&P SAFARI
115 - P&P VENICE
116 - P&P I ANDES
117 - P&P I ROCKIES
118 - Perfect Digital Photography
119 - Pet Photography
120 - Photo Finish The Digital Photographer's Guide to Printing, Showing, and Selling Images
121 - Photographers Guide to Photoshop
122 - Photographic Possibilities 3rd Edition (2008)
123 - Photographic Possibilities Third Edition The Expressive Use of Equipment Ideas Materials and Processes
124 - Photographing Children and Babies
125 - Photographing Jewish Weddings - A Complete Handbook for Professionals
126 - Photographing Minerals Fossils & Lapidary Materials
127 - Photography - 74 classical model poses
128 - Photography - Careers in Focus
129 - Photography - Gooseberry
130 - Photography Foundations for Art and Design, 4th Ed
131 - Photography Fundamentals
132 - Photography in 1920
133 - Photography in the studio and in the field
134 - Photoshop Blending Modes Cookbook For Digital Photographers
135 - Photoshop Digital Photographers
136 - Photoshop For Right-Brainers - The Art of Photomanipulation
137 - Pictorial Photography in America 1920
138 - Pictorial Photography in America 1921
139 - Pictorial Photography in America 1922
140 - Plastic Cameras
141 - Portrait Photographer's Handbook, Third Edition 158428207X
142 - Portrait photography
143 - Posing - 120 Poses
144 - Power Marketing, Selling, and Pricing A Business Guide for Wedding and Portrait
145 - Practical Artistry - Light and Exposure for Digital Photographers
146 - Professional Children's Portrait Photography - Techniques and Images from Maste
147 - Professional Digital Techniques for Nude & Glamour Photography
148 - Professional Interior Photography
149 - Professional Marketing and Selling Techniques for Digital Wedding Photographers
150 - Professional Photographers Legal Handbook
151 - Professional Portrait Lighting - Techniques and Images from Master Photographer
152 - Professional Portrait Photography - Techniques and Images from Master Photograp
153 - Professional Portrait Posing - Techniques and Images from Master Photographers
154 - Professional Posing Techniques for Wedding and Portrait Photographers
155 - Quick Snap Guide To Lighting
156 - Quick Snap Guide to Using Digital SLR Lenses
157 - Raw Workflow from Capture to Archives A Complete Digital Photographer's Guide to Raw Imaging
158 - Reuters Photographers - The Art of Sport
159 - Reyes - Female Nudes
160 - Rick Sammon's HDR Secrets for Digital Photographers
161 - Rolando Gomez's Glamour Photography Professional Techniques and Images
162 - Ron Reznick - Digital Photography - Acquisition And Processing Techniques
163 - Shoot And Share
164 - Shoot Like A Pro! - Digital Photography Techniques
165 - Simple Lighting Techniques for Portrait Photographers
166 - Skin the Complete Guide to Digitally Lighting, Photographing, and Retouching Faces and Bodies
167 - Small Format Aerial Photography
168 - Speedlights & Speedlites - Creative Flash Photography
169 - Speedliters Handbook
170 - Starting Your Career As A Freelance Photographer
171 - Stoppees Guide to Photography and Light
172 - Story, Derrick - Digital Photography Pocket Guide
173 - Street Photography For the Purist
174 - Studio light, a magazine of information for the profession (1910)
175 - Studio Photography Essential Skills, 4th Edition
176 - Sybex Digital Photography for 3D Imaging and Animation
177 - Taschen - 20th Century Photography
178 - Ten
179 - Ten More
180 - The Adobe Lightroom Ebook For Digital Photography (Scott Kelby, 2006)
181 - The Advanced Digital Photographer's Workbook
182 - The Authentic Guide to Russian and Soviet Cameras
183 - The Beginners Guide to Photographing Nudes
184 - The Beginner's Guide to Underwater Digital Photography
185 - The Best of Digital Wedding Photography
186 - The Best of Family Portrait Photography - Professional Techniques and Images
187 - The Best of Photographic Lighting - Techniques and Images for Digital Photograp
188 - The Best of Professional Digital Photography
189 - The Best of Teen and Senior Portrait Photography
190 - The Best of Wedding Photography, 3rd Edition
191 - The Book of Photography
192 - The Bride's Guide to Wedding Photography
193 - The Camera assistent Manual 4th edition (March 20, 2009)
194 - The Complete Guide to Professional Wedding Photography
195 - The Digital Photographer's Software Guide
196 - The Digital Photography Book - Scott Kelby
197 - The Disciplinary Frame - Photographic Truths and the Capture of Meaning
198 - The Duluth Portfolio
199 - The Elements of Photography Understanding & Creating Sophisticated Images
200 - The Essential Guide to Landscape Photography 2nd edition
201 - The Evocative Image
202 - The evolution of photography (1890)
203 - THE GENIUS OF PHOTOGRAPHY
204 - The Inspired Eye 1
205 - The Inspired Eye 2
206 - The Inspired Eye 3
207 - The Law, In Plain English, For Photographers
208 - The Official Photodex Guide to ProShow
209 - The Perfect Portrait Guide - How to Photograph People
210 - The Photoshop Darkroom - Creative Digital Post-Processing
211 - The Power of B&W in Lightroom
212 - The Sandy Puc' Guide to Children's Portrait Photography
213 - The Underwater Photographer, Fourth Edition
214 - The Underwater Photography by Martin Edge
215 - The Vision Driven Photographer
216 - Thomson - Mastering Digital SLR Photography (2005)
217 - Tremendous Toronto
218 - Vision In Motion
219 - Vision Is Better 1
220 - Vision Is Better 2
221 - Weston - Nature Photography
222 - Wiley - Studio and Location Lighting Secrets for Digital Photographers (2009)
223 - Wiley Publishing - 2005 - Digital Photography All-in-One Desk Reference
224 - Wiley, Digital Art Photography (2006)
225 - With a Camera in my Hands
226 - Within the Frame - The Journey of Photographic Vision
227 - Your Creative Mix

 

[CherylL]

Wow, Buckster that is quite a list! Do you have a top 10 from your list?

I don't have any photography books yet, just Photoshop, AE & PrPro.
Here are a few:
Photoshop CS5 Essential Skills
Photoshop CS5 Visual Quickstart Guide
Art & Design in Photoshop
Photoshop for After Effects
and a recent one Canon T4i/650D Experience

 

[Buckster]

Wow, Buckster that is quite a list! Do you have a top 10 from your list?

It probably depends on experience level and interest(s). For my own current interests at present, I'd say my top 10 would have to do with somewhat more advanced techniques of lighting and compositing, so I'd choose:

1. Hunter, Fuqua and Biver - Light Science & Magic
2. Eric Curry - Painting with Light
3. Matt Kloskowski - Photoshop Compositing Secrets
4. Scott Kelby - Light It, Shoot It, Retouch It
5. Dean Collins Productions - Photographic Global Notes
6. Joe McNally - The Hot Shoe Diaries
7. Hicks and Schultz - Learning To Light
8. Child and Galer - Photographic Lighting: Essential Skills
9. Joe McNally - The Moment It Clicks
10. Joe McNally - Sketching Light

If a beginner were to ask for my recommendations, my top 10 would be very different and include books focused more on the basic foundational subjects of camera and lens operation, proper exposure, composition, light and shadow. Books like:

1. The book that came with their camera
2. John Hedgecoe - The Book Of Photography
3. Bryan Peterson - Understanding Exposure
4. Jim Zuckerman - Perfect Exposure
5. Michael Freeman - The Photographer's Eye
6. Hunter, Fuqua and Biver - Light Science & Magic
7. Matthew Bamberg - 101 Quick and Easy Secrets to Create Winning Photographs

 

[nmoody]

So far I have the following. Still learning lots =)

1. Digital Photography 1,2,3,4, Scott Kelby
2. Understanding Exposure, Bryan Peterson
3. The Adobe Photoshop CS6 Book, Scott Kelby
4. The Moment it Clicks, Joe McNally
5. The Photographer's Eye, Michael Freeman
6. The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 Book, Scott Kelby
7. Why Photographs Work, George Barr
8. Learning to See Creatively, Bryan Peterson

 

[CherylL]

Wow, Buckster that is quite a list! Do you have a top 10 from your list?

It probably depends on experience level and interest(s). For my own current interests at present, I'd say my top 10 would have to do with somewhat more advanced techniques of lighting and compositing, so I'd choose:

1. Hunter, Fuqua and Biver - Light Science & Magic
2. Eric Curry - Painting with Light
3. Matt Kloskowski - Photoshop Compositing Secrets
4. Scott Kelby - Light It, Shoot It, Retouch It
5. Dean Collins Productions - Photographic Global Notes
6. Joe McNally - The Hot Shoe Diaries
7. Hicks and Schultz - Learning To Light
8. Child and Galer - Photographic Lighting: Essential Skills
9. Joe McNally - The Moment It Clicks
10. Joe McNally - Sketching Light

If a beginner were to ask for my recommendations, my top 10 would be very different and include books focused more on the basic foundational subjects of camera and lens operation, proper exposure, composition, light and shadow. Books like:

1. The book that came with their camera
2. John Hedgecoe - The Book Of Photography
3. Bryan Peterson - Understanding Exposure
4. Jim Zuckerman - Perfect Exposure
5. Michael Freeman - The Photographer's Eye
6. Hunter, Fuqua and Biver - Light Science & Magic
7. Matthew Bamberg - 101 Quick and Easy Secrets to Create Winning Photographs

Thanks for the recommendations. I'll check out the beginner list.

 

[panblue]

Fly Fishing, J R Hartley

 

[rexbobcat]

INFINITE TITLES.

In other words, Google.

 

[amolitor]

What does it mean that so many of the lists here are dominated by technical/how-to books?

 

[amolitor]

INFINITE TITLES.

In other words, Google.

Your school might still have a library, too! You should check it out!

 

[sm4him]

These are the 16 traditionally made (paper) photo books I have:



Digitally, for reading on my tablet or a computer, I have another 237 titles, including these 10 on Kindle:



Plus another 227 titles from other digital book sources, including Google Books, Nook, Craft & Vision, PhotoWhoa, etc.

1 - 101 Quick and Easy Secrets to Create Winning Photographs
2 - A Deeper Frame
3 - A Digital Photographer's Guide to Model Releases

...ad infinitum

WOW, Buckster, I don't know whether to be suitably impressed or utterly dismayed. Not at how many titles you have, but at the fact that you actually LISTED every single one of them. Your organizational skills are clearly far, far superior to mine. But then, a turtle has better organizational skills than I do. I probably have about 30-50 (maybe more--I do love my books) photography-related books, some brand new, and some from the 70s and early 80s. But I couldn't begin to tell you what most of them are, or even WHERE many of the "real" books are--down in my basement, I suppose.

On my Kindle I have:
Adobe Photoshop CS5 for Digital Photographers
D5100 Manual
Light Science and Magic
Nikon D5100 Digital Field Guide
Tony Northrup's DSLR Book: How to Create Stunning Digital Photography
Plus several pdf books on Posing and Portrait Photography

Buckster's Top Ten list just confirmed it for me--I'm going to break down and buy a couple of the Joe McNally books. Been thinking about it, but it's time to pull the trigger. Hot Shoe Diaries and maybe ONE of the others; now I gotta decide which one.

 

[gsgary]

What does it mean that so many of the lists here are dominated by technical/how-to books?

They are ****ing boring

 

[gsgary]

Just ordered another from a fantastic photographer Denis Thorpe: On Home Ground: Amazon.co.uk: Denis Thorpe, Peter Hamilton: Books
Some of his images
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[c.cloudwalker]

I have a library of over 30,000 titles (yes I'm a big, big reader.) I have no idea how many are photo related but I would say less than 500. Coffee-table books. Works by other photogs...

I do know however that only one is a How-To book like you show in your photo. Can't give you the exact title, it is in a box right know, but it is a recipe book from Kodak from the days of chemistry. I keep it preciously for when I get back into a darkroom, start making my own paper and chemicals...

I love the smell of D-76 in the morning... lol.

 

[The_Traveler]

This thread quickly degenerated into a mine-is-bigger-than-yours kind of discussion.

None of these lists of books means anything if you can't shoot pictures.