Views & Reviews 75+ Inspirational Street Photography Books You Gotta Own by Eric Kim

Daido Moriyama | The Father of Street Photography in Japan

75+ Inspirational Street Photography Books You Gotta Own

ERIC KIM

Buy books, not gear.

If you want a quality-education in street photography, I recommend either buying, borrowing, or browsing though some of the books below. Books that are bolded are some of my personal favorites.

Magnum Contact Sheets
Magnum: Degrees
Magnum: Stories
Mark Cohen: Grim Street
Street Photography Now
Bruce Davidson: Subway

Bruce Davidson: East 100th Street

Diane Arbus: A monograph

Helen Levitt

Lee Friedlander: Friedlander

Elliott Erwitt: Personal Best

Richard Kalvar: Earthlings
Andre Kertesz (Editions Hazan)
Robert Frank: The Americans

Garry Winogrand: Public Relations

Garry Winogrand: Figments from the real world

Garry Winogrand: The Animals

Bruce Gilden by Stern Magazine
Bruce Gilden: A Beautiful Catastrophe
Bruce Gilden: Haiti
Bruce Gilden: After The Off
Bruce Gilden: Facing New York
Bystander: A History of Street Photography
Joel Meyerowitz
Jun Abe: Citizens
William Eggleston: Chromes
William Eggleston: Guide
William Eggleston: Before Color
Stephen Shore: Uncommon Places
Daido Moriyama: The World Through My Eyes
Alex Webb: Istanbul
Alex Webb: The Suffering Of Light

Jeff Mermelstein: Sidewalk

Walker Evans
Fred Herzog: Photographs
Vivian Maier
William Klein: Contacts
Joel Sternfeld: American Prospects
Martin Parr: The Last Resort

Martin Parr: Small World

Tony Ray-Jones: Best Of
Josef Koudelka: Gypsies

Anders Peterson: French Kiss

Anders Petersen: Cafe Lehmitz
Zoe Strauss: America
Henri Cartier-Bresson: “The Decisive Moment”
Josef Koudelka: Exiles

Anders Petersen

The Education of a Photographer
David Hurn: On Being a Photographer
David Gibson: The Street Photographer’s Manual
Siegfried Hansen – hold the line
Matt Stuart: All that Life Can Afford
The Photographer’s Playbook: 307 Assignments and Ideas
Trent Parke: Minutes to Midnight
Trent Parke: The Christmas Tree Bucket
Trent Parke: The Black Rose
Harry Gruyaert
Gus Powell: The Lonely Ones
Alec Soth: Songbook
Ping Pong Conversations: Alec Soth with Francesco Zanot
Constantine Manos: A Greek Portfolio
Constantine Manos: American Color
Constantine Manos: American Color 2
David Alan Harvey: Divided Soul
Photographers’ Sketchbooks
Harry Callahan: Retrospective
Slide Show: The Color Photographs of Helen Levitt
Mark Cohen: Frame
Saul Leiter: Early Color
Saul Leiter: Early Black and White
Dan Winters: Road to Seeing
Todd Hido: Photography Workshop Series
Mary Ellen Mark: Photography Workshop Series
The Open Road: Photography and the American Roadtrip
Street Photography: 50 Ways to Capture Better Photos of Ordinary Life