Explore our collection of books on photography, art and creativity to enrich your practice and inspiration. Whether you're a beginner looking to master the basics of photography or a professional looking to explore new techniques and ideas, our books offer a wealth of information and inspiration. From how-to guides to fine art books, we have a diverse selection to suit all interests and skill levels. Dive into our collection and let yourself be inspired by the great masters of photography and art.
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Ruth Orkin - Photofile
9780500411247
Ruth Orkin (1921–85) always dreamed of becoming a filmmaker, and although that ambition was thwarted until later in her career, she quickly found other ways of engaging with the world of images. She was given her first camera at the… Find out more »
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Gordon Parks - Photofile
9780500411094
The classic Photofile series brings together the best work of the world's greatest photographers in an attractive format and at a reasonable price. Handsome and collectible, the books are produced to the highest standards. Each volume contains reproductions printed in… Find out more »
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Graciela Iturbide on Dreams, Symbols, and Imagination
9781597113700
In this volume of The Photography Workshop Series, Graciela Iturbide—known for her portraits and landscapes imbued with poetic ambiguity and documentary truth—explores photographing in ways that employ a deeply personal vision, while also reflecting subjects’ rich cultural backgrounds. Aperture works… Find out more »
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Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb on Street Photography and the Poetic Image
9781597112574
In this beautifully edited book, Alex Webb & Rebecca Norris Webb walk us through street photography with beautiful images and pertinent commentaries. It is meant to be as a mini course about the world of storytelling through street photography. Find out more »
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Richard Misrach on Landscape and Meaning
9781597114776
In the sixth installment of The Photography Workshop Series, Richard Misrach—well known for sublime and expansive landscapes that focus on the relationship between humans and their environment—offers his insight into creating photographs that are visually beautiful and contain cultural implications.… Find out more »
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Todd Hido on Landscapes, Interiors, and The Nude
9781597112970
The Photography Workshop Series
In this book, Todd Hido explores the genres of landscape, interior, and nude photography, with an emphasis on creating images from a personal perspective and with a sense of intimacy. Through words and photographs, he reveals insight into his own… Find out more »
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Larry Fink on Composition and Improvisation
9781597112734
The Photography Workshop Series
“This sense of engagement with photography, giving it a heart and a soul and a connection to pleasure and passion, also comes across in Larry Fink on Composition and Improvisation.” - British Journal of Photography, June 2014 issue “These highly… Find out more »
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Dawoud Bey on Photographing People and Communities
9781597113373
In The Photography Workshop Series, Aperture Foundation works with the world’s top photographers to distill their creative approaches, teachings, and insights on photography—offering the workshop experience in a book. The goal is to inspire photographers of all levels who wish… Find out more »
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Mary Ellen Mark on The Portrait and The Moment
9781597113168
In this book, Mary Ellen Mark—well-known for her pictures' emotional power, be they of people or animals—offers her insight on observing the world and capturing dramatic moments that reveal more than the reality at hand. Through words and pictures, she… Find out more »
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Danny Lyon - The Bikeriders
9781597112642
First published in 1968, and now back in print for the first time in ten years, The Bikeriders explores firsthand the stories and personalities of the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club. This journal-size volume features original black-and-white photographs and transcribed interviews… Find out more »
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Danny Lyon - The Destruction of Lower Manhattan
9781683952312
First published in 1969, The Destruction of Lower Manhattan is a singular, lasting document of nearly sixty acres of downtown New York architecture before it's destruction in a wave of urban development. After creating the series The Bikeriders and moving… Find out more »
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Koudelka
9781597110303
Stark, impassioned, and singularly intense, Josef Koudelka's work has received deserved acclaim over the past three decades as a uniquely significant contribution to the language of photography. Koudelka is the first book to present over 150 of his most eloquent… Find out more »
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Sebastião Salgado - Other Americas
9781597113366
The first edition of Sebastião Salgado: Other Americas was published in 1985 by the French publisher Contrejour, and included photographs from Salgado's numerous trips through Brazil, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, Guatemala and Mexico. The Brazil-born, Paris-based photographer traveled extensively in Latin… Find out more »
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Clémentine Deroudille - Robert Doisneau Music
9782080265951
Previously unpublished photographs and iconic portraits of musicians from the 1950s through the 1980s offer a new perspective on Doisneau's remarkable talent. Master photographer Robert Doisneau's passion for the joyful energy inherent in the music world comes alive in images… Find out more »
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Richard Renaldi - Manhattan Sunday (Art Fair)
9781597113762
Manhattan Sunday is part homage to a slice of New York nightlife, and part celebration of New York as palimpsest—an evolving form onto which millions of people have and continue to project their ideal selves and ideal lives. In the… Find out more »
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Stephen Shore - Selected Works 1973-1981
9781597113885
Stephen Shore’s Uncommon Places is indisputably a canonic body of work—a touchstone for those interested in photography and the American landscape. Remarkably, despite having been the focus of numerous shows and books, including the eponymous 1982 Aperture classic (expanded and… Find out more »
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Stephen Shore - Uncommon Places: The Complete Works
9781597113038
Originally published in 1982, Stephen Shore’s legendary Uncommon Places has influenced more than a generation of photographers. Shore was among the first artists to take color beyond the domain of advertising and fashion photography, and his large-format color work on… Find out more »
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Eyes Wide Open! 100 Years of Leica Photography - Hans-Michael Koetzle
9783868285307
A Magnum Opus bursting with an amazing compilation of historical facts, technical and design discoveries, as well as personal and introspective thoughts from the world's leading Leica practitioners on how this camera helped shape their vision and path. This book… Find out more »
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Nan Goldin - The Ballad of Sexual Dependency
9781597112086
First published in 1986, Nan Goldin's The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is a visual diary chronicling the struggles for intimacy and understanding among the friends and lovers whom Goldin describes as her tribe. These photographs described a lifestyle that was… Find out more »
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Dorothea Lange - Words & Pictures
9781633451049
Toward the end of her life, Dorothea Lange (1895–1965) reflected, “All photographs—not only those that are so called 'documentary’...can be fortified by words.” Lange paid sharp attention to the human condition, conveying stories of everyday life through her photographs and… Find out more »
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