A small guide to Street Photography PT. 11

A fundamental part in the training of a photographer is given by the cultural background…

Roma, Italia 2017

…and the visual culture for a photographer is powered by the vision and knowledge of the work of other photographers. I am sorry but when I meet a photographer arguing not to know Garry Winogrand or Lee Friedlander, well I don’t have a good idea of that dude…if you don’t know the history of photography…if you don’t know that a certain photograph has been realized in the 60s, how you pretend to say that a photo is good or bad? You don’t have the basics of a visual knowledge and you have a big handicap also for your photography.

For this reason a chapter of my small guide to Street Photography is dedicated to my recommendation of books to purchase.

Please note: the list is huge and some books reached impossible prices. The list is a selection made with fundamental books in my opinion, some historical editions and some personal recommendations. From a street photographer to other street photographers.

• Mark Cohen Grim Street

• Lee Friedlander America by Car

• Garry Winogrand Women are Beautiful

• Garry Winogrand Man in the Crowd

• Clive Scott Street Photography

• Garry Winogrand Figments from the real world

• Daido Moriyama The world through my eyes

• Street Photography Now

• James Maher The Essentials of Street Photography

• Robert Frank The Americans

• Johnny Stiletto Vintage 80s

• Alex Webb Suffering of Light

• Stephen Shore Common Places

• William Eggleston Guide

• William Claxton  New Orleans 1960

• Angelo Tassitano Angelo Tassitano

• Giampaolo Romagnosi Giampaolo Romagnosi

• Ferdinando Fasolo Street Straight

• Giovanni Umicini My New York

• Mario Giacomelli Cose Mai Viste

• Clement Cheroux L’errore fotografico

• Clement Cheroux Henri Cartier Bresson - lo sguardo del secolo

• HENRI CARTIER BRESSON FOTOGRAFO Editore Alinari

• Stephen Shore The Nature of Photographs

• Ferdinando Scianna Autoritratto di un Fotografo

• Magnum - Contact Sheets

• Luigi Ghirri Kodachrome

• Roland Barthes Camera Lucida

• Alex Webb - Rebecca Norris Webb On Street Photography and the poetic image

• William Klein Roma

• William Klein Life is good & good for you in New York

• Bruno Barbey The Italians

• Robert Herman The New Yorkers

• Fred Herzog Photographs

• Josef Koudelka Exiles

• Joel Meyerowitz Retrospective

• Vince Aletti Saul Leiter

• Francois Hebel Harry Gruyaert

• Henri Cartier Bresson The Decisive Moment

• Walker Evans American Photographs

• Renè Burri Impossible Reminescences

• Trent Parke Minuters to Midnight

• Camilo Josè Vergara The New American Ghetto

• Anthony Hernandez Rodeo Drive

• George Porcari GREETINGS FROM L.A. 24 Frames and 50 Years

• Joel Meyerowitz Bystander: A History of Street Photograph

• Jackie Higgins The World Atlas of Street Photography

• Bruce Davidson Subway

• David Alan Harvey Divided Soul

• Jeff Merlmestein Sidewalk

• Martin Parr The Last Resort

• Nobuyoshi Araki Subway Love

• Craig Semetko Unposed

• Joel Meyerowitz How I Make Photographs

• Daido Moriyama How I Take Photographs 

I consider the list made by heart, so I almost certainly forgot important books. Feel free to suggest titles to include and I will.