8 must-read art and photography books like Exiles by Josef Koudelka

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Exiles

By: Josef Koudelka

4.64

Format: 180 pages, Hardcover

About Exiles, Cornell Capa once wrote, "Koudelka's unsentimental, stark, brooding, intensely human …

If you liked the art and photography plot in Exiles by Josef Koudelka , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of The Decisive Moment: Photography of Henri Cartier-Bresson by Henri Cartier-Bresson

1. The Decisive Moment: Photography of Henri Cartier-Bresson

By: Henri Cartier-Bresson

4.61

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Cartier-Bresson’s concept of the “decisive moment” ― a split second that reveals the larger truth o… read more

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  • art
  • photography
  • nonfiction
  • art and photography
Cover of Cape Light by Joel Meyerowitz, Clifford S. Ackley

2. Cape Light

By: Joel Meyerowitz , Clifford S. Ackley

4.48

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Originally published in 1979, "Cape Light" became an instant classic and one of the most influentia… read more

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  • art
  • photography
  • nonfiction
  • art and photography
Cover of Alex Webb: The Suffering of Light by Geoff Dyer, Alex Webb

3. Alex Webb: The Suffering of Light

By: Geoff Dyer , Alex Webb

3.14

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

The Suffering of Lightis the first comprehensive monograph charting the career of acclaimed America… read more

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  • art
  • photography
  • nonfiction
  • art and photography
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4. Daido Moriyama: Farewell Photography

By: Daidō Moriyama

1.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

This heavy, glossy, slipcased, reprinted reinterpretation of the legendary 1972 book, Farewell Phot… read more

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  • art
  • photography
Cover of Água Viva by Clarice Lispector, Benjamin Moser, Stefan Tobler

5. Água Viva

By: Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Stefan Tobler

4.29

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Vi… read more

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"I always give names to things"

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"I'm not a synonym—I'm a proper noun."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"Suddenly I was crying. It was already love."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"To write you I first cover myself with perfume."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

6. The Street Photographer's Manual

By: David Gibson

3.22

Format: 111 pages, Paperback

Street photography has been around since the very first cameras were invented, producing some of th… read more

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7. Illuminance

By: David Chandler , Rinko Kawauchi

4.07

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In 2001, Rinko Kawauchi launched her career with the simultaneous publication of three astonishing … read more

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8. The Order of Time

By: Carlo Rovelli

4.12

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets have long explo… read more

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  • nonfiction
"We understand the world in its becoming, not in its being."

-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time

"Our fear of death seems to me to be an error of evolution."

-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time

"Children grow up and discover that the world is not as it seemed from within the four walls of their homes. Humankind as a whole does the same."

-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time

"Before Newton, time for humanity was the way of counting how things changed. Before him, no one had thought it possible that a time independent of things could exist. Don't take your intuitions and i…"

-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time

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9. Exiles

By: Josef Koudelka

4.64

Format: 180 pages, Hardcover

About Exiles, Cornell Capa once wrote, "Koudelka's unsentimental, stark, brooding, intensely human … read more

Similar categories in Josef Koudelka's Exiles book and Josef Koudelka's Exiles

  • art
  • photography
  • nonfiction
  • art and photography
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10. Early Color

By: Saul Leiter

4.63

Format: 158 pages, Hardcover

A beloved photobook classic from the pioneer of color photography This is a reprint of the immensel… read more

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  • art
  • photography
  • nonfiction
  • art and photography
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11. Araki by Araki

By: Nobuyoshi Araki

4.53

Format: 565 pages, Hardcover

Decades’ worth of images have been distilled down to 568 pages of photographs in this ultimate retr… read more

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  • art
  • photography
  • nonfiction
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12. American Surfaces

By: Stephen Shore

4.29

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In 1972, Stephen Shore left New York City and set out with a friend to Amarillo, Texas. He didn't d… read more

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  • art
  • photography
  • art and photography
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13. In Flagrante Two

By: Chris Killip

4.26

Format: 108 pages, Hardcover

The photographs that Chris Killip (born 1946) took in Northern England between 1973 and 1985 were f… read more

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  • art
  • photography
Cover of The World Through My Eyes by Daidō Moriyama

14. The World Through My Eyes

By: Daidō Moriyama

4.52

Format: 440 pages, Hardcover

A broad monograph devoted to one of the preeminent names in contemporary Japanese photography. Mori… read more

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  • art
  • photography
  • art and photography
Cover of Hunter by Daidō Moriyama

15. Hunter

By: Daidō Moriyama

4.08

Format: None pages, Tankobon Hardcover

"This photograph collection ... is a kind of road map of images from all over Japan through a movin… read more

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  • photography
Cover of Alex Webb: Dislocations by David Chickey

16. Alex Webb: Dislocations

By: David Chickey

4.11

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Newly reimagined edition of Alex Webb’s now-classic and long out-of-print Dislocations Dislocation… read more

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  • photography
Cover of Harry Gruyaert: Between Worlds by Harry Gruyaert

17. Harry Gruyaert: Between Worlds

By: Harry Gruyaert

4.50

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

This book from award-winning Magnum photographer Harry Gruyaert collects his most cinematic images … read more

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  • art
  • photography
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18. Edges

By: Harry Gruyaert

4.27

Format: 104 pages, Hardcover

From Belgium to Morocco, by way of India and Egypt, for more than thirty-five years Harry Gruyaert … read more

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  • photography
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19. Self Portrait

By: Lee Friedlander

4.42

Format: 104 pages, Hardcover

Lee Friedlander's surreal sensibility is on full display in this set of photographs, originally pub… read more

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  • art
  • photography
  • art and photography
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20. London/Wales

By: Robert Frank

4.24

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

"War is over; the heroic French population reaffirms superiority. Love, Paris, and Flowers but Lond… read more

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  • art
  • photography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Harry Gruyaert: Last Call by Harry Gruyaert

21. Harry Gruyaert: Last Call

By: Harry Gruyaert

4.06

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

New from Magnum Photos member Harry Gruyaert, a collection of photographs of airports and people in… read more

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  • photography

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4.61

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4.48

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3.14

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3.89

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Saul Leiter

4.61

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