16 must-read art books like Magnum Contact Sheets by Kristen Lubben

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Magnum Contact Sheets

By: Kristen Lubben

4.69

Format: 508 pages, Hardcover

Contact sheets unveil the story of what went into a photograph. Was it the outcome of what a photog…

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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
  • reference
Cover of The Negative (Ansel Adams Photography, #2) by Ansel Adams, None

2. The Negative (Ansel Adams Photography, #2)

By: Ansel Adams , None

4.42

Format: 265 pages, Paperback

Ansel Adams (1902-1984) produced some of this century's truly memorable photographic images and hel… read more

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  • art
  • photography
  • nonfiction
  • reference
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3. Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb on Street Photography and the Poetic Image (The Photography Workshop Series)

By: Alex Webb , Rebecca Norris Webb

4.12

Format: None pages,

In this series, Aperture Foundation works with the world's top photographers to distill their creat… read more

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  • art
  • photography
  • nonfiction
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4. Istanbul: Memories and the City

By: Orhan Pamuk

3.63

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world's great cities, by its… read more

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

5. 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

6. Street Photography Now

By: Sophie Howarth , Stephen Mclaren

3.37

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

For the last twenty years the candid photography of life in public has been mostly underground but … read more

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  • art
  • photography
  • nonfiction

7. Genesis

By: Sebastião Salgado , Lélia Wanick Salgado

3.93

Format: 316 pages, Hardcover

"In Genesis, my camera allowed nature to speak to me. And it was my privilege to listen." --Sebasti… read more

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  • art
  • photography
  • nonfiction

8. The Wild Palms

By: William Faulkner , Adam Mars-Jones

4.00

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

In this feverishly beautiful novel--originally titled If I Forget Thee, Jerusalemby Faulkner, and n… read more

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9. Winogrand: Figments from the Real World

By: John Szarkowski , Garry Winogrand

3.51

Format: 235 pages, Hardcover

Back in Print! The first comprehensive overview of the work of Garry Winogrand, long out of print a… read more

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10. A Tale of Love and Darkness

By: Amos Oz , Nicholas de Lange

4.23

Format: 560 pages, Paperback

Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, A Tale of Love and Darkness is at once a family saga and a magic… read more

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  • nonfiction
"If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar."

-Amos Oz, A Tale of Love and Darkness

"When my father was a young man in Vilna, every wall in Europe said, "Jews go home to Palestine." Fifty years later, when he went back to Europe on a visit, the walls all screamed, "Jews get out of Pa…"

-Amos Oz, A Tale of Love and Darkness

"Papa used to say that wealth is a sin and poverty is a punishment but that God apparently wants there to be no connection between the sin and the punishment. One man sins and another is punished. Tha…"

-Amos Oz, A Tale of Love and Darkness

"Love is a curious mixture of opposites, a blend of extreme selfishness and total devotion. A paradox! Besides which, love, everybody is always talking about love, love, but love isn't something you c…"

-Amos Oz, A Tale of Love and Darkness

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11. On Photography

By: Susan Sontag

3.89

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

First published in 1973, this is a study of the force of photographic images which are continually … read more

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  • art
  • photography
  • nonfiction
"The painter constructs, the photographer discloses."

-Susan Sontag, On Photography

"Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel."

-Susan Sontag, On Photography

"Cameras miniaturize experience, transform history into spectacle."

-Susan Sontag, On Photography

"Una fotografía es a la vez una pseudopresencia y un signo de ausencia."

-Susan Sontag, On Photography

12. Vivian Maier: Street Photographer

By: Geoff Dyer , Vivian Maier , John Maloof

3.99

Format: 11 pages, Hardcover

Please note that all blank pages in the book were chosen as part of the design by the publisher. A … read more

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13. Measuring the World

By: Daniel Kehlmann , Carol Brown Janeway

3.99

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The young Austrian writer Daniel Kehlmann conjures a brilliant and gently comic novel from the live… read more

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14. 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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15. The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11

By: Garrett M. Graff

4.72

Format: 16 pages, Audiobook

15 hours, 54 minutes Read by a 45-person cast, with Holter Graham and the author Over the pas… read more

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  • nonfiction
"We met when we were only 16, at a high school dance. When he died, we were 50. I remember how I didn't want that day to end, terrible as it was. I didn't want to go to sleep because as long as I was …"

-Garrett M. Graff, The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11

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16. Vivian Maier: The Color Work

By: Vivian Maier

4.29

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The first definitive monograph of color photographs by American street photographer Vivian Maier. P… read more

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  • art
  • photography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Vivian Maier Developed: The Untold Story of the Photographer Nanny by Ann Marks

17. Vivian Maier Developed: The Untold Story of the Photographer Nanny

By: Ann Marks

4.21

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

The definitive biography that unlocks the remarkable story of Vivian Maier, the nanny who lived sec… read more

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  • art
  • photography
  • nonfiction
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18. All about Saul Leiter

By: Saul Leiter

4.61

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

An only-from-Japan exploration of the photographer’s art and philosophy. Photography lovers the wo… read more

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  • art
  • photography
  • nonfiction
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19. Der Spurenfinder

By: Marc-Uwe Kling

4.11

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

»Elos von Bergen war nicht einfach irgendein Spurensucher. Er war es, der das Rätsel des Obelisken … read more

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20. 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

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  • art
  • photography
  • nonfiction
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21. Magnum Contact Sheets

By: Kristen Lubben

4.69

Format: 508 pages, Hardcover

Contact sheets unveil the story of what went into a photograph. Was it the outcome of what a photog… read more

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  • art
  • photography
  • nonfiction
  • reference
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22. Magnum Streetwise

By: Magnum Photos

4.37

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The ultimate collection of street photography from Magnum Photos. Magnum Streetwise is the definiti… read more

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  • photography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Geschichten aus der Geschichte: Eine Reise um die Welt zu außergewöhnlichen Persönlichkeiten, vergessenen Ereignissen und sagenhaften Entdeckungen by Richard Hemmer

23. Geschichten aus der Geschichte: Eine Reise um die Welt zu außergewöhnlichen Persönlichkeiten, vergessenen Ereignissen und sagenhaften Entdeckungen

By: Richard Hemmer

4.13

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

Wie die Welt zu unserer wurdeWussten Sie, dass der erste Mensch, der die Welt in einem Auto umrunde… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Think Like a Street Photographer: How to Think Like a Street Photographer by Matt Stuart

24. Think Like a Street Photographer: How to Think Like a Street Photographer

By: Matt Stuart

4.29

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

"Never does that old maxim 'the harder I practice, the luckier I get' ring truer." – Matt Stuart S… read more

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  • art
  • photography
  • nonfiction
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25. Views

By: Marc-Uwe Kling

4.10

Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition

Ein schockierendes Verbrechen – und alle werden es sehen Die 16-jährige Lena Palmer verschwindet… read more

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"Ist falsche Hoffnung nicht ein Übel?"

-Marc-Uwe Kling, Views

Cover of Joel Meyerowitz: A Question of Color by Joel Meyerowitz

26. Joel Meyerowitz: A Question of Color

By: Joel Meyerowitz

4.35

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Joel A Question of Color traces the experiments in color and black-and-white photography of the yo… read more

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  • art
  • photography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Bystander: A History of Street Photography with a new Afterword on SP since the 1970s by Joel Meyerowitz

27. Bystander: A History of Street Photography with a new Afterword on SP since the 1970s

By: Joel Meyerowitz

4.28

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

A fascinating celebration of street photography features works by such renowned masters as Atget, S… read more

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  • art
  • photography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Foellig nerdiges Wissen: 42 höchst zufällige und äußerst wissenswerte Tatsachen über unsere Welt, das Universum und den Nacktmull by Jens Foell

28. Foellig nerdiges Wissen: 42 höchst zufällige und äußerst wissenswerte Tatsachen über unsere Welt, das Universum und den Nacktmull

By: Jens Foell

4.31

Format: 289 pages, Paperback

»Fantastische Wissenschaft. Und verdammt unterhaltsam.« Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim Ob vergessene Lemuren-Ar… read more

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  • nonfiction
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29. TO:KY:OO

By: Liam Wong

4.57

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Featuring evocative and stunning color photographs of contemporary Tokyo, this book brings together… read more

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  • art
  • photography
  • nonfiction
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30. Die Macht der ersten 1000 Tage

By: Matthias Riedl

3.97

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Dr. Matthias Riedl, Ernährungsmediziner mit über 30 Jahren Erfahrung, hilft allen, die endlich vers… read more

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Cover of Cosmic Kiss: Sechs Monate auf der ISS – Eine Liebeserklärung an den Weltraum | Der SPIEGEL-Bestseller: Die Autobiografie des deutschen Astronauten (German Edition) by Matthias Maurer

31. Cosmic Kiss: Sechs Monate auf der ISS – Eine Liebeserklärung an den Weltraum | Der SPIEGEL-Bestseller: Die Autobiografie des deutschen Astronauten (German Edition)

By: Matthias Maurer

4.49

Format: 401 pages, Kindle Edition

Die Faszination unendlicher Astronaut Matthias Maurer hat sie erlebt. In seiner Autobiografie erzä… read more

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22 best-selling nonfiction books like Magnum Contact Sheets by Kristen Lubben

Transform Your Habits

The Decisive Moment: Photography of Henri Cartier-Bresson

Henri Cartier-Bresson

4.61

Transform Your Habits

The Negative (Ansel Adams Photography, #2)

Ansel Adams , None

4.42

Transform Your Habits

Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb on Street Photography and the Poetic Image (The Photography Workshop Series)

Alex Webb , Rebecca Norris Webb

4.12

Transform Your Habits

Istanbul: Memories and the City

Orhan Pamuk

3.63

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13 Best nonfiction books like Vivian Maier: The Color Work by Vivian Maier

Transform Your Habits

Uncommon Places: The Complete Works

Lynne Tillman , Stephen Shore , Shore Stephen

1.50

Transform Your Habits

The Americans

Jack Kerouac , Robert Frank

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Turning Pro

Steven Pressfield

4.61

Transform Your Habits

Vivian Maier: A Photographer’s Life and Afterlife

Pamela Bannos

4.10

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