19 Best photography books like Mary Ellen Mark on the Portrait and the Moment: The Photography Workshop Series by Mary Ellen Mark

Cover of Mary Ellen Mark on the Portrait and the Moment: The Photography Workshop Series by Mary Ellen Mark

Mary Ellen Mark on the Portrait and the Moment: The Photography Workshop Series

By: Mary Ellen Mark

4.47

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

In The Photography Workshop Series, Aperture Foundation works with the world's top photographers to…

If you liked the photography plot in Mary Ellen Mark on the Portrait and the Moment: The Photography Workshop Series by Mary Ellen Mark , here is a list of 19 books like this:

Cover of The Photographer's Eye by Walker Evans, John Szarkowski, Paul Strand, William Klein, Lee Friedlander

1. The Photographer's Eye

By: Walker Evans , John Szarkowski , Paul Strand , William Klein , Lee Friedlander

4.09

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

The Photographer's Eye by John Szarkowski is a twentieth-century classic--an indispensable introduc… read more

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  • art
  • photography
  • nonfiction
"All photographs are time exposures, of shorter or longer duration, and each describes a discrete parcel of time."

-Walker Evans, The Photographer's Eye

"There is a terrible truthfulness about photography. The ordinary academician gets hold of a pretty model, paints her as well as he can, calls her Juliet, and puts a nice verse Shakespeare underneath,…"

-Walker Evans, The Photographer's Eye

Cover of Child of God by Cormac McCarthy

2. Child of God

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.84

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In this taut, chilling novel, Lester Ballard--a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape--… read more

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

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
Cover of Read This If You Want to Take Great Photographs by Henry Carroll

4. Read This If You Want to Take Great Photographs

By: Henry Carroll

4.00

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

Photography is now more popular than ever thanks to the rapid development of digital cameras. Read … read more

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  • art
  • photography
  • nonfiction
Cover of By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolaño, Chris    Andrews

5. By Night in Chile

By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews

3.89

Format: 118 pages, Paperback

During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a m… read more

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"…and for goodness’ sake read widely and deeply…"

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

"I am dying now, but I still have many things to say."

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

"His falcon, called Othello, had struck terror into the heart of every pigeon in Turin..."

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

"As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive."

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

6. Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

By: Roland Barthes , Richard Howard

4.07

Format: None pages, Paperback

A graceful, contemplative volume, Camera Lucidawas first published in 1979. Commenting on artists s… read more

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7. Going Into Town: A Love Letter to New York

By: Roz Chast

4.15

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the #1 NYT bestselling author of Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, Roz Chast's new… read more

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8. Todd Hido on Landscapes, Interiors, and the Nude: The Photography Workshop Series

By: Todd Hido , Gregory Halpern

3.71

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

In The Photography Workshop Series, Aperture Foundation works with the world's top photographers to… read more

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Cover of On Photography by Susan Sontag

9. 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

10. 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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11. The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

By: Steven Pressfield , Robert McKee

4.08

Format: None pages,

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12. 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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13. Mary Ellen Mark: An American Odyssey 1963-1999

By: Mary Ellen Mark

3.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"Mark works in a classic documentary mode: her work imprints itself on viewers in the way that only… read more

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14. William Eggleston's Guide

By: John Szarkowski , William Eggleston

4.06

Format: None pages, Hardcover

William Eggleston's Guidewas the first one-man show of color photographs ever presented at The Muse… read more

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15. The Creative Act: A Way of Being

By: Rick Rubin

4.04

Format: 406 pages, Hardcover

From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
"Find the sustainable rituals that best support your work."

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

"In terms of priority, inspiration comes first. You come next. The audience comes last."

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

"When it comes to the creative process, patience is accepting that the majority of the work we do is out of our control."

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

"Turning something from an idea into a reality can make it seem smaller. It changes from unearthly to earthly. The imagination has no limits. The physical world does. The work exists in both."

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

Cover of Find Your Frame: A Street Photography Masterclass by Craig Whitehead

16. Find Your Frame: A Street Photography Masterclass

By: Craig Whitehead

4.30

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Look beyond the obvious. Street photography is what you make it’. Craig Whitehead’s shots of the s… read more

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  • art
  • photography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Vivian Maier: The Color Work by Vivian Maier

17. 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 The Unseen Saul Leiter by Margit Erb

18. The Unseen Saul Leiter

By: Margit Erb

4.59

Format: 159 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling trove of newly discovered color works from the photographer celebrated for his pioneeri… read more

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  • art
  • photography
Cover of All about Saul Leiter by Saul Leiter

19. 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
Cover of The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century by Amia Srinivasan

20. The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

By: Amia Srinivasan

4.25

Format: 304 pages, ebook

Thrilling, sharp, and deeply humane, philosopher Amia Srinivasan's The Right to Sex: Feminism in th… read more

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  • nonfiction
"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanged?"

-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanched?"

-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

"It is true that women have always lived in a world created by men and governed by men's rules. But it is also true that men have always lived alongside women who have contested these rules."

-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

"Free speech', which poses as a merely formal principle of adjudication, is in fact, MacKinnon suggests, an ideological tool selectively deployed to protect the freedoms of the dominant class."

-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

Cover of American Geography by Matt Black

21. American Geography

By: Matt Black

4.20

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning photographer Matt Black traveled over 100,000 miles to chronicle the reality of today… read more

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  • photography
Cover of Ernst Haas: New York in Color, 1952-1962 by Phillip Prodger

22. Ernst Haas: New York in Color, 1952-1962

By: Phillip Prodger

4.61

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

The first book on master photographer Ernst Haas's work dedicated to both his classic and newly dis… read more

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  • art
  • photography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Fred Herzog: Modern Color by Fred Herzog

23. Fred Herzog: Modern Color

By: Fred Herzog

4.59

Format: 319 pages, Hardcover

The most comprehensive book yet published on the Canadian color-photography pioneer Fred Herzog is … read more

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  • art
  • photography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Modern Instances: The Craft of Photography by Stephen Shore

24. Modern Instances: The Craft of Photography

By: Stephen Shore

4.36

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

‘Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable… read more

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  • art
  • photography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Joel Meyerowitz: How I Make Photographs by Joel Meyerowitz

25. Joel Meyerowitz: How I Make Photographs

By: Joel Meyerowitz

4.21

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

The "Masters of Photography" series is a new approach to photography how-to. Each volume is dedicat… read more

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  • art
  • photography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Forever Saul Leiter by Saul Leiter

26. Forever Saul Leiter

By: Saul Leiter

4.71

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

This revealing collection of Saul Leiter’s work, much of it published here for the first time, unde… read more

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  • art
  • photography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Mary Ellen Mark on the Portrait and the Moment: The Photography Workshop Series by Mary Ellen Mark

27. Mary Ellen Mark on the Portrait and the Moment: The Photography Workshop Series

By: Mary Ellen Mark

4.47

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

In The Photography Workshop Series, Aperture Foundation works with the world's top photographers to… read more

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Cover of Richard Misrach on Landscape and Meaning: The Photography Workshop Series by Richard Misrach

28. Richard Misrach on Landscape and Meaning: The Photography Workshop Series

By: Richard Misrach

4.43

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

In The Photography Workshop Series, Aperture Foundation works with the world's top photographers to… read more

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  • photography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Graciela Iturbide on Dreams, Symbols, and Imagination (The Photography Workshop Series) by Graciela Iturbide

29. Graciela Iturbide on Dreams, Symbols, and Imagination (The Photography Workshop Series)

By: Graciela Iturbide

4.47

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

In this volume of The Photography Workshop Series , Graciela Iturbide—known for her portraits and l… read more

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  • photography
Cover of Larry Fink on Composition and Improvisation: The Photography Workshop Series by Larry Fink

30. Larry Fink on Composition and Improvisation: The Photography Workshop Series

By: Larry Fink

4.37

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

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

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  • photography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Dawoud Bey on Photographing People and Communities: The Photography Workshop Series by Dawoud Bey

31. Dawoud Bey on Photographing People and Communities: The Photography Workshop Series

By: Dawoud Bey

4.59

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

In the fifth installment of The Photography Workshop Series, Dawoud Bey―well known for striking por… read more

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17 must-read nonfiction books like Mary Ellen Mark on the Portrait and the Moment: The Photography Workshop Series by Mary Ellen Mark

Transform Your Habits

The Photographer's Eye

Walker Evans , John Szarkowski , Paul Strand , William Klein , Lee Friedlander

4.09

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

Read This If You Want to Take Great Photographs

Henry Carroll

4.00

Transform Your Habits

On Photography

Susan Sontag

3.89

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The Crying of Lot 49

Thomas Pynchon

3.69

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An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter

César Aira , Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews

3.88

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My Documents

Alejandro Zambra , Megan McDowell

4.36

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