11 Photography-related Books to Read

Photography related books become a natural must for anyone with a deep love for this craft. And as time goes by, and bookshelves start flooding out, these sorts of things need to be revised at some point. Today I want to share with you 11 photography related books that I think any photographer (no matter the experience) needs to read at least once.

Here you’ll find different topics around photography, from a very concise manual on black and photography (my bible perhaps), to some books about how certain photos where actually made. You’ll also find various others that will make you think about the wonders of photography.

We are evolving into a state in which photography is ubiquitous and we need to start asking ourselves about where are we planning on going with this. If we lose the ability of being self-critique, then we will be just replicating the same stuff all over again.

The Ongoing Moment — Geoff Dyer

This book got to my hands as a gift from my friend Ben Lundsten, and is my current lecture these days. This book is a very innovative approach to the history of photography. Based on the principles of storytelling, this book tastes like a novel in which in which all the characters are the great masters of photography that we all admire. Here we can see how several photographers have approached specific…