Photography Bookshelf

  1. Henri Cartier-Bresson – The Decisive Moment The classic on timing and composition. Cartier-Bresson shows how to catch life as it unfolds, one frame at a time. Paris becomes a lesson in attention.

  2. William Eggleston – William Eggleston’s Guide The book that turned everyday color into art. Memphis streets, light, and corners—ordinary scenes made strange and poetic.

  3. Saul Leiter – Early Color New York through glass and rain. Muted tones, soft edges, painterly frames. Photography that feels closer to memory than to fact.

  4. Robert Frank – The Americans A road trip across postwar America. Raw, uneasy, and lyrical. Frank caught a country in fragments, and changed photography forever.

  5. Joel Meyerowitz – Cape Light A study of light at the edge of land and sea. Cape Cod seen in long exposures of color and atmosphere—some of the most beautiful work on light ever printed.

  6. Alec Soth – Sleeping by the Mississippi A slow drift along the river. Portraits, landscapes, and empty spaces stitched into a tender meditation on the American Midwest.

  7. Jack Davison – Photographs Raw and playful experiments in portraiture. Davison bends light, shadow, and distortion into something both strange and intimate. A reminder that photography can still surprise.

  8. Arnold Newman – At Work The master of the environmental portrait. Artists, leaders, and thinkers shown in their element—spaces and gestures telling as much as faces. A study in context and character.

  9. Vivian Maier The hidden street photographer of Chicago. Her archive, discovered after her death, reveals decades of unnoticed brilliance—fleeting moments of daily life, caught with quiet precision.

  10. Elliott Erwitt – Personal Best A lifetime of wit and humanity in photographs. Erwitt’s eye for absurdity and tenderness makes this collection both funny and deeply human. A good reminder not to take life too seriously.