Photojournalism Books


Elvis: A King in the MakingElvis: A King in the MakingStreet Photography: From Atget to Cartier-BressonStreet Photography: From Atget to Cartier-Bresson
Street photography is perhaps the best-loved and most widely known of all photographic genres,...
Vancouver: The Art of Living Well (Urban Tapestry Series)Vancouver: The Art of Living Well (Urban Tapestry Series)
Best Price: $6.49
The Power of Pittsburgh (Urban Tapestry Series)The Power of Pittsburgh (Urban Tapestry Series)
Best Price: $15.95
This is a fantastic book with high quality photographs. Anyone who has been to Pittsburgh...
Fambul TokFambul Tok
Best Price: $23.88
Using ceremonies rooted in tradition, truth-telling bonfires and traditional cleansing, Fambul...


War Remnants of the Khmer RougeWar Remnants of the Khmer Rouge
Best Price: $34.99
Throughout the period of genocide under the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, millions of...
Histories Are Mirrors: The Path of Conflict through Iraq and AfghanistanHistories Are Mirrors: The Path of Conflict through Iraq and Afghanistan
Best Price: $8.00
People talk endlessly about how the world has changed since 9/11. In his new book,...
Sturgis Stories: Celebrating the People of the World's Largest Motorcycle RallySturgis Stories: Celebrating the People of the World's Largest Motorcycle Rally
Best Price: $24.00
This is a cool book. The author captures through pictures and words what it means to...
Live Steam: Paddlewheel Steamboats on the Mississippi SystemLive Steam: Paddlewheel Steamboats on the Mississippi System
Best Price: $8.00
"Live Steam" arrived today and it is absolutely fabulous. The pictures are...
LubaLuba
Best Price: $657.35
I have often played the mental game of "if I had to choose..." one of those has often...


Naked Women: The Female Nude in Photography from 1850 to the Present DayNaked Women: The Female Nude in Photography from 1850 to the Present Day
Best Price: $65.86
...Despite having fewer big names, the book does not fall short with regard to the incredible...
New Yorkers: As Seen by Magnum PhotographersNew Yorkers: As Seen by Magnum Photographers
Best Price: $28.94
The 185 photos in the book must have been selected from thousands that Magnum photographers have...
Travel Notes: 22 Thousand Miles Across the AmericasTravel Notes: 22 Thousand Miles Across the Americas
Best Price: $1.50
This is the first book i could literally NOT put down until i was done with it. I got so hyped...
Cocaine CowboysCocaine CowboysEdie Factory GirlEdie Factory Girl
Best Price: $7.97
Just received my amazing book and I am breathless. This book reveals the "real"...

Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger DeltaCurse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta
Best Price: $25.97
Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta takes a graphic look at the profound...
Henry Horenstein: Close RelationsHenry Horenstein: Close Relations
Best Price: $3.04
In Close Relations , noted photographer Henry Horenstein presents his earliest photographs,...
The World War II Black Regiment That Built the Alaska Military Highway: A Photographic HistoryThe World War II Black Regiment That Built the Alaska Military Highway: A Photographic History
Best Price: $40.40
It was a very informative book that I purchased for my father before he got to take a trip down...
Shooting Under Fire: The World of the War PhotographerShooting Under Fire: The World of the War Photographer
Best Price: $69.99
Peter Howe has collected firsthand accounts from ten of the world's leading war...
On Floods and Photo Ops: How Herbert Hoover and George W. Bush Exploited CatastrophesOn Floods and Photo Ops: How Herbert Hoover and George W. Bush Exploited Catastrophes
Best Price: $49.81
Presidents Herbert Clark Hoover and George Walker Bush were challenged many times during their...

Casasola: PHotoBolsillo (Biblioyeca Photobolsillo)Casasola: PHotoBolsillo (Biblioyeca Photobolsillo)
Best Price: $13.85
Covering the Mexican Revolution as a press photographer, Agustín Casasola (1874-1938) was...
Moises Saman: This Is WarMoises Saman: This Is War
Best Price: $17.41
Moises Saman is a gifted photographer, and the work in this book demonstrates the unique way in...
YemenYemenLao Close EncountersLao Close Encounters
Best Price: $22.52
John J.S. Burton's Lao Close Encounters is an amazing compendium of the spirit of the people...
The Knife and Gun Club: Scenes from an Emergency RoomThe Knife and Gun Club: Scenes from an Emergency Room
Best Price: $320.70
Award-winning photographer Eugene Richards was asked by a magazine to report on what happens...

GonzoGonzo
Best Price: $15.98
Great pictures in this work. It could have used some more explanation. Fascinating opening...
Diaspora: Homelands in ExileDiaspora: Homelands in Exile
Best Price: $53.57
Since 1978, French photographer Frédéric Brenner has been chronicling the Jewish...
Witness: One of the Great Correspondents of the Twentieth Century Tells Her Story (Schocken paperbacks on Judaica)Witness: One of the Great Correspondents of the Twentieth Century Tells Her Story (Schocken paperbacks on Judaica)
Best Price: $11.97
All the photos are obviously very poorly reproduced, as if they had been made on a black and...
The Invisible Empire: Ku Klux KlanThe Invisible Empire: Ku Klux Klan
Best Price: $14.22
In its hey-day, the KKK could put 40,000 Klansmen in the streets of Washington, D.C. The...
Windows of the Soul: My Journeys in the Muslim WorldWindows of the Soul: My Journeys in the Muslim World
Best Price: $15.12
She lived and worked for two years in the Gaza strip, often in Islamic dress, once beaten...

So Many Worlds: A Photographic Record of Our TimeSo Many Worlds: A Photographic Record of Our Time
Best Price: $11.15
Culled from the photograph archives of the Swiss magazine du, a historical collection is...
Life: World War 2: History's Greatest Conflict in PicturesLife: World War 2: History's Greatest Conflict in Pictures
Best Price: $16.99
In Lenigrad under siege, a couple pulls a sled bearing a tiny coffin. In Coventry, a priest...
Dorothea Lange: The Heart and Mind of a PhotographerDorothea Lange: The Heart and Mind of a Photographer
Best Price: $135.00
If you've read the standard biography of Dorothea Lange by Milton Meltzer (ISBN 0815606222)...
Transcendent Spirit: The Orphans of UgandaTranscendent Spirit: The Orphans of Uganda
Best Price: $7.47
This book is an amazing photoessay depicting the title - transcendence of spirit above...
Truth Needs No Ally: Inside PhotojournalismTruth Needs No Ally: Inside Photojournalism
This is the only book any photographer should read. It tells you every kind of career there is...

The University of New MexicoThe University of New Mexico
Best Price: $22.48
This photographic portrait of the University of New Mexico shares the lure and magic of the...
Drive-By Shootings: Photographs by a New York Taxi DriverDrive-By Shootings: Photographs by a New York Taxi Driver
Best Price: $74.99
Day and night, through rain and snow, his canary yellow taxi rolls on through the energy filled...
Inside LondonInside London
Best Price: $62.99
This collection of photographs aims to capture the spirit of London at the beginning of the new...
Quick-Eyed Love: Photography and MemoryQuick-Eyed Love: Photography and Memory
Best Price: $18.90
A delightful read that mixes photographic history and chemistry with the chemistry of ones life...
Circumstances Alter Photographs: Captain James Peters' Reports from the War of 1885Circumstances Alter Photographs: Captain James Peters' Reports from the War of 1885
Best Price: $21.00
On Friday, April 24, 1885, Captain James Peters took the world?s first battlefield photographs...

The Village (Da Capo Paperback)The Village (Da Capo Paperback)
Best Price: $138.84
This never-before-published book of photographs by Weegee the Famous (a.k.a. Arthur Fellig,...
Americanos / Latino Life in the United StatesAmericanos / Latino Life in the United States
Best Price: $34.44
I had the pleasure of hearing Mr. Olmos talk in person about the making of...
Larry Burrows: VietnamLarry Burrows: Vietnam
Best Price: $199.90
The First Air Cav, along with Burrows and a group of other reporters, was dropped into the hills...
El Salvador (DoubleTake Book)El Salvador (DoubleTake Book)
Best Price: $25.00
I would recommend this book to anyone who is moved by high quality documentary black and white...
Reuters: Our World Now 2 (v. 2)Reuters: Our World Now 2 (v. 2)
Best Price: $10.00
Reuters photojournalists submit some 1,500 photos a day, creating an annual archive of over half...

People I Have Shot: My Life As a News CameramanPeople I Have Shot: My Life As a News Cameraman
Best Price: $63.88
There aren't many books by TV photojournalists. Perhaps it's because we're generally...
Assignments: The Press Photographers' Association YearbookAssignments: The Press Photographers' Association Yearbook
Best Price: $60.10
The MennonitesThe Mennonites
Best Price: $40.82
Reviewing a photo book is extremely subjective. I first read this book 5 years ago when I...
Come and See: A Photojournalist's Journey into the World of Mother TeresaCome and See: A Photojournalist's Journey into the World of Mother Teresa
Best Price: $3.84
This is a wonderful book depicting classic scenes of the Mother Teresa of Calcutta. There are...
Rock Gods: Forty Years of Rock PhotographyRock Gods: Forty Years of Rock Photography
Best Price: $26.00
Rock Gods: Forty Years of Rock Photography is a coffee-table collection of black-and-white and...

In the Wake of Battle: The Civil War Images of Mathew BradyIn the Wake of Battle: The Civil War Images of Mathew Brady
Best Price: $79.00
What an valuable tome, Surley one of the most impressive collections of Civil War images ever...
A Year in Photography: Magnum ArchiveA Year in Photography: Magnum Archive
Best Price: $21.54
This book contains 365 images (thus the title 'a YEAR in photography') shot by the past...
Atget, Paris (Taschen 25th Anniversary Edition)Atget, Paris (Taschen 25th Anniversary Edition)
Best Price: $10.08
Score another beautifully done coffee table book of photography to Taschen's publishing...
RECORD PICTURES:  PHOTOGRAPHS FROM ARCHIVERECORD PICTURES: PHOTOGRAPHS FROM ARCHIVE
Best Price: $39.49
Before the invention of photography, civil engineers employed topographic artists to record the...
Christer Stromholm: Poste RestanteChrister Stromholm: Poste Restante
Originally published in 1967, Poste Restante has become one of the most collectible...

Wounded CitiesWounded Cities
Best Price: $25.00
One week before September 11, 2001, Leo Rubinfien, his wife and small children moved into a new...
FROM A SUMMER NOTEBOOKFROM A SUMMER NOTEBOOK
"Here are pages from a photographer's summer notebook, the sights he wishes to...
Black Star: 60 Years of Photojournalism (English, German and French Edition)Black Star: 60 Years of Photojournalism (English, German and French Edition)
Best Price: $18.96
"Black Star"? In this case Golden Stars! The book describes in images and text...
Sebastiao Salgado: The ChildrenSebastiao Salgado: The Children
Best Price: $69.99
In The Children: Refugees and Migrants , Sebastiano Salgado gives us portraits of children...
The encyclopædia of early photographyThe encyclopædia of early photography

Things As They Are: Photojournalism in Context Since 1955.Things As They Are: Photojournalism in Context Since 1955.American Photographers at the Turn of the Century: Travel and TrekkingAmerican Photographers at the Turn of the Century: Travel and Trekking
Best Price: $0.79
San Diego Tapestry (Urban Tapestry Series)San Diego Tapestry (Urban Tapestry Series)
Best Price: $6.36
Lisa Eisner: ShrinersLisa Eisner: Shriners
Best Price: $11.48
Grown men dressed in fezzes, driving mini-cars, and masquerading as clowns. You hear the word...
Proof: Ruminations on the EverydayProof: Ruminations on the Everyday
Best Price: $25.11
...I am PROOF's first reviewer! Simply stated, the book contains a selection of images...

Two of the Missing: Remembering Sean Flynn and Dana StoneTwo of the Missing: Remembering Sean Flynn and Dana Stone
Best Price: $15.95
This is an excellent book concerning the disappearance of Sean Flynn and Dana Stone,two...
Going Going Gone: Images of the Demolition of Yankee StadiumGoing Going Gone: Images of the Demolition of Yankee Stadium
Best Price: $24.77
Incredible Images of the Demolition of historic Yankee Stadium by Steve Spak.
Ciudad Juárez 2008 - 2010: A photographic testimony of our painCiudad Juárez 2008 - 2010: A photographic testimony of our pain
Best Price: $25.82
No nonsense portrayal of Ciudad Juarez' war against drugs. Photographs were carefully...
The Village (Da Capo Paperback)The Village (Da Capo Paperback)
Best Price: $138.84
This never-before-published book of photographs by Weegee the Famous (a.k.a. Arthur Fellig,...
Americanos / Latino Life in the United StatesAmericanos / Latino Life in the United States
Best Price: $34.44
I had the pleasure of hearing Mr. Olmos talk in person about the making of...

Larry Burrows: VietnamLarry Burrows: Vietnam
Best Price: $199.90
The First Air Cav, along with Burrows and a group of other reporters, was dropped into the hills...
El Salvador (DoubleTake Book)El Salvador (DoubleTake Book)
Best Price: $25.00
I would recommend this book to anyone who is moved by high quality documentary black and white...
Reuters: Our World Now 2 (v. 2)Reuters: Our World Now 2 (v. 2)
Best Price: $10.00
Reuters photojournalists submit some 1,500 photos a day, creating an annual archive of over half...
People I Have Shot: My Life As a News CameramanPeople I Have Shot: My Life As a News Cameraman
Best Price: $63.88
There aren't many books by TV photojournalists. Perhaps it's because we're generally...
Assignments: The Press Photographers' Association YearbookAssignments: The Press Photographers' Association Yearbook
Best Price: $60.10

The MennonitesThe Mennonites
Best Price: $40.82
Reviewing a photo book is extremely subjective. I first read this book 5 years ago when I...
River of Colour the India of Raghubir SinghRiver of Colour the India of Raghubir Singh
Best Price: $33.46
I first bought this book in its paperback edition... I was so taken by the photographs that on...
Ups and Downs of David BeckhamUps and Downs of David Beckham
Best Price: $17.99
Over 250 photographs chart the many ups and downs of David Beckham, from his famous sending off...
Songs Of EarthSongs Of Earth
Best Price: $38.92
This book is full of stirring images & words & makes a touching addition to your...
Silent MomentsSilent Moments
Best Price: $0.01
This 96-page gift book presents nearly 50 sublime photographs of winter scenes, specially...

An Invitation to DaydreamAn Invitation to Daydream
Best Price: $1.08
Magnificent black-and-white photography sets the mood for famous quotations and excerpts from...
Land of the Ascending Dragon: Rediscovering VietnamLand of the Ascending Dragon: Rediscovering Vietnam
Best Price: $93.44
Jack Smith's introduction says it all -- Vietnam is a beautiful, peaceful land that is going...
Nacho Lopez, Mexican Photographer (Visible Evidence)Nacho Lopez, Mexican Photographer (Visible Evidence)
Best Price: $74.97
Photographer Nacho López was Mexico's Eugene Smith, fusing social commitment with...
Australian Colors: Images of the OutbackAustralian Colors: Images of the Outback
Best Price: $127.50
This book is magic for people who, like me, love the Australian "outback" and...
You Have Seen Their FacesYou Have Seen Their Faces
Best Price: $20.96
A book is an interesting testimony of the poor people in the South in the 1930s. Some criticized...

The Nile (Bulfinch Press Book.)The Nile (Bulfinch Press Book.)
Best Price: $75.00
From the Nile's dual sources of the Red Nile and the White Nile, to its departure into the...
Ask DefterleriAsk Defterleri
Ottoman Art's Turkey, Ahned Hilmi, Sehbenderzade, Amak-i Hayal
MOTHER TERESA "IN"MOTHER TERESA "IN"
It has been 100 years since the birth of Mother Teresa. The whole world was astonished by the...
New York in the 70sNew York in the 70s
Best Price: $43.69
A unique and largely unseen picture of the excitement of New York in the 1970s Preface by Yoko...
Associated Press Guide to Photojournalism (Associated Press Handbooks)Associated Press Guide to Photojournalism (Associated Press Handbooks)
Best Price: $12.61
This is a great inside look at photojournalism as it is practiced by the photographers of the...

Doing Documentary Work (New York Public Library Lectures in Humanities)Doing Documentary Work (New York Public Library Lectures in Humanities)
Best Price: $11.33
Sitting in his study, William Carlos Williams once revealed to Robert Coles what he considered...
VietnamVietnam
Best Price: $189.56
Larry Burrows' photograph of the wounded soldiers reaching out in the mud, published in full...
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: A Photographer's Chronicle of the Iraq WarWhiskey Tango Foxtrot: A Photographer's Chronicle of the Iraq War
Best Price: $17.19
Caveats: I'm neither a photographer nor a journalist. Since reading Ashley's book,...
No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal DemocracyNo Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy
Best Price: $19.57
In No Caption Needed , Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites provide the definitive study of...
Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the FieldDaring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field
Best Price: $198.00
Anne Spirn's latest book is really quite outstanding. She combines the clear eye of a...
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