Photography books
This is one of a series of reading lists I put together between 2002 and 2004 when I was starting out in interaction and experience design. Photography has always run parallel to my design practice, and this list is the shelf I was building then: theory, practice, and the monographs I was learning from.
Berger’s two books, Ways of Seeing and Another Way of Telling (the latter with Jean Mohr), are the essential reading. Mitchell’s The Reconfigured Eye is the clearest book on what photography became when it went digital. Hockney’s Cameraworks is the photographer’s-eye-view on composite image-making. The rest are monographs I was returning to: Graham, Gursky, Shulman on Modernism.
The Amazon links below are what I had at the time, most will be dead now, but the ISBNs will find you a copy.
Another Way of Telling
John Berger, Jean Mohr.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com
Ways of Seeing
John Berger.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com
The Reconfigured Eye
William J. Mitchell.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com
In Our Own Image
Fred Ritchin.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com
Paul Graham
Paul Graham, Andrew Wilson.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com
Andreas Gursky: Photographs from 1984 to the Present
Marie Luise Syring et al.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com
Modernism Rediscovered
Pierluigi Serraino, Julius Shulman.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com
Cameraworks
David Hockney.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com
Lomo: Just Shoot
Fabian Monheim.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com