What are the must have books in your opinion it would be interesting to see common titles on different peoples lists.
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Wow! tough question.
Recommending photography books is such a personal thing, but FWIW here's my attempt (in no particular order except the one in which they sprung into my head) split into general, 'how to' & retrospective photobooks titles, and monographs.
1. Colin Westerbeck & Joel Meyerowitz - Bystander: A History of Street Photography (the hardback edition)
2. Martin Parr & Gerry Badger - The Photobook: A History Vol. 1 (and the second volume coming soon)
3. Martin Harrison - Young Meteors: British Photojournalism 1957-1965
4. Don McCullin - Unreasonable Behaviour: An Autobiography
5. Diane Arbus - Revelations
6. Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Man, the Image & the World
7. Roger Hicks & Frances Schultz - Perfect Exposure
8. Roger Hicks - A History of the 35mm Still Camera (long OOP, but turns up now & again)
9. Arthur Morris - The Art of Bird Photography
10. Five Thousand Days: Press Photography In A Changing World (photographs by members of the BPPA)
11. Don McCullin - Don McCullin
12. Fay Godwin - Landmarks
13. Jane Bown - Faces
14. Greg Marinovich & Joao Silva - The Bang-Bang Club
15. Reporting The World: John Pilger's Great Eyewitness Photographers
and...
1. Tom Stoddart - iWitness
2. Steve McCurry - South Southeast
3. Homer Sykes - On The Road Again
4. Denis Thorpe - On Home Ground
5. Robert Frank - The Americans
6. Ian Berry - The English
5. Stephen Shore - Uncommon Places
6. Alec Soth - Sleeping by the Mississippi
7. Josef Koudelka - Chaos
8. Lee Friedlander - Self Portrait
9. Garry Winogrand - The Animals
10. John Sexton - Places of Power
11. Michael Kenna - A Twenty Year Retrospective Vols. 1 & 2
12. Don McCullin in Africa
13. Robert Polidori - Zones of Exclusion: Pripyat and Chernobyl
14. William Eggleston's Guide
15. Sebastiao Salgado - Workers
I haven't seen the HCB DVD mentioned earlier, but would also recommend "War Photographer", the film about James Nachtwey