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Books about Photographers
alive
Dead Trees
and what they can teach you about
photography.
by Philip Greenspun
● To be inspired by how much
photojournalism can change your mind,
start with a trio by Peter Menzel and Faith
D'Aluisio: Material World : A Global
Family Portrait, Women in the Material
World, Man Eating Bugs : The Art and
There is no frigate like a book
To take us lands away,
Nor any coursers like a page
Of prancing poetry.
This traverse may the poorest take
Without oppress of toll;
How frugal is the chariot
That bears a human soul!
-- "A Book" by Emily Dickinson
Science of Eating Insects (it probably won't change your mind but the duo's Robo sapiens:
Evolution of a New Species is also fun)
● Mary Ellen Mark : American Odyssey, 1963-1999 contains a poem by Maya Angelou ending in
"we are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike". If you're an insurance salesman or a
computer programmer, the photographs will contradict Ms. Angelou's point rather dramatically.
● Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Artless Art is a reasonable place to start exploring Cartier-
Bresson's work, though any of his books are worth having, e.g., Europeans
http://www.photo.net/books/ (1 of 20)7/3/2005 2:23:26 AM