20 Books of Photography

Photographer: Margaret Bourke-White
Author: Sean Callahan
Publisher: Bulfinch Press
Title: Margaret Bourke-White
Photo: Terminal Tower, Cleveland, Ohio; I loved the way this photo looked painted in a way.

Photographer: Robert Capa
Publisher: Aperture
Title: Robert Capa
Photo: U.S. Forces en route to Naples, September 1943; The complexity of everything in the photo mixed with the simple line of soldiers was really interesting to see.

Photographer: Weegee
Publisher: Aperture
Title: Weegee
Photo: Party 1947; It's hilarious because I have no clue what's going on in the photo.

 Photographer: Edward Weston
Publisher: Aperture
Title: Edward Weston
Photo: Succulent, 1930; I loved the intricacy of the light and shadow in this photo

Photographer: Ansel Adams
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Title: Ansel Adams in Color
Photo: Wainiha Bay, North Shore of the Island of Kauaii, Hawaii; I literally can't get enough of Ansel Adam's photography.

Photographer: Alfred Steiglitz
Publisher: Aperture
Title: Alfred Steiglitz
Photo: Charles Demuth, 1915; This photo made me feel almost uneasy.

Photographer: August Sader
Publisher: Aperture
Title: August Sader
Photo: Prizewinners Westerwald, 1927; It's an interesting photo bit his whole series of different job photos is what drew me in.

Photographer: Eikoh Hosoe
Publisher: Aperture
Title: Eikoh Hosoe
Photo: Kamaitachi #8, 1965; The lines in this photo are beautiful and it also draws you to the guy wondering what he's doing.

Photographer: Paul Strand
Publisher: Aperture
Title: Paul Strand
Photo: Tir a'Mburain, South Vis, The Brides, 1954; I love the contrast in this photo.

Photographer: Harry Callahan
Publisher: Aperture
Title: Harry Callahan
Photo: Chicago, 1953; I love the symmetry in this photo.

Photographer: Manuel Alvarez Bravo
Publisher: Aperture
Title: Manuel Alvarez Bravo
Photo: Striking Worker, Assassinated, 1934; Honestly made me do a double take when scrolling through the photos. Extremely poignant and uncensored to the brutality of the real world.

Photographer: Robert Frank
Author: Jack Krovac
Publisher: Steidl
Title: The Americans
Photo: Crosses at Scene of Highway Accident, U.S. 91, Idaho; Just incredibly sad and almost a dreamy, depressing, nostalgic feeling. You get the feeling that a lot of pain and sadness happened here and now it sits there waiting for people to notice it.

Photographer: Man Ray
Publisher: Aperture
Title: Man Ray
Photo: Flowers, 1931; It almost looks fake or painted and give off a very drawn/painted art feel with a photograph.

Photographer: Lewis Hine
Author: Dover Publications
Title: Men at Work
Photo: The Mooring Mast, Men at Work; It shows America in a simpler time. It showed how there werent safety nets or anything, you just got up and did your job.

Photographer: Imogen Cunningham
Author: Richard Lorenz
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Title: Ideas Without End
Photo: On Mount Rainier, 1912; The flowery lines are nearly mesmerizing.

Photographer: Andre Kertesz
Publisher: Aperture
Title: Andre Kertesz
Photo: Rainy Day, Tokyo, 1968; It's nearly a metaphor for conformism.

Photographer: Josiah Johnson Hanes
Author: Rachel Hanes
Publisher: Barre Publishers
Title: Josiah Johnson Hanes
Photo: Philips Street School, ~1860; I liked this photo because that's where the Boston Public Library is now and I've been there.

Photographer: Tina Modotti
Publisher: Aperture
Title: Tina Modotti
Photo: German Youth Group; To think they started out so young, it was a powerful statement to Germany's power and how young people started to see nationalism.

Photographer: Jerry Uelsmann
Publisher: Bulfinch Press
Title: Other Realities
Photo: Memories of Max Ernst; Just.. what?

Photographer: Jacob Riis
Author: Richard Locayo & George Russell
Publisher: TIME
Title: Eyewitness
Photo: Street Arabs at Night, 1889; This photo was so emotionally striking at first and then you get drawn into the details on their faces and it's nearly heartbreaking.