The most popular photography books

Photography books offer two pleasures. Some collect the work of great photographers, to be looked at again and again. Others teach you to take better pictures, covering cameras, light, composition and editing. Whether you shoot on a phone or a professional camera, you will find something here.

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The Art Book
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The Art Book

Phaidon Press

1994 · 2006 edition

515 pages

Bonhoeffer
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Bonhoeffer

Eric Metaxas

Published 1994

624 pages

Camera Lucida
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Camera Lucida

Roland Barthes

1980 · 2020 edition

146 pages

Frida
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Frida

Hayden Herrera

1972 · 1983 edition

507 pages

M.C. Escher.
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M.C. Escher.

M. C. Escher, Woodward D. R.

1971 · 2011 edition

96 pages

Over the Top
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Over the Top

Jonathan Van Ness

Published 2019

273 pages

Iwo Jima
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Iwo Jima

James D. Bradley

2000 · 2006 edition

362 pages

Just My Type
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Just My Type

Simon Garfield

2010 · 2011 edition

384 pages

Entangled Life
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Entangled Life

Merlin Sheldrake

2020 · 2021 edition

358 pages

Istanbul
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Istanbul

Orhan Pamuk

Published 2005

400 pages