Street Photography Is Cool
By: John Lewell
A major new work by the editor of Photo Start Sheet and Street Photo Index. Hey, that's why it's top of the list. You won't be disappointed! He says it's his best book.
Kindle, 428 pages
Street Photography: Document Your World
By: Andrew "Fundy" Funderburg
His focus is on "the characters that make a town truly come alive," the bartenders, waiters, street vendors, lifetime residents, and even the homeless, all of whom are recorded in great b&w shots.
Paperback, 128 pages
100 Great Street Photographs
By: David Gibson
This 2017 book by one of the founders of the street photography collective In-Public offers a cross-section of today's street photography with 100 inspiring photos from around the world.
Hardcover, 208 pages
Bystander: A History of Street Photography
By: Colin Westerbeck & Joel Meyerovitz
First published in 1994, Bystander is one of the key works on street photography, written by an art historian and a well-known street photographer and now available in a new edition.
Hardcover, 400 pages
Street Photography: From Atget to Cartier-Bresson
By: Clive Scott
A survey of the early years of street photography, from Atget (or Brassai, according to Amazon) to Cartier-Bresson, by Professor Scott, including Kertesz, Bovis, René-Jacques, and Doisneau.
Paperback, 233 pages
Mastering Street Photography
By: Brian Lloyd Duckett
A practical guide to capturing candid and dramatic moments on the street, from StreetSnappers tutor Brian Lloyd Duckett. It includes the art of building an audience for your images.
Paperback, 176 pages
Street Photography: A Concise Guide
By: Anne Darling
A brief how-to guide, covering equipment and techniques, using light, candid versus posed portraits, plus plenty of tips.
Kindle Edition, 96 pages
Street Photography Now
By: Sophie Howarth & Stephen McLaren
Still relevant, if not still "now," this 2011 book remains in print due to popular demand. It looks at the work of forty-six well-known and less well-known image-makers.
Paperback, 240 pages
Street Photography: The Complete Guide
By: Kit Sadgrove
First published in 2012 when it was claimed to be the first "how-to" book on street photography, authored by the distance learning entrepreneur behind www.inst.org.
Paperback, 90 pages
Street Photography
By: Tom Young
Scarcely a book, more like a pamphlet with 2 pictures on each A5 size. Not inexpensive. By Canadian photographer, a member of Observe collective.
Paperback, 24 pages
The Street Photographer's Manual
By: David Gibson
All about the possibilities of street photography and the various ways you can approach the genre. Plus an introduction to 20 famous street photographers, including Bruce Gilden, Alex Webb, Nils Jorgensen and Saul Leiter.
Paperback, 192 pages
The World Atlas of Street Photography
By: Jackie Higgins
By the author of "Why It Does Not Have To Be In Focus: Modern Photography Explained," a look at the work of 100 established and emerging photographers.
Hardcover, 399 pages
American Colour 1962-1965
By: Tony Ray Jones
From the outstanding British street photographer of the 1960s, images from the USA, with an introduction by Liz Jobey.
Hardcover, 80 pages
Grim Street
By: Mark Cohen
A collection of Americana from the streets of Wilkes-Barre, the Pennsylvania mine-town where Cohen lives. His pictures are described by Vince Aletti writing in The Village Voice, as "jarringly unique, and much imitated."
Hardcover, 176 pages
Alex Webb: La Calle: Photographs from Mexico
By: Alex Webb
Street photographer Alex Webb worked in Mexico throughout the 1980s and '90s and his photos capture the mystery, passion, exhuberance and colour of the Mexican scene at that time.
Hardcover, 156 pages
Personal Best
By: Elliott Erwitt
A curated retrospective of Elliott Erwitt's work, originally published as a large format hardcover in 2006 but now issued in a less expensive edition.
Hardcover, 448 pages
Stephen Shore: Uncommon Places: The Complete Works
By: Stephen Shore
Originally published in 1982, this new edition features 15 previously unseen images. Roads, cars -- not precisely "street photography" -- but a classic and evocative work with dozens of mostly empty streets.
Hardcover, 208 pages
Street Photography
By: Shinzo Shinjo
Street photography by Japanese photographer Shinzo Shinjo.
Paperback, 84 pages
Bruce Davidson: Subway
By: Bruce Davidson
First published by Aperture in 1986, this third, 2011 edition gives more readers a chance to view the photographer's strobe-lit images of people in the New York subway.
Hardcover, 135 pages
The Americans
By: Robert Frank
With an introduction by Jack Kerouac, Robert Frank's classic of b/w street and documentary photography is a must for any library. First published in France in 1958 and now in many editions, inc. Chinese.
Hardcover, 180 pages
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Decisive Moment
By: Henri Cartier-Bresson
First published in 1952, the seminal work that has inspired generations of street photographers. This edition is an exact facsimile of the original, including the Matisse cover, but with an additional essay on its history by Centre Pompidou curator Clément Chéroux.
Hardcover, 160 pages
The Eyes of the City
By: Richard Sandler
Photos taken in New York City -- plus some from Boston -- between 1977 and September 11, 2001. "A tribute to the unrecognized ghosts of New York's past." - i-D Magazine
Hardcover, 200 pages
Alex Webb: The Suffering of Light
By: Alex Webb
The Suffering of Light: Thirty Years of Photographs by Alex Webb is a mix of street photography, photojournalism and fine art. Highly regarded.
Hardcover, 204 pages
Where I Find Myself
By: Colin Westerbeck and Joel Meyerowitz
The first major single book retrospective of the legendary street photographer, one of the pioneers of colour photography in the 1970s.
Hardcover, 352 pages
Street: New York City 70s, 80s, 90s
By: Carrie Boretz and Vivian Gornick
Photos taken by Carrie Boretz in New York City from the mid-1970s through the 1990s, with text by American critic, essayist, and memoirist Vivian Gornick.
Hardcover, 136 pages
Mean Streets: NYC 1970-1985
By: Ed Grazda
Collected here in print for the first time, the gritty street photos of Ed Grazda, showing what NYC looked like in the late 1970s and early 80s.
Hardcover, 112 pages
Vivian Maier: Street Photographer
By: Geoff Dyer
The extraordinary story of Vivian Maier, the professional nanny who took 100,000 photographs in Europe and the U.S. yet remained unknown until the purchase of her archive by John Maloof.
Hardcover, 128 pages
William Eggleston's Guide
By: John Szarkowski
The first one-man show of colour photographs to be presented at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. 48 images edited down from 375 shot between 1969 and 1971.
Hardcover, 112 pages
William Eggleston Portraits
By: Phillip Prodger and Sofia Coppola
Eggleston's amazing portraits from the 1950s to the present day, including famous works from his 1970s Memphis club period. Contains a series of interviews with the photographer and his close family.
Hardcover, 184 pages
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