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12 Best Street Photography Books

Goal: Find the best Street Photography books according to the internet (not just one person's opinion).

Method:

  1. Search for "best street photography books" and study the top 5+ pages.
  2. Add only the books mentioned 2+ times.
  3. Rank the results neatly here.

12 Best Street Photography Books

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1

Magnum Contact Sheets

by Kristen Lubben

2

Street Photography Now

by Sophie Howarth

3

Bystander

A History of Street Photography

by Colin Westerbeck

4

The Decisive Moment

by Henri Cartier-Bresson

5

The Americans

by Robert Frank

6

The Mind's Eye

Writings on Photography and Photographers

by Henri Cartier-Bresson

7

The Suffering of Light

by Alex Webb

8

Vivian Maier

Street Photographer

by Vivian Maier

9

Daido Moriyama

How I Take Photographs

by Daido Moriyama

10

Road to Seeing

by Dan Winters

11

Street. Life. Photography

Seven Decades of Street Photography

by Kehrer

12

Winogrand

Figments From The Real World

by Garry Winogrand

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Edited by

Richard Reis

Software engineer whose passion for tracking book recommendations from podcasts inspired the creation of MRB.

Anurag Ramdasan

Lead investor at 3one4 Capital whose startup expertise and love for books helped shaped MRB and its growth.

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