Books by or about photographers

[Farside]

The discussion on Ansel Adams sparked off a train of thought.
Books that have left an impression on you.

I'll kick it off with Tim Page's "'Nam".
The sheer rawness of the images does it for me. When reading it one cannot ever forget this image, that image was taken deep in the middle of the first war to be photographed without restriction - a lesson the military learned the hard way. Just look at how "news-managed" the Falklands Conflict was in comparison.

Some of the images are brutal poetry, some are just snapshots taken in the hope something would come out, I've no doubt, but all of them have an intensity the leaps off the page.
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Dave

The Lenses of Farside

"The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and
prosperity is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the ambitious,
arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism."

-- Czech President Vaclav Klaus