Here are my top 10 photography books in no particular order. These are my go to books and they are all well worth taking a look at. They cover a wide range of aspects of photography, and these are the books I find I keep going back to time and time again!
So take a look they may be just what you've been looking for?
My Top Ten Photography Books #10
Great For: A Great Read
Publisher : Thames and Hudson Ltd; 1st edition (15 July 2021)
Language : English
Paperback : 320 pages
ISBN-10 : 0500294283
ISBN-13 : 978-0500294284
This is a GREAT read of an amazing photographer who's life story reads like a Hollywood novel. From near death to vogue, from bohemian life to Hitler's bath tub.
immortalized by Steichen, Hoyningen-Huene, Horst and other famous photographers.
Lee Miller, 1929 - Paris: Protégé and lover of Man Ray, she invents with him the solarization technique of photography, develops into a brilliant Surrealist photographer, and plays the statue in Cocteau's film Blood of a Poet.
Lee Miller, 1939-45 - Europe: Living at times with her future husband, the painter Roland Penrose, she becomes a US war correspondent and covers the siege of St Malo and the liberation of Paris. Her photographs of Dachau concentration camp shock the world.
These are but three of the many lives of Lee Miller, intimately recorded here by her son, Antony Penrose. Featuring a selection of her finest work, including portraits of her friends Picasso, Ernst and Miró, Penrose’s tribute to his mother brings to life a uniquely talented woman and the turbulent times in which she lived.