Books like Robert Doisneau by Peter Hamilton

A seminal collection of essays by Susan Sontag that examines photography’s history, meaning and role in capitalist societies.

A curated collection of Diane Arbus’s most striking photographs, edited by her sister Doon Arbus and Marvin Israel, offering insight into her unique view of American life and her powerful portrait work.

A photographic portrait of New York City’s residents, capturing ordinary lives in extraordinary moments.

An illustrated autobiography about Ansel Adams’ dedication, adventures, and achievements in landscape photography and environmental conservation in the United States National Parks. This book focuses on Adams' wisdom and concern for human beings and nature.

A portrait collection of over 200 images by Imogen Cunningham, showcasing her pioneering work in photography, many never before published, alongside commentary on her style and influence.

"Conceived as an exhibition for MoMA in New York in 1955, with a catalogue published both by Maco Magazine Corporation and Simon and Schuster, The Family of Man has been heavily criticized, usually for its sentimentality and its disingenuous simplicity. Although indeed sentimental, The Family of Man was not as simple as it looked. ... The de-politicization of the photography was in fact a calculated piece of political image-making, stating that American values were the only universal values, and that the world could be one big happy family under the beneficent guidance of Uncle Sam. ... One of the ironic aspects of the project is the way its whole aesthetic derives from those German and Soviet exhibitions and propaganda books of the 1930s. The sententious tone, the grim determinism, the tendentious ideological stance, even the design, place The Family of Man in the propagandist mode of modernism rather than in the utopian wing to which it nominally aspires. Nevertheless, and this is an important point, it contains many fine photographs."--The Photobook : A History Volume II / Martin Parr and Gerry Badger. London : Phaidon, 2004.

A comprehensive visual and critical anthology of Diane Arbus’s work, featuring 200 duotone images, unpublished works, and essays that explore her photographic techniques and legacy.