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04: Photobooks


American Night (MACK)Paul Graham
In American Night, Paul Graham explores visibility and marginalization in America’s public spaces. Through overexposed street scenes and stark portraits, the book contrasts the unseen lives of the poor with glossy images of suburban comfort—revealing the quiet violence of what’s overlooked.


Uncommon Places: The Complete Works (Aperture)Stephen Shore
Originally published in 1982, Uncommon Places is a landmark in color photography, capturing the everyday landscapes of America with clarity and quiet intensity. Its influence on generations of photographers remains profound.



A New American Picture (Aperture)Doug Richard
Doug Rickard’s A New American Picture reimagines street photography through Google Street View, capturing overlooked corners of the U.S. with a detached, haunting lens. Familiar yet unsettling, it challenges authorship, surveillance, and the politics of visibility.



Wisdom Cries Out In The Streets (Flammarion)Louis Stettner
A poetic tribute to New York and Paris, Wisdom Cries in the Streets blends street photography with quiet humanism. Stettner captures fleeting gestures, workers, and everyday life with empathy, turning ordinary moments into enduring reflections on dignity and resilience.


Vivian Maier: Street Photographer (powerHouse  Books)


Vivian Maier
A powerful collection of Maier’s mid-century street work, this book reveals her uncanny eye for everyday moments—poetic, spontaneous, and deeply human. Discovered posthumously, her images have redefined the legacy of street photography.



Cinque Viaggi (1990-98) (MACK)
Guido Guidi
Across five journeys through northern Italy, Guidi captures quiet fragments of everyday life—suburban streets, shifting landscapes, and overlooked architecture. A meditative study of place, change, and photographic seeing.


Exteriors: Annie Ernaux and Photography (MACK)
Lou Stoppard (ed.)
Edited by Lou Stoppard, this book pairs Ernaux’s sharp urban observations with photographs by the likes of Winogrand and Moriyama. A lyrical dialogue between text and image, it captures fleeting moments of public life.




A Play of Light and Shadow (Hannibal)Ara Güler
Celebrating the legacy of “The Eye of Istanbul,” this monograph brings together Güler’s striking street photography—intimate portraits and cityscapes that document the soul of Turkey with poetic depth and journalistic precision.



Los Angeles x Shinjuku (Nazraeli Press)Daido Moriyama & Avo Tavitian
This collaborative book pairs Tavitian’s long-term study of Los Angeles with Moriyama’s gritty images of Tokyo’s Shinjuku. Both use 35mm film to capture fleeting urban moments, exploring identity and change through raw, spontaneous street photography.



The Cult of The Street (Emily Tsingou Gallery)Henry Bond
A provocative exploration of London's youth culture in the mid-1990s, The Cult of the Street juxtaposes fashion, identity, and voyeurism. Bond's candid images, often captured with a grainy, snapshot aesthetic, challenge the conventions of street photography, offering a critical commentary on consumerism and self-presentation.



Venise Out In (Nero)Julien Carreyn
A poetic exploration of Venice’s public streets and private interiors, Carreyn’s photobook contrasts atmospheric cityscapes with intimate views inside Palazzo Lezze Michiel, capturing a city caught between memory and change.


All Zones Off Peak (Dewi Lewis)
Tom Wood
Wood spent over fifteen years, and shot over 3,000 rolls of film photographing Liverpool and its people from a bus. It has been described as one of the most impressive achievements of recent British photography.


Hibi (MACK)Masahisa Fukase
A poetic meditation on urban texture and memory. In Hibi, Fukase blends images of Tokyo’s pavements, walls, and surfaces with abstract marks and imperfections—creating a haiku-like visual language that evokes absence, time, and the quiet tension of everyday life.


1995 (Vacuum Press)
阿部 淳 Jun Abe
This gently observant photobook captures life in Osaka during 1995 through Abe’s unhurried street portraits. Taken at a time of personal and cultural flux, these quiet images—neutral yet deeply expressive—reveal emotional pulses beneath everyday routines, echoing a sense of youthful discovery and charged spontaneity.


Street Photography Now (Thames & Hudson)
Sophie Howarth & Stephen McLaren 
An essential anthology of contemporary street photography, presenting 46 image-makers—including Bruce Gilden, Martin Parr, and Alex Webb—whose candid work captures the unexpected poetry of everyday life across global streets, subways, malls, and parks. Accompanied by four essays and a global conversation exploring the genre’s evolving issues and aesthetics

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