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Click! The Art of Photography

On this list, and on our shelves, you will find books which instruct and inform and works that are true feasts for the eyes. You can even find books to help you up your Instagram game. Expose yourself to a great photography book!

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  • This guide teaches you how to take the best possible photo in any situation with clear, step-by-step guidance from photographer Tom Ang. Includes instructions on what equipment you will need, the best approach for each subject, how to compose your…
    Book, 2025New York, NY : DK Publishing, 2025. — 775 ANG
  • Queer Lens

    a History of Photography

    Queer Lens: A History of Photography is a survey of the history of photography by and about the members of the queer community and includes nearly three hundred photographs as well as essays by scholars and artists.
    Book, 2025Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, [2025] — 778.928 QUEER
  • Cathedrals of Industry

    Exploring the Factories and Infrastructure That Made America

    Horowitz, Michael L., 1952-
    American culture and politics are shot through with nostalgia for the country's industrial past, a time when we actually made things--physical things, not patterns of bits and bytes. But what did this past actually look like? Photographer Michael L.…
    Book, 2024New York, NY : Abbeville Press, [2024] — 779.473 HOROW
  • With a unique creative process that combines candid wildlife photography with digital manipulation, cinematic drama and a painterly approach, Simen Johan summons a metaphorically dense world into being where human fantasy and nature collide.
    Book, 2023Brooklyn, NY : powerHouse Books, [2023] — 778.93 JOHAN
  • Breathing Space

    Iranian Women Photographers

    Breathing Space showcases the work of twenty-three women photographers from Iran and their diverse approaches to their craft. Exploring a range of photographic styles and genres, they record the past and present upheavals of their homeland as well…
    Book, 2023London : Thames & Hudson, 2023. — 779.0922 ESPAC
  • This visually arresting book charts a global history of street photography, from its inception to today, through the most candid, immediate and provocative images captured by the genre's biggest names.
    Book, 2021Munich ; New York : Prestel, [2021] — 779.4 GIBSO
  • America the Beautiful

    a Story in Photographs

    America the Beautiful showcases the stunning spaces closest to our nation's heart--from the woods in the Great Appalachian Valley to the breathtaking sweep of California's Big Sur coast to the wilds of Alaska. It also celebrates the people who have…
    Book, 2020Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, [2020] — 770.092 AMERI
  • Glory

    Magical Visions of Black Beauty

    Bethencourt, Kahran,
    "GLORY" shatters the conventional standards of beauty for Black children. With stunning images of natural hair and gorgeous, inventive visual storytelling, "GLORY" puts Black beauty front and center with more than 100 breathtaking photographs and a…
    Book, 2020New York : St. Martin's Press, [2020] — 779.2089 BETHE
  • Women's Work

    Stories From Pioneering Women Shaping Our Workforce

    Crisman, Chris,
    With "Women's Work," Chris Crisman pairs his portrait photography of women on the job with interviews of his subjects: women who have carved out unique places for themselves in a workforce often dominated by men, and often dominated by men who have…
    Book, 2020New York : Simon & Schuster, 2020. — 779.24 CRISM
  • Whether at UFW picket lines in California's Central Valley or capturing summertime street life in East Harlem Latinx photographers have documented fights for dignity and justice as well as the daily lives of ordinary people. Their powerful,…
    Book, 2020Seattle : University Of Washington Press, 2020. — 770.9 FERRE
  • Academy Award, Tony Award, and Golden Globe Award winning performer, Joel Grey's early passion for flowers and plants helped form a life-long love for nature's beauty. Growing up adjoining an undeveloped parcel of land just outside of Cleveland,…
    Book, 2019Brooklyn, NY : powerHouse Books, 2019. — 779.343 GREY GREY
  • A milestone work that examines the democratic idea of photography and its expansion in common culture, particularly in the United States.
    Book, 2019Toronto, Canada : RIC Books ; Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2019] — 770.1 BRUNE
  • "Now You Can Take My Picture" brings to life the travels and photography of local author Mike Harris. Mike and his wife Sally seek out places to travel where they can interact with people whose lives and cultures are different from their own. They…
    Book, 2022Greenwich. Connecticut : Mike Harris Photography, 2022. — 779.9973 HARRI
  • The Art of Birds

    Grace and Motion in the Wild

    Miller, Jim,
    In photographs that surprise with their eye-catching composition and amaze with their detail, Jim Miller captures the beauty of birds as most people never see them, encouraging viewers to marvel at the elegant combination of form and function in…
    Book, 2021Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, [2021] — 778.9328 MILLE
  • For nearly forty years Joel Meyerowitz has tended his visual garden in the streets and parks and cities he has visited or lived in. He goes out into the streets open-eyed and passionate. These walks gave shape to new territory for him, which he…
    Book, 2021Bologna : Damiani, 2021. — 779 MEYER MEYER
  • Slow Roads America

    Photographs and Tales From the Nation's Back Roads

    Park, Jerry
    Many years, road miles, motel nights, and flights in the making, Jerry Park's book takes you down the back roads that knit this expansive land together in an endless variety of scenery, folk, and story. Park stays away from the celebrated icons of…
    Book, 2021Franklin, TN : Clovercroft Publishing, 2021. — 917.304 PARK
  • Picture Perfect Food

    Master the Art of Food Photography With 52 Bite-sized Tutorials

    Simon, Joanie,
    Whether you're an up-and-coming food blogger, looking to break into commercial photography or capturing food just for fun (and your Instagram account), this approachable collection of tutorials will have you taking tantalizing and tasty shots with…
    Book, 2021Salem, Mass. : Page Street Publishing, [2021] — 778.9964 SIMON
  • In this book, Michael Stipe explores strength, courage and vulnerability, pausing the project abruptly due to the COVID-19 pandemic. What follows is a lockdown interpretation of a 21st-century portrait, with a resolute desire to show our resilience,…
    Book, 2021Bologna : Damiani, 2021. — 779.092 STIPE
  • Splash

    : the Art of the Swimming Pool

    Kelly, Annie, 1953-
    Ranging from beautifully landscaped backyards to dramatic beaches and tropical paradise surroundings, the stunning pool locales show creative examples of pools as architecture and organic forms.
    Book, 2019New York, New York : Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 2019. — 779.9728 KELLY
  • Naomi Rosenblum's classic history of photography traces the evolution of this young art form chronologically and thematically. Exploring the diverse roles that photography has played in the communication of ideas, Rosenblum devotes special attention…
    Book, 2019New York : Abbeville Press Publishers, 2019. — 770.9 ROSEN