I often receive requests from readers and workshop participants alike for additional resources that can inform their development as photographers. As such, I have put together this resources page that compiles my recommendations for books, courses, films, and recommended dealers that have informed my work and can enrich yours as well.

 

ºBook List

• Portraits

• Street Work

• Design

• Artists

• Lives of Artists

 

ºArt Training for Non-Artists

 

ºFilm Makers

• Wes Anderson

 

Book List

Portraits

• Tete a Tete

• Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photoportraits

• A Greek Portfolio

• Arnold Newman

• Richard Avedon Portraits

• A Photographer’s Life: 1990-2005

 

Street Work

• Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photographer

• W. Eugene Smith: Masters of Photography (Aperture Masters of Photography)

• Sightwalk

• Alex Webb

• Werner Bischof

 

Design

• A Treatise on Painting (Dover Fine Art, History of Art)

• The Elements of Dynamic Symmetry (Dover Art Instruction)

• The Painter’s Secret Geometry: A Study of Composition in Art (Dover Books on Fine Art)

• Alphonse Mucha: Lectures on Art

This book is out of print, but you may be able to find it offline or check Abe Books, which is a great resource for rare and out-of-print books. 

• Andre Lhote: A Treatise on Landscape Painting

This book is also out of print, but you may be able to find it offline or check Abe Books, which is a great resource for rare and out-of-print books.

• The Book of a Hundred Hands (Dover Anatomy for Artists)

• The Seven Laws of Folds

• The Complete Guide to Anatomy for Artists & Illustrators: Drawing the Human Form

 

Artists

• Georges Seurat: The Drawings

• Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

• Jacques Louis David

• Edgar Degas

• Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

• Chuck Close

• Gregory Crewdson

 

Lives of Artists

• Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling by Ross King

• Leonardo and The Last Supper by Ross King

• Brunelleschi’s Dome by Ross King

• Caravaggio: A Life Sacred & Profane by Andrew Graham Dixon

• Rembrandt’s Eye’s by Simon Schama

• Chuck Close: Up Close by Jan Greenberg

• Painting Below Zero: Notes on a Life in Art by James Rosenquist

• Painted Word by Tom Wolfe

 

Art Training for Non-Artists

• Myron Barnstone DVD series: Drawing (10 classes), Figure Drawing (1 class), & Color Theory (6 classes)

 

Film Makers

Wes Anderson

• Life Aquatic

• Royal Tenenbaums

• Darjeeling Limited

 

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