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What are the 'must read' books for a photojournalist?
The Brooks Institute of Photography and the members of SportsShooter.com have put this list of photojournalism books together. Books of all types, shapes, and sizes are listed, reviewed and rated. What's on your bookshelf?
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Most Recently Updated
Item Updated Updated By Comments Current Rating
The Hot Shoe Diaries: Creative Applications of Small Flashes 10/28/09 Oliver Yu 3 10
Best Business Practices for Photographers, Second Edition 10/08/09 Staff 0 0
The Wonder Years: Portraits of Athletes Who Never Slow Down 07/24/09 David G. McIntyre 1 10
Sports Illustrated Slide Show 07/17/09 Mike O'Bryon 8 9.88
Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans, Expanded Edition 05/26/09 Staff 0 0
Dan Winters: Periodical Photographs 05/21/09 Staff 0 0
Freeze Frame 05/14/09 Staff 0 0
Coco Chanel: Three Weeks/1962 05/14/09 Staff 0 0
Slap Shot 05/13/09 Mark Webster 10 10
Yankee Colors: The Glory Years of the Mantle Era 05/05/09 Brad Mangin 1 10
The Photographic Essay: William Albert Allard 03/16/09 Rafael Agustin Delgado 7 9.86
Slightly out of Focus  03/16/09 Rafael Agustin Delgado 5 8.80
Trust: Photographs of Jim Marshall 02/14/09 Staff 0 0
The Official Barack Obama Inaugural Book 02/08/09 Staff 0 0
Soul Rebel: An Intimate Portrait of Bob Marley in Jamaica and Beyond 02/08/09 Staff 0 0

Most Popular   [according to member ratings]
Item Votes Current Rating
Slap Shot 10 10
The Great Picture Hunt 2 7 10
Larry Burrows: Vietnam 6 10
The Rise of Barack Obama 6 10
Truth Needs No Ally: Inside Photojournalism 6 10
Magnum: Fifty Years at the Front Line of History: The Story of the Legendary Photo Agency 5 10
Athlete 5 10
Rear Window 4 10
City of God 4 10
Classic Baseball: The Photographs of Walter Iooss Jr. 4 10
Self-Portrait: U.S.A., The National Conventions, Miami Beach and Chicago 3 10
A Choice of Weapons 3 10
Jim Marshall: Proof 3 10
The Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers 3 10
Workers: An Archaeology of the Industrial Age 3 10
The Hot Shoe Diaries: Creative Applications of Small Flashes 3 10
Breaking Away 2 10
Bystander: A History of Street Photography 2 10
Evidence of My Existence 2 10
The Game for All America 2 10
Game Faces: A Collection of Our Greatest Baseball Portraits 2 10
Dust to Glory 2 10
Chased by the Light: A 90-Day Journey 2 10
Eyes of the Storm: The Story in Pictures of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita 2 10
Picture This!: The Inside Story and Classic Photos of UPI Newspictures 2 10

What students are reading   [provided by Brooks Institute of Photography]
Title Author Votes Rating
Photojournalism, The Professional's Approach Kenneth Kobre 17 9.24
Associated Press Guide to Photojournalism Brian Horton 12 8.83
Witness in Our Time: Working Lives of Documentary Photographers Ken Light 1 10
Magnum: Fifty Years at the Front Line of History: The Story of the Legendary Photo Agency Russell Miller 5 10
My War Gone By, I Miss It So Anthony Loyd 1 7
Life Photographers: What They Saw John Loengard 6 8.83
Clinton: Portrait of Victory P.F. Bentley 1 9
I Shot New York Ralph Ginzburg 1 9
The Photographic Essay: William Albert Allard William Albert Allard 7 9.86
Get the Picture John G. Morris 2 8.5

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