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In the Vernacular: Photography of the Everyday

by: Stacey McCarroll Cutshaw, Ross Barrett
Since the inception of photography in the early nineteenth century, photographs have been made, used, collected, and discarded in greatly increasing numbers. Despite the photograph's persistence in daily life, until recently most types of everyday photography have remained unexamined by historians and have been absent from the walls of galleries and museums. In response to this omission, some scholars have begun to consider photography as a "vernacular" practice. This reframing of the history of photography serves as the starting point for .
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The Face in the Lens: Anonymous Photographs

by: Robert Flynn Johnson, Alexander McCall Smith
I've got an entire wall of built-in bookcases filled with remarkable collections of anonymous photographs. This is one of the best such collections. My favorite has always been the volume entitled "America's Yesterdays: Images of Our Lost Past Discovered in the Photography Achieves of the Library of Congress" by Oliver Ormerod, Jensen. The only photographic collection I like better is "The Family of Man" a collection by Edward Steichen made for the Museum of Modern Art in the mid-1950s. However, in the "Family of Man" we know who the photographers were, so maybe that's not a fair comparison.
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Who We Were: A Snapshot History of America

by: Michael Williams, Richard Cahan, Nicholas Osborn
As a collector of vintage snapshots, I am always looking for books that contain a variety of snapshot examples along with detailed descriptions and quality reproductions. This book makes the grade in that respect. The photo illustrations are very high quality and the author does a great job providing the right amount of detail about each of the snapshots in the captions. Well organized throughout. One of my favorite books on this subject. Highly recommended.
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The Graphic Eye: Photographs by Graphic Designers from around the Globe

by: Stefan G. Bucher
in 2009, adrian shaughnessy and tony brook gave us a rare glimpse into the studios of graphic designers. stefan bucher gave us something much more intimate: an insight into their minds.

"the graphic eye" is not about people who set up a darkroom, painstakingly preparing the perfect shot. this is not a compilation of professional photographers' work.
this book is about people who follow their hearts (and trigger fingers). they show us what interests them, take pictures which expose their obsessions, tell us a story, reveal something intriguing and sometimes take a photograph just because it looks beautiful.
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