by Phaidon Press
Surprisingly, this is a great source of cultural literacy. These Books of Stuff can be lazily cobbled together from whatever is lying around, but this one is well worth reading. The contextualising commentary accompanying each photograph is very helpful and almost every image in this book is captiva...
I carried this book across several countries for months at a time. It was lighter than my SLR, which had a pointless, ridiculously long zoom. Having portable examples of great photography to flip through again and again noticeably improved my photos. Are there other portable guides like it?
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