"Life is Good & Good For You In New York" by William Klein
This is the 5th book published by Errata Editions as part of their Books On Books series. Here's a bit of the Amazon product description:
William Klein's Life is Good & Good for You in New York is regarded as one of the most influential and groundbreaking photo-books created in the last half-century. Published in 1956, its visual energy captured the rough-and-tumble streets of New York-a city Klein once described as "the world capital of anguish"-like no photo-book had done before or since.
Errata Editions' Books on Books series is an ongoing publishing project dedicated to making rare and out-of-print photography books accessible to students and photobook enthusiasts. These are not reprints or facsimiles but complete studies of the original books.
"Working From Memory" by William Christenberry
This is a lovely book full of stories by the photographer himself. Amazon says:
Working from Memory is a collection of stories by the renowned photographer, painter and sculptor William Christenberry. Based on conversations with author and critic Susanne Lange, these stories elaborate the artist's memories of the Deep South, in whose rich literary tradition they are steeped. In a lyrical but lucid prose, they set personal experience against the backdrop of important political and cultural moments in the southern states, endowing that landscape with a vividness that will be familiar to fans of the artist's photography. Christenberry's own photographs accompany these tales.
The above two books are just a couple of the numerous publications I recommend,not only to photo enthusiasts but to anyone interested in art and creativity.
