Okay. I acknowledge I was being a bit of a dick with my wording before but I'm going to try and answer these bluntly.
>>3694771>These books are for the people who are interested in theoretical and philosophical of this art mediumYou're saying this like photo books aren't capable of teaching others about those things and that's just not true.
>Can you recommend me some?Yeah sure. Here are some that I would consider very much entry level as in that they are typically canon for what a first year photography student will be shown (hopefully, in person) and been lectured to some degree on their relevance, withstanding that their program wasn't dog shit:
Robert Frank - The Americans
Alec Soth - Sleeping By the Mississippi
John Skarwoski; William Eggleston - Eggleston's Guide
Henry-Cartier-Bresson - The Decisive Moment
Philip Lorca-diCorcia - Hustlers
Martin Parr - Small World
Diane Arbus - Revelations
Josef Koudelka - Invasion 68 Prague
Here are some more, they're still very entry level imo (but that's probably me gatekeeping), borderline canon at this point in terms of 'essential reading'. I think every MFA i know personally owns at least most of these or would want to:
Paul Graham - A Shimmer of Possibility
Hitoshi Sugimoto - Theaters
Weegee - Naked City
Todd Hido - House Hunting
Nan Goldin - The Ballad of Sexual Dependency
Paul Fusco - RFK Funeral Train
If you'd like some more contemporary recommendations, or even super 'up-to-date' takes on who some fascinating young photographers are, working right now, let me know.
>>3695085>You're full of it. Photobooks will teach nobody nothing.Objectively not true. You have no idea what you are talking about. Dissecting and analyzing photobooks is quite literally one of the big components of fine art photography education. The other being formal critiques and learning how to plan and sequence a project.
