Beloit Photography and New Media

A list of must-read photo books recommended by photographer Bill Burke. 

1928 - Die Welt ist Schon by Albert Renger Patsch
1930 - Atget Photographe de Paris by Eugene Atget
1933 - Paris de Nuit by Brassaï
1936 - The English at Home by Bill Brandt
1937 - You Have Seen Their Faces by Margaret Bourke-White and Erskine Caldwell*
1937 - Beauty of the Olympic Struggle by Leni Reifenstahl
1938 - American Photographs by Walker Evans
1939 - An American Exodus by Dorothea Lange and Paul Taylor*
1939 - Changing New York by Bernice Abbott
1941 - Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by Walker Evans and James Agee
1945 - Naked City by Wegee
1952 - The Decisive Moment by Henri Cartier Bresson
1955 - The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Roy Decarava and Langston Hughes*
1959 - The Americans by Robert Frank
1959 - Jazz by Ed Van der Elsken
1961 - Perspective of Nudes by Bill Brandt
1964 - The End of the Game by Peter Beard*
1964 - A Way of Seeing by Helen Levitt
1966 - Many Are Called by Walker Evans
1966 - Every Building on Sunset Strip by Ed Rusche
1966 - Andy Warhol’s Index by Andy Warhol
1968 - The Bikeriders by Danny Lyon*
1969 - The Animals by Garry Winogrand
1970 - Anonyme Skulpturen by Bernd and Hilla Becher
1970 - East 100th St. by Bruce Davidson
1970 - Self Portrait by Lee Friedlander
1970 - Diary of a Century by Jacques Henri Lartigue
1971 - Tulsa by Larry Clark*
1971 - Conversations with the Dead by Danny Lyon*
1972 - Diane Arbus by Diane Arbus
1973 - Wisconsin Death Trip by Michael Lesy
1973 - Suburbia by Bill Owens
1974 - The New West by Robert Adams
1974 - The New Industrial Parks Near Irvine California by Lewis Baltz
1975 - Vagabond by Gaylord Herron*
1976 - William Eggleston’s Guide by William Eggleston
1976 - The American Monument by Lee Friedlander
1976 - Carnival Strippers by Susan Meiselas*
1977 - Evidence by Mike Mandel and Larry Sultan
1979 - Lisette Model by Lisette Model
1980 - Citizens of the Twentieth Century by August Sander
1982 - A Loud Song by Danny Semore*
1983 - Telex Iran by Gilles Peres*
1983 - The Lines of My Hand by Robert Frank*
1985 - Rich and Poor by Jim Goldberg*
1986 - The Ballad of Sexual Dependency by Nan Godlin*
1986 - O Rio de Janeiro by Bruce Weber
1986 - The Last Resort by Martin Parr
1991 - Fait by Sophie Ristelheuber
1994 - Menschlich by Christian Boltansky

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