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“The Decisive Moment” by Henri Cartier-Bresson

I recently bought a copy of the newly released Steidl reprint of The Decisive Moment by Henri Cartier-Bresson. Like many street photography acquaintances of mine, we attribute much of our early exposure to the genre of street photography to the work of Cartier-Bresson. The Decisive Moment is a book that I always wanted to be able to browse through but due...

“Two Rivers” by Carolyn Drake

Looking back at the photography books that I purchased last year, the one book that stands out above the rest is Carolyn Drake’s Two Rivers. The book was self-published through a successful crowd funding campaign on Kickstarter (see here) in 2 editions (700 copies for a standard edition and 50 copies for a special edition). The blurb from...