(Part 2) Best architectural photography books according to redditors
We found 220 Reddit comments discussing the best architectural photography books. We ranked the 135 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
These are what I've been reading lately:
The Art Of Japanese Joinery https://www.amazon.com/dp/0834815168/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_iu3lDbFDTNZHX
Modern Practical Joinery https://www.amazon.com/dp/0941936082/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_3u3lDbXBS44FG
The Unplugged Woodshop: Hand-Crafted Projects for the Home & Workshop https://www.amazon.com/dp/1600857639/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_Cv3lDb3AXFZK4
The Complete Manual of Woodworking: A Detailed Guide to Design, Techniques, and Tools for the Beginner and Expert https://www.amazon.com/dp/0679766111/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_MC3lDb1VJZAGN
And one from B&N
https://m.barnesandnoble.com/w/woodworking-wisdom-know-how-taunton-press/1122228678?ean=9780762465446
Throwback to 2014. Photos I've not seen before! Found them in photography book TOKYO INNOCENCE by Mika Ninagawa.
BABYMETAL BIG PORTRAIT
BABYMETAL SINGLE PORTRAITS
Cars
Photography
Comic Books 1, 2
Apple
LEGO's
American Football
PostSecret
Video Games
Vinyl
Warhol
Outdoors
Star Wars
Motorcycles
The Dark Knight
Paris
Interior Design
World Atlas
Banksy
Wes Anderson
Tribal Cultures
Playboy
Girls
Libraries
The Cosmos
The Beetles
Travel
Preppy
Steve McQueen
The Moon
Before getting into photography, my background was corporate IT (with a heavy emphasis on asset management, disaster preparedness & recovery).
First, I strongly recommend getting a copy of The DAM Book for Photographers. The latest edition is from 2009 so some of the software references are probably dated, but the concepts aren't bound to using any specific software.
Next - based on the content of the DAM book, I really recommend creating a folder structure for organizing your projects that don't rely heavily on software. (Cataloging software is great, and I love it, but you want a system that's scalable so that you can move to different software in the future if you want, and that's easy enough to stick to that you're not dead in the water if your catalog dies)
Unlike many photographers, the approach I use relies on assigning a serial number to each project rather than by date. This is not a new idea, and not mine by a long shot. But essentially, all of your files have metadata in them. If you want to organize by date, just sort the files by date.
By assigning a serial number to each project you're able to:
Each project gets a folder like so: [Serial Number]-[Project Description] such as:
00001-Project 1
00002-Client headshots
00003-Home Depot Campaign - Spring
Each image file has the project number, and then a frame number like so:
00001-0001.cr2
My RAW processing workflow is all in Capture One Pro, which lines up well with this project folder idea since that's basically a session - but it's easy to integrate this into Lightroom or ACDsee or Bridge et.
Once your structure is in place, then just pick a catalog system to index the directories as you add them for new shoots/projects and you're all set to go.
I really like NeoFinder (AbeMedia if you're a Windows user) since it's literally designed to index multiple hard drives, DVDs, and network drives to be searched offline... but if you stick to this folder structure then it doesn't matter what application you're using.
So, there are actually a couple of books about this that may be to your interest. You can either buy them (Amazon or Full Circle), or I'm pretty sure get a copy from one of the libraries.
I just have a casual interest in this stuff. You can find a lot of things online if you google something like “railroads in New Jersey” or check out the old threads on sites like railroad.net
Or you can start with the timeline here and google anything that seems interesting.
This book is pretty interesting too.
THIS might be exactly what you're looking for...
There are lots of great books on the history of Long Beach.
And all of Tim Grobaty's books are great.
It's a mix of gang culture that does not exist in other countries along a lack of social welfare saftey nets, the problem is not legal gun ownership.
Poverty begets criminals. If you can't make the money to survive on your own, and the government isn't giving you enough (foodstamps are good and all, but what if your kid needs to go to the hospital for surgery and you can't afford it?) A common way to get that money is mugging, usually with an illegally acquired gun, which in itself is a crime, and will eventually lead to a murder somewhere down the road.
Gang culture is something I'm not super familiar with, I had incidents as a kid where my families car windows were smashed in or graffiti was all over our school/house, but I was not old enough to remember it a lot by the time my family moved out of that area of where we lived. I can't really comment on it too much, but I do know it relates to a lack of family and the need to belong. It also leads to a lot of gang on gang violence and murders (with illegally acquired guns) and apparently even desensitized these gangs to the idea of killing children (according to the book Our America.) The police will often ignore these areas because they are incredibly dangerous. Poverty and gang culture is most found in the black community, although there are whites and other minorities in gangs, because of the legalized racial oppression found in certain parts of the country and social racial oppression in other parts of the country until the 60s/70s, it still continues to this day to a smaller extent.
It is actually not a big problem for most people in the country, as most states and cities are comparable to other first world countries when it comes to murder or other violent crime. The violence skyrockets because of the ghettos in a few big cities, which is caused by a lack of safety nets and the slow recovery of the black community and not because of the legal ownership of guns by many citizens.
[Bound to be Read Books] (http://www.boundtobereadbooks.com) in East Atlanta has a nice little Atlanta history section, from what I recall.
Also, these are definitely not coffee table books, but the Atlanta history book series from Arcadia Publishing has had my eye for awhile, since they seem to be in every bookstore around town, from local shops to Barnes & Noble. Not sure of the quality of the content, but I've been meaning to check them out: http://www.arcadiapublishing.com/state/Georgia
Their book on Oakland Cemetery: http://www.amazon.com/Historic-Oakland-Cemetery-Images-America/dp/0738513555
Their book on Grant Park: http://www.amazon.com/Historic-Grant-Images-America-Series/dp/0738587427
Thanks for pointing this out! I did some Google Street views, and, as I suspected, a lot of the homes that have not been renovated in this area are what is known as Cinderella homes. These were midcentury storybook homes that they started to build in southern California in the 1950s.
They were called "Cinderella homes" because their layout was apparently supposed to help make housework easy and free the "modern Cinderella" (i.e., stay-at-home housewives) from the drudgery of housework.
If you want to read more about them, there is a photography-focused book entitled All You Can Lose Is Your Heart. It's also available for checkout from the Central branch of the library.
https://www.amazon.com/Punk-House-Interiors-Abby-Banks/dp/0810993317
I haven't done that sort of coffee table book before, mine are all black & white and priced for very small tables. And yeah, color printing is super expensive, especially if it's a small production run.
Oh, it was not a critique of your photos at all... They're great! I was just assuming you had a lot more that you didn't include in the posts. Since it was a blog (versus book or magazine), I was saying it would be cool to see more pics, even if they weren't the "perfect shot", if that makes sense.
I absolutely love photography of industrial decay. One of my prized possessions is a copy of "Ruins of Detroit", which sadly is out of print, but the publisher page has some good pics from it. Each one tells an entire story. (If you're not familiar, it's worth clicking through that second link.)
BUT... I would love to see the photographer's b-roll pics that didn't make the book! That's what I was trying to say about yours, albeit not so eloquently.
Again, thanks for sharing, I really enjoyed it and passed it on to some friends as well.
Punk House is a pretty entertaining photo book about... well, punk houses. The house I used to live in is in there, too, so that's cool for my nostalgia.
This. Historical societies can be a great resource. A friend of mine is very active in the one in Wading River where I grew up, and she has photos and old postcards from all over those two towns, from very early on. Much of it went into a book that I bought a while back: https://smile.amazon.com/Shoreham-Wading-River-Postcard-History/dp/0738592455/
I am a huge fan and advocate for this institution, and took a tour around the building for the first time yesterday :) I am planning to do a lot of research there on art collecting, 17th century tastes in art, music and literature, what the collections of the Athenæum looked like in the 19th century, and shelf-reading as many books as I can get my hands on.
I collect and study art and books specifically with the Athenæum's historical tastes in mind. I would like to see their venue host Baroque and Early Music ensembles using period instruments, and will do what I can to make those suggestions heard.
The best photographs I have seen of the Athenæum can be found in Jacques Bosser's The Most Beautiful Libraries in the World.
https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.amazon.com/Hong-Kong-Corner-Houses-Michael/dp/9888028723&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwiR6ZWpsYvmAhUMn-AKHZsKD_8QFjAAegQICRAB&usg=AOvVaw0qAZSLQADUf2mKDZ32NcjP
Modern A-Frame Book
You should ask Micheal Hibblen at KUAR radio. He literally wrote the book on Rock Island in LR.
You can find more in the book Murder in the City: New York, 1910-1920. Lots of photos using these tripods suspending the camera overhead. Cover in book link below is NSFW:
https://www.amazon.com/Murder-City-New-York-1910-1920-ebook/dp/B01MXO55CM
It's a book on digital asset management.
There's this one, too.
>Fuqua Korger used to be a golf course.
...and soon will be a parking lot (along with Glenwood Ave).
Before I read this book I didn't really understand how profoundly the interstates ripped the neighborhood fabric apart.
If only this country would get a raging boner for alternative transportation now like they did for automobiles in the second half of the 20th century.
Found it through google using following keywords: "plan original tour eiffel"
If you like those drawings, this book is pretty neat
I keep subs to GQ, Wired, etc. as they're part of my interests. I also purchased Abandoned America, which is a cool coffee table book showcasing some awesome photography of abandoned places.
It's based on this:
https://www.amazon.com/Retro-90s-Notebook-Nostalgia-Geometric/dp/1983443379
There's a few books you can get to start things out. If you go through them and it doesn't diminish your passion but increases it, they'll set you on course to get started on your own. They also are worth reading if you've already begun.
Source here for this list of books with additional ones (that I haven't personally seen or read).
Edit:
Apologies if these are in the sidebar. I'm on mobile and can't view it.
Shameless plug of a co-worker's book on Shoreham History, she's in charge of the Tesla Science Center