(Part 2) Best city photography books according to redditors

All his books are good. I especially enjoyed reading about the rise of the punk scene in Sacramento. You won't get that history anywhere else.

Also recommend "Lost Restaurants of Sacramento and Their Recipes" by Maryellen Burns.

https://www.amazon.com/Seeing-Salt-Lake-City-Photographers/dp/1560851430

A short but good chapter on Wonderland (among other oddities) in Carl Swanson's Lost Milwaukee WorldCat; Amazon; Milwaukee Independent; OnMilwaukee. It skews toward parks and attractions like entertainment and infrastructure along the rivers and Lake, rather than the architectural/built environment, but lots of fun stuff. Cheers, Carl.

For lost architectural gems in Milwaukee, pre-historic (lol) preservation, you'll want Yance Marti's Missing Milwaukee, WorldCat; GoodReads; RadioMilwaukee; OnMilwaukee.

Then there's always the obligatory selfish plug for my prewar apartment buildings map for anyone who gives a shit.

If you want to see what a lot of America looked like a long time ago, Cities from the Sky has a great collection of really old aerial photographs.

Shameless plug: http://chsbeer.org

A friend and I worked on a book together and had so much content afterwards that we decided to turn it into a website. Craft beer is definitely booming in Charleston, from our #1 rated CBX, to the four breweries (two more in the startup phase), and beer events galore (don't miss Brewvival this Feb, best beer festival in the southeast imo...)

Welcome to town!

Houstorian shirts or the Houstorian dictionary

https://shop.spreadshirt.com/Houstorian/?version=1487607524570

https://www.amazon.com/Houstorian-Dictionary-James-Glassman/dp/1467118001

Great examples by others here. It is becoming more and more accepted for sure. You're coming into a growing scene. The city is really big on keeping it current too so the murals are not forever. They eventually get painted over by new ones. You should check out both Palm Beach Countyand the City of West Palm Beach's "Art in Public Places" websites. Also be sure to check out Sharon Koskoff's new book Murals of the Palm Beaches! annnnnd Welcome!

A straight-on shot, with no cars, is best. Use Photoshop to eliminate converging lines; vertical lines should be straight up and down. It's not easy, sometimes you have to wait a long time, or stand in a strange place.

Here's a book of storefronts, maybe this is similar to what you're doing:

http://www.amazon.com/Store-Front-Mini-Disappearing-Face/dp/1584234075/ref=wl_it_dp_o?ie=UTF8&coliid=I3OUT5SGMPRZM3&colid=3O69HMC5K9LR7

Web site for STORE FRONT:

http://www.jamesandkarlamurray.com/JamesandKarlaMurraySTOREFRONT.html

Notice the way they make panoramas out of the various store fronts on the block.

I fight for the future in mental health, because those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it.
This book Illustrates how bad things can be, and how they should never be again.

That keeps me going, fighting for the rights and activism of people like myself who have hardships, pains, struggles and fears because of the things we've gone through. I get paid next to nothing, but it's worth it when people have come up to me and told me how much of a difference i've made.

Purple Nurple

A new book just came out that has a great chart in the back with addresses and such: https://www.amazon.com/Tulsa-Landmarks-Suzanne-Fitzgerald-Wallis/dp/1625859899/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=A41MVJNQX880CSSD520J

This:
313: Life in the Motor City https://www.amazon.com/dp/1609494903/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_WUHRDbFJFA1XN

My favorite is the stroke victim that runs an after hours strip club out of his house.

I can highly recommend this one:
http://www.amazon.com/Baltimore-Beer-Satisfying-History-Brewing/dp/1609494571/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1405869800&sr=8-2

It's not comprehensive, but is a great read.

There's also a great one that's textbook sized, but I can't find it on Amazon.
I'll keep looking.

Bob Stern along with several co-authors published a series of books with a thorough overview of the architectural history of NYC:

New York 1880

New York 1900

New York 1930

and

New York 2000

Ha... "awesome".

Anyway, there's a historical fiction book called Fever Season that has a plot involving LaLaurie.

Also, non-book related, but she was a character in the American Horror Story: Coven season, played by Kathy Bates.

EDIT: Also, which non-fiction book did you check out? I've found two online, Madame Lalaurie, Mistress of the Haunted House, and Mad Madame Lalaurie. The second one looks decent from the Google books preview I saw, interesting information and plentiful illustrations and photographs.

http://www.amazon.com/Lewis-Ginter-Richmonds-Gilded-History/dp/160949380X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1343328654&sr=1-1&keywords=lewis+ginter


It's a biography, but this guy helped to basically create the way that the city we know now is laid out, along with some great old pictures.

As others have said, you should be fine it most places except for obvious terrorist targets. An interesting note ... it's legal for women to be topless in public in NYC. So go for it if you're looking to shoot a model or two for portfolio.

As for lenses, I don't think you'll use the 70-300 enough to justify bringing it along. I always bring along my beast 70-200 2.8 whenever I travel overseas, yet it rarely makes it way out of my bag. I think you'll be ok with carrying just the two primes and the 18-135. You'll likely keep the superzoom on your camera the most, but try out the 28mm prime especially for street photography.

This is a good book to pick up before your trip, btw ... http://www.amazon.com/Greatest-Photo-Opportunities-York-City/dp/1598637991

In the year 1855 in Cincinnati, Ohio, during elections for mayor, there was a battle between the German population and a political party know as the Americans.
The predominantly German-American Over-The-Rhine section of the city was located on the other side of a canal nicknamed the Rhine which was the dividing line for the battle. The battle included a cannon that was being used for a celebration that was captured by both sides at various parts of the battle.

At one point, the American's demanded the return of the cannon which was at the time had been captured by the Germans. The Germans politely returned it. Without the carriage required to transport it anywhere.

The full story can be read in the book, "Over-the-Rhine: When Beer Was King

This is a great guide to haunted NBTX - if you don't want to buy it, they have copies at the library. https://www.amazon.com/Haunted-New-Braunfels-Ghost-America/dp/1609498925

I'd never have the heart to hurt my family either, but there's a book about this exact idea in Japan:

Vanished: The 'Evaporated People' of Japan

Somehow, reading about it made the urge to do it fade a bit.