Best portrait photography books according to redditors

We found 109 Reddit comments discussing the best portrait photography books. We ranked the 52 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.

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u/TranscodedMusic · 203 pointsr/OldSchoolCool

It was indeed from late 1989 -- check the gig log here. Bleach did very well on college radio. If you were a college student into indie music at that point chances are you'd think of nirvana as a relatively big band by that point already.

Sub Pop artists also fared quite well in terms of recognition in Europe. IIRC the tour was pretty successful.

The photo is from Bruce Pavitt's (Sub Pop co-founder) book called Experiencing Nirvana that showcases his photos from the 1989 European tour.

u/SophisticatedBean · 61 pointsr/slatestarcodex

Cherry-Picked CW Science part 8. (1, 2, 3, 4, 5a, 5b, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)

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Paternal care has around three times more positive influence on boys than on girls. (Improvement of grades in high vs low paternal care was 16% M vs 5% F., N=14,000, GB.)

https://i.imgur.com/BLooiaf.png

https://osf.io/q6fpx (Emmott 2018, pre-print)

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There is no "police instinct". Unless immediately affected, people do not punish norm-violators for an intrinsic pleasure in norm enforcement, but for the mere benefits of virtue signaling.

https://psyarxiv.com/nybkr/ (Pedersen 2018)

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0045662 (Krasnow 2012)

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Men who are one standard deviation nicer, have an 18.3% lower income. For women it's only 5.47% lower.

http://doi.org/10.1037/a0026021 (Judge 2012)

Women find men scoring high on dark triad traits more attractive (d = 0.94). The dark triad traits are are narcissism (overvaluing one's importance), Machiavellianism (manipulativeness), and psychopathy (lack of empathy).

http://doi.org/10.1007/s12147-015-9142-5 (Gibson 2015)

https://scottbarrykaufman.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/The-Dark-Triad-Personality.pdf (Carter 2013)

Based on a British sample (146 women, ages 18-28), the preference for dark triad traits was superlinearly related to sexual experience (0-5 vs 11-15 partners r=.14 p=.15, 11-15 vs 21+ r=.48, p=.005) and also correlated with the desire for marriage (r = 0.18, p=.028).

In other words, women seeking commitment are drawn to men who are less committed (or rather who can afford to signal uncommittedness, or pretend to be able to afford it …).

http://doi.org//10.1016/j.paid.2015.03.032 (Haslam 2016)

Narcissist wives, on the other hand, predicted lower marital quality and more marital problems. For naricissist men, the predictions were non-significant or sometimes slightly reversed, indicating that women prefer and/or can withstand such partners.

https://doi.org/10.1037/per0000137 (Lavner 2016)

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Emotionality protects feminine women from stress, but not feminine men (−.23 F vs −0.01 M, N=206, AU.).

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2016.04.075 (O'Connor 2016)

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Anderson (2009) and Ibson (Ibson 2006) theorized that the fear of being thought gay (homohysteria) has increasingly impeded the physical and emotional intimacy in male friendships.

Ibson illustrates the changing intimacy of heterosexual males in response to the acceptance of homosexuality with 5,000 images (1880s-1980s). By the 1980s, the intimacy was severely damaged.

The full chapter on Google Books: https://books.google.com/books?id=x6-NAgAAQBAJ&lpg=PA8&pg=PA81#v=onepage (Anderson 2009. Inclusive* Masculinity)

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0226368580 (Ibson 2006)

Some of the missing photos are here: https://www.filmsforaction.org/news/bosom-buddies-a-photo-history-of-male-affection/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homohysteria

There is a good summary also in this paper. Both Robinson and Anderson have observed a declining homohysteria more recently, but not very representative samples (e.g. students from a university sports department).

http://doi.org/10.1177/1097184X17730386 (Robinson 2017)

*Note that the term inclusivity is on Jordan Peterson's Cultural Marxism blacklist, so this is not exactly MRA stuff.

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In modern Western societies, 70% of the time it's women who initiate the divorce, probably because women are more choosy and get bored of their partner sooner.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-new-resilience/201508/women-initiate-divorce-much-more-men-heres-why

Cross-culturally though, the leading reasons for divorce are adultery and sterility, and men are especially unforgiving of adultery.

https://i.imgur.com/k7iA9LG.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/nRMO2GT.jpg

http://laurabetzig.org/pdf/CA89.pdf (Betzig 1989)

An explanation might be that "men, but not women, have recurrently faced the problem of uncertainty in their genetic parenthood".

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1745691617698225 (Buss 2018)

Hypergamy, the tendency that the husband has a greater human capital than the wife, can be formally derived from this premise by economic modeling.

Women can sell exclusive access to sex because men want to be certain about their fatherhood. Men can sell their amassed resources because women need them.

https://d-nb.info/997448148/34 (Saint-Paul 2009)

The economics of human sexuality have also been analyzed in a more recent paper by Baumeister et al.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016748701630277X (Baumeister 2017)

Evolutionary psychology suggests the cause of most intergroup conflicts was over the relative availability of fertile women.

This predicts that an undersupply of women e.g. due to excessive polygamy, increases the chances of civil wars; and that women should be far less resistant to alien rule than men, because they have the option of marrying into the conquering group.

Supporting evidence was found in war data and Eurobarometer data.

http://faculty.washington.edu/hechter/KanazawaPaper.pdf (Satoshi 2005)

"Men who transition to a monogamous, or less competitive, mode of sexual behavior … reduce their risk of violence."

"Impressing and pleasing women, not just acquiring livestock, provide a strong incentive to participate in raids."

"Changes in sexual behavior were shown to be more consistent and stronger in predicting violence than marriage and employment." (Competition–Violence Hypothesis)

http://doi.org/10.1080/07418825.2016.1216153 (Seffrin 2016)

https://twitter.com/Evolving_Moloch/status/919262507910381568/photo/1

"Societies at war, polygynous societies, and nonstratified societies (where power is relatively decentralized) have costlier, more dysphoric male rituals and rites of passage."

https://twitter.com/Evolving_Moloch/status/950080224636448768/photo/1

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85% of human societies have permitted men to have more than one wife (polygynous marriage).

https://i.imgur.com/Yi9EW7O.png (Source: d-place.org > Search > Ethnographic Atlas > Marriage)

A histogram over the number of wives across 186 societies: https://i.imgur.com/NIfD0b5.png

Based on this histogram, the average number of taken women as a fraction of men was 0.805 1 + 0.141 2 + 0.036 3 + 0.012 4 + 0.004 5 + 0.001 6 + 0.002 * 7 ≈ 128%, so 1-1/1.28 ≈ 22% of men got nothing or the sex ratio wasn't 1:1.

http://doi.org/10.1086/203674 (White 1988)

http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/royptb/367/1589/657.full.pdf (Henrich 2012)

In Africa, Rates of monogamous marriages are much higher than polygamous ones in proximity to historical locations of Christian Missions.

https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S0304387815000668-gr4.sml

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2015.06.005 (Fenske 2015)

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Prices of prostitutes reveal men's age preferences, showing a steep decline after 25 to only half the price by the age of 33.

http://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2016.01.002

(The age distribution of the prostitutes suggests that oversupply cannot explain lower price at older age. The age of the clients is possibly something like 35±10, so neither can a large supply of young clients. Men fearing STDs in older prostitues might explain their reduced price though.)

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A meta study found a large publication bias in literature on the attractiveness-IQ link and only found a very weak correlation of r=0.07.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4415372/ (Mitchem 2016)

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Things that are universal to all human cultures:

u/satansanus · 32 pointsr/TheWayWeWere

Reminds me of this book I saw once called A Time Before Crack. Makes you wonder where everyone in the picture ended up...

u/ronnythextacle · 12 pointsr/ModestMouse

Pat Graham's photo book chronicling the band over 25 years would be pretty awesome

u/andthenisawtheblood · 12 pointsr/MetalMemes

It is the Peter Beste book. It's a pretty cool book.

u/D14BL0 · 11 pointsr/gamegrumps

For anybody wondering about the book they showed, it's True Norwegian Black Metal, and is an amazing photobook. Lots of really dope photography from all sorts of black metal bands.

u/jippiejee · 11 pointsr/photography

Just buy a good photo book. I love this one for example.

u/AbelAbra · 9 pointsr/Jewdank

Oh yeahhh amazon

u/unicorns- · 9 pointsr/Jewdank
u/Usphory · 7 pointsr/pinkfloyd

Couldn't find a HiRes of it, but I did found it's orgin: the back of the book "Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd" written by no one else but Nick Mason.

http://www.amazon.com/Inside-Out-Personal-History-Floyd/dp/0811848248

u/SmileEmptySoul89 · 6 pointsr/BlackMetal

Many years ago I was gifted True Norwegian Black Metal by the girl I was seeing at the time. For years I have been saying I planned to de-bind my favorite images and frame them.


I've finally started.

u/pagansandwiches · 5 pointsr/Nirvana

I think the book you're thinking of is Experiencing Nirvana: Grunge in Europe, 1989

Nirvana by Everett True is probably my favourite Nirvana-related book. It's just entertaining and full of lots of the anecdotal shit you would get from someone who was running in the same circles at the time.

u/rebble-yell · 4 pointsr/todayilearned

Here's the book by the famed photographer Sally Mann that is being referenced:

Immediate Family

It's a book of nude pictures of her own children. Here is the book description:

>First published in 1992, Immediate Family has been lauded by critics as one of the great photography books of our time, and among the most influential. Taken against the Arcadian backdrop of her woodland summer home in Virginia, Sally Mann's extraordinary, intimate photographs of her children reveal truths that embody the individuality of her own family yet ultimately take on a universal quality.

She's a photographer that is willing to tackle all kinds of subjects -- she has another book of her photographs of corpses and the corpse of her family dog entitled What Remains.

u/needathneed · 4 pointsr/queen

This is in the [Queen](Queen in 3D Slipcased Edition (3-D Stereoscopic Book) https://www.amazon.com/dp/095742468X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_YfYUCbMDBFGF4) in 3-D book he put out recently- note the 3 lens camera. It takes 2 slightly different perspective images and you view them with special glasses. It's a really cool book.

u/Right_All_The_Time · 3 pointsr/ModestMouse

Buy it. It's a fantastic book. I own it and love it and any huge Modest Mouse fan should buy it. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1576876519/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1464487267&sr=8-1&pi=SY200_QL40&keywords=Pat+Modest+mouse

u/Duderino316 · 3 pointsr/pinkfloyd

Just started reading, currently about half-thru Nick Mason - Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd, highly recommended.

u/DillonVFX · 3 pointsr/photography

For Trent Parke the only affordable one is Minutes to Midnight. He also has another affordable book The Christmas Tree Bucket but it's not a series on street photography. His other books "Dream/Life" and "The Seventh Wave" are rare and very expensive to buy for anyone but the most hardcore collectors.

For Alex Webb The Suffering of Light is a compilation that covers most of his career. There's also Instanbul: City of a Hundred Names that is just about to go out of print again.

For Josef Koudelka there is Exiles and Gypsies


For Jesse Marlow there is DON’T JUST TELL THEM, SHOW THEM and WOUNDED


For Martin Parr there is The Last Resort and Bad Weather

u/malvzy · 2 pointsr/ModestMouse
u/slightlyoffki · 2 pointsr/Metal

My wife got me True Norwegian Black Metal for Christmas, which of course has prompted a black metal bender. I've been listening to a lot of Windir, but I don't have much black metal (I'm more into folk/Viking) so if anyone has any suggestions feel free to let me know:)

u/ordash · 2 pointsr/photography

I don't really think instruction books are worth it anymore. You can learn the basics much faster online for free. What the internet can't provide is a good printed book filled with classic photography. If she is going to Columbia (and perhaps hearing the great Rosalind Krauss), these classics are mandatory anyway.

One of the best books on photography ever written:
Barthes: Camera Lucida

A few classic photography books everyone with a faint interest in the medium will love:

Ansel Adams
Diane Arbus
Henri Cartier-Bresson
The Photographers Eye

u/SecondSkin · 2 pointsr/indieheads

I preach "Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!" by Bob Stanley to all my friends.

It has been the most informative book about the creation of different music genres over the last 50-60 years. I will cherish it until I die.

Runner-ups:
Dreaming the Beatles: The Love Story of One Band and the Whole World by Rob Sheffield

Dust & Grooves: Adventures in Record Collecting by Eilon Paz

u/maxwellsearcy · 2 pointsr/ModestMouse

I think you’re thinking of Modest Mouseby Pat Graham. The screenshot was posted here awhile ago, and it’s definitely that book, not the green paperback this post is about.

u/Squidfish · 2 pointsr/WTF

has been immortalized on the internet and in a book based on a website for some time now.

u/tach · 2 pointsr/photography

It's hard to do without knowing what ticks your eye. For example, Martin Parr & Ansel Adams do little for me, while I thoroughly enjoy Bresson's geometric intersections with life and wagnerian Salgado.

Having said that:

u/PixonNixonIxon · 2 pointsr/Metal

Are you interested in learning more about bands in general? Because if you want that, there's always The Encyclopedia of Heavy Metal

Or, if you'd like a bit of a change and want to look at some fucking awesome pictures, there's True Norwegian Black Metal

u/Wyodiver · 2 pointsr/spotify

Would have been ok if it didn't have so much Led Zeppelin.

Kidding.

Great playlist. Thanks!

And, if you didn't know, Plant/Page/Jones have released a new book. It's expensive, but man, I want it.

https://www.amazon.com/Led-Zeppelin/dp/1909526509

u/eckoro · 2 pointsr/ledzeppelin

Doesn't come with the poster, but thought I mention for anyone not bothered by it, but it is on Amazon UK for £32, discounted from £50.

u/Bannedfromfun · 2 pointsr/OldSchoolCool

Linking google play instead of Amazon.

Because if you're going to buy a book about Hipster Dads, it better be hardcopy.

Or link the best Tumblr I've ever seen that wasn't filled with Whiskey.

u/snowflake25911 · 2 pointsr/queen

https://www.amazon.com/Queen-3D-Brian-May/dp/095742468X

This?

Brian May worked on it and released it shortly after that tour.

She's so lucky to have you as a dad.

I hope they do one more tour with Adam Lambert.

u/RobSpewack · 2 pointsr/pinkfloyd

There's not much of a better way to learn about PF's early days than to read the story as told by Nick Mason himself.

u/Pizzadude · 1 pointr/WTF

I'm pretty sure this is actually from this book

And it's actually pretty interesting.

u/n8great321 · 1 pointr/vinyl

If you search "vinyl" on Amazon there are some decent options but, at least personally, I've read Vinyl Junkies which isn't too bad though it is about 10 years old. Dust & Grooves is a coffee table book but has some neat pictures and interviews. I personally would not recommend Vinyl: The Analogue Record in the Digital Age as it is a difficult read, seems like a grad school sociology thesis to me. Super dense with information and citation but not necessarily entertaining.

u/erpascal · 1 pointr/santashelpers

Coffee warmer. This is less funny and more useful. Keep coffee hot at your desk all the time!

Awkward Family Photos

Nuns Having Fun Calendar

u/littlealley · 1 pointr/AskReddit

Back to how it use to be and how it should always be!


great book on the subject
"There was a time in America when two men pictured with their arms wrapped around each other, or perhaps holding hands, weren’t necessarily seen as sexually involved—a time when such gestures could be seen simply as those of intimate friendship rather than homoeroticism.

Such is the time John Ibson evokes in Picturing Men, a striking visual record of changes in attitudes about relationships between gentlemen, soldiers, cowboys, students, lumberjacks, sailors, and practical jokers. Spanning from 1850 to 1950, the 142 everyday photographs that richly illustrate Picturing Men radiate playfulness, humor, and warmth. They portray a lost world for American men: a time when their relationships with each other were more intimate than they commonly are today, regardless of sexual orientation. Picturing Men starkly contrasts the calm affection displayed in earlier photographs with the absence of intimacy in photos from the mid-1950s on. In doing so, this lively, accessible book makes a significant contribution to American history and cultural studies, gender studies, and the history of photography."

u/steveurkelsextape · 1 pointr/sydney
u/[deleted] · 1 pointr/malefashionadvice

look up this book called A Time Before Crack. A lot of gold in that small book.

u/systemlord · 0 pointsr/badcompany2

just for you bud...

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This is me, my wife, our doggie, and my wife's cousin (at the computer).

That's the Cetme in question right then and there. My wife is holding a Marlin 60.

Picture is featured on "Armed America".
http://www.amazon.com/Armed-America-Portraits-Owners-Their/dp/0896895432

u/kingrobotiv · 0 pointsr/Buttcoin

That would make an interesting story. A friend of mine gave me Armed America a while back and its oddly fascinating.

u/Threaux-Aweigh · -3 pointsr/IAmA

Nudity and pornography are not the same thing. You can buy books containing nude images of children, published by a major publisher on Amazon.com. It's perfectly legal because the images aren't sexualized.