Best travel photography books according to redditors
We found 73 Reddit comments discussing the best travel photography books. We ranked the 55 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 73 Reddit comments discussing the best travel photography books. We ranked the 55 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
i'm pretty sure the photos are plagiarized
edit: yup, these photos are from this book: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0984074422
Imo, travel guides are boring and bittersweet unless you're actually going there soon, not to mention you can find better information online. I'd go with a book like this that captures landscape, folklore, and history of Iceland.
Are they into make up or skin care at all? Blue Lagoon is a popular Icelandic beauty brand.
ripped from Hungry Planet (Which Time tells you on the first page.) Cool book.
His 2008 one is just magical. The music (original song made for the video), the editing, everything is just amazing about it. It just captures so much joy and makes me realize why I love traveling so much. Easily my favorite Youtube video of all time (it's also one of Youtube's founders favorite video of all time). I bought his book that details stories about some of the scenes, and display it proudly in my living room.
You can sign up on his site to be notified the next time he's filming in your area. I was bummed that the one in Denver happened right after I had moved from there (it's in the 2012 video). I even sent him an invitation to my wedding (hey, it was worth a shot). I'd love to meet him some day. Hopefully, he makes it back to Austin for one of his videos.
Credit:
Pictures and information are taken from the book "Hungry Planet: What The World Eats" by Peter Menzel & Faith D'Aluisio
I took my parents on a tour of the Cistern and my mom was so enchanted with that area she insisted on buying Buffalo Bayou's big coffee table book about the park, "From Rendering to Reality: The Story of Buffalo Bayou Park". It's actually quite well done and there's a piece in there about how Buffalo Bayou was designed with crazy flooding conditions in mind: the materials they used, the layout and design, etc. Obviously Harvey is the most extreme situation to hit the park since the renovation, but it gave me hope when I saw how high the bayou was last weekend that they have plans in place for situations like these.
A lot of the info in the album was stuff that I took note of while at the actual location; there was usually a sign that gave at least some information in English. If I wanted to know more I looked it up later. I did read these ahead of time though:
There’s a book by the Weird NJ writers about this: Death on the Devil’s Teeth
Falls jemand die Aufteilung interessiert:
Grains & Other Starchy Foods: $31.98
Dairy: $64.33
Meat, Fish & Egss: $51.31
Fruits, Vegetables & Nuts: $78.10
Condiments: $31.83
Snacks & Desserts: $14.56
Prepared Food: $66.78
Beverages: $70.17
Miscellaneous: $91.01
Der Preis in Euro ist als 375,39 angegeben. Wie die da auf über 568 Dollar kommen, ist mir ein Rätsel.
Teil der Lösung, warum die so viel ausgeben, dürfte sein, dass der Vater nur am Wochenende daheim ist. Sich unterwegs zu verpflegen ist immer wesentlich teurer als daheim mit Küche.
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Quelle: Paperback edition (2007)
Do you know if this is any good? Been on my wishlist for a while.
These photos are all from a great book called Hungry Planet: What the World Eats by Peter Menzel. The book includes itemized lists of all the food pictured with the families. It's very interesting. Would highly recommend.
We have this one at our coffee table: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1592231411?pc_redir=1406971552&robot_redir=1
It's a very well done then and now book, love flipping through it every now and then. The terrible towel is a good idea. Maybe a little figurine of the incline or the Cathedral of Learning would be a nice memoir.
Should also check out this book: Gainesville Punk: A History of Bands and Music
Cam Honan just posted about his new book Hidden Tracks. Can anyone comment on that or his previous book Wanderlust? Specifically whether they are more coffee table picture books or whether they have content useful to someone selecting and/or planning the routes described.
Here are the top 100 locations.
https://www.amazon.com/Photographers-Guide-Chicago-Locations-Photograph-ebook/dp/B00F08993Q
This may give you some ideas.
http://www.amazon.com/Pittsburgh-Then-Now/dp/1592231411/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1407817085&sr=1-1&keywords=pittsburgh+then+and+now+by+walter+c.+kidney
Point It
The Wordless Travel Book
If you are looking for ideas, look to Central Texas. Here, we call them breakfast tacos, and we take them very seriously (no, seriously). Check out a couple of the menus below:
http://www.elmilagritocafe.com/#!menu/cwld
http://www.tacotacosa.com/menu/
http://www.tacohavenpresa.com/Taco_Haven_Menu_2011.pdf
http://www.tacodeli.com/menus/best-breakfast-tacos-austin/
http://torchystacos.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/torchys-tacos-menu-web.pdf
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I photograph the city a lot (check my posts here on Reddit for some examples I've posted) and could go on and on about locations but it really depends on what you're into. I highly recommend my friend's e-book, "The Photographer's Guide to Chicago". It has a ton of great info on interesting locations and details about hours, restrictions, where to park, etc.
I'm a Chicagoan myself - glad you're visiting our fair city! The Riverwalk is a great place to photograph architecture and people. Walk it later in the day, then head to The London House (Michigan & Wacker) - their rooftop bar has one of my favorite sunset views of the city.
Also, check out The Photographer's Guide to Chicago by a local guy named Chris Smith. Chris is a friend of mine, and runs a group called Out Of Chicago that does classes, conferences, etc., all around photography. His book is great.
Hope this helps!
A little different vein but I really enjoyed Gainseville Punk by Matt Walker.
Really opened up a world I knew little about. Well written.
I am guessing this is the one you were looking at: https://www.amazon.com/Downtown-Dallas-Romantic-Modern-Renaissance/dp/1933285737
I am not certain this is what you are looking for but there are some historic pictorial books that do have downtown buildings:
https://www.amazon.com/Dallas-Then-Now%C2%AE-Ken-Fitzgerald/dp/1909108405
https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Dallas-Mark-Doty/dp/1531656803
https://www.amazon.com/Historic-Photos-Dallas-Michael-Hazel/dp/168336919X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
And one more but it is more expensive than the one you already found:
https://www.amazon.com/Historic-Photos-Dallas-50s-60s/dp/1596527420
All of these are available from the Dallas Public Library so you check them out before you purchase one.
There's a reason why Kiwis always come back from their big OE.
Personally I've never been able to "understand" landscapes. I mean, they're pretty but other than that it doesn't hold my attention. Theres stuff like Fay Godwin's work or Ansel Adams that can be interesting at times though, maybe I am biased since I live in the city so foraging around forests or hills for hours seems incredibly boring.
Anyways, for inspiration i've been enjoying [Moriyama's new book] (https://www.amazon.com/Daido-Moriyama-Color-Never-Again/dp/8857222268/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1469195890&sr=8-1&keywords=daido+moriyama) despite it being in color.
also [insta link] (https://www.instagram.com/correia_pl/)
If you want to learn about this area specifically, the book "Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Avenue" is pretty good. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00XQUNQHA/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
Photographing Washington is a good resource if you want something printed.
I've also written about places to shoot along Washington Coast over at Luminous Landscape.
Starting in April we decompress and start thinking about ways to make the next SXSW even better. Over the summer we do some traveling and work on improving all of our online forms and website. From there we start doing more traveling to other festivals and markets looking for films. We spend A LOT of time in the off-season trying to improve the user experience for the attendees and filmmakers. Outside of SXSW I write a food blog called tacojournalism.com and just wrote my first book Austin Breakfast Tacos: The Story of the Most Important Taco of the Day -JN
A few (somewhat boring) precautions:
Get a little travel picture book (literally a book with pictures of different objects in it). If you can't communicate with the locals, you can point at the picture to get what you want.
Use a hidden wallet under your clothes for your important documents and credit cards. (Plus most of your money).
Only wear pants with zipper/button pockets. Much more secure.
Have fun!!!
This?
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0984074422
which in turns is sourced from http://www.amazon.com/Hungry-Planet-What-World-Eats/dp/0984074422/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1278139071&sr=1-1
In any case, it's a good book that covers way more than just what the time article covered.
Let me recommend the actual book, which includes facts such as calorie intake, family income, and country overweight percentage. The book describes the daily life of the families, their expectations and general outlook on life.
From a book called "Hungry Planet":
Link to buy it on amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Hungry-Planet-What-World-Eats/dp/0984074422
I don't understand. Are you Jon Tugores? If so feel free to order me to take down this post. I took the picture from someone's tweet that you retweeted if you actually are Jon Tugores.
To the other redditors, this is the book https://www.amazon.com/Barcelona-Jon-Tugores/dp/1940291801
I like this on net -- it's a composite of many cool things. But the execution for each of those parts could've been done better... e.g., he's picked white fridges and set the pictures on a white background; the cropping is a bit poor in a lot of these pictures, and it would've been cooler to have a full-on "pop out" effect by drawing a simple refrigerator-esque bevel around the picture frame.
And the masterpiece of food-in-your-kitchen-voyeurism: Hungry Planet. Such an awesome book. Good photography too.