{"id":17655,"date":"2017-02-08T03:55:56","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T08:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/?p=17655"},"modified":"2024-07-02T16:48:02","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T21:48:02","slug":"top-20-photography-books-influenced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/17655\/top-20-photography-books-influenced\/","title":{"rendered":"The Top 20 Photography Books That Influenced Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17686\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/book-header.jpg\" alt=\"Influential Books of John Paul Caponigro\" width=\"425\" height=\"125\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;Enjoy this collection of photographic books that have influenced me during some of my most formative years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17661\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/001_Book.jpg\" alt=\"Megaliths by Paul Caponigro\" width=\"425\" height=\"404\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">#1<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Paul Caponigro \u2013 Megaliths<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Watching the production of this project from start to finish had a profound effect on me. The book was the culmination of decades of work on so many levels.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17685\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/026_Book.jpg\" alt=\"Alfred Stieglitz\" width=\"425\" height=\"559\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">#2<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Alfred Stieglitz \u2013 Portrait Of Georgia O&#8217;Keefe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">These portraits and nudes set the highest standards for me. Deep complex emotional connection. The variety of Stieglitz&#8217; printing was eye opening. Meeting O&#8217;Keefe was interesting; I still wonder what it was like for her as an older woman to produce a book on her younger self.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17681\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/022_Book.jpg\" alt=\"Eliot Porter's Nature's Chaos\" width=\"425\" height=\"469\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">#3<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Eliot Porter \u2013 Nature&#8217;s Chaos<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Fortunate to see my mother design many of Porter&#8217;s books, this one confirmed my feeling that he saw a deeper order in nature before we more fully understood complexity in the sciences.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17680\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/021_Book.jpg\" alt=\"Christopher Burkett's Intimations Of Paradise\" width=\"425\" height=\"370\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">#4<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Christopher Burkett \u2013 Intimations Of Paradise<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Formerly a Gnostic monk, Burkett renounced his vows of poverty so that he could afford film and continue to faithfully transcribe The Book Of Nature. There are so many ways to live life in a sacred way<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/023_Book.jpg\" alt=\"Dune \/ Edward Weston And Brett Weston\" width=\"425\" height=\"356\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">#5<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Edward &amp; Brett Weston \u2013 Dune<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Dune \/ Edward Weston And Brett Weston collects works, many never before printed, by father and son showing how similar and how different each artist&#8217;s vision was. Working with Kurt Markus to produce this book was eye-opening.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17678\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/019_Book.jpg\" alt=\"Ansel Adams \/ The Making Of 40 Photographs\" width=\"425\" height=\"492\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">#6<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Ansel Adams \u2013 The Making Of 40 Photographs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s wonderful to read how an artist works and even better to see them in action; I was lucky to do both. I do wish Adams wrote more about why he made each image and what it meant to him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17677\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/018_Book.jpg\" alt=\"Jerry Uelsmann's Process &amp; Perception\" width=\"425\" height=\"356\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">#7<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Jerry Uelsmann \u2013 Process &amp; Perception<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It demonstrates how process changes perception &#8211; and the process you engage is a personal choice. The inside is just as important as the outside.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17679\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/020_Book.jpg\" alt=\"Edward Burtynsky's Manufactured Landscapes\" width=\"425\" height=\"509\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">#7<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Edward Burtynsky \u2013 Manufactured Landscapes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">While Eliot Porter didn&#8217;t want to beautify trash through art Burtynsky turns an unflinching eye towards industrial impacts on land crafting a complex statement on land use and ultimately identity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/008_Book.jpg\" alt=\"Minor White Manifestations Of The Spirit\" width=\"425\" height=\"490\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">#8<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Minor White \u2013 Manifestations Of The Spirit<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">No other photographer is as articulate about the inner experience of making art. His essay on equivalence is seminal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17666\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/007_Book.jpg\" alt=\"Wynn Bullock's Revelations\" width=\"425\" height=\"419\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">#9<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Wynn Bullock \u2013 Revelations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Bullock&#8217;s marriage of science\/physics and art<br \/>\nbecame as much a philosophical statement as a celebration of beauty.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/016_Book.jpg\" alt=\"Kenro Izu's Sacred Places\" width=\"425\" height=\"356\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">#10<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Kenro Izu \u2013 Sacred Places<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Izu tries to photograph the spirit of ancient sacred places. When he talks about atmosphere he means more than weather.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17674\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/015_Book.jpg\" alt=\"Chris Rainier's Keepers Of The Spirit\" width=\"425\" height=\"367\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">#11<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Chris Rainier \u2013 Keepers Of The Spirit<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">If Edward Curtis met Joseph Campbell you&#8217;d get Rainier&#8217;s survey of spirituality in world cultures.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17673\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/014_Book.jpg\" alt=\"Sebastiao Salgado's An Uncertain Grace\" width=\"425\" height=\"513\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">#12<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sebastiao Salgado \u2013 An Uncertain Grace<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Salgado sets the bar high by bringing out the dignity within his subjects no matter how undignified their circumstances.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17672\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/013_Book.jpg\" alt=\"oyce Tenneson's Transformations\" width=\"425\" height=\"548\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">#13<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Joyce Tenneson \u2013 Transformations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Tenneson&#8217;s images remind me of what Pierre Teilhard de Chardin said, &#8220;We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17671\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/012_Book.jpg\" alt=\"Arnold Newman's One Mind's Eye\" width=\"425\" height=\"358\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">#14<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Arnold Newman \u2013 One Mind&#8217;s Eye<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Beautifully constructed portraits from the father of environmental portraiture.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17670\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/011_Book.jpg\" alt=\"Harry Callahan\" width=\"425\" height=\"523\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">#15<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Harry Callahan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The rest of his wrestlessly inventive work intrigued me but his deeply honest extended portrait of his wife set a standard I hope for in all others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17669\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/010_Book.jpg\" alt=\"Sugimoto\" width=\"425\" height=\"465\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">#16<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sugimoto<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s minimalism that isnt shallow or evasive; the collection reinforces the concept, creating a context for itself. It asks so many questions? Enough? Not enough? Do all the world&#8217;s oceans look the same? Or is it just one ocean? Is it the camera or the artist who makes them look the same? Is it the way we look? How is it that by looking at them long enough I begin to see myself?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17668\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/009_Book.jpg\" alt=\" Richard Misrach's The Sky Book\" width=\"425\" height=\"335\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">#17<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Richard Misrach \u2013 The Sky Book<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Pleasant as it is this minimalism ordinarily wouldn&#8217;t be enough for me. But then he adds the titles of time and places in many languages with a history. Together they grow stronger and placed within his life work as one of many Desert Cantos they grow stringer still. Rebecca Solnit&#8217;s accompanying essay is excellent. I learned a lot from looking at this &#8211; about art and myself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17664\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/005_Book.jpg\" alt=\"Witkin\" width=\"425\" height=\"557\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">#18<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Witkin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I find Joel Peter Witkin&#8217;s work profoundly challenging. I can&#8217;t say I love it; I can&#8217;t say I hate it. I can say it continually crosses back and forth between self-indulgently expressing his individual perversions and courageously looking unflinchingly into a universal heart of darkness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17676\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/017_Book.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Kenna's Night Work\" width=\"425\" height=\"438\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">#19<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Michael Kenna \u2013 Night Work<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Kenna&#8217;s elegant minimalism is laced with a quiet spirituality that comes less from tradition and more from being in the moment, growing most emotional when he&#8217;s in the dark.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17663\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/004_Book.jpg\" alt=\"Huntington Witherill's Orchestrating Icons\" width=\"425\" height=\"377\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">#20<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Huntington Witherill \u2013 Orchestrating Icons<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s musical for its flowing compositions and exquisite tonalities. Extraordinary separation in extreme highlights and shadows, no one prints quite like him in.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/category\/influences\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Find out more about my influences<\/a><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/category\/influences\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> here.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Enjoy this collection of photographic books that have influenced me during some of my most formative years. &nbsp; #1 Paul Caponigro \u2013 Megaliths Watching the production of this project from start to finish had a profound effect on me. 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