Every Photographer Should Invest in this.

[@Sonderia]

Photobooks are so damn important ! The other day, I found a jewel of street photography at the bookstore. I didn’t knew the name of the photographer and the book was under plastic so I couldn’t have a look but I felt called to it. I took it, obv. When I finally discovered the photos, I was so moved and in awe. Eugene Atget was a French photographer and this book is a collection of photos of Paris before WWI. As a Frenchie, seeing historical street photos of the capital before the war… gosh! Those photos are beyond everything that I’ve experienced before. I can only encourage people to try historical street photos, it’s a wonderful treat for the eyes ✨

[@katyg3873]

Dennis hopper the actor made an awesome photobook. It’s by taschen and I can’t recommend it enough. Also, London street photographer Allan schaller- metropolis, helmet Newton- sumo ( the limited edition comes with its own coffee table lol) Ernst haas- New York

[@Cali62825]

Thanks! I’m so glad you showed Eyeshot books. Recent publications of current Photographers are as important as past work!

[@evanreillyphotography9285]

The idea that as an artist your work will live on after you leave this earth is so amazing. It literally gives your life a purpose after death. Inspiring others as the ones before us inspire us now. Great video as always! !!

[@Alishahlakhani]

Such a beautiful reflection on the importance of slowing down and appreciating different mediums of art. You are one of my favorite KZbinr. Love how intentional you are and how kind your whole vibe is. Thank you for doing what you do, you have no idea of the impact you're having on other people.

[@owen.k66]

I absolutely love photo books, such incredible repositories of art! also, Life Magazine books are really amazing, fabulous photography of all different sorts and easy to find used. Would highly recommend.

[@dlovisuals]

I love collecting photo books. I recently picked up “Modern Color by Fred Herzog”. Love looking at his work and it’s so fascinating to see photos from before I was born and how different things were back then.

[@mattmck5333]

I just got that book today and it's great, saw some of his work for the first time the other day and instantly bought it. 100% worth it a genius at composition and colour. :)

[@iago71]

@David Lopez Me too - Also an avid photobook collector (Verging on an addiction!) - If you like that then have you seen “Early Color” by Saul Leiter? That’s also a beautiful book. His compositions of New York in the 50s are really lovely. Worth a look if you haven’t already seen it. 😊

[@jacobmaness7244]

Photo books taught me so much, next to youtube. The ultimate source and reference tool, and it can be source of pride to have a great collection. Thanks for sharing, will def have to check out those books.

[@augustonabike2658]

I'm glad you mentioned the library! I've checked out tons of photo books from the library. You can see so many more than if you had to buy them all yourself, and branch out by picking up books you may have been hesitant to spend money on.

[@pusadolfo]

Photobooks are amazing!! a couple of my favorites ar Martin Weber's Map of Latin American Dreams and Celine Frers Tierra Adentro, both incredible books!!

[@thomasepping8637]

Photobooks are one of the best ways to enjoy photography and learn from other photographers, like you said. In Social Media there is this focus on the single frame, the bangers. While book people have their stand out images it's so much more about the composition, the long form, the story that unfolds over several pages.

[@theblackmanarmedwithacamera]

VERY COOL VIDEO! IT'S GOOD TO VIEW THE PHOTOS YOU'VE SHARED AT A MUCHBMORE SLOWER PACE THAN QUICKLY LIKING AND SWIPING AWAY TO THE NEXT!! BOTH PHOTOGRAPHERS HAVE AMAZING WORK!!! THANKS FOR ANOTHER GREATV VIDEO! KEEP GOING STRONG!!!!!

[@emgee44]

So Glad this came up on my KZbin, will definitely check out and invest in photo books.

[@NishantVaidya100]

Veneet Vohra is probably the best Indian street photographer. What a generous humble human, fortunate to have attended one of his talk, has a very creative worldview.

[@scottcarson6753]

Thanks for your story about photo books. I've collected photo books for inspiration since the early 1970's (I still have the entire Time-Life series on photography from the '70's. I periodically review the earliest books I have by photographers like Ernst Haas and Joel Meyerowitz -- their photos still inspire.

[@jeffreyzie]

Great vid man. Gonna check them out right now. Hyped to get back into street photography & i think these mags will def. help. As far as favorite photo books, I have Alex Webb's book "La Calle" book & really love it

[@parkerprints_]

I love this. Ive been feeling a similar way and you articulated this perfectly. Not just in photography, but in my own personal photos, I miss being able to flip through a tangible album. There"s something about a physical copy that will always feel more satisfying.

[@jztouch]

A lot of the great classic photo books by Winogrand and others that are incredibly rare and incredibly expensive to buy if you can even find them are available to look at in the NY Public Library, the International Center of Photography and the Los Angeles Public Library main branches by appointment. I’ve even handled old prints by famous photographers like Stieglitz at the NY Library. It’s under supervision of course and you wear white gloves but it is a great opportunity to see rare out-of-print books you can’t otherwise see.

[@NunoAlmeidaPhotography]

Nothing will ever replace the tactile experience of browsing through a photobook and looking at somebody else's work. Loved this one, Faizal!

[@snowcindyharris9971]

Excellent channel. A Photo book of one's own work is an inspiring goal as well as a reference as to one's progression or shifts in style / content. Studying other photographers work, I believe, is essential.

[@thesecretlifeofmichal]

I have so far acquired only the work of Sean Tucker, I believe he doesn't even call it photobook, more like a collection on paperback. But it still helped me a lot to have his body of work put in a meaningful way.

[@abrooklyngirllinda]

really nice video. i love your quiet, thoughtful style. thanks for sharing!

[@oh_aces]

Ive had photo books from my faves since I was a teen. Photographers should support photography, not just social media. It's the only way non-commercial photography will survive.

[@streetcandii]

I’ve been waiting on a photo book video, one of my goals for 2022 is to make one as a portfolio 👍🏾💪🏾 Also photo books takes away the stress of gaining like and follows on social media.

[@levanteanderson6448]

I’ve always wanted to start a photo book series. As years go by trying to post for social media felt more soulless. Anytime I post, it’s just to tell potential clients I’m still an active photographer. I wanted a reason to create my own stuff and I honestly feel like investing into photo books is the way to do it.

[@john_in_Berlin]

Beautiful video, just hitting the marks on every point. Thank you.

[@Arikuvaa]

Couldn't agree more Faizal, thank you.

[@aaroncavity]

Just grabbed both of these. Amazing! Thanks for the heads up.

[@dangdiggidydog]

yesss please do more of these, i enjoyed seeing the photos and learning a little bit as to what knowledge these masters have to share

[@IvanMaras84]

Couldn't agree more Faizal, thank you for this! Fantastically put together video.

[@florianwagner2901]

So good ! Theres nothing close to holding a nice print/ book in your hands, thanks for this Faizal

[@DJDelGrande]

There's something very intimate about paging though a photo book. It's one of my best sources for inspiration. I also thumb through art books of all kinds, just to a tactile experience that lasts. So glad I saw this. I can't get enough of having a book of photos to inspire me. As the new year dawns, I'll be putting more work into publishing my own work. I can't wait to drop my second photo book in a month or two.

[@chopster01]

Collecting photography books quickly becomes an addiction and I am hooked. They can be expensive but they only increase in value. I wasn’t aware of this publisher. Thanks! BTW, do make it to India. I’ve been lucky enough to go three times. It is wild and often difficult travel, but so worth it!

[@masoninthemountains]

Enjoyed that vid. Always like photography books. Somethings you can hold, tactile and more intimate as you mentioned.

[@loganw6439]

Picking up some photo books for Christmas, one from Roger Deakins, the cinematographer. Super excited to add to the collection!

[@aramdavid]

I feel so strongly about this. Im so glad you made this video.

[@filmedbyian]

Hahahah the sea bouy and the head got me, so creative. The book itself is a great design.

[@Edvanfleury]

I like to listen your video as a podcast because your voice is so sweet

[@Gitsh]

Great Video Faizal!, Yes, I agree Photo Books are important for photographers and fans of photography, a photograph is not a photograph until its printed (either in a book or framed on a wall)! My favourite current photo book is the USA Photographer Keith Carters '50 Years', a brilliant collection of images of his life's work.

[@kevinfkakens2269]

Thank you. Would really love to see more photo book reviews.

[@pamelaneyman1571]

Two recent photo book purchases: The Heart of the Photograph, by David duChemin and Connections, by Bridie Murphy.

[@AsmusKromannBork]

Pretty much all the books by Sean Tucker and Dino Kuznick is some that I keep going back to

[@AaronAnalog1]

The old man intro was so well said. Great video, and that knife shot is 💰

[@silkevonsistart5083]

Thanks for this inspiration!

[@goncalooliveira2633]

I'm going home for christmas, imma definitely check my parents photography books. great tip Faizal, thank you!

[@RaffaeleLadogana]

Un grande fotografo Francesco Sembolini davvero eccezionale 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@NicolaBianchiDP]

Come sempre video stupendo! Grande Faizal!

[@checkmybadself]

100% right. I would say it’s probably the thing that’s improved my photography the most this year. I really enjoyed Joel Meyerowitz’s reprint of “flowers” this year. It’s a great example of how to do a project. Definitely has given me some ideas. I also got subway but Bruce Davidson, which is amazing. One to enjoy more than replicate! Something more recent is “brilliant parade” but Josh Edgoose/Spicy.meatball. A strong design aesthetic but if some think that’s all there is too it, then they are missing the point. I also really enjoyed Janet Delaney’s “red eye to New York” recently.

[@Riccardo.Perini]

Francesco Sembolini is a great observer ad I like his style. He has the ability to see things that the most people cannot see: connections, lines, shapes.

[@slash3li3]

Great video ! I love this concept of presenting photo books 👍

[@andrefelixstudio2833]

I am in the process of putting a book together I estimate it’s gonna take me about a year to go through my archives and also create some new work before I release it to the general public however I’m still posting on Instagram with past and present work as a working professional photographer!

[@jazzfan7491]

“André Kertesz”, Princeton University Press, 2005. Happens to be my favorite. But probably more inspiring, (and awe-inspiring), plus a lot cheaper, is Taschen’s edition of “Camera Work”, which includes every photo from all the issues of the magazine by that name, which was created by Alfred Stieglitz more than a century ago with the express purpose of demonstrating that photography was an art form the equal of painting. By the way, I second your suggestion that lots of fancy photo books can usually be viewed for free at your local library. If they don’t have a book you’re interested in, ask them to get it from another library. That’s what they are there for. 🤓

[@Lemon_Coco]

Right now i really love what Cereal mag. is doing with there books They have a minimalistic feel to their photos Plus i like when the pictures take up the whole page rather then it being a tiny square

[@josephlai1078]

I picked up a copy of The Flow of the Lines from Siegfried Hansen a few months back. Awesome quality and content.

[@DeNorsemen]

Great video my man. Hope to put out my own photo book soon.

[@henrahmagix]

really reminding me of the loveliness at the bottom of my coffee table 🤗

[@enriquer.aguilar8491]

Amazing! Photo Books are life for me.

[@RYANPARKPHOTOGRAPHY]

photobooks are really important, I totally agree! due to social media, many people do not really care about books but it is damn important...(I also mentioned the same thing on my last night video)

[@Endr29]

You might want to read that again :)

[@gerryphilpott9766]

I guess I'm old school, plus my wife would kill me if I bought a bunch of them, so I use my library card and either look through them there or bring them home for a short while. Allows me to see so much more. Hard to say favorite as a lot depends on my mood at the time and what I feel like I'm missing in what I'm seeing around me. But it's a great idea and fully agree disconnecting from media and having something tactile is very enriching.

[@markuskoch2138]

I really love the "passing me by" series by Robert Winter but sadly did not buy it, when i had the chance. Each issue is about another city and therefore very unique, i can really recommend it :D

[@daryljohnson9010]

As the US steps into a steep inflationary period, I’m finding that photobooks are often on sale and represent an even more incredible value. Prices are usually less than printing and processing two rolls of 35mm color film. And I’d not heard of Eyeshot before; many thanks! Greetings from soggy Portland, OR.

[@paulwhite8976]

Really great video. Certainly got me thinking that I should invest in some good books. I follow so many great photographers on Instagram, but the experience is only getting worse with the amount of ads and the reels being thrown at you.

[@JPX15]

True, photo books are important, not only for photographers but even for others (if possible), it’s the best way to show the past, coz now we take photos and burry them to our hard disk where even those who took it and the subject forgets…or we sometimes over share too much to social media.. it’s always nice to see something and be able to touch it somehow… what if suddenly the site decided to shutdown and you won’t have a copy anymore… (haha friendster days)

[@drshiv7754]

Hi Faizal - Happy New Year! Can I ask which photobook has the photo from the thumbnail - finding it really resonates with me.

[@eddie_g]

I have vineet’s book and love it! Definitely gotta pick up some more very soon

[@FaizalWestcott]

Eyeshot does such a great job with the curation!

[@andrewlowe4911]

Great video, thanks. Please excuse this little plug, but I’d like to recommend an autobiographical photography-related book called Life Lit Up, by a friend of mine called Mike Hartley. I found it very entertaining and incisive regarding how different kinds of photographers approach the craft.

[@yasinmikail]

Another masterpiece. You certainly inspired me to check out some photo books at my local bookstore considering I don't own any.

[@vasilikos75]

Great video. Eyeshot rocks❤️

[@S.I.M.H.]

Thanks for all the great content, it would be awesome that in the next videos you could rise the volume of your voice in the audio post prod. Greetings!

[@melvinshuster]

Great video. Thanks.

[@1903JPG]

Incredible video.

[@moonyval]

I would love to have some recommendations on some photo books to purchase !

[@artemsapegin]

Totally agree with you! I’ve recently replaced Instagram with photo books and it has been very beneficial for me. What’s the book at 2:30?

[@stevengroom6484]

A really nice video 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@And3aPet]

Thank you!

[@damien5558]

If you was to stark your own photography book how would you do it I'm wanting to start one but I have no idea how to start 😅

[@luisbenito3602]

Hey Faisal, welcome back!

[@bijoyghosh1918]

Come to India man! You'll love it! Would love meeting you if you plan to visit one of the street photography mecca of India: Kolkata!

[@saurabh6520]

yeah really enjoyed it

[@coleb7644]

Question on the xPro-3. I own the x100v, but with all my film lenses, I want to put my vintage glass on a digital body. So torn between the xpro2 and 3. What are your thoughts coming from a fellow x100v owner?

[@laiscotto4269]

Thank you for your regardles.

[@got2beable]

Beautiful

[@JayGrapherBKK]

real great video to share and talk about more modern photographers what are your thoughts on photobooks that try to get funding through kickstarter or if you ever purchase a photobook from there before?

[@havefunbesafe]

I love my Twombly photo books.

[@jacobvest4897]

This was super nice:)

[@judylindo6874]

Thanks Faisal. Went to my library today and checked out 3 books! I was amazed at the collection of Street Photography they had. (1) Bill Cunningham, Five decades of iconic photography (2)Bystander ,A history of street photography , Colin Westerbeck & Joel Meyerowitz (3) The World Atlas of Street Photography by Jackie Higgins. Just glancing through them at the library they looked amazing. Duh why did I never think of a trip to the library??? :)

[@Brian444]

Do you know of digital alternatives to these? I took up photography to help me remember things in my life, but I have yet to find a good system for keeping my photos. I can save my photographs in folders on my computer, and sort them by dated folders, but it doesn’t really feel the same. I don’t have a way to just ‘browse’ my previous memories or accurately find a memory by giving the photographs tags or something. I would appreciate a recommendation if you happen to know of any good systems!

[@artemsapegin]

Not exactly what you’re asking for but some journaling software may help with that. I use Day One to keep notes on my trips and other life event, and I add photos from that day to each entry. My favorite feature is reminders of records from the same day on past years.

[@youngum78]

Well-said!

[@MarkPuke13]

Thank you!! Hello from Guam

[@deepnong]

Nice one

[@kenji7013]

Thanks for the vid

[@joe_tographer]

Great video, gonna go buy myself some xmas gifts now lol

[@azharinamdar5188]

India is a paradise for street photography

[@fnnn6030]

When is ur Photobook coming? :)

[@marcpilon4585]

A video on photo books others would be nice

[@milanovevlogy]

Love You From Prague - Robert Vano :)

[@youngchang3550]

You low key do give off Spider-Man vibes😂💪🏽

[@AbhishekSingh-is6vo]

This is an appreciation comment for works of Vineet Vohra.

[@alejolancioni7427]

I’m waiting for yours

[@genghis2510]

A photo is just not complete unless it is printed - but not necessarily to be in photo books.