ERIC KIM
Buy books, not gear.
If you want a quality-education in street photography, I recommend either buying, borrowing, or browsing though some of the books below. Books that are bolded are some of my personal favorites.
Magnum Contact Sheets
Magnum: Degrees
Magnum: Stories
Mark Cohen: Grim Street
Street Photography Now
Bruce Davidson: Subway
Bruce Davidson: East 100th Street
Diane Arbus: A monographElliott Erwitt: Personal Best
Richard Kalvar: EarthlingsAndre Kertesz (Editions Hazan)
Robert Frank: The Americans
Garry Winogrand: Public Relations
Garry Winogrand: Figments from the real worldGarry Winogrand: The Animals
Bruce Gilden by Stern MagazineBruce Gilden: A Beautiful Catastrophe
Bruce Gilden: Haiti
Bruce Gilden: After The Off
Bruce Gilden: Facing New York
Bystander: A History of Street Photography
Joel Meyerowitz
Jun Abe: Citizens
William Eggleston: Chromes
William Eggleston: Guide
William Eggleston: Before Color
Stephen Shore: Uncommon Places
Daido Moriyama: The World Through My Eyes
Alex Webb: Istanbul
Alex Webb: The Suffering Of Light
Jeff Mermelstein: Sidewalk
Walker EvansFred Herzog: Photographs
Vivian Maier
William Klein: Contacts
Joel Sternfeld: American Prospects
Martin Parr: The Last Resort
Martin Parr: Small World
Tony Ray-Jones: Best OfJosef Koudelka: Gypsies
Anders Peterson: French Kiss
Anders Petersen: Cafe LehmitzZoe Strauss: America
Henri Cartier-Bresson: “The Decisive Moment”
Josef Koudelka: Exiles
Anders Petersen
The Education of a PhotographerDavid Hurn: On Being a Photographer
David Gibson: The Street Photographer’s Manual
Siegfried Hansen – hold the line
Matt Stuart: All that Life Can Afford
The Photographer’s Playbook: 307 Assignments and Ideas
Trent Parke: Minutes to Midnight
Trent Parke: The Christmas Tree Bucket
Trent Parke: The Black Rose
Harry Gruyaert
Gus Powell: The Lonely Ones
Alec Soth: Songbook
Ping Pong Conversations: Alec Soth with Francesco Zanot
Constantine Manos: A Greek Portfolio
Constantine Manos: American Color
Constantine Manos: American Color 2
David Alan Harvey: Divided Soul
Photographers’ Sketchbooks
Harry Callahan: Retrospective
Slide Show: The Color Photographs of Helen Levitt
Mark Cohen: Frame
Saul Leiter: Early Color
Saul Leiter: Early Black and White
Dan Winters: Road to Seeing
Todd Hido: Photography Workshop Series
Mary Ellen Mark: Photography Workshop Series
The Open Road: Photography and the American Roadtrip
Street Photography: 50 Ways to Capture Better Photos of Ordinary Life