I have about 20 to 30 photobooks that I use for teaching purposes. Here are a few that I use to teach practice, theory composition and history. I cart these around to the various venues where I teach and make them available for student use during class. The Pencil of Nature (out of print) Eugene Atget (Aperture) Julia Margaret Cameron (Phaidon 55s) Alfred Stieglitz (Aperture Masters of Photography) James Vanderzee (Phaidon 55s) Henri Cartier-Bresson (Photofile) Walker Evans (Photofile) Koudelka Don McCullin (Photofile) Sabastian Salgado (Photofile) Witness in our Time: Working Lives of Documentary...

The Pencil of Nature, William Henry Fox Talbot The Pencil of Nature, in the words of its author, Henry Fox Talbot, was intended as “the first attempt to publish a series of plates or pictures wholly executed by the new art of Photogenic Drawing, without the aid whatever from the artist’s pencil.” Talbot went on to stress that the images were “depicted by optical and chemical means alone, without the aid of any one acquainted with the art of drawing.” The series was published in London between 1844 and 1846 in six separate fasicles. (The word is from the Latin facisculus...