Start with high-confidence photographer monographs books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
The Street Photographer's Manual
David Gibson, Matt Stuart
David Yarrow Photography
David Yarrow, Tom Brady
Made in America
Christopher Payne, Simon Winchester
Strange Hours: Photography, Memory, and the Lives of Artists
Rebecca Bengal, Joy Williams
The Essence of Photography, 2nd Edition
Bruce Barnbaum
Joel Meyerowitz
Blind Corners
Michael Collins, Will Self
Henri Cartier-bresson
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Yves Bonnefoy
Store Front NYC
James Murray, Karla Murray
Typologien: Photography in 20th-century Germany
Susanne Pfeffer, Mario Mainetti
