I know folks have asked me about this before, so I thought I’d compile the list of photography books I’ve collected. This is a comprehensive but not complete listing of the photographic monographs and/or compilations in my library. I know I’m missing the vintage Ansel Adams guide to Yosemite that he produced for the Sierra Club back in the 1950s or 60s from this list, but I can’t lay my hands on it at the moment, so it’s missing. Any exhibition catalogs listed here are listed here because they are catalogs from exhibits I did not see in person, and there are probably a half-dozen others just floating around the house and/or the library.
| Title | Artist/Author | Publisher | Publication Date | Notes |
| 4 A M | Adu | Formosa Books | 2000 | |
| Olympic Portraits | Annie Liebowitz | Bullfinch | 1996 | |
| (Don’t) Call Me Shirley | Brett M. Cochrane | Knopf Australia | 1995 | |
| Burma: Something Went Wrong | Chan Chao | Nazareli Press | 2000 | |
| The Great Wall of China | Chen Changfen | Yale University Press | 2007 | |
| Beauty of Darkness | Connie Imboden | Custom & Limited Editions | 1999 | 1st Edition |
| The Raw Seduction of Flesh | Connie Imboden | Silver Arts | 1999 | softcover, Signed |
| Piercing Illusions | Connie Imboden | Foto Book Press | 2001 | softcover, Signed |
| Beijing Spring | David and Peter Turnley | Stewart, Tabori and Chang | 1989 | |
| All My Lies Are True | David Carol | Kabloona Press | 2009 | Signed, personalized to me |
| Edward Curtis – The Master Prints | Edward Curtis | Arena Editions | 2001 | Hardcover |
| Edward Steichen – The Early Years | Edward Steichen | Princeton University Press | 1999 | |
| Edward Weston: The Form of the Nude | Edward Weston | Phaidon Press | 2005 | |
| Margarethe Mather and Edward Weston: A Passionate Collaboration | Edward Weston, Margarethe Mather | W.W. Norton | 2001 | |
| Suffering The Ideal | F. Holland Day | Twin Palms | 1995 | Hardcover, 1st Edition, Limited Edition |
| F. Holland Day | F. Holland Day | Van Gogh Museum | 2001 | Exhibition Catalog |
| Faces of the Eastern Shore | Frank Van Riper | Qesada House | 1992 | Softcover, signed, personalized to me |
| The Photographs of Frederick H. Evans | Frederick Evans | Getty | 2010 | Exhibition Catalog |
| Foro Italico | George Mott | Powerhouse Books | 2003 | 1st Edition, slipcovered |
| Inside Life | Greg Gorman | Rizzoli | 1997 | 1st Edition, Signed, Slipcovered with signed print |
| As I See It | Greg Gorman | Powerhouse Books | 2000 | 1st Edition, signed |
| Natural Fashion: Tribal Decoration from Africa | Hans Silvester | Thames & Hudson | 2008 | |
| Kazu | Herb Ritts | Parco | 1995 | 1st Edition |
| Tuscany: Inside the Light | Joel Meyerowitz | Main Street | 2003 | |
| Manzanar: Photographs by Ansel Adams | John Armor, Peter Wright | Times Books | 1988 | |
| Lengthening Shadows Before Nightfall | John Dugdale | Twin Palms | 1995 | Signed, personalized to me, dated 2006 |
| Life’s Evening Hour | John Dugdale | August Press | 2000 | Hardcover, Limited Edition |
| Picturing Men – A Century of Male Relationships in Everyday American Photography | John Ibson | Smithsonian | 2002 | |
| The Luminous Years | Karl Bissinger | Abrams | 2003 | |
| Passage to Angkor | Kenro Izu | Friends Without Borders | 2005 | 1st Edition, signed |
| Homo Sum | Konrad Helbig | 6×6.com | 2010 | Not dated – guessing at publication date |
| Skin | Laurent Elie Badessi | Edition Stemmle | 2000 | |
| Red Color News Soldier | Li Zhensheng | Phaidon Press | 2003 | |
| Panoramas of the Far East | Lois Conner | Smithsonian | 1993 | |
| Photography’s Antiquarian Avant-Garde: The New Wave in Old Processes | Lyle Rexer | Abrams | 2002 | |
| American Photographs: The First Century | Merry A. Foresta | Smithsonian | 1996 | |
| At First Sight: Photography and the Smithsonian | Merry A. Foresta, Jenna K. Foley | Smithsonian | 2003 | |
| The Pre-Raphaelite Camera | Michael Bartram | Little, Brown & Company | 1985 | |
| Eye Mind Spirit – the Enduring Legacy of Minor White | Minor White | Howard Greenberg Gallery | 2008 | |
| Face to Face: The Art of Portrait Photography | Paul Ardenne | Flammarion | 2004 | |
| Collaboration: The Photographs of Paul Cadmus | Paul Cadmus | Twelvetrees Press | 1992 | 1st Edition, Limited Edition |
| Physique: Classic Photographs of Naked Athletes | Peter Kuhnst | Thames & Hudson | 2004 | |
| Man to Man: A History of Gay Photography | Pierre Borhan | Vendome Press | 2007 | |
| The Hyena & Other Men | Pieter Hugo | Prestel | 2007 | |
| Shooting Soldiers – Civil War Medical Photographs by R.B. Bontecou | R.B. Bontecou | Burns Archive Press | 2011 | |
| Torero | Reuven Afanador | Edition Stemmle | 2001 | 1st Edition |
| Sombra | Reuven Afanador | Merrell | 2004 | 1st Edition |
| Mil Besos | Reuven Afanador | Rizzoli | 2009 | 1st Edition |
| Cuba in the 1850s Through the Lens of Charles DeForest Fredricks | Robert M. Levine | University of South Florida Press | 1990 | |
| Robert Mapplethorpe and the Classical Tradition | Robert Mapplethorpe | Guggenheim Museum | 2004 | Exhibition Catalog |
| Hymn to the Earth | Ron Rosenstock | Silver Strand Press | 2003 | Signed, Numbered Edition # 597 |
| Maryland’s Civil War Photographs: The Sesquicentennial Collection | Ross Kelbaugh | Maryland Historical Society | 2012 | Signed, Numbered Edition # 130, personalized to me |
| America and the Tintype | Steven Kasher | ICP/Steidl | 2008 | |
| Spirit Capture: Photographs from the National Museum of The American Indian | Tim Johnson | Smithsonian | 1998 | |
| In Defense of Beauty | Tom Bianchi | Crown Publishers | 1995 | |
| Tseng Kwong-Chi | Tseng Kwong-Chi | Paul Kasmin Gallery | 2008 | |
| Taormina | Wilhelm Von Gloeden | Twelvetrees Press | 1986 |
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