These are the books that I've found most helpful, and am glad to recommend.
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Dance Photography
Dance by Arthur Fink
Forgive me for listing my own book first! These are the photographs I've
taken at the Bates Dance Festival in 2006 and 2007, and exhibited at the
Chase Gallery at Bates in 2007 and 2008. Thirty seven color
illustrations.
Natural Dance by Hal Eastman
Barbara Morgan
by
Barbara Morgan
The
Fugitive Gesture: Masterpieces of Dance Photography by William A. Ewing
Dancers photographs
by Philip Trager, text by
Joan Acocella and
David Freedberg
Masters of Movement: Portraits of America's Great
Choreographers
photographs by Rose Eichenbaum, text by Clive Barnes
Dance Ink by Nancy Dalva, J.Abbott Miller, and Patsy Tarr
Other Photography Monographs
Wise Women:
A Celebration of Their Insights, Courage, and Beauty by
Joyce Tenneson
Joyce Tenneson: A Life in Photography: 1968-2008by Joyce Tenneson and Vicki Goldberg
Philip
Trager: Faces
by Phil Trager
Edward
Steichen: In High Fashion - The Conde Nast Years, 1923-1937by
Todd Brandow and William A. Ewing
Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographersby Jeff Schewe and Martin Evening
Mastering Digital Black
and White: A Photographer's Guide to High Quality Black-and-White
Imaging and Printingby Amadou Diallo
Adobe
Photoshop Restoration & Retouchingby Katrin Eismann and Wayne Palmer
Surviving as an Artist -- Business, Intellectual Property, etc.
The Artist's
Guide: How To Make a Living Doing What You Loveby Jackie Battenfield
This title is accurate. Jackie Battenfield has done that herself,
and has been teaching many of us about the kinds of persistence,
creativity, energy, and focus that we need to develop cash flow around
our art.
Wish I could say that I've taken all of her advice -- but I've certainly
taken it to heart! And as this book gets well used by my bedside, I'll
expect that my web site will be more inviting, my grant applications
stronger, and my outreach to galleries and other sales channels more
direct and more frequent.
Enough said. If you love your art, and you want or need to make money
from it, read this book! Buy one for yourself, your friends, your
library, your community arts center.
Creativity
The Creative Habit by Twala Tharp
The War of
Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battlesby Steven Pressfield
God is at Eye Level
byJan Phillips
An inspiration for photographers, and for all of us.
How to Get
Ideas by Jack Foster and Larry Corby
"Coaching" (which I
prefer to call "Clarifying)
Co-Active
Coaching: New Skills for Coaching People Toward Success in
Work and Lifeby Laura Whitworth, Karen Kimsey-House, Henry Kimsey-House
and Phillip Sandahl