Photographers Autobiographies...Which have you read?

[Deano]

I have just read Don McCullins and Bob Carlso Clarkes. Both very different photographers yet both had fascinating lives.....superb and well recommended.
Whose autobiographies have you read in the photography world?

 

[adam*]

Also recommend McCullin's.

 

[Arkady]

Yep - McCullin's is a good read - bloody depressing though...lol
Also Tim Page's book about his search for the graves of Dana Stone and Sean Flynn in Cambodia is a good read...

 

[jerry12953]

Ansel Adams.

An inspiration for the effect his life and work had on environmental protection.

Although, IIRC, he did some work for quarrying companies in order to finance some of his landscape stuff!

 

[gingerjon]

Haven't read any it occurs to me - but then I'm not really one for reading (auto)biographies in general. Not even my actual heroes (Kertesz, Cartier-Bresson, Frank) ...

Thinking about it the photographer whose story I'd really love to know is Weegee. I'll have a quick google and see if there's anything about him out there ...

 

[Arkady]

Also if I'm honest - most photographers' lives are dull compared to the images they produce - I'd rather spend money on a book of photographs by a photographer than his/her words...

 

[Wedding-Photos]

Not really a photographers autobiography but Hot Shoe Diaries by Joe McNally is a very good read, essential reading I would say if your a strobist but a damn good read for the rest of us too.

 

[viewfromthenorth]

I've read Don McCullins, which was very good as he's had a very interesting life, but I can't think of another photographer I'd want to read about, TBH. I'd rather see their life's work rather than read about it.