Books on photographers and visual aesthetics

Alfred Stieglitz: A Biography is great read that recounts his life as art photographer, founder of the Photo-Secession movement at the turn of the 20th century, and promoter of the finest art photographers in the pictorial tradition. It also recounts his Camera Works magazine and the art galleries he opened, as well as his marriage to Georgia O'Keefe.

Seaworks 1998-2013 by Paul Kenny is a beautiful book that features his beach-based still life images, all taken camera-less. He collects plants from various beaches, then grows them in glass containers, which he then scans. The resulting images are abstract, surreal. and simply breathtaking

In Looking at Images, Brooks Jensen explores images from a number of artists who have appeared in his LensWork or LensWork Extended publications. Brooks makes enlightening comments about visual aesthetics; these are enhanced with audio clips accessible through Q-codes at the bottom of each page.