If you want to understand the tools of your trade, how they really work, and how to use them more intelligently, this is the book. Here are some of the ones that have taught me and that I recommend to others. Almost anyone who has photographed war is going to be best known for his war photographs. The subject has an inherent power, and the experience is going to shape the photographer. Some never answer the question successfully.
Every possible subject seems watered down.
In a series of informal portraits, unconventional landscapes and street shots, McCullin proves that if you are good enough, peace time is plenty powerful. That seems pretty obvious, but it isn't to someone whose brain has been rattled by bang-bang. Donald was the best of the bang-bang photographers. The rest will listen to him. It is one of the best collections of documentary photography published.