For me, there is nothing more enjoyable than buying used photography books. I scour second hand books shops and charity shops for these gems that you can pick up for a bargain price. Recently I picked up the bible of photo editing and layout, Pictures on a Page by Harold Evans for £8 from a book shop in Rochester in Kent. I already owned a copy for years but just couldn’t resist it. I gave it as a present to a friend who is a photo editor.   Of course there are specialist photography bookshops in London and one I read about recently in this post by Michael David Murphy on his excellent blog is Photo Books International.   I recently went to this shop which is located in a part of London I rarely visit. It’s run by Bill and Jasper, two lovely chaps who squeeze in between racks and piles of books that don’t seem to be in any order - but they are - all 5000 of them !  I picked up “Pictures of the Times” a wonderful book displaying 154 photos from the New York Times archive.

I love the picture on the cover from 1927. The press photographers of yesteryear. Are they Speed Graphics ?  What little photo book gems have you picked up recently ?