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If you are a habitué of bookstores you will have seen the area devoted to photography. It is generally divided up into sections:
The big colour and monochrome books devoted to works by famous photographers – including the ones no-one has ever heard of. The ones you have heard of are produced by the big publishing houses and the ones you have never heard of are produced by themselves. You needn’t see the title page to be able to tell them apart, believe me… The Nudies. Mostly ladies, but a few books dedicated to men…if the store owner is that way inclined. Some surprisingly good images, if a little thumbed. The camera books for specific cameras. They are always out of date but never so far out that they have become collectible in their own right. None of them are remotely helpful or worth reading. The simplistic books for unsure photographers. How-to books that try to show fabulous techniques and results to people who use kit lenses and Auto settings. Sometimes they succeed in getting the user to turn the mode dial and then they are lost as the camera goes berserk. The written essay books. The would-be Susan Sontaggers of the world. The scholarly works written to make the critic look as if they know whereof they speak and to suggest that the reader is going to be kewl if they agree. These books are rarely illustrated by any means as this costs more money at the publishing house. The funny books. That so rarely are. I browse my local firsthand technical bookstore and secondhand dreckhaus pretty regularly and I have to say that I get about the same strike rate in each one. The bookstores of Melbourne and Sydney are far better places to find photo literature, but there is an airfare to pay for the privilege. Residents of London, New York, or other literate cities must be in Heaven.
Always look into the book boxes at the secondhand camera markets. You’ll only score once in a decade but when you do it’ll be big.