The first edition of The Amateur Photographer’s Handbook came out in 1941. The edition sitting on my desk right now is the revised seventh edition, published 1967. The Handbook would continue through further editions, remaining in print through the early 1980′s. Of all the books I could’ve chosen for a first review – including perennial favorites by Ansel Adams and

“Your first ten thousand photos are your worst.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson Cartier-Bresson knew a thing or two about good photography. From the late 1920′s ’til his death nearly eighty years later, he was responsible for some of the most iconic images in photographic history… all of which is rather a longish way of saying, the man knows whereof he speaks.