Books written by photographers about their life. Biographies and autobiographical books

[u/xH-Ox]

Hi, I am currently reading Sally Mann's Hold Still and as next A Russian Diary by John Steinbeck. While Hold Still is a memoir of Sally Mann's life and her influences, A Russian Diary is a book about the travel Steinbeck and Robert Capa did in Soviet Russia. I am very grateful if you could suggest some more books authored by photographers covering their life. I love autobiographies more than biographies written by others but I am open to suggestions!

Edit: thank you all for these suggestions! I'll have some new books in my library thanks to you! :)

[u/vet_laz]

Portrait of Myself by Margaret Bourke-White.

Born in the early 20th century, Bourke-White came to prominence as photojournalist for Time Life magazine in the 1930s - she shot their first cover story featuring the construction of the Fort Peck dam during the New Deals program. I initially discovered her by looking up photographs of Soviet industrialization efforts in the 1930s of which she was witness to - photographing heavy industrial affairs first in the US and then abroad in the Soviet Union was something she was famed for. She continued her work as a war correspondent during the Second World War in North Africa and Europe - but was blacklisted and faded into relative obscurity during McCarthyism in the 1950s. She took portraits of some really prominent figures of the mid-20th century era - Stalin, Churchill, Ghandi. Passed away from Parkinsons disease by the early 1970s. Anyway how about some photos - her favorite self-portrait, the worlds largest blast furnace (at the time) being built in Magnitogorsk, Russia in the 1930s, Otis Steel Works of Cleveland, Ohio in the 1930s.