Here I recommend some of the Greatest Photography Books (especially handy for Street & Documentary Photographers). Most of these I personally possess, have read and Enjoyed. The rest are Good ones as well and sooner or later would end up on my bookshelf.
Note: I do not put the descriptions by intend as you could not be dissapointed with any of these, especially if you just want a Good Book and have no extra expectations.
Learn (on Photography)
"Ways of Seeing" by John Berger
"On Photography" by Susan Sontag
"The Art of Photography" by Bruce Barnbaum
"Chasing the Light" by Ibarionex Perello
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Learn (on Street & Documentary Photography)
"Magnum Contact Sheets" by Kristen Lubben
Magnum Streetwise: The Ultimate Collection of Street Photography by Stephen McLaren
"Bystander: A History of Street Photography" by Colin Westerbeck and Joel Meyerowitz
"Street Photography Now" by Stephen McLaren
"Seeing Things: A Kid's Guide to Looking at Photographs" by Joel Meyerowitz
You May also Enjoy (on Steet & Documentary Photography books)
- "Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb on Street Photography and the Poetic Image" by Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb
- Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb: Brooklyn, The City Within by Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb
- "Todd Hido on Landscapes, Interiors, and the Nude" by Todd Hido
- "Photographers' Sketchbooks" by Stephen McLaren
Monographs
"Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Decisive Moment" by Henry Cartier Bresson
"Josef Koudelka: Exiles" by Josef Koudelka
"Sergio Larrain: Vagabond Photographer" by Agnès Sire
"The Suffering of Light: Thirty Years of Photographs by Alex Webb" by Alex Webb
"Harry Gruyaert" by François Hébel and Richard Nonas
"Ernst Haas: Color Correction" by William A Ewing
"Fred Herzog" by David Campany
"Saul Leiter" by Kehrer Verlag
"William Eggleston's Guide" by John Szarkowski
"Daido Moriyama - Journey For Something" by Erik Kessels and Matthias Harder
"The Eyes of the City: Richard Sandler" by Richard Sandler
"Winogrand: Figments from the Real World" by John Szarkowski and Gary Winogrand
"Vivian Maier" by Vivian Maier
"Lartigue: Life in Color" by Martine D'Astier, Martine Ravache
"Todd Hido: Intimate Distance" by David Campany and Katya Tylevich
"Lars Tunbjörk - retrospective" by Lars Tunbjörk
"Chris Killip: In Flagrante Two" by Chris Killip
"Helen Levitt" by Helen Levitt
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- "Saul Leiter: Early Color" by Martin Harrison
- "Daido Moriyama: Record" by Mark Holborn and Daido Moriyama
- "American Color" by Constantine Manos
- "Bill Brandt: Shadow and Light" by Sarah Hermanson Meister and Lee Ann Daffner
- "Andre Kertesz: His Life and Work" by Pierre Borhan
- "Walker Evans: American Photographs" by Walker Evans, (MoMA)
- "Arbus / Friedlander / Winogrand: New Documents, 1967" (MoMA)
- "Annie Leibovitz. The Early Years, 1970-1983" by Annie Leibovitz
- "Tarkovsky: Films, Stills, Polaroids & Writings" by Andrey A. Tarkovsky
Projects
"Robert Frank: The Americans" by Robert Frank and Jack Kerouac
"Koudelka Gypsies" by Will-Guy and Josef Koudelka
"Trent Parke: Minutes to Midnight" by Trent Parke
"Bruce Davidson: Subway" by Bruce Davidson and Fred Braithwaite
"Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb: Slant Rhymes" by Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb
"Stephen Shore: Uncommon Places: The Complete Works" by Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen and Lynne Tillman
"Cape Light" by Joel Meyerowitz
"The Last Resort" by Martin Parr
"A Greek Portfolio" by Constantine Manos
"Sleeping by the Mississippi" by Alec Soth
"I Know How Furiously Your Heart Is Beating" by Alec Soth
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"Anders Petersen - Cafe Lehmitz" by Roger Anderson
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P.S. When you would get the photo-book by this recommendation and Enjoy it,
I would appreciate any contribution, which will get me closer to my next photography book as well
Scapes (Observations)
"Ansel Adams' 400 Photographs" by Ansel Adams
"Michael Kenna: Images of the Seventh Day 1974-2009" by Sandro Parmiggiani
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"Sebastião Salgado: GENESIS" by Sebastiao Salgado and Lélia Wanick Salgado
Fashion (Retrospectives)
"Peter Lindbergh: A Different Vision on Fashion Photography" by Thierry-Maxime Loriot
"Helmut Newton. Work" by Francoise Marquet, Manfred Heiting, Helmut Newton
- If you're big fun of Helmut Newton consider this huge book
"Helmut Newton: SUMO, Revised by June Newton"
"Guy Bourdin: A Message for You" by Guy Bourdin and Nicolle Meyer
"Horst: Photographer of Style" by Susanna Brown
"Jeanloup Sieff" by Jeanloup Sieff
Fashion (Same Subject)
"Kate Moss by Mario Testino" by Mario Testino
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"Audrey Hepburn: Portraits of an Icon" by Terence Pepper and Helen Trompeteler
"Monica Bellucci" by Monica Bellucci
Bonus (Paris)
"Paris Mon Amour" by Jean-Claude Gautrand
"Brassai: Paris by Night" by Paul Morand
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Note: There are some other Great Photography books by extraordinary photographers (e.g. Richard Avedon, Dan Winters, Man Ray, Sally Man, Friedlander, Jeff Mermelstein etc.) which were not mentioned here.
I didn't want to measure the greatness of books based just on the photographer authority itself.