This book celebrates the creative processes of the modern photographic era, in which blogs and Instagram streams function alongside analog albums and contact sheets, and the traditional notebook takes the form of Polaroid studies, smartphone pictures, found photography, experimental image-making, and self-published photo-zines. Each photographer presents his or her sketchbook: several pages of images that convey his or her working methods and thought processes. These presentations are accompanied by interviews that reveal how the simple act of pressing a shutter can capture and express a fully realized personal vision. Three essays by the authors explore subjects at the cutting edge of contemporary practice

• Photographers' sketchbooks / Stephen McLaren
• Bryan Formhals
• Stephen McLaren
• Bryan Formhals
• Photographers A-E: Mustafah Abdulaziz
• Christophe Agou
• Peter van Agtmael
• Richard Ansett
• Jessica Backhaus
• Roger Ballen
• Eric William Carroll
• John Chervinsky
• Scarlett Coten
• Robin Cracknell
• Amy Elkins
• Projects / Photographers E-K: Jason Eskenazi
• Jason Evans
• Everyday Africa
• Jim Goldberg
• Naoya Hatakeyama
• Kiana Hayeri
• Rob Hornstra
• IPG Project
• Martin Klimas
• Katrin Koenning
• Let Us Experiment / Photographers K-P: Martin Kollar
• Stacy Krantiz
• Anouk Kruithof
• Saul Leiter
• Graham MacIndoe
• John MacLean
• Susan Meiselas
• Mimi Mollica
• Louie Palu
• Laura Pannack
• Trent Parke
• Publishing / Photographers S-Y: Viviane Sassen
• Emily Shur
• Alec Soth
• Paul Trevor
• Thomas Vanden: Driessche
• Muir Vidler
• Irina Werning
• Michael Wolf
• Zhang Xiao
• Wataru Yamamoto
• Daisuke Yokota