Confessions of a News of the World Photographer

Although associated with the, well, seedier side of our industry, Paul Barker's Snapper: Confessions of a News of the World Photographer is well worth a read. Probably for reasons related to perceived consumer interest, press photographer memoirs are exceedingly rare, so it's no real surprise that one of the very few published deals with the more accessible, celebrity driven end of the market. Accordingly, the book isn't exactly a hard-nosed examination of the business practices of a red top but more a collection of amusing anecdotes and revelations of tricks of the trade which is written in a largely celebratory tone. Of course, the NOTW is now gone precisely because of the clandestine nature of some of their information gathering methods, but you won't find much of that here.