Ric's List of his Favorite and most influential Books

ALICE IN WONDERLAND - Richard Avedon

CAPE LIGHT - Joel Meyerowitz

WILLIAM EGGLESTON'S GUIDE - William Eggleston

2 & 1/4 - William Eggleston

THE END OF THE GAME - Peter Beard

THE AMERICANS - Robert Frank

THE PORTRAITS OF DUANE MICHALS 1958-1988 - Duane Michals

AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY - Richard Avedon

A CERTAIN ALCHEMY - Keith Carter

THE HERO WITH A THOUSAND FACES - Joseph Campbell

CAMERA LUCIDA - Roland Barthes

A YEAR WITH SWOLLEN APPENDICES - Brian Eno

SHOW YOUR WORK  - Austin Kleon

WABI-SABI for ARTISTS, DESIGNERS, POETS & PHILOSOPHERS - Leonard Koren

DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP - Philip K. Dick

THE END OF PRINT - David Carson & Lewis Blackwell

ON THE ROAD - Jack Kerouac

FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS  - Hunter S. Thompson

ZEN & THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE - Robert Pirsig

ZEN IN THE ART OF ARCHERY - Eugen Herrigel

CYCLOPS - Albert Watson

THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY - Douglas Adams

• Nfluenced by (in no particular order)

• Anselm Kiefer

• Brian Eno

• Richard Avedon

• Henri Cartier-Bresson

• William Eggleston

• Joel Meyerowitz

• Wim Wenders

• Robbie Müller

• Roger Deakins

• Vittorio Storaro

• Peter Beard
  Robert Frank
  George Martin
  the Beatles
  Chuck Berry
  David Bowie
  The Rolling Stones
  Leonard Cohen
  Laurie Anderson
  Maira Kalman
  David Hockney
  Edward Hopper
  Joseph Cornell
  Joseph Campbell
  Robert Rauschenberg
  Cy Twombly
  Orson Welles
  Alfred Hitchcock
  James Naremore
  Francis Ford Coppola
  George Carlin
  Richard Pryor
  Dave Chappelle
  Robin Williams
  Jonathan Winters
  Firesign Theatre
  the Marx Brothers
  Sam Shepard
  Chip Kidd
  Jaron Lanier
  Austin Kleon
  David Remnick
  Gwen Ifill
  Alain de Botton
  Georgia O’Keefe
  Robert F. Kennedy
  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  Abraham Lincoln
  Johannes Vermeer
  Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
  Rembrandt van Rijn

• Gail Bruce

Ric’s Top 20 Film List

01 - La Jetee - Christopher Marker
02 - Touch of Evil - Orson Welles
03 - Citizen Kane - Orson Welles
04 - Apocolypse Now - Francis Ford Coppola
05 - Casablanca - Michael Curtiz
06 - The Big Sleep - Howard Hawks
07 - The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance- John Ford
08 - Raging Bull - Martin Scorsese
09 - Vertigo - Alfred Hitchcock
10 - 8.5 - Federico Fellini
11 - Chinatown - Roman Polanski
12 - The Great Dictator - Charlie Chaplin
13 - North by Northwest - Alfred Hitchcock
14 - Blue Velvet - David Lynch
15 - Notorious - Alfred Hitchcock
16 - The Big Lebowski - the Coen Brothers
17 - The Passenger - Michelangelo Antonioni
18 - Paris, Texas - Wim Wenders
19 - Days of Heaven - Terrence Malick
20 - The Wizard of Oz - Mervyn LeRoy