From a New York Times By the Book interview headlined “The Book That Turned Into a Photographer”:

“I became a photographer because of ‘The World of Henri Cartier-Bresson,’ which was published when I was a student at the San Francisco Art Institute,” says Annie Leibovitz, whose latest book of photographs is “Wonderland.” “I was studying painting. Maybe it was something about the word ‘world,’ as well as the pictures, that seduced me.”

What books are on your night stand?