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Ansel Adams
These will keep you busy for a while.
The tools Adams had to work with are still technically excellent, getting them onto mountains is impressive. Whatever you think of his images, he made a huge contribution to the craft, he systematized the process of exposure, development, and printing, and defined a standard of good contrast across the entire tonal range.
Of course people made good prints before Adams published his zone system, and film manufacturers knew the density curves of their product, Adams gave people language to describe an excellent print, and taught photographers how the technical details of density and contrast related to visual appearance.
Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs still stands as a great guidebook to a photographer working in a purely digital medium, he talks about why he wants a certain level of contrast, as much as how he gets it.
He also must have kept painstaking records. If you read his Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs he more often than not lists the lens used, aperture and often even shutter speed. And this was decades after many of these photos were taken.
Adams always emphasized the role of craft in photography and considered it a prerequisite. This level of fanatical diligence and perfection that he exercised throughout his photography would not have otherwise been possible.
Woooo! Good choice. If your boyfriend ends up hooked on AA's life and work (if he isn't already) here's another solid entry written by the man himself: http://www.amazon.com/Examples-The-Making-40-Photographs/dp/082121750X
It was penned towards the end of his life and again has a decent mix of technical documentation, anecdotes, and his creative philosophy all rolled into an examination of 40 different prints.
There's plenty of those. The trend was arguably kicked off by Ansel Adams with his seminal book The Making of 40 Photographs.
But really, you have to pick one that relates to the kind of photography that interests you.
In his book "The Making of 40 Photographs" he discusses how this picture was taken. Sadly, I lent it to a friend so I can't quote it, but it really gives you insight into how he worked, and why he was such a genius. This picture especially.
"The Camera" and "The Negative" should be required reading for anyone who buys a camera, digital or film.