RESERVED READING & LOOKING FOR VISC 0109: The following 92 titles are on Overnight Reserve for you in the SMFA Library. Together they represent a broad range of differing approaches to the subject of photography history. They are in the Library for your use, please look at as many of them as possible. They will also prove to be an excellent resource for research for papers. Many of the books will be discussed in lectures, please feel free to ask questions about any of them at any time, they are grouped by approach and subject.
GROUP I: Anthologies; Encyclopedic….
1.) THE OXFORD COMPANION TO THE PHOTOGRAPH: Robin Lenman. Oxford University Press, USA. 2005
2.) PHOTOGRAPHY: A Critical Introduction. Liz Wells, editor. Routledge. 2015
3.) PHOTOGRAPHIC THEORY: An Historical Anthology: Andrew Hershberger, ed. Wiley-Blackwell. 2014
4.) THE PRINTED PICTURE: Richard Benson. MOMA. 2008
5.) INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PHOTOGRAPHY: William L. Broecker, ed. Pound Press/Crown Publishers. 1984
GROUP II: Anthologies, Visual….
6.) THE PHOTOGRAPH: A Social History: Michel F. Briave. McGraw-Hill, New York and Toronto. 1966.
7.) THE THEATER OF THE FACE: Portrait Photography Since 1900. Max Kozloff. Phiadon Press, London/NY. 2007.
8.) PHOTO-DISCOVERY: Masterworks of Photography: 1840-1940: Bruce Bernard. Abrams, New York. 1980
9.) AFTER ART: Rethinking 150 Years of Photography: Selections from the Joseph & Elaine Monson Collection. Chris Bruce and Andy Grundberg. University of Washington Press. Seattle, WA. 1994.
10.) THINGS: A Spectrum of Photography 1850-2001. Mark Haworth-Booth. Trafalgar Square/North Pomfret, London. 2005.
11.) FACTS: Photography of the 19th and 20th Centuries from the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Agfa Collection. Bodo von Dewitz, editor. Steidl & Museum Ludwig, Gottingen/Cologne, 2006.
12.) ONE HUNDRED PHOTOGRAPHS: A Collection By Bruce Bernard. Phiadon, London. 2002
13.) PHOTOGRAPHY'S BEGINNINGS: A Visual History Featuring the Collection of William B. Becker. John B. Cameron & Wm. B. Becker. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque with Oakland University, Rochester, MI. 1989.
GROUP III: General Historical Overviews….
14.) PHOTOGRAPHY: A Cultural History, 4rd Edition. Mary Warner Marien. Abrams, 2014
15.) PHOTOGRAPHY, Vol. I: The Origins 1839-1890. Walter Guadagnini, ed /Quentin Bajac, Elizabeth Siegel & Francesco Zanot. Skira, 2011
16.) PHOTOGRAPHY, Vol. II: A New Vision of the World 1891-1940. Walter Guadagnini, ed. Skira, 2012
17.) PHOTOGRAPHY, Vol. III: From the Press to the Museum, 1941-1980. Walter Guadagnini, ed./ Urs Stahel, Francesco Zanot & Caniel van Winkel. Skira, 2013
18.) PHOTOGRAPHY, Vol. IV: The Contemporary Era 1981-2013 (Composition of the Work). Walter Guadagnini (ed), Charlotte Cotton, Okwui Enwezor, Thomas Weski, Francesco Zanot. Skira, 2014.
19.) A NEW HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Michel Frizot, editor. French edition, Bordas, S.A. Paris, 1994. English edition, Konemann, Koln, 1998.
20.) A WORLD HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY: 4rd edition Naomi Rosenblum. Abbeville, New York. 2008
21.) ON THE ART OF FIXING A SHADOW; One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography: Sarah Greenough, Joel Snyder, David Travis and Colin Westerbeck. National Gallery of Art & The Art Institute of Chicago. Bullfinch Press, Boston. 1989.
22.) PHOTOGRAPHY UNTIL NOW: John Szarkowski. The Museum of Modern Art & Bulfinch Press, Boston. 1989.
23.) THE HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY; 1839 to the Present: Beaumont Newhall. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. 1982 edition (there are a number of earlier ones but this is the best).
GROUP IV: Institutional Anthologies….
24.) A HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY: The Musee d’Orsay Collection 1839-1925. Francoise Heilbrun, editor. Flammarton/Skira, Paris. 2009
25.) THE GERNSHEIM COLLECTION (Harry Ransom Center Photography Series) Roy Flukinger, Mark Haworth- Booth, Alison Nordström. UTexas 2010.
26.) FIRST SIGHT: Photography and the Smithsonian. Merry Foresta, et al. Smithsonian, 2003.
27.) REVISIONS: An Alternative History of Photography. Ian Jeffrey. The National Museum of Film, Photography & Television. Bradford, UK. 1999
28.) ECLATS D'HISTOIRE: Anne Cartier-Bresson, Laurence Desroy-Hamoude, Catherine Delaron-Metrovista. Actes Sud, Paris, France. 2003
29.) NEW REALITIES: Photography in the 19th Century. Mattie Blooom. Rijksmuseum, Netherlands. 2017
30.) PHOTOGRAPHY: AN INDEPENDENT ART. Photographs from the Victoria & Albert Museum 1839-1996: Mark Haworth-Booth. Princeton University Press 1997.
31.) THE ORIGINS OF AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY: From Daguerreotype to Dry-Plate, 1839-1885. The Hallmark Photographic Collection at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Keith F. Davis & Jane L. Aspinwall. Nelson-Atkins, 2007.
32.) AN AMERICAN CENTURY OF PHOTOGRAPHY: From Dry Plate to Digital: The Hallmark Photographic Collection. Second Edition, Revised & Enlarged. Keith F. Davis. Hallmark Cards, Kansas City & Harry M. Abrams, New York. 1999.
33.) COLOR: American Photography Transformed. John Rohrbach. Amon Carter Museum of American Art. 2013
34.) THE WAKING DREAM: Photography’s First Century: Maria Morris Hambourg & others. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Abrams, NY. 1993
35.) MASTERPIECES OF PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE GEORGE EASTMAN HOUSE COLLECTIONS; Robert A. Sobiezak. Abbeville, New York. 1985.
36.) LOOKING AT PHOTOGRAPHS: John Szarkowski. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. 1973
37.) THE PHOTOGRAPHER'S EYE: John Szarkowski. Museum of Modern Art, New York. 1966.
Group V: Particularized Anthologies….
38.) PHOTOHISTORICA: Landmarks in Photography, Rare Images from the Collection of the Royal Photographic Society. Pam Roberts. Artisan/New York. 2000.
39.) THE HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY: As Seen Through the Spira Collection. S.F. Spira with Eaton S. Lothrop, Jr. Aperture, New York. 2001
40.) CAMERA: A History of Photography from Daguerreotype to Digital. Todd Gustavson. George Eastman House. 2009
41.) THE RECONFIGURED EYE: Visual Truth in the Post-Photographic Era: William J. Mitchell. MIT Press. 1992.
42.) THE KEEPERS OF LIGHT: A History & Working Guide to Early Photographic Processes. William Crawford. Morgan & Morgan, New York. 1979, reprinted 1987
43.) THE PHOTOGRAPHIC EXPERIENCE 1839-1914: Images and Attitudes. Bridget A. Henisch & Hans K. Henisch. Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, PA. 1994.
44.) ANONYMOUS: enigmatic images from unknown photographers. Robert Flynn Johnson, intro. by William Boyd. Thames & Hudson, NY, NY. 2004.
45.) GHOST IN THE SHELL: Photography and the Human Soul, 1850-2000. Essays on Camera Portraiture. Robert A. Sobiezak. LA County Museum of Art/MIT Press, Cambridge & London. 1999.
46.) THE UNSEEN EYE: Photographs From The Collective Unconscious. W.M. Hunt. Aperture/D.A.P. 2011
47.) THE BODY AND THE LENS: Photography 1839 to the Present: John Pultz. Perspectives; Harry N. Abrams. 1995
48.) PHOTOGRAPHY’S MULTIPLE ROLES: Art, Document, Market, Science: Denise Miller and others. The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago. D.A.P. New York. 1998
49.) CONTROVERSIES: A Legal and Ethical History of Photography. Daniel Giradin & Christian Picker. Actes Sud/Musee dr Lycee. 2012
50.) WAR / PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath. Tucker, Michels, Zeltz. Houston MFA/Yale University Press. 2012
51.) PHOTOGRAPHY:History of an Art. Jean-Luc Daval. Skira/Rizzoli. New York. 1982
52.) AN ANTHOLOGY OF AFRICAN & INDIAN OCEAN PHOTOGRAPHY (English language edition): Numerous contributors. Editions Revue Noire, Paris. 1999.
53.) THE HISTORY OF JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHY: Anne Wilkes Tucker & others, Yale U Press & Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. 2003.
54.) WHERE THREE DREAMS CROSS: 150 years of Photography from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Kirsty Ogg, editor. Steidl, 2010
55.) PHOTOGRAPHIES EAST: The Camera and Its Histories in East and Southeast Asia. Rosalind C. Morris. Duke University Press, 2009
56.) IMAGE & MEMORY: Photography from Latin America, 1866-1994: Wendy Waitriss and Lois Parkinson Zamora, editors. University of Texas. 1998.
57.) MEXICAN SUITE: A History of Photography in Mexico: Olivier Debroise, translated by Stella de Sa Rego. University of Texas. 2001
58.) PHOTOGRAPHY IN ARGENTINA: Contradiction and Continuity. Idurre Alonso & Judith Keller (editors). J. Paul Getty Museum. 2017
59.) REFLECTIONS IN BLACK: A History of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present. Deborah Willis. W.W. Norton, N.Y./London. 2000.
60.) THE BLACK FEMALE BODY: A Photographic History. Deborah Willis & Carla Williams. Temple U Press. 2002.
61.) A HISTORY OF WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS (2nd edition): Naomi Rosenblum. Abbeville, New York. 2010.
62.) AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY: 1890-1965: Peter Galassi/Luc Sante. Museum of Modern Art, New York. 1995
63.) THE ECSTASY OF THINGS: from the Functional Object to the Fetish in 20th Century Photographs. Thomas Seelig & Urs Stahel, editors. Steidl, 2005
64.) THE EYE CLUB. Frish Brandt & Jeffrey Fraenkel, editors. Fraenkel Gallery & D.A.P. NYC, 2003.
65.) BEAUTY OF ANOTHER ORDER: Photography in Science. Ann Thomas. The National Gallery of Canada & Yale University Press. 1997.
66.) KIOSK: 1839-1973, A History of Photojournalism: Robert Lebeck & Bodo von Dewitz. Steidl, Gottingen, Germany, 2001
67.) BYSTANDER: A History of Street Photography. Colin Westerbeck & Joel Meyerowitz. Bulfinch, Boston. 1994.
68.) THE PHOTOBOOK: A History, Volume I. Gerry Badger & Martin Parr. Phiadon, London. 2004
69.) THE PHOTOBOOK: A History, Volume II. Gerry Badger & Martin Parr. Phiadon, London, 2006
70.) THE PHOTOBOOK: A History, Volume III: Gerry Badger & Martin Parr. Phiadon, London, 2014
71.) THE BOOK OF 101 BOOKS: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century. Andrew Roth editor. PPP Editions, NY, 2001.
72.) THE LATIN AMERICAN PHOTOBOOK: Horacio Fernandez, ed. Aperture, 2011
73.) JAPANESE PHOTOBOOKS OF THE 1960’s AND 70’s: Ivan Vartanian & Ryuichi Kaneko. Aperture, 2009
74.) THE CHINESE PHOTOBOOK. Gu Zheng & Raymond Lum. Aperture, 2015
75.) THE SOVIET PHOTOBOOK: 1920-1941. Mikhail Karasik. Steidl, 2015
Group VI: Contemporary Art Photography Anthologies…
76.) WHY PHOTOGRAPHY MATTERS AS ART AS NEVER BEFORE. Michael Fried. Yale U Press, 2008
77.) PHOTOart: Photography in the 21st Century. Uta Grosenick & Thomas Seelig. Aperture Foundation, 2007
78.) VITAMIN PH: New Perspectives in Photography. by Editors of Phaidon Press 2006
79.) EVENTS OF THE SELF: Portraiture and Social Identity: Contemporary African Photography from the Walther Collection. Okwui Enwezor, Steidl, 2010
80.) ART PHOTOGRAPHY NOW: Second Edition Susan Bright. Aperture. 2011
81.) PHOTOGRAPHY TRANSFORMED: The Metropolitan Bank & Trust Collection. Klaus Kertess. Abrams, NY, 2004
82.) CRUEL AND TENDER: The Real in the Twentieth-Century Photograph. Emma Dexter & Thomas Weski, eds. Tate Publishing, 2003
83.) AFTERWARDS: Contemporary Photography Confronting the Past. Natalie Herschdorfer. Thames & Hudson, 2011
84.) BREAKING NEWS: Contemporary Photography from the Middle East and Africa Filippo Maggia, Claudia Fini & Francesca Lazzarini, eds. Skira, 2011
85.) CONTEMPORARY CHINESE PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS. Edited by Gu Zheng. Gingko Press, Corte Madera, 2011.
86.) PHOTOGRAPHY AND ART: Interactions Since 1945: Kathleen McCarthy Gauss & Andy Grundberg. Abbeville, New York. 1987
87.) FABRICATIONS: Staged, Altered & Appropriated Photographs: Anne H. Hoy. Abbeville, New York. 1987
88.) WHAT IS A PHOTOGRAPH? Carol Squiers. Prestel, 2014
89.) POST-PHOTOGRAPHY: The Artist with a Camera. Robert Shore. Elephant Book, 2014
90.) PHOTO-POETICS: An Anthology. Jennifer Blessing. Guggenheim Museum Publications, 2015
91.) PHOTOGRAPHY IS MAGIC. Charlotte Cotton, ed. Aperture, 2015
92.) THE ORDER OF THINGS: Photography from The Walther Collection. Geoffrey Batchen. Steidl, 2015