some
books about photography

Nitobe Gardens, Vancouver,
photo by Tom Gore
Bibliography
1. HISTORY.
Braive, Michael: The Photograph: A Social History,
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966
Buckland, Gail: Reality Recorded: Early Documentary Photography,
Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1974
Frizot, Michel: A New History of Photography, New York: Koneman,
1998
Gernsheim, Helmut: The Origins of Photography, New York: Thames
& Hudson, 1982
Gernsheim, Helmut: The Rise of Photography 1850-1880, London:
Thames & Hudson, 1988
Green, Jonathan: American Photography: A Critical History, 1945 to
the Present, Millerton, NY: Aperture, 1981
Greenhill, Ralph & Andrew Birrell: Canadian Photography, 1939-1920,
Toronto: Coach House, 1979
Lemagny, Jean-Claude & Andre Rouille, ed: History of Photography:
Social & Cultural Perspectives, Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1987.
Lewinski, Jorge: The Camera at War, A History of War Photography,
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1978
Naef, Weston & James Wood: Era of Exploration: the Rise of Landscape
in the American West, Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1975
Rosenblum, Naomi: A World History of Photography, New York:
Abbeville, 1984
Szarkowski, John: Photography until Now, New York: Little Brown,
1990
Tausk, Peter: Photography in the Twentieth Century, London: Focal
Press, 1980
Westerbeck, Colin: Bystander: A History of Street Photography,
Boston: Bulfinch, 1994

Qualicum Beach,
photo by Tom Gore
2. PHOTOJOURNALISM.
Edom, Clifton: Photojournalism: Principles and Practices,
Dubuque, Iowa: W. C. Brown, 1980
Evans, Harold: Pictures on a Page, New York: Holt, Rinehart
and Winston, 1978
Kobre, Kennith: Photojournalism, the Professional
Approach, Boston: Focal Press, 1996
Schoneman, R. Smith: Photographic Communication, New York: Hastings
House, 1972
Time Life Books: Documentary Photography,
New York: Time Life Books, 1972
Time Life Books: Photojournalism, New York:
Time Life Books, 1971

Paris bookseller,
photo by Tom Gore
3. ESSAYS & OTHER WRITINGS.
Adams, Robert: Beauty in Photography, Millerton,
NY: Aperture, 1981.
Barrow, Thomas et al: Reading into Photography:
Selected Essays, 1959-80, Albuquerque, N.M.: University of New
Mexico Press, 1982
Belloff, Halla: Camera Culture, New York:
Basil Blackwell, 1985
Berger, John: About Looking, New York: Pantheon
Books, 1980
Berger, John: Ways of Seeing, Harmondsworth,
Middlesex: Penguin Books Ltd., 1972
Bolton, Richard ed.: The Contest of Meaning:
Critical Histories of Photography, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990
Braden, Su: Committing Photography, London:
Pluto Press, 1983
Featherstone, David: Observations: Essays
on Documentary Photography, Carmel: The Friends of Photography,
1984
Goldberg, Vickie: Photography in Print,
New York: Touchstone Book, 1981
James, Geoffrey, ed.: Thirteen Essays on Photography,
Ottawa, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, 1992
Lyons, Nathan, ed.: Photographers on Photography:
A Critical Anthology, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1966
Moeller, Susan D.: Shooting War, New York:
Basic Books, 1989
Newhall, Beaumont, ed.: Photography: Essays
and Images, New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1980
Papageorge, Tod: Walker Evans & Robert
Frank: An Essay on Influence, New Haven, CT.: Yale University Art
Gallery, 1981
Petruck, Peninah, ed.: The Camera Viewed,
(2 vols.) New York: Dutton, 1979
Sontag, Susan: On Photography, New York:
Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1977
Trachtenberg, Alan, ed.: Classic Essays on
Photography, New Haven, CT.: Leete's Island Books, 1980
Tremain, Kerry: Witness in Our Time. Working
Lives of Documentary Photographers. Washington: Smithsonian Institution
Press, 2000
Weston, Edward: Daybooks, New York: Aperture, 1990
wall, Seattle,
photo by Tom Gore
4. ANTHOLOGIES.
Bendavid-Val, Leah: National Geographic: The Photographs,
Washington, National Geographic, 1994
Bernard, Bruce: Photodiscovery: Masterworks of
Photography 1840-1940, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1980
Buell, Hal & Pett, Saul: The Instant It Happened:
Associated Press, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1976
Capa, Cornell, ed.: The Concerned Photographer,
New York: Grossman, 1968
Danese, Renato, ed.: American Images: Twenty
Contemporary Photographers, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1979
Eauclaire, Sally: The New Color Photography,
New York: Abbeville Press, 1981
Faas, Horst: Requiem By the Photographers who
Died in Vietnam and Indochina. New York: Random House, 1997
Ford, Colin: Portraits, London: Thames &
Hudson, 1983
Grubb, Nancy, ed.: Annie on Camera, New York:
Abbeville Press, 1982
Jussim, Estelle & Lindquist-Cock, Elizabeth:
Landscape as Photograph: Reflections on Nature, Art &
Ideology, New Haven, CT. Yale University Press, 1985
Klett, Mark et al: Second View: The Rephotographics
Project, Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 1984
Langford, Martha: Contemporary Canadian Photography,
Edmonton: Hurtig, 1984
Leekley, Sheryle & John: Moments: The Pulitzer
Prize Photographs, New York: Crown, 1978
Livingstone, Jane: The Indelible Image, Photographs
of War, New York: Harry Abrams, 1985
Lyons, Nathan, ed.: Toward a Social Landscape,
New York: Horizon, 1966
Madill, Shirley, ed: Latitudes & Parallels:
Focus on Contemporary Canadian Photography, Winnipeg: Winnipeg Art
Gallery, 1983
Magnum: Magnum (Degree), London: Phiadon, 2000
Norback, Craig & Gray, Melvin, ed.: The World's Great News Photos
1840-1940, New York: Crown, 1980
Robertson, Peter: Relentless Verity, Toronto:
University of Toronto Press, 1973
Scherman, David E., ed.: The Best of Life,
New York: Avon, 1973
Shaw, Irwin, ed.: Paris, Magnum Photographs
1835-1981, Millerton, NY: Aperture, 1981
Steichen, Edward, ed.: The Family of Man,
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1955
Stryker, Roy & Wood, Nancy: In This Proud
Land: America, 1935-43 Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1973.
Sullivan, Constance: Great Photographic
Essays from Life, Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1978.
Szarkowski, John: From The Picture Press,
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1973
Szarkowski, John: Looking at Photographs,
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1973
Szarkowski, John: Mirrors & Windows: American
Photography since 1960, New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1978
Szarkowski, John: The Photographer's Eye,
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1966
Time Life Books: The First Decade, Boston:
New York Graphic Society, 1979

Hudson River, New York,
photo by Tom Gore
5. PHOTOGRAPHERS.
Annan, Thomas: Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow, 1868/1877,
New York: Dover, 1977
Abbott, Bernice: Documentary Photography of the
1930's, Cleveland: New Gallery of Contemporary Art, 1980
Adams, Robert: From the Missouri West, Millerton,
NY: Aperture, 1980
Arbus, Diane: Diane Arbus, Millerton,
NY: Aperture, 1972
Arbus, Diane: Diane Arbus: Magazine Work,
Millerton, NY: Aperture, 1984
Bosworth, Patricia: Diane Arbus: A Biography,
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984
Szarkowski, John: The Work of Atget (4 Vols.),
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1982
Avedon, Richard: Portraits, New York:
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1976
Avedon, Richard: In The American West, New
York: Harry Abrams, 1985
Avedon, Richard: Evidence 1944-1994, New
York: Random House 1994
Becher, Bernd & Hilla: Mineheads,
Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 1985
Becher, Bernd & Hilla: Blast Furnaces,
Cambridge: MIT Press 1990
Bellocq, E. J.: Storyville Portraits, New
York: Museum of Modern Art, 1970
Bischof Werner: The World of Werner Bischof,
New York: Dutton, 1959
Flueler, Niklaus: Werner Bischof, New York:
Amphoto, 1976
Bourke-White, Margaret: Portrait of Myself,
Boston: G. K. Hall, 1985
Goldberg, Vicki: Margaret Bourke-White, a Biography,
New York: Harper & Row, 1986
Callahan, Sean: The Photographs of Margaret
Bourke-White, Greenwich, Ct.: New York Graphic Society, 1972
Silverman, Jonathan: For the World to See,
The Life of Margaret Bourke-White, New York: Viking, 1983
Meridith, Roy: Mathew Brady's Portrait of an
Era, New York: W.W. Norton, 1982
Brandt, Bill: Shadow of Light, New York:
Da Capo Press, 1977
Brandt, Bill: London in the Thirties,
New York: Pantheon, 1984
Brandt, Bill: Literary Great Britain,
London: Hurtwood Press, 1984
Mellor, David: Bill Brandt Behind the Camera,
Photographs 1928-1983, New York: Aperture, 1985
Brassai: Brassai Photographs, New York: Museum
of Modern Art, 1968
Brassai: The Artists of My Life, London:
Thames & Hudson, 1982
Brassai: The Secret Paris of the Thirties,
New York: Pantheon, 1976
Burke, Bill: I want to Take Picture,
Atlanta: Nexus Press, 1987
Burrows, Larry: The Compasionate Photo-grapher,
Greenwich, Ct.: New York Graphic Society, 1972
Capa, Robert: Images of War, New York: Grossman,
1964
Capa, Robert: Photographs, London: Faber
& Faber, 1985
Capa, Robert: Slightly out of Focus. New
York: Random House/Modern Library, 1999
Whelan, Richard: Robert Capa: A Biography,
London: Faber & Faber, 1985
Cartier-Bresson, Henri: Henri Cartier Bresson,
Photographer, Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1992
Cartier-Bresson, Henri: The World of Cartier-Bresson,
New York: Viking, 1968
Galassi, Peter: Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Early
Work, New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1988
Clarke, Keven et al: The Red Couch; a portrait
of America, New York: Alfred van der Marck Editions, 1984
Clark, Larry: Tulsa, New York: Lustrum Press,
1971
Cohen, Lynne: Occupied Territory, New York:
Aperture, 1988
Danson, Andrew: Unofficial Portraits, Toronto:
Doubleday Canada, 1987
David, Barbara A.: Edward S. Curtis, Life &
Times of A Shadow Catcher, San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1985
Davidson, Bruce: East 100th Street, Cambridge,
MA: Harvard University Press, 1970
Davidson, Bruce: Subway, New York: Aperture,
1986
Davidson, Bruce: Bruce Davidson Photographs,
New York: Agrinde, 1978
Dille, Lutz: The Many Worlds of Lutz Dille,
Ottawa: National Film Board, 1968
Doisneau, Robert: Instantanes de Paris, Paris:
Arthaud, 1955
Doisneau, Robert: Three Seconds from Eternity,
Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1979
Doisneau, Robert: Retrospective, London:
Tauis Park, 1992
Duncan, David Douglas: This is War, Boston:
Little Brown, 1990
Duncan, David Douglas: I Protest, New York:
Signet, 1968
Duncan, David Douglas: War Withour Heros,
New York: Harper & Row, 1970
Eisenstaedt, Alfred: Witness to our Time,
New York: Viking, 1966
Erwitt, Elliot: Photographs and Antiphotographs,
Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1972
Erwitt, Elliot: Recent Developments, New
York: Viking, 1978
Erwitt, Elliot: To The Dogs, New York: DAP/Scalo,
1992
Evans, Walker: American Photographs, New
York: Museum of Modern Art, 1938
Evans, Walker: Photographs from the Farm
Security Administration, New York: Da Capo, 1973
Evans, Walker: Walker Evans at Work, New
York: Harper & Row, 1982
Evans, Walker: First and Last, New York:
Harper & Row, 1978
Hannavy, John: Roger Fenton, Boston: David
R. Godine, 1976
Fink, Larry: Social Graces, Millerton, NY:
Aperture, 1984
Frank, Robert: The Americans, Millerton,
NY: Aperture, 1978
Freed, Leonard: Made in Germany, New
York: Grossman, 1970
Freedman, Jill: Circus Days, New York: Harmony
Books, 1975
Friedlander, Lee: Factory Valleys, New City,
NY: Callaway Editions, 1982.
Friedlander, Lee: Like a One-Eyed Cat, Photographs
1956-1987, New York: Abrams, 1989
Gatewood, Charles: Side Tripping, New
York: 1975
Heartfield, John: John Heartfield, New York:
Abrams, 1993
Hine, Lewis: Men at Work, New York: Dover,
1977
Hine, Lewis: Women at Work, New York: Dover,
1981
Kaplan, Daile: Lewis Hine in Europe, New
York: Abbeville Press, 1988
Rosenblum, Walter: America & Lewis Hine,
Millerton, NY: Aperture, 1979
Imes, Birney: Juke Joint, Jackson: University
Press of Mississippi, 1990
Kertesz, Andre: Andre Kertesz: Sixty Years
of Photography, New York: Grossman, 1972
Klein, William: William Klein, Millerton,
NY: Aperture, 1980
Koudelka, Josef,: Gypsies, Millerton,
NY: Aperture, 1975
Koudelka, Josef,: Exiles, Millerton,
NY: Aperture, 1988
Lange, Dorothea: An American Exodus,
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1969
Lange, Dorothea: Photographs of a Lifetime,
Millerton, NY: Aperture, 1982
Lange, Dorothea: American Photographs,
New York: Chronicle, 1994
Meltzer, Milton: Dorothea Lange, A Photographer's
Life, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1985
Liebling, Jerome: Jerome Liebling, Photographs,
New York: Aperture, 1988
Liebovitz, Annie: Annie Liebovitz Photographs,
New York: Pantheon Books, 1984.
Link, Winston: Ghost Trains: Railroad Photo-graphs
of the 1950's, Norfolk, VA: The Chrysler Museum, 1983
Lyon, Danny: Pictures from the New World,
Millerton, NY: Aperture, 1981
Lyon, Danny: Merci Gonaives: A Photographers
Account of Haiti and the February Revolution, Clintondale, NY: Bleak
Buty Books, 1988
McCullin, Don: The Destruction Business,
London: Open Gate, 1971
McCullin, Don: Heart of Darkness, New
York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981
McCullin, Don: Beirut, A City in Crises,
Seven Oaks: New English Library, 1983
Magubane, Peter: Magubane's South Africa,
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978
Mark, Mary Ellen: Falkland Road, New York:
Alfred A. Knopf, 1981
Mark, Mary Ellen: Photographs of Mother Teresa's
Missions of Charity in Calcutta, Carmel: Friends of Photography,
1985
Mark, Mary Ellen: Mary Ellen Mark; 25 Years,
Boston: Bullfinch Press, 1991
Meiselas, Susan: Carnival Strippers,
New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1976
Meiselas, Susan: Nicaragua, June 1978-July 1979,
New York: Pantheon, 1981
Misrach, Richard: Desert Cantos, Albuquerque:
University of New Mexico Press, 1987
Misrach, Richard: Bravo 20, Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1990
Misrach, Richard: Violent Legacies; Three Cantos,
New York: Aperture, 1992
Model, Lisette: Lisette Model, Millerton,
NY: Aperture, 1979.
Thomas, Ann: Lisette Model, Ottawa: National
Gallery of Canada, 1990.
Mydans, Carl: Carl Mydans, Photojournalist,
New York: Harry Abrams, 1985.
Newman, Arnold: One Mind's Eye, Boston: David
R. Godine, 1974.
Notman, William: William Notman's Studio, Montreal:
McGill U. Press, 1992.
Snyder, Joel: American Frontiers, The Photographs
of Timothy O'Sullivan, Millerton: Aperture, 1981
Owens, Bill: Suburbia: Photographs, San
Francisco: Straight Arrow, 1973
Peress, Gilles: Telex: Iran, Millerton: Aperture,
1984
Peress, Gilles: The Silence: Rwanda, New
York: Scalon, 1995
Pfahl, John: A Distanced Land, Albuquerque:
University of New Mexico Press, 1990
Richards, Eugene: The Knife and Gun Club,
Scenes from the Emergency Room, New York: Atlantic Monthly Press,
1988
Richards, Eugene: Cocaine True Cocaine
Blue, Millerton: Aperture, 1994.
Alland, Alexander: Jacob A. Riis, Photographer
& Citizen, Millerton: Aperture, 1974
Salgado, Sebastiao: An Uncertain Grace,
New York: Aperture, 1990
Salgado, Sebastiao: Workers: An Archaeology
of the Industrial Age, New York: Aperture, 1993
Salgado, Sebastiao: Migrations, Humanity in Transition, New York:
Aperture, 2000
Salomon, Peter Hunter: Erich Salomon: Portrait
of an Age, New York: MacMillan, 1967
Salomon, Peter Hunter: Erich Salomon, Millerton,
NY: Aperture, 1978
Sander, August: Photographs of an Epoch,
Millerton, NY: Aperture, 1980
Sander, August: Citizens of the Twentieth
Century, Cambridge, MA: M.I.T. Press, 1986
Semak, Michael: Ghana: Photographs, Ottawa:
National Film Board, 1971
Smith, W. Eugene: Minamata, New York: Holt,
Rinehart & Winston, 1975
Smith, W. Eugene: W. Eugene Smith: Master
of the Photographic Essay, Millerton, NY: Aperture, 1981
Hughes, Jim: W. Eugene Smith, Shadow & Substance,
New York: McGraw Hill, 1989
Maddow, Ben: Let Truth be the Prejudice, the
Life of Eugene Smith, Millerton, NY: Aperture, 1985
Mora, Gilles ed: W. Eugene Smith, Photographs
1934-1975. New York, Abrams, 1998
Willumson, Glenn: W. Eugene Smith and the
Photographic Essay, New York: Cambridge U. Press, 1992
Sternfeld, Joel: American Prospects, New
York, Times Books, 1987
Jay, Bill: Customs and Faces: Sir Benjamin Stone,
1838-1914, London: Academy Editions, 1972
Strand, Paul: Ghana: An African Portrait,
Millerton, NY: Aperture, 1977
Strand, Paul: Tir A' Mharain: Outer Hebrades,
London: MacGibbon and Kee, 1962
Strand, Paul: Paul Strand, New York: Aperture,
1990
Tomkins, Calvin: Paul Strand: Sixty Years of
Photographs, Millerton, NY: Aperture, 1976
Sudek, Josef: Josef Sudek, Poet of Prague,
New York: Aperture, 1989.
Norflett, Barbara: Killing Time, Photographs
by Joe Steinmetz, Boston: Godine, 1982
Tata, Sam: A Certain Identity: 50 Portraits,
Toronto: Doneau, 1983
Thomson, John: China and its People, New
York: Dover, 1982
Thompson,[sic] John & Smith, Adolphe: Street
Life in London, New York: Benjamin Blom, 1969
Uzzle, Burk: All American, Millerton, N.
Y.: Aperture, 1985
Vishnak, Roman: Polish Jews, New York: Schocken,
1973
Vroman, Adam Clark: Dwellers at the Source: South
West Indian Photographs, New York: Grossman, 1973
Fellig, Arthur: Weegee's New York, Munchen:
Schirmer/Mosel, 1982
Stettner, Louis: Weegee, New York: Alfred
A. Knopf, 1977
Winogrand, Gary: The Animals, New York: Museum
of Modern Art, 1969
Winogrand, Garry: Public Relations, New York:
Museum of Modern Art, 1977
Winogrand, Garry: The Man in the Street. The
Uneasy Streets of Garry Winogrand. San Francisco, Fraenkel Gallery,
1998
Szarkowski, John: Gary Winogrand, Figments
from the Real World, New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1988

Ogden Point, Victoria,
photo by Tom Gore
6. TECHNIQUE & BUSINESS.
Craven, George: Object & Image, Englewood Cliffs:
Prentice Hall, 1990
Bouton, Gary David, & Barbara Bouton: Inside Adobe Photoshop
5. Indianapolis, New Riders, 1998
Davis, Phil: Photography, Dubuque, Iowa: Wm Brown, 1982
DuVernet, Christopher: Photography and the Law, Vancouver: Self
Counsel Press, 1991
Engh, Rohn: Sellphotos.com, Cincinnati: Writer's Digest Books, 2000
Evening, Martin: Adobe Photoshop CS3 for Photographers, Boston:
Focal Press, 2007
Hirsch, Robert: Photographic Possibilities, Boston: Focal Press,
1991
Lewis, Dewi and Alan Ward: Publishing Photography. Stockport:
Dewi Lewis, 1999
Poehner, Donna, Ed. 2001 Photographer's Market,
New York: Writer's Digest, 2000
Stroebel, Leslie: The Focal Encyclopaedia of Photography, Boston:
Focal Press, 1993
Shaw, Susan: Overexposure: Health Hazzards in
Photography, Carmel: Friends of Photo-graphy, 1991
Upton, John & London, Brabara: Photography,
Boston: Brown & Benchmark, 1994
Warren, Bruce: Photography, Minneapolis:
West, 1993
Lewis, Dewi and Alan Ward: Publishing
Photography, Stockport: 1999
Dallas Road, Victoria, photo
by Tom Gore
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