| Suggested
reading and resources |
1 . Comprehensive, Landmark Volumes on Single Major Photographers
This is really the best way to
enter this wonderful world, by seeing the
pictures more than reading about them. Here are examples
in no particular order.
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Henri Cartier-Bresson, The
Decisive Moment (The
original is long out of print.)
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Silvie Aubenas, Gustave Le Gray 1820-1884 (The
J. Paul Getty Museum, 2002)
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Sarah Greenhough, Paul Strand: An American Vision (National Gallery of Art,
Washington DC, 1990)
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Sarah Greenough, Alfred
Stieglitz (National Gallery of Art, Washington
DC)
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Bruce Davidson, East
100th Street (photographs by Bruce Davidson)
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In Focus series:
August Sander (The Getty Museum)
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Colin Ford, Julia
Margaret Cameron by (Getty Museum and National
Portrait
Gallery, London)
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Roy DeCarava:
A Retrospective (The Museum of Modern Art,
New York)
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A Vision of Paris,
photographs by Eugene Atget, words by Marcel Proust
(Macmillan, 1963)
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Robert Frank, The Americans
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Douglas R. Nickel, Carleton
Watkins: The Art of Perception by (San
Francisco
Museum of Modern Art)
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Edward Weston,
His Life and Work (Aperture, 1973/1979)
A magnificent book
although portions of its text by Ben Maddow have since
been faulted by some who
were there
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Ansel Adams A large number of mongraphs are available.
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William Carter, Preservation Hall (
W.W. Norton, NY, 1991, or Cassell, London, 1996)
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Ghost Towns of
the West (Sunset Books, Lane Book Co.,
1971 & 1975)
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Middle West Country
(Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1976)
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Illuminations,
Foreword by Weston Naef (Editions
One, San Francisco, 1996)
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Eighteen Nudes (Silver Image Gallery Press, Seattle, 1987)
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2. General Works on Photography
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On the Art of
Fixing a Shadow: 150 Years of Photography (National
Gallery of
Art and the Art Institute of Chicago)
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Gordon Baldwin, Looking
at Photographs: A Guide to Technical Terms
(Getty Museum)
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Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida (Hill
& Wang 1981)
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100 Photographs
that Changed the World (LIFE division
of Time Inc.)
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Weston Naef, The J. Paul Getty
Museum Handbook of the Photographs Collection
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Helmut Gernsheim, The History of Photography —(First published 1955)
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The Family of
Man (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
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In Focus series:
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (The J. Paul Getty
Museum)
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Naomi Rosenblum, A World History of
Photography ( Abbey Press)
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Jeff C. Ward, The
Civil War Illustrated History (Alfred Knopf,
1990)
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3. Video
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American Photography:
A Century of... (PBS, 1800-PLAY-PBS)
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