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Selected Surveys of Modern & Contemporary Photography

PHOTOart: Photography in the 21st Century by Uta Grosenick (Editor); Thomas Seelig (Editor) More adventurous in scope than other comparable compendiums, "Photo Art" is a vast critical survey of contemporary conceptual-oriented photography.
Call Number: TR655 .P488 2007
Photography Is Magic by Charlotte Cotton "Photography Is Magic" draws together current ideas about the use of photography as an invaluable medium in the contemporary art world.
Call Number: TR655 .C68 2015
Art Photography Now by Susan Bright This indispensable survey presents the work of 76 of the most important and best-known art photographers in the world.
Call Number: TR655 .B686 2011
Vitamin Ph by Phaidon Press Editors (Created by); Rodrigo Alonso; Thomas Boutoux; Isolde Brielmaier; University of Rochester Staff Vitamin Ph is a global, up-to-the-minute survey of new developments in contemporary photography, featuring the work of 121 living photographers who have made a fresh and innovative contribution to international art photography.
Call Number: TR655 .V48 2006
Art and Photography: Themes and Documents by David Campany (Editor) International in scope, Art and Photography is the most authoritative and wide-ranging survey on the place of photography in contemporary art and culture.
Call Number: TR655 .A78 2012
Looking at Photographs: 100 Photographs from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art by John Szarkowski Originally published in 1973, this survey of The Museum of Modern Art's photography collection explores the evolution of the photographic medium using specific examples to illustrate its development.
Call Number: TR650 .N49

Selected Books on the History of Photography

Color: American Photography Transformed by Amon Carter Museum of American Art Staff; John Rohrbach The first book that addresses color in photography from the beginning of the medium to the present, this landmark copublication with the Amon Carter Museum of American Art explores how color transformed photography into today's dominant artistic form.
Call Number: TR510 .C536 2013
The History of Photography by Beaumont Newhall Since its first publication in 1937, this lucid and scholarly chronicle of the history of photography has been hailed as the classic work on the subject.
Call Number: TR15 .N47 1982
The Photobook: A History, 3 vols. by Martín Parr; Gerry Badger The Photobook volumes represent a valuable catalogue of rare and important photobooks, and since Phaidon published Volume I in 2004, are now regarded by academics, students and photobook bibliophiles as the definitive works on this subject.
Call Number: TR15 .P37
The Photograph by Graham Clarke Graham Clarke gives a clear and incisive account of the photograph's historical development, and elucidates the insights of the most interesting thinkers on the subject such as Roland Barthes and Susan Sontag.
Call Number: TR15 .C566 1997
Photography: A Cultural History by Mary Lou Marien; Mary Warner Marien The book was written to introduce students to photography. It does not require that students possess any technical know-how and can be taught without referring to techniques in photography.
Call Number: TR15 .M273 2010
Photography: The Whole Story by Juliet Hacking (Editor) Unlike many other artistic media, photography's origins are well documented, as are its ever-changing technologies and applications. Written by an international team of experts, this definitive history of photography looks at every step of the field's dynamic evolution, period by period and movement by movement.
Call Number: TR15 .P479 2012
Photography and the Arts by Juliet Hacking (Editor); Joanne Lukitsh (Editor)
Call Number: TR15 .P46 2020
The Printed Picture by Richard Benson The Printed Picture traces the changing technology of picture-making from the Renaissance to the present, focusing on the vital role of images in multiple copies.
Call Number: Z257 .B46 2008
A World History of Photography by Naomi Rosenblum A World History of Photography encompasses the entire range of the medium, from the camera lucida to the latest computer technology, and from Europe and the Americans to the Far East. It investigates all aspects of photography -- aesthetic, documentary, commercial, and technical -- while placing it in historical context.
Call Number: TR15 .R67 1997

Essays on Photography

After Photography by Fred Ritchin After Photography examines the myriad ways in which the digital revolution has fundamentally altered the way we receive visual information, from photos of news events taken by ordinary people on cell phones to the widespread use of image surveillance.
Call Number: TR267 .R57 2010
Beauty in Photography by Robert Adams These essays address us in the quiet voice of a working photographer, an artist and craftsman who has thought long and seriously about his endeavor, who has tested and questioned his own assumptions in the light of actual practice.
Call Number: TR642 .A27 1996
Believing Is Seeing: Observations on the Mysteries of Photography by Errol Morris Morris untangles the mysteries behind an eclectic range of documentary photographs, from the ambrotype of three children found clasped in the hands of an unknown soldier at Gettysburg to the indelible portraits of the WPA photography project.
Call Number: TR820.5 .M676 2011
Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes; Richard Howard (Translator) This personal, wide-ranging, and contemplative volume--and the last book Barthes published--finds the author applying his influential perceptiveness and associative insight to the subject of photography.
Call Number: TR642 .B3713
Classic Essays on Photography by Alan Trachtenberg Containing 30 essays that embody the history of photography, this collection includes contributions from Niepce, Daguerre, Fox, Talbot, Poe, Emerson, Hine, Stieglitz, and Weston, among others.
Call Number: TR185 .C56 1980
The Critical Eye: fifteen pictures to understand photography by Lyle Rexer
Call Number: TR187 .R49 2019
The Eternal Moment by Estelle Jussim "Divided into three-sections-- "Visual Communication," "Genres," and "Bio-History"-- The Eternal Moment includes essays that assess how aspects of the medium such as early wood-engraving or the role of the museum affect communication in a visual culture.
Call Number: TR185 .J88 1989
Light Matters: Writings on Photography by Vicki Goldberg Light Matters gathers for the first time a selection of this remarkable author’s essays and criticism, culled from her writings published over the past twenty-five years.
Call Number: TR185 .G65 2005
The Nature of Photographs: A Primer by Stephen Shore The Nature of Photographs is the essential primer of photography, not only for students but for anyone with an interest in the medium.
Call Number: TR179 .S56 2010
On Photography by Susan Sontag One of the most highly regarded books of its kind, "On Photography" first appeared in 1977 and is described by its author as " a progress of essays about the meaning and career of photographs.
Call Number: TR183 .S65 1977
The Photography Reader by Liz Wells (Editor) The Photography Reader is a comprehensive introduction to theories of photography; its production; and its uses and effects. Including articles by photographers from Edward Weston to Jo Spence, as well as key thinkers like Roland Barthes, Victor Burgin and Susan Sontag.
Call Number: TR146 .P46 2003
What Is a Photograph? by Carol Squiers; Geoffrey Batchen (Contribution by); George Baker (Contribution by); Hito Steyerl (Contribution by)
Call Number: TR656 .W53 2014
Why People Photograph by Robert Adams Why People Photograph is a book by a professional photographer about the relationship of art and life.
Call Number: TR642 .A28 1994
Why Photography Matters As Art As Never Before by Michael Fried From the late 1970s onward, serious art photography began to be made at large scale and for the wall. Michael Fried argues that this immediately compelled photographers to grapple with issues centering on the relationship between the photograph and the viewer standing before it that until then had been the province only of painting.
Call Number: TR642 .F75 2008

Selected Technical Guides

Black and White Photography by Henry Horenstein Comprehensive instructional book that covers every element of photography.
Call Number: TR146 .H793 2005
Beyond Basic Photography by Henry Horenstein; Henry Isaacs (Illustrator) Answers the more technical questions of photographers who are already familiar with the basics so well detailed in Henry Horenstein's ... Black and White Photography.
Call Number: TR145 .H62 1977
Digital Photography by Henry Horenstein; Allison Carroll (As told to) The first digital textbook by legendary photography teacher Henry Horenstein, Digital Photography is the best guide yet for aspiring digital photographers, essential both for photographers transitioning from film to digital and those learning the art of photography for the first time.
Call Number: TR267 .H67 2011
Behind the Camera: Creative Techniques of 100 Great Photographers by Paul Lowe "Both a how-to book and an overview of photography's great practitioners, this fascinating and informative profile of the world's best photographers reveals the techniques, strategies, and creative visions that are embodied in their oeuvre and inform the work of photographers everywhere. "
Call Number: TR146 .L678 2016