Photography
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View from the Window at Le Gras is the oldest surviving camera photograph. Created by Nicéphore Niépce in 1826 or 1827 at Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, it shows parts of the buildings and surrounding countryside of his estate, Le Gras, seen from a high window, made using a camera obscura. It was the result of an 8-hour exposure.
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Cover of The Pencil of Nature by William Henry Fox Talbot, the first photographic book, with 24 calotypes, London, 1844, PDF.
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Portrait of Nahui Olin by Edward Weston, 1924.
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- Berenice Abbott
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Selected literature
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László Moholy-Nagy, Malerei, Fotografie, Film, 1925/27. Log.
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Gyorgy Kepes, Language of Vision: Painting, Photography, Advertising-Design, 1944/1969, Log.
(in English unless noted)
- Avant-garde
- László Moholy-Nagy, Malerei, Fotografie, Film, Munich: Albert Langen, 1925, 115 pp; 2nd ed., 1927, 140 pp. Incl. "Dynamik der Gross-Stadt", pp 116-129. (German)
- Painting Photography Film, trans. Janet Seligman, London: Lund Humphries, 1969.
- Gyorgy Kepes, Language of Vision: Painting, Photography, Advertising-Design, 1944; Chicago: Paul Theobald, 1969.
- Historisation
- Beaumont Newhall, The History of Photography: From 1839 to the Present Day, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1949, 256 pp; 5th ed., 1982.
- Historia de la fotografia, trans. Homero Alsina Thevenet, 2002. (Spanish)
- Aleksander Maciesza, Historia fotografii polskiej w latach 1839–1889, Plock: Towarzystwo Naukowe Płockie, 1972, 83 pp. (Polish)
- Peter Galassi, Before Photography. Painting and the Invention of Photography, New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1981.
- Heinz K. Henisch and Bridget A. Henisch, The Painted Photograph, 1839-1914: Origins, Techniques, Aspirations, Pennsylvania State University, 1996.
- Clément Chéroux, Fautographie. Petite histoire de l’erreur photographique, Crisnée: Yellow Now, 2003, 183 pp. (French)
- Theory and philosophy
- Pierre Bourdieu, Un art moyen. Essais sur les usages sociaux de la photographie, 1965. (French)
- Photography: A Middle-brow Art, trans. Shaun Whiteside, 1990.
- Susan Sontag, On Photography, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1977, 207 pp; RosettaBooks, 2005.
- Roland Barthes, La chambre claire: note sur la photographie, Paris: Gallimard/Seuil, 1980, 194 pp. (French)
- Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography, trans. Richard Howard, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1982, 119 pp.
- other translations
- Victor Burgin (ed.), Thinking Photography, 2nd ed., Macmillan, 1982.
- Vilém Flusser, Für eine Philosophie der Fotografie, European Photography, 1983, 58 pp; 1989; 1997; 2006. (German)
- Towards A Philosophy of Photography, ed. Derek Bennett, Göttingen: European Photography, 1984, 62 pp.
- other translations
- Vilém Flusser, Ins Universum der technischen Bilder, Göttingen: European Photography, 1985; 1992; 1996. (German)
- Into the Universe of Technical Images, trans. Nancy Ann Roth, University of Minnesota Press, 2011, 224 pp.
- other translations
- David Green, Joanna Lowry (eds.), Stillness and Time: Photography and the Moving Image, Photoworks / Photoforum, 2005, 183 pp.
- Jacques Derrida, Copy, Archive, Signature: A Conversation on Photography, edited by Gerhard Richter, trans. Jeff Fort, Stanford University Press, 2010, 67 pp.
- François Laruelle, The Concept of Non-Photography, Urbanomic/Sequence Press, 2011.
- François Laruelle, Photo-Fiction, a Non-Standard Aesthetics, trans. Drew S. Burk, Minneapolis, MN: Univocal, 2012, 85 pp.
- James Elkins, What Photography Is, New York: Routledge, 2012.
- John Berger, Understanding a Photograph, Geoff Dyer (ed.), Penguin Classics, 2013.
- Lucy Soutter, Why Art Photography?, London: Routledge, 2013.
- Other
- Georges Didi-Huberman, Invention of Hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpetriere [1982], trans. Alisa Hartz, MIT Press, 2003, 373 pp.
- Antiquity and Photography: Early Views of Ancient Mediterranean Sites, Los Angeles: Getty, 2005, 226 pp.
- Photo / Graphics, Paris: Jeu de Paume, 2008, 45 pp.
- Louis Kaplan, The Strange Case of William Mumler, Spirit Photographer, University of Minnesota Press, 2008, 288 pp.
- Publications on photography at Monoskop Log