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* James Elkins, ''What Photography Is'', New York: Routledge, 2012.
 
* James Elkins, ''What Photography Is'', New York: Routledge, 2012.
 
* John Berger, ''Understanding a Photograph'', Geoff Dyer (ed.), Penguin Classics, 2013.
 
* John Berger, ''Understanding a Photograph'', Geoff Dyer (ed.), Penguin Classics, 2013.
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* Lucy Soutter, ''Why Art Photography?'', London: Routledge, 2013.
  
 
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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.
Cover of The Pencil of Nature by William Henry Fox Talbot, the first photographic book, with 24 calotypes, London, 1844, PDF.
Portrait of Nahui Olin by Edward Weston, 1924.

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Selected literature

László Moholy-Nagy, Malerei, Fotografie, Film, 1925/27. Log.
Gyorgy Kepes, Language of Vision: Painting, Photography, Advertising-Design, 1944/1969, Log.

(in English unless noted)

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