Photography

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.

William Henry Fox Talbot, The Pencil of Nature, 1844, PDF. First photographic book, with 24 calotypes.

Eadweard Muybridge, Animal Locomotion, 11 vols., 1887, JPGs.

An inverted photograph from F. W. Dyson, A. S. Eddington, and C. Davidson, "A Determination of the Deflection of Light by the Sun's Gravitational Field, from Observations Made at the Total Eclipse of May 29, 1919", Phil. Trans. of the Royal Society of London (1920), p 332.

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)

Chronophotography

• Eadweard Muybridge, Animal Locomotion, 11 vols., Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1887, 781 plates.

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, intro. Siegfried Giedion and Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa, Chicago: Paul Theobald, 1944; rev.ed., Chicago: Paul Theobald, 1964.
  • translations

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)
• Kaja Silverman, The Miracle of Analogy or The History of Photography, Part 1, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015. [1]

Theory and philosophy

La chambre claire: note sur la photographie, 1980, PDF, Log.

• 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.
  • translations
• 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, Routledge, 2012.
• John Berger, Understanding a Photograph, ed. & intro. Geoff Dyer, Aperture, 2013, 256 pp.

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

Bibliographies

• Kelley Wilder, "History of Photography", Oxford Bibliographies, 2014.