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.
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.

Pages

Selected publications

Beaumont Newhall, Photography 1839–1937, 1937.
László Moholy-Nagy, Malerei, Fotografie, Film, 1925/27, Log.
Franz Roh, Jan Tschichold, Foto-Auge, 1929.
Werner Gräff, Es kommt der neue Fotograf!, 1929.
László Moholy-Nagy, Von Material zu Architektur, 1929, Log.
Gyorgy Kepes, Language of Vision: Painting, Photography, Advertising-Design, 1944/69, Log.

Chronophotography

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

Avant-garde, Modernism

  • 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)
  • Albert Renger-Patzsch, Die Welt ist schön. Einhundert photographische Aufnahmen, Munich: Kurt Wolff, 1928; other ed., Munich: Einhorn, 1928. Photo book. [1] Reception.
  • August Sander, Antlitz der Zeit. Sechzig Aufnahmen Deutscher Menschen Des 20. Jahrhunderts, Munich: Transmare, 1929. Photo book. [2] [3]
  • Franz Roh, Jan Tschichold, Foto-Auge: 76 Fotos der Zeit / Œil et photo: 76 photographies de notre temps / Photo-Eye: 76 Photos of the Period, Stuttgart: Wedekind, 1929, 18+[76] pp. [4] [5] [6] [7] (German)/(French)/(English)
  • Werner Gräff, Es kommt der neue Fotograf!, Berlin: H. Reckendorf, 1929. [8] (German)
  • László Moholy-Nagy, Von Material zur Architektur, Munich: Albert Langen, Bauhausbücher 14, 1929, 241 pp; facsimile repr., Mainz and Berlin: Florian Kupferberg, 1968, 251 pp. (German)
  • 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. (English)

Historisation

  • Lucia Moholy, A Hundred Years of Photography, 1839-1939, Middlesex, England: Harmondsworth, 1939.
  • Helmut Gernsheim with Alison Gernsheim, The History of Photography From the Earliest Use of the Camera Obscura in the Eleventh Century up to 1914, Oxford University Press, 1955; rev.ed., Thames & Hudson, 1969. (English)
  • Robert M. Doty and Minor White, Photography in America, New York: Published for the Whitney Museum of American Art [by] Random House, 1974. (English)
  • Aaron Scharf, Pioneers of Photography: An Album of Pictures and Words, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1976, PDF. (English)
  • Bruce Bernard and Margaret Donovan, Photodiscovery: masterworks of photography, 1840-1940, New York: H.N. Abrams, 1980. (English)
  • Ian Jeffrey, Photography: a concise history, New York: Thames and Hudson, 1981. (English)
  • Peter Galassi, Before Photography: Painting and the Invention of Photography, New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1981, PDF. (English)
  • Jean-Luc Daval, Histoire d’un art: la photographie, Genève: Éditions d’art Albert Skira, 1982, 268 p. Review (French)
    • Photography, history of an art, trans. R.F.M. Dexter, New York: Skira/Rizzoli, 1982. (English)
  • Naomi Rosenblum, A World History of Photography, New York: Abbeville, 1984; rev.ed., 1989; 3rd edition, 1997, PDF. (English)
  • John Pultz, The Body and the Lens: Photography 1839 to the Present, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1995, PDF. (English)
  • Heinz K. Henisch, Bridget A. Henisch, The Painted Photograph, 1839-1914: Origins, Techniques, Aspirations, Pennsylvania State University, 1996. (English)
  • Pierre-Jean Amar, Histoire de la photographie, Paris: P.U.F., 1997. (French)
  • Mary Warner Marien, Photography: a cultural history, Upper River Saddle, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2002. (English)
  • Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, The photobook: a history, London: Phaidon, 2004. (English)
  • P.C. Bunnell, Inside the Photograph: Writings on Twentieth-Century Photography, Aperture, 2006. [9] (English)
  • Matthew S. Witkovsky, Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945, intro. Peter Demetz, Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, and London: Thames & Hudson, 2007, xxix+278 pp. (English)
  • Jae Emerling, Photography: history and theory, Abingdon, Oxon/ New York: Routledge, 2012. (English)
  • Tanya Sheehan, Photography, History, Difference, University Press of New England, 2014. (English)

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)
  • Eduardo Cadava, Words of Light: Theses on the Photography of History, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. (English)
  • François Laruelle, The Concept of Non-Photography, Urbanomic/Sequence Press, 2011. (English)
  • Eduardo Cadava and Gabriela Nouzeilles (eds.), The Itinerant Languages of Photography, Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum, 2013. (English)
  • John Berger, Understanding a Photograph, ed. & intro. Geoff Dyer, Aperture, 2013, 256 pp. (English)
  • Lisa Saltzman, Daguerreotypes: Fugitive Subjects, Contemporary Objects, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015, PDF. (English)

Other

  • John Szarkowski, The Photographer's Eye, New Yor: MoMA, 1966. (English)
  • George M. Craven, Object and Image, An Introduction to Photography New Jersey: Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, 1990. (English)
  • Carol Armstrong, Scenes in a Library: Reading the Photograph in the Book, 1843–1875, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1998. (English)
  • Mark Durden, Fifty Key Writers on Photography, London: Routledge, 2013. (English)
Bibliographies

Exhibitions online