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History of Photography Reference Books

As Robert Adams notes, "Art is by nature self-explanatory" — what writing about art can do is heighten the necessity of the work. Writers on photography like Beaumont Newhall and John Szarkowski are famously possessed of this ability, and bring an infectious fondness for the art that has made their books as necessary as the photographs they celebrate; while photographers like Robert Adams and Henri Cartier-Bresson supply a practitioner’s perspective as accomplished (as writing) as the images for which they are famed.

TITLE ALPHABETICAL INDEX

ARBUS FRIEDLANDER WINOGRAND: NEW DOCUMENTS, 1967

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

ISBN: 9780870709555
USD $45.00 | CAD $60

Pub Date: 4/25/2017
Active | In stock

BERENICE ABBOTT: PORTRAITS OF MODERNITY

Fundación MAPFRE

ISBN: 9788498447040
USD $65.00 | CAD $82 UK £ 52

Pub Date: 4/23/2019
Active | In stock

BERNADETTE MAYER: MEMORY

Siglio

ISBN: 9781938221255
USD $45.00 | CAD $63 UK £ 40

Pub Date: 6/9/2020
Active | In stock

BOTH SIDES OF SUNSET

Metropolis Books

ISBN: 9781938922732
USD $45.00 | CAD $60 UK £ 38

Pub Date: 5/26/2015
Active | In stock

BRASSAI

Fundación Mapfre

ISBN: 9788498446449
USD $75.00 | CAD $99 UK £ 60

Pub Date: 3/27/2018
Active | Out of stock

CONVERSATIONS WITH PHOTOGRAPHERS 2010

La Fábrica/Fundación Telefónica

ISBN: 9788492841981
USD $60.00 | CAD $79 UK £ 51

Pub Date: 12/31/2011
Active | In stock

DANNY LYON: AMERICAN BLOOD

Karma Books, New York

ISBN: 9781949172454
USD $35.00 | CAD $49 UK £ 30

Pub Date: 2/2/2021
Active | In stock

DAYANITA SINGH: ZAKIR HUSSAIN MAQUETTE

Steidl

ISBN: 9783958296237
USD $45.00 | CAD $63

Pub Date: 3/10/2020
Active | In stock

DISPLACED: MANZANAR 1942–1945

T. Adler Books

ISBN: 9781942884293
USD $45.00 | CAD $60 UK £ 40

Pub Date: 10/23/2018
Active | In stock

DOROTHEA LANGE: WORDS & PICTURES

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

ISBN: 9781633451049
USD $55.00 | CAD $77

Pub Date: 2/25/2020
Active | In stock

DR. PAUL WOLFF & ALFRED TRITSCHLER: PUBLICATIONS 1906–2019

Steidl

ISBN: 9783958296145
USD $145.00 | CAD $195

Pub Date: 6/29/2021
Active | In stock

DUTCH PHOTO PUBLICATIONS 1918–1980

Steidl

ISBN: 9783969991565
USD $145.00 | CAD $195

Pub Date: 9/19/2023
Active | In stock

EDWARD WESTON

Skira

ISBN: 9788857216331
USD $45.00 | CAD $57.5

Pub Date: 9/17/2013
Active | In stock

EDWARD WESTON & HARRY CALLAHAN: HE, SHE, IT

La Fábrica/Fundación Banco Santander

ISBN: 9788415691136
USD $55.00 | CAD $72.5 UK £ 47

Pub Date: 9/30/2013
Active | Out of stock

EDWARD WESTON: THE EARLY YEARS

MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

ISBN: 9780878468508
USD $50.00 | CAD $67.5 UK £ 40

Pub Date: 6/19/2018
Active | In stock

EVELYN HOFER: DUBLIN

Steidl

ISBN: 9783958296329
USD $58.00 | CAD $85

Pub Date: 1/23/2024
Active | Out of stock

GORDON PARKS: THE ATMOSPHERE OF CRIME, 1957

Steidl/The Gordon Parks Foundation

ISBN: 9783958296961
USD $50.00 | CAD $65

Pub Date: 6/16/2020
Active | Out of stock

GORDON PARKS: THE NEW TIDE

Steidl/Gordon Parks Foundation/National Gallery of Art

ISBN: 9783958294943
USD $65.00 | CAD $92

Pub Date: 11/20/2018
Active | Out of stock

HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON: LE GRAND JEU

Marsilio

ISBN: 9788829704200
USD $65.00 | CAD $92 UK £ 57

Pub Date: 8/25/2020
Active | Out of stock

HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON: THE MODERN CENTURY

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

ISBN: 9780870707780
USD $80.00 | CAD $120

Pub Date: 4/30/2010
Active | In stock

IMAGINING EVERYDAY LIFE: ENGAGEMENTS WITH VERNACULAR PHOTOGRAPHY

Steidl/The Walther Collection, New York

ISBN: 9783958296275
USD $55.00 | CAD $77

Pub Date: 7/14/2020
Active | Out of stock

JOHN GOSSAGE: THE NICKNAMES OF CITIZENS

Steidl

ISBN: 9783958295483
USD $50.00 | CAD $69.95

Pub Date: 3/25/2020
Active | Out of stock

KELD HELMER-PETERSEN: PHOTOGRAPHS 1941–2013

Strandberg Publishing

ISBN: 9788793604544
USD $70.00 | CAD $99

Pub Date: 1/21/2020
Active | In stock

LEE FRIEDLANDER: THE MIND AND THE HAND

Eakins Press Foundation

ISBN: 9780871300799
USD $90.00 | CAD $125 UK £ 80

Pub Date: 4/23/2019
Active | Out of stock

LEONARD FREED: POLICE WORK

Reel Art Press

ISBN: 9781909526709
USD $59.95 | CAD $84.95

Pub Date: 11/19/2024
Active | In stock

LEWIS BALTZ: TEXTS

Steidl

ISBN: 9783869304366
USD $30.00 | CAD $40

Pub Date: 3/12/2012
Active | In stock

LOOKING AT PHOTOGRAPHY

Damiani

ISBN: 9788862087025
USD $45.00 | CAD $63

Pub Date: 4/7/2020
Active | In stock

LOUIS FAURER

Steidl/Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris

ISBN: 9783958292475
USD $40.00 | CAD $54

Pub Date: 12/27/2016
Active | Out of stock

LUIGI GHIRRI: CARDBOARD LANDSCAPES (PAESAGGI DI CARTONE)

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

ISBN: 9781633451025
USD $45.00 | CAD $63

Pub Date: 9/29/2020
Active | In stock

MANUEL ÁLVAREZ BRAVO: IN COLOR

RM

ISBN: 9788417975180
USD $55.00 | CAD $77

Pub Date: 4/14/2020
Active | Out of stock

MASAHISA FUKASE

Editions Xavier Barral

ISBN: 9782365112024
USD $90.00 | CAD $120

Pub Date: 9/25/2018
Active | In stock

MICHAEL JANG: WHO IS MICHAEL JANG?

Atelier Éditions

ISBN: 9780997593594
USD $65.00 | CAD $90 UK £ 57

Pub Date: 9/17/2019
Active | Out of stock

NAN GOLDIN: THE OTHER SIDE

Steidl

ISBN: 9783958296138
USD $55.00 | CAD $75

Pub Date: 11/19/2019
Active | In stock

NEW YORK IN PHOTOBOOKS

RM/Centro José Guerrero

ISBN: 9788416282746
USD $35.00 | CAD $47.5

Pub Date: 3/28/2017
Active | Out of stock

NOTES ON GLAZE

Cabinet Books

ISBN: 9781932698589
USD $25.00 | CAD $34.5 UK £ 22

Pub Date: 5/24/2016
Active | In stock

PHOTO REVOLUTION: ANDY WARHOL TO CINDY SHERMAN

Worcester Art Museum

ISBN: 9781732821453
USD $50.00 | CAD $69.95 UK £ 45

Pub Date: 1/21/2020
Active | Out of stock

PHOTOGRAPHY AT MOMA: 1920 TO 1960

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

ISBN: 9781633450134
USD $75.00 | CAD $99

Pub Date: 10/4/2016
Active | In stock

PHOTOGRAPHY AT MOMA: 1960 TO NOW

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

ISBN: 9780870709692
USD $75.00 | CAD $99

Pub Date: 10/27/2015
Active | In stock

RALPH GIBSON: SELF-EXPOSURE

Heni Publishing

ISBN: 9781912122103
USD $49.95 | CAD $67.5

Pub Date: 11/20/2018
Active | In stock

ROBERT ADAMS: EDEN

Steidl

ISBN: 9783958296817
USD $55.00 | CAD $79

Pub Date: 12/12/2023
Active | In stock

ROBERT ADAMS: LOS ANGELES SPRING

Steidl

ISBN: 9783958296824
USD $195.00 | CAD $275

Pub Date: 10/3/2023
Active | In stock

ROBERT ADAMS: ON LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN

Steidl

ISBN: 9783958296831
USD $55.00 | CAD $79

Pub Date: 12/12/2023
Active | In stock

ROBERT ADAMS: SUMMER NIGHTS, WALKING

Steidl

ISBN: 9783958296848
USD $55.00 | CAD $79

Pub Date: 12/19/2023
Active | Out of stock

ROBERT ADAMS: THE NEW WEST

Steidl

ISBN: 9783869309002
USD $40.00 | CAD $54

Pub Date: 3/22/2016
Active | Out of stock

ROBERT FRANK: BOOKS AND FILMS, 1947–2019

Steidl

ISBN: 9783958293069
USD $30.00 | CAD $42

Pub Date: 11/10/2020
Active | In stock

SHUNK-KENDER: ART THROUGH THE EYE OF THE CAMERA

Éditions Xavier Barral

ISBN: 9782365112369
USD $65.00 | CAD $90

Pub Date: 5/21/2019
Active | In stock

THE BOOK OF IMAGES

Walther König, Köln

ISBN: 9783960986492
USD $65.00 | CAD $92

Pub Date: 4/21/2020
Active | In stock

THE IMPRESSIONISTS AND PHOTOGRAPHY

Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza

ISBN: 9788417173340
USD $68.00 | CAD $95 UK £ 60

Pub Date: 2/11/2020
Active | In stock

THE PHOTOGRAPHER'S EYE

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

ISBN: 9780870705274
USD $35.00 | CAD $52

Pub Date: 3/1/2007
Active | In stock

THE SOVIET CENTURY

La Fábrica

ISBN: 9788417048686
USD $55.00 | CAD $75 UK £ 47

Pub Date: 6/18/2019
Active | In stock

THE SUBVERSION OF IMAGES

Wakefield Press

ISBN: 9781939663474
USD $14.95 | CAD $19.95 UK £ 12.99

Pub Date: 1/21/2020
Active | Out of stock

THIS PLACE

Hatje Cantz

ISBN: 9783775746168
USD $75.00 | CAD $105

Pub Date: 9/17/2019
Active | Out of stock

THOMAS STRUTH

D.A.P.

ISBN: 9781942884224
USD $85.00 | CAD $112.5

Pub Date: 10/24/2017
Active | In stock

UNRETOUCHED WOMEN

Actes Sud

ISBN: 9782330125196
USD $39.00 | CAD $55 UK £ 34

Pub Date: 11/19/2019
Active | In stock

WALKER EVANS: AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHS

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

ISBN: 9780870708350
USD $45.00 | CAD $62

Pub Date: 8/31/2012
Active | In stock

WILLIAM KLEIN: CELEBRATION

La Fábrica

ISBN: 9788417048792
USD $39.95 | CAD $55 UK £ 35

Pub Date: 5/21/2019
Active | In stock

YOU'VE GOT TO DO A DAMN SIGHT BETTER THAN THAT, BUSTER

Steidl

ISBN: 9783958297012
USD $50.00 | CAD $69.95

Pub Date: 6/24/2025
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Recommended for Libraries: Essential Photography Reference Books

Best-selling Titles from Essential Photography Reference Books

Brassai FUNDACIóN MAPFRE ISBN  9788498446449 Hbk, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 368 pgs / 212 bw. | 3/27/2018 | Out of stock  |   US $75.00	Looking at Photographs: 100 Pictures from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK ISBN  9780870705151 Pbk, 9 x 11 in. / 216 pgs / 100 duotone. | 3/1/2009 | Not available  |   US $45.00	The Photographer's Eye THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK ISBN  9780870705274 Paperback, 8.5 x 9 in. / 156 pgs / 173 duotone. | 3/1/2007 | In stock  |   US $35.00
The History of Photography THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK ISBN  9780870703812 Pbk, 8 x 11 in. / 320 pgs / 17 color / 287 duotone. | 1/31/2010 | Not available  |   US $39.95

Essential Photography Reference Books Active Backlist Titles

Arbus Friedlander Winogrand: New Documents, 1967 THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK ISBN  9780870709555 Hbk, 9 x 10.5 in. / 160 pgs / 125 duotone. | 4/25/2017 | In stock  |   US $45.00	Berenice Abbott: Portraits of Modernity FUNDACIóN MAPFRE ISBN  9788498447040 Clth, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 248 pgs / 190 duotone. | 4/23/2019 | In stock  |   US $65.00	Bernadette Mayer: Memory SIGLIO ISBN  9781938221255 Hbk, 10 x 7.25 in. / 332 pgs / 1155 color. | 6/9/2020 | In stock  |   US $45.00
Both Sides of Sunset METROPOLIS BOOKS ISBN  9781938922732 Hbk, 12.75 x 10.25 in. / 288 pgs / 181 color / 106 bw. | 5/26/2015 | In stock  |   US $45.00	Conversations with Photographers 2010 LA FáBRICA/FUNDACIóN TELEFóNICA ISBN  9788492841981 Boxed pbk, 4.5 x 6 in. / 500 pgs. | 12/31/2011 | In stock  |   US $60.00	Danny Lyon: American Blood KARMA BOOKS, NEW YORK ISBN  9781949172454 Hbk, 6.5 x 9.25 in. / 396 pgs / 16 color / 57 bw. | 2/2/2021 | In stock  |   US $35.00
Dayanita Singh: Zakir Hussain Maquette STEIDL ISBN  9783958296237 Hbk, 8.25 x 9.5 in. / 88 pgs / 94 bw. | 3/10/2020 | In stock  |   US $45.00	Displaced: Manzanar 1942–1945 T. ADLER BOOKS ISBN  9781942884293 Hbk, 9.25 x 8.75 in. / 176 pgs / 160 bw. | 10/23/2018 | In stock  |   US $45.00	Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK ISBN  9781633451049 Clth, 9 x 10.5 in. / 176 pgs / 70 color / 75 duotone. | 2/25/2020 | In stock  |   US $55.00
Dr. Paul Wolff & Alfred Tritschler: Publications 1906–2019 STEIDL ISBN  9783958296145 Hbk, 10.75 x 11.5 in. / 520 pgs / 2300 color. | 6/29/2021 | In stock  |   US $145.00	Dutch Photo Publications 1918–1980 STEIDL ISBN  9783969991565 Hbk, 10.5 x 11.25 in. / 560 pgs / 1095 color. | 9/19/2023 | In stock  |   US $145.00	Edward Weston SKIRA ISBN  9788857216331 Hbk, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 150 pgs / 110 duotone. | 9/17/2013 | In stock  |   US $45.00
Edward Weston: The Early Years MFA PUBLICATIONS, MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON ISBN  9780878468508 Hbk, 9 x 11 in. / 192 pgs / 115 color. | 6/19/2018 | In stock  |   US $50.00	Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK ISBN  9780870707780 Clth, 9.75 x 12.25 in. / 376 pgs / 75 color / 360 duotone. | 4/30/2010 | In stock  |   US $80.00	Keld Helmer-Petersen: Photographs 1941–2013 STRANDBERG PUBLISHING ISBN  9788793604544 Hbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 308 pgs / 250 color / 50 bw. | 1/21/2020 | In stock  |   US $70.00
Leonard Freed: Police Work REEL ART PRESS ISBN  9781909526709 Hbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 192 pgs / 150 bw. | 11/19/2024 | In stock  |   US $59.95	Lewis Baltz: Texts STEIDL ISBN  9783869304366 Clth, 5.25 x 8.25 in. / 200 pgs / illustrated throughout. | 3/12/2012 | In stock  |   US $30.00	Looking at Photography DAMIANI ISBN  9788862087025 Hbk, 6.75 x 8.75 in. / 204 pgs / 100 color. | 4/7/2020 | In stock  |   US $45.00
Luigi Ghirri: Cardboard Landscapes (Paesaggi di cartone) THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK ISBN  9781633451025 Hbk, 9.5 x 9.5 in. / 112 pgs / 111 color. | 9/29/2020 | In stock  |   US $45.00	Masahisa Fukase EDITIONS XAVIER BARRAL ISBN  9782365112024 Hbk, 7.75 x 10.25 in. / 416 pgs / 160 color / 300 bw. | 9/25/2018 | In stock  |   US $90.00	Nan Goldin: The Other Side STEIDL ISBN  9783958296138 Clth, 9 x 10.75 in. / 140 pgs / 100 color / 30 bw. | 11/19/2019 | In stock  |   US $55.00
Notes on Glaze CABINET BOOKS ISBN  9781932698589 Hbk, 5.5 x 8 in. / 96 pgs / 14 color / 4 bw. | 5/24/2016 | In stock  |   US $25.00	Photography at MoMA: 1920 to 1960 THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK ISBN  9781633450134 Hbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 392 pgs / 375 color. | 10/4/2016 | In stock  |   US $75.00	Photography at MoMA: 1960 to Now THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK ISBN  9780870709692 Hbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 368 pgs / 632 color. | 10/27/2015 | In stock  |   US $75.00
Ralph Gibson: Self-Exposure HENI PUBLISHING ISBN  9781912122103 Pbk, 9 x 13 in. / 372 pgs / 285 color. | 11/20/2018 | In stock  |   US $49.95	Robert Adams: Eden STEIDL ISBN  9783958296817 Clth, 9 x 8 in. / 48 pgs / 21 bw. | 12/12/2023 | In stock  |   US $55.00	Robert Adams: Los Angeles Spring STEIDL ISBN  9783958296824 Slip, hbk, 15.5 x 13.5 in. / 120 pgs / 56 bw. | 10/3/2023 | In stock  |   US $195.00
Robert Adams: On Lookout Mountain STEIDL ISBN  9783958296831 Clth, 11 x 13 in. / 40 pgs / 4 color / 17 bw. | 12/12/2023 | In stock  |   US $55.00	Robert Frank: Books and Films, 1947–2019 STEIDL ISBN  9783958293069 Hbk, 8.25 x 11.75 in. / 120 pgs / 4 color / 75 bw. | 11/10/2020 | In stock  |   US $30.00	Shunk-Kender: Art Through the Eye of the Camera ÉDITIONS XAVIER BARRAL ISBN  9782365112369 Hbk, 7.5 x 10 in. / 484 pgs / 840 bw. | 5/21/2019 | In stock  |   US $65.00
The Book of Images WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN ISBN  9783960986492 Clth, 9.25 x 12.75 in. / 352 pgs / 900 color / 50 bw. | 4/21/2020 | In stock  |   US $65.00	The Impressionists and Photography MUSEO NACIONAL THYSSEN-BORNEMISZA ISBN  9788417173340 Hbk, 8 x 11 in. / 288 pgs / 140 color / 50 bw. | 2/11/2020 | In stock  |   US $68.00	The Photographer's Eye THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK ISBN  9780870705274 Paperback, 8.5 x 9 in. / 156 pgs / 173 duotone. | 3/1/2007 | In stock  |   US $35.00
The Soviet Century LA FáBRICA ISBN  9788417048686 Slip, pbk, 8.5 x 10.75 in. / 600 pgs / 550 bw. | 6/18/2019 | In stock  |   US $55.00	Thomas Struth D.A.P. ISBN  9781942884224 Hbk, 10 x 12.5 in. / 320 pgs / 401 color. | 10/24/2017 | In stock  |   US $85.00	Unretouched Women ACTES SUD ISBN  9782330125196 Hbk, 7.5 x 8.5 in. / 168 pgs. | 11/19/2019 | In stock  |   US $39.00
Walker Evans: American Photographs THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK ISBN  9780870708350 Clth, 7.75 x 8.75 in. / 208 pgs / 87 duotone. | 8/31/2012 | In stock  |   US $45.00	William Klein: Celebration LA FáBRICA ISBN  9788417048792 Hbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 128 pgs / 17 color / 43 bw. | 5/21/2019 | In stock  |   US $39.95