Photography Subject Guide

Reference books

Cotton, Charlotte. The Photograph as Contemporary Art. 3^rd ed. World of Art. New York, NY: Thames & Hudson, 2014 – TR 642 C68 2014

Frizot, Michel. A New History of Photography. Köln: Könemann, 1998 – TR 15 B6813 1998

Marien, Mary Warner. Photography: A Cultural History. 4^th ed. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020 – TR 15 M273 2014

Peres, Michael R. Focal Encyclopedia of Photography: Digital Imaging, Theory and Applications, History, and Science. 4^th ed. N.p.: Focal Press, 2013 – eBook

Wells, Liz. Photography: A Critical Introduction. 4^th ed. London: Routledge, 2009 – TR 145 P495 2009

Photography books in the Library’s REFERENCE section

Theory & criticism

Bolton, Richard. The Contest of Meaning: Critical Histories of Photography. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1989 – TR 642 C66 1989

Elkins, James. Photography Theory. New York, NY: Routledge, 2007 – eBook

Emerling, Jae. Photography: History and Theory. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2012 – TR 187 E44 2012

Lyons, Nathan, ed. Photographers on Photography: A Critical Anthology. Prentice-Hall Foundations of Modern Photography. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1966 – TR 185 LP

Wells, Liz, ed. The Photography Reader: History and Theory. 2^nd ed. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2019 – TR 187 P56 2019

Library of Congress Subject Heading: Photographic Criticism

Technical books

Benson, Richard. The Printed Picture. New York, NY: Museum of Modern Art, 2008 – TR 15 B46 2008

Haist, Grant Milford. Modern Photographic Processing. Wiley Series on Photographic Science and Technology and the Graphic Arts. 2 vols. New York, NY: Wiley, 1979 – TR 287 H28

Kingslake, Rudolf. A History of the Photographic Lens. Boston: Academic Press, 1989 – TR 270 K49 1989

Lister, Martin. The Photographic Image in Digital Culture. 2^nd ed. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 2013 – eBook

Mees, C.E. Kenneth. From Dry Plates to Ektachrome Film: A Story of Photographic Research. New York, NY: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1961 – TR 15 M37

Library of Congress Subject Heading: Photography – Handbooks, manuals, etc.

BIPOC representation in photography

Bright, Sheila Pree. 1960 Now: Photographs of Civil Rights and Black Lives Matter Protests. San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 2018 – E 185.61 B85 2018

Duganne, Erina. The Self in Black and White: Race and Subjectivity in Postwar American Photography. Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press, 2010 – TR 23 D84 2010

Pinney, Christopher, and Nicolas Peterson. Photography’s Other Histories. Objects/Histories. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003 – TR 15 P495 2003

Strathman, Nicole Dawn. Through a Native Lens: American Indian Photography. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2020 - eBook

Willis, Deborah. Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers, 1840 to the Present. New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 2000 – TR 23 W55 2000

Library of Congress Subject Headings: African American photographers ; Indian photographers ; Photographers, Black (Combined search of these Library of Congress Subject Headings: here)

Combined search for Subject: Photography AND Keyword: Indigenous OR Inuit OR Métis OR "First Nation" OR Black OR "Person of color" OR Asian OR Latin* NOT Keyword: "Black and white" NOT Keyword: "Black & white"

Canadian photography

Cousineau-Levine, Penny. Faking Death: Canadian Art Photography and the Canadian Imagination. Montreal, QC: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2003 - eBook

Greenhill, Ralph, and A.J. Birrell. Photography, 1839-1920. Toronto, ON: Coach House Press, 1979 – TR 26 G72 1979

Kunard, Andrea, and Carol Payne. The Cultural Work of Photography in Canada. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2011 – TR 183 C85 2011

Langford, Martha. Scissors, Paper, Stone: Expressions of Memory in Contemporary Photographic Art. Monteal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2014 – eBook

Langford, Martha. “A Short History of Photography, 1900-2000,” in The Visual Arts in Canada: The Twentieth Century, edited by Anne Whitelaw, Brian Foss, and Sandra Paikowsky, 278-311. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2010 – N 6545 V5885 2010

Payne, Carol. The Official Picture: The National Film Board of Canada’s Still Photography Division and the Image of Canada, 1941-1971. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2013 – eBook

Library of Congress Subject Heading: Photography – Canada

Photobooks (about)

Di Bello, Patricia, Colette E. Wilson, and Shamoon Zamir. The Photobook: From Talbot to Ruscha and Beyond. London: I.B. Tauris, 2012 – TR 501 P468 2012 

Dugan, Thomas. Photography Between Covers: Interviews with Photo-Bookmakers. Rochester, NY: Light Impressions, 1979 – TR 147 D83

Parr, Martin, and Gerry Badger. The Photobook: A History. 3 vols. London: Phaidon, 2004-2014 – N 7433.3 P39 2004

Library of Congress Subject Heading: Photobooks
Library of Congress Subject Heading and Genre search: Photography AND Artists' books

Photography journals & magazines (online)

Aperture (1952 - ) – eMagazine

British Journal of Photography (2009 - ) – eMagazine

Ciel Variable / CV (2003 - ) – eMagazine

Études photographiques (1996-2017) - eJournal

History of Photography (1977 - ) – eJournal

Photographies (2008 - ) – eJournal

Photography & Culture (2008 - ) – eJournal

Prefix Photo (2000 - ) – eMagazine

Visual Studies (2002 - ) - eJournal

Library of Congress Subject Heading: Photography, Artistic – Periodicals

Online resources outside of Concordia University

ASX: An Epicenter for Art & Photography
AMERICAN SUBURB X

Centre collégial de développement de matérial didactique (CCDMD)
Mise au point sur la photographie québécoise - online platform for the general history of photography in Québec.

Getty Conservation Institute
“Fundamentals of the Conservation of Photographs.” Los Angeles, CA: Getty Conservation Institute. Last modified May 2011. https://www.getty.edu/conservation/publications_resources/teaching/photographic_materials.html

Stulik, Dusan, and Art Kaplan. “The Atlas of Analytical Signatures of Photographic Processes.”