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Barbara Isherwood has compiled an extensive list of future reading and viewing suggestions for you!

 

19th Century Masters

 John Stauffer, Daguerreotyping the National Soul: The Portraits of Southworth and Hawes, 1843–1860. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
 
The Daguerreotypes of Southworth and Hawes
 
Anne M. Lyden, A Perfect Chemistry: Photographs by Hill and Adamson. Scottish Portrait Gallery, 2017.
 
Photography: A Victorian Sensation – Hill and Adamson

Victoria C. Olsen, From Life: Julia Margaret Cameron and Victorian Photography. Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
 
Pictures from a glass house: Julia Margaret Cameron’s portraits
 
James Henry Rubin, Félix Nadar. Phaidon, 2001
 
Nadar's Great Portraits

Tyler Green, Carleton Watkins: Making the American West. University of California Press, 2018.
 
Carleton Watkins, Picturing Yosemite
 
Nancy Newhall, P.H. Emerson, The Fight for Photography as a Fine Art. Aperture, 1978.
 
P.H. Emerson's Naturalistic Photography
 
Stephen Petersen and Janis A. Tomlinson, Gertrude Käsebier: The Complexity of Light and Shade. University of Delaware Museum, 2013.
 
Meet Gertrude Käsebier

 
 

European Modernists

Gabriele Conrath-Scholl, August Sander: Masterpieces. Prestel, 2019.
 
Sander, Portraits

Olga Sviblova and Varvara Rodchenko, Alexander Rodchenko. Skira, 2016.

Rodchenko: The Pioneer
 
Guido Comis and Marco Franciolli, Man Ray. Skira, 2011.

Man Ray: The Paris Years
 
Jennifer L. Shaw, Exist Otherwise: The Life and Works of Claude Cahun. Reaktion Books, 2017.

Claude Cahun: Pioneering, Gender-Defying, Jewish Radical
 
Maia-Mari Sutnik, Josef Sudek: The Legacy of a Deeper Vision Hardcover. Hirmer Publishers 2012.

The Intimate World of Josef Sudek
 
André Kertèsz: Masters of Photography Series. Aperture, 2005.

André Kertész - Overview and Introduction
 
 
Modernism in North America
 
Todd Brandow and William A Ewing, Edward Steichen: Lives in Photography. WW Norton, 2008.

Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand
 
Peter Barberie, Paul Strand: Aperture Masters of Photography. Aperture, 2014.
 
Julia Van Haaften, Berenice Abbott: Aperture Masters of Photography. Aperture, 2015.

Berenice Abbott: A View of the 20th Century.
 
Terence Pitts and Manfred Heiting, Edward Weston. Taschen, 2017.

Edward Weston: Lover of Life
 
Mary Street Alinder, Ansel Adams: A Biography. Bloomsbury, 2014.

Making a Photographer: The Early Works of Ansel Adams
 
Margaret Hooks, Tina Modotti: Photographer & Revolutionary. La Fábrica, 2017.

Tina Modotti and the Mexican Renaissance
 
 

The Recording Eye

 
Pierre Assouline, Henri Cartier Bresson: A Biography. Thames and Hudson, 2013.

Contacts : Henri Cartier-Bresson
 
Linda Gordon, Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits. WW Norton, 2010.

Visual Democracy: The Photography of Dorothea Lange
 
Svetlana Alpers, Walker Evans: Starting from Scratch. Princeton University Press, 2020.

Walker Evans American Photographs
 
Ben Maddow, Let Truth Be the Prejudice: W. Eugene Smith, His Life and Photographs. Aperture, 1985.

The Life and Work of Photographer W. Eugene Smith
 
Sherry Turner DeCarava and Zoé Whitley, Roy DeCarava: Light Break. David Zwirner Books, 2019.

A Radical Vision: Roy DeCarava’s "The Sweet Flypaper Of Life"
 
R. J. Smith, American Witness: The Art and Life of Robert Frank. Da Capo Press, 2017.

Inside Photographer Robert Frank's The Americans
 
Pamela Bannos, Vivian Maier: A Photographer's Life and Afterlife. University of Chicago Press, 2018.

Ira Glass on Vivian Maier - This American Life - Invisible Made Visible

 

Art and Commerce

Britt Salvesen and John Szarkowski, Harry Callahan: The Photographer at Work. Yale University Press, 2005.

Harry Callahan | TateShots
 
Doon Arbus, Diane Arbus: Revelations. Random House, 2005.

A Box of Ten Photographs: The Odyssey of Diane Arbus
 
Mark Holborn, Daido Moriyama. Thames and Hudson, 2017.

Daido Moriyama – In Pictures | Tate
 
Ann J. Abadie (Ed.) The Beautiful Mysterious: The Extraordinary Gaze of William Eggleston. University Press of Mississippi, 2019.
 
William Eggleston | TateShots
 
Colin Westerbeck, Irving Penn: A Career in Photography. Art Institute of Chicago, 2007.
 
Irving Penn at the Intersection of Art, Fashion and Photography
 
Philip Gefter, What Becomes a Legend Most: A Biography of Richard Avedon. Harper, 2020.

What Becomes A Legend Most: A Biography Of Richard Avedon
 
Annie Leibovitz, A Photographer's Life: 1990-2005. Random House, 2006.

A Conversation with Annie Leibovitz
 
 

The Contemporaries

Joel Meyerowitz and Colin Westerbeck, Joel Meyerowitz: Where I Find Myself: A Lifetime Retrospective. Laurence King Publishing, 2018.
 
Joel Meyerowitz on 58 Years of Making Photographs

Sally Mann, Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs. Back Bay Books, 2016.
 
Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings

Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan, Meet Cindy Sherman. Roaring Brook Press, 2017.
 
The Art of Cindy Sherman: Under the Gaze
 
Ralph Rugoff et al, Andreas Gursky. Steidl/Hayward Gallery Publishing, 2018.
 
Andreas Gursky at the Hayward Gallery
 
Sebastiao Salgado, From My Land to the Planet. Contrasto, 2014.
 
In Conversation with Sebastião Salgado

William A. Ewing, Edward Burtynsky: Essential Elements. Thames & Hudson, 2016.
 
Noon Time Collection Talk with Edward Burtynsky

 

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