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