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On Photography

Susan Sontag

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La Chambre claire: Note sur la photographie

Roland Barthes

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A World History of Photography

Naomi Rosenblum

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History of Photography: From 1839 to the Present

Beaumont Newhall

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Wisconsin Death Trip

Michael Lesy

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In Focus: National Geographic Greatest Portraits

Leah Bendavid-Val

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The Photograph as Contemporary Art (World of Art)

Charlotte Cotton

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Seizing the Light: A History of Photography

Robert Hirsch

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Criticizing Photographs: An Introduction to Understanding Images

Terry Barrett

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Looking at Photographs: 100 Pictures from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art

John Szarkowski

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God Is At Eye Level: Photography As A Healing Art

Jan Phillips

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New York's Bravest: Eight Decades of Photographs from the Daily News

Shawn O'Sullivan

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The Passionate Camera: Photography and Bodies of Desire

Deborah Bright

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About to Die: How News Images Move the Public

Barbie Zelizer

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In the Footsteps of Paul

Ken Duncan

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Enduring Cowboys: Life in the New Mexico Saddle

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Magnum: Fifty Years at the Front Line of History: The Story of the Legendary Photo Agency

Russell Miller

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Tender Violence: Domestic Visions in an Age of U.S. Imperialism (Cultural Studies of the United States)

Laura Wexler

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Billy Graham: God's Ambassador

Russ Busby

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Alfred Stieglitz and the Photo-Secession

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Aftermath: World Trade Center Archive

Joel Meyerowitz

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Camera Works: Photography and the Twentieth-Century Word

Michael North

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Picturing Place: Photography and the Geographical Imagination (International Library of Human Geography)

Joan M. Schwartz

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Faces of Africa

Angela Fisher

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Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian, Incorporated (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)

Mick Gidley

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Obituary Cocktail: The Great Saloons of New Orleans

Kerri McCaffety

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Sacred Mountains of the World

Edwin Bernbaum

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The Hidden Canyon: A River Journey

Edward Abbey

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Photography: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

Steve Edwards

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American Photography (Oxford History of Art)

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Diana & Nikon: Essays on Photography

Janet Malcolm

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Photography in California, 1945-1980

Louise Katzman

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Bystander: A History of Street Photography

Colin Westerbeck

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Kittens in the Sun

Hans W. Silvester

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Thru My Eyes: Thoughts on Tupac Shakur in Pictures and Words

Gobi

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Marilyn

Jean Jacques Naudet

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A Dog's Life: A Book of Classic Photographs (Dog's Life)

William Wegman

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Powerful Days: The Civil Rights Photograph of Charles Moore

Michael S. Durham

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American Photography

Jonathan Green

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Icons of Photography: The 20th Century (Prestel's Icons)

Peter Stepan

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Paul Strand: Essays on his Life and Work

Maren Stang

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Crisis Of The Real (Aperture Writers & Artists on Photography)

Andy Grundberg

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The Contact Sheet

Steve Crist

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The Contest of Meaning: Critical Histories of Photography

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The Power of Photography: How Photographs Changed Our Lives

Vicki Goldberg

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Photography and the American Scene

Robert Taft

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Between the Eyes: Essays on Photography and Politics

David Levi Strauss

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The Reconfigured Eye: Visual Truth in the Post-Photographic Era

William J. Mitchell

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First Photographs: People, Places, and Phenomena As Captured for the First Time by the Camera

Gail Buckland

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The Civil Contract of Photography

Ariella Aïsha Azoulay

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Photography Speaks: 150 Photographers On Their Art

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Dialogue With Photography

Paul Hill

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Light Matters

Vicki Goldberg

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The Critical Image: Essays on Contemporary Photography

Carol Squiers

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Defining Eye: Women Photographers of the 20th Century : Organized by the Saint Louis Art Museum

Lucy R. Lippard

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Tracing Cultures: Albert Chong, Lewis Desoto, I.T.O., Young Kim, Komar & Melamid, Dinh Q. Lee, Gavin Lee, Maria Martinez-Canas, Ruben Ortiz Torres, Carrie Mae Weems (Points of Entry)

Rebecca Solnit

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Photography in Boston: 1955-1985

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Basic Critical Theory for Photographers

Ashley la Grange

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Photography Speaks : 66 Photographers on Their Art

Brooks Johnson

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How to Look At Photographs

David Finn

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Poetics of Space: A Critical Photographic Anthology

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Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History

Geoffrey Batchen

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American Photography and the American Dream (Cultural Studies of the United States)

James Guimond

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Conversations With Contemporary Photographers

Graciela Iturbide

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Illuminations: Women Writing on Photography From the 1850s to the Present

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25 Under 25: Up-and-Coming American Photographers

Lauren Greenfield

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Library: The Drama Within

Diane Asséo Griliches

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Fast Forward: Growing Up in the Shadow of Hollywood

Lauren Greenfield

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Let Truth Be the Prejudice: W. Eugene Smith, His Life and Photographs

Ben Maddow

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America

Zoe Strauss

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Modern Photography in Japan 1915-1940

Deborah Klochko

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Avedon at Work: In the American West

Laura Wilson

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Heartwood: Meditations on Southern Oaks

Dinrumi Jalala

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Photography and Beyond in Japan

Toshio Hara

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Border Film Project: Photos by Migrants & Minutemen on the U.S.-Mexico Border

Brett Huneycutt

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Exploring Kittens

Nobuo Honda

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Remembering to Live: Visual Poems for the Journey

Mark L. Tompkins

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After the Photo-Secession: American Pictorial Photography, 1910-1955

Minneapolis Institute Of Arts

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Truth and Photography: Notes on Looking and Photographing

Jerry L. Thompson

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In the Name of the Father, The Daughter, And The Holy Sprirts: Remembering Roberto Rossellini

Isabella Rossellini

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Tina Modotti: Image, Texture, Photography

Andrea Noble

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The Beauty Box: A Tribute to the Legendary Beauty Parlors of the South

Kathy Kemp

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Photolanguage: How Photos Reveal the Fascinating Stories of Our Lives and Relationships

Robert U. Akeret

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Photograph and The American Dream, 1840-1940, The

Stephen White

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Why We Really Love Dogs

Kim Levin

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Photography

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John Szarkowski

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Photography: A Cultural History

Mary Warner Marien

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The French Cat

Rachael Hale

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Photography: A Critical Introduction

Liz Wells

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The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers

Henri Cartier-Bresson

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The Photography Reader

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Beauty in Photography: Essays in Defense of Traditional Values

Robert Adams

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Portraits of America

William Albert Allard

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Wide Angle: National Geographic Greatest Places

Ferdinand Protzman

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Why People Photograph

Robert Adams

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Classic Essays on Photography

Alan Trachtenberg

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Photo Icons: The Story Behind the Pictures. Volume 2 (Icons Series)

Hans-Michael Koetzle

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Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities

Barbara Buhler Lynes

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Locals Only: California Skateboarding 1975-1978

Steve Crist

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The Photograph (Oxford History of Art)

Graham Clarke

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Reading American Photographs: Images As History, Mathew Brady to Walker Evans

Alan Trachtenberg

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Potting Places

Teri Dunn

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Another Way of Telling

John Berger

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The Nature of Photographs

Stephen Shore

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American Photography: A Century of Images

Garrett White

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Photography: 1900 to the Present

Diana Emery Hulick

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Seeing America: Women Photographers Between The Wars

Melissa A. McEuen

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Thinking Photography (Communications and Culture)

Umberto Eco

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Proust in the Power of Photography

Brassaï

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Looking at Photographs: A Guide to Technical Terms (Looking At...)

Gordon Baldwin

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At the Edge of the Light: Thoughts on Photography and Photographers, on Talent and Genius

David Travis

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The History and Practice of the Art of Photography

Henry H. Snelling

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Weegee and <i>Naked City</i> (Defining Moments in American Photography)

Richard Meyer

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The story of photography from its beginnings to the present day

Michael Langford

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Trauma and Media: Theories, Histories, and Images

Allen Meek

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Depression Glass: Documentary Photography and the Medium of the Camera Eye in Charles Reznikoff, George Oppen, and William Carlos Williams (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)

Monique Vescia

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Photography: Discovery and Invention (J. Paul Getty Museum Publication)

Weston Naef

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