Photography study guide

General history of photography

• Haworth-Booth, Mark, Photography: an independent art, Photographs from the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1839-1996. V&A Publications, 1997. ISBN 185177049 
•   Haworth-Booth, Mark, ed., The golden age of British photography, 1839-1900, V&A/Aperture Publications, N.Y., 1984. ISBN 0893811440 [Aperture] 0905209672 [V&A] 
•   Szarkowski, John, Photography until now, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1990. ISBN 0870705733 [hardback] 0870705741 [paperback] 
•   Jeffrey, Ian, Photography: a concise history, Thames & Hudson, 1981. ISBN 0500201870 
•   Weaver, Mike, ed., The art of photography, 1839-1989, Royal Academy of Arts/Yale University Press, 1989. ISBN 0300044577 [hardback] 0300044569 [paperback] 
•   Rosenblum, N, A world history of photography, New York: Abbeville Press, about 1984. ISBN 0896594386 
•   Bernard, Bruce, Century, London: Phaidon, 1999. ISBN 0714838489 
•   The Photography Book, London: Phaidon, 1997. ISBN 0714836346 
•   Frizot, Michel, ed., Nouvelle histoire de la photographie, Paris: Adam Biro; Bordas, about 1994. ISBN 2040199764  

Photographic processes, conservation and techniques

•   Coe, Brian and Haworth-Booth, Mark, A guide to early photographic processes, V&A Publications, 1983. ISBN 0905209400 
•   Baldwin, Gordon, Looking at photographs, J Paul Getty Museum, 1991. ISBN 0892361921 
•   Martin, Elizabeth, Collecting and preserving old photographs, London: Collins, 1988. 
•   Ades, Dawn, Photomontage, London: Thames and Hudson, 1986. ISBN 0500202087 [paperback]  

Fashion photography

•   Harrison, Martin, Appearances, Jonathan Cape, 1981. ISBN 0224030671 [hardback] 022403068X. [paperback] 
•   Bailey, David and Harrison, Martin, Shots of style: great fashion photographs, London: Victoria & Albert Museum, 1985. ISBN 094810726X [hardback] 0905209559 [paperback] Published to coincide with an exhibition held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Oct. 9, 1985-Jan. 19, 1986  

Photography theory

•   Barthes, Roland, Camera Lucida: reflections on photography, London: Cape, 1982. ISBN 0224029290 
•   Sontag, Susan, Susan Sontag on photography, London: Allen Lane, 1978. ISBN 071391128X  

Magazines

•   Aperture (New York) ISSN 0003 6420 
•   Blind Spot (New York) ISSN 1068 1647 
•   Camera Austria (Graz, Austria) ISSN 1015 1915 
•   Creative Camera (London) ISSN 0011 0876 
•   Etudes Photographiques (Paris) 
•   History of Photography (Oxford) ISSN 0308 7298  

Other resources

In addition to this list, see also the excellent book-list on the iPhotoCentral website, under 'Collecting Issues and Resources' / 'Books for basic Photography Collecting'.

Last updated 14 August 2002.