Photography and Photojournalism
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Brown, Elspeth H. The Corporate Eye: Photography and the Rationalization of American Commercial Culture, 1884-1929. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
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Buse, Peter. The Camera Does the Rest: How Polaroid Changed Photography. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Bush, Alfred L., and Lee Clark Mitchell. The Photograph and the American Indian. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994.
Bussard, Katherine, et. al., eds. Life Magazine and the Power of Photography. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020.
Carlebach, Michael L. “Documentary and Propaganda: The Photographs of the Farm Security Administration.” The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts 8 (1988): 6–25.
Carlebach, Michael L. The Origins of Photojournalism in America. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992. (pre-1880s period)
Carlebach, Michael L. American Photojournalism Comes of Age. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997.
Cawthra, Benjamin. Blue Notes in Black and White: Photography and Jazz. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Chapnick, Howard. Truth Needs No Ally: Inside Photojournalism. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1994.
Ching Carter, Karen L. Photo-Essays About Asian American Women in Life Magazine, 1936 to 1965. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2021.
Coar, Valencia Hollins, ed. A Century of Black Photographers. Providence: Rhode Island School of Design, 1983.
Coe, Brian. The Birth of Photography: The Story of the Formative Years, 1800-1900. New York: Taplinger Publishing Co., 1976.
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Coleman, A.D. Depth of Field: Essays on Photography, Mass Media, and Lens Culture. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998.
Collins, Kathleen, ed. Shadow and Substance: Essays in the History of Photography. Bloomfield Hills, Mich.: Amorphous Institute Press, 1990.
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Coopersmith, Jonathan. “From Lemons to Lemonade: The Development of the AP Wirephoto.” American Journalism 17:4 (Fall 2000): 55-72.
Currell, Sue. “You Haven’t Seen Their Faces: Eugenic National Housekeeping and Documentary Photography in 1930s America.” Journal of American Studies 51:2 (2017): 481-511.
Curtis, James. Mind’s Eye, Mind’s Truth: FSA Photography Reconsidered. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989.
Dance, Robert, and Bruce Robertson. Ruth Harriet Louise and Hollywood Glamour Photography. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.
Daniel, Pete, et al. Official Images: New Deal Photography. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1987.
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Davis, Caitlin S. “Lee Miller: Photographer of War.” PhD dissertation, Rutgers University, 2005.
Davis, Melody D. “Doubling the Vision. Women and Narrative Stereography: The United States, 1870–1910.” PhD dissertation, City University of New York, 2004.
Dejardin, Fiona M. “The Photo League: Left-wing Politics and the Popular Press.” History of Photography 18:2 (1994): 159-173.
Delmez, Kathryn E. We Shall Overcome: Press Photographs of Nashville during the Civil Rights Era. Nashville: Frist Art Museum, 2018.
Denny, Margaret. “Image Makers, Picture Takers: Illinois Women Photographers, 1850–1900.” Journal of Illinois History 10 (Summer 2007): 133–56.
Denny, Margaret H. “From Commerce to Art: American Women Photographers 1850–1900.” PhD dissertation, University of Illinois, Chicago, 2010.
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Doherty, Robert J. Social-Documentary Photograph in the USA. New York: Amphoto, 1976.
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Ezickson, Aaron Jacob. Get That Picture! The Story of the News Cameraman. New York: National Library Press, 1938.
Faas, Horst: Requiem: By the Photographers who Died in Vietnam and Indochina. New York: Random House, 1997.
Faber, John. Great Moments in News Photography. New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1960.
File, Patrick C. “Picturing Privacy: Journalism’s Strategic Legal Discourse about Photography, 1890–1920.” Journalism Studies 26, no. 3 (2025): 333–350.
Finnegan, Cara A. Picturing Poverty: Print Culture and FSA Photographs. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 2003.
Finnegan, Cara A. Making Photography Matter: A Viewer’s History from the Civil War to the Great Depression. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2015.
Finnegan, Cara A. Photographic Presidents: Making History from Daguerreotype to Digital. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2021.
Foresta, Merry A. Secrets of the Dark Chamber: The Art of the American Daguerreotype. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995.
Fox-Amato, Matthew. Exposing Slavery: Photography, Human Bondage, and the Birth of Modern Visual Politics in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
Friedman, Joseph S. History of Color Photography. New York: Focal Press, 1968.
Fulton, Marianne, ed. The Eyes of Time: Photojournalism in America. Boston: Little, Brown, 1988.
Gallagher, Victoria J., and Kenneth S. Zagacki. “Visibility and Rhetoric: Epiphanies and Transformations in the ‘Life’ Photographs of the Selma Marches of 1965.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 37, no. 2 (2007): 113–35.
Gersheim, Helmut. A Concise History of Photography. London: Thames and Hudson, 1965.
Gidal, Tim N. Modern Photojournalism: Origins and Evolution, 1910-1933. New York: Macmillan, 1973.
Gidley, Mick. “Silence, Grandeur: Emil Otto Hoppe’s Popular American Landscapes.” European Contributions to American Studies 26 (January 1, 1995): 151–171.
Gillespie, Sarah Kate. The Early American Daguerreotype: Cross-Currents in Art and Technology. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2016.
Gold, Matthew K. “The Culture of Proof: Science, Religion, and Photography in America, 1780–1875.” PhD dissertation, City University of New York, 2006.
Goldberg, Vicki, ed. Photography in Print: Writings From 1816 to the Present. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1981.
Goldberg, Vicki. Margaret Bourke-White: A Biography. New York: Harper and Row, 1986.
Goldberg, Vicki. The Power of Photography: How Photographs Changed Our Lives. New York: Abbeville Press, 1991.
Goldberg, Vicki, and Robert Silberman. American Photography, A Century of Images. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1999.
Good, Katie Day. “Listening to Pictures: Converging Media Histories and the Multimedia Newspaper.” Journalism Studies 18:6 (June 2017): 691-709.
Goodyear, Frank Henry III. “Constructing a National Landscape: Photography and Tourism in Nineteenth Century America.” Phd dissertation, University of Texas-Austin, 1998.
Gordon, Linda. Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits. New York: Norton, 2010.
Gordon, Tammy S. The Mass Production of Memory: Travel and Personal Archiving in the Age of Kodak. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2020.
Graham, Cooper C., and Ron van Dopperen. “Edwin F. Weigle: Cameraman for the Chicago Tribune.” Film History 22:4 (December 2010): 389-407.
Granqvist, Raoul J. “Photojournalism’s White Mythologies: Eliot Elisofon and LIFE in Africa, 1959–1961.” Research in African Literatures 43, no. 3 (2012): 84–105.
Gray, David A. “New Uses for Old Photos: Renovating FSA Photographs in World War II Posters.” American Studies 47, no. 3/4 (2006): 5–34.
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Grunder, Sarah Lucinda. “The Spectacle of Citizenship: Halftones, Print Media, and Constructing Americanness, 1880–1940.” PhD dissertation, College of William and Mary, 2010.
Guimond, James. American Photography and the American Dream. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991.
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Guthrie, Jason Lee. “Ill-Protected Portraits: Matthew Brady and Photographic Copyright.” Journalism History 45:2 (2019): 135-156.
Hales, Peter Bacon. Silver Cities: The Photography of American Urbanization, 1839-1915. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1984.
Hales, Peter Bacon. William Henry Jackson and the Transformation of the American Landscape. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988.
Hamilton, Robert. “Shooting from the Hip: Representations of the Photojournalist of the Vietnam War.” Oxford Art Journal 9, no. 1 (1986): 49–55.
Hannigan, William, and Ken Johnston. Picture Machine: The Rise of American News Pictures. New York: Abrams, 2004.
Hansom, Paul. “All Consuming Modernism: The Photo Essay and American Historical Consciousness.” PhD dissertation, University of Southern California, 1999.
Hariman, Robert, and John Louis Lucaites. No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Harris, John M. “America’s Vision of War: A History of Combat Photography in the United States as Seen through Three Images.” PhD dissertation, University of Washington, 2011.
Harris, John M. “‘Truthful as the Record of Heaven’: The Battle of Antietam and the Birth of Photojournalism.” Southern Cultures 19, no. 3 (2013): 79–94.
Hauptman, Jodi. “FLASH! The Speed Graphic Camera.” Yale Journal of Criticism 11:1 Spring 1998): 129-137.
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