Photography and Photojournalism
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Barnhurst, Kevin G., and John Nerone. “Civil Picturing vs. Realist Photojournalism: The Regime of Illustrated News, 1865-1901.” Design Issues 16:1 (Spring 2000): 59-79.
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Baynes, Ken, ed. Scoop, Scandal and Strife: A Study of Photography in Newspapers. New York: Pantheon Books, 1971.
Beil, Kim. Good Pictures: A History of Popular Photography. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020.
Berger, Martin. Sight Unseen: Whiteness and American Visual Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.
Berman, Bruce, and Mary M. Cronin. “The Photographer as Cultural Outsider: Russell Lee’s 1949 ‘Spanish-Speaking People of Texas’ Project.” Journalism History 40:4 (2015): 202-216.
Best, Makeda. Elevate the Masses: Alexander Gardner, Photography, and Democracy in Nineteenth-Century America. College Station: Penn State University Press, 2020.
Bethune, Beverly M. “Things That Speak to the Eye: The Photographs of Charities, 1897–1909.” American Journalism 11, no. 3 (1994): 204–18.
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Blair, Sara, and Eric Rosenberg. Trauma and Documentary Photography of the FSA. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012.
Bolton, Richard, ed. The Conflict of Meaning: Critical Histories of Photography. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1989.
Bonanos, Christopher. Instant: The Story of Polaroid. Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press, 2012.
Bonanos, Christopher. Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous. New York: Henry Holt, 2018.
Brayer, Elizabeth. George Eastman: A Biography. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
Brennen, Bonnie. “Strategic Competition and the Photographer’s Work: Photojournalism in Gannett Newspapers, 1937–1947.” American Journalism 15, no. 2 (1998): 59–77.
Brennan, Bonnie. “Strategic Competition and the Value of Photographers’ Work: Photojournalism in Gannett Newspapers, 1937-1974.” American Journalism 15:2 (Spring 1998): 59-77.
Brennan, Bonnie, and Hanno Hardt, eds. Picturing the Past: Media, History, and Photography. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999.
Brown, Elspeth H. The Corporate Eye: Photography and the Rationalization of American Commercial Culture, 1884-1929. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
Brown, Julie K. Making Culture Visible: The Public Display of Photography at Fairs, Expositions, and Exhibitions in the United States, 1847-1900. Amsterdam: Harwood, 2001.
Brown, Michael. “Discriminating Photographs from Hand-drawn Illustrations in Popular Magazines, 1895–1904.” American Journalism 17, no. 3 (2000): 15–30.
Buckland, Gail. Fox Talbot and the Invention of Photography. Boston: David R. Godine, 1980.
Buell, Hall. Moments: The Pulitzer Prize Photographs. New York: Black Dog and Leventhal, 1999.
Burroughs, Henry D. Close-ups of History: Three Decades through the Lens of an AP Photographer. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007.
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. 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.
Coe, Brian. George Eastman and the Early Photographers. London: Priory Press, 1973.
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.
Cook, Susan E. Victorian Negatives: Literary Culture and the Dark Side of Photography in the Nineteenth Century. New York: SUNY Press, 2020.
Cookman, Claude H. A Voice is Born: The Founding and Early Years of the National Press Photographers Association. Durham, NC: National Press Photographers Association, 1985.
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.
Darrah, William Culp. Stereo Views: A History of Stereographs in America and Their Collection. Gettysburg, PA: Times and News Publishing, 1958.
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.
Dinius, Marcy J. The Camera and the Press: American Visual and Print Culture in the Age of the Daguerreotype. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012.
Doherty, Robert J. Social-Documentary Photograph in the USA. New York: Amphoto, 1976.
Dolan, Julia K. “‘I Will Take You into the Heart of Modern Industry’: Lewis Hine’s Photographic Interpretation of the Machine Age.” PhD dissertation, Boston University, 2009.
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Eastman, Max. Journalism Versus Art. New York: Knopf, 1916.
Edwards, Elizabeth. The Camera as Historian: Amateur Photographers and Historical Imagination, 1885-1918. Durham: Duke University Press, 2012.
Evans, Jennifer V. “Seeing Subjectivity: Erotic Photography and the Optics of Desire.” American Historical Review118:2 (April 2013): 430-462.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Green, Jonathan. A Critical History of American Photography. New York: Abrams, 1984.
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.
Gustavson, Todd. Camera: A History of Photography From Daguerreotype to Digital. New York: Fall River Press, 2009. Mostly a photo history of cameras
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.
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.
Hauptman, Jodi. “FLASH! The Speed Graphic Camera.” Yale Journal of Criticism 11:1 Spring 1998): 129-137.
Hausman, Carl. “George Eastman: 100 Years of a Marketable Camera.” Media History Digest 8:2 (Fall-Winter 1988): 2-7.
Henisch, Heinz K. and Bridget A. Henisch. The Photographic Experience 1839-1914: Images and Attitudes. University Park: Penn State University Press, 1994.
Hicks, Wilson. Words and Pictures: An Introduction to Photojournalism. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1952. (LIFE photographer)
Hill, Jason E. Artist as Reporter: Weegee, Ad Reinhardt, and the PM News Picture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2017.
Hill, Jason E., and Vanessa R. Schwartz, eds. Getting the Picture: The Visual Culture of News. New York: Routledge, 2015.
Hodgson, Pat. Early War Photographs. Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1974.
Holiday, Steven, and Dale Cressman. “What Deepest Remains: How Photojournalistic Mutualism Between Robert Capa and Elmer W. Lower Shaped Modern Concepts of World War II.” American Journalism 33:4 (2016): 442-464.
Holloway, David, and John Beck, eds. American Visual Cultures. New York: Continuum, 2005.
Horan, James D. Matthew Brady: Historian With a Camera. New York: Crown, 1955.
Heron, Liz and Val Williams, eds. Illuminations: Woman Writing on Photography From the 1850s to the Present. Durham: Duke University Press, 1996.*
Holly, Michael A. Past Looking: Historical Imagination and the Rhetoric of the Image. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996.
Hostetler, Lisa, and Katherine A. Bussard. Color Rush: American Color Photography from Stieglitz to Sherman. New York: Aperture, 2013.
Hughes, Jim. W. Eugene Smith, Shadow and Substance: The Life and Work of an American Photographer. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1989.
Hurley, F. Jack. Portrait of a Decade: Roy Stryker and the Development of Documentary Photography in the Thirties. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1972.
Hwang, Junghyun. “Seen Through the Camera Obscura: Life Photographs of the Korean War and Cold War Anxiety of the American Self.” Cultural Critique 121 (Fall 2023): 138-161.
Jacob, Marc, and Richard Cahan. Chicago Under Glass: Early Photographs from the Chicago Daily News. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Jenkins, Harold F. Two Points of View: The History of the Parlor Stereoscope. Elmira, NY: World in Color Productions, 1957.
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Jenkins, Reese V. “Technology and the Market: George Eastman and the Origins of Mass Amateur Photography.” in Technology and American History, Stephen H. Cutcliffe and Terry S. Reynolds, eds., Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.
Jensen, Robin E., Erin F. Doss, and Rebecca Ivic, “Metaphorical Invention in Early Photojournalism: New York Times Coverage of the 1876 Brooklyn Theater Fire and the 1911 Shirtwaist Factory Fire.” Critical Studies in Media Communication 28 (October 2011): 334–352.
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Kahan, Robert S. “The Antecedents of American Photojournalism.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin, 1969.
Kahan, Robert S., and J.B. Colson. “More than Art: P.H. Emerson as a Nineteenth Century Photojournalism Pioneer.” Journalism Quarterly 63:1 (Spring 1986): 75-82.
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Kaplan, John. “The Life Magazine Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore.” Journalism History 25:4 (Autumn 1999): 126-39.
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Kinkaid, James C. Press Photography. Boston: American Photographic, 1936.
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