Best Photography Art Books
Theory
Looking at Photographs: A Guide to Technical Terms
Criticizing Photographs: An Introduction to Understanding Images
Photography Theory
The Photography Reader
How to Read a Photograph: Understanding, Interpreting and Enjoying the Great Photographer
How to Read a Photograph: Lessons from Master Photographers
Another Way of Telling
Basic Critical Theory for Photographers
Photography: A Critical Introduction
Photography: The Key Concepts
Phototextualities: Intersections of Photography and Narrative
The Image Factory: Consumer Culture, Photography and the Visual Content Industry
Photography and Culture Volume 1 Issue 2
Photography and Culture Volume 2 Issue 2
Photography and Culture Volume 3 Issue 1
Essays
Why People Photograph
Classic Essays on Photography
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
After Photography
On Photography
Photography and Philosophy: Essays on the Pencil of Nature
The Civil Contract of Photography
Between The Eyes: Essays On Photography And Politics
God Is at Eye Level: Photography as a Healing Art
The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers
Photography Degree Zero: Reflections on Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida
Beauty in Photography: Essays in Defense of Traditional Values
The Meaning of Photography
The Disciplinary Frame: Photographic Truths and the Capture of Meaning
Towards a Philosophy of Photography
Burning with Desire: The Conception of Photography
Mirrors of Memory: Freud, Photography, and the History of Art
Disappearing Witness: Change in Twentieth-Century American Photography
Photography in 100 Words: Exploring the Art of Photography with Fifty of its Greatest Masters
Photography in Print: Writings from 1816 to the Present
After Photography
Philosophy of Photography
Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera Since 1870
At the Edge of the Light: Thoughts on Photography and Photographers, on Talent and Genius
Inside the Photograph
The Reconfigured Eye: Visual Truth in the Post-Photographic Era
The Power of Photography: How Photographs Changed Our Lives
Vicki Goldberg: Light Matters
Talking Photography: Viewpoints on the Art, Craft and Business
History
The History of Photography
Photography in Japan 1853-1912
A World History of Photography
Looking at Photographs: 100 Pictures from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art
Photography: The 50 Most Influential Photographers of All Time
Seizing the Light: A Social History of Photography
The History of Japanese Photography
The Photobook: A History - Volume 2
Photography: An Illustrated History
American Photography
The Photograph
The Origins of American Photography: From Daguerreotype to Dry-Plate, 1839-1885: The Hallmark Photographic Collection at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Photography: A Cultural History
The Contest of Meaning: Critical Histories of Photography
Photography: 1900 to the Present
A History of Photography: The Musée d'Orsay Collection 1839-1925
The Genius of Photography
A History of Women Photographers
Re-view: 170 Years of Photography
Contemporary
The Photograph as Contemporary Art
Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before
Photography After Frank
The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography
Haunted: Contemporary Photography, Video, Performance
Photography Reborn: Image Making in the Digital Era
Photo Art
Over Exposed: Essays on Contemporary Photography
Conversations: With Contemporary Photographers
Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: Expanded Edition
Photography
Photography After Conceptual Art
Photographers
Annie Leibovitz at Work
Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs
The Photographer's Eye
A Photographer's Life: 1990-2005
The Life of a Photograph
Image Makers, Image Takers
50 Photographers You Should Know
The Photography Book
Photowisdom: Master Photographers on Their Art
Photo Icons II
Ansel Adams: An Autobiography
Photo Icons I
Photos of the 20th Century
Photography Speaks
Icons Of Photography: The 20th Century
Conversations with Photographers 2009
Dialogue with Photography: Interviews by Paul Hill and Thomas Cooper
Reference
The Focal Encyclopedia of Photography, Fourth Edition
The Book of Photography: The History, the Technique, the Art, the Future
The Concise Focal Encyclopedia of Photography: From the First Photo on Paper to the Digital Revolution
Michael Freeman's Digital Photography Reference System
Photospeak: A Guide to the Ideas, Movements, and Techniques of Photography, 1839 to the Present
Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography
Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography