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ART 150 - Introduction to Photography

Use this guide to help find books and information on the history of photography.

August Sander

August Sander, born Germany 1876. "Blacksmiths," 1926

Elliott Erwitt

Eliott Erwitt, Steam Train, born France 1928. "Wyoming," 1954

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Ebooks

This list of books includes titles that are classics as well as books about photographic processes. Many of these e-books are available for free.

The Pencil of Nature by William Henry Fox Talbot
The classic text by William Henry Fox Talbot. Free e-book available from Project Gutenburg.
History and Practice of the Art of Photography by Henry Hut Snelling
Available from Internet Archive.
Principles & Practice of Photography, by Jabez Hughes
Available from Google Books.
The American Handbook of the Daguerreotype, by S. D. Humprey
Available from Project Gutenberg.
Cyanomicon – History, Science and Art of Cyanotype: Photographic Printing in Prussian Blue
Available as a PDF courtesy of the author.
The Silver Sunbeam, a Practical and Theoretical Textbook... by J. Towler M.D.
Available from Project Gutenberg.
Book of the Lantern: Being a practical guide to the working of the optical (or magic) lantern (1889)
Available from Internet Archive.
Photographic Reproduction Processes (1891) by Peter C. Duchochois
Available from Internet Archive.
Bromide Printing & Enlarging by John A. Tennant (1912).
Free PDF.
Pictorial Photography, its Principals and Practice (1917) by Paul Lewis Anderson.
List of ebooks
Decoding the History of Photography.