Bibliography

The following is a select bibliography relating principally to 19th century photography. We begin by listing a few volumes that we like which will hopefully prove a particular inspiration as to the visually rich possibilities of collecting. The remainder are arranged into categories by subject.

Bernard, B., The Sunday Times Book Of Photodiscovery. A Century Of Extraordinary Images 1840-1940. London: Thames & Hudson, 1980

Braive, M. F., The Era Of The Photograph. A Social History. London: Thames And Hudson, 1966

Fraenkel, J., Seeing Things. San Francisco: Fraenkel Gallery, 1995

Jacquier, Marion, Philippe Jacquier and Gilles A. Tiberghien. Lumière des Roses. Éloge de la Photographie Anonyme. Atelier EXB: Paris, 2025

Kakou, Serge. Voyages en Photographie. Private Edition: Paris, 2022

Réunion Des Musées Nationaux and Bibliothèque Nationale, L'Invention D'Un Regard (1839-1918), Paris: Éditions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1989

Wagstaff, S., A Book Of Photographs From The Collection Of Sam Wagstaff. New York: Gray Press, 1978

Of course as well as useful information, there are many striking images illustrated in the numerous publications listed below. For visual excitement, one might also recommend: Apraxine et. al., 1999; Davis, 2007 (particularly the daguerreotype section); Falconer, 2001; Hambourg et. al., 1983; Pare, 1982; Thackrey, 1982; Worswick & Morris, 1979.

Africa

Bensusan, A.D., Silver Images. History of Photography in Africa. Cape Town: Howard Timmins, 1966

Saint Léon, P.M. and N’G. Fall, Anthologie Revue Noire de la Photographie Africaine et de l’Océan Indien. Paris: Editions Revue Noire, 1998

Stevenson, M. and M. Graham-Stewart, Surviving The Lens. Photographic Studies of South and East African People, 1870-1920. Vlaeberg, South Africa: Fernwood Press, 2001

America

Boom, Mattie and Hans Rooseboom. American Photography. America Through Photographers' Eyes. Rijksmuseum & Naioi Publishers: Amsterdam & Rotterdam, 2025

Davis, K. F., An American Century of Photography : from Dry-Plate to Digital : the Hallmark Photographic Collection. New York: Hallmark Cards Inc. in association with Harry N. Abrams, 1999

Davis, K. F., The Origins of American Photography : from Daguerreotype to Dry-Plate, 1839-1885 : the Hallmark Photographic Collection at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. New Haven, Conn. & London: Yale University Press, 2007

Hanlon, D.R., Illuminating Shadows. The Calotype in Nineteenth-Century America. Nevada City: Carl Mautz Publishing, 2013

Mautz, C., Biographies of Western Photographers. A Reference Guide to Photographers Working in the 19th Century American West. Nevada City: Carl Mautz Publishing, 1997

Naef, W.J., T.T. Heyman & J.N. Wood, Era of Exploration. The Rise of Landscape Photography in the American West, 1860-1885. New York: Albright-Knox Art Gallery & The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975

Naef, Weston and Christine Hult-Lewis. Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photographs. Getty Publications: Los Angeles, 2011

Palmquist, P.E., Carleton Watkins. Photographer of the American West. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1983

Palmquist, P.E. and T.R. Kalibourn, Pioneer Photographers of the Far West. A Biographical Dictionary 1840-1865. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2000

Rosenheim, Jeff L., Photography and the American Civil War. Yale University Press: New Haven, 2013

Rosenheim, Jeff L., A New Art: Early American Photography. Metropolitan Museum of Art: New York, 2026

Sandweiss, M.A., Photography in Nineteenth-Century America. Fort Worth & New York: Amon Carter Museum & Harry H. Abrams, 1991

Taft, R.F., Photography And The American Scene. A Social History, 1839-1889. New York: Dover, 1938

Anthropology & Travel Photography

Banta, M. and C.M. Hinsley, From Site to Sight. Anthropology, Photography, and the Power of Imagery. Cambridge, Mass.: Peabody Museum Press, 1986

Edwards, E., Anthropology and Photography 1860-1920. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1992

Fabian, R. and H.-C. Adam, Masters Of Early Travel Photography. New York & Paris: The Vendome Press, 1983

Falconer, J., A. Groenevelde, H. Maas and S. Wachlin, From Bombay To Shanghai. Rotterdam: Museum voor Volkenkunde, 1994

Fournié, P. and L. Gervereau, Regards sur le Monde. Trésors Photographiques du Quai d’Orsay, 1860-1914. Paris: Somogy Éditions d’art, 2000

Hershkowitz, R., The British Photographer Abroad. The First Thirty Years. London: Robert Hershkowitz Ltd., 1980

Howe, K. S., First Seen. Portraits Of The World's Peoples 1840-1880 From The Wilson Centre For Photography. London: Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Third Millennium Publishing, 2004

Theye, T., Der Geraubte Schatten. Eine Weltreise im Spiegel der Ethnographischen Photographie. Munich & Lucerne: Bucher, 1989

Architectural Photography

Bramsen, H., M. Brøns and B. Ochsner, Early Photographs Of Architecture And Views In Two Copenhagen Libraries. Copenhagen: Thaning & Appel, 1957

De Mondenard, A., Photographier L'Architecture 1851-1920. Paris: Éditions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1994

Lyons, C., J.K. Papadopoulos, L.S. Stewart and A. Szegedy-Maszak, Antiquity & Photography. Early Views of Ancient Mediterranean Sites. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2005

Pare, R., Photography And Architecture: 1839-1939. Montreal: Callaway Editions, 1982

Art & Photography

Bartram, M., The Pre-Raphaelite Camera. Aspects Of Victorian Photography. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1985

Billeter, E., Malerei Und Photographie Im Dialog Von 1840 Bis Heute. Bern: Benteli Verlag, 1979

Coke, Van Deren, The Painter And The Photograph. From Delacroix To Warhol. Albuquerque: University Of New Mexico, 1972

Hamber, A., A Higher Branch Of The Art. Photographing The Fine Arts In England 1839-1880. Great Britain: Gordon & Breach, 1996

Jacobson, K. and A. Hamber, Étude D'Après Nature. 19th Century Photographs In Relation To Art. Petches Bridge: Ken & Jenny Jacobson, 1996

Maclean, H., Photography for Artists. Brief and Useful Information Respecting the Many Uses of Photography in Various Walks of the Pictorial and Allied Arts. Bradford & London: Percy Lund & Memorial Hall, 1896

Scharf, A., Art and Photography. London: Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 1968

Siegel, Elizabeth, Patrizia Di Bello, Marta Weiss and Miranda Hofelt. Playing with Pictures. The Art of Victorian Collage. Art Institute of Chicago & Yale University Press: Chicago & New Haven, 2009

Waggoner, D. et. al., The Pre-Raphaelite Lens. British Photography and Painting, 1848-1875. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 2010

Australia & New Zealand

Cato, J., The Story of the Camera in Australia. Melbourne: Georgian House, 1955

Davies, A. and P. Stanbury, The Mechanical Eye in Australia. Photography 1841-1900. Oxford, New York & Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1985

Moore, D. and R. Hall, Australia. Image of a Nation 1850-1950. Sydney & London: Collins, 1983

Main, W. and J.B. Turner, New Zealand. Photography from the 1840s to the Present. Auckland: PhotoForum, 1993

Belgium

Joseph, S.J., T. Schwilden and M.-C. Claes, Directory of Photographers in Belgium 1839-1905, Antwerp & Rotterdam: Uitgeverji C. de Vries-Brouwers, 2000

Van Goethem, H., Photography and Realism in the 19th Century. Antwerp: The Oldest Photographs 1847-1880. Antwerp: Pandora, 1999

Books on Photography or Illustrated with Photographs

Foster, S.J., M. Heiting and R. Stuhlman, Imagining Paradise: The Richard and Ronay Menschel Library at George Eastman House, Rochester. Rochester, N.Y. & Göttingen: George Eastman House & Steidl: 2007

Gernsheim, H., Incunabula Of British Photographic Literature. London & Berkeley: Scolar Press, 1984

Goldschmidt, L. and W. Naef, The Truthful Lens. A Survey Of The Photographically Illustrated Book 1844-1914. New York: Grolier Club, 1980

Parr, M. and G. Badger, The Photobook: A History. Volume I. New York: Phaidon Press, 2004

Roosens, L. and L. Salu, History of Photography. A Bibliography of Books. London & New York: Mansell, 1989

Wood, III, C.B., The Photograph and The Book, Catalogue 37. South Woodstock, Conn.: Charles B. Wood III, 1976

Britain

Baldwin, G., M. R. Daniel, S. Greenough, P. Roberts, R. Taylor and R. Pare, All the Mighty World. The Photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852-1860. New York & London: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004

Cox, J., C. Ford, J. Lukitsh and P. Wright, Julia Margaret Cameron. The Complete Photographs. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003

Dimond, F. and R. Taylor, Crown & Camera. The Royal Family and Photography 1842-1910. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1987

Hamber, A. & T. Hunt. Photography and the Great Exhibition. London: V & A, 2018

Haworth-Booth, M., The Golden Age Of British Photography 1839-1900. Millerton, New York, London: Aperture, 1984

Haworth-Booth, Mark, Camille Silvy. Photographer of Modern Life. National Portrait Gallery, London: London, 2010

Harker, M., The Linked Ring. London: Heinemann, 1979

Kraus, Jr., H.P. and L.J. Schaaf, Sun Pictures. Catalogue 3. The Harold White Collection of Works by William Henry Fox Talbot. New York: Hans P. Kraus, Jr., 1987

Lacoste, Anne and Fred Ritchin. Felice Beato. A Photographer on the Eastern Road. J. Paul Getty Museum: Los Angeles, 2010

Pauli, Lori, Jordan Bear, Karen Hellman and Phillip Prodger. Oscar G. Rejlander. Artist Photographer. Canadian Photography Institute of the National Gallery of Canada & Yale University Press: Ottawa & New Haven, 2018

Pritchard, M., A Directory Of London Photographers 1841-1908. Watford: PhotoResearch, 1994

Seiberling, G. and C. Bloore, Amateurs, Photography, And The Mid-Victorian Imagination. Chicago and London: The University Of Chicago Press, 1986

Schaaf, L. J., Out of the Shadows. Herschel, Talbot, & the Invention of Photography. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1992

Schaaf, L. J., The Photographic Art Of William Henry Fox Talbot. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2000

Stevenson, S. and A.D. Morrison-Low. Scottish Photography: The First Thirty Years. Edinburgh: NMSE Publishing, 2015

Stevenson, S., David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson. Catalogue of their Calotypes taken between 1843 and 1847 in the Collection of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. Edinburgh: Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 1981

Stevenson, S. and A. D. Morrison-Low, Scottish Photography. A Bibliography 1839-1989. Edinburgh: Salvia Books, 1990

Taylor, R., Photographs Exhibited In Britain 1839-1865. A Compendium Of Photographers And Their Works. Ottawa: National Gallery Of Canada, 2002

Taylor, R., E. Wakeling and P.C. Bunnell, Lewis Carroll Photographer. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2002

Taylor, R. and L. J. Schaaf, Impressed by Light. British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840-1860. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art ; Washington : National Gallery of Art ; New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2007

Wakeling, Edward. The Photographs of Lewis Carroll. A Catalogue Raisonné. The University of Texas Press: Austin, 2015

Ward, J. and S. Stevenson, Printed Light. The Scientific Art of William Henry Fox Talbot and David Octavius Hill with Robert Adamson. Edinburgh: Scottish National Portrait Gallery & Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1986

Canada

Cavell, E., Sometimes a Great Nation. A Photo Album of Canada 1850-1925. Banff, Alberta: Altitude Publishing, 1984

Greenhill, R., Early Photography in Canada. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1965

Greenhill, R. and A. Birrell, Canadian Photography: 1839-1920. Toronto: The Coach House Press, 1979

Cartes de Visite

Darrah, W.C., Cartes De Visite In Nineteenth Century Photography. Gettysburg, Pa.: William C. Darrah, 1981

Frecker, Paul. Cartomania. Photography and Celebrity in the Nineteenth Century. September Publishing: Tewkesbury, England, 2024

McCauley, E. A., A.A.E. Disdéri And The Carte De Visite Portrait Photograph. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1985

Ceylon

Falconer, J. and I. Raheem, Regeneration. A Reappraisal Of Photography In Ceylon 1850-1900. London: The British Council, 2000

China

Bennett, T., History of Photography in China 1842-1860. London; Quaritch, 2009

Bennett, T., History of Photography in China. Western Photographers 1861-1879. London: Quaritch, 2010

Bennett, T., History of Photography in China. Chinese Photographers 1844-1879. London: Quaritch, 2013

Cody, J.W. & Terpak, F., Brush & Shutter. Early Photography in China. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2011

Corrigan, Karina H., Stephanie H. Tung, Bing Wang and Tingting Xu. Power and Perspective. Early Photography in China. Peabody Essex Museum & Yale University Press: Salem, Mass., New Haven & London, 2022

Worswick, C. and J. Spence, Imperial China. Photographs 1850-1912. New York: Penwick/Crown, 1978

Wue, R., J. Waley-Cohen and E. K. Lai, Picturing Hong Kong. Photography 1855-1910. New York: Asia Society Galleries, 1997

Colour

Coe, B., Colour Photography. The First Hundred Years 1840-1940. London: Ash & Grant, 1978

Agfa-Gevaert Foto-Historama, Farbe in Photo. Die Geschite der Farbphotographie von 1861 bis 1981. Cologne: Josef-Haubrich-Kunstalle, 1981

Roberts, P., A Century of Colour Photography from the Autochrome to the Digital Age, London: André Deutsch, 2007

Concise Histories

Coe, B., The Birth of Photography. The Story of the Formative Years 1800-1900. London: Ash & Grant, 1976

Gernsheim, H. and A. Gernsheim, A Concise History of Photography. London: Thames & Hudson, 1965

Jeffrey, I. Photography. A Concise History. London: Thames & Hudson, 1981

Newhall, B., The History of Photography from 1839 to the Present Day. London: Secker & Warburg, 1972 (1st ed., Museum of Modern Art, 1964)

Weaver, M., The Photographic Art. Pictorial Traditions in Britain and America. London: The Herbert Press, 1986

The Daguerreotype

Buerger, J. E., French Daguerreotypes. Chicago & London: The University Of Chicago Press, 1989

Bajac, Q., D. P.-d. Font-Réaulx, M. Daniel, S. Pinson, A. Gunthert, C. Barthe, F. Reynaud, S. Morand and P.-L. Roubert, Le Daguerréotype Français. Un Objet Photographique. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux : Musée d'Orsay, 2003

Chiesa, Gabriele and Paolo Gosio. Dagherrotipia, Ambrotipia, Ferrotipia. Positivi Unici e Processi Antichi nel Ritratto Fotografico. Gabriele Chiesa & Paolo Gosio: Brescia, 2013

Craig, J.S., Craig’s Daguerreian Registry. Torrington, Conn.: John S. Craig, 1994

Foresta, M. A. and J. Wood, Secrets of the Dark Chamber : The Art of the American Daguerreotype. National Museum of American Art, 1995

Gernsheim, H. and A. Gernsheim, L.J.M. Daguerre. The History Of The Diorama And The Daguerreotype. New York: Dover Publications, 1968

Jacobson, K. and J. Jacobson. Carrying Off the Palaces: John Ruskin's Lost Daguerreotypes. London: Quaritch, 2015

Pinson, S. Monumental Journey. The Daguerreotypes of Girault de Prangey. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2019

Pinson, S. Speculating Daguerre: Art and Enterprise in the Work of L. J. M. Daguerre. Chicago: U. of Chicago Press, 2012

Rinhart, F. and M. Rinhart, The American Daguerreotype. Athens, Georgia: The University of Georgia Press, 1981

Romer, G. B. and B. Wallis, Young America. The Daguerreotypes of Southworth & Hawes. Göttingen & Rochester, N.Y.: Steidl and George Eastman House- International Museum of Photography, 2005

Rudisill, R., Mirror Image. The Influence of the Daguerreotype on American Society. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1971

Wood, J., The Scenic Daguerreotype. Romanticism And Early Photography. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1995

Wood, J., The Daguerreotype. A Sesquicentennial Celebration. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1989

France

Apraxine, P., R. Therond and A. d. Mondenard, Une Passion Française. Photographies De La Collection Roger Therond. Paris: Filipacchi, 1999

Aubenas et. al., Gustave Le Gray 1820-1884. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2002

Buerger, J. E., The Era Of The French Calotype. Rochester: International Museum Of Photography At George Eastman House, 1982

Jammes, A. and R. Sobieszek, French Primitive Photography. New York: Aperture, 1970

Jammes, A. and E.P. Janis, The Art of the French Calotype with a Critical Dictionary of Photographers, 1845-1870. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983

Keller, C., Signs and Wonders. The Photography of John Beasley Greene. Munich, London & New York: Delmonico Books - Prestel, 2019

Kennel, S. et. al., Charles Marville. Photographer of Paris. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 2013

Lacan, E., Esquisses Photographiques A Propos De L'Exposition Universelle Et De La Guerre D'Orient. Historique De La Photographie- Developpements- Applications- Biographies Et Portrait. Paris: Grassart & A. Gaudin et Frère, 1856

McCauley, E. A., Industrial Madness. Commercial Photography In Paris, 1848-1871. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1994

Marbot, B., C. Bonnefon and P. Marillier, Une Invention Du XIXe Siècle. Expression Et Technique. La Photographie. Collections De La Société Française De Photographie. Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, 1976

Mondenard, A. de & Pagneux, M., Modernisme ou modernité : Les Photographes du cercle de Gustave Le Gray. Paris: Actes Sud, 2012

Naef, W. J. and B. Marbot, After Daguerre. Masterworks Of French Photography (1848-1900) From The Bibliothèque Nationale. New York: The Metropolitan Museum Of Art, 1980

Rouillé, A., La Photographie En France. Paris: Éditions Macula, 1989

Voignier, J.-M., Répertoire Des Photographes De France Au Dix-Neuvième Siècle. Chevilly-Larue: Le Pont De Pierre, 1993

General Works

Auer, M. and M. Auer, Photographers Encyclopaedia International (CD-ROM). Neuchâtel: Ides & Calendes, 1997

Boom, M. and H. Rooseboom, A New Art. Photography in the 19th Century. The Photo Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Amsterdam: Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoon, 1996

Bernard, B. and M. Haworth-Booth, One Hundred Photographs. A Collection by Bruce Bernard. London: Phaidon, 2000

Brettell, R. R., R. Flukinger, N. Keeler and S. M. Kilgore, Paper And Light. The Calotype In France And Great Britain, 1839-1870. Boston, Mass. and London: David R. Godine and Kudos & Godine, 1984

Buckland, Gail. Reality Recorded. Early Documentary Photography. David & Charles: Newton Abbot & London, 1974

Coe, B., Cameras From Daguerreotype To Instant Pictures. New York: Crown Publishing, 1978

Eder, J. M., History Of Photography. New York: Columbia University Press, 1945

Edwards, G., International Guide To Nineteenth Century Photographers And Their Works. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1988

Eskind, A.H., Index to American Photographic Collections. Third Enlarged Edition. New York: G.K. Hall, 1996

Faber, Monika, Maren Gröning, Astrid Lechner and Michael Ponstingl. The Eye and the Camera. The Albertina Collection of Photographs. Seuil & Albertina: Paris & Vienna, 2003

Falconer, J. and L. Hide, Points of View. Capturing the 19th Century in Photographs. London: The British Library, 2009

Frizot, M., Nouvelle Histoire De La Photographie. Paris: Bordas, 1994

Gernsheim, H. and A. Gernsheim, The History Of Photography From The Camera Obscura To The Beginning Of The Modern Era. London: Thames And Hudson, 1969

Greenough, S., J. Snyder, D. Travis and C. Westerbeck, On The Art Of Fixing A Shadow. One Hundred And Fifty Years Of Photography. Boston, Toronto, London: Bulfinch Press/ Little Brown & Co., 1989

Hacking, Juliet. Lives of - The Great Photographers. Thames & Hudson: London, 2015

Hambourg, M. M., P. Apraxine, M. Daniel, J. L. Rosenheim and V. Heckert, The Waking Dream. Photography's First Century. Selections From The Gilman Paper Company Collection. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1993

Hannavy, J., Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography. New York & London: Routledge, 2008

Heiting, M. and E.P. Janis, At the Still Point. Photographs from the Manfred Heiting Collection. Volume I, 1840-1916. Los Angeles & Amsterdam: Cinubia, 1995

Johnson, W. S., Nineteenth-Century Photography. An Annotated Bibliography 1839-1879. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1990

Lécuyer, R., Histoire de la Photographie. Paris: Baschet, 1945

Moriarty, S.R., Darkness and Light: Death and Beauty in Photography. Notre Dame, Indiana: Snite Museum of Art, 2009

Roberts, P. and P. McCartney, Photogenic. From The Collection of The Royal Photographic Society. London & Hong Kong: Scriptum Editions, 2001

Rosenblum, N., A History Of Women Photographers. Paris London New York: Abbeville Press, 1994

Rudisill, R., P. Palmquist, D. Haynes, D. H. Johnson, S. Joseph, S. Knoblock, L. A. Ries and J. Rowe, Photographers. A Sourcebook For Historical Research. Nevada City: Carl Mautz Publishing, 2000

Sobieszek, R. A., Masterpieces Of Photography From The George Eastman House Collections. New York: Abbeville Press, 1985

Szarkowski, J., The Photographer's Eye. New York: The Museum Of Modern Art, 1966

Szarkowski, J., Photography Until Now. New York: The Museum Of Modern Art, New York, 1989

Thackrey, S., Masterworks Of Photography From the Rubel Collection. Sacramento, California: The Crocker Art Museum, 1982

Thomas, D. B., The Science Museum Photography Collection. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1969

Victoria & Albert Museum, 'From Today Painting Is Dead'. The Beginnings Of Photography. London: Arts Council Of Great Britain, 1972

Weaver, M. and D. Wolf, The Art Of Photography 1839-1989. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1989

Witkin, L.D. and B. London, The Photograph Collector’s Guide. Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1979

Germany

Baier, W., Quellendartsellungen zur Geschichte des Fotografie. Munich: Scrimer/Mosel, 1977

Griebel, Matthias, Jürgen Frohse and Agnes Matthias. August Kotzsch 1836-1910. Landmann und Photograph in Loschwitz bei Dresden. Werkverzeichnis. Schirmer/Mosel: Munich, 2026

Kempe, F., Daguerreotypie in Deutschland. Vom Charme der frühen Fotografie. Seebruck am Chiemsee: Heering-Verlag, 1979

Peters, U., Stilgeschichte Der Fotografie In Deutschland 1839-1900. Köln: Dumont Buchverlag, 1979

Von Dewitz, B. and R. Matz, Silber Und Salz. Zur Frühzeit Der Photographie Im Deutschen Sprachraum 1839-1860. Köln und Heidelberg: Edition Braus, 1989

India

Dehejia, V., C. Allen, J. Falconer, M. Gray, D. Harris, J. Ricketts and G. M. Sampson, India Through The Lens. Photography 1840-1911. Munich, London & New York: Freer Gallery of Art & Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 2000

Derenthal, L., R.D. Gadebusch, K. Specht, J. Falconer, J.K. Bautze and R. Allana. The Colonial Eye. Early Portrait Photography in India. Leipzig: Koeler & Amelang, 2012

Dewan, Deepali and Deborah Hutton. Raja Deen Dayal. Artist-Photographer in 19th-Century India. Ellisbridge, Ahmedabad: Mappin, 2013

Falconer, J., S. Sharma and M. Gray, A Shifting Focus: Photography In India: 1850-1900. London: The British Library, 1995

Falconer, J., India: Pioneering Photographers 1850-1900. London: The British Library & Howard and Jane Ricketts Collection, 2001

Falconer, J. Under Indian Skies: 19th-Century Photographs from a Private Collection. Copenhagen: Strandberg, 2019

Hapgood, Susan. Early Bombay Photography. Ellisbridge, Ahmedabad: Mappin, 2015

Mitter, P., A. Tankha, S. Sinha and R. Allana. The Artful Pose. Early Studio Photography in Mumbai c.1855-1940. Ahmedabad: Mappin, 2010

Pelizzari, M.A., Traces Of India: Photography, Architecture, And The Politics Of Representation, 1850-1900. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2003

Johnson, R.F. J. Falconer, S. Gordon and O. Khan, Reverie And Reality. Nineteenth-Century Photographs Of India From The Ehrenfeld Collection. San Francisco: Fine Art Museums of San Francisco, 2003

Worswick, C. and A. Embree, The Last Empire. Photography In British India, 1855-1911. London: Gordon Fraser, 1976

Ireland

Chandler, E., Photography in Ireland. The Nineteenth Century. Dublin: Edmund Burke, 2001

Italy

Becchetti, P., Fotografi E Fotografia In Italia 1839-1880. Rome: Edizioni Quasar, 1978

Bouqueret, C. and F. Livi, Le Voyage En Italie. Les Photographes Français En Italie 1840-1920. Lyon: La Manufacture, 1989

Helsted, D., H. Pers, C. Pietrangeli and P. Becchetti, Rome in Early Photographs. The Age of Pius IX. Photographs 1846-1878 from Roman and Danish Collections. Copenhagen: The Thorvaldsen Musuem, 1977

Constantini, P. and I. Zannier, Itinerario Fiorentino. Florence: Alinari, 1986

Dewitz, B. V., D. Siegert and K. Schuller-Procopovici, Italien Sehen Und Sterben. Photographien Der Zeit Des Risorgimento (1845-1870). Köln: Braus, 1994

Lundberg, W. B. and J. A. Pinto, Steps off the Beaten Path. Nineteenth-Century Photographs of Rome and its Environs. Images from the Collection of Delaney and W. Bruce Lundberg. Milan: Charta, 2007

Pelizzari, M.A., The Idea of Italy. Photography and the British Imagination 1840-1900. Yale Center for British Art: New Haven, 2022

Pohlmann, U., et al, Voir l'Italie et Mourir. Paris: Musée d'Orsay, 2009

Siegert, D., Venedig in Frühen Photographien 1848-1905. Ebersberg: Edition Achteinhalb Lothar Just, 1984

Japan

Bennett, T., Old Japanese Photographs. Collectors' Data Guide. London: Quaritch, 2006

Bennett, T., Photography in Japan 1853-1912. Rutland, Vermont, Singapore & Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing, 2006

Boyd, T., Portraits in Sepia. From the Japanese Carte de Visite Collection of Torin Boyd and Naomi Izakura. Tokyo: Izakura & Boyd, 2000

Tucker, A.W., The History of Japanese Photography. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2003

Worswick, C. and J. Morris, Japan. Photographs 1854-1905. New York: A. Pennwick/Alfred A. Knopf Book, 1979

Middle East & North Africa

Aubenas, S. and J. Lacarrière, Voyage en Orient. Paris: Hazan, 1999

Çelik, Z., J. Clancy-Smith and F. Terpak, Walls of Algiers. Narratives of the City Through Text and Image. Los Angeles, Seattle & London: The Getty Research Institute & University of Washington Press, 2009

Goldberg, I., M.-C. Adés and P. Zaragozi, Photographies En Algérie Au XIXe Siècle. Paris: Musée-Galerie De La Seita, 1999

Howe, K. S., Excursions Along The Nile: The Photographic Discovery Of Ancient Egypt. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum Of Art, 1993

Howe, K. S., Revealing The Holy Land. The Photographic Exploration Of Palestine. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum Of Art, 1997

Jacobson, K., Odalisques & Arabesques: Orientalist Photography 1839-1925. London: Quaritch, 2007

Öztuncay, B., The Photographers Of Constantinople. Pioneers, Studios And Artists From 19th Century Istanbul. 1. Text And Photographs. 2. The Album. Istanbul: Aygaz, 2003

Perez, N. N., Focus East. Early Photography In The Near East (1839-1885). New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1988

Vaczek, L. and G. Buckland, Travellers In Ancient Lands. A Portrait Of The Middle East, 1839-1919. Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1981

The Pacific

Abramson, J., Photographers of Old Hawaii. Honolulu: Island Heritage, 1976

O’Reilly, P., Les Photographes à Tahiti et leurs Oeuvres 1842-1962. Tahiti: Les Editions du Pacifique, 1969

Picasso, S., The Invention of Paradise. Tahiti and the Marquesas. Photographs by Paul-Émile-Miot 1869/70. Munich: Galerie Daniel Blau

Snapshot & ‘Vernacular’ Photography

Appollo, K., Humble Work & Mad Wanderings. Street Life in the Machine Age. Nevada City: Carl Mautz, 1997

Batchen, Geoffrey. 'Vernacular Photographies'. History of Photography. Vol. 24, No. 3, Autumn 2000. 262-271

Coe, B. and P. Gates, The Snapshot Photograph. The Rise of Popular Photography 1888-1939. London: Ash & Grant, 1977

Cutshaw, Stacey McCarroll, Ross Barrett, Bernard L. Herman and Daile Kaplan. In the Vernacular. Photography of the Everyday. Boston University Art Gallery: Boston, 2008

Fineman, M., Other Pictures. Anonymous Photographs from the Thomas Walther Collection. Santa Fe: Twin Palms Publishers, 2000

Greenough, S. and D. Waggoner, The Art of the American Snapshot 1888-1978 from the Collection of Robert E. Jackson. Washington, D.C. & Princeton: National Gallery of Art & Princeton University Press, 2007

Johnson, R.F. and W. Boyd, Anonymous. Enigmatic Images from Unknown Photographers. London: Thames & Hudson, 2004

South America

Do Lago, Pedro Corrêa. Remarkable Images of Brazilian Photography 1840-1914. Ruy Souza e Silva Collection. Capivara: Rio de Janeiro, 2022

Ferrez, G. and W.J. Naef, Pioneer Photographers of Brazil. New York: The Center for Inter-American Relations, 1976

Ferrez, G., O Rio Antigo do Fotógrafo Marc Ferrez. Rio de Janeiro: João Fortes Engenharia & Editora Ex Libris, 1984

Ferrez, G., A Fotografia No Brasil 1840-1900. Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Nacional de Arte & Fundação Nacional Pró-Memória, 1985

Gesualdo, V., Historia de la Fotografía en América. Desde Alaska hasta Tierra del Fuego en el Siglo XIX. Buenos Aires: Sui Generis, 1990

Hoffenberg, H.L., Nineteenth-Century South America in Photographs. New York: Dover, 1982

Southeast Asia

Bautze, J.K. Unseen Siam. Early Photography 1860-1910. Bangkok: River Books, 2009

Falconer, J., A Vision of the Past. A History of Early Photographs in Singapore and Malaya. The Photographs of G.R. Lambert & Co., 1880-1910. Singapore: Times Editions, 1987

Merrillees, S., Batavia in Nineteenth Century Photographs. Singapore: Archipelago Press, 2000

Museum voor Volkenkunde, Toekang Portret. 100 Jaar Fotografie in Nederlands Indië 1839-1939. Amsterdam & Rotterdam: Fragment Uitgeverij & Museum voor Volkenkunde, 1989

Newton, G. Garden of the East. Photography in Indonesia 1850s-1940s. Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 2014

Newton, G., Picture Paradise. Asia-Pacific Photography 1840s-1940s. Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 2009

Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Des Photographes en Indiochine. Tonkin, Annam, Cochinchine, Cambodge et Laos au XIXE Siècle. Paris: Marval & Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 2001

Toh, J., Singapore through 19th Century Photographs. Singapore: EDM, 2009

Spain

Fontanella, L., La Historia de la Fotografia en España desde sus Orígenes hasta 1900. Madrid: El Viso, 1981

G. Kurtz and I. Ortega, 150 Años De Fotografía En La Biblioteca Nacional. Madrid: El Viso, 1989

López Mondéjar, P., Las Fuentes de la Memoria. Fotografía y Sociedad en la España del Siglo XIX. Barcelona & Madrid: Lunwerg Editores, 1989

Stereoscopic Photography

Darrah, W.C., The World of Stereographs. Gettysburg, Pa.: William C. Darrah, 1977

May, B., D. Pellerin & P. Fleming. Diableries: Stereoscopic Adventures in Hell.London: London Stereoscopic Company, 2013

Pellerin, D., La Photographie Stéréoscopique Sous Le Second Empire. Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale De France, 1995

Switzerland

Gasser, Martin and Sylvie Henguely. D'Après Nature. Photographie Suisse au XIXe Siècle. Steidl: Göttingen, 2021

Loetscher, Hugo, Walter Binder, Rosellina Burri Bischof and Peter Kilier. Photography in Switzerland: 1840 to Today. Arthur Niggli: Teufen, 1974

Photographic Theory

Barthes, R., Camera Lucida. Reflections on Photography. London: Flamingo, 1984

Batchen, G., Burning with Desire. The Conception of Photography. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999

Benjamin, Walter. Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media. Harvard University Press: Cambridge, Mass., 2008

Borcoman, J., Purism Versus Pictorialism: The 135 Years War. Some Notes On Photographic Aesthetics. ArtsCanada, Nos. 192-195, December, 1974. pp. 68-82

Edwards, S., The Making of English Photography: Allegories. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006

Krauss, R.E., The Originality Of The Avant-Garde And Other Modernist Myths. Cambridge, Mass. & London: MIT Press, 1985

Solomon-Godeau, A., Photography At The Dock. Essays On Photographic History, Institutions, And Practices. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991

Sontag, S., On Photography. London: Allen Lane Penguin Books, 1978