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[[Image:View_from_the_Window_at_Le_Gras,_Joseph_Nicéphore_Niépce.jpg|thumb|258px|''View from the Window at Le Gras'' is the oldest surviving camera photograph. Created by [[Nicéphore Niépce]] in 1826 or 1827 at Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, it shows parts of the buildings and surrounding countryside of his estate, Le Gras, seen from a high window, made using a camera obscura. It was the result of an 8-hour exposure.]]
[[Image:Cover_the_Pencil_of_Nature_1844.jpg|thumb|258px|Cover of ''The Pencil of Nature'' by [[William Henry Fox Talbot]], the first photographic book, with 24 calotypes, London, 1844,  [[Media:Talbot_H_Fox_The_Pencil_of_Nature.pdf|PDF]].]]
[[Image:Nahui_Olin_by_Edward_Weston_1924.jpg|thumb|258px|Portrait of [[Nahui Olin]] by Edward Weston, 1924.]]
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==Selected literature==
[[Image:Moholy-Nagy_L_Malerei_Fotografie_Film.jpg|thumb|258px|László Moholy-Nagy, ''Malerei, Fotografie, Film'', 1925/27. [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=8914 Log].]]
[[Image:Kepes_Gyorgy_Language_of_Vision.jpg|thumb|258px|Gyorgy Kepes, ''Language of Vision: Painting, Photography, Advertising-Design'', 1944/1969, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=11143 Log].]]
(in English unless noted)

; Avant-garde
* László Moholy-Nagy, ''[http://bibliothequekandinsky.centrepompidou.fr/imagesbk/RLPF727/M5050_X0031_LIV_RLPF0727.pdf Malerei, Fotografie, Film]'', Munich: Albert Langen, 1925, 115 pp; 2nd ed., 1927, 140 pp. Incl. [[Media:Moholy-Nagy_Laszlo_1927_Dynamik_der_Gross-Stadt.pdf|"Dynamik der Gross-Stadt"]], pp 116-129. {{de}}
** ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=8914 Painting Photography Film]'', trans. Janet Seligman, London: Lund Humphries, 1969. 
* Gyorgy Kepes, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=11143 Language of Vision: Painting, Photography, Advertising-Design]'', 1944; Chicago: Paul Theobald, 1969.

; Historisation
* Beaumont Newhall, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=11179 The History of Photography: From 1839 to the Present Day]'', New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1949, 256 pp; 5th ed., 1982.
** [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=11179 ''Historia de la fotografia''], trans. Homero Alsina Thevenet, 2002. {{es}}
* Aleksander Maciesza, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=7950 Historia fotografii polskiej w latach 1839–1889]'', Plock: Towarzystwo Naukowe Płockie, 1972, 83 pp. {{pl}}
* Peter Galassi, ''Before Photography. Painting and the Invention of Photography'', New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1981.
* Heinz K. Henisch and Bridget A. Henisch, ''The Painted Photograph, 1839-1914: Origins, Techniques, Aspirations'', Pennsylvania State University, 1996.
* Clément Chéroux, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=8682 Fautographie. Petite histoire de l’erreur photographique]'', Crisnée: Yellow Now, 2003, 183 pp. {{fr}}

; Theory and philosophy
* Pierre Bourdieu, ''Un art moyen. Essais sur les usages sociaux de la photographie'', 1965. {{fr}}
** ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=5901 Photography: A Middle-brow Art]'', trans. Shaun Whiteside, 1990. 
* Susan Sontag, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=698 On Photography]'', New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1977, 207 pp; RosettaBooks, 2005.
** [[Sontag#Sontag1977|translations]]
* Roland Barthes, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=6868 La chambre claire: note sur la photographie]'', Paris: Gallimard/Seuil, 1980, 194 pp. {{fr}}
** ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=6868 Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography]'', trans. Richard Howard, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1982, 119 pp. 
** [[Barthes#Barthes1980|other translations]]
* Victor Burgin (ed.), ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=1045 Thinking Photography]'', 2nd ed., Macmillan, 1982.
* Vilém Flusser, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=77 Für eine Philosophie der Fotografie]'', European Photography, 1983, 58 pp; 1989; 1997; 2006. {{de}}
** ''[[Media:Flusser_Vilem_Towards_a_Philosophy_of_Photography_1984.pdf|Towards A Philosophy of Photography]]'', ed. Derek Bennett, Göttingen: European Photography, 1984, 62 pp.
** [[Flusser#Flusser1983|other translations]]
* Vilém Flusser, ''Ins Universum der technischen Bilder'', Göttingen: European Photography, 1985; 1992; 1996. {{de}}
** ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=2876 Into the Universe of Technical Images]'', trans. Nancy Ann Roth, University of Minnesota Press, 2011, 224 pp.
** [[Flusser#Flusser1985|other translations]]
* David Green, Joanna Lowry (eds.), ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=6354 Stillness and Time: Photography and the Moving Image]'', Photoworks / Photoforum, 2005, 183 pp.
* Jacques Derrida, [https://archive.org/details/JacquesDerridaCopyArchiveSignatureAConversationOnPhotography2010 ''Copy, Archive, Signature: A Conversation on Photography''], edited by Gerhard Richter, trans. Jeff Fort, Stanford University Press, 2010, 67 pp.
* François Laruelle, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=6835 Photo-Fiction, a Non-Standard Aesthetics]'', trans. Drew S. Burk, Minneapolis, MN: Univocal, 2012, 85 pp.
* James Elkins, ''What Photography Is'', New York: Routledge, 2012.
* John Berger, ''Understanding a Photograph'', Geoff Dyer (ed.), Penguin Classics, 2013.

; Other
* Georges Didi-Huberman, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=2998 Invention of Hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpetriere]'' [1982], trans. Alisa Hartz, MIT Press, 2003, 373 pp.
* ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=13384 Antiquity and Photography: Early Views of Ancient Mediterranean Sites]'', Los Angeles: Getty, 2005, 226 pp.
* [http://www.jeudepaume.org/pdf/Photographisme_GB.pdf Photo / Graphics], Paris: Jeu de Paume, 2008, 45 pp.
* Louis Kaplan, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=5673 The Strange Case of William Mumler, Spirit Photographer]'', University of Minnesota Press, 2008, 288 pp.
* [http://monoskop.org/log/?tag=photography Publications on photography at Monoskop Log]


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