Photography Resources

Publications

Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography, trans. Richard Howard, New York: Hill and Wang, 1981.

Geoffrey Batchen, Burning with Desire: the Conception of Photography, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997.

Walter Benjamin, ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’ (1936), in Illuminations, London: Fontana, 1973, pp. 219-253.

Richard Bolton (ed.), The Contest of Meaning: Critical Histories of Photography, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1989.

Victor Burgin (ed.), Thinking Photography, London: Macmillan, 1982.

David Campany (ed.), Art and Photography, London and New York: Phaidon Press, 2003.

Charlotte Cotton, The Photograph as Contemporary Art, London and New York: Thames and Hudson, 2004.

T. J. Demos, Vitamin Ph: New Perspectives on Photography, London: Phaidon Press, 2006.

Emma Dexter and Thomas Weski (eds.), Cruel and Tender: The Real in Twentieth-Century Photography, London: Tate, 2003.

Steve Edwards, Photography: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Jessica Evans (ed.), The Camerawork Essays: Context and Meaning in Photography, London: Rivers Oram Press, 1997.

Vilem Flusser, Towards a Philosophy of Photography, London: Reaktion Books, 2000.

Michael Fried, Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008.

Michel Frizot, A New History of Photography, Cologne: Konemann, 1998.

Martin Lister (ed.), The Photographic Image in Digital Culture, London: Routledge, 1995.

J. J. Long, Andrea Noble and Edward Welch (eds.), Photography: Theoretical Shapshots, London and New York: Routledge, 2009.

Nathan Lyons (ed.), Photographers on Photography: A Critical Anthology, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1966.

Mary Warner Marien, Photography: A Cultural History, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2002.

W. J. T. Mitchell, Iconography: Image, Text, Ideology, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.

Beaumont Newhall, The History of Photography: From 1839 to the Present Day, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1982.

Fred Ritchin, After Photography, London and New York: W. W. Norton, 2009.

Naomi Rosenblum, A World History of Photography, New York: Abbeville Press, 1997.

Aaron Scharf, Art and Photography, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1974.

Stephen Shore, The Nature of Photographs, London: Phaidon Press, 2007.

Susan Sontag, On Photography, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977.

John Szarkowski, The Photographer’s Eye, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2007.

John Tagg, The Disciplinary Frame: Photographic Truths and the Capture of Meaning, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 2009.

Alan Trachtenberg (ed.), Classical Essays on Photography, New Haven: Leete’s Island Books, 1980.

Liz Wells (ed.), The Photography Reader, London: Routledge, 2002.

Journals/Magazines

Aperture Magazine
www.aperture.org

B&W Magazine
www.bandwmag.com

Blind Spot: Magazine
www.blindspot.com

The British Journal of Photography
www.bjp-online.com

Camera Obscura
www.obscurajournal.com

F-Stop
www.fstopmagazine.com

History of Photography
www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/03087298.asp

Lens Culture: Photography and Shared Territories
www.lensculture.com

Philosophy of Photography:
www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=186/

Photography and Culture
www.bergpublishers.com/?tabid=3257

Pluk Magazine
www.plukmagzine.com

Silvershotz: The International Journal of Photography
www.silvershotz.com

Source – Photographic Review
www.source.ie

Tank Magazine
www.tankmagazine.com

Organisations

Aperture Foundation, New York
www.aperture.org

Centre for Contemporary Photography, Australia
www.ccp.org.au

Daguerreian Society, USA
www.daguerre.org

Foam, Amsterdam
www.foam.org

G44, Centre for Contemporary Art, Toronto
www.gallery44.org

Gallery of Photography, Dublin
www.galleryofphotography.ie

George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, New York
www.eastmanhouse.org

International Centre of Photography, New York
www.icp.org

Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
www.mocp.org

Photography-now
An international online platform of photography and video art.
www.photography-now.com

Photofusion, London
www.photofusion.org

PHOTOIRELAND, Dublin
www.photoireland.com

Photomuse
A resource for scholarship in the history of photography.
www.photomuse.org

The Society for Photographic Education, USA
www.spenational.org

Festivals

Auckland Festival of Photography, New Zealand
www.photographyfestival.org.nz

Brighton Photo Biennial, UK
www.bpb.org.uk

Format: International Photography Festival, UK
www.formatfestival.com

GRID, International Photography Biennial, Netherlands
www.gridphotofestival.com

Les Rencontres d’Arles, Photography Festival, France
www.rencontres-arles.com

London Street Photography Festival, UK
www.londonstreetphotographyfestival.org

New York Photo Festival, USA
www.newyorkphotofestival.com

Paraty em Foco,
International Photography Festival, Brazil
www.paratyemfoco.com

Photo Biennial, Thessaloniki, Greece
www.photobiennale.gr

PhotoEspana Festival, Spain
www.phe.es

Photo-Festivals
A platform for international photography festivals with the aim to promote the development of the community of photographers.
www.photo-festivals.com

Visa Pour l’Image, Perpignan, France
www.visapourlimage.com