Photography, essays & images: illustrated readings in the history of photography

Photography predicted, Tiphaigne de La Roche

An account of a method of copying paintings upon glass, and of making profiles, by agency of light upon nitrate of silver, Thomas Wedgwood and Sir Humphry Davy

The first news accounts of the daguerreotype

Some account of the art of photogenic drawing, or, the process by which natural objects may be made to delineate themselves without the aid of the artist's pencil, William Henry Fox Talbot

The process of calotype photogenic drawing, William Henry Fox Talbot

The early history of photography in the United States, Albert Sands Southworth

Brady, the grand old man of American photography: an interview, George Alfred Townsend

The use of collodion in photography, Frederick Scott Archer

The stereoscope and the stereograph, Oliver Wendell Holmes

Doings of the sunbeam, Oliver Wendell Holmes

Upon photography in an artistic view, and its relation to the arts, Sir William J. Newton

Photography, Lady Elizabeth Eastlake

A portfolio of photographs from the George Frederick Pollock album

Oscar Gustav Rejlander, Henry Peach Robinson

Nadar's portraits at the exhibition of the French Society of Photography, Philippe Burty

Photography, Charles Baudelaire

The art of photography, Francis Frith

Photographs from the high Rockies: from Harper's new monthly magazine, September 1869

To my patrons, Edward L. Wilson

The annals of my glass house, Julia Margaret Cameron

Muybridge's motion pictures: news accounts

An experiment with gelatino bromide, Richard Leach Maddox

The hand camera: a portfolio of catalog illustrations The amateur photographer, Alexander Black

Flashes from the slums: pictures taken in dark places by the lightning process, Jacob Riis

Photography, a pictorial art, Peter Henry Emerson

Pictorial photography, Alfred Stieglitz

Eduard J. Steichen, Ernest Juhl

Frederick H. Evans on pure photography

A plea for straight photography, Sadakichi Hartmann

The photo-secession at Buffalo: a portfolio of photographs purchased by the Albright Art Gallery in 1910

The function of the camera, Dixon Scott, 1906

The future of pictorial photography, Alvin Langdon Coburn

Stieglitz, Paul Rosenfeld

Photography, Paul Strand

Random notes on photography, Edward Weston

The work of Man Ray, Robert Desnos

The new realism -the object: its plastic and cinematic value, Fernand Leger

Eugene Atget, Berenice Abbott

The future of the photographic process, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

The international exhibition "Film und Foto," Stuttgart: a portfolio

Group f,John Paul Edwards

A personal credo, Ansel Adams

The assignment I'll never forget, Dorothea Lange

The FSA photographers, Edward Steichen

Photojournalism in the 1920s: a conversation between Felix H. Man, photographer, and Stefan Lorant, picture editor, 1970

Brassai, Nancy Newhall

Vision plus the camera: Henri Cartier-Bresson, Beaumont Newhall

W. Eugene Smith: a great photographer at work: an interview with Arthur Goldsmith

Time in New England in the making: exerpts from correspondence between Paul Strand and Nancy Newhall, 1945-50

In 1943 and 1944 a great change took place,Aaron Siskind

Found photographs,Minor White

Walker Evans, visiting artist: a transcript of his discussion with the students of the University of Michigan, 1971.