A Glimpse at Photo Books in History
This is a partial list of the seminal photo books in the history of photography. The information on this list is drawn from “Book of 101 Books, The: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century”. I welcome any additions/suggestions for books I’ve missed. Please help me grow this list.
1907 - Edward Curtis: “The North American Indian, Volume One”
1909 - Alvin Langdon Coburn: “London”
1911 - Alfred Stieglitz: “Camera Work, Number XXXVI”
1917 - Paul Strand: “Camera Work, Number XLIX, Number L”
1925 - László Moholy-Nagy: “Malerei Fotografie Film”
1927 - Germaine Krull: “Métal”
1928 - Karl Blossfeldt: “Urformen der Kunst”; Albert Renger-Patzsch: “Die Welt ist Schön”
1929 - August Sander: “Antlitz der Zeit”; Edward Steichen and Carl Sandburg: “Steichen The Photographer”
1930 - Ansel Adams: “Taos Pueblo”; Eugène Atget: “Atget Photographe de Paris”; Claude Cahun: “Aveux non Avenus”; František Drtikol: “Zena ve Svetle”
1931 - Max Ernst and René Crevel: “Mr. Knife Miss Fork”; Helmar Lerski: “Köpfe des Alltags Moï Ver Paris”; Erich Salomon: “Beruhmte Zeitgenossen”
1933 - Brassai: “Paris de Nuit”; Doris Ullman and Julia Peterkin: “Roll, Jordan, Roll”
1934 - Man Ray and James Thrall Soby: “Man Ray Photographs 1920-1934”
1935 - El Lissitzky: “Industriia sotsializma”; Man Ray and Paul Éluard: “Facile”
1936 - Hans Bellmer: “La poupée “; Bill Brandt: “The English at Home”; Georges Hugnet: “La Septième face du dé”
1937 - Margaret Bourke-White and Erskine Caldwell: “You Have Seen Their Faces”; Leni Riefenstahl: “Schönheit im olympischen Kampf”
1938 - Walker Evans: “American Photographs”
1939 - Berenice Abbott: “Changing New York”; Dorothea Lange and Paul Schuster Taylor: “An American Exodus”
1941 - Walker Evans and James Agee: “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men”
1945 - Alexey Brodovitch: “Ballet”; André Kertész: “Day of Paris”; Jindrich Styrsky and Jindrich Heisler: “Na jehlach techto dni”; Weegee: “Naked City”
1946 - Wright Morris: “The Inhabitants”; Zdenek Tmej: “Abeceda”
1947 - Robert Capa: “Slightly Out of Focus”; Edward Weston: “Fifty Photographs”
1949 - Robert Doisneau and Blaise Cendrars: “La Banlieue de Paris”
1952 - Henri Cartier-Bresson: “The Decisive Moment”; Paul Strand and Claude Roy: “La France de Profil”
1955 - Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes: “The Sweet Flypaper of Life”
1956 - William Klein: “Life Is Good & Good for You in New York”; Josef Sudek: “Josef Sudek Fotografie”; Ed Van der Elsken: “Love on the Left Bank”
1959 - Richard Avedon and Truman Capote: “Observations”; Robert Frank: “The Americans”; Aaron Siskind: “Photographs”; Ed Van der Elsken: “Jazz”
1960 - Irving Penn: “Moments Preserved”
1961 - Bill Brandt: “Perspective of Nudes”
1962 - Frederick Sommer: “Frederick Sommer 1939-1962 Photographs”
1963 - Eikoh Hosoe and Yukio Mishima: “Killed by Roses”
1964 - Harry Callahan: “Photographs”
1965 - Peter Hill Beard: “The End of the Game”; Emmet Gowin: “Concerning America and Alfred Stieglitz, and Myself”; Kikuji Kawada: “The Map”; Helen Levitt: “A Way of Seeing”
1966 - Walker Evans: “Many Are Called”; Edward Ruscha: “Every Building on the Sunset Strip”
1967 - Ugo Mulas: “New York: The New Art Scene”; Andy Warhol: “Andy Warhol’s Index (Book)”; Ernest Cole: “House of Bondage”
1968 - Danny Lyon: “The Bikeriders”
1969 - Garry Winogrand: “The Animals”
1970 - Bernhard und Hilla Becher: “Anonyme Skulpturen”; Bruce Davidson: “East 100th Street”; Lee Friedlander: “Self Portrait”; Jacques-Henri Lartigue: “Diary of a Century”
1971 - Nobuyoshi Araki: “Sentimental Journey”; Larry Clark: “Tulsa”; Danny Lyon: “Conversations with the Dead”; Lucas Samaras: “Samaras Album”
1972 - Diane Arbus: “Diane Arbus”; Pierre Molinier and Peter Gorsen: “Pierre Molinier, lui meme “; Daido Moriyama: “Bye, Bye Photography, Dear”
1973 - Michael Lesy: “Wisconsin Death Trip”; Bill Owens: “Suburbia”
1974 - Robert Adams: “The New West”; Lewis Baltz: “The New Industrial Parks near Irvine, California”; Ralph Eugene Meatyard: “The Family Album of Lucybelle Crater”
1975 - W. Eugene Smith: “Minamata”; David Goldblatt: “Some Afrikaners Photographed”
1976 - William Eggleston: “William Eggleston’s Guide”; Lee Friedlander: “The American Monument”; Susan Meiselas: “Carnival Strippers”; Yousuf Karsh: “Karsh portraits”
1977 - Mike Mandel and Larry Sultan: “Evidence”
1978 - Anders Petersen: “Café Lehmitz”
1979 - Lisette Model: “Lisette Model”
1982 - Stephen Shore: “Uncommon Places”
1983 - Larry Clark: “Teenage Lust”, Gilles Peress: “Telex Iran”
1985 - Jim Goldberg: “Rich and Poor”; Richard Avedon: “In the American West”
1986 - Nan Goldin: “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency”; Bruce Weber: “O Rio de Janeiro”
1987 - Bill Burke: “I Want To Take Picture”; Joel Sternfeld: “American Prospects”
1988 - Chris Killip: “In Flagrante”; Ken Schles: “Invisible City”
1989 - Joan Fontcuberta and Pere Formiguera: “Fauna”
1990 - Allen Ginsberg: “Allen Ginsberg Photographs”
1991 - Lothar Baumgarten: “Carbon”
1993 - Sebastião Salgado: “Workers: An Archaeology of the Industrial Age”
1994 - Christian Boltanski: “Menschlich”
1995 - Richard Prince: “Adult Comedy Action Drama”
1996 - David LaChapelle: “LaChapelle Land”
2000 - Richard Billingham: “Ray’s a Laugh”
2003 - W. Eugene Smith: “Dream Street”
