Here are some of the classic books about photography.
| Robert Adams |
Beauty in Photography: Essays
in Defense of Traditional Values |
| Roland Barthes |
Camera Lucida: Reflections
on Photography |
| John Berger |
About Looking, Selected Essays
of John Berger, and Ways of Seeing |
| Richard Bolton, Editor |
The Contest of Meaning: Critical
Histories of Photography |
| Max Kozloff |
Photography and Fascination:
Essays |
| Alberto Manguel |
Reading Pictures: A history
of Love and Hate |
| William Mitchell |
The Reconfigured Eye: Visual
Truth in the Post-photographic Era |
| Christopher Phillips |
Photography in the Modern
Era: European Documents and Critical Writings, 1913-1940 |
| Susan Sontag |
On Photography |
| Carol Squiers, Editor |
The Critical Image: Essays
on Contemporary Photography |
| Alan Trachtenberg |
Classic Essays on Photography |
| John Szarkowski |
Photographer's Eye and
Photography Until Now |