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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 |
| Jonathan Green | American Photography: A Critical History 1945 to the Present |
| Beaumont Newhall | The History of Photography |
| Naomi Rosenblum | A World History of Photography |