Resource: Books

  • Abbott, Brett (2010). Engaged Observers: Documentary Photography Since the Sixties. ISBN: 9781606060223.
  • Badger, Gerry (2022). Another Country: British Documentary Photography Since 1945. ISBN: 9780500022177.
  • Balaschak, Chris (2021). The Image of Environmental Harm in American Social Documentary Photography. ISBN: 9780367860400.
  • Balaschak, Chris (2021). The Image of Environmental Harm in American Social Documentary Photography. ISBN: 9780367860400.
  • Batchen, Geoffrey, et al., Eds. (2012). Picturing Atrocity: Photography in Crisis. ISBN: 9781861898722.
  • Bate, David (2019). Photography: The Key Concepts. ISBN: 9781350107953.
  • Blair, Sara, et al. (2012). Trauma and Documentary Photography of the FSA (Defining Moments in American Photography). ISBN: 9780520265653.
  • Borge, Michelle (2011). Photography as Activism: Images for Social Change. ISBN: 9780240812755.
  • Borge, Michelle (2019). Documentary Photography Reconsidered: History, Theory and Practice. ISBN: 9781472586698.
  • Bussard, Kathrine, et al (2020). Life Magazine and the Power of Photography. ISBN: 9780274758289.
  • Carter, Christopher (2015). Rhetorical Exposures: Confrontation and Contradiction in US Social Documentary Photography (Rhetoric Culture and Social Critique). ISBN: 9780817318628.
  • Coles, Robert (1998). Doing Documentary Work (New York Public Library Lectures in Humanities). ISBN: 9780195124958.
  • dal Verme, Enzo (2016). Storytelling for Photojournalists: Reportage and Documentary Photography Techniques. ISBN: 9781682030004.
  • Day, Jonathan (2011). Robert Frank's 'The Americans': The Art of Documentary Photography. ISBN: 9781841503158.
  • Feathrstone, David (1991). Observations: Essays on Documentary Photography. ISBN: 9780933286399.
  • Fehrenbach, Heide and Rodogno, Davide (2016). Humanitarian Photography: A History (Human Rights in History). ISBN: 9781107639713.
  • Fetterman, Peter (2022). The Power of Photography. ISBN: 9781788841221.
  • Foster, David William (2021). The City as Photographic Text: Urban Documentary Photography of São Paulo. ISBN: 9780822946236.
  • Franklin, Stuart (2016). The Documentary Impulse. ISBN: 9780714870670.
  • Frazier, Danny Wilcox (2007). Driftless: Photographs from Iowa (Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography). ISBN: 9780822341451.
  • Freeman, Michael (2017). The Photographer's Eye Digitally Remastered 10th Anniversary Edition: Composition and Design for Better Digital Photos. ISBN: 9780815375661.
  • Fulton, Christopher, Ed. (2019). The Social Documentary Photography of Milton Rogovin. ISBN: 9780813177489.
  • Gautrand, Jean Claude (2016). Eugène Atget: Paris. ISBN: 9783836522304
  • Glotfelty, Cheryll and Goin, Peter (2022). Peter Goin and the Photography of Environmental Change: Visual Literacy and Altered Landscapes (Routledge Environmental Humanities). ISBN: 9781032080321.
  • Gustafson, Donna and Zervigón, Andrés Mario, Eds. (2018). Subjective Objective: A Century of Social Photography. ISBN: 9783777429533.
  • Hooper, Elise (2019). Learning to See: A Novel of Dorothea Lange, the Woman Who Revealed the Real America. ISBN: 9780062686534.
  • Kelly, E.J. (2023). "StreetScapes" Stills /Found Objects: An Arresting Journey of Photo Ideas. ISBN: 9788387305153.
  • Lange, Dorothea and Gordon, Elizabeth (2014). Dorothea Lange: Aperture Masters of Photography (The Aperture Masters of Photography Series). ISBN: 9781597112956.
  • Light, Ken (2010). Witness in Our Time, Second Edition: Working Lives of Documentary Photographers . ISBN: 9781588342980.
  • McLaren, Stephen and Stuart, Matt (2023). Reclaim the Street: Street Photography's Moment. ISBN: 9780500545379.
  • Norton, Boyd (2020). Conservation Photography Handbook: How to Save the World One Photo at a Time. ISBN: 9781682034262.
  • Paris, Skira (2023). Environmental Photography Award 2022: Foundation Prince Albert II of Monaco. ISBN: 9782370742032.
  • Peterson, Bryan (2022). Understanding Street Photography: An Introduction to Shooting Compelling Images on the Street. ISBN: 9781984860583.
  • Ritchin, Fred (2013). Bending the Frame: Photojournalism, Documentary, and the Citizen. ISBN: 9781597111201.
  • Rothstein, Arthur (1986). Documentary Photography. ISBN: 9780240517544.
  • Scott, Conohar (2022). Photography and Environmental Activism: Visualising the Struggle Against Industrial Pollution (Photography, Place, Environment). ISBN: 9781350099517.
  • Silber, Marc (2018). The Secrets to Amazing Photo Composition: 83 Composition Tools from the Masters. ISBN: 9781633537668.
  • Stange, Maren (19920. Symbols of Ideal Life: Social Documentary Photography in America 1890-1950. ISBN: 9780521424295.
  • Ulrich, David (2022). The Mindful Photographer: Awake in the World with a Camera. ISBN: 9781681988412.
  • Vescia, Monique (2015). Depression Glass: Documentary Photography and the Medium of the Camera-Eye in Charles Reznikoff, George Oppen, and William Carlos Williams. ISBN: 9781138812536.
  • Wessel, Henry (2022). Henry Wessel: Documentary Style and Beyond. ISBN: 9788418934070.
  • Westerbeck, Colin and Meyerowitz, Joel (2017). Bystander: A History of Street Photography, ISBN: 9781786270665.