history/criticism/themes/
history
The Photobook: A History Vol 1 & 2, by Martin Parr and Gary Badger
Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and 70s, Ryuichi Kaneko, Ivan Vartanian
Swiss Photobooks from 1927 to the Present: A Different History of Photography, by Peterr Pfunder, Ftostifung Schweiz
The Dutch Photobook: A Thematic Exploration from 1945 Onwards, by Frits Gierstberg, Rik Suermondt
The Photograph as Contemporary Art by Charlotte Cotton
tableau/staged/constructed/theatrical/performance photography
Haunted:Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance, (New York : Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 2010)
criticism
The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence by Susie Linfield
periodicals
on being a photographer/artist
Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees : A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin, by Lawrence Weschler
W. Eugene Smith: Shadow and Substance – The Life and Work of an American Photographer by Jim Hughs
Diane Arbus Revelations by Diane Arbus
Image Makers, Image Takers by Anne-Celine Jaeger
Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans Expanded Edition by Sarah Greenough and Robert Fran
Seven Days in the Art World by Sarah Thornton
Hensche On Painting by John W. Robichaux
The Day Books of Edward Weston by Edward Weston
David Hockney On Photography by David Hockney