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Photography

From the first imperfect attempts to capture a trace of light on a material to various experiments, photography has been defined throughout history through multiple roles and uses. Defining itself mostly through three aspects – in relation to reality, artistic creation and its technical tasks, it has developed in a wide range, from the effort to be an "objective" and "permanent image of the moment" to the exploration of its own artistic language. The development of photography has also initiated new reflections in the aesthetic and sociological field

In the ALU library, you can find books on photography that cover its various aspects: technical manuals, essays by domestic and foreign authors, exhibition catalogues, author's monographs, reviews of the history of photography, books on specific types or aspects of photography, etc.

Here is a list of the most important titles:

  • David Campany: Art and Photography, Phaidon, London 2003.
  • More authors: Photography at MoMA 1960 – Now, New York 2013.
  • More authors: Vitamin Ph (New Perspectives in Photography), Phaidon, 2009.
  • Charlotte Cotton: The Photography as Contemporary Art, Thames and Hudson, 2014.
  • Gabriele Bösch, Doris Finta: In the Blink of an Eye, Photo-Art, Sammlung Essl 2002.
  • Naomi Rosenblum: World History Of Photography, Taschen 2008.
  • Helmut Gernsheim: Photography / A Condensed History, Belgrade 1973.
  • Davor Matičević: Croatian Photography 1950 to the Present, Zagreb 1997
  • Nada Grčević: Photography of the Nineteenth Century in Croatia, Zagreb 1981
  • Želimir Koščević: In Focus / Essays on Croatian Photography, Zagreb 2006
  • Tonči Valentić: Camera Abscondita / Records on the Anthology of Photography, Zagreb 2013
  • Vilem Flusser: Philosophy of Photography, Zagreb 2007
  • Susan Sontag: On Photography, Osijek 2007
  • Susan Sontag: Scenes of Someone Else's Suffering, Zagreb 2005
  • Roland Barthes: Bright Chamber / Notes on Photography, Zagreb 2003
  • Walter Benjamin: On Photography and Art, Belgrade 2006.
  • Gisele Freund: Photography and Society, Zagreb 1981
  • Branka Hlevnjak: Female Photographers / Contributions to the History of Croatian Photography 1870 – 2000, Zagreb 2005
  • Ken Light: Witnes in our Time / Working Lives of Documentary Photographers, Washington 2000.
  • More authors: The Image and the Witness / Trauma, Memory and Visual Culture, London 2007.

There are also catalogues of photographic exhibitions and monographs by many famous photographers: for example, A. Adams, Atget, M. Ray, E. Muybridge, I. Penn, Kertezs, D. Lange, H. Hoch, M. Braut, T. Dabac, N. Gattin, M. Grčević and many others.