GLOBAL SURVEYS: Photography
In the interest of creating a more global conversation about the history (and contemporary scene) of photography and visual culture, this guide offers books and articles exploring visual culture on various continents. These works are divided into contemporary and historical materials for searching purposes. We welcome feedback and any additional resources — please feel free to email us!
contemporary
Berhanou Abebbé, Anthology of African and Indian Ocean Photography
Jennifer Bajorek, Unfixed: Photography and Decolonial Imagination in West Africa
Clare Bell, ed., In/Sight: African Photographers, 1940 to the Present
Corinne Diserens, ed., Appropriated Landscapes: Contemporary African Photography from the Walther Collection
Okwui Enwezor, ed., Events of the Self: Portraiture and Social Identity
Okwui Enwezor, ed., Snap Judgements: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography
Ekow Eshun, Africa State of Mind: Contemporary Photography Reimagines a Continent
Joseph Gergel, Africa Under the Prism: Contemporary African Photography from the Lagosfoto Festival
John Peffer and Elisabeth L. Cameron, Portraiture & Photography in Africa
HISTORICAL
Patricia Hayes and Gary Minkley, eds., Ambivalent: Photography and Visibility in African History
Erin Haney, Photography and Africa
Darren Newbury, Defiant Images: Photography and Apartheid South Africa
Pierre-Laurent Sanner, ed., Eye Africa: African Photography 1840-1998
CONTEMPORARY
Berhanou Abebbé, Anthology of African and Indian Ocean Photography
Aileen Blaney and Chinar Shar, Photography in India: From Archives to Contemporary Practice
Tsong-zung Chang et al, eds., A Strange Heaven: Contemporary Chinese Photography
Zheng Gu, Contemporary Chinese Photography
Keiko S. Hotoon, Contemporary Photography in Asia
Wu Hung and Christopher Phillips, Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China
Wu Hung and Christopher Phillips, Life and Dreams: Contemporary Chinese Photography and Media Art
Jiang Jiehong, An Era Without Memories: Chinese Contemporary Photography on Urban Transformation
Filippo Maggia, Contemporary Photography from the Far East: Asian Dub Photography
Filippo Maggia et al, eds., Contemporary Photography from India and South America: The Tenth Parallel North
Suejin Shin, Contemporary Korean Photography
Karen Sinsheimer et al, eds., Chaotic Harmony: Contemporary Korean Photography
Yu Zhang, Working on History: Contemporary Chinese Photography and the Cultural Revolution
HISTORICAL
Terry Bennett, History of Photography in China, 1842-1860; Chinese Photographers; Western Photographers
Zahid Chaudhary, Afterimage of Empire: Photography in 19th-Century India
Jeffrey W. Cody and Frances Terpak, eds., Brush & Shutter: Early Photography in China
John W. Dower, ed., A Century of Japanese Photography
Karen M. Fraser, Photography and Japan
Luke Gartlan and Roberta Wue, Portraiture and Early Studio Photography in China and Japan
Mikiko Hirayama and Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere, Reflecting Truth: Japanese Photography in the 19th Century
Wu Hung, Zooming In: Histories of Photography in China
Deborah Klochko, ed., Modern Photography in Japan 1915-1940
Claire Roberts, Photography and China
Karen Strassler, Refracted Visions: Popular Photography and National Modernity in Java
Anne Tucker et al, eds., The History of Japanese Photography
Clark Warswick and Jonathan D. Spence, eds., Imperial China: Photographs 1850-1912
HISTORICAL
Jane Lydon, ed., Calling The Shots: Indigenous Photographies
Jane Lydon, Eye Contact: Photographing Indigenous Australians
CONTEMPORARY
Fondation Cartier and Museum Amparo, América Latina, 1960-2013: Photographs
Maria Luiza Melo Carvalho, Novas Travessias: Contemporary Photography in Brazil
Hans-Michael Herzog, ed., La Mirada: Looking at Photography in Latin America Today
Gisela Cánepa Koch and Ingrid Kummels, Photography in Latin America: Images and Identities Across Time and Space
Filippo Maggia et al, eds., Contemporary Photography from India and South America: The Tenth Parallel North
HISTORICAL
Erika Billeter, A Song To Reality: Latin American Photography 1860-1993
Wendy Watriss and Lois Parkinson Zamora, eds., Image and Memory: Photography from Latin America, 1866-1994
CONTEMPORARY
Kristen Gresh, She Who Tells A Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World
Rose Issa et al, eds., Iranian Photography Now
HISTORICAL
Jülide Aker, ed., Sight-Seeing: Photography of the Middle East and Its Audiences, 1840-1940
Nissan Perez, Focus East: Early Photography in the Near East