       
General reading
Bensusan, A.D., 1966, Silver Images. History of Photography in Africa, (Cape Town: Howard Timmins) [Δ]
Dennis, Kelly, 1994, ‘Ethnopornography: Veiling the Dark Continent‘, History of Photography, vol.18, no.1, pp.22-28 [Δ]
Diserens, Corinne, 2011, Appropriated Landscapes: Contemporary African Photography from the Walther Collection, (Göttingen: Steidl) isbn-13: 978-3869303871 [Δ]
Enwezor, Okwui, 2008, Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography, (Steidl) isbn-10: 3865212247 isbn-13: 978-3865212245 [Δ]
Enwezor, Okwui, 2010, Events of the Self: Portraiture and Social Identity: Contemporary African Photography from the Walther Collection, (Göttingen: Steidl) isbn-13: 978-3869301570 [Δ]
Garb, Tamar (ed.), 2013, African Photography from the Walther Collection: Distance and Desire - Encounters with the African Archive, (Steidl) isbn-13: 978-3869306513 [Δ]
Geary, Christraud M., 1988, Images from Bamum: German Colonial Photography at the Court of King Njoya, Cameroon, West Africa, 1902-1915, (Smithsonian) isbn-10: 0874744555 isbn-13: 978-0874744552 [Δ]
Geary, Christraud M. & Pluskota, Kryzstof, 2003, In and Out of Focus: Images from Central Africa, 1885-1960, (Philip Wilson Publishers) isbn-10: 0856675520 isbn-13: 978-0856675522 [Δ]
Guggenheim Museum, 1996, In/sight: African Photographers, 1940 to the Present, (New York: Guggenheim Museum) [Introduction by Clare Bell] [Δ]
Haney, Erin, 2010, Photography and Africa, (Reaktion Books) isbn-10: 1861893825 isbn-13: 978-1861893826 [Δ]
Peffer, John & Cameron, Elisabeth, A., 2013, Portraiture and Photography in Africa, (Indiana University Press) isbn-13: 978-0253008602 [Δ]
Pieterse J N, 1992, White on Black: Images of Africa and Blacks in Western Popular
Culture, (New Haven: Yale University Press) [Δ]
Saint Léon, P.M. & Fall, N’G., 1998, Anthologie Revue Noire de la Photographie Africaine et de l’Océan Indien, (Paris: Editions Revue Noire) [Δ]
Stevenson, M. & Graham-Stewart, M., 2001, Surviving The Lens. Photographic Studies of South and East African People, 1870-1920, (Vlaeberg, South Africa: Fernwood Press) [Δ]
Zaccaria, Massimo, 2001, Photography and African studies: a bibliography, (Universita di Pavia Dipartimento di studi politici e sociali) [Δ]
Readings on, or by, individual photographers
Peter Beard
Beard, Peter, 1965, The End of the Game: The Old Africa and the New, (New York: The Viking Press) [Δ]
Beard, Peter, 1979, The Last Word from Paradise, ([Tokyo: Seibu Museum of Art]) [Δ]
Beard, Peter, 1990, The Eyelids of Morning: The Mingled Destinies of Crocodiles and Men [Δ]
Beard, Peter, 1993, Diary, From a Dead Man's Wallet: Confessions of a Bookmaker, (Tokyo, Japan: Libro Port Publishing Co.) [Δ]
Beard, Peter, 1999, Peter Beard: Fifty Years of Portraits [Δ]
Beard, Peter, 2004, Zara's Tales: Perilous Escapades in Equatorial Africa, (Knopf) isbn-10: 0679426590 isbn-13: 978-0679426592 [Δ]
Beard, Peter & Caujolle, Christian, 2009, Peter Beard (Photofile), (Thames & Hudson) isbn-10: 0500410968 isbn-13: 978-0500410967 [Δ]
Bowermaster, Jon, 1993, The Adventures and Misadventures of Peter Beard in Africa, (Bullfinch Press) isbn-10: 0821219073 isbn-13: 978-0821219072 [Δ]
Edwards, Owen et al., 2008, Peter Beard, (Taschen) isbn-10: 383650877X isbn-13: 978-3836508773 [2 volume set] [Δ]
Richard Buchta
Buchta, Richard, 1881, Die Oberen Nil-Länder: Volkstypen und Landschaften. Dargestellt in 160 Photographien, nach der Natur aufgenommen von Richard Buchta, (Berlin: Verlag Von J. F. Stiehm) [Δ]
Thomas, H.B., 1960, ‘Richard Buchta and Early Photography in Uganda‘, Uganda Journal, vol.25, no.1 [Δ]
John Kirk
Foskett, Reginald (ed.), 1965, The Zambesi Journal and Letters of Dr. John Kirk, 1858 – 63 (Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd [John Kirk, pp. 50-51] [Δ]
Don McCullin
McCullin, Don, 2005, Don McCullin in Africa, (London: Jonathan Cape) [Δ]
Leni Riefenstahl
Riefenstahl, Leni, 1974, The Last of the Nuba, (Harper & Row) isbn-10: 0060135492 isbn-13: 978-0060135492 [Δ]
Riefenstahl, Leni, 1988, Vanishing Africa, (Harmony) isbn-10: 051754914X isbn-13: 978-0517549148 [Δ]
Riefenstahl, Leni, 2010, Africa, (Taschen) isbn-10: 3836523175 isbn-13: 978-3836523172 [Δ]
Sebastião Salgado
Salgado, Sebastião, 2004, Sahel: The End of the Road, (University of California Press) isbn-10: 0520241703 isbn-13: 978-0520241701 [Δ]
Salgado, Sebastião, 2010, Africa, (Taschen) isbn-10: 3836523434 isbn-13: 978-3836523431 [Δ]
If you feel this list is missing a significant book or article please let me know - Alan - alan@luminous-lint.com
Resources
Photographs of Dogon, Niger, and Lobi (including sculpture and architecture) by Huib Blom
http://www.dogon-lobi.ch ...
| G. I. Jones Photographic Archive of Southeastern Nigerian Art and Culture. Includes examples from Ibibio, Igbo, Ijaw and Ogoni speaking peoples (John C. McCall)
http://www.siu.edu ...
| Images of African Americans from the 19th Century
http://digital.nypl.org ...
| The Arab Image Foundation: promoting photography in the Middle East and North Africa
http://www.fai.org.lb ...
| The Walther Collection
http://www.walthercollection.com
The Walther Collection is a private non-profit organization dedicated to researching, collecting, exhibiting, and publishing modern and contemporary photography and video art. The collection has considerable holdings of African photography.
| Nigerian photographer J.A. (Jonathan) Green was prolific Ibani (Bonny) Ijo photographer who worked in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria between about 1890 and 1915.
http://www.skidmore.edu ...
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