1965 | Asia • Japan | Kikuji Kawada publishes The Map. |
1965 | North America • USA
| Helen Levitt publishes A Way of Seeing.
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1965 | Europe • Great Britain | Helmut Gernsheim & Alison Gernsheim publish A Concise History of Photography with the first edition published by Thames and Hudson in the UK and Grosset & Dunlap in the USA. |
1966 | North America • USA
| Walker Evans publishes Many Are Called which includes his subway portraits taken with a concealed camera.
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1966 | North America • USA
| Edward Ruscha publishes Every Building on the Sunset Strip. |
1966 | North America • USA | A meeting is held in the home of Willis Stockdale to found the Antique Photographic Society of Rochester. In May 1968 it changes its name to The Photographic Historical Society which is still active. (14 January 1966) |
1967 | North America • USA
| Ugo Mulas publishes New York: The New Art Scene. |
1967 | North America • USA | The New Documents exhibition at MoMA in New York shows the works of Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander and Garry Winogrand. The curator John Szarkowski selected three photographers who were more edgy that those previously shown. The show was a conscious break from the old masters of photography and the rather sentimental humanist approach that had developed with the 1955 Family of Man exhibition also held in MoMA. |
1967 | North America • USA | Andy Warhol publishes Andy Warhol's Index (Book) |
1968 | North America • USA
| Danny Lyon publishes The Bikeriders.
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1968 | Europe • Great Britain | Aaron Scharf publishes Art and Photography and it is one of the first academic studies to highlight the connections between the two media. |
1968 | Asia • Vietnam
| Eddie Adams (Associated Press) photographs Colonel Nguyen Loan (Chief of the South Vietnam National Police) executing a suspect on a Saigon street during the Tet Offensive. (1 February 1968) |
1968 | North America • USA | The First Conference and Workshop of Photographic Collectors of North America is held at Ohio State University. Organized by Walter Johnson it is the first national meeting for those interested in the history of photography. |
1968 | Europe • Czechoslovakia
| Tanks from the Warsaw Pact invade Prague to crush a short-lived period of political freedom in Czechoslovakia - the Prague Spring. Josef Koudelka documents the invasion and the photographs are widely published in the West although the name of the photographer is not given. In 1969 Robert Capa Gold Medal Award was awarded anonymously but it was not until sixteen years later that the identity of the photographer is acknowledged. On the fortieth anniversary of the invasion in 2008 Aperture publishes the book Invasion 68: Prague containing two hundred and fifty of the photographs Koudelka took. (21 August 1968) |
1969 | North America • USA | Garry Winogrand publishes The Animals.
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1970 | Europe • Germany | Bernd & Hilla Becher publish Anonyme Skulpturen |
1970 | North America • USA | Bruce Davidson publishes East 100th Street.
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1970 | North America • USA | Lee Friedlander publishes Self Portrait. |
1970 | North America • USA | Jacques-Henri Lartigue publishes Diary of a Century. |
1970 | North America • USA | The first PhotoHistory Symposia is held at George Eastman House, Rochester, New York. This has been held every three years since 1970 and is indicative of increasing scholarly interest in the history of photography. |