This is a library of titles of photography books by non-black photographers focused entirely or primarily on black subjects. Titles are listed alphabetically by author/editor.
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Kaliña des amérindiens à paris: photographies du Prince Roland Bonaparte présentées par Gérard Collomb, Paris: éditions Créaphis, 1992.
Alinder, Jasmine. Picturing Themselves: An Interdisciplinary Examination of Nineteenth Century Photographs of Brazilian Slaves, unpublished Master of Arts thesis, University of New Mexico at Albuquerque, 1994.
Allen, James, Hilton Als, et al. Without Sanctuary, Santa Fe: Twin Palms Publishers, 2000.
Alloula, Malek. The Colonial Harem, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986.
Arogundade, Ben. Black Beauty: A History and a Celebration, Thunders Mouth Press, 2000.
Banta, Melissa and Curtis M. Hinsley. From Site to Sight: Anthropology, Photography, and the Power of Imagery, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum Press, 1986.
Bensusan, Dr. A. D. Silver Images: History of Photography in Africa, Cape Town: Howard Timmins, 1966.
Bonaparte, Prince Roland Napoleon. Les Habitants de Suriname: Notes Recueillies a l’Exposition Coloniale d’Amsterdam en 1883.
Dabbs, Edith M. Face of an Island: Leigh Richmond Miner’s Photographs of Saint Helena Island, New York: Grossman Publishers, 1971.
Davidson, Bruce. East 100th Street, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970.
Davidson, Bruce. East 100th Street, Köln: In Focus Galerie am Dom, 1999 (reprint).
Davis, Keith F. Désiré Charnay: Expeditionary Photographer, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1981.
__________. The Passionate Observer: Photographs by Carl Van Vechten, Kansas City, Missouri: Hallmark Cards, Inc., 1993.
Edwards, Elizabeth, ed. Anthropology & Photography 1860 – 1920, New Haven and London: Yale University Press in association with The Royal Anthropological Institute, London, 1992.
Black Farmers in America, John Ficara and Juan Williams. University Press of Kentucky, March 2006, 126 pages, , ISBN: 9780813123998, 0813123992, Softcover.
Fox, Minnie C. The Blue Grass Cook Book [photographs by Alvin Langdon Coburn], New York: Fox Duffield & Company, 1904.
Geary, Christraud M. Images from Bamum: German Colonial Photography at the Court of King Njoya, Cameroon, West Africa, 1902 – 1915, Washington D.C., and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988.
__________ and Virginia Lee Webb, eds. Delivering Views: Distant Cultures in Early Postcards, Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998.
Goude, Jean-Paul. Jungle Fever, New York: Xavier Moreau, 1981.
Graham-Brown, Sarah. Images of Women: The Portrayal of Women in Photography of the Middle East 1860 – 1950, London: Quartet Books, 1988.
The Travelers. Elizabeth Heyert, Scalo, February 2006, 80pp., 33 color illustrations, ISBN 3-908247-93-4, hardcover with dust jacket, US $65.
Hight, Eleanor M., and Gary D. Sampson, editors. Colonialist Photography: Imag(in)ing Race and Place, New York and London: Routledge, 2004.
Higgins Jr., Chester, and Orde Coombs. Some Time Ago: A Historical Portrait of Black Americans 1850 – 1950, Garden City, New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1980.
Hoffenberg, H. L. Nineteenth-Century South America in Photographs, New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1982.
Howe, Kathleen Stewart. Excursions Along the Nile: The Photographic Discovery of Ancient Egypt, Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1993.
Johnston, Francis Benjamin. The Hampton Album, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1966.
Khemir, Mounira. Introduction, L’Orientalisme: L’Orient des Photographs au XIXe Siècle, Paris: Centre National de la Photographie et Institut du Monde Arabe (IMA), 1994.
Kilgo, Dolores Ann. Likeness and Landscape: Thomas M. Easterly and the Art of the Daguerreotype, Saint Louis: Missouri Historical Society Press, 1994.
Kirsh, Andrea and Susan Fisher Sterling. Carrie Mae Weems, Washington, D.C.: The National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1993.
Konter, Sherry, and Charles East, eds. Vanishing Georgia, Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994.
Lanker, Brian. I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America, New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1989.
Le Goues, Terry. Soul, introduction by Veronica Webb, New York: Power House Cultural Entertainment, 1997.
Leuenberger, Hans. Ève Noire, Munich: Hanns Reich Verlag, 1966.
Levinthal, David; introduction by Manthia Diawara. Blackface, Santa Fe, New Mexico: Arena Editions, 1999.
Lutz, Catherine A. and Jane L. Collins. Reading National Geographic, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
Mayer, Robert A. Blacks in America: A Photographic Record, Rochester, New York: International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, 1986.
Meyers, Walter Dean. Brown Angels: An Album of Pictures and Verse, New York: HarperCollins, 1993.
Covenant: Scenes from an African American Church, Tyagan Miller, Indiana University Press, April 2007, 176 pages, 93 b&w photos, ISBN-13: 978-0-253-34835-7/ISBN: 0-253-34835-8, cloth, US$29.95.
Miner, Leigh Richmond. Edith M. Dabbs. Face of an Island: Leigh Richmond Miner’s Photographs of Saint Helena Island, 1971.
Monti, Nicolas. Africa Then: Photographs 1840 – 1918, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.
Morris, Ann, and Henrietta Ambrose. (photographic restorations by John Nagel) North Webster: A Photographic History of a Black Community, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.
Neumaier, Diane, ed. Reframings: New American Feminist Photographies, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996.
Ommer, Uwe. Black Ladies, text and foreword by Léopold Sédar Senghor, Paris: Editions du Jaguar, 1986; volume 2 with text by Calixthe Beyala, Taschen, 1995.
Padgette, Paul. The Dance Photography of Carl Van Vechten, New York: Schirmer Books, 1981.
Penn, Irving. Worlds in a Small Room, New York: The Viking Press, 1974.
Perez, Nissan N. Focus East: Early Photography in the Near East (1839 – 1885), New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1988.
Leadbelly: A Life in Pictures. Tiny Robinson and John Reynolds, Steidl, March 2008, 224 pp., 160 color illustrations, hardcover (casebound with debossed plate on cover), ISBN: 9783865214591, $50.00
Sandburg, Carl. Prologue, The Family of Man, New York: Maco Magazine Corporation for the Museum of Modern Art, 1955.
Schoener, Allan. Harlem on My Mind: Cultural Capital of Black America, 1900-1968, reprint edition, New York: The New Press, 1995.
Schomburgk, Meg Gehrts. Negro Types, London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1944.
The Black Panthers. Stephen Shames, Aperture, 2006, 152 pages, 70 duotone images, Hardcover, ISBN: 978-1-59711-024-2, US$35.
Sheikh, Fazal. A Sense of Common Ground, Zurich, Berlin, and New York: Scalo Books, 1995.
Siskind, Aaron. Harlem Document: Photographs 1932-1940, Providence, Rhode Island: Matrix Publications, Inc., 1981.
Skotnes, Pippa, ed. Miscast: Negotiating the Presence of the Bushmen, Cape Town, South Africa: University of Cape Town, 1996.
Smith, Shawn Michelle. Photography on the Color Line: W.E.B. DuBois, Race, and Visual Culture, Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2004.
Stevenson, Michael and Michael Graham-Stewart. Surviving the Lens: Photographic Studies of South and East African People, Cape Town: Fernwood Press, 2001.
Tcholakian, Arthur. The Majesty of the Black Woman, introduction by William Saroyan, New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1971.
Thompson, Kathleen, Hilary Mac Austin, and Darlene Clark Hine. The Face of Our Past: Images of Black Women from Colonial America to the Present, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999.
Trémaux, P. Origine et Transformations De L’Homme et des Autres Etres, Paris: Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie, 1865.
__________. Notice sur un voyage au Soudan oriental sur le cours du nil et Dans Des Contrées Inconnues…, Paris: Imprimerie de L. Martinet, 1850.
__________. Le Soudan, Paris: Librarie de L. Hachette et Cie, n.d.
Vues historiques des principales villes de la province de Constantine des Mosquées, Ruines et tombeaux romains, Oasis Voyage de Sa Majesté Napoléon III, Empereur Des Français, Dans Le Département De Constantine, 1865.
African American Vernacular Photography, Brian Wallis and Deborah Willis, Steidl/International Center for Photography, March 2005, 120 pages, 90 bw, ISBN-13: 978-3865212252/ ISBN-10: 3865212255hardcover, US$25.
Willis, Deborah and Carla Williams. The Black Female Body: A Photographic History, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2002.
Wilmer, Valerie. The Face of Black Music, New York: Da Capo Press, Inc., 1976.
Wilson, Jackie Napolean. Hidden Witness: African American Images from the Birth of Photography to the Civil War, New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999.
Le Paysage en Orient et en Occident, Paris: Éditions des Musées Nationaux, 1960.
Willis, Deborah, and Jane Lusaka. Visual Journal: Harlem and D.C. in the Thirties and Forties, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997.
Willis, Deborah. New World Africans: Nineteenth Century Images of Blacks in South American and the Caribbean, exhibition catalogue, New York: The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations, 1985.
Willis, Deborah, and David Levering Lewis. A Small Nation of People: W.E.B. DuBois & African American Portraits of Progress, Amistad, 2003.
Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits, Deborah Willis, et al. , USMTH, July 2007, 176 pages, 100 black and white images, ISBN-13: 978-1588342423/ISBN-10: 1588342425, hardcover, $35.
Obama: The Historic Campaign in Photographs. Deborah Willis and Kevin Merida, Amistad, October 2008, 160 pages, 10 x 8 x 0.6 inches, ISBN-10: 006173309/ ISBN-13:978-0061733093, hardcover, US $26.95.
Wright, Richard. Twelve Million Black Voices: a Folk History of the Negro in the United States, New York: The Viking Press, 1941.
