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• Textual Exposures: Photography in Twentieth Century Spanish American Narrative Fiction (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2015), by Dan Russek (PDF files at University of Calgary)
• Perspectives: Modes of Viewing and Knowing in Nineteenth-Century England (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Linda M. Shires (PDF at Ohio State)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Photomediations: A Reader (online editions; 2016), ed. by Kamila Kuc and Joanna Zylinska (illustrated HTML and PDF at openhumanitiespress.org)
• Voigtländer and I in Pursuit of Shadow Catching: A Story of Fifty-Two Years' Companionship with a Camera (reprint of a 1901 edition; New York: Arno Press, 1973), by J. F. Ryder (page images at HathiTrust)
• The History and Practice of the Art of Photography, by Henry Hunt Snelling (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Manual of Photography (Philadelphia: Bernerman and Wilson, 1868), by M. Carey Lea (page images at MOA)
• A Popular Treatise on Photography; Also, A Description of, and Remarks On, the Stereoscope and Photographic Optics, Etc., Etc. (London: Virtue Bros. and Co., 1863), by D. van Monckhoven, trans. by W. H. Thornthwaite (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Traité de Photographie par les Procédés Pelliculaires (2 volumes in French; Paris: Gauthier-Villars et fils, 1889-1890), by George Balagny
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at Google; US access only
• Treatise of Photography on Collodion (second edition; Cincinnati: Longley Bros., 1858), by Charles Waldack and Peter Neff
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Canada in the Frame: Copyright, Collections and the Image of Canada, 1895-1924 (London: UCL Press, c2018), by Philip J. Hatfield (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at UCL Press)

• Canada in the Frame: Copyright, Collections and the Image of Canada, 1895-1924 (London: UCL Press, c2018), by Philip J. Hatfield (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at UCL Press)

• John C. Parkin, Archives, and Photography: Reflections on the Practice and Presentation of Modern Architecture (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2013), by Linda M. Fraser, Michael McMordie, and Geoffrey Simmins (PDF at University of Calgary)

• Camera Comics (full serial archives)

• Remote Capture: Digitising Documentary Heritage in Challenging Locations (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2018), ed. by Jody Butterworth, Andrew Pearson, Patrick Sutherland, and Adam Farquhar (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Design Calculations for Rotating-Mirror Cameras (Los Alamos, NM: Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory of the University of California, 1962), by Eugene A. Igel (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Hawes-Stokes Collection of American Daguerreotypes by Albert Sands Southworth and Josiah Johnson Hawes (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1939), by I. N. Phelps Stokes (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Practical Photography: Being the Science and Art of Photography, Developed for Amateurs and Beginners (London: "The Bazaar" office, ca. 1881), by Owen Wheeler
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Boy Scout Camera Club: or, The Confession of a Photograph, by G. Harvey Ralphson (Gutenberg text)
• Out With Gun and Camera: or, The Boy Hunters in the Mountains (published under "Ralph Bonehill" pseudonym), by Edward Stratemeyer (Gutenberg text)

• Royal Photographic Society Journal (partial serial archives)
• Ahorn Magazine (2008-) (full serial archives)
• The Australasian Photo-Review (issues online 1899-1954) (partial serial archives)
• International Photographer (partial serial archives)
• American Photography (partial serial archives)
• Abridged Scientific Publications from Kodak Laboratories (partial serial archives)
• Amateur Photographer (partial serial archives)
• Humphrey's Journal (partial serial archives)
• Leica Manual (partial serial archives)
• The Optical Lantern and Cinematograph Journal (1904-1905) (partial serial archives)
• National Geographic (partial serial archives)

• Photomediations: A Reader (online editions; 2016), ed. by Kamila Kuc and Joanna Zylinska (illustrated HTML and PDF at openhumanitiespress.org)

• Some Firsts in Astronomical Photography (Cambridge, MA: Harvard College Observatory, 1950), by Dorrit Hoffleit (page images at HathiTrust)

• Expanded Cinema (1970), by Gene Youngblood, contrib. by R. Buckminster Fuller (PDF files at vasulka.org)

• The Art of Sound Pictures (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., c1930), by Walter B. Pitkin and William Moulton Marston, contrib. by Jesse L. Lasky (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Hawes-Stokes Collection of American Daguerreotypes by Albert Sands Southworth and Josiah Johnson Hawes (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1939), by I. N. Phelps Stokes (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
• The American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype, by S. D. Humphrey (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Description des Daguerréotypes qui se Fabriquent Chez l'Ingénieur Chevallier (in French; Paris: L'Ingénieur Chevallier, 1843), by Charles Chevalier (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• The History and Practice of the Art of Photography, by Henry Hunt Snelling (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• University Microfilms, Inc. (product and service catalog, ca. 1961), by University Microfilms (page images at HathiTrust)

• Kearton's Nature Pictures: Beautifully Reproduced in Photogravure, Colour, and Black and White from Photographs by Richard and Cherry Keaton (2 volumes; London: Waverley Book Co., ca. 1910), by Richard Kearton, illust. by Richard Kearton and Cherry Kearton
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

• Borrowed Time: Photographs by Caroline Vaughan (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1996), contrib. by Reynolds Price, illust. by Caroline Vaughan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Photomediations: A Reader (online editions; 2016), ed. by Kamila Kuc and Joanna Zylinska (illustrated HTML and PDF at openhumanitiespress.org)
• How to Pose the Model (third edition, second printing; San Francisco: Ziff-Davis Pub. Co., 1960), by William Mortensen and George Dunham (page images at HathiTrust)

• All the Mighty World: The Photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852-1860 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c2004), by Gordon Baldwin, Malcolm R. Daniel, and Sarah Greenough, contrib. by Richard Pare, Pamela Glasson Roberts, and Roger Taylor (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
• Paul Strand, Circa 1916 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1998), by Maria Morris Hambourg, illust. by Paul Strand (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• The Australasian Photo-Review (issues online 1899-1954) (partial serial archives)

• Portraits: A Book of Photographs, by Peter McWilliams (page images at mcwilliams.com)

• The Case for Spirit Photography (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1923), by Arthur Conan Doyle, ed. by Fred Barlow (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Cold Light on Spiritualistic "Phenomena": An Experiment With the Crewe Circle (London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1922), by Harry Price (page images at HathiTrust)

• Modern Telephotography: A Practical Manual of Working Methods and Application (London: Ross Ltd., 1910), by Owen Wheeler
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Cold Light on Spiritualistic "Phenomena": An Experiment With the Crewe Circle (London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1922), by Harry Price (page images at HathiTrust)

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