The Photobook: From Talbot to Ruscha and Beyond
Patrizia Di Bello (author), Colette Wilson (author), Shamoon Zamir (author). Publication Date: 28 Feb 2012 (not yet published)

The photograph found a home in the book before it won for itself a place on the gallery wall. Only a few years after the birth of photography, the publication of Henry Fox Talbot s The Pencil of Nature heralded a new genre in the history of the book, one in which the photograph was the primary vehicle of expression and communication, or stood in equal if sometimes conflicted partnership with the written word. In this book, practicing photographers and writers across several fields of scholarship share a range of fresh approaches to reading the photobook, developing new ways of understanding how meaning is shaped by an image s interaction with its text and context and engaging with the visual, tactile and interactive experience of the photobook in all its dimensions. Through close studies of individual works, the photobook from fetishised objet d art to cheaply-printed booklet is explored and its unique creative and cultural contributions celebrated.

Joan Stoltman, 2008, Engage, Perform, Act : How Contemporary Artists Use the Book as Form and the Book as Idea, A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Theory, Criticism and History of Art, Design and Architecture within the M.S. program School of Art and Design Pratt Institute

Reading photobooks: Narrative montage and the construction of modern visual literacy
by Nelson, Andrea Jeannette, Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2007,

Paul Melo E Castro, Salazar’s Lisbon in the dock The evidence of Eduardo Gageiro’s photobook Lisboa no Cais da Memoria 1957-1974 [google books]

Horacio Fernandez, The Latin American Photobook