HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY between 1920 and 1945



  • I) Japanese Photography between 1920 and 1945
  • II) Photographers between 1920 and 1945 excluding Japanese photographers in Japan
  • III) Photographers appeared in annuals between 1920 and 1945


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    Photographers between 1920 and 1945 excluding Japanese photographers in Japan



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    [Japanese Photography between 1920 and 1945]
    [Sources for this list]
    [Reference Books for photography between 1920 and 1945]
    [(REFERENCE) Brief Chronology for Photography between 1920 and 1945]
    [Photographers appeared in annuals between 1920 and 1945]


    The names of photographers are listed in alphabetical order.

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    If you know photographers who were active during 1920 and 1945 but who are not listed here, please let me know the names and years of birth and death, if applicable, of those photographers and reference book I can see reproductions of works and/or biographies of those photographers. I will add them to my list. Further if you find any errors in the list, also please let me know. I will correct them. Thank you very much for your cooperation in advance.



    Sources for this list [Top of II)]

    source A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z, AA, AB, AC, AD, AE, AF, AG, AH, AI, AJ, AK, AL, AM, AN, AO, AP, AQ, AR, AS, AT, AU, AV, AW, AX20, AX30, AX40
    source XA, XB, XC, XD, XE, XF, XG, XH, XI, XJ, XK, XL, XM, XN
    source ZA, ZB, ZC, ZD

    source A: (no biographies, only texts and reproductions)
    The New Vision, Photography between the World Wars
    Ford Motor Company Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
    The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
    Maria Morris Hambourg and Christopher Phillips
    1989
    ISBN: 0-87099-550-2 (MMA) (ISBN: 0870995502)
    ISBN: 0-8109-1385-2 (Abrams) (ISBN: 0810913852)
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    source B:
    collection, de Photographies du Musée National d'Art Moderne 1905-1948
    Centre Georges Pompidou
    1996
    ISBN: 2-85850-899-2 (ISBN: 2858508992)
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    source C:
    A History of Women Photographers
    Naomi Rosenblum
    Abbeville Press
    1994
    ISBN: 1-55859-761-1 (ISBN: 1558597611)
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    source D:
    Pictorialism in California, Photographs 1900-1940
    With essays by Michael G. Wilson and Dennis Reed
    The J. Paul Getty Museum, and The Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery
    1994
    ISBN: 0-89236-313-4 (ISBN: 0892363134)
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    source E:
    Les dones fotògrafes a la República de Weimar 1919-1933
    Fundació "la Caixa"
    1995
    ISBN: 84-7664-499-X (ISBN: 847664499X)
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    source F: (no reproductions for some photographers)
    After the Photo-Secession, American Pictorial Photography, 1910-1955
    Christian A. Peterson
    The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
    in association with
    W. W. Norton & Company
    1997
    ISBN: 0-393-04111-5 (ISBN: 0393041115)
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    source G: (no biographies, only texts and reproductions)
    A World History of Photography
    Naomi Rosenblum
    Abbeville Press
    1984
    ISBN 0-89659-438-6 (ISBN: 0896594386)
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    source H: (no reproductions for some photographers)
    Contemporary Photographers
    ed by George Walsh, Colin Naylor and Michael Held
    St. Martin's Press (Macmillan Press)
    1982
    ISBN 0-312-16791-1 (ISBN: 0312167911) (other editions; 0333319478 and 0912289368)
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    source I:
    Private Realms of Light
    Amateur photography in Canada/1839-1940
    edited by Lilly Koltun
    written by members of the National Photography Collection, Public Archives Canada (Andrew J. Birrell, Peter Robertson, Lilly Koltun, Andrew C. Rodger and Joan M. Schwartz)
    Fithenry & Whiteside
    1984
    ISBN: 0-88902-744-7 (ISBN: 0889027447)
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    source J: (no separate biographies)
    The Soviet Photograph 1924-1937
    Margarita Tupitsyn
    Yale University Press
    1997
    ISBN: 0-300-06450-0 (ISBN: 0300064500)
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    source K: (no detailed biographies)
    Frozen Image -Scandinavian Photography
    Martin Friedman
    Abbeville Press
    1982
    ISBN: 0-89659-311-8 (Cloth) (ISBN: 0896593118)
    ISBN: 0-89659-312-6 (Paper) (ISBN: 0896593126)
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    source L:
    Visual Journal, Harlem and D.C. in the Thirties and Forties
    ed by Deborah Willis and Jane Lusaka
    Smithsonian Institution
    1996
    ISBN 1-56098-691-3 (ISBN: 1560986913)
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    source M:
    20th Century Photography
    Museum Ludwig Cologne
    Taschen
    1996
    ISBN: 3-8228-8648-3 (ISBN: 3822886483)
    NOTE: [M'] in the list below (instead of [M]) means I could guess from this book that this photographer was active between 1920 and 1945, though this book does not contain any reproduction between 1920 and 1945 for this photographer.
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    source N:
    German Photography 1870-1970
    Power of a Medium
    DuMont/Yale University Press
    1997
    ISBN: 0-300-07172-8 (ISBN: 0300071728)
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    source O: (no separate biographies)
    Japanese Photography in America 1920-1940
    Dennis Reed
    George J. Doizaki Gallery/Japanese American Cultural and Community Center
    (Internet: http://www.koma.org/apa/jaccc)
    (E-mail: jaccc@artnet.net)
    1985
    ISBN: 4-88063-210-4 (ISBN: 4880632104)
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    source P: (no separate biographies)
    Cubism & American Photogaphy, 1910-1930
    John Pultz and Catherine B. Scallen
    The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
    1984
    ISBN: 0-931103-04-9 (ISBN: 0931103049) (according to Books in Print, 0-931102-04-9 (0931102049))
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    source Q: (no separate biographies)
    The Male Nude
    David Leddick
    Taschen
    1998
    ISBN: 3-8228-7966-5 (ISBN: 3822879665)
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    source R:
    Black Photographers 1840-1940
    A Bio-Bibliography
    by Deborah Willis-Thomas
    published by Garland Publishing, Inc.
    1985
    ISBN: 0-8240-9147-7 (ISBN: 0824091477)
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    source S:
    An Illustrated Bio-Bibliography of Black Photographers 1940-1988
    by Deborah Willis-Thomas
    published by Garland Publishing, Inc.
    1989
    ISBN: 0-8240-8389-X (ISBN: 082408389X)
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    source T:
    the camera I
    Photographic Self-Portraits
    the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection
    Robert A. Sobieszek and Deborah Irmas
    Los Angeles County Museum of Art/Abrams
    1994
    ISBN: 0-8109-3197-4 (Cloth) (ISBN: 0810931974)
    ISBN: 0-87587-171-2 (Paper) (ISBN: 0875871712)
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    source U:
    O Say Can You See
    American Photographs, 1839-1939
    Thomas Weston Fels
    The Berkshire Museum / The MIT Press
    1989
    ISBN: 0-262-06120-1 (ISBN: 0262061201)
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    source V:
    Watkins to Weston: 101 Years of California Photography 1849-1950
    Thomas Weston Fels, Therese Heyman, David Travis
    Santa Barbara Museum of Art in cooperation with Roberts Rinehart Publishers
    1992
    ISBN: 1-879373-20-3 (ISBN: 1879373203)
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    source W:
    De Nieuwe Fotografie in Nederland
    Kees Broos & Flip Bool
    Fragment Uitgeverij
    1989
    ISBN: 90-12-063337 (Fragment Uitgeverij)
    ISBN: 90-6579-0195 (V+K Publishing / SDU Uitgeverij)
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    source X:
    Czech Modernism 1900-1945
    The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston/Bulfinch Press
    1989
    ISBN: 0-8212-1763-1 (ISBN: 0821217631)
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    source Y:
    IDAS & CHAOS
    Trends in Spanish Photography 1920-1945
    Joan Fontcuberta (curator of the exhibition)
    Published with the collaboration of AGFA-GEVAERT
    1985
    ISBN: 84-7483-0435-X (ISBN: 8474830435X)
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    source Z:
    Modern British photography, 1919-1939
    selected and researched by David Mellor
    Arts Council of Great Britain,
    1980
    ISBN: 0-7287-0246-0 (ISBN: 0728702460) (pbk.)
    NOTE: [Z'] in the list below (instead of [Z]) means there is no plate in this book for this photographer, though there is biography for this photographer.
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    source AA:
    Pour une histoire de la photographie en Belgique: Répertoire des photographes depuis 1839
    sous la direction de Georges Vercheval
    Charleroi : Musée de la Photographie
    1993
    ISBN: 2-80783-18-5 (ISBN: 280783185)
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    source AB:
    Photographie in der Schweiz von 1840 bis Heute (Schwizer Photographie)
    Hugo Loetscher
    Benteli
    1992
    ISBN: N/A
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    source AC:
    Une Histoire de la Photographie (Portugal 1839 à 1991)
    Antonio Sena
    synthèses de la culture portugaise
    (Commissariado para a europália 91 - Portugal Imprensa Nacional - Cosa da Moeda)
    1991
    ISBN: N/A(?)
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    source AD:
    DADA FOTOMONTAGEN (Dada Photographie und Photocollage)
    Carl-Albrecht Haenlein
    Kestner-Gesellschaft Hannover
    1979
    ISBN: N/A
    NOTE: [AD'] means there is no plate for this photographer, though his or her work is listed up in this book.
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    source AE:
    Italy: One Hundred Years of Photography
    texts by Cesare Colombo and Susan Sontag
    Alinari and Rizzoli International Publications
    1988
    ISBN: 0-8478-5516-3 (hardcover); (ISBN: 0847855163)
    ISBN: 0-8478-5517-1 (paperback); (ISBN: 0847855171)
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    source AF:
    Les Mystères de la Chambre Noire ; le Surréalisme et la Photographie
    Edouard Jaguer
    Flammarion,
    1982
    ISBN: 2-08-010947-2 (ISBN: 2080109472)
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    source AG:
    Das Fotogramm in der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts
    Die andere Seite der Bilder Fotografie ohne Kamera
    Floris M. Neusüss
    DuMont
    1990
    ISBN: 3-7701-1767-0 (ISBN: 3770117670)
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    source AH:
    La photographie
    dix ans d'enrichissement des collections publiques
    texte de Jean-François Chevrier
    Réunion des Musées Nationaux
    1992
    ISBN: 2711824527
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    source AI:
    Fotomuseum im Münchner Stadtmuseum
    Eine Auswahl von 150 Fotografoen aus der Sammlung
    Edition Braus
    1991
    ISBN: 3-89466-021-X (ISBN: 389466021X)
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    source AJ:
    Berlin en Vogue
    (Berliner Mode in der Photographie)
    Herausgeber: F.C. Gundlach - Uli Richter
    Texte und redaktionelle Bearbeitung: Katja Aschke/Enno Kaufhold/Gretel Wagner
    Ernst Wasmuth Verlag Tübingen, Berlin
    1993
    ISBN: 3-8030-3057-9 (ISBN: 3803030579)
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    source AK:
    An American Century of Photography: From Dry-Plate to Digital
    Hallmark Photographic Collection
    Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged
    Keith F. Davis
    Foreward by Donald J. Hall
    Harry N Abrams
    1999
    ISBN: 0-8109-6378-7 (ISBN: 0810963787)
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    source AL:
    Photography at the Bauhaus
    Jeannine Fiedler, Andreas Haus and Rolf Sachsse
    MIT Press
    1990
    ISBN: 0-262-06126-0 (ISBN: 0262061260)
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    source AM:
    Futurism & Photography
    Giovanni Lista
    Merrell Publishers
    2001
    ISBN: 1-85894-125-3 (ISBN: 1858941253)
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    source AN:
    Fotografia Futurista
    supervised by Giovanni Lista
    edited by Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art
    Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Seibu Department Store, Yomiuri Shinbun
    1987
    ISBN: N/A
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    source AO:
    La Photographie polonaise, 1900-1981
    Centre Georges Pompidou, Musee national d'art moderne
    Le Centre : Herscher,
    1981
    ISBN: 2-7335-0012-0 (ISBN: 2733500120)
    NOTE: [AO'] means there is no plate for this photographer in the book, though his or her work is listed up in this book.
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    source AP:
    Seeing Straight, The f. 64 Revolution in Photography
    Edited by Therese Thau Heyman
    The Oakland Museum
    1992
    ISBN: 0-295-97219-X (029597219X)
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    source AQ:
    The New Bauhaus, School of Design in Chicago, Photographs 1937-1944
    Organized by Adam J. Boxer
    Banning + Associates
    1993
    ISBN: 0-9638522-0-5 (0963852205)
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    source AR:
    Photographie der Moderne in Prag 1900-1925
    Österreichisches Fotoarchiv im Museum moderner Kunst Wien
    1991
    ISBN: N/A
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    source AS:
    Documenting America 1935-1943
    Edited by Carl Fleischhauer & Beverly W. Brannan
    Essays by Lawrence W. Levine & Alan Trachtenberg
    University of California Press in association with Library of Congress
    1988
    ISBN: 0-520-06221-3 (ISBN: 0520062213)
    NOTE: [AS'] means there is no plate for this photographer in the book, though his or her name is mentioned in the book.
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    source AT:
    The Gallery of World Photography (Sekai Shashin Zenshu)
    12 volumes
    Editor-in-Chief: Bryan Holme
    Research consultant: Weston Naef
    Designer: Robert Scudellari
    Project Consultant: Koen Shigemori
    Published by Shueisha in Japan
    1982-1983 (reprint in 1988-1989)
    Titles for each volume are;
    volume 1 PHOTOGRAPHY AS FINE ART (FINE ART): ISBN: 4-08-549001-X {Douglas Davis}
    volume 2 PORTRAITS (PORTRAIT): ISBN: 4-08-549002-8 {Colin Ford}
    volume 3 PHOTOJOURNALISM (PHOTOJOURNALISM): ISBN: 4-08-549003-6 {Arthur Goldsmith}
    volume 4 THE HUMAN FIGURE (NUDE PHOTOGRAPHY): ISBN: 4-08-549004-4 {David Herbert}
    volume 5 SOCIAL COMMENTARY (DOCUMENTARY): ISBN: 4-08-549005-2 {Gordon Parks}
    volume 6 SCIENCE (SCIENCE PHOTO): ISBN: 4-08-549006-0 {Louis Vaczek}
    volume 7 THE CITY (CITY & LIFE): ISBN: 4-08-549007-9 {William A. Ewing}
    volume 8 THE COUNTRY (NATURE & COUNTRY): ISBN: 4-08-549008-7 {David Plowden}
    volume 9 FASHION (FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY): ISBN: 4-08-549009-5 {Alexander Liberman}
    volume 10 THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (19c. ANTIQUE PHOTO): ISBN: 4-08-549010-9 {Valerie Lloyd}
    volume 11 ADVERTISING (COMMERCIAL PHOTO): ISBN: 4-08-549011-7 {Bryan Holme}
    volume 12 NEW DIRECTIONS (NEW WAVE): ISBN: 4-08-549012-5 {Weston J. Naef}
    NOTE: ISBNs are those of 2nd editions. Titles in parentheses are Japanese titles. People in {} are writers of Introduction for each volume.
    NOTE: For example, [AT-1, 2] means volumes 1 and/or 2 include reproductions of that photographer's photographs dated 1920 and 1945. Not necessarily volumes 1 AND 2 include them. In other words, if volume 1 includes reproductions of that photographer's photographs dated 1920 and 1945, volume 2 might include only reproductions of that photographer's photographs not dated 1920 and 1945. Please kindly be careful.
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    ssource AU:
    Photomontage
    Dawn Ades
    Thames & Hudson (World of Art)
    1986
    ISBN: 0-500-20208-7 (ISBN: 055202087)
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    source AV:
    Montagne des Photographes
    Élisabeth Foch
    Bordes/contrejour
    1989
    ISBN: 2-04-018470-8 (ISBN: 2040184708)
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    source AW:
    Love and Desire Photoworks
    William A. Ewing
    Chronicle Books
    1999
    ISBN: 0-8118-2621-X (ISBN: 081182621X)
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    source AX20:
    Les Années 20 (two volumes)
    D'Anne Bony
    Édition du Regard
    1989
    ISBN: 2-903370-45-1 (ISBN: 2903370451)
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    source AX30:
    Les Années 30 (two volumes)
    D'Anne Bony
    Édition du Regard
    1987
    ISBN: 2-903370-34-6 (ISBN: 2903370346)
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    source AX40:
    Les Années 40 (one volume)
    D'Anne Bony
    Édition du Regard
    1985
    ISBN: 2-903370-20-6 (ISBN: 2903370206)
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    From the following sources (XA, XB, XC...), I have picked up only photographers, the reproduction of whose work I cannot see in any of the above sources. For example, in "source XA," we can find André Kertész's photographs. But I do not put [XA] in André Kertész's line because his works have already appeared in above sources ([A][B][G][H]...).

    source XA: (no biographies, only texts and reproductions)
    A History of Photography, social and cultural perspectives
    ed by Jean-Claude Lemagny and André Rouillé
    Cambridge University Press
    1987 (originally published in Paris in 1986)
    ISBN: 0-521-34407-7 (ISBN: 0521344077)
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    source XB:
    Magicians of Light; photographs from the collection of the National Gallery of Canada
    James Borcoman
    National Gallery of Canada
    1993
    ISBN: 0888846274
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    source XC: (no biographies, only texts and reproductions)
    Photography Until Now
    John Szarkowski
    The Museum of Modern Art, New York
    1989
    Clothbound ISBN: 0-87070-573-3 (ISBN: 0870705733)
    Paperbound ISBN: 0-87070-574-1 (ISBN: 0870705741)
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    source XD:
    Els Cossos Perduts, fotografia i surrealistes
    Fundació "la Caixa"
    1996
    ISBN: 84-7664-530-9 (ISBN: 8476645309)
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    source XE:
    CANTO A LA REALIDAD, Photographie Latino-Americaine 1860-1993
    ERIKA BILLETER
    Lunwerg
    1993
    ISBN: 84-7782-358-8 (ISBN: 8477823588)
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    source XF:
    Fotografía Soviética 1917-1940
    Diputacion Provincial de Valencia
    1993
    ISBN: 84-7822-092-5 (ISBN: 8478220925)
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    source XG:
    Sowjet Photographie 1919-1939
    U. B r Verlag, Zurich
    1986
    ISBN: 3-905137-05-4 (ISBN: 3905137054)
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    source XH:
    PRECISIONISM IN AMERICA 1915-1941: REORDERING REALITY
    Gail Stavitsky
    Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers in association with The Montclair Art Museum
    1994
    ISBN: 0-8109-3734-4 (ISBN: 0810937344)
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    source XI:
    So Many Worlds
    Dieter Bachmann and Daniel Schwartz
    Bulfinch
    1996
    ISBN: 0-8212-2324-0 (ISBN: 0821223240)
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    source XJ:
    Crossing the Frontier - photographs of the developing West, 1849 to the present
    Sandra S. Phillips
    SFMOMA (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art)
    1996
    ISBN: 0-8118-1420-3 (ISBN: 0811814203)
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    source XK:
    AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHS, The First Century
    From the Isaacs Collection in the National Museum of American Art
    Merry A. Foresta
    National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution and Smithsonian Institution Press
    1996
    ISBN: 1-560987-18-9 (cloth) (ISBN: 1560987189)
    ISBN: 1-560987-19-7 (paper) (ISBN: 1560987197)
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    source XL: (no separate biographies)
    1000 Nudes
    Uwe Scheid Collection
    Taschen
    1994
    ISBN: 3-8228-8935-0 (ISBN: 3822889350)
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    source XM: (no biographies)
    The body; photographs of the human form
    William A. Ewing
    Chronicle Books
    1994
    ISBN: 0-8118-0762-2 (ISBN: 0811807622)
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    source XN:
    The American Century
    Art & Culture 1900-1950
    Barbara Haskell
    Whitney Museum of Art
    Norton
    1999
    ISBN: 0-393-04723-7 (ISBN: 0393047237)
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    Following sources (source ZA, ZB, ZC...) are exhibitions. Because for those exhibitions, there is no exhibition catalogue or I cannot see an exhibition catalogue right now, I have taken names of photographers directly from exhibitions. As in sources XA, XB, XC..., basically I have taken only photographers, the reproduction of whose work I cannot see in any of the above sources.

    source ZA:
    Les Années 30 en Europe 1929-1939 - Le temps menaçant
    Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
    1997
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    source ZB:
    Women on the Edge: Twenty Photographers in Europe, 1919-1939
    J. Paul Getty Museum
    1993
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    source ZC:
    Latin American Photography: A Spiritual Journey
    The Brooklyn Museum of Art
    1997
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    source ZD:
    100 Años de Fotografía Argentina, 1890-1990
    SHADAI Gallery: Phone +81-3-3372-1321, Fax +81-3-5388-7996
    September 16-October 31, 1998
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