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Walker Evans & Company
By Peter Galassi
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American Photography: A Century of Images
By Vicki Goldberg and Robert Silberman
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Documentary Picks
Ken Light, a respected photographer and a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, offers this reading list to learn more about documentary photography. 
Off The Shelf
Naked City
Weegee
Seizing the Light
Robert Hirsch
The Negative
Ansel Adams
A World History of Photography
Naomi Rosenblum
An Illustrated Bio-Bibliography of Black Photographers
Deborah Willis-Thomas
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