Books About Night Photography A list of texts by photographers who have dealt with
some aspect of the nocturne. Also, where indicated, you will
find a review of that book by a seasoned Night Photographer
or other distinguished resource. In addition, you can view an
extensive backlist of all the recent
acquisitions in The Nocturnes library, and another back
catalog of music titles we've recently acquired (it is The
Nocturnes, after all!).
Did you know that you can personnally contribute to The Nocturnes
NPy Library? One way is by helping us acquire some of the titles
and other NPy essentials in our Amazon Wish List (just below
the Michael Kenna quotation on the right). It's a great way
to do good - and further the study of Night Photography!
Or, order thru the links provided, any of the texts listed below
and we enjoy a small commission on your purchase. Again, a great
way to do good, enjoy NPy, and further the work of The Nocturnes!
Another way to contribute: Why not let us know of your favorite
"NPy" text, and write a review (it can even be brief!) to be
published here on the Web site - get involved! Have a look at
the first two reviews we published below: reviews of Matt Lennert's
book, as well as Troy Paiva's "Lost America," both penned by
devoted Nocturne, Andy Frazer.
Night Work
Michael Kenna
Introductory conversation with Tim Baskerville
Friends of Photography and Nazraeli Press, 2000
ISBN: 3-923922-83-3
" Night photography, for me, enhances
the situation because the light is like stage lighting.
It can be dramatic; there are often strong, dark shadows,
the light is usually coming from below or laterally rather
than from above, as in daylight; and there is a sense
of theatre, a sense of something about to happen."
Michael Kenna, from
Night Walk
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of titles and essentials to be acquired!
" Answer Yourself' specifically,
deals with the time in your life when you stop ignoring
the little voice inside your head, and start listening
to it! It calls to you, and if you listen, it tells you
who you are, what you should be, what to do, which way
to go, which choices to make."
From foreword to Answer
Yourself by Tim Baskerville
" I learned that there's a new language
of working photographically at night. I just fell in love
with the language."
Richard Misrach
" I go out walkin' after midnight
Out in the moonlight
just like we used to do
I'm always walkin' after midnight
Searching for you I walk for miles
along the highway
Well that's just my way
Of saying I love you
I'm always walkin' after midnight
Searching for you"
Walkin' After Midnight by Patsy Cline
" I like to photograph alone. There
are few people out at night, compared to during the day.
I find that my senses become keener. I listen for people;
I listen for movement;
I can even smell more, because it is so calm and peaceful."
Michael Kenna, from
Night Walk
" Now I know the business of the
heart
And it'll get you anyway it can
If you need someone to walk with in the dark I'm your
man."
Trouble by Shawn
Colvin
" One of nature's noble men, and
a legitimate American genius and nut."
regarding O. Winston Link;
John Szarkowski, former Curator of Photography,
The Museum of Modern Art
Answer Yourself
Matthew Donovan Lennert
Foreword by Tim Baskerville
Photocelt Press, 2003
ISBN: 0-9742348-0-x > Read a review
The Presidio, Portraits of a Changing
Landscape
Charity Vargas
Introduction by Randolph Delehanty Ph.D.
Limited Edition, 2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-615-24792-2 >
Read a review by Tim Baskerville
Night & Low-Light Photography
Jill Waterman, with contributions from Tim Baskerville and other
noted Nocturnes.
Introduction by Michael Kenna
Amphoto Books; 1st edition, 2008
ISBN-13: 978-0817432416
Light after Dark:
A Portrait of Southern Ruins
Karekin Goekjian
Lucinne, Inc. Athens, Georgia
Photography in California 1945-1980
Louise Katzman
Introduction by Van Deren Coke
Hudson Hills Press and SFMOMA, 1984
ISBN: 0-933920-45-8
Paris by Night Brassai
Pantheon Books, 1987
ISBN: 0-394-56327-1
Paris by Night
Brassai
New Edition
Bulfinch Press, 2001
ISBN: 0-8212-2738-6
Brassai: The Eye of Paris
Brassai/Anne Wilkes Tucker
Harry N Abrams Inc, 1999
ISBN: 0-810-96380-9
Londres de Nuit
Bill Brandt
Out of Print, extremely hard to find
Summer Nights
Robert Adams
Title out of print
Expansions
William Lesch
Treville Co. Ltd. 1992
ISBN: 4-8457-0667-9
Marks in Place:
Contemporary Responses to Rock Art
Steve Fitch, Linda Connor, Rick Dingus, John Pfahl, Charles
Roitz. Essays by Keith Davis, Lucy Lippard, and Polly Schaafsma
University of New Mexico Press, 1988
ISBN: 0-8263-0975-5
ISBN: 0-8263-0976-3 (pbk)
New York to Hollywood
Karl Struss
University of New Mexico Press 1987
ISBN: 0-8263-1638-7
Seizing the Light: A History of Photography
Robert J. Hirsch
McGraw-Hill Higher Education, Oct. 1999
ISBN: 0697143619
The Writing on the Wall
Shimon Attie
Edition Braus, 1994
ISBN: 3-89466-095-3
Venice Night
Luca Campigotto, Text by Gino Benzoni
Dewi Lewis Publishing, 1993
ISBN: 1-8992-3520-
Ghost Trains
O. Winston Link
The Chrysler Museum 1983 (out of print)
ISBN: 0-940744-43-0
Steam, Steel and Stars
O. Winston Link
Abradale Press 1987
ISBN: 0-8109-8185-8
The Last Steam Railroad in America:
From Tidewater to Whitetop
O. Winston Link and Thomas H. Garver
Harry N Abrams 1995
ISBN: 0-8109-3575-9
Acquainted With the Night
Lynn Saville (Photographer),
Bill Moyers (Foreward)
Rizzoli, 1997
ISBN: 0-8478-1979-5
Hear the lonesome whippoorwill
He sounds too blue to fly
The midnight train is a-winding low
I'm so lonesome I could cry
I've never seen a night so long
When time keeps crawling by
The moon just went behind the clouds
To hide his face and cry
Have you ever seen a robin weep
When leaves have turned to brown?
Like me he's lost his will to live
I'm so lonesome I could cry
The silence of a falling star
Lights up a purple haze
And yes I wonder where you are
I'm so lonesome I could cry
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
by Hank Williams and Cowboy Junkies,
Trinity Session
On Planet Earth: Travels in an Unfamiliar
Land
Jan Staller, Luc Sante (Introduction)
Aperture, 1997
ISBN: 0-8938-1730-9
Frontier New York
Jan Staller
Hill Press, 1988
ISBN: 1-55595-009-4
Alfred Stieglitz
Stieglitz/Dorothy Newman
Aperture Foundation Inc., 1997
ISBN: 0-893-81745-7
Night Shots:
a Guide to Professional Lighting Techniques Alex Larg and Jane Wood
Quintet Publishing, 1997
ISBN: 2-88046-3246
Night & Low-Light Photograhy:
A Complete Guide
Bob Gibbons, Peter Wilson (Contributor)
Cassell Academic, 1993
ISBN: 0304343315
Capturing the Night With Your Camera:
How to Take Great Photographs After Dark
John Carucci
Amphoto, 1995
ISBN: 0817436618
Exploring Color Photography Ed 1 and
2
Robert Hirsch
Wm. C. Brown, Publishers
ISBN: 0-697-06132-9
Existing-Light Photography
The Workshop Series
Kodak, Third Edition, 1999
ISBN: 0-97985-744-7
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