How to Read a Photograph, Ian Jeffrey, Thames & Hudson

An English-language survey by Ian Jeffrey on reading and interpreting photographic work, published by Thames & Hudson. The book covers more than a hundred significant photographers, from Alfred Stieglitz and Bill Brandt to Henri Cartier-Bresson and Walker Evans, with analyses of key works and biographical and historical context for each. Jeffrey shows how a photograph can be read: what choices the photographer made, what the cultural and historical situation was, and how styles and movements relate to one another.

Ian Jeffrey (1942) is a British art critic and photography historian, associated with Goldsmiths University of London. This work is part of his broader project of making the history of photography accessible without sacrificing depth. Thames & Hudson published it as part of their series of art-historical surveys for a general audience. Hardcover.