More photography books recently received : contextualising the picture

Recently received items that focus on the theoretical, historical and social context of photographs and those who take them:

Azoulay, Ariella.(2008) The civil contract of photography. New York ; London; Cambridge, Mass: Zone Books.

Batchen, Geoffrey. (2012) Picturing atrocity : photography in crisis. London: Reaktion Books.

Bello, Patrizia di. (2012) The photobook : from Talbot to Ruscha and beyond. London: I.B. Tauris.

Bunnell. Peter C., (ed). (2012) Aperture magazine anthology : the Minor White years. London: Thames and Hudson. 

Bunnell, Peter C. (2009) Inside the photograph : writings on twentieth-century photography. New York: Apeture.

Couturier, Elizabeth. (2012) Talk about contemporary photography. Paris: Flammarion.

Dyer, Geoff. (2012) The ongoing moment. Edinburgh: Canongate.

Elkins, James. (2011) What photography is. New York: Routledge.

Flusser, Vilem. (2000) Towards a philosophy of photography. London: Reaktion.

Garcia, Erin C. (2010) Photography as fiction. Los Angeles: J Paul Getty Museum.

Hacking, Juliet., (ed). (2012) Photography : the whole story. London : Thames and Hudson.

Kamber, Michael. (2013) Photojournalists on war : the untold stories from Iraq. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Miller, Ken. (2009) Shoot : photography of the moment. New York: Rizzoli.

Ritchin, Fred. (2010) After photography. New York: W. W. Norton.

Ritchin, Fred (2013) Bending the frame : photojournalism, documentary and the citizen. New York: Aperture.

Soutter, Lucy. (2013) Why art photography? London: Routledge.

Ward, Ossian. (2013) State of the art photography. Dusseldorf: Richter.